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CHARLES II. AND SCOTLAND IN 1650
cut off, and his motto above is : Deo et victrieibus armis. The
King’s standard of black damaske, with six hands, to wit three
against three, with drawne swords, and six hands joyned with
each other, between the swords, comming out of a blew cloud,
and the Armes naked, and the motto : Quos pietas, virtm, et
honorfecit amicos.
Montrosse his standard of white damaske, on it a lyon on
a steep rock going to leap from one steep rock to another, and
betwixt the two rocks a great river.
The motto :
‘ Nil medium.’1
The Queen of Sweden hath not done anything by way of
assistance to Montrosse; yet a Scottish rich merchant, one
John Mackliere2 of Gottenhurgh, hath disbursed sixty
thousand Rix dollers in this his design, etc.
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LETTER FROM PARIS 3
{Extract)
Charles Stuart doth not appear here as yet; they say his
voyage is put off, and that he will not be at Breda before the
midle of March. And truly it is not very likely his mother
might give him any solid councils, whilst this Court4 is ambu¬
latory and uncertaine of the event of their own affaires.
Severall Royallists here are still in doubt whither he shall
passe into Scotland, considering the hardnesse (say they) of the
demands of the Scots, who before all will divest him of his
chiefest hopes, desiring of him these three points.
That he forsake the Irish Papists; doth the like of Mon¬
trosse and his adherents; and settle the Presbytery in his
three Kingdomes.
Just now some marchants of Garnsey did informe that
Charles Stuart is expected at Coutance, and doe thinke he is
arrived there by this time.
1 This again appears to be the basis of the account in Balfour, vol. iii. p. 439.
2 On Maclear, see Deeds of Montrose, p. 273.
3 A Brief Relation, Feb. 5-12 (E. 593, 2), p. 317.- 4 The French court.