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The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland
The history of the reformation of the Church of Scotland containing five books : together with some treatises conducing to the history.The historie of the reformation of the Church of Scotland containing five books : together with some treatises conducing to the history.
London: printed by John Raworth for George Thomason and Octavian Pullen, 1644
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
and had taken with them to the Court of England, John Leslie, and Master Henry Balnaves, for perfecting of all Contracts betwixt them and the King Henry, who promised to take them into his protection,1 upon condition only that they should keep the Governors son, my Lord of Arran, and stand friends to the Contract of Marriage, whereof before we have made mention. These things clearly understood (we say) by the Governor and his Council, the Priests and the shaven sort; they concluded to make an appointment, to the end, that under Truce, they might either get the Castle betrayed, or else some principal men of the company taken at unawares.2 In which dressing was the Abbot of Dunfermline principal; and for that purpose had the Laird of Monquhanie (who was most familiar with those of the Castle) laboured with foot and hand, and proceeded so in his traffic, that from entering in day light, at his pleasure, he gat licence to come in in the night, whensoever it pleased him. But God had not appointed so ⟨p. 74⟩many to be betrayed, albeit that he would that they should be punished, and that justly, as hereafter we shall hear.
and had taken with them to the Court of England, Iohn Leslie, and Master Henry Balnaves, for perfecting of all Contracts betwixt them and the King Henry, who promised to take them into his protection,1 upon condition onely that they should keep the Governours son, my Lord of Arrane, and stand friends to the Contract of Marriage, whereof before we have made mention. These things clearly understood (we say) by the Governour and his Counsell, the Priests and the shaven sort; they concluded to make an appointment, to the end, that under Truce, they might either get the Castle betrayed, or else some principall men of the company taken at unawares.2 In which dressing was the Abbot of Dunfermeling principall; and for that purpose had the Laird of Monquhanie (who was most familiar with those of the Castle) laboured with foot and hand, and proceeded so in his traffique, that from entring in day light, at his pleasure, he gat licence to come in in the night, whensoever it pleased him. But God had not appointed so