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Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… that it will be hard to call back the sort entangled, or to destroy the plots presently laid for the alteration … Sir James Balfour, in France, to procure from him a letter or instrument subscribed by the Earl of Morton and proving … to, and passing to his cabinet he read the letter once or twice over with good deliberation, as Mr. Peter Young, his …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… Queen, the King's mother, which [letters] you wrote to me or to Monsieur d'Esneval. The latter has gone a tour as far as his own house, whence I hope he will return in two or three days. Meanwhile, a despatch being sent into England, … sent them sealed up as they came to me, and so within one or two days I sent to know her majesty's pleasure, what …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… hir selffe, as lykewise by the great soule of England; or els that hir secretory might be hangid and therin hir … prynce that shall offer offence ether agaynst hir person or crown, etc." "With the rest of substanciall matter I trust … the Kinge of hir clearenes, ether for knowledge, assent or allowance of the fact, and afterwards made it manifest by …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… they heard he was coming with so great a train as five or six score horse: wherefore he says he came to Dunbar. I am … my servant who knows them well, to seek them in France or on the way, if your worship think expedient; without which … the other arquebuse; howbeit it draws for that double or triple effect, for where our arquebuse shoots but 8, 10 or …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… for a time, as though little account was made of him, or to let the wonder of so "strange a monster as a Jesuiste " … assurance, for I think there was more in it than either he or any other Scotsman yet knows. For she keeps well her own … shall be yielded to her " that may be agaynste Chryste or his gospell," or the amity of the two Queens. Time will …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… Edinburgh. Signed: W. Asheby. 1 p. Holograph. No flyleaf or address. 482. Intelligence from Berwick. [Aug. 1.] Cott. … There is no doubt to be had of him either in religion or to receive Spaniards or strangers, neither will he stand upon conditions, as her …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… the proverb"that dartes forseene hurt very little or not at all." That she will neglect no reasonable thing to … purpose. Till time shall better declare what is meet or unmeet for her Majesty, I see she would that this bearer … "Yf therle of Levenax allege straithandling, ingratytude, or brag upoun the covenantes of Henry theightAnswer." All the …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… James MacConnel to cease all such incourses by himself or others into our said realm, and answer to justice for his … I must think it eyther a naturall instinction, or that God hath put it in her hart; otherways her love could … for Jedburgh, the Bishop of S t Andrews came here in 2 or 3 days after came the bishops of Dunblane and Caithness. …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… bound to you, that if I did not acknowledge it some way or other, "I war unwoorthye to be counpted a man." M r … more some mislike to see me yet ride, go in the street, or haunt Court as I do, the more I withstand their malice, … that I care not with what mind they look me in the face or think of my doings, so the same be for the Queen's …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… wardens think themselves dishonoured by meeting inferiors, or men suspected "to be to greate bearers with offenders." … dyseased of over myche travaile she tooke a nyghte or two before, dancinge over longe to celebrate the feaste of … the reste more at lengethe.' So I intend to spare her two or three days unless I be called, and now advertise your …