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Heretiques, and shall be punished therefore according to the
order of law, and with .such pain and punishment as shall be
due unto men in such behalfe. 1
V. — ORDERS OF PARLIAMENTS
1G. November 1524. — The Lordis divisit on the Secrete
Oounsale with the Queinis Grace to direct all matcris, and
that naithing be done without thair aviss thairto, viz. my
Lord of Saint Andrews, 3 my Lord of Abirdene, 4 my Lord of
Arane, 5 my Lord of Ergile. G
Same day. — Our Soverane Lord, with aviss of his deirest
Moder the Queinis Grace, 7 and the Lordis thre Estatis of his
Realme, understandand that Jhone Duke of Albany, 8 than
tutor and governour to our said Soverane Lord the Kingis
Grace at his last departing furth of this Realme, promittit
to haif returnit to the samen at the first day of September
last bypast, for dew execution of his office, and administra-
tion of justice, to our Soverane Lordis liegis enduring the
time of his said office, with supportatioun of the King of
France, for defence of this Realme, as efferit and was pro-
misit, quhilk he lies not kepit, but absents him agane the
tenor of his said promitt and office of tutory, abusand and
ncgleckand the samen, to the gret hurt and skaith of our
said Soverane Lord, his liegis and subditis ; Quherfore, the
saids thre Estatis has decernit his said office of tutory and
governance to be expirit, and he secludit thairfra, and has
1 [After the triumph of the " Congregation," the above sentence against
Sir John Borthwick was publicly reversed " in the consistoriall hows,
within the paroche kyrk of the citie of Sanctandrows, upon the 5th day
of September mvlxi. years ;" and, as a singular instance of the profligacy
or want of principle of the times, it was done by John Winram, one of
the persons who assisted at Borthwick's condemnation, but who was now
" Superintendant of Fife." Bannatyne Miscellany, vol. i. p. 260. — E.]
2 Records of Parliament.— [Acta Pari, folio, vol. ii. p. 285, 286.— E.]
:i [James Beaton, Archbishop of St Andrews. — E.]
4 [Gavin Dunbar, Bishop of Aberdeen, uncle and contemporary of
Gavin Dunbar, Archbishop of Glasgow. — E.]
5 [James second Lord Hamilton, and first Earl of Arran, father of the
Duke of Chatelherault.— E.]
8 [Colin third Earl of Argyll.— E.]
7 [The Princess Margaret, daughter of Henry VII. of England, sister
of Henry VIII., and mother of James V. — E.]
8 [Son of Alexander Duke of Albany, second son of James II.— E.J