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26 HISTORIE OF THE REIGNE OF a.d. looO.
The Englilli are fcarce upon Engliih nrround, wlicn De Thernies re-
turned again to Haddintoune, and blocks it up for a long tvme ; untill
the garrilbnc witliin, being drawcn to vitible neceHities, and defpairing
of any more fupplies from England, they watched there owen advantadge,
fett fyre in the toune, and reteared to Berwick. The garrifone of
Lawder was even reddie to doe the lyke, when a peace is proclamed
betwixt France and England, wherein Scotland was compryfed. This
proclamation was in Apryle 1550. The next month De Thermes, with
all that cam from France, returned.
Now the kingdome being frie of forrain foldiers, and peace proclamed
with England, it was a right tyme for thefe fadlious fpirits, that could not
reft, to doe fomething. The Reformed Relligion increafed, and the pro-
feffors repyn to be kept at under and commanded by men of a contrarie
relligion. They have long fince put the Cardinall out of the wav; and
now the Governor, and his bafe fon the Archbifliop of S' Androes, are
thefe who ftop the courfe of reformation. Whereupon they traduce
there adlions, and taxes there fame, to bring them in contempt with the
people, and there authoritie in mifregard. The Governor is taxed with
crueltie, oppreflTion, and avarice ; and the Archbithop is taxt with licen-
tioufnefs and whordome (vyces worthie to be detefted bv the men them-
felves, if they be guihy). But the greateft imputation was, that thev
laboured to keep doune the Reformed Relligion, by fyning, banithing, and
execution to death, which they termed a perfecution of the faints of God ;
although the other partie termed it an executing the laws upon fadlious
and fodicious men ! The truth was this : nothing was done by the one
that was any way fatilYac-torie to the other partie. Everie day the Go-
vernor's authoritie, in the civill government, was more and more mifre-
garded ; and the Archbifliop's, in Ecclefiaftical matters, contemptible.
Everie thing that fell out was a ground for the Reformed partie to take
hold on, to bring themfelves refpe6l, and the authoritie of (lie other partie
in hatred with the commons ; as may eafdie be obferved in the hillorie.
But the Governor was not long a block in there way; for within a thort
tyme he gave up his charge.