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I know that Lord Leicester is sworn to maintain all the inhabitants of the Provinces in their ancient privileges and customs.

I know further that your commission carreeth no authority to warrant you to intermeddle any further than with the government of the soldiers and guard of the town.
Well, you may, in your own conceipt, confer some words to authorize you in some larger sort, but, believe me, Sir, they will not warrant you sufficiently to deal any further than I have said, for I have perused a copy of your commission for that purpose.

I know the name itself of a governor of a town is odious to this people, and hath been ever since the remembrance of the Spanish government, and if we, by any lack of foresight, should give the like occasion, we should make ourselves as odious as they are; which God forbid.
"You are to consider that we are not come into these countries for their defence only, but for the defence of her Majesty and our own native country, knowing that the preservation of both dependeth altogether upon the preserving of these.

Wherefore I do eftsoons intreat and require you to forbear to intermeddle any further.