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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.
The tenor of the Bond was thus: WE foreseeing the craft and sleight of our Adversaries,1 who try all manner of ways to circumvient us, and by privy means intend to assail every one of us particularly, by fair heights and promises, therethrough to separate one of us from another, to our utter ruin and destruction. For remedy thereof, we faithfully and truly bind us in the presence of God, and as we tender the maintenance of true Religion, That none of us shall in time coming pass to the Queen Dowager, to talk or commune with her, for any Letter or Message sent by her unto us, or yet to be sent with consent of the rest, or common consultation thereupon: and how soon that either Message or Writing should come from her unto us, with all diligence we shall notify the same one to another; so that nothing shall proceed therein without common consent of us all. At Stirling the first day of August, 1559.
The tenour of the Bond was thus: WE foreseeing the craft and sleight of our Adversaries,1 who trie all manner of wayes to circumvient us, and by privy means intend to assayle every one of us particularly, by fair heights and promises, therethrough to separate one of us from another, to our utter ruine and destruction. For remedy thereof, we faithfully and truely binde us in the presence of God, and as we tender the maintenance of true Religion, That none of us shall in time coming passe to the Queen Dowager, to talk or commune with her, for any Letter or Message sent by her unto us, or yet to be sent with consent of the rest, or common consultation thereupon: and how soon that either Message or Writing should come from her unto us, with all diligence we shall notifie the same one to another; so that nothing shall proceed therein without common consent of us all. At Sterlin the first day of August, 1559.
- 1The third Bond of mutual defence at Stirling▪The third Bond of mutuall defence at Sterlin▪