to write plainly, without feare or fa∣vour of those I doe write, I will proceed confidently, as I have begun; in which, I perswade my selfe I have some advantage of the Author himselfe, for freedome of speech, both in the time, and many other circumstances. For he was no foole that gave that rule,
Mitissima sors••est Regnorum, sub Rege novo.
Againe, I being a Lay-man; am not so obnoxious to their apprehensions; that may be offended with that I shall say, as he was being a Churchman.
Thirdly, I lived in a place, where I might know many things without enqui∣ry; which had been scarce safe for him, in that time to enquire after.
Lastly, he writes to the world pub∣liquely, and I but privately to your High∣nesse. Therefore I will proceed quoad sciam, poteroque.
The first Bishop of London I have to write of, is Mr. John Elmer, of whom my Author hath spoken-too little, and I per∣haps shall seem to say too much; yet once I thought to have said somewhat of Bonner, because I may remember him li∣ving in the late Queens time unbishop∣ped,