Calendar of the State Papers Relating to Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots, 1547-1603, Volume 5H. M. General Register Office, 1907 - Scotland |
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Addressed advertised advice ambassador amity answer appointed assured Berwick betwixt bishop of Ross BURGHLEY Calig Captain Castle cause charge cipher Cockyn commanded commissioners conference Copy Cott Council Court D'Aubigny danger deal declare delivered desire doubt Earl of Angus Earl of Argyll Earl of Lennox Earl of Morton Edinburgh effect Elizabeth favour France French friends further goodwill grace Hamilton hand Harl HENRY KILLIGREW Holograph honour hope Huntingdon inclosed Indorsed by Walsingham James John King of Scots King's Laird late letters lordship majesty's matter means meet misliking Monsieur Morgan nobility occasion person pleasure pray present Prince promised Queen of England Queen of Scots realm received REGENT MORTON religion request ROBERT BOWES Ruthven Scotland Scottish Queen sent servant ship Shrewsbury Signed stay Stirling sundry surety thereof things THOMAS RANDOLPH thought touching travail understand Warden wherein write wrote zour
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Page 13 - He speaketh the French tongue marvellous well ; and that which seems strange to me, he was able extempore (which he did before me) to read a chapter of the Bible out of Latin into French, and out of French after into English, so well, as few men could have added anything to his translation.
Page 452 - Trent, with all the subscribers and approvers of that cruel and bloody band conjured against the Kirk of God. And finally, we detest all his vain allegories, rites, signs, and traditions, brought in the Kirk without or against the Word of God, and doctrine of this true reformed Kirk, to...
Page 451 - ... the truth by the Word and Spirit of God ; and, therefore, we believe with our hearts, confess with our mouths, subscribe with our hands, and constantly affirm, before God and the whole world, that this only is the true Christian faith and religion, pleasing God, and bringing salvation to man...
Page 288 - ... possible speed towards Stirling, and leaving the residue in readiness upon warning. " Some are of opinion, that the council will be readily received and welcomed to the king and to all the castle, without further change ; and many think that, by the means of the abbots, the king shall cause them to retire to their own houses, till his pleasure be further known. And in case they disobey the same ; then to lay siege and take the castle. That then the king will cause the Earl of Morton and other...
Page 229 - ... a proportion of diet which we mean in no case you shall exceed, and that is, to allow him by the day for his meat two ounces of flesh, referring the quality to yourselves, so...
Page 452 - ... as lively members of the same in Christ our head : promising and swearing, by the great name of the LORD our GOD, that we shall continue in the obedience of the doctrine and discipline of this kirk and shall defend the same according to our vocation and power, all the days of our lives ; under the pains contained in the law, and danger both of body and soul in the day of God's fearful judgment.
Page 452 - God's law, our justification by faith only, our imperfect sanctification and obedience to the law ; the nature, number, and use of the holy sacraments ; his five bastard sacraments, with all his rites, ceremonies, and false doctrine, added to the ministration of the true sacraments without the word of God ; his cruel...
Page 494 - ... enemies to the Earl of Lennox, how this matter may be helped, either by laying violent hands on the said earl and his principal associates, in case no other more temperate course may be found for the remedy thereof, or by some other way that by him shall be thought meet, wherein her majesty willeth you to assure them that they shall not lack any assistance she can give them.
Page 452 - ... his five bastard sacraments, with all his rites, ceremonies, and false doctrine, added to the ministration of the true sacraments, without the Word of God ; his cruel judgments against infants departing without the sacrament; his absolute necessity of baptism ; his blasphemous opinion of transubstantiation or real presence of Christ's body in the elements...
Page xxiv - SIR ROBERT MELVIL. 499 fore I have no farther to advertise then I did in my former letters. I cannot learne of any practise to transport the King into France ; but there is a sister of my Lord Levingston's about the King, much suspected to be French, and the King's scholemasters are desirous to have him from the handling of women, by whom he is guyded and kept, saving when he goeth to his booke.