Sum cæcus factus subita caligine tactus,Nec opus inceptum iam corrigo forsan ineptum,Me metuo dubium pro veris sæpe locutum,Plus audita loquor quàm mihi visa sequor, &c.
Sum cæcus factus subita caligine tactus,Nec opus inceptum iam corrigo forsan ineptum,Me metuo dubium pro veris sæpe locutum,Plus audita loquor quàm mihi visa sequor, &c.
Sum cæcus factus subita caligine tactus,
Nec opus inceptum iam corrigo forsan ineptum,
Me metuo dubium pro veris sæpe locutum,
Plus audita loquor quàm mihi visa sequor, &c.
All the foresaid villanies notwithstanding against the king and the state, tending wholie to the subuersion of law and ciuill gouernement, albeit the wretches deserued no sparke of fauour, but extreame seueritie of iudgement to be executed vpon them; yet (as yee haue heard) besides the great clemencie of the king, exhibited vnto them in remitting their offense, and acquiting them from the rigor of the law, he granted and gaue to them the charter, which they had requested, faire written and sealed, to auoid a greater mischiefe, & commanded it for a time to be deliuered them, knowing that Essex and Kent were not so pacified, but that if they were not the sooner contented, and that partlie after their minds, they would vp againe. The tenor of the charter which was gotten thus by force of the king was as followeth.