To the Reverend Doctor Framton, Dean of Gloucester

Good Mr. Dean,

According to my promise I have now sent you these sheets, and have taken leave to adorn them with your name to gain them recommendation to the readers, especially to the loving and beloved citizens. Perchance this taste of Hooker will invite the more ingenious sort to study that incomparable book of his in defense of our church-laws and liturgy, which (after all the more eager writings of our time) might serve to compose dissensions and make up our breaches. This little piece will be able, by God's grace, to make some impression (besides other good effects) of meekness and obedience upon every serious and impartial peruser. To do this is the end of this little adventure, and also to show myself,

Honored Sir, Your true Servant, Cl. Barksdale