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.

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furthir, as I kepit it generallie clois fra all men ; fa I fay, upoun my
honnour, I kepit it fa frome the Chancellair, as I was nevir wount
to do oiiy fecreitis of my wechtyefl effearis ; twa reffouis moving
me thairto ; firft, becaiis I knew that giff I liad maid him on the
counfaill thairof, he had bene blameit of putting it in my heid, quhilk
had not bene his dewitie, for it becumis na fubjectis to gifF Princes
advife in tic materis ; and thairfoir remembering, quhat invyous
and injuft burding he dalie beiris, for leiding me be the nofe, as it
wer, to all his appetytis, as gift" I wer ane unreffonable creature, or
a bairne that could do nathing of myfelff, I thocht pitie then, to
be the occafioun of the heaping of further injuft Iklander upoun his
heade. The other reaibun wes, that as I perceaved it wes for flay-
ing of me that he maid the offer of his ganging, fa was I affured,
that upoun knawlege of my ganging, he wald ather altogether have
ftayed himfelff, or at leift lingered als lang as he could, thinking it
over grite a burding to him to undertak my convoy, as I knew,
upoun the rumoui'is of my ganging, he lies faid na les to fmdrie of
his freindis. This far I fpeik for his parte, alfweill for my awne
honnouris faik, that I be not unjuftlie flvlanderit as ane irrefolute
afle, quha can do nathing of himfelff; as alfo, that the honneftie
and innocencie of that man be not injuftlie and untreulie reproched.
And as for my pairt, quhat moved me, ye may juge be that quhilk
I have alreddy faid, befydis the fchortenes of the way, the furetie of
the palTage being clene of all fandis, foirlandis, or ficlike dangeiris,
the harboreyis in thefe partis fa fuir, and na forreyne fleetis refort-
ing upoun thefe feis. It is my plefure then, that na man grudge