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in_o the_o pettibag_n sect_n xx._n the_o form_n of_o the_o writ_n to_o the_o archbishop_n of_o canterbury_n the_o 29_o of_o aug._n 1661._o rex_fw-la reverendissimo_fw-la in_o christo_fw-la patri_fw-la praedilecto_fw-la &_o fideli_fw-la conciliario_n nostro_fw-la gulielmo_n eadem_fw-la gratia_fw-la archiepiscopo_fw-la cantuariensi_fw-la totius_fw-la angliae_fw-la primate_n '_o &_o metropolitano_fw-it salutem_fw-la quia_fw-la de_fw-la advisamento_fw-la &_o assensu_fw-la concilii_fw-la nostri_fw-la pro_fw-la quibusdam_fw-la arduis_fw-la &_o urgentibus_fw-la negotiis_fw-la nos_fw-la statum_n &_o defensionem_fw-la regni_fw-la nostri_fw-la angliae_fw-la &_o ecclesiae_fw-la anglicanae_n concernen_fw-ge '_o quoddam_fw-la parliamentum_fw-la nostrum_fw-la apud_fw-la civitatem_fw-la nostram_fw-la westm_n '_o octavo_fw-la die_fw-la maii_n praeterito_fw-la teneri_fw-la ordinavimus_fw-la &_o ibidem_fw-la nobiscum_fw-la cum_fw-la caeteris_fw-la praelat_n '_o magnatibus_fw-la &_o proceribus_fw-la 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