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tlie prophet sayes quhilke ualde ueill keip decorum to, cumming out 

 of sa drinking a country as this is. I pray you recomend me hair- 

 tiHe to the guide provest of youre toune & in any thing he can pray 

 him to assist my affaires as I have ever been certaine of his goode 

 uill in my service especiallie desire him to further all he can the 

 recking out three or foure schippis to meit me heir & convoye me 

 hame as maire particulairUe the counsalUs directionis will informe 

 him & lykewayes I doubt not he uill assist the maister of uorke in 

 getting als manie guide craftismen as may be hadd for ending out 

 < the half perfyted abbaye that lyes in sico k dead* thraw as did the 

 hostie of hoc est enim cor betwixt the spaignioll preistis haudis thus 

 recomending me & my neu ribbe to your dailie prayeris I comitt 

 you to the onlie all sufficient from the castell of croneburgh the xix 

 of februarie 1589 



James R 

 • I 

 recomend me hairtilie to my three ministeris & shau maister pai- 

 trike my man I am sorrie he has bene sa lang-f- hained from court 

 but he may the better uaite on hearafter. 



No. III. 



[A folio sheet in James's hand, except the direction, folded and 

 fastened as No. II. The wax was melted on the paper over the 

 ' hole through which the ribbon is supposed to have passed.] 



To o' richt trustie & weilbelovit, M'. Robert Bruce 

 Minister of the evangile at Edinburgh. 



• Paug, agony.— Jamieson. -f Spared, 



