raige doeth persecute, ar Goddis servandis, faithfull and obedient
subjectis to the authoritie of this realme; that that religioun,
whiche sche pretendeth to maynteyne by fyre and sweard, is nott the
trew religioun of Christ Jesus, bot is expres contrarie to the
same; a superstitioun devised be the brane of man; whiche I offer
my selff to prove aganis all that within Scotland will maynteane
the contrarie, libertie of towng being granted unto me, and Godis
writtin word being admitted for judge.

[SN: LETT THE PAPISTES, RATHER AMBITIOUS ROMANISTIS, JUDGE.]

"2d. I farder require your Honouris, in my name, to say unto hir
Grace, that as of befoir I have writtin, sa now I say, that this
hir interpryise shall nocht prosperouslie succeid in the end; and
albeit for a tyme sche truble the sanctis of God, for sche feghteth
nocht aganis man onelie, bot against the eternall God and his
invincible veritie; and thairfoir, the end shalbe hir confusioun,
oneles betymes sche repent and desist.

"These thingis I require of yow, in the name of the eternall God,
as from my mouth, to say unto hir Grace; adding, that I have bein,
and am a more assured friend to hir Grace, than thay that either
flattering hir ar servandis to hir corrupt appetytes,[792] or ellis
inflambe hir against us, who seik nothing bot Goddis glorie to be
advanceit, vice to be suppressed, and veritie to be maynteaned in
this poore realme."

[SN: THE DILIGENCE OF THE ERLE OF GLENCARNE, AND OF THE BRETHERIN
OF THE WEST, FOR THE RELEIF OF SANCT JOHNESTOUN.]

Thei all three did promese to report his wordis sa fer as thai culd,
whiche efterwardis we understoode thai did. Yea, the Lord Semple[793]
him self, a man sold under syne, enymye to God and to all godlynes, did
yit maik suche report, that the Quene was sumquhat offended, that any
man suld use suche libertie in hir presence. Sche still proceaded in hir
malice; for immediatelie thairefter sche send hir Lyoun Herauld,[794]
with letteris, straitlie chargeing all man to avoid the toun, under the
pane of treasone. Whiche letteris, efter he had declaired thame to the
cheife men of the Congregatioun, he publictlie proclamed the same, upoun
Sounday, the 27 [28th] of Maij.[795] In this mean tyme, come sure
knawlege to the Quene, to the Duke, and to Monsieur Dosell, that the
Erle of Glencarne, the Lordis Uchiltrie and