Original Letters. King Fames.....Letter of Brothers.....Dr. Fleming. 363 
fawin out with us baith in the fawing 
and reaping tymes, greatlie to the intereit 
[fic, read injurie} of the haile puire ones 
of our land, comfortit cheeflie be that 
fort cf graine, hes moved us to requcilt 
your favour, to the reliet and help of this 
neceflitee, be {pairing fum pairt of the 
great itoir of the faid graine within your. 
realme; and granting your frie licence 
to fum truftie fervand, as we are to em-: 
ploy that-errand, to buy, carie, and tran{- 
port, fyve thoufand quarters thereof, 
quhair maift commodiouflie they may be 
had, tothe faid ufe. Quhairin ye fall 
baith greethie benefite the puir anis of 
our realme; and fill alwyfe find us lyke 
aifected to help your fubjectis, diftretled 
with ony fic neceflitie, and carrying the 
lyke requeift fra you. And thus, -ex- 
cellent, richt heich and meichtie princefs, 
our deareft fuer, &c. From Halyrud 
Hous, thie xx day of December 1595. 
Your maift loving and affe€tioned bro- 
ther and confine, JaMEs R, 
a 
Passrort from James VI. of Scotlond, 
to one MORTON @ Bookfeller, tranflated 
from tke French. * 
“TAQUES par la grace de Dieu Ge. 
J James by the grace of God king of 
Scotland to all princes, potentates, dukes, 
marquiles, earls, baions, goVernors,chiets, 
colonels, captains, and their lieutenants ; 
and others exercifing jurifdiction over 
havens, bridges, paffages, and rivers; 
and generally to all thofe who may fee 
thefe prefents, fafety. ‘This beare , our 
well-beloved John Morton, merchant- 
bookéeller, inhabiting and living in our 
town of Edinburgh [| Lifleburg*] having 
ebiained leave and permifhon to go to 
France, the Low Countries, Germany, 
and other places adjacent, on his own 
particular bufinels, we have granted him 
thefe prefents, to requeft and {upplicate 
you ali, and every perfon of the above- 
named deicriptions, to permit the faid 
- Morton freely to pafs and repais through 
your diftriéts, jurifdiftions, and govern- 
Ments, without offering or caufing to be 
offered to him any ditturbance, ‘fearch, or 
hinderance: but rather, if he have need of 
it, to thew him all favour and aflithance 
in furnifhing him with boats, hortes, 
provifions, and other thing's neceffary, at 
his expence; as we iball not fail recipro- 
cally to do the fame, with regard to all 
thoie whom you may recommend to us 
from abroad. Given under cur privy 
feal, at our palace of Holyroodhoute, this 
xxth day of January 1596. 
LETTER of BROTHERS the PROPHET 
-.fothe CHANCELLOR. From theoricixal. 
Produced at the Council Board by the Lord Chane. 
cellor, §th March, 1795.. 
N obedience to the facred command of 
the Lord God, whofe fervant and 
prophet f£ am, I fend to the chancellor— 
as ipeaker of the houle of peers—a book 
containing the judements of God, that 
by him it may be communicated to all the 
peers ; that all may candidly examine the 
book and judge for themfelves: that al 
may fee that the things ‘which are an- 
nounced to the world im this book, are 
recorded in the f{cripture of truth te be 
fulfilled: that all may know that the 
kinedom which is fo often prayed for, z# 
the form called the Lord’s Prayer, fayine, 
‘¢ Thy kingdom come,”’ will commence 
with my revelation between this and the 
beginning of June next: that all may be 
warned, and that all may endeavour to 
avert the judgments, by an obediense to 
the everlafting gofpel of peace and falva~ 
tone - RICHARD BROTHERS, 
The man that will be revealed to tke 
Hebrews as their prince: to all the 
nations as their governor, according 
tothe covenant to king David, m- 
mediately after God. 
No. 57, Paddingion-fireet, 26th of the 
month called February, 1795. 
To the Chancellor of Great Britair. 

Letrer from Dy. Fiumine to Dr. 
FURNEAUX, 
REV. SIR, 
T is time I fhould acknowledge the 
receipt of your kind prefent.. Your 
letters to Black{ftone are very mafterly ; 
they are good evidence of a well-informed 
mind, and breathe the ipirit of liberty ; 
for which you have my thanks.” 
“Tf I have any juft notion of you, it 
will not offend when I tell you, that what 
you have to do with Lord Mansfield hay 
not my apprebation. It cannot, fo lon¥ 
as I muit conider him the molt formida- 
ble enemy to our legal conititution; the 
great patron of defpotifim. . 
Let me add, you have difpleafed my 
eye by an unguarded expreflion in your 
truly excellent letters (fee p..189, 190), 
where, {peaking of the proteftant difient- 
ers, you this expre{s your/elf: ** Liberty, 
religious liberty efpecialfy, is their 7c ;”” 

* So ftyled by the French, becaufe there 
was then. water-on both fides, 
hed 
