The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland

MADAME, WE received your Answer, and heard the credit of Lion King of Arms, whereby we gathered sufficiently your perseverance in evil mind towards us, the glory of God, our Common-weal, and Liberty of our native Country. For safety of the which, according to our duty, we have in our Sovereign Lord and Ladies name suspended your Commission, and all administration of policy which you may pretend thereby, being most assuredly persuaded, That your proceedings are direct contrary to our Sovereign Lord and Ladies will, which we ever esteem to be for the weal, and not for the hurt of this our Commonwealth. And as you will not acknowledge us our Sovereign Lord and Lady, their true Barons, and Lieges for your Subjects and Counsel, no more will we acknowledge you for any Regent or lawful Magistrate unto us, seeing, if any authority ye have by reason of our Sovereigns Commission granted unto you, The same for most worthy reasons is worthily suspended by us,¹ in the name and authority of our Sovereign, whose council we are of in the affairs of this our Common-weal.² And forasmuch as we are determinate with hazard of our lives to set that Town at liberty wherein you have most wrongfully planted your Soldiers and strangers; For the reverence we owe to your person, as mother to our Sovereign Lady, we require your Highness to transport your person therefrom, seeing we are constrained for the necessity of the Common-weal, to follow the same by Arms, being denied oft the liberty thereof by sundry requisitions made oft before. Again, we desire you cause depart with you out of the said Town, any person having Commission in Embassy, if any such be, or in Lieutenantship of our Sovereigns, together with all French-men Soldiers, being within the same (whose blood we thirst not, because of the old amity and friendship betwixt the Realm of France and us; which amity by the occasion of the marriage of our Sovereign Lady to the King of that Realm, should rather increase then decrease.) And this we pray your Highness and them both to do, within the space of twenty four hours, for the reverence we owe to your persons. And thus recommending our humble service to you, we commit your Highness to the eternal protection of God. At Edinburgh, the 24 of October 1559. Your Highness humble servitors

MADAME, WE received your Answer, and heard the credit of Lion King of Armes, whereby we gathered sufficiently your perseverance in evil minde towards us, the glory of God, our Common-weale, and Liberty of our native Countrey. For safety of the which, according to our duty, we have in our Soveraign Lord and Ladies name suspended your Commission, and all administration of policie which you may pretend thereby, being most assuredly perswaded, That your proceedings are direct contrary to our Soveraigne Lord and Ladies will, which we ever esteem to be for the weale, and not for the hurt of this our Commonwealth. And as you will not acknowledge us our Soveraigne Lord and Lady, their true Barons, and Leiges for your Subjects and Counsel, no more will we acknowledge you for any Regent or lawfull Magistrate unto us, seeing, if any authority ye have by reason of our Soveraignes Commission granted unto you, The same for most worthy reasons is worthily suspended by us,