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med vnpoſſible by mans power to ſtoppe the effect of greater violence and commotion, euen befoꝛe our ſayd caſtle gates. This when wee perceiued, and being neuerthleſſe vnwilling to employ our ſayd foꝛces againſt the ſaid enhabitantes, as hauing euermoꝛe helde the pꝛeſeruation of the ſayde Towne with the enhabitants thereof, as deere as our owne life, as in ſundꝛy their occaſions they haue well tryed and is euident to all men, wee determined the ſame day to depart, and rather to abſent our ſelues, and abandon the place which aboue all the woꝛld wee moſt loued, and ſo doe ſtill deſire to doe, then to ſee it encurre further hazarde oꝛ receiue greater domage: hauing withal entreated our moſt honourable Lady and Mother to ſtay, ⁊ try whe-ther
