distast at it; and there again it receyved alterations. I shall instance in one : In the third period, where the solemne Liturgy of our Church was sayd " to have beene celebrious by the piety of Holy Bishops and Martyrs who composed it," to wch was added (following the statute 2d and 3d Ed. 6th cap. 1), " by the ayd of ye Holy Ghost." This was excepted against, as what at this tyme might give offence. It was thought fit, therefore, to exclude the expression. After all wch, it beeing agreede unto nemine contradicente (and the Country expressing their desires for the expediting of it, to have us repayr to Captayn Skinner, Knight of the Shire, then present, and promising not only hys forwarding of it in ye howse, but seeming to approve what had past), there grewe a question whither this petition should be represented from the County to ye King, then at York. I declared myself against it, as beeing for ye most what wee hoped, by the howse's intercession, to obtayn of hys Maty. Thus it was then finished: Yet, for that nothing humane is so perfect at first it can receive no amendment, tyme was taken tyll ye -next Quarter Sessions after Easter, then to retract, correct, delete any thing in it, if ye Justices in their severall Divisions should find ought generally misliked, or the Country then publikely disclayme and disavoue what was thus assented to. 
   30. Heere, if¹ the people doe not chuse Knights and Burgesses (of whose power somewhat heereafter) wth an intent to redresse their grievances by lawes, and not to bee absolutely the Lords and Masters of their judgments, as well in what is amisse, as obedience to the laws they shall'establish; I should bee glad to learn how a County could possibly petition in a more regular, orderly, inofensive
   Skinner was of Totesham, in East Farleigh, and on Sir Edward Daring's expulsion, had been substituted for Mm as Knight of the shire.—ED.
   ¹  Either "if" is intended to be used in the sense of '"even if,"—"even supposing that the people did not choose," etc., or " not" should be omitted, and the sentence should run thus, " if the people choose," etc.—ED.