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[^FRASER, SIR WILLIAM. 
THE MELVILLES EARLS OF MELVILLE, AND THE LESLIES EARLS OF LEVEN.
3 VOLS. CORRESPONDENCE (VOL. II) EDITED BY THE AUTHOR.
EDINBURGH 1890.

FRASER, SIR WILLIAM.
THE CHIEFS OF GRANT.
3 VOLS. CORRESPONDENCE (VOL. II) EDITED BY THE AUTHOR.
EDINBURGH 1883.

FRASER, SIR WILLIAM.
MEMORIALS OF THE FAMILY OF WEMYSS OF WEMYSS.
3 VOLS. CORRESPONDENCE (VOL. III) EDITED BY THE AUTHOR.
EDINBURGH 1888.

FRASER, SIR WILLIAM.
MEMORIALS OF THE EARLS OF HADDINGTON.
2 VOLS. CORRESPONDENCE (VOL. II) EDITED BY THE AUTHOR.
EDINBURGH 1889.

FRASER, SIR WILLIAM.
THE SUTHERLAND BOOK.
VOL. II. (CORRESPONDENCE). 

SAMPLE 1: (MELVILLE AND LESLIE)
          PP. 11.1-12.6 (JAMES VI)
SAMPLE 2: (GRANT)
          PP. 3.28-6.31 (JAMES VI)
SAMPLE 3: (WEMYSS)
          PP. 25.4-36.27 (JAMES VI)
          PP. 41.17-42.20 (JAMES VI)
          PP. 44.1-44.19 (JAMES VI)
SAMPLE 4: (MELVILLE AND LESLIE)
          PP. 75.1-77.7 (ALEXANDER DUNFERMLINE)
          PP. 77.23-78.18 (ALEXANDER LESLIE)
          PP. 80.28-83.21 (ALEXANDER LESLIE)
SAMPLE 5: (HADDINGTON)
          PP. 120.29-121.37 (ALEXANDER DUNFERMLINE)
          PP. 162.19-168.32 (THOMAS HADDINGTON)
          PP. 168.9-168.32 (JAMES LAW)
SAMPLE 6: (SUTHERLAND)
          PP. 38.2-38.24 (JAMES HAMILTON)^]

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[} [\13. KING JAMES THE SIXTH TO SIR ROBERT MELVILLE, 
CIRCA 1587.\] }]
   (\Rex.\)
   Sir Robert Melving, ye sall resaue into your companie Robert #
Waldegraue,
oure prentar, and deale with our direst sister, the quene, for  #
his pardoun, according
to our mony requistis interponit heirtofor in his fauour, that  #
he may thairbe
in surtie provyd him of sic materialis as ar necessarrie for    #
our seruice, and also
travell in his vthir lesum efferis in that his native cuntrey   #
without ony maner of
trubill or interuptioun, as we haif mair speciallie gevin yow   #
in directioun.
James R.

[} [\14. KING JAMES THE SIXTH TO JOHN, LORD, AFTERWARDS FIRST   #
MARQUIS OF HAMILTON. LINLITHGOW, 30TH SEPTEMBER 1591.\] }]
   Richt traist cousing and counsallour, we grete yow hairtlie  #
wele.  The Lord Ros
being of a lang tyme bigane lauchfullie denunceit rebell, and   #
putt to oure horne
at the instance of Alis alias Alesoun Ros, now spous to Schir   #
Johnne Meluill of
Carnebie, knicht, and thairvpoun oure vtheris lettres of        #
tressoun being direct and
execute aganis him for randering of his castellis and           #
fortaliceis of Halkeit [^BLANCO^]
[^BLANCO^] to the officer executour of the same lettres, he     #
nocht onlie still continewis in
his rebellioun be his wilfull remaning at oure horne vnrelaxt,  #
bot to our forder
contempt and dishonnour, he still keipis and detenis his said   #
houssis, fortifeing the
same with men and victuallis, of intentioun, as appeiris be his #
procedingis, to keip 
the same as houssis of weir aganis ws and our authoritie,       #
declairing him selff
heirby a mockar of iustice, and a proude contempnair and        #
disdaneair of ws and
oure authoritie; quhairfoir we haue deliberat to see this his   #
rebellioun pvnist, and
himself reduceit to his debtfull obedience, and for this effect #
haue exped ane commissioun
to yow for persute, taking, and assegeing of his said houssis,  #
and recouering
of the same furth of his handis, quhilk commissioun we desire   #
yow effectuuslie
to accept vpoun yow, and effectuallie to execute the same in    #
all pointis, conforme
to the tennour thairof, with sic expeditioun as possiblie may   #
be; quhairby as ye
sall testifie vnto ws your gude affectioun and fordwartnes to   #
the repressing of
<P 12>
sic oppin and avowit rebellioun, sa sall ye do ws acceptable    #
plesour and gude
seruice, meriting oure speciall thankis.  Thus luikeing for the #
constant and effectuall
executioun of our said commissioun without shiftis or delay, we #
committ yow
to God.  Frome Linlithquhow, the last day of September 1591.
James R.
   To our richt traist cuising and counsallour, the Lord        #
Hammiltoun.

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<P 3>
[} [\4. KING JAMES THE SIXTH TO THE LAIRD OF GRANT, 
10TH NOVEMBER 1592.\] }] 
   Richt traist freinde, we greit zow hairtlie weill.  The      #
crueltyis and disordouris laitlie
committit be the lawles brokin Hielandmen, of quhom the Erlis   #
of Huntly and Atholl hes
<P 4>
takin mantenance, hes sa brokin the cuntre, that grit numeris   #
of honest and trew men ar in
poynt of present wrak; and baith thay noblemen likly to perrell #
thameselffis and thair houssis,
gif the gretar diligence be not vsed to stay thair intendit     #
revengis: And in cais persuasioun
can not presently move, thair being sic daunger in delay, we    #
haue directit our richt traist
cousigne and counsallour, the Erle of Angus, with commissioun   #
and instructionis, to haue all
thingis assuirit to ane day, or, incais of refuis be ather of   #
thame, to ioyne with the pairty
maist reassounable and obedient, and hes directit               #
proclamationis for convening of our obedient
subiectis to that effect; desiring zow effectuuslie that ze     #
faill not to addres zow to our said
cousing, the Erle off Angus, and assist him baith with zour     #
counsale and haill force that ze
may mak, quhill this mater in hand may be setled according to   #
our mynd and directioun
gevin him, quhome ze sall fermly credite: And sa lippning to    #
zour effectuall dealing in this
behalff, as ze luif quyetnes and abhorris cruelnes, and will do #
ws acceptable seruice, we
committ zow in the protectioun of God.  At Haliruidhous, the    #
tent of Nouember 1592.
James R.
   To our richt traist freind the Lard of Grant.

[} [\5. KING JAMES THE SIXTH DISCHARGING JOHN GRANT OF FREUCHIE #
FROM BEING PUT TO THE
HORN AS CAUTIONER FOR THE EARL OF HUNTLY. 13TH MARCH 1592.\] }]
   (\Rex.\)
   Officiaris of armes quhatsumeuir, ze sall decist fra putting #
to the horne of John Grant of
Freuchie as ane of the cautioneris for George Erle of Huntlie,  #
quhill ze ressaue farder directioun
in the contrair.  Subscriuit with our hand at Abirdene, the     #
xiij of Merche 1592.
James R.
S. Robert Meluill

[} [\6. KING JAMES THE SIXTH TO SIR WALTER OGILVIE OF FINDLATER #
AND JOHN GRANT OF BALLACHASTELL, 3D JULY 1607.\] }]
   James R.
Trustie and weilbeloved, we greit yow weill.  Whereas the       #
Synode of Murray is appointed
to be haldin and keepit vpon the fourt daye of Auguste          #
nixtocum, we have made choise of
<P 5>
yow to be our commissioners for that synode.  And therefore     #
these are to requyre yow
to attend that meeting, in the ordinarye place thereof; and at  #
the first conveyning of the
bretheren, that yee present vnto them the act of the Assembly   #
held at Lynlythgow, touching
the election of constant moderatours in presbyteries and        #
synods, and that yee vrge them
according to the said ordinance to admitt Alexander Bishop of   #
Murray for there moderatour
in the same synode.  And if they refuse there obedience to the  #
said act, or the Bishop being
admitted, if he refuse to accept the charge and exerce the      #
same, that yee cause charge the
refusers by vertue of our letters, which ye sall herewith       #
ressaive.  And in cace of there
disobedience, cause denounce them rebbells, and the synod to be #
dissolved.  If ye ressaive
obedience, yee sall declare vnto the synod our earnest desyre   #
of the peace of the church, our
former travells takin for extinguishing the fyer of division    #
which is kindled amongst the
ministers of the same, the small effect that our paynes have    #
taken, partly by the immodest
behaviour of those particuler ministers whome we called to a    #
conference in our owne presence
in the moneth of September last, and partly by the vnquyett and #
turbulent dealing of others
there favourers, who have opposed themselves to the conclusions #
taken in the Generall Assembly
held at Linlythgow in the moneth of December thereafter, which  #
were agreed vpon with a
greate consent, both of noblemen, barrons, and others of the    #
ministrye.  And how that now
at last we have advised vpon a colloque of the ministrie, to    #
meete at Hallyroode House, the
27 of August nixt, with the bishopes, the commissioners of the  #
Generall Assemblye, and others,
whome we have appointed to preside for vs in that meeting for   #
removing of the presente
evills, and preparing a peaceable meeting in the Generall       #
Assembly, which we intend shal
be held at Dundee, the 24th of November nixt; which ministers   #
we have willed to be chosen
by the synode of every province, two at the most, of the        #
godliest, wisest, and best disposed
of there number, which shal be sent with power and commission   #
to conveyne, consult
and conclude vpon the fittest meanes to settle peace and        #
quyetnes in the church, and prepare
a peaceable Generall Assembly as said is, by which meanes we    #
are in hope that some
good shalbe done and effected in the church.  But if it faile   #
in the default and vnwillingnes 
of the synods, or in the obstinacye of anie of them, which shal #
be directed to that errand,
we are fully resolved to putt to our owne hande to that worke,  #
and with the advice of our
nobillitie and other our Estates, to redresse by authoritie     #
that which, by other meanes
vsed with themselves, we could not have amended.  And for this  #
effect cheifly, we have
commaunded the synods of all provinces to conveyne at this      #
tyme.
   Nixt yee sall requyre the moderatour and brethren of the     #
synod to examyne the dilligence
of the moderatours in persueing of Papistis within there        #
boundis, according to the
conclusion taken at Lynlythgow, and that they tak order with    #
such as they shall finde to
have bene remisse in that busines.
   And bicause the fifth of August is appointed to be kept with #
a solemne thankisgeving
to God for our deliverie from the treasonable conspiracie at    #
Perth, which deliverance should
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be by them of all other subiectis most regarded, yee sall have  #
regarde and care that the same
be solemnely kept and celebrate in the same synod by the        #
ministers that sall be there conveyned.
And that yee cause election to be made of two of the most       #
godlye, wise, and
peaceably disposed in the synode, to kepe the appointed meeting #
at Hallyroodhouse, the
27 daye of August nixt.  And so remitting all these particulers #
to your grave deliverie and
wise behaviour in that synod, we committ yow to God.  At        #
Greynewich, the thrid of Julii
1607.
   To our trusty and welbeloued Sir Walter Ogiluie of           #
Findelater, knight, and to John
Graunte of Ballachastell.

[} [\7. KING JAMES THE SIXTH TO THE LAIRD OF GRANT,
11TH MARCH 1613.\] }]
   James R.
   Richt trustie and weilbelouit we greit you hairtlie weill.   #
Yow ar nocht ignorant of the
great cair we haue had to settle the Hieland pairtis of that    #
our kingdome in quietnes, and to
roote out of the same all suche evill disposit personis of the  #
Clan Gregour and otheris brokin
men, inhabiting thairin, as hithertillis haue leived by         #
murthour, rapine, and thift, so as our
peaceable and good subiectis micht leive vnopprest, being euir  #
perswadit that no weil
desposit subiect wold so far cast of all fear of God and        #
dewitie to ws, his souerane, as to give
any confort to these lymmers.  Yet, whenas our cair and good    #
meaning haue produceit so
good effectes, as of all that most barbarous race of the Clan   #
Gregour none remaneth outlawis
saulffing Allester M=c=Allester Vreik and Duncane               #
M=c=V=c=Eandowy and thair followeris, we ar
informed that the onlie confort and ressett that they haue is   #
in your countrie amongis your
freinds, tennentis and dependaris; and altho the Lord of Scone, #
at his late being at our court,
wold haue perswadit ws that yow nather do allow nor is preuie   #
to this fauour schewin to
these rebellis, yet we will rest in suspens till suche tyme as, #
by your future actionis, yow
give proofe of your bigane cariage in this errand.  The Lord of #
Scone haith promist vnto
ws that yow shall do seruice aganis these lymmers, betuix whome #
and the Erll of Ergile, our
lieutenent, certane conditionis ar agreit vpoun concerning yow, #
whiche we wil haue a cair to
see performit, according as your future seruice shall merite.   #
And so we bid yow hairtlie
fairweell.  Frome our court at Thetfoord, the xj day of Marche  #
1613.
   To our right trustie and weilbelouit the Laird of Grant.

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[} [\33. KING JAMES THE SIXTH TO DAVID WEMYSS OF WEMYSS. 
18TH MAY 1587.\] }]
   Rycht traist freind, we greit yow weill.  The lang trouble   #
and vnquietnes
of the thevis and brokin men inhabiting oure bordouris hes moved
ws to repair thair in propir persoun, and to gett in plegeis    #
for the maist
disordourit sorte to be kepit in the incuntrey amangis the      #
noblemen,
barronis, and vthiris of best habilitie, seing our awne houssis #
ar not
hable to keip sic a multitude as necessarlie for this gude      #
occasioun mon
be detenit; quhairfoir we require and command yow that ye       #
ressaue
in your custodie and keping Johnne Grahame of Stobohill, quhome 
presentlie we direct vnto yow, and retene him in your custodie  #
and
cumpany, vnletting him pas hame vpoun band, obligatioun, or ony
maner of conditioun, quhill he be lauchfullie fred and relevit; #
alwayes
ye neid not to keip him strait, becaus souirtie is found that   #
he sall
not eschaip.  Swa we commit yow to God.  Frome Halirudhous, the
xviii day of Maii 1587.  James R.
   To our richt traist freind the Lard of Westir Wemys.

[} [\34. KING JAMES THE SIXTH TO THE SAME. 24TH
NOVEMBER 1587.\] }]
[^TO DAVID WEMYSS OF WEMYSS^]
Richt traist freind, we greit yow weill.  Off the plegis        #
quhilkis we haif    
takin in for the gud rule of the brokin men inhabiting the      #
cuntreis
ewest our bordouris, we haif direct the beirare heirof,         #
Archibald
<P 26>
Armstrang, sone to the Lardis Johnne, plege for the Armstrang   #
of
Mangertoun and Quhithauch, to remane in your custodie and       #
cumpany
quhill he be releuit; and thairfoir we require yow              #
effectuuslie, and
commandis yow to ressaue him, and on na wayis to lett him pas   #
hame
vpoun promeis, band, obligatioun, or ony vther conditioun       #
without
our speciall warrand in write; alwayes it sall not neid that ye #
keip
him in strait waird, becaus souirtie is ressauit of him be our  #
command
that he sall not eschaip or eschew, bot keip trew waird.  Thus  #
we
commit yow to God.  At Dalkeith, the xxiiii day of Nouember     #
1587.
   James R.
   To our richt traist freind the Lard of Wester Wemys.

[} [\35. KING JAMES THE SIXTH TO THE SAME. 
2D MARCH 1587.\] }]
[^TO DAVID WEMYSS OF WEMYSS^]
   Traist freind, we greit yow weill.  Arche Armistrang, sone   #
to the
Lairdis Johnne, presentlie remaning with yow, being enterit     #
plege for
himself and certane vtheris of his branche, is appointit to be  #
interchangeit
with the berare heirof, namyt Johnne Armistrang, sone to the
Lard of Quhithauch, quhome we haue presentlie directit vnto yow,
desyring yow effectuuslie to ressaue him in your hous and       #
cumpany,
causing him be ansuerit of meit, drink, and bedding, and        #
suffering him
na wayis to pas hame vpoun band, obligatioun, or ony vther      #
maner of
conditioun, quhill he be fred be ws; and he being enterit, that #
ye
thaireftir put the said Arche Armistrang to libertie, and       #
suffer him to
pas hame at his pleasour.  Thus for the present we commit yow   #
to
God.  Frome Haliruidhous, the secund day of Marche 1587.
James R.
   To our traist freind the Lard of Westir Wemys.

<P 27>
[} [\36. KING JAMES THE SIXTH TO THE SAME. 
15TH AUGUST 1588.\] }]
[^TO DAVID WEMYSS OF WEMYSS^]
   Traist freind, we greit you wele.  Althocht it be prouidit   #
be Act of
Parliament that na salmond fischis be slayne in the watter of   #
Leavin,
betuix the first and latter Martimes, yit, vpoun certaine gude  #
considerationis
moving ws, we haue grantit libertie to our trusty and           #
weilbelouit
seruitour, Andro Wod of Largo, to caus fische the watter mouth  #
of
Leavin, and to sla salmound and vther fischis within his awin   #
boundis
thairof, in the said prohibit tyme, at his pleasour.  It is     #
thairfoir our
will, and we effectuuslie requeist and desyre you that ye, as   #
watter
baillie within the said boundis, be your selff, your deputis    #
and officiaris,
desist and ceis fra all stop, truble, or impediment making to   #
our said
seruitour, or his seruandis and fischaris in his name, in       #
fischeing of the
said watter mouth of Leavin, in the foirsaid forbiddin tyme,    #
nochtwithstanding
of any act or consuetude in the contrarie, as ye will do
ws acceptable pleasour and seruice, and vtherwayis ansuer to ws #
vpoun
your obedience.  Sa we commit you to God.  Frome Edinburgh, the
xv day of August 1588.  James R.
   To our traist freind the Lard of Westir Wemys.

[} [\37. KING JAMES THE SIXTH TO THE SAME. 
23D JANUARY 1588.\] }]
[^TO DAVID WEMYSS OF WEMYSS^]
   Traist freind, we grete yow weill.  It is our will, and we   #
command
yow that ye retene and kepe the plege quhilk we committit to    #
your
custodie in sure firmance and captiuitie, vnlatting him to      #
libertie
vpoun band, obligatioun, or ony vther maner of conditioun       #
without     
our speciall command thairto in write subscryuit be ws and our
<P 28>
Chancellair.  Thus we committ yow to God.  Frome Haliruidhous,  #
the
xxiii day of Januare 1588.  James R.
   To our traist freind the Lard of Westir Wemys.

[} [\38. KING JAMES THE SIXTH TO THE SAME.
1ST APRIL 1589.\] }]
[^TO DAVID WEMYSS OF WEMYSS^]
   Traist freind, we greit yow hartlie weill.  Mynding to haif  #
heir a
frequent and solempne assemblie of our nobilitie, barronis, and #
vtheris
our estattis, vpoun the xxiiii day of Aprile instant, alsweill  #
for resolutioun
to be tane be thair aduise anent the mater of our mariage as    #
for
the quieting of this estate and diuerting of the appering       #
danegers
thretnid thairto, baith be domesticque and externall practises, #
it is
thairfoir our will, and we desyre yow richt effectuouslie, that #
all
excuses sett apairt, ye faill not to be at ws, the said day and #
place,
preparit to assist ws with your best counsale and aduise in the
premissis, as ye will testefie vnto ws your dewtifull           #
affectioun to the
weill of ws and this haill state, and thairin do ws richt       #
acceptable and
thankfull seruice.  Thus we commit yow to God.  At Halyrudhous, #
the first day off [{Apr{]ile 1589.  James R.
   To our traist freind the Laird of Wester Wemys.

[} [\39. KING JAMES THE SIXTH TO THE SAME. 7TH MAY 1590.\] }]
[^TO DAVID WEMYSS OF WEMYSS^]
   Richt traist freind, we greit you hertly weill.  We haif     #
writtin to
yow to your hous of Wemys for ressait of the Commissioners of
Denmark, vpoun Monunday nixt at nycht, the xi day of this       #
moneth,
and, in cais of your absence, hes thocht gude to send this      #
vther letter
to yow to Elcho, desyrand yow effectuuslie, that ye will nocht  #
faill
without delay, all excuses sett apairt, to addres yow to be at  #
Wemys
<P 29>
with all diligence efter the ressett heirof, and to treate and  #
interteny
thame the best ye can that nycht, as ye luif the honour of ws   #
and the
cuntrie, and will do ws speciall plesour.  Thus we commit you   #
to God.
At Edinburgh, the vii of Maii 1590.  James R.
   To our traist freind the Lard of Wester Wemys.

[} [\40. KING JAMES THE SIXTH TO THE SAME. 
29TH MARCH 1592.\] }]
[^TO DAVID WEMYSS OF WEMYSS^]
   Rycht traist freind, we greit you hertlye weill.  The desyre #
we haue 
alwayes careit to satisfie the commoun wische and expectatioun  #
of oure
weill affectit subiectis, and the present tyme and occasioun in #
this
wickit and declyning aige, craving sic solide and gude ordour   #
to be
takin as may best settill and quyet oure estate, hes movit ws   #
now efter
oure full and perfyte aige, to procleame a Parliament, quhilk,  #
be Godis
assistance, is to be haldin in the moneth of Maii nixtocum.  In #
the
meyntyme, thinking it convenient, that, in maters of sa great   #
wecht
and importance, we proceid be the aduise and concurrens of sic  #
or oure
nobilitie and best affected subiectis as ar knawin to cary      #
gretest guidwill
to the furtherance of sa necessar and godlie a work, we haue    #
maid
choyse, amangis vtheris, of yow, being acquent with your gude   #
dispositioun,
quhom we haue takin occasioun heirbye to desyre in maist
ernist maner (all excuses set apart) to addres yourselff toward #
ws at
Edinburgh, the xx day of Aprile nixt approcheing, instructed    #
with your
sound aduise and best opinioun, to be interponit alsweill in    #
sic thingis
as ar meit to be proponit and enactit in Parliament, as         #
lykewise in sum
further resolutionis then requisite to be takin in sic maters   #
as salbe
particularlie oppynnit vp at your cuming to that assemblie, at  #
quhat
tyme ye sall beare witnes of oure sinceritie and gude meanyng   #
to haue
the lawes and ordinances sett downe, effectuall and with dew    #
regard,
inviolablie kepit, and of oure earnyst cair in omitting na part #
with your
<P 30>
ayde and the rest of oure estates to haue that lang expectit    #
and wischit
executioun to follow.  Thus louking assuritlie for your presens #
in
keping precisle that dyett, as ye will kyth thairby your zeale  #
and
affectioun to the advancement of Godis glorie, preseruatioun of #
oure
croun and estate, with the setling of the samyn, to the great   #
quiet and
publict benefite of your natiue cuntrie, we commit yow to Godis #
protectioun.
From Halyrudhous, the xxix day of Marche 1592.
James R.
   To our richt traist freind the Larde of Wester Wemys.

[} [\41. KING JAMES THE SIXTH TO THE SAME. 
27TH SEPTEMBER 1592.\] }]
[^TO DAVID WEMYSS OF WEMYSS^]
   Richt traist freind, we greit yow hertlie weill.  As the     #
gentill
vsage and lenitie, schawine at all tymes heirtofoir toward our  #
subiectis,
hes maid thame to leif vndir that cairles securitie that our    #
sindrie proclamationis
haue nocht bene sa dewlie respected as the importance and
necessitie of the erandis requirit, sa hes it gevin ws          #
occasioun to resolue
a cours quhairby we may receave better obedience, quhairof we   #
haue
thocht meit heirby to mak yow aduerteist, and that vpone sum    
occasionis contened at lenth in our publict proclamationis,     #
quhilk will
cum to your knawlege, we haue fund it expedient to continew the #
last
appointed raid to the tent day of October nixt to cum; to       #
quhilk tyme
we will desire yow in maist earnest maner to prepair your self, #
and
nocht to faill to meit and accumpany ws, as ye salbe directed;  #
as
thairby ye will kyith your zeale and affectioun toward our      #
croun and
seruice, besydes the reporting of our speciall thankes, and     #
concurre
with your help to the purgeing and conquischeing in a maner of  #
sic
boundis, specialie of Tiuidaill, as hes schaiken of thair       #
dewitie and
allegeance towardis ws, being infected with the repair and hant #
of our
notorious rebellis, and, in that respect, to be repute na les   #
culpable
<P 31>
nor thame selfis and equalie to be persewit.  Thus luiking      #
assuredlie
for your conformitie (all excuses set apart) as euir ye will be #
partaker
of our gudewill and fauour, we commit yow to Godis protectioun. 
From Dalkeith, the xxvii day of September 1592.  James R.
   To our richt traist freind the Laird of Wester Wemys.

[^A LETTER BY QUEEN ANNE OMITTED.^]

[} [\43. KING JAMES THE SIXTH TO THE SAME. 
3D AUGUST 1594.\] }]
[^TO DAVID WEMYSS OF WEMYSS^]
   Richt traist freind, we greit you hairtlie weill.  The       #
incertaintie
of the arrivall of the remanent foreyne ambassadouris and sum   #
vther
<P 32>
speciall occasionis, hes constranit ws to prorogat the tyme of  #
our
derrest sonis baptisme to Sonday, the xviii of August instant;
quhairof ue haue thocht necessar to aduerteis yow, and          #
thairwithall
effectuuslie to desyre yow that ye will nocht faill to be with  #
us vpoun
the fyftene day of the said moneth at the farthest, and that ye #
will
haist in sic quick stuf as ye may haue in redynes, and may      #
spair, to the
support of the chargis, to Halirudhous, betuix and the vii or   #
viii day
of the said moneth; and vennysoun and wyldfoull as it may be    #
haid
calloure about the day of the solempnitie, evin as ye will gif  #
us a pruif
of your affectioun and guidwill; and alwayis let us haue your   #
ansuer 
that ue be nocht disapointit; and sa committis yow to God.  At
Striuiling, the thrid day of August 1594.  James R.
Yie sie now thai ar alreddy cum vpoun quhome the chargeis ar
to be maid.  We knaw that vennysoun and wyldfoull are nocht     #
frequent
in that cuntrie, albeit thai be expressit in this our letter as #
we
wrait to the Hielandis.
   To oure richt traist freind the Lard of Wester Wemys.

[} [\44. KING JAMES THE SIXTH TO THE SAME. 
21ST JANUARY 1594.\] }]
[^TO DAVID WEMYSS OF WEMYSS^]
   Traist freind, we grite yow weill.  We haue, for the better  #
rewle
to be keipit be the disorderit personis, inhabitantis of our    #
bordouris,
in tyme cuming, taikin certane plegeis, quhilkis, according to  #
our Act
of Parliament, is thocht meit to be committit to remane with    #
certane
nobillmen, barronis, and vthiris in the incuntrie, seing our    #
awin houssis 
ar not aibill to keip sic a multitude as necesserlie, for this  #
guid occasioun,
mon be detenit.  Quhairfoir thir presentis salbe to desyir yow
effectuouslie to ressaue in your hous Andro Johnnestoun, sone   #
to
Cristie of Mylnbank, plege for the branche of Mylnbank, and     #
caus
<P 33>
ansuer him of meit, drink, and bedding, quhill he be fred be    #
our
speciall letter to be direct to yow, subscryuit be ws, and      #
sevin of our
Previe Counsall, our Chancellair and Justice-clerke being       #
alwayes twa
of that nowmer.  It is not necessar that ye be cairfull of his  #
keiping,
becaus he hes found souirtie not to eshew: bot ye sall not      #
grant him
licence or libertie to pas hame, as ye wald eshew the pane of   #
twa
thousand pundis, prescryuit in our Act of Parliament maid       #
heiranent.
Thus, for the present, we committ yow to God.  Frome            #
Haliruidhous,
the xxj day of Januar 1594.
   James R.
   To our traist freind the Lard of Westir Wemys.

[} [\45. KING JAMES THE SIXTH TO THE SAME. 
31ST JANUARY 1595.\] }]
[^TO DAVID WEMYSS OF WEMYSS^]
   Richt traist freind, we grete yow weill.  The plegeis brocht #
in for
the gude rule of the Bordouris mon be kepit be the nobilmen,    #
barronis,
and gentlemen of the incuntrie, quhomto they ar directit,       #
according
to the order appointit be the Act of Parliament maid            #
thairanent.
Thairfore we require yow rycht effectuuslie, that ye ressaue    #
Jok Johnnstoun 
of Brumell, plege for the gang of Brumell and Elscheschelis,    #
and
keip him in fre ward, and cause ansuer of meit, drink, and      #
bedding, ay
and quhill he be fred and relevit be our speciall lettir,       #
subscriuit with
our hand and be sevin of oure Counsale; and that ye nawyse      #
grant
him licence nor libertie to pas hame, as ye will eschew the     #
incurring
of the pane of twa thowsand pundis prescriuit be the said Act   #
of
Parliament.  Thus we commit yow to God.  At Halyrudehouse, the
last day of Januar 1595.
   James R.
   To oure richt traist freind the Laird of Wester Wemys.

<P 34>
[} [\46. KING JAMES THE SIXTH TO SIR JOHN WEMYSS OF WEMYSS OF 
THAT ILK. 30TH OCTOBER 1597.\] }]
[^TO DAVID WEMYSS OF WEMYSS^]
   Richt traist freind, we grete you wele.  The pledgeis now    #
enterit 
for gude reule of the Bordouris mon be keipit be the baronis    #
and vthiris
quhometo thay ar directit, according to the ordour prescriuit   #
be our
Act of Parliament.  Thairfoir we require you richt effectuuslie #
to
ressaue in your house and keiping Jok Johnnstoun of Brumell,    #
plege
for the gang of Brumell, and caus ansuer him of meit, drink,    #
and
bedding, quhill he be fred and releuit be oure speciall letter, #
subscriuit
be ws and fyve or our Preuey Counsale; and that ye suffir him   #
nocht to
departe or pas hame, be your ouersicht, licence, or consent, as #
ye will
eshew the pane of tua thowsand pundis, contenit in our Act of   #
Parliament
maid thairanent.  Bot incais he eshaip hame or departe oute of
your cumpany, by your witting, that ye aduerteis ws and our     #
Counsale
thairof be write, within xxiiii houris eftir his said eshewing, #
vthirwayes
ye will incur the said pane.  Thus we committ you to God.  At
Lynlythqw, the penult day of October 1597.  James R.
   To our richt traist freind the Lard of Wester Wemys.

[} [\47. KING JAMES THE SIXTH TO THE SAME. 
30TH DECEMBER 1598.\] }]
[^TO SIR JOHN WEMYSS OF WEMYSS.^]
   Traist freind, we greit yow weill.  Wanting houssis of our   #
awin to
keip the pleges enterit to ws for the quietnes or our West      #
Marche, we
ar forceit to have recours to the remeid provydit thairto be    #
our
Estaittis at this lait conventioun; and, accordinglie, man will #
and
desyre yow that vpoun sycht heirof, all excusis set asyde, ye   #
faill
nocht to resaue Willie of Grenesyde plege for the gang of       #
Myreheid
and Lokerby, keip and deteine him in sure firmance, vnsuffering #
him to
<P 35>
escape or to retire him hame without our speciall warrand had   #
and
obtenit thairto, vndir the panis contenit in our actis, and as  #
ye wilbe
ansuerable to ws besydis vpoun your failyie at your further     #
charge
and perrell.  Thus we commit yow to God.  Frome Halyrudhous,    #
this
penult of December 1598.  James R.
   To our traist freind the Laird of Wester Wemys.

[} [\48. KING JAMES THE SIXTH TO THE SAME, 
9TH JULY 1599.\] }]
[^TO SIR JOHN WEMYSS OF WEMYSS^]
   Richt traist freind, we greit you hertlie wele.  The Frenche #
ambassadour
being to viseit our burgh of Perth the morne or vthermorne, we
haue thocht guid, effectuusly to requeist and desir you, that   #
ye faill
nocht, as ye respect our honnour, to send heir, to Falkland,    #
with a
seruand of your awne, ane of your fynest hacquenays, with the   #
fynest
sadle and furnitour yee haue, betuixt and the morne at evin, or
Twysday in the morning at the fardest, for the monting of the   #
said
ambassadour or sum gentilman of his tryne in that iornay;       #
quhilk
your hors salbe returnit agane to you with your awne seruand.   #
And
swa lippynning this assuredlie to you, as ye will mereit our    #
thankis,
we commit you to God.  From Falkland, this ix of Julii 1599.
   James R.
   To our richt traist freind the Laird of Wester Weymis.

[} [\49. KING JAMES THE SIXTH TO THE SAME, 
13TH JULY 1599.\] }]
[^TO SIR JOHN WEMYSS OF WEMYSS^]
   Richt traist freind, we greit you hertlie wele. In our       #
former letter
we desyrit you, as ye respected our honnour, to send ws ane of  #
your
<P 36>
fynest hacquenays, with the fynest sadle and furnitour ye haue, #
for
the monting of the Frenche ambassadour, or sum gentilman of his
tryne, in his progres toward our burgh of Perth, quhilk ye haue #
vilipendit;
and thairfoir, as of befoir, we haue thocht guid to will and
desyr you that ye faill nocht (all excuissis set apairt) to     #
send ws the 
same hacquenay the morne, or vther morne at the fardest, with a
seruand of your awne, quha sall returne him agane to you; and   #
swa
lippynning this assuredlie to you, as ye will report our        #
hertlie thankis,
and will eschew our forder wraith, we commit you to God.  From
Falkland, this xiii of Julii 1599.  James R.
   To our richt traist freind the Laird of Wester Weymis.

[} [\50. KING JAMES THE SIXTH TO SIR JOHN WEMYSS OF WEMYSS, 
KNIGHT. 15TH AUGUST 1599.\] }]
   Richt traist freind, we greit you hertlie wele.              #
Vnderstanding that
thair is yeirlie ane lax nett sett within the mouth of the      #
water of
Levin, ower the quhilk ye ar baillie, quhilk is expreslie       #
contrair the
tennour of our Actis of Parliament, we haue thairfoir thocht    #
guid
effectuusly to requeist and desire yow that ye faill not to     #
suffer and
permit nane to lay or sett thair nettis, fra this day furth, as #
our said
Act of Parliament prescryuis, becaus it is ane great hinder and #
preiudice
to our commounwele and puir lieges, in taking of the baggit     #
fische
within the same water efter the said day, notwithstanding of    #
any
warrand or desir gevin or to be gevin to that effect to you, as #
ye will
do ws guid plesour.  Swa we commit you to God.  From Falkland,
the xv day of August 1599.  James R.
   To our richt traist freind S[{chir{] Johnne Weymis of that   #
Ilk, knycht.

[^LETTERS 51.-55. OMITTED.^]

<P 41>
[} [\56. KING JAMES THE SIXTH TO SIR JOHN WEMYSS OF THAT ILK.
17TH MARCH 1603.\] }]
   Richt traist freind, we great you hertlie wele.  In respect  #
our cousing,
the Erll of Ergyle, and the rest of the Erll of Murrayes        #
speciall freindis,
wer not at this tyme present with ws heir, we haue continewit   #
the
handilling of that mater of his mariage and vther his effaires  #
vnto the
xxv day of Marche instant, quhairof we haue thocht gude to gif  #
you
aduerteisment, and effectuusly to requeist and desire you, that #
ye faill
not (all excuissis set a pairt) to be at ws in Sterling, the    #
said day
preceisly; quhair we mynd, God willing, to be for the tyme, to  #
gif
your best [{aduise{] and opinioun in the putting of our said    #
cousing, the
Erll of Murrayes effaires to sum point, as ye will do ws        #
acceptable guid
pleasour and seruice.  Sua, resting assured of your keping that #
day
<P 42>
preceisly, we commit you to God.  From Halyruidhouse, the xvii  #
day
of Marche 1603.  James R.

[} [\57. KING JAMES THE SIXTH TO SIR JOHN WEMYSS. 
10TH APRIL 1603.\] }]
   Richt traist freind, we great yow hertlie wele.  Seing our   #
people hear
langis na lesse for our dearest bedfollow, the Quene, and our   #
childrene
then they did for ourselff, and that it wes not your fortoun to #
accumpany
ws in this our wayage, in respect of the schortnes of tyme and
your not preparatioun, we haue maid chois of yow for the convoy #
to
Londoun of our said dearest bedfollow the Quene, quhom we haue  #
appointed
to begin hir journay betuixt and the first day of Maii          #
nixtocum;
and thairfoir will effectuusly requeist and desire yow to       #
prepair and
addresse yourselff, in your cumliest maner, to convoy,          #
accumpany, and
attend vpoun our said dearest bedfollow in that hir haill       #
journay to
Londoun; and for the same effect to be in readynes vpoun hir    #
aduerteisment
betuixt and the day foirsaid; as ye tender our honnour and
the honnour of the cuntrey with our speciall plesour and        #
seruice.  Sua
we commit yow to God.  From Newcastell, this tent of Aprile     #
1603.
   James R.
   To our richt traist freind the Laird of Weymis Wester.

[^LETTERS 58. AND 59. OMITTED.^]

<P 44>
[} [\60. LETTER BY KING JAMES THE SIXTH TO THE LAIRD OF WEMYSS.
8TH JULY 1618.\] }]
James R.
   Trustie and welbeloued, wee greete yow well.  Whereas        #
certeyne
articles were proposed by vs to be concluded by the church      #
there, at our
late being in that our kingdome, which at the last assemblie    #
holden at St.
Andrewes were deferred to the nexte ensewing, wee haue thoughte #
good
to calle an assemblie nationall of the Church in those partes,  #
and haue
appointed them to conuene at Perth, the 25th of August nexte,   #
to the
effecte those articles may be past in constitution              #
ecclesiasticall, at which
wee haue made speciall choise of yow to be presente, that yee   #
may
assiste and furder our good and royall intention, so far as     #
lyes in yow.
Therefor wee moste earnestlie desire yow to keepe the said time #
and
place, and attende our Commissioner whome wee shall appointe to #
keepe
the said assemblie, by whome yee shall more particularlie       #
vnderstande
what is our pleasour.  And this assuring our selfe that yee     #
will not
fayle to do, as yee wolde merite the continuance of our fauour, #
wee bid
yow farewell.  Giuen at our Castle of Windesor, the viii=th= of #
Julie 1618.
   To our trustie and welbeloued the Laird of Weemes.

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<P 75>
[} [\99. ALEXANDER, EARL OF DUNFERMLINE, CHANCELLOR OF          #
SCOTLAND, TO ROBERT,
LORD BURNTISLAND, AFTERWARDS FIRST LORD MELVILLE\] }]
   From Halyruidhouse, 21 Junii 1614.
   Maist honorabill good Lord, - I tak occasion to write this   #
to your lordship,
to gif yiow present taist in quhat estaitt wee ar heir, in the  #
gouernement off this
estaitt ondir his sacred Maiestie, be sic directions as wee     #
resaue daylie frome
thence; for this last counsall day wee had in counsall          #
presented to us twa lettirs
frome his Maiestie, direct to the haill counsall, quhairoff I   #
send yiow heirwith
copies, that yiour lordship may communicat on the same with my  #
Lord Somersett
as yie may haue guid opportunitie and occasion; for I assuire   #
yiour lordship thair
is na directions cuimis frome thence hither, bot (as yie know)  #
the burding thairoff
at this present lyis on my Lord Somersett, as he quha onlye has #
the absolute
powar baith be his office and be his creditt.
   I sould haue send the saidis lettirs or copies thairoff to   #
my Lord Somersett
my self, and my minde thairanent, war nocht I think his         #
lordship [^BLANCO^] [\The blanks in this letter are caused by 
the original paper being torn in various places.\]
with innumerabill greate affaires as I [^BLANCO^] lasour to     #
reid my lettirs or
luike on thame; and I wald be sorie to write my minde frielie   #
in sic maters, and
nocht witt quhat sould becuim off my lettirs, nor in quhais     #
handis thay may fall.
I am certane thir lettirs has neiuer bein directed be his       #
Maiestie as thay ar wrettin,
nor his Maiestie wald neiuer haue signed thame, gif thay had    #
bein red to his
Maiestie as yie will parsaue be thame your self, as yie reid    #
thame; for thay ar
direct aganist our law forme and practic, and by all rason and  #
in greate pairt
foundit upon ontreuth, as yie knaw in the mater, and will       #
considder be sicht off
the lettirs.
   To the first, the counsall for satisfactioun thairoff,       #
ordourd the kings aduocat to
cause summond onye off the parties mentioned thairin for onye   #
particular crimes,
offences, or riottis ony man sould giue him information off,    #
and furnish him probatioun.
To summond onye persoun upon the generall to ansuir upon his    #
misdemeanour 
or misbehauiour can nocht stand with our practic nor law, is    #
direct
aganist the acts off parlament. 
<P 76>
   The second lettir sould haue bein direct in guid forme to me #
onlye, for that
lyis to my charge and office yierlie to alter, change, or       #
establish the justices off
peace as occasioun may requere.  Bot beside that, as yie will   #
parsaue be reiding
the lettir, if his Maiestie war weill informed, wald neiuer     #
consent that directioun
sould be followed furth.  I am determined, neiuertheless, to    #
obey the same if I
gett nocht contrair [{wa{]rrand betuix and Michaelmes, for that #
lyis to my charge
onlye, and this I shiow to the counsall, for I will alvayis     #
obey his Maiestie's
commandementis.  I think thir lettirs has bein procured to the  #
behoue and at 
the Laird off Halkertounis desire; quhilk he neidit nocht for   #
onye thing he has
[^BLANCO^] anie raison for your lordship knawis he has          #
[^BLANCO^]
the lordis, and off my self in speciall as onye man has.  Bot   #
treulie thir forms ar
nocht guid, ar eiuill thocht off, wald be remeidit and stayed,  #
or ellis the service will
be werie onpleasand heir and diffiicill, if nocht impossibill,  #
to doe guid seruice,
and hald all affaires heir in guid frame.
   Sence the writing heiroff, thair is ane other lettir cuimed  #
hither to us frome
his Maiestie far by my expectatioun.  The lettir is to my lord  #
secretair, aduocat, 
and me, to the behoue and fauour off Francis, sonne to the late #
Erle of Bothuell,
with ane protectioun formed to the said Francis, with command   #
and charge to us
to aduyse his Maiestie gif the said forme off protectioun micht #
importe to him
onye thing micht be preiudicial to his fathers forfaltour; and  #
with command to
us if it may import that to forme ane other, and send it in all #
expeditioun to his
Majestie, quhilk sould beare na farder, bot his Maiesties       #
acceptatioun off him
ondir his protectioun and clemencie, and restitutioun against   #
his dishabilitatioun
be his fathers forfaltour, to import na farder bot libertie to  #
him, butt offence, to
marie with ony partie, to enjoye quhat eiuer he may acquire be  #
mariage or otherwayis
be laufull meanis, and to haue place, to stand in iugement, to  #
parsew, and
defend the same as onye other laufull subject, as gif the       #
sentence of dishabilitatioun 
had neiuer bein geiuin against him be occasioun off his         #
father's forfaltour.
To this wee haue ansuired the best wee could, [{and{] has send  #
our ansuir to James
Douglas to be presented to his Maiestie, [{r{]efused alluterlie #
to giue it to the
partie quha broght us the kings letter himself, and maed greate #
instance with us
to haue the ansuir deliured to himself; quhow thir things ar sa #
wroght and broght
about, and quha sould be the moyennars and pro [^BLANCO^] is 
mistie to me,
for I haue na intelligence off [^BLANCO^] quhilk man mak my     #
pairt werie [^BLANCO^]
and difficill in my seruice.  I hoipe alwayis, God willing, I   #
sall keip the pairt off
a guid skippar.  I sall doe all may be done be sic winde and    #
wadder as fallis to
me; and if the wadder sould ouer whelme me, I sall perish with  #
the ruidder in
my hand, on a dew and honest course.  Certanlie it apeiris to   #
me his Maiestie
<P 77>
intends be degrees to restore that mannis estaitt, and suim     #
sayis my Lord
Somersett is on that course also, suim that it cuimis other     #
wayis.  I hoipe be the
nixt occasioun I sall haue to write to yiow to latt yiow knaw   #
suim end off our
process with your guid toun of Bruntiland, for we haue          #
presentlie the aduocatioun
in hand, and nocht hauing farder for this present, bot to wish  #
yiow all happines, 
restis your lordships maist affectionat to serue yiow,
   Lord Bruntiland.  Dunfermeline.

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<P 77>
[} [\101. COLONEL ALEXANDER LESLIE TO JAMES, MARQUIS OF         #
HAMILTON.\] }] 
   From Hamburg the 12 of Maii 1631.
   My most nobil Lord and General, - I am now cum one vith Mr.  #
Elphinstone
and Mr. Meldrome vnto the towne of Hamburge, quher I haue       #
brocht letters of
credence vith me from his Majestie of Suedine to the bischope   #
and towne of
Breme, quither I mind to goe vith all expeditione, and to tak   #
the kings comissarius
along vith me thither to determine of all things quhich may mak #
suir your
excellences randevovs and landing.  Bot if they, as it is to be #
feared sinc the
enemie is so dispersed throch ther lands, be not eabil to giue  #
vs such assistanc as
<P 78>
is requisit, ve must tak a cours to secure our selfs, quhich is #
to heastine thos levies
quhich your excellence can sie in the instructione, and I vill  #
doe my indevor heir
to bring them vp.  Bot if ther be heir such difficultie throch  #
the levies of so many
princes and townes, that they can hardlie be brocht togither,   #
let me intreat your
excellence that I may know if ye vill vndertak your self the    #
leveying of them
troups or nocht, and in the mean tyme I vill goe one in         #
effecting all that I
possiblie can, not omitting any occasione to acquaint your      #
excellence how ewrie
particular goeth.  I haue many passages to haue vreatine vnto   #
your excellence,
both of his Majesties proceidings, as also of many things done  #
in thir feilds.  Bot
Mr. Elphinstone and Meldrome can record all to your excellence  #
at large, quho 
hath cariit them selfs so in this busines that they haue        #
omitted no tyme, bot hes
vith gryt deligence givne his Majestie all contentment.  As for #
me, sinc it hath
pleased his Majestie of Suedine and your excellence to imploy   #
me in this busines,
I assure your excellence my affectione to doe yow service is so #
gryt that ther sall
no thing be left vnessayd quhich may tend to your honour or     #
service, and I sall
doe my best to vitness my self your excellences most humil      #
servant,
   A. Lesle.
   To my most nobil lord my Lord Marques of Hambiltone.

<P 80>
[} [\105. COLONEL ALEXANDER LESLIE TO JAMES, MARQUIS OF         #
HAMILTON.\] }]
   The 21 Agust [{1631{].
   Pleis your Excellence, - We arryved at Wkermundt, fond the   #
soiours so
weried, being wnaqwainted with mairsching, I wes forced to ly   #
still a day to
<P 81>
repos them, and to prowyd for schipin to send the seik men be   #
watter, which
wer to the number of thrie hundreth; for the hopman of          #
Vkermundt wes
apoynted to be comissaries for owr prowissioun, quhilk wes      #
nocht so well as it
sould haue for lak of tyme, yit thai wer contentit ressonabill  #
well.  But the nixt
nicht lodging wes at Mutschellburgh, quhair I fond nothing, bot #
wes forced to
send and seek for it at vther places, for the which the         #
comissarie is to be blamed,
as Capitane Weir can schaw your Excellence, and the nixt nycht  #
salbe at Falk in
Wald; quhair I hop thai salbe a littill better vsed, and so I   #
sall caus to provyde
for your Excellence all the way that I am to pas, bot your      #
Excellence wald do
well and nocht to quyt the hopman will be brocht yow to         #
Mutschelburgh, least he
serue your Excellence as he has served me; for I will assure    #
your Excellence it
is verie gritt trubill to bring them forth and prowyd for them, #
yit with Godis
grace I sall bring them to Stattin.  As for the seik, I haue    #
writtin to Charle
Banneir, that thaj sall nocht lak thair wnto the rest come. - I #
rest your Excellenc
servant,  A. Leslie.

<P 82>
[} [\107. COLONEL ALEXANDER LESLIE TO JAMES, MARQUIS OF         #
HAMILTON.\] }]
   Stade, the 26 November 1632.
   My most noble and honourable good Lord, - I haue thought it  #
expedient to
mak to your Excellencie this sad nar[{ra{]tioun of the          #
lamentable death of our most
valarouse and worthie chiftaine, who, in the sixt of November,  #
did end the constant
course of all his glorious victories with his happie lyffe, for #
his Majestie
went to farre on with a regiment of Smolandis horsemen, who did #
not second him
so well as they showld, at the which instant ther came so thick #
and darke a mist
that his owin folkis did lose him, and he being seperate from   #
his owin amongst his 
foes, his left arme was shote in two, after the which being     #
shote againe through the
backe, fainting he fell upon the ground, one the which whill he #
was lying, one asking
him whate he was, he answeared, King of Sweddin, wherupon his   #
enemies that did
compasse him thought to haue caried him away; but in the meane  #
while, his owin
folkes comeing on, striueing in great furie to vindicate his    #
Majestie out of ther
handis, when they saw that they most quite him againe, he that  #
before asked what
he was, shote him through the heade; and so did put ane end to  #
his dayes, the
fame of whose valoure and loue to the good cause sal nevir end. #
When his corpes
were inbalmed ther waes found in them fyue shottes and nyne     #
woundis, so ar we
to our wnspeakable greife deprived of the best and most         #
valorouse commander
that evir any souldiours hade, and the church of God with hir   #
good cause of the
best instrument vnder God, we becaus we was not worthie of him, #
and she for
the sinnes of hir children, and altho' our lose who did follow  #
him salbe greate, yit
questionlesse the churche hir lose sal be much greatter, for    #
how can it be when 
the heade which gaue such heavenly influence vnto all the       #
inferiore members, that
nevir any distemperature or weaknes was seene in them; how can  #
it be since
that heade is taken from the body, bot the members therof sal   #
fall vnto much
fainting and confusion.  But this I say not, that ather I dowbt #
of Gods Providence
or of these whom he hes left as actores behind him, for I am    #
perswaded that
God wil not desert his owne cause, bot will yit stirre up the   #
heartis of some of
his anoynted ones to prosecute the defence of his cause, and to #
be emolouse of
such renowne as his Majestie hes left behind him for evir, and  #
I pray the
Almightie that it would please his Supreame Majestie now to     #
stirre the King of
Boheme, and to make choyce of him in this worke, which indead   #
is brought vnto
a great measoure of perfectioun, neither doe I think that ther  #
salbe any defect in
these his valorous souldiours and followers, in whome ther is   #
not the least suspicioun
<P 83>
of jelousie; bot this al men knowis that a bodie cannot long    #
subsist
without a head, which giues such lyffe and influence, ather     #
good or bade, as it hes
radically in it selfe, when it is present; and when it is cutt  #
away, cutts away
with itselfe all lyffe and influence.  As yit this bodie hes    #
done well, for indeid
the victorie was ours, and Papinhame is killed, Wallenstoune    #
wounded, Corronel
Commargen killed, with many other greatt officers which yit     #
I cannot particularly
nominate.  The enemie left the towne of Leipsich, and Duke      #
Ewiene of Lunnemberie 
hes beseiged very hardly the castle, and I think be now it is   #
taken in.
Duke Bernard of Veimers hes persewed Wallenstone with the       #
relictis of the
Emperours armies, and hes so compassed them about that I think  #
also by now
they ar ended.  Now it remaines that we turne our sorrow to     #
revenge, and our
hearts to God by earnest prayer that he would stirre up the     #
heartis of such men
as may doe good to his cause, and now tak it in hand when it    #
is in such a case.
   I haue no further wherof I can wreit to your Excellencie at  #
this tyme, bot
when occasioun offers I sal not be deficient to acquaint your   #
Excellencie with every
particulare. I intreat your Excellencie to haue me in your      #
remembrance as one
who sal evir be readdie and willing to serve your Excellencie   #
to the verie outtermost
of my power; of which assureing my selfe, and wishing your      #
Excellencie all
health and happines, I rest your Excellencies faithfull servant #
till death,
   A. Lesle.

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<P 120>
[} [\154. ALEXANDER, EARL OF DUNFERMLINE, CHANCELLOR, TO 
THOMAS, LORD BINNING, 
SECRETARY OF SCOTLAND. 26TH SEPTEMBER 1613.\] }]
   Maist honorabill good Lord, - I am glaid to onderstand be    #
yiour lettir, baith
that yie ar entrit agane in the band off mariage, and that yie  #
haue tane sa weill with
the yioke that yie haue stayed yiour iornay to Court till the   #
nixt oulke be ordonance
off heighar powars.  The lettir from his Maiestie quhilk yiour  #
lordship send to me,
I sall be cairfull baith to present to the Counsall the nixt    #
day, and to see obeyed quhateiver
<P 121>
is in it.  I haue na farder to yiour lordship for the present,  #
bot as may occurre
sall write to yiou to Court sa lang as yie ar thair, quhilk I   #
wis ather for lang tyme
or shiorte, as yie may find best for yiour weill and            #
contentement.  I wis yiour lordship
may remember off that I said to yiow at our last meiting.  I    #
think guid yie meit
before yiour parting with my Lord Register, and leiue him       #
directioun in yiour absence
nocht to be fra na Counsall day, and to supplie thair for yiou  #
the writing off all
ansuiris to his Maiesties directions, quhilk he may write ather #
to yiou, or onye in yiour
absence yie sall direct him.  Nocht hauing farder for the       #
present bot to commit yiow
to Goddis holye protectioun, restis euer
   Yiour lordships maist affectionat to serue yiow,
   Dunfermelyne.
   From Dalgatie, 26 September 1613.
   I entreate this may remember my seruice to my Ladye yiour    #
Lordships bedfallowe.
This Mononday, 27 instant, I intend, God willing, to be eist at #
my good sonne
Balcarres.
   After I had writtin all before, I haue resaued ane pacquett  #
frome Court with lettirs
to sindrie; na aduertisment nor newis in it wordie of mentioun, #
bot I parsaue his
Maiestie has werie hard information off me, as I doubt nocht    #
bot yiour lordship will
heir aneuch off at Court.  I thank God I am ansuirabill for all #
my proceidings quhen
eiuer I sall be laufullie challenged, and herd to my lawfull    #
defence.  My innocencie
and deutifull meaning has biddin and putt off monye stormis and #
blastis: I stand
nocht great aw off this, albeit I think it cuim fra the airth   #
regnis maist, and is maist
tempesteous this seasoun.  I haue nocht done my deutie in       #
constraning the burowis
to pay for the hanging of Starcouius; to cause the landislordis #
off the M=c=Greegours
satisfie my Lord Ergyles desires and laird Lawers, and to       #
satisfie Lawers for taking
all the M=c=Gregours barnis.  I thank God thair is na wars at   #
this tyme to lay to my
cherge, albeit thir points be heighlie aneugh agregit.  Yie     #
knaw als weill as onye my
pairt in all this, albeit I wish yiou neiuer to kenne the mater #
farder nor sall be speired
at yiou.  After the nixt Counsall day I sall mak ansuir for my  #
self werie shiortlie, nor
thinkis neiuer to trubill me meikill at the mater.  I think yie #
may eiuin lauch that
sic things sould be laid to my charge.  It micht moue me suim   #
thing gif I knew
nocht that bettir men nor eiuir I can think me self wordie to   #
be compared with, has
baith tane greitar panis and done bettir seruice nor my         #
habilitie can attane to, and
yit had wars rewardis nor sic detractions.  I will continew to  #
doe my deutie to my
good maister, to the countrie, to richt, and iustice, as my     #
ingine or strenth may furnish.
Sua doing, (\si fractus illabatur orbis\) , etc.
   To my maist honorabill good lord, my lord Secretair.

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<P 162>
[} [\204. THOMAS, EARL OF HADDINGTON, TO WILLIAM, EARL OF
MENTEITH, PRESIDENT
OF THE COUNCIL. C. MARCH 1629.\] }]
   My most noble Lord, - My assured persuasion that your        #
worthie friend my Lord
Secretarie of Scotland will fullie informe your lordship of all #
that is wretin to him of
the counsels proceedings makes me forbeare to trouble your      #
lordship with repetition
of that which will be more perfitlie reported by him.
   Your lordship by your care and zeale in repressing the       #
encrease and bold profession
of poperie encouraged others to assist yow and follow yow       #
therein.  It is conceiued by
the Lords of Counsell that the Marquis of Huntlies going to     #
court after disobedience of
all the charges direct aganist him will so embolden the papists #
and affray the ministers
and best affected subiects in the north, and many other parts   #
of the countrie, that if he
being often denunced rebell sall, after contempt of the king    #
and churches lawes, find
countenance and fauour there, it will make many having charge   #
in the church and
estate to become more remisse heirafter nor in former times,    #
not without danger of
derogation to both, for preventing wherof your lordships place  #
in the estate and
<P 163>
affection to religion, makes such as honour yow to exspect that #
ye will vse the
opportunitie of your being neere to his Maiestie to inform him  #
trulie of the importance
of the occasion, wherin and all your other honorable            #
intentions, I wish your lordship
all happinesse, and sall remaine, affectionat to do your        #
lordship seruice,
   Hadinton.
   The Vicount Drumlanrik and Sir Richard Grahame haue giuen so #
good beginning
to the repressing of bordour owtlawes by taking a nomber of     #
them on both sides, that
if his Maiestie show fauour and authorise them and others well  #
affected to his seruice,
the quyetting of disorders in those parts which some would haue #
made to appeere
almost impossible will be found of no great difficultie.  The   #
first tryall is made by
your lordships particular friends, and if your lordships true   #
recommendation of their
merite to his Maiestie sall procure to them his gracious        #
thankes and encouradgement, it
will moue them to persist in their begunne endeuours and stir   #
vp others to do the like
seruice.
   To my much honored noble lord, the Earle of Monteith, Lord   #
President of his
Maiesties counsell in Scotland, at court.

[} [\205. THE SAME TO THE SAME. 24TH MARCH 1629.\] }]
[^THOMAS, EARL OF HADDINGTON, TO WILLIAM, EARL OF MENTEITH^]
   My most noble Lord, - I acknowledge with due respect and     #
thanks your lordships 
letter of the ellevint.  Friends haue aduertised me of your     #
lordships wise and religious 
cariage in the Marquis of Huntlies businesse, which will be     #
acceptable to all that loue 
God and the king.  Ye were a forward instrument when ye were    #
present to sie all
that wes convenient concluded and prosecuted in this countrie   #
which wes agreable to
Gods law and his Maiesties.  It rests now to make vse of his    #
Maiesties blessed zeale
to have the course approoved and strengthened by his            #
authoritie.  Your lordships and
my lord chancelars concurrence in things concerning the estate, #
reioices all that are
trulie affected to it, because there is much talked and feared  #
of brutes that a nomber
of our great men popishlie disposed intend either to goe beyond #
sea if his Maiestie
permit them, or to stay at or neere court, where they may haue  #
conveniencie to meet
amongst themselves and consult with Englishmen of their opinion #
vpon the meanes
tending to their ends, litle to our good.  Since God and the    #
king are vpon our side,
they are not to be feared if we do our part, which may be much  #
confirmed by information
to his Maiestie by your lordship, and my lord chancelar, of     #
how great
moment this businesse is, which not being timelie ordered may   #
make much ado, and
now being in time prevented will be easilie suppressed.  It is  #
an exercise worthie of
the care of all noblemen at court professedlie inclined to our  #
religion.
<P 164>
   The counsell will, by letters and notes, informe his         #
Maiestie and his secretaries of
some other particular affaires occurring heir, and since I know #
that your worthie friend
Sir William Alexander will not conceale any thing of that kind  #
from your lordship I
forbeare to trouble yow, remitting all to him.
   I cannot sufficientlie expresse how great and vniuersall our #
peoples joy is for her
Maiesties wished estate, and our assured hopes that God will    #
blesse the royall parents
and ws with the perfection of that most desired prosperitie by  #
her.  Some commissioners
vpon our side of the middle shires are informed that Sir        #
Richard Grame intends to
procure fauoure to his late prisoners, which they extreamelie   #
dislike both for the
present and the consequence, and haue entreated the counsell to #
prevent it by their
letter, whereof I have thoght fit to aduertise your lordship    #
for the respect I know your
lordship beares first to the publicke order and next to the     #
worthie men your friends
employed on both sides.  If constant reports of my lord         #
chancelars intention to come
from court before the packet come there had not persuaded me    #
that my letter could
not haue found him at court, I wold haue troubled him with a    #
letter of this subiect.
If it fall otherwayes furth I pray your lordship to excuse my   #
not writing to him, and
to belieue that I will alwayes remaine, your lordships assured  #
to do yow seruice,
   Hadinton.
   Edinburgh, 24 March
   To my most noble good lord, the Earle of Monteith, Lord      #
President of his 
Maiesties counsell of Scotland, at court.

[} [\206. THE SAME TO THE SAME. 1ST APRIL 1629.\] }]
[^THOMAS, EARL OF HADDINGTON, TO WILLIAM, EARL OF MENTEITH^]
   My most honored noble Lord, - I will reither incurre your    #
reproof for troubling yow
with idle lynes, nor be blamed for vndutifull silence. This     #
forenoone I haue no thing
to write but what will be signified by James Primrois to Sir    #
William Alexander by a
note of the proceedings in counsell and exchecker, which I know #
he will impart to
your lordship, and ease yow and me from repetition. In the      #
afternoone we expect the
great businesse betweene the Earle of Seafort and the borrowes, #
and betweene the
Lord of Lorne and the Ilanders and Hielandmen. In discussing    #
whereof I wish from
my heart your lordships presence and my lord chancelars, for as #
I told your lordship
at our parting I expected much businesse and small concurrence, #
which I find
ansuerable to my foresight.
   I need not of new to reiterat my recommendation concerning   #
the papists and
bordours, but cannot of dutie omit to tell that the action for  #
concealed moneyes, the
feare of fynes in the by past and future circuit courts, and    #
the tithes annuitie, and
<P 165>
the laird of Thorntons commission, doe so affright our people,  #
as I wish that your
lordship and other honorable and wise counsellours there may so #
informe his Maiestie
of the circumstances as things may be so directed and disposed  #
that when God sall make
ws happie by his wished presence heir, the people may be        #
prepared
to giue him that
large supplie which his weghtie affaires require, and he grant  #
to them that gracious
pardon, which is vsuall at the coronation of blessed kings. I   #
am certaine if your
lordship find thir pourposes fit to be imparted to my lord      #
chancellar, Sir William
Alexander, and other honorable counsellers of this kingdome now #
at court, ye will
find an vniforme concurrence by them for proponing all that ye  #
sall joyntlie think
good to propone for his Maiesties seruice and weell of this his #
Maiesties and your
natiue countrie. I am frie of privat interest and sall humblie  #
vndergoe whatever his
Maiestie, out of his excellent wisdome, or your advices, sall   #
be pleased to prescriue, and
euer remaine, your lordships assured to do yow seruice,         #
HADINTON.
   Edinburgh, first of April.
   To my most honorable good lord, the Earle of Monteith, Lord  #
President of his 
   Maiesties privie counsell in Scotland, at court.   

[} [\207. THE SAME TO THE SAME. 7TH APRIL 1629.\] }] 
[^THOMAS, EARL OF HADDINGTON, TO WILLIAM, EARL OF MENTEITH^]
   My most noble good Lord, - Immediatlie after I receiued by   #
packet of the last of  
March his Maiesties commandment to the counsell and             #
commissioners for continowation
of the parlement, I caused warne all of that nomber then being  #
in towne to
conveene presentlie, and finding more nor I looked for, after   #
that order wes giuen for
the businesse of parlement, I caused reade to the lords that    #
part of your lordships
letter concerning the Countesse of Nithisdaill.  The Bishop of  #
Dumblane said that
the churches part wes accomplished, and the aduocat told that   #
horning wes directed
agains my lady, but knew not if it wes registrat.  The          #
conclusion wes that since
things were done so laufullie vpon so good warrants, nothing    #
rested but forbearance
of farder prosecution till his Maiesties pleasure sould be more #
particularlie signified by
my lord chancelar at his returne, as your lordship had wretin,  #
which will be done.
Nothing hes occurred since my last to your lordship worth the   #
paines of your reading,
at least to my knowledge.  If I learne farther, I sall either   #
subioyne it to thir lynes,
or desire Sir William Alexander or Sir Archibald Acheson, whom  #
I perceiue much
affected to honour and serue yow, to report it to your          #
lordship.
   It is rumoured heer that some great men of this countrie at  #
court haue such
seuerall ends in particulars as make their concurrence not to   #
be so vniforme as is
<P 166>
wished for the publicke goode.  If it be so, wherof I sould be  #
most sorie, I will be bold
to entreate your lordship to persist in that indifferent        #
course, ayming onlie at his
Maiesties seruice and the countries good, which your lordship   #
has practised in your
actions, and professed to me by conference to be your constant  #
resolution.  My weakenesse
forbids me to promise much assistance where I can performe so   #
litle, but all
that I can sall be contributed to such ends by your lordships   #
affectionat seruant,
   Hadinton.
   To my most honored good lord, the Earle of Monteith, Lord    #
President of his
Maiestie's privie counsell in Scotland, at court. 

[} [\208. THE SAME TO THE SAME. 13TH APRIL 1629.\] }]
[^THOMAS, EARL OF HADDINGTON, TO WILLIAM, EARL OF MENTEITH^]
   My most honorable good Lord, I wes verie glade to know by    #
your lordships
letter of the fyft, your good health, and by others that your   #
lordships wise and circumspect
proceedings tending to his Maiesties honour and seruice and     #
good of this
countrie, gaue both contentment to his Maiestie and to all      #
worthie and well affected
men there, and that your lordships care of the dignitie of the  #
counsell in their lawfull
procedings had closed the mouthes of such as by sinister        #
relation could haue
disgraced, at least intended to blemish any of their actions.
   I haue learned that the minesters commissioners, to whom     #
letters of horning were
granted against the Countesse of Nithisdaill vpon her           #
excommunication, had denunced
her before your lordships letter for superseeding execution     #
came to my hands, but I
haue aduertised James Primrois not to direct letters of caption #
or any other farther
warrant till his Maiesties farther pleasure be knowne.
   I perceiue by your lordships letter that Sir Richard Grahams #
dealing with his
prisoners hes beene well warranted and much mistaken by the     #
commissioners on this
syde, but I dare assure your lordship they proceeded not out of #
malice, their intention
onlie being to prevent that no colour might procure impunitie   #
to notour fugitiues, and
Sir Richards actions tending to the quyet of the countrie will  #
be ansuered by the
commissioners on this side with all due correspondence.  Your   #
lordship knowes that
the Vicount of Drumlanrig, your cusing, is generous, and having #
great interest in the
peace of the middle shires cannot be blamed to concurre with    #
other well affected
officers to seeke all laufull wayes to worke it, those who haue #
greater place in the
commission being seldome in this kingdome, and when they are    #
present having other
businesse not permitting them much leiser to attend the         #
commission, leaves the
countrie more obnoxious to receive harme, and giues the more    #
adoe to the inferiour
commissioners, which I hope will move your lordship the more    #
fauorablie to excuse
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their too great instance in that which concerned Sir Richard    #
Grame, the like wherof
I hope sall not hereafter fall furth amongst men so well        #
affected on both parts.
   If at the meeting of the counsell vpon the fyfteent I learne #
any thing fit to be
wretin I will then and all following occasions be troublesome   #
to your lordship by my
letters, wishing that your speedie and happie returne may ease  #
yow of that fascherie,
and in the meanetime where euer your lordship be ye may enioy   #
health and contentment.
I rest, your lordships affectionat seruant, Hadinton.
   Edinburgh, 13 April.
   To my most honorable good lord, the Earle of Monteith, Lord  #
President of his
Maiesties most honorable privie counsell of Scotland, at court.

[} [\209. THE SAME TO THE SAME. 16TH APRIL 1629.\] }]
[^THOMAS, EARL OF HADDINGTON, TO WILLIAM, EARL OF MENTEITH^]
   My most honorable good Lord, - My letter of the 14th might   #
haue promised to
your lordship exemption from importunitie by me for a long      #
time, if I had not
thoght myself bound in dutie to let your lordship know what had #
yesterday past in
Counsell of any moment.  The bishop of Dumblane shew to the     #
Counsell at their
preceeding meeting what preiudice had beene felt and wes feared #
by admitting of
papists vpon the Counsell, and others told how carefull order   #
blessed King James had
taken for preventing therof, which will be testified by the     #
extract of ane act made at
that time sent vp with the Counsels letter to his Maiestie to   #
Sir William Alexander.
   Yesterday we had many bussinesses in Counsell, most part for #
questions amongst
parties of small moment.  The greatest wes that betweene my     #
Lord of Lorne and the
gentlemen of the north Iles, debated by word and writ, but in   #
such maner that the
Counsell considering the importance, thoght it more fit to      #
conclude it deliberatelie at
their next meeting nor precipitatlie at the present.
   Eight dayes agoe I did sie a letter of a notable oppression  #
done to Grant of
Ballandalloch by James of Carron.  I wrate of it sparinglie,    #
not relying much vpon the
incertaintie of a missiue not sent to myself, but yesterday     #
there wes a letter exhibited
in Counsell, bearing that the rebell had killed or hoghed abone #
thrie score plough
oxen, and reft fourscore nolt, eight score sheep, and nyne or   #
ten horses and meares,
from Ballandalloch and his tennents, and when he following for  #
recouerie of his goods
had required those throw whose bounds the goods were driven to  #
concurre with him
in their rescue, he found none.  All that we could think fit to #
be first done wes to 
grant him summonds agains such as had resset, supplied, or      #
anywayes fauoured the
rebels in their passage, and those who, being required, had not #
assisted him in their
persute.  All our power will be in paper, vnles your lordship   #
informe his Maiestie how
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necessare it is that powerfull noblemen and magistrats residing #
too long at court be
sent home to attend and execute their charges, or substitute in #
their place men willing
and able to obey the Counsels commandments for his seruice, for #
manie more seeke
imployment nor attend the timelie discharge therof.  I entreate #
your lordship to excuse
the freedome of your lordships seruant,  Hadinton.
   Edinburgh, 16 April.
   To my most honorable good lord, the Earle of Monteith, Lord  #
President of his
Maiesties most honorable privie counsell of Scotland, at court.

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<P 168>
[} [\210. JAMES LAW, BISHOP OF GLASGOW, TO THE EARL OF
HADDINGTON, 14TH SEPTEMBER 1629.\] }]
   Richt noble, and my most honorable guid Lord, - Presentlie   #
after I receaved your
lordships letter, quhilk was vpoune Satterday last, afternoone, #
I writt to the parochiners
of Kilmacolme, and geav them notice that Mr. Alexander          #
Hammiltoune was to be
removed fra the ministrie of thair kirk, that they micht be the #
moir cairful to provyd 
for sume vther in dew tyme.  Bot becaus I fear that thay sall   #
nather agrie with the 
patroune, nor among themselfs, and that sume of them shall be   #
als turbulent as thay
wer befoir; I have thoght it guid for dischairg of my dewtie    #
and conscience, and the
better planting of that kirk, to be ane earnest suiter for ane  #
Regent of our College
called Mr. George Young, a man of good learning, and godlie and #
honest lyf, that
your lordship wald be pleased to recommend him by your letter   #
to the Earle of Abercorne,
that he may be presented to the stipend of that kirk.  Maister  #
Alexander will
inform your lordship moir particularlie concerning the man and  #
his gifts, and the
necessitie of the planting of that kirk again with sume worthie #
and sufficient man,
quhilk is all that I seik.  Pardoune me, my lord, that I have   #
requeisted your lordship
to writt for him to the Earle of Abercorne, becaus I suspect    #
that I have lytill or
no credit to mak requeist myself for him.  Your lordships love  #
and kyndnes maks
me bold; for the quhich so long as I am in this lyfe I shall    #
remaine, your lordships
assuired to honour and serv yow.  Ja. Glasgow.
   Glasgow, 14th September 1629.
   To the right noble his verie honorable guid lord, the Earle  #
of Hadingtoune, -
thes.   

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[} [\47. JAMES, THIRD MARQUIS OF HAMILTON TO JOHN, THIRTEENTH
EARL OF SUTHERLAND.\] }]
   Halierudhous, 13 Maij 1631.
   My Lord, - As it is not wnknowin to your lordschip how I     #
being bund by my
vndertakin and signed articles to the King of Suedden to goe    #
over with a strong
armie into Germanie for assisting him in his present warre      #
vndertakin thair for
the libertie of the trew religione and recoverie of the lands   #
and possessiouns of the
professouris thairof vnjustlie vsurpit and deteynned by the     #
Empreour and wthers
enameis of that commoun caus, so I assure my self frome the     #
former proufs I
haue had of your lordschips trew favour and freindschip that ye #
will gif me all
the assistance ye can to further in a bissinis that is so just  #
of so great consequence,
and wherin both my fortoun and honour ar so deiplie ingadged;   #
as without all my
freinds best help for leving of guid and able men to accompanie #
me in this expeditione,
it sould not bot suffer beyond all masoure, which or it sould   #
receave the
least tash, I had rather suffer a thousand deathes.  Bot as I   #
doe not doubt of your
lordschips cair and assistance heirin, so I live all further    #
persuasione as neidles and
superfluus to be vsed to your lordship, who knowis how nierly   #
it concernes me, that
haue ever bein and sall still continew, your lordschips most    #
affectioned cowsing
and servant,
   Hamilton
   Becaus I am to inbark my men about the fyft of Julij I wald  #
thairfor intreat
your lordschip that so many as conveniently ye may send be at   #
Leith againe the
first of the said moneth.



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