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cated to the Town Council of Edinburgh, and printed by Walde- 

 grave, most of them preached before the king. He also published 

 a sermon on the deliverance from the Spanish Armada, and another 

 on the repentance of Bothwell. A translation of the two volumes 

 into English was printed in London, in 1617. 



SECTION III. 



Having already explained the occasions, on which the following 

 letters were written, I have now only to describe their form, and to 

 transcribe them in a legible character. Except those in James's 

 hand and the petition, these papers are in the same character with 

 the Irish Records of the same period,* but rendered less legible by 

 contractions, careless and minute writing, and Scotch phrases. 



No. I. 



[Written on one side of a half sheet, folio, at the top ; folded 

 like a modern letter, no water-mark ; sealed with coarse red wax, 

 in the wafer place, and also between the folds; the wax inserted 

 as a wafer, so that the impression is on the paper, and pretty dis- 

 tinct, being a coat of arms on a shield : neither crown nor motto 

 visible: written and directed in the secretary hand, and signed by 

 James : the endorsement in a different hand from the inside.] 



To o' tnistie and weil belovit 

 Mr. Robert bruce Minister of 

 the evangell at Edinbrugh. 



* See Irish Records, published by order of the House of Coramoris. 



