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15.57.] OF CHTJECfl AND STATE IN SCOTLAND. I (>7
own mother, to appear for her, and act in her behalf in the
same affair. Though the Registers of this Parliament be
lost, yet I am enabled to give the reader a pretty exact ac-
count of the instructions which were given to the Ambassa-
dors from the Records of the next year's Parliament, from
whence also I had a sight of the former papers, when these
ambassadors presented themselves to give an account of their
negociation. At which time they received a very honour-
able approbation of their management, in the body whereof
is engrossed the substance, at least of all their Instructions,
and that at much greater length than what is contained in
the Parliaments nomination of the commissioners ; which
Instruments, upon that account, the reader will find in the
Appendix. 1 The Instructions were in short, lmo, They have
orders to obtain from their Sovereign before her marriage,
by and. with the advice of her Curators, and again after her
marriage, by and with the advice of the King of France, and
the Dauphin her husband, a ratification of the Act passed
in the Parliament holden in the convent near Haddington,
July 7th, 1548, touching the sending her Majesty into France.
'Ido, To obtain from the King of France a ratification of
his former promises made to the Duke of Chastelherault,
for aiding and supporting him in his succession to the Crown
of Scotland, if the Queen should chance to die without chil-
dren of her own body. Item, To obtain a declaration to the
same purpose from her Majesty and the Dauphin. Item, A
discharge to the said Duke for all his intromissions with the
public money, &c. during his government. Stio, To obtain
from the Queen and Dauphin a promise, in ample form, to
observe and keep the liberties and privileges of the realm of
Scotland, and the laws of the same, whole and entire, as in
the days of all her royal progenitors Kings of Scotland.
Ato, That the Queen and her future husband grant a com-
mission for a Regent 2 to govern the kingdom of Scotland.
on the south, the bed of the latter being now the spacious parks or fields sur-
rounded with trees, the public walks of which are a promenade for the
citizens, called the Hope Park Meadows. Some small lakes were north
of the North Loch, and some were on the east of the city, one of which,
Lochend, is still seen. — E.] ] Appendix, Number X.
2 This Commission was granted to the Queen-Mother anew, and the
original of it is to be seen in our Records. Both the Request and the
Concession serve to discover the partiality or unexactness of the author of