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and to cut us out some work at home ; that hy 

 practice, without diverting and employing any great 

 forces, he might nevertheless divert our succours 

 from France. 



According to which purpose, he first proved to 

 move some innovation in Scotland, not so much in 

 hope to alienate the king from the amity of her 

 majesty, as practising to make a party there against 

 the king himself, whereby he should be compelled 

 to use her majesty s forces for his assistance. Then 

 he solicited a subject within this realm, being a per 

 son of great nobility, to rise in arms and levy war 

 against her majesty ; which practice was by the 

 same nobleman loyally and prudently revealed. 

 And lastly, rather, as it is to be thought, by the insti 

 gation of our traitorous fugitives in foreign parts, 

 and the corrupter sort of his counsellors and mi 

 nisters, than of his own nature and inclination, either 

 of himself, or his said counsellors and ministers 

 using his name, have descended to a course against 

 all honour, all society and humanity, odious to God 

 and man, detested by the heathens themselves, which 

 is, to take away the life of her majesty, (which God 

 have in his precious custody !) by violence or poison. 

 A matter which might be proved to be not only 

 against all Christianity and religion, but against na 

 ture, the law of nations, the honour of arms, the 

 civil law, the rules of morality and policy ; finally, to 

 be the most condemned, barbarous, and ferine act that 

 can be imagined ; yea, supposing the quarrels and 

 hostility between the princes to be never so declared 



