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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The effect of the cardinals [...]mblie in the [...] of parlement.1 First, he yéelded most heartie thanks to the king and queene, and next vnto the whole parlement; that of a man exiled & banished from this common|weale, they had restored him againe to be a member of the same, and to the honour of his house and fami|lie, and of a man hauing no place, neither here nor elsewhere within the realme, to haue admitted him into a place where to speake, and to be heard.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Secondlie,He sheweth the speciall cause o [...] his comming into England. that his especiall comming was for the restitution of this realme to the ancient estate, and to declare that the sée apostolike hath a speciall care of this realme aboue all other: and chieflie for that this Iland first of all other prouinces of Eu|rope, receiued the light of Christs religion from the see of Rome.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 3 Thirdlie,He exhorteth to a generall returne into the bosome of the church. he exhorted that though the realme had swarued from the catholike vnitie, that yet being better informed, we ought to returne into the bo|some of the church, most open to receiue all peni|tents. For the persuasion wherof he brought a num|ber of old examples, what perill and hurt hath happe|ned vnto them that haue swarued and gone from the church of Rome, namelie Greece and Germanie.

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