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Eventually he is very earnest in raising the sum of £ 4,100 , and the editor suggests that this money was for his intended flight. The last letter, Arundel Castle, 20 Dec. [1584] , concludes , thank you , good Buxton, you at my desiretake some travail advisedly to peruse those books delivered assure you , before God, that in this wish to you as to myself , unto you . and desire with St. Paul that you were as am. To this the editor pertinently notes , The Earl was received into the Roman Church in September 1584. 6) now regret not having printed Bennet's letter , p . 197 , from the old but full text, instead of from the shorter but new text : and should have shown the new text by marking off the passages eliminated. This would have been truer scholarship, and would have brought out the meaning better . The abbreviation prevents our seeing the depths of Bennet's baseness, as clearly as we had the whole document before us. This letter, joined with
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