Series 1 > Papal negotiations with Mary Queen of Scots during her reign in Scotland, 1561-1567

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deliberavimus iterum caute et diligenter redire in Scotiam. Qui
sane reditus non fuit citra admirationem et stuporem nonnullorum,
qui nos prius deterruerant ab ingressu in Hiberniam; qui non
crediderunt se amplius visuros nos usque in diem resurrectionis.
Reversi ergo sumus brevi (Christo duce) incolumes, manemusque
hie in Edinburgo civitate regia Scotiae. Post aliquot dies putamus
visitare serenissimum Regem et Reginam^ tam ut illis reddamus
rationem de reditu nostro, tam etiam ut exploremus an aperiatur
nobis hie ostium aliquod ad fructificandum. Quod si non succedat,
navigabimus in Galliam et hie si maneamus vel Parisijs si non
maneamus expectabimus preceptum Rmae V. D., ut intelligamus
quidnam opporteat nos facere et quo pergere, et an redire Romam.
Et si D. V. Rma dignabitur aliquod responsum nobis reddere verbo
vel in scriptis curabit dari vel referri patri Ignatio superiori nostro,
qui dabit operam ut fideliter et diligenter ad manus nostras per-
veniat, ubicumque contigerit nos morari. Nichil praeterea occurrit
quod scribamus, cum haec satis sint. Gloriosus et semper bene-
dictus Deus Illniae et Rmae Dom1 Vestrae ubicunque hominum
conservet et provehat ad Christi sui gloriam ampliandam, et in
ecclesiae suae, quae tot insultibus et tempestatibus agitatur,
stabilem inconcussamque columnam. Amen.
Ex Hedemburgo Scotiae oppido die resurrectionis domini.
E. D. V. Illmae et Revmae servi indigni
Paschasius Broet.
Alphonsus Salmeron.
[Addressed'] Illmo et Rm<> domino Cardinali Santae Crucis,
patrono nostro observandissimo. Romae.
[Endorsed] 1542. Scotia.
Circa li due preti mandati in Hibernia 9 d’aprile.
[Most Illustrious and Reverend Lord,—As we believe that our
pilgrimage, until our arrival in Scotland, is already well known to your
reverend lordship through the many letters which we have written to Father
Ignatius our Superior, therefore in these we shall not use many words
lest the frequent repetition of the same thing engender fatigue. These
presents will therefore contain a short and compendious account of the
whole of our journey and of the mission entrusted to us. In the first
place, after much consideration we left Dieppe, and embarked in a port
of Flanders, whence we sailed to Scotland, which we reached on the last
day of the past year, not without severe fatigues and a troublesome sea
voyage, as we travelled in December. Nor without some danger to our
persons, for wind and fortune twice constrained us to disembark in
English harbours, and to remain there for ten or twelve days, and
although our habit and clothing and our ignorance of the English tongue
raised some suspicions in the English, yet Christ granted that we should