A47584:508
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 same Messenger brought also Letters from the Queen our Sovereign, more sharp and threatening then the former: For her conclusion was; Vous en sentires la poincture a jamais.
The same Messenger brought also Letters from the Queen our Soveraigne, more sharp and threatning then the former: For her conclusion was; Vous en sentires la poincture a iamais.
His credit was,1 That the King would spend the Crown of France, if that he were not revenged upon such seditious persons. That he would never have suspected such inobedience, and such defection from his own sister in him. To the which the said Lord James answered first by word, and then by writing, as followeth: The Lord James his Letter to the King. Sir, MY most humble duty remembered, Your Majesties Letters I received from Paris the 17 of July last, importing in effect, That your Majesty doth marvel that I being forgetful of the graces and favours showed me by the King of blessed memory, your Majesties father, and the Queen my Sovereign, should declare my self head, and one of the principal beginners of these alleged Tumults and Seditions in these parts, deceiving thereby your Majesties expectation in all times had of me, with assurance, That if I did not declare by contrary effects my repentance, I, with the rest that had put, or yet putteth hand to this Work, should receive that reward, which we had deserved and merited. SIR, It grieves me very heavily that the crime of ingratitude should b• laid to my charge, by your Majesty; and the rather, That I perceive the same to have proceeded of sinister information of them (whose part it was not to have reported so, if true service past had been regarded.) And as touching the repentance, and declaration of the same by certain effects, That your Majesty desires I show. ⟨p. 168⟩My conscience persuades me in these proceedings to have done nothing against God, not the dutiful obedience towards your Majesty, and the Queen my Sovereign. Otherwise it should not have been to be repented and also amended already, according to your Majesties expectation of me. But your Majesty being truly informed and persuaded, That the thing which we have done, maketh for the advancement of Gods glory, without any manner of derogation to your Majesties due obedience;