Memoirs of the Maxwells of Pollok > Correspondence

34 STATE AND OFFICIAL LETTERS. [1598.
But he being come into a contry by his permissioun, employed by him in cary-
ing a lettre, a stealth so reproclifull to vs ought not to haue bene practised
vpon him within our owen contry.
24. Neyther can he vpon his honour denye the longsome practising therof
by sending his aforesaid cosen Guevara, and his said secretary Waterhous, at
diuerse tymes, immediately before the said day and sundry others his servandis,
frequentlie reparing hether, and their priuie conferences therupon, in the am-
bassadouris lodgeing, then departing hoome with him to Berwick all the way,
besides manye other practises which were espyed though the particular was not
knowen before it was done.
25. As to our reparation of the aforesaid wrong concerning the ambassa-
dour, sithence he is her seruande nothing belonging to vs, employed in a pub-
lick commissioun, and very well receaued and thought of by vs, if he haue
exceeded the boundes of his chardge wee fully remitte both the tryall and
punishment to her owen discretioun, and as for the respect wee carye to her,
wee haue absteyned frome medhng with him, or suffering him to be in any
sorte molested, so wee hope that shee weyghing her owen honour, which in
this poynt remitted to her, is no lesse interessed then ours, shall take suche a
course as honour and justice requyre. For as to vs, wee only asked of him by
our owen mouth in counsel! very curteously what his parte was in that actioun,
and if he had receaued of her any commissioun to that effect, so wee suppose
that on our parte he can alleadge no behauior but verie gratious, which wee
remitte to his owen declarations
26. The discontentment of our people after so publick an indignity pro-
ceeding frome his owen open declaring him selfe a partaker therof, is his owen
blarne, which although wee commaunded by all meanes possible to be quenched,
yet he cannot in his conscience denye but he saw such animosity euen in the
smallest poore ones in the streete that he might easily perceaue them to be
mooued by no other instigatioun but their natural! hatred against so oppro-
briouse a fact.
27. If at any tyme he kept his hous it was by no comanndement but to
eschew the furie of the people.
28. The causing attend vpon him while the rumor was running that he