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56 GENEALOGIE OF THE
confessions, which he did without granting absolution. About which
time, viz. 1687, upon the 29th of May, att seven of the clock att night,
I began to treat with my Lord Perth for ane establishment att Holy-
roodhouse. The 31 of May, the 2 and 4 of June, there were severall
proposals made. The 13 of June, he ask'd whither or not we were wil-
ling to build the church after the form of a cross, att our charges ; to
which I reply'd, that we were not willing. The 16, I return'd in the
morning, and finding Duke Hamilton and the Earle of Arrane in com-
pany with the Chancellour, the busines was delay 1 d to 6 of the clock att
night, dureing which intervall, I had a long conference with Mr. Lewis
Innes, present Principall of the Scots Colledge, who told me, that his
Majestie was informM that the Church of Holyroodhouse belongM of old
to the Benedictins. Theusday, the eleventh of July, (translation of Saint
Benedict,) the keys of the church were given to my Lord Chancellour, who
remitted them next morning to my Lord Provest, and gave him 14 days
to take away the seats or desks. The Bethler had care therof. Sunday fol-
lowing, the Abbay Parish was translated to my Lady Esther's Church, and
the Minister of the Abbay preached therin. In Novembre 1687, I re-
ceaved from Paris a Letter of Association in favours of my Lord Chan-
cellour, the 14 of the moneth, and remitted it to him the 15, in presence
of John Patersone, Archbishop of Glasgow, and severall other persons of
quality, wherto I return'd ane answer, the 14 of Novembre and 20 of
Decembre. The Letter contains what follows : —
Frater Franciscus Morin, Abbas Sanctae Genovefas Parisiensis, et
Canonicorum Begularium congregationis Gallicanse et Vallis Schola-
rium, Propositus Generalis, dilecto nobis in Christo, illustrissimo et rel-
ligiosissimo viro Domino, Domino Jacobo Drummond, Comiti de Perth,
Domino de Drummond de Stobhall, &c. Magno Regni Scotise Can-
cellario, Majoris Brittanniae et Scotiae Regi a Privatis et publicis Consi-
liis in utroque Regno, Salutem, et perfectam Sanctorum in Christo totius

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