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APPENDIX.
Which offering of prayers for you, though it be common to all the
Saints in heauen, yet particularly that B. Queene and Martyr Q.
Mary, our Princes most gracious & holy Grand-mother, doth offer
vp her prayers for your perseuerance in the Catholike religion, as
hauing experimented during her mortall life your fidelity in her 5
Seruice, against the calumnies, sedition & rebellion of the Ministers,
of whome his Maiesty iustly saith; Me persecuti sunt a iuuentute
mea.
And as it is a great honour & glory to you to haue had so many
Blessed and holy Kings and Queenes, as professours of your owne 10
religion, so it is a great honor & comfort vnto you to haue had, aboue
other Christian Kingdoms, the religion for which you do suffer, con¬
firmed & sealed, after fourteen hundred yeares continuance in Scot¬
land, with the holy bloud of a B. Queene ; of whom besides others, a
forrayne Author saith thus: Christus hoc, magnum laudabilissi- 15
mumque bonum septentrioni dedit, vt Scotia haberet martyrem Regi-
nam, Regis filiam, coniuge7n Matrem. Whose holy prayers will
be the more effectuall in your behalfe, that be constant in that reli¬
gion, which she confirmed by the admirable constancy of twenty
years Imprisonment, and sealed with her Royal bloud. To the which 20
end I will offer vp likewise my poore prayers to God the Father, as
being,
All your most hutnble Seruant,
P. A.