Series 3 > Scottish correspondence of Mary of Lorraine

MARY OF LORRAINE
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legis in thir partis to dispar and apoynt wyth tham and
to delyver tham ma strynthis. Besekand your graice
now to schaw your wisdom as your graice has ay don,
for all is weilwilling heyr : and tak tym quhill tym is
oportun. The langer our ennymeis be contenwat the
starkar ar thai, and salbe the grettar fors that sail repuss
tham and put tham away. Madem, becaus I ma nocht
gudly tak sa greit payn as in tymes past I haif ben at all
tymmis humelle to writ unto your graice the best I can,
and now presently writtis of verrite efter my under¬
standing. The etemell God conserve your grace. Of
Pertht this last of December be
your graice maist humill servitour
Lord Methven.1
CL
Ormiston and Brunston to Sir John Luttrell
Musselburgh, 17th January [1547-8].
TO THE RYCHT WORSCHYPFUL SIR JHON LUTTERELL
KNYCHT, CAPITANE OF THE KINGIS MAJESTIES FORT OF
INCH COLM.
Eftir our most herty commendatioun, gentill Mr.
Luterrel, thair is ane freind of ouris callit Robert Hammil-
toun, who hatht saiff condweit of my lord protectouris
grace to rapair in to England, as he him selff did show
yow, who hes appoyntit ane toun callit Carraill, the men
thairof, to be his furnysaris of souche fyschis as he thynkis
nedfull to cary in theisis pertis; beleiffing ye will apone
the consideratioun foir said lat souche men, duellaris in
the said toun, as the names of ar writin within this letter,
have your letteris of safe condueitt,—whiche yf we thoucht
prejudusiall to the kyngis majestis effaris, we wold in na
wyse desyre. And yf your wysdom thynkis neidfull, ye
1 A holograph letter, apparently written in haste. In several places words
have been scored out, or repeated.