152 EPISTLE TO MASTER RICHARD STAPERS. [w'BTs,5.' The remembrance of which [having] moved a longing desire in me, in some sort, to explain your worthiness and fame, by your bounty gained : it had never such opportunity until this time when, perusing my...
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152 EPISTLE TO MASTER RICHARD STAPERS. [w'BTs,5.' The remembrance of which [having] moved a longing desire in me, in some sort, to explain your worthiness and fame, by your bounty gained : it had never such opportunity until this time when, perusing my store of Papers and Writings of sundry men's labours, I chanced on this pamphlet ; which importeth the troublesome travails of our near neighbour, born at Braintree in Essex, named RICHARD HASLETON. Whose miseries as they were many (being in the hands both of Christian and heathen enemies, for GOD and our country's cause; and his escapes from death so often, and so wonderful) ; with the constant enduring of the same : his preservation ; and safe return to England, where his longing desire so often wished him. All which considered, with your Worship's love to all travellers, emboldened me the rather under your Worship's patronage to publish the same ; especial zeal procuring me thereunto. And partly in regard of your many favours to the s
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