A47584:541
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 Duke and Lords understanding that the Fortifications of Leith proceeded, appointed their whole Forces to convene at Stirling the 15 day of Octob. that from thence they might march forward to Edinburgh, for the redress of the greatest enormities which the French did to the whole Country,1 which by them was so oppressed, that the life of all honest men was bitter unto them. In this mean time the Lords directed their Letters to divers parts of the Country, making mention what danger did hang over all men, if the French should be suffered to plant in this Country at their pleasure. They made mention farther, How humbly they had besought the Queen Regent, That she would send away to France her French-men, who were a burden unprofitable and grievous to this Common-wealth, and how that she notwithstanding did daily augment their number, bringing wives and children, a plain declaration of a plain conquest.
The Duke and Lords understanding that the Fortifications of Leith proceeded, appointed their whole Forces to convene at Sterlin the 15 day of Octob. that from thence they might march forward to Edinburgh, for the redresse of the greatest enormities which the French did to the whole Countrey,1 which by them was so oppressed, that the life of all honest men was bitter unto them. In this mean time the Lords directed their Letters to divers parts of the Countrey, making mention what danger did hang over all men, if the French should be suffered to plant in this Countrey at their pleasure. They made mention farther, How humbly they had besought the Queen Regent, That she would send away to France her French-men, who were a burden unprofitable and grievous to this Common-wealth, and how that she notwithstanding did daily augment their number, bringing wives and children, a plain declaration of a plain conquest.
- 1The tyranny of the French.