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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.
At this same Assembly was the Lord James appointed to go to France to the Queen our Sovereign, and a Parliament was appointed to begin the 20 of May next following; for at that time was the return of the said Lord James looked for: and so was that Convention dissolved, without any other thing of importance concluded. The said Lord James prepared him for his journey (for albeit he past in the public affairs, he sustained the charge of his own expenses; and yet there never past from this Realm in the company of one man so many, and so honest through England to France.1) Before he departed, he was forewarned, as well of the danger in France, as of the Queens craft (not that we then suspected her nature, but that we understood the malice of her friends) he was plainly premonished, That if ever he condescended that she should have Mass publicly or privately within the Realm of Scotland, that then betrayed he the Cause of God, and exposed the Religion even to the uttermost danger that he could do.2 That she should have Mass publicly, he affirmed that he would never consent: But to have it secretly in her Chamber, Who could stop her? The danger was shown, and so he departed.
At this same Assembly was the Lord Iames appointed to go to France to the Queen our Soveraigne, and a Parliament was appointed to begin the 20 of May next following; for at that time was the returne of the said Lord Iames looked for: and so was that Convention dissolved, without any other thing of importance concluded. The said Lord Iames prepared him for his journey (for albeit he past in the publike affairs, he sustained the charge of his own expences; and yet there never past from this Realme in the company of one man so many, and so honest thorow England to France.1) Before he departed, he was forewarned, as well of the danger in France, as of the Queens craft (not that we then suspected her nature, but that we understood the malice of her friends) he was plainly premonished, That if ever he condescended that she should have Masse publikely or privately within the Realme of Scotland, that then betrayed he the Cause of God, and exposed the Religion even to the uttermost danger that he could do.2