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Most humbly and heartily I crave your Graces pardon, if I offend any thing, to ſend, or preſent unto your Graces hand, to ſimple a Diſcourſe as this is: Although, by ſome ſage and di'creet my friends their opinion, it is thought not to be impertinent, to my moſt needfull ſuits, preſently in hand, (before her moſt Excellent Majeſty Royall, your Lordſhips good Grace, and other the

Right Honourable Lords of her Majeſties Privy Councell) to make ſome part of my former ſtudies, and ſtudious exerciſes (within and for thſe 46 years laſt paſt, uſed and continued) to be firſt known and di'covered unto your Grace, and other the right Honourable, my good Lords of her Majeſties privy Councell: And ſecondly, afterwards, the ſame to be permitted to come to publick view: Not ſo much, to ſtop the mouthes, and, at length to ſtay the impudent attempts, of the raſh, and malicious deviſers, and contrivers of moſt untrue, fooliſh, and wicked reports, and fables, of, and concerning my foreſaid ſtudious exerciſes, paſſed over, with my great, (yea incredible) paines, travells, cares, and coſts, in the ſearch, and learning of true Philoſophie; As, therein, So, to certifie, and ſatisfie the gedly and unpartiall Chriſtian hearer, or reader hereof: That, by his own judgement, (upon his due conſideration, and examination of this, no little parcell, of the particulars of my foreſaid ſtudies, and exerciſes philoſophicall annexed) He will, or may, be ſufficiently informed, and perſwaded; That I have wonderfully laboured, to find, follow, uſe, and haunt the true, ſtraight, and moſt narrow path, leading all true, devour, zealous, faithfull, and conſtant Chri-ſtian