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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.
This conclusion, That our Queen (without further delay) should be delivered to France. 1The siege continued, great shooting, but no assaulting, and yet they had fair occasion offered unto them. For the English-men approaching to the Town, for the comforting of the besieged, with powder, victuals,2 and men, lost an Army of six thousand men. Sir Robert Bows was taken, and the most part of the borderers were taken or slain. And so might the Town justly have despaired of any further succour to have been looked for. But yet it held good for the stout courage and prudent government of Sir James Wolford General, who did so encourage the whole Captains and Soldiers, that they determined to die upon their walls. But from the time that the French-men had gotten the Bone, for the which the Dog barked, the pursuit of the Town was slow. The siege was raised, and the Queen she was conveyed by the west seas to France, with 4 Galleys & some Ships. And so the Cardinal of Loraine got her in his keeping, a morsel I assure you, meet for his own mouth. We omit many things that occurred in this time, as the sitting down of the Ship, called, The Cardinal (the fairest Ship in France) betwixt S. Colmes Inch and Cramond, without any occasion except negligence, for the day was fair and weather calm. But God would show,3 that the Country of Scotland can bear no Cardinals. In this time also was there a Combat betwixt the Galleys and the English Ships. They shot frankly a while. An English Ship took fire, or else the Galleys had come short home, and as it was, they fled without mercy, till that they were above S. Colmes Inch. The Captains left the Galleys, and took a Fort, made in the Inch, for their defence. But the English Ships made no pursuit (except that they burnt the Cardinal, where she lay) and so the Galleys and the Galley-men did both escape.
This conclusion, That our Queene (without further delay) should be delivered to France. 1The siege continued, great shooting, but no assaulting, and yet they had fair occasion offered unto them. For the English-men approaching to the Town, for the comforting of the besieged, with powder, victuals,