An epistle wrytten by Iohn Scory the late bishope of Chichester vnto all the faythfull that be in pryson in Englande, or in any other troble for the defence of Goddes truthe wherin he dothe as well by the promises of mercy as also by thensamples of diuerse holy martyres, comfort, encorrage & strengt[h]e them paciently for Christes sake to suffer the manifolde cruell and moste tyra[n]nous persecutio[n]s of ye Antichristian tormentours: exhorting them to contynue in faythfull prayers, innocency of lyfe, pacience, and hope, that God maye the rather deliuer them, restore againe the light of his gospell to Englande, and confounde all the proude, beastly, & deuelishe enterprises of Antichristes garde, that doo imagine nothing els but ye subuersion of the gospell of Christ, and contynually thruste for the bloud of all true Christians.

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Place of publication and printer's name from STC; date from colophon. Signatures: A-B. Copies vary: The Folger Copy title page has the verso blank and is conjugate; the University of Durham copy title page with verso blank is from the same type-setting but is pasted on a stub, the verso of which shows the remains of a woodcut--STC. Reproduction of the original in the Folger Shakespeare Library.