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PREFATORY NOTICE. xi
in this place, as it affords a curious and striking specimen of his
Lordship's style, as well as of his zeal in Mary's service.
" Letter from Lord Herri es to Sir Nicholas Throckmorton*
" jMaye yt please your honourable Lordship,
" Understandinge your lordfhips contynewaunce in this
countreye for the helpe of the relief of our foveraigne, and pacifyinge of
the prefent great cummers amangs us apparaunde, I haif thought yt my
duetie humblye to praye your honour, gyf yow fynde any lyke apparaunce
quharby our foveraigne maye be relevit, and thapparaunte trowbles with
wifdome to be pacefyet, that your honour would commaunde me to ferve
yow theirein what I other maiy doe, or make my frendes to that effe6le.
And gyf your honour cannot fynde that anie good meanes nor reafonable
nor honefl condycions maye not relief our foveraigne out of the lordes
handes, her fubje<5les, that nowe fwa llrayetlye deteinis her, that your
lordfliip woulde commaunde your fecretar to wryte me your pleafure
quharrein yow binde me to ferve yow. I humblye praye your honour
appardoun me of fa lytle acquayntaunce and nawyfe defervit, tliat I thus
far fwa trowbles yow, and fpeciallie in fwa weightye a matter. The ear-
ned defire that I haif to fee fome weile by yow wrought herein in the
queues majellie your foveraignes name, movet me to take this hardines,
to requyre your lordfliips favorable aunfwer. I defire hartelye your lord-
thips pardon, that I come not to yow myfelfe, the caufe beande bounde
with a noumer of the nobylytie of this realme to feeke my foveraignes
relyef may put them in fufpycion gyf 1 come thaire for anie other pur-
poofe but knawyn her relief. What fervyce that I can doe your honour
heere, or auie parte of the realme where the lordes deteynours of her
grace are not the grettefl partye, I fal be as readye as anie Scottifman
of my degree; prayand theternall God and to preferve vour honour,
Weill willinge the fame. Off Dumfries, the xxiij of Augufl, 1567-
" Your lordfliips to comaunde with all
lefull fervyce,
"Herys."
* From the Addit. MS. 4126, No. 67 ; Illustrations, p. 287.
in this place, as it affords a curious and striking specimen of his
Lordship's style, as well as of his zeal in Mary's service.
" Letter from Lord Herri es to Sir Nicholas Throckmorton*
" jMaye yt please your honourable Lordship,
" Understandinge your lordfhips contynewaunce in this
countreye for the helpe of the relief of our foveraigne, and pacifyinge of
the prefent great cummers amangs us apparaunde, I haif thought yt my
duetie humblye to praye your honour, gyf yow fynde any lyke apparaunce
quharby our foveraigne maye be relevit, and thapparaunte trowbles with
wifdome to be pacefyet, that your honour would commaunde me to ferve
yow theirein what I other maiy doe, or make my frendes to that effe6le.
And gyf your honour cannot fynde that anie good meanes nor reafonable
nor honefl condycions maye not relief our foveraigne out of the lordes
handes, her fubje<5les, that nowe fwa llrayetlye deteinis her, that your
lordfliip woulde commaunde your fecretar to wryte me your pleafure
quharrein yow binde me to ferve yow. I humblye praye your honour
appardoun me of fa lytle acquayntaunce and nawyfe defervit, tliat I thus
far fwa trowbles yow, and fpeciallie in fwa weightye a matter. The ear-
ned defire that I haif to fee fome weile by yow wrought herein in the
queues majellie your foveraignes name, movet me to take this hardines,
to requyre your lordfliips favorable aunfwer. I defire hartelye your lord-
thips pardon, that I come not to yow myfelfe, the caufe beande bounde
with a noumer of the nobylytie of this realme to feeke my foveraignes
relyef may put them in fufpycion gyf 1 come thaire for anie other pur-
poofe but knawyn her relief. What fervyce that I can doe your honour
heere, or auie parte of the realme where the lordes deteynours of her
grace are not the grettefl partye, I fal be as readye as anie Scottifman
of my degree; prayand theternall God and to preferve vour honour,
Weill willinge the fame. Off Dumfries, the xxiij of Augufl, 1567-
" Your lordfliips to comaunde with all
lefull fervyce,
"Herys."
* From the Addit. MS. 4126, No. 67 ; Illustrations, p. 287.
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