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CV1 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER.
above mentionit. Subscryyit at Edinburgh, the x. day of
Julij 1567. Athole, Mortoun, Sir James Balfour,
Eobert Thesaurer, Craigmillar."
Order of the Lords to Servais de Condy to deliver up the
Regalia. 1
" Servais de Condy, forswameikle as it hes pleisit the Quenis
Majestie to give commissioun and commandement to crown
hir dearest sone the Prince, to the quhilk ceremonie it is
convenient to have the Crown, Sceptar, and Sword Royall of
this Realme ; thairfor zow sail incontinent, after the sight
heirof, put the saidis Crown, Sceptar, and Sword before us,
to the effect above written : Keipand this presentis for zour
warrand. Subscryvit with our handis at Edinburgh the xxv.
day of Julij 1567. Athole, Mortoun, Mar, J. Grahame,
W. Euthven, Alex. Home, Sanquhar, Sympyl ."
N.B. — There are in the same Repository Minutes of Let-
ters from the Archbishop of Glasgow to the Queen, from the
23d June 1567 till the 10th October 1568, all written by
the Archbishop himself, but scarcely legible now in many
places. By these I have to advertise here, as an addition
[to a passage in Chapter XII. Book II.], that the Earl of
Moray was dismissed in the month of June out of France to
Scotland, upon solemn assurances that he would employ all
his interest and friends for the relief of the Queen : That
at parting, the King of France told him, that he would ven-
ture his Crown to revenge any hurt done to her person : That
the Earl's asseverations were trusted by the French Court ;
but the Archbishop having received information of his deal-
ing underhand with the Queen's enemies, order was sent to
stop the Earl at Dieppe ; but he was got off for England
before the order arrived.
To p. 51 2 — " Rex. We be the tenour of thir presentis giffs
1 Mem. Scot. torn. iii. F. 143.
2 This is an original subscribed with the King's own hand, and the
signet in some measure remaining. It belongs to the Right Honourable
Mr David Erskine of Dun, one of the Lords of Session and Justiciary.
I suppose it is one of those circular letters which our historians say were
sent about at this time, though it seems likewise to discover that the
King had besides emitted some Proclamations for convening the lieges to

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