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No. VIII. 



[A half sheet: mterlineations in the original, the italics are 

 erasures.] 



Instructions for his Ma"' Comissioners direct to 

 M'. robert bruce. 



Quhithir gif he be throuchlie resolvit nou of the forme and manir 

 of that treasonable attempt comittit againis his ma"^ at perth, and 



& mirculous deleverance 

 that specialie of his ma"" honnest mynd and intentionis and of th 



gourie & his broderis vyid & bludy consperacie Intendit b ye taking 

 auay of his ma"" lyfFe, as it is pticularlie, sett doun in the printed 

 buke, and ails thairanent, or not. 



As his douting of the [turn] has beine the principall cans of the 

 dout of many & of his heines sleander in that point if he be willing 

 to utter in pulpett In sic places as sail be appointit, his resolulionis 

 y" in aibuding b* the form of the said articles, als clearly as any his 

 ma"" gude subjects hes doin, craving pardon and excusing his lang 

 incredulitie and the sleander arrysing y'from & wishing the peoples 

 that any ways doutit y'of, as yai were ever reddy to consave 

 doutis upon unjust grounds onlie movit by his examples, sa nou to 

 be cotent be his meains to be resolvit y'of, 



James R. 



* Abiding by. 



