True relation of William Earle of Monteath's affair concerning the Earldome and title of Straitherne

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all Error, And that accordingly ye pronounce it
in their favours, But prejudice always to our
action of Reduction, Commanding to insert thir
//ai^r presents in you books of Sederunt for thair better
warrand and exoneration ; ffor doing whereof these
presents shall be a sufficient warrand. Whitehall,
22d ffebruary 1633."
Notwithstanding of all which Monteath con-
tinued still in his Grandeur and haill places, and
his Majestie himself was little better secured
be that decreet of Reduction/seeing that pedi-
gree can be made out to the full by the writts,
Evidents, and securitys lying in other Noblemens
Chartor Chists, vassalls of the Earldome) Till the
tyme that his Majesty took resolution for going to
Scotland for accepting the Crown thereof. About
which time Morton Treasurer expecting the accom-
plishment of Monteaths promise to get him made
Knight of the Garter, and finding that he had fairly
failled to him therein, and that instead of doing
for him in that particular He was doing for himself
and his own posterity to purchase them that
honour, He was thereby soe exasperat, that he
and the Chancelor had their address to the Queen,
informing her of all the foresaid passages, done and
acted be the said Earl in prejudice of her Royal
children, assuring her that if those impediments
were