Wheareas I ioyned in presenting to the corte a writing called a petition ore remonstrance, in which some exspresyons did iustly giue ofence to our honoured magestrats, these are thearefor to intreate your worships to consider that it is and hath bene and through the asistance of the lord I hope euer 516shall be contrary to my sperite and Judgmente to cast the lest dishonor vpon athorytie whom god hath commanded vs to honour, and intreate your worships to consider that it was onely the cause for which I did petition, which I alone loke at, and those exspresyons in it as besem not the place of a priuat person I humbly craue pardon for as for the word remonstrance at which ofenc was taken I vnderstod not what it meante.