Series 3 > Scottish correspondence of Mary of Lorraine

98 THE SCOTTISH CORRESPONDENCE OF
Almychti God haif your grace in his keping. Of Pebillis
the fyrst day of Jwlij
Be your grace hwmill servand at command
Hew lord SoMvfijLL.1
LXXVI
Glencairn to the Queen Dowager
Dumbarton, 23rd July [1544].
[to the que]nis grace.
Madam, after maist hwmilie recommendatioun of my
[service] to your grace I haif ressavit ane writing fra . . .
xxii day of Julij ; and quhare your grace dissiris me . . .
parliament,2 it is nocht unknawin to your grace that . . .
bath of your graces syid and the erle of Erran[is] ... I
am onder deidlie feyd with and sua I dair n[ocht cum ?]
wythout that I be my awyn vorthie to defend . . . ; 3 and
or the day of your parliament I trest . . . Levnax wilbe
at hay me 4 and sa I beleif tha[t with your ?] visdome one
the ane syid and his guid mynd one toder, that all thingis
may sa be dressit that we [sail] all be joynt to serve our
soveraine and your grace peace to be had and sua the
realme to be rewlit [for the] commowin wele of the same.
Alsua, madam, I . . . that thare is part of Fraunche men
taik[in ?] . . . in the park of Steruling quhilk as it . . .
that thai suld allege that I was the . . . thame to pass
thare. Madam, ye pleis to [wit ?] I ever was and salbe
the pwniser of th . . . to be the arter ; 5 as is notablie
kend be all the g ... of this cuntre, sen I cam heyr quhat
I haif d . . . pwnissioun of the same. Prayand your
' Only the signature is autograph.
2 A parliament was summoned to meet at Edinburgh on 25th July, formally
to depose the Governor. (H. xix. i. 756.)
3 The general drift is that he is isolated and has apprehensions for his safety.
4 The English Council at this time was contemplating the return of Lennox
to Scotland. (H. xix. i. 813; H.P. ii. 296.)
6 arter: contriver. The writer evidently labours under a difficulty in self-
expression, while gaps in the manuscript and the absence of punctuation add
to the obscurity of his statements. He has apparently been charged with
complicity in disturbances connected with Frenchmen at Stirling, but he protests