Series 3 > Scottish correspondence of Mary of Lorraine

108 THE SCOTTISH CORRESPONDENCE OF
God, quhay mot haif your [grace] in keping. Off your
grace place of Fyndlastoun,1 the xxv day of Septembre
Be your graces servitour
Erll af Glencarn.
LXXXV
Sir George Douglas to the Queen Dowager
28th September [1544 ?].
TO THE QUEYNIS GRECE.
Efter mest humble recommendasions off my service
[unto] your grece, I hawe rasavit your gentil letter vraytin
vith your awne hande quiche promittis to me ane thousant
crownis in pension for my service, quiche I hawe nocht
dissarvit so gret revarde ; bot I sal be redde to serve
your grace at al tyms to the beste off my power, and sal
nowther spare for feir off layffe nor guddis to do that
thing according to my honner to the plesur off your grece
and common veil off this ralme. For if ther be bot two
men in Scotland that vil bayde at your opinion I sal be
one and this is nocht for your greceis geir bot for my
promes and h[onner ?], quiche I sal never fel quhil I be
alaife a[s knawis ?] the eternel God, quho presarve your
grece. . . . xxviii off September
* be yowr gr . . . nd
George D . . .*
LXXXVI
Sir George Douglas to the Queen Dowager
Dalkeith, 13th October [1544].
TO THE QUENIS GRACE.
Eftyr most humyll recommendations of my sarves unto
yowr grace, this Sonday, the xii of Octobar, I hayf rasavit
1 Finlayston is in the parish of Kilmacolm, in Renfrewshire.
The letter is holograph.
* * Holograph. The letter is mutilated by damp.