AISS. from the Brilish Museum. 



1821. 



Letter frotn JAMBS \l. of Scotland, toWB.. 

 BOWES, the English Ambassador there. 

 Right trustie and weilbelovif, We greit 

 you heartlie weil. The pitieful complaint 

 maid to wibe Thomas Pairman, of his mi- 

 serable eslait and condition, being partlie 

 xyled andfugitivefrome his native countrey 

 and not able to abyd our dairest suster, 

 the quene your maislresse, her lawis for 

 ane slaughter comitted by him ; howbeit, 

 not of his awin motion, or of precogitat 

 malice, but ensewing- of accident upon ane 

 suddaine conflict, has moved we to re- 

 qeist you very earuestlie, having weil! con- 

 sidered the verrie trewth of that matter, 

 sa far as we cowd -learne, to employ 

 your haili credit, moyen and IVendes, that 

 by your and thair mediations, the said 

 iThomas may find mercie and grace at our 

 said dairest suster's handis. And as he 

 hath alreaddie satisfied the partie offendit 

 by the said slaughter, sa it wald please 

 her extend her gracious favor towards 

 him, in receaving him her peaceable sub- 

 ject. This wo requyre eavnestlie of you, 

 a^we arefullie assured ye will not frus- 

 trat our expectation. We comit you to 

 the protectiown of the Eternel. At our 

 pallace of Halyrudhous, the 25 day of 

 Jaauare, 1590. Yourguid Friend, 



James R. 

 " To our Right trustie and u-cill belovit 

 mtiiJiter, Robert Boives, Amimssador 

 for our dearest Suster, the Quene of 

 England." Lansdown 3ISS. 66. 



JUSTICIARY of ENGLAND. 



The Bishop of Constance, Goisfride or 

 Geoffrey, was Justiciary of England iu 

 1072, and was of a very noble Norman 

 extraction, and more skilful in Arras than 

 Divinity, knowing better to train up sol- 

 diers than instruct his clergy; was an 

 eminent coaimander in that signal battle 

 near Ha.-lings in Sussex, wherein Duke 

 Win. of Normandy becane conqueror, aud 

 consequently King of England : for which 

 great service, he had no less than '^8 

 Lordships given him by that King. He 

 was also in divers other battles against 

 the Dunes and English, and by subduing 

 his enemies, obtained vast possessions; 

 but being in rebellion sigaiust William II. 

 in 101)2, had his lands taken away from 

 liini. The Hoir to this Bishop was his 

 uejiliew, Robert de Mowbray, who after- 

 wards professed himself a monk, and died 

 1106, 7 Henry I. in the Abbey of St. 

 Albans. Cole, vol.20. 



an. GILBKRT BURNET, Bishop of Salis- 

 bury, to AKCHUISIIOP TENISON. 



May it please yourGrace,^! hope your 

 Grace looks on this letter as the super- 

 seding our commission, and that accord- 

 '"B'y you will carry it to the King, aud 

 deliver it up, for I am sure this destroys 

 the effect of it. I wish your Ciracc had 

 muiiitaiucd your grouud upon the first 

 attack, but now it is too late to struggle 



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if this person ia not quite laid aside, and 

 an effectual stop put to all things of the 

 kind for the future. We are under much 

 obloquy already, and I am sure we will 

 become justly so, if we are only to screen 

 the recommendations of a lewd court. — 

 Howsoever, for ray own part, 1 beg leave to 

 be left out, if your grace thinks fit to con- 

 tinue the commission on such terms. I 

 thought to have Writ to your Grace upon 

 other subjects, but I will mix nothing with 

 this, that I may leave your Grace at full 

 freedom to shew it, or to make what use of 

 it you please. 



I am with all duty and respect, 

 My Lord, 

 Your Grace's most humble and most 

 obedient servant, Gi.Saruh 



Salisbury, 25 May. Bibl. Birch. 4192. 

 A COPPIE of a BiiLL given by the Hollie 

 Father the pope, whereby men are per- 

 mitted to have to wyves for the multi- 

 plicngc of the Romysh Church, or hollie 

 catholiques, as follov-eth. Translated 

 out of Latin into French, and so into 

 English. Dated the 8th day of October^ 

 A° 1582. 



Gregorie by Code's permission, Pope 

 and Bishop of Rome, servant of our Saviour 

 Jesus Christ, to our well-beloved and most 

 christian sonne King of France, salutacion 

 aud apostolyke blessinge, and generallie 

 to all other Christian Princes our favorers. 

 As by ourauthoritieand power with the 

 goode and faithful councel of our most 

 deare and welbeloved councellors of the 

 hollie apostolyke church, my Lords the 

 most Reverend Cardinals, Archbishopes, 

 Bisliopps, Abbots, and auditors of autho- 

 ritie on our councel at Rome. After hav- 

 ing seene with deliberaciou the pittiful 

 moue then to manifest, desolacion, aud ap- 

 parent ruiue, as well of cruell wares, 

 whereof have ensued sackinge of churches, 

 with cruell marferdome of infinite num- 

 ber of good christians and Romane catho- 

 lickes that have been devoured by a sort 

 of Turkish Hugenots and most nnbeliev- 

 inge protestauts, as namelie,— in the most 

 populous cittie of Paris, Lion, Roan, Or- 

 leans, Towlose, and Rochell, with others, 

 by which meanes the good peopell of the 

 caiholicke's belief are almost ruined, de- 

 stroyed, and dryven awaye, and by an in- 

 finite number of helleoundes, called pro- 

 testauts, that swarme in these dales like 

 bees, and by their murthers and cruelties 

 have brought our good children and chris- 

 tians into an almost utter desolation, as it- 

 hath evidently, by good demonstration 

 unto us appeared, that in the foresaid 

 kingdome of Fraunce, there should be at 

 this present c. and xx. thousand evi- 

 dences, without anie mencion made of 

 those in the low countries, which is cause 

 that we, by the ripe and good deliberation 

 of our foru»aid couuceli, by our absolute 



power 



