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1566. TO SIR ROBERT MELVILL. 185
that profeffes in that contre to bear ws gud wil and ar afFection-
ed unto our tytil, Provyding alwais that nether they nor ye
offend or pretend to offend heirafter the Quen our gud fitter in
anye fort, and geve ther commes any hafty or feditious perfone
unto vow, admonis them gently to ceafe, geve they wil not.
fehaw them ye wil declaire the matter unto the Quen our gud
filler and do it indeid or it fail, by which meanis it falbe weil
knawen that al fuch as go about to faw difcord betwix the Quen
our gud lifter and ws, doth it rather apon perticulair refpe&is
and profit unto them felves, then unto the weil of hir, or hir
affaires, or for any love they bear unto thir awn contre. Thus
leavyng al uther matters unto your difcretion and formair credit
quhilk we have renewed again in our letter unto the Quen our
gud lifter, We commit yow to the protection of the Almychty
Avreten at our Caftel of Edenbourgh the xj day of July 1566.
WfflKJ^
to our trusty seruant
Robert Meluill resident
at the Court
In England.
Mary Queen of Scots to Sir Robert Melvill
— from Edinburgh, 15 Feb. 1566.
Trufty and weilbelovit We greit gou weill This goung gen-
tilman Anthony Standing is now returnit to his native cuntrie,
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