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The very beggars petition against popery: : wherein they lamentably complain to King Henry the VIII. of the clergy: 1. Of their abominable covetousness and oppression, ... These arguments and the like, prevailed with this King to cast off the Popes authority, and why any should be so foolishly wicked, as to think, to return us to it, I know not, most certainly they will find themselves deceived with a vengeance, &c. Presented to King Henry the VIII. in the 29 year of his reign, an. Dom. 1538. 8 years before his death. And now printed verbatim from a very old copy, only mending the authograpy [sic], for the ease of the reader, making the several sections, and collecting the foregoing contents. Worth perusing by both papist and Protestant, for the one to see how his forefathers and he have been and are gull'd; and the other to see how he is like to be eternally abused, if he either through fear of death, of otherways embrace popery, 1680