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APPENDIX.
[ Dedicatory Epistle to the Third Part. ]
To the Most
H onovrable
and Constant
Catholikes
in Scotland.
Who doth not see (most dearly Beloued, Worthy and Constant
Catholikes) but that this third Part, or Treatise of my Works, doth
chiefly, and principally belonge to you that are Catholiks in Scot¬
land, as hauing receaued the Catholike Religion vniuersally in your
Country in the second Age, (or at least in the very beginning of the 5
third Age) in the person of King Donald your first Christian King,
and his Nobility, you being most worthy children of so renowned
Parents, most honourable Of-spring of so excellent ancestours, most
glorious posterity of so famous antiquity, whome future ages will
iustly esteeme and extoll aboue many of your predecessours for re- lo
taining that in tyme of war which they left to you in tyme of peace,
and for defending that by singular constancy in your sufferings,
which they both receiued, & left you by quiet Tradition.
Which Tradition, or Catholike religion being proued and declared
most cleerly in this second age or century ; I doe by offering the 15
same vnto you, but present the history of your own Kings of Scot¬
land, the records and chronicles of your owne families, the pedigree
& Genealogy of your owne Forefathers, the antiquity & Nobility
of your own progenitors, together with your iust Title and Clayme to
their Inheritance, producing iointly for the same the word of God, 20
the Scripture, the Bible, the testimonies of the holy Fathers of this
age, yea, the very monuments of your owne Kingdome, which no
man but foolish, can deny or call in doubt.
True it is, that by God’s holy prouidence you are borne in this time
of warre, tribulation and contradiction, insteed of that large peace 25
and tranquillity which your ancestours enioyed, in the vse and exer¬
cise of that religion, for which you striue and suffer now presently in
Scotland ; which sufferings of yours though for the present they
APPENDIX.
[ Dedicatory Epistle to the Third Part. ]
To the Most
H onovrable
and Constant
Catholikes
in Scotland.
Who doth not see (most dearly Beloued, Worthy and Constant
Catholikes) but that this third Part, or Treatise of my Works, doth
chiefly, and principally belonge to you that are Catholiks in Scot¬
land, as hauing receaued the Catholike Religion vniuersally in your
Country in the second Age, (or at least in the very beginning of the 5
third Age) in the person of King Donald your first Christian King,
and his Nobility, you being most worthy children of so renowned
Parents, most honourable Of-spring of so excellent ancestours, most
glorious posterity of so famous antiquity, whome future ages will
iustly esteeme and extoll aboue many of your predecessours for re- lo
taining that in tyme of war which they left to you in tyme of peace,
and for defending that by singular constancy in your sufferings,
which they both receiued, & left you by quiet Tradition.
Which Tradition, or Catholike religion being proued and declared
most cleerly in this second age or century ; I doe by offering the 15
same vnto you, but present the history of your own Kings of Scot¬
land, the records and chronicles of your owne families, the pedigree
& Genealogy of your owne Forefathers, the antiquity & Nobility
of your own progenitors, together with your iust Title and Clayme to
their Inheritance, producing iointly for the same the word of God, 20
the Scripture, the Bible, the testimonies of the holy Fathers of this
age, yea, the very monuments of your owne Kingdome, which no
man but foolish, can deny or call in doubt.
True it is, that by God’s holy prouidence you are borne in this time
of warre, tribulation and contradiction, insteed of that large peace 25
and tranquillity which your ancestours enioyed, in the vse and exer¬
cise of that religion, for which you striue and suffer now presently in
Scotland ; which sufferings of yours though for the present they
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| Description | Tyrie's Refutation, 1573; Hay's Demandes, 1580; Hamilton's Catholick traictise, 1581; Burne's Disputation, 1581; Canisius' Catechism, 1588; Hamilton's Facile traictise, 1600; Ane schort catholick confession, ms. Selections edited, with introduction and glossary, by Thomas Graves Law. Edinburgh: Printed for the Society by W. Blackwood and Sons, 1901. |
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