(744) 
Ii. 
(Add. Ms. 32,091. fo. 199.) 
Letter of Sir William Cecil to Laird Lethington. 
S, 
Although the beror hereof M" Randolph, be sufficient to 
satisfy you in any thyng requisite for me to wryte, yea in 
sondry thynges unmete to be wrytten, yet lest yow might 
thynk me ether careless of yow or enforced with other occu- 
pations to leave you unsaluted, I have thought it necessary, 
in steade of many wordes. That in cõication I might use by y* 
nature of y° matter to use a few sentencees playnely and 
tiuely, nether curioosly nor collorably wrytten. You and I 
have many thynges coon to us both, wherein our intentions 
ought to agree. We have also some particular in respect of 
our severall servicies, wherin our intentions maye differ. Never- 
theless I assure you y° accord y‘ I have w' ee for coon and 
publick maketh me to hold less accopt of y® p’v 
What so ever maye furder y° satlyng of y° ai of Christ 
and y* dissolution of Antichrist, ought to be cheeffly afore all 
regarded of us both and herin no wisedo of y° world, no 
affection to person, no care of our selves ought to blynd us. 
Next what so ever maye ether unyte the hartes of the people 
of this Ile, to gither in one, or preserve them from discord 
and hatred, ought to be regarded by us both afore y° affec- 
tion to any natio and contry. 
Last what so ever might make y* accord betwixt our twoo 
soverayns perpetuall, ought to be sought by us bothe, and y° 
contrary, or any thyng to the same, ought to be w'stand and 
ñished. 
