Bannatyne Club > Papers relative to the marriage of King James the Sixth of Scotland, with the Princess Anna of Denmark; A.D. M.D.LXXXIX.

1589. ON HIS DEP^VRTURE TO DENMARK. 13
grite jealofie of my iiihabilitie, as gif I wer a barrane ftok : Thir
reflbnis and innumerable otheris hourly objected, moved me to half-
ten the treaty of my mariage ; for as to my awne nature, God is
my Avitnes, I could have abftenit langair nor the weill of my patrie
could have permitted. I am knawne, God be praifed, not to be very
intemperatly raflie nor concety in my wechtieft effairis, nather ufe
I to be fa caryed away with paffioun as I refuse to heir reafoun :
This treaty, then, being perfyted, and the Queue, my bedfallow,
cuming on hir jornay, how the contrarious wyndis flayed hir, and
quhair llio wes drevin, it is niair nor notorious to all men : And
that it Aves necelfarlie concludit be the Eileatis, that it behuifit ne-
celTarlie to be performed this yeir, I remitt it to thame felffis quha
concludit the fame in the fpring, at the Erll Mairfhallis directing ; the
worde then cuming to me, that flio wes flayed frome cuming thrugh
be the contrarious tempeflis of windis, and that hir fliippis wer not
able to perfyte hir voyage this yeir, thruch the grite hurte thai had
refTaved ; remembering myfelff of hir inhabilitie, on the ane part
to cum, and of the foirfaid refolutioun of the Efleatis on the uther,
the like quhairof I had oft folempnitlie avowit, I upoun the inflant,
yea very moment, relblvit to mak poffible on my part, that quhilk
wes impolTible on hirs. The place that I refolvit this in wes Craig-
millair, not ane of the haill Counfale being prefent ther ; And as I
tuke this refolutioun onlie of myfelfF, as I am a trew Prince, fa ad-
vifed with myfelff onlie quhat way to follow furth the fame : Quhair-
upoun I thocht firfl to have had the cuUour of the Erll Bothuillis
parting, quhome firfl I employed to have maid this voyage, alfweill