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1566-7.] OF CHURCH AND STATE IN SCOTLAND. 529
ze desyr, that we sulci causs the namis contenit in sum
tikatts affixit on the Tolbuith dure of Edinburgh to be put
in suir keiping. Thair is sa mony of the saidis tikatts, and
thairwithal sa differit and contrarious to vtheris in compting
of the namis, that we wot not vpoim quhat tikkat to pro-
ceid ; bot gif thair be ony namis mentionat in thame that
ze think worthie to suffer a triall, vpoun zour advertisement
we sail sua proceid to the cognitioun taking, as may stand
with the lawis of this Realme ; and being fund culpable, sail
see the punishment als rigoruslie execute as the wecht of
the cryme deservis. Quhar other thing ze think meit to be
done to that purpose we pray zou latt ws understand, and we
sail not omit ony occasioun quhilk may cleir the mater ; and
sua fair ze weill. At Seytoun, the i. day of Marche, 1566.
" Zour gud Dohter,
" Marie R."
A Letter from the Earl of Lennox to Queen Mary.
" I THANK zour Majestie maist humelie for zour gentill
answer as twechin ye ward of the Lennox, i albeit ye samyn
dois not signifie unto me quhidder it be zour Majestie's will to
bestow the same vpon me or not, or utherwyse to dispenss
with ye Prynsis aige,2 conforme to my wrytting and humill
suit, qvdiairin 1 wald be glad to knaw zour Majesties plessur.
Forther, quhair zour Majestie, in your formar lettre, wryttis
unto me, that gif yair be ony namis mentionat in ye tikatts
that were affixit vpoun the Tolbuith dure of Edinburgh, that
I think worthie to suffer a triall for ye murthour of the
Kyng zour Majestie\s husband, vpoun my advertisement
zour Majestie suld proceid to ye cognitioun takin, as may
stand withye lawis of yis Realme, and being fund culpable, sail
see ye punischment als rigorouslie execute as ye wecht of
the cryme deservis : plesit zour Majestie, my humill peti-
tion was vnto zour Hienes, and zit is, that it may pleiss zou
not onelie to apprehend and put in suir keiping the personis
namit in the tikatts, quhilk answerit to zour Majestie's fyrst
and second proclamationis, bot als with diligence to assemble
^ [The "ward of the Lennox" indicates probably a " ratification" of
his Earldom of Lennox. — E.]
^ [By the " Prynsis aige" is meant the then infant Prince, afterwards
James VI.— E.]
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