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THus having finished the first Session of this un∣happy Parliament, where the seeds were sowen of those discontents, which afterwards grew up, and lately have been reaped allmost to the ruine of our Nation;
Now followeth the Breviary or abstract of the second Session, little different from the former in sad success: But we must confess that those two Tracts (though joyned in one volume for the perfecting of the History) are not the Sons of the same Father, proceed not from the observations and collections of the same Authour.
And as they differ in the Authour, so also in the fashion and quantity thereof: the former Session may be said to be done at length, this in figures, the former had the maine Mass and Bulk, this the spirits and infusions of the passages therein.
Yet as a low man is as much man, though not so great a man as one of a higher stature, so may I say there is as certain truth in this as in the former relation though there be not so much of it. I mean it is as faithfully though not so fully reported. Indeed the conscientious Reader being a true Englishman may here satisfie himself with the sadness of the transactions as shortly summed up, who otherwise might surfet with sor∣row, if every particular were related in its full dimensions.
Thus commending both this and the other to the care∣full perusing of the judicious Reader, I fear not his departing from this Book with an unsatisfied, who cometh there∣unto with an unprejudiced judgment.