, when
we had neither Erle nor Lord (a few excepted) to comfort us, we
called upon God, we took Him for our protector, defence, and onlie
refuge. Among us was heard no bragging of multitude or of our
strength or policy, we did only sob to God, to have respect to the
equity of our cause and to the cruel pursuit of the tyraneful enemy.
But since that our number has been multiplied, and chiefly since my
Lord Duke his Grace with his friends have been joined with us, there
was nothing heard but 'This Lord will bring these many hundred
spears: if this Earl be ours no man in such and such a bounds will
trouble us.' And thus the best of us all, that before felt God's
potent hand to be our defence, hath of late days put flesh to be our
arm."

This proved, which was an evil he had struggled against with might and
main, forbidding all compromises, all concessions that might have served
to attract the help of the powerful, and conciliate lukewarm supporters,
he turns to the other side.

"But wherein hath my Lord Duik his Grace and his friends offended?
It may be that as we have trusted in them so have they put too much
confidence in their own strength. But granting so be or not, I see a
cause most just why the duke and his friends should thus be
confounded among the rest of their brethren. I have not yet
forgotten what was the dolour and anguish of my own heart when at
St. Johnstone, Cupar Muir, and Edinburgh Crags, those cruel
murderers, that now hath put us to this dishonour, threatened our
present destruction. My Lord Duke his Grace, and his friends at all
the three jornayes, was to them a great comfort and unto us a great
discourage; for his name and authority did more affray and astonish
us, than did the force of the other: yea, without his assistance
they would not have compelled us to appoint with the Queen upon
unequal conditions. I am uncertain if my Lord's Grace hath
unfeignedly repented of his assistance to those murderers unjustly
pursuing us. Yea, I am uncertain if he hath repented of that
innocent blood of Christ's blessed martyrs which was shed in his
default. But let it be that so he hath done, as I hear that he hath
confessed his offence before the Lords and brethren of the
Congregation, yet I am assured that neither he, nor yet his friends,
did feel before this time the anguish and