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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07157	The copie of a letter written by one in London to his frend concernyng the credit of the late published detection of the doynges of the Ladie Marie of Scotland	Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598, attributed name.; Buchanan, George, 1506-1582, attributed name.	1572 (1572)	STC 17565; ESTC S121994	5,076	18

❧ The copie of a letter written by one in London to his frend concernyng the credit of the late published detection of the doynges of the Ladie Marie of Scotland ▪ MAny are the practises of Papistes and other false and hollow harted subiectes wonder it is what they dare do say as if they had the Maiestie of our Prince in contempt or did still beare them selues bold vpon the successe of some mightie treason the bottome whereof hath not yet bene throughly searched Of late hath bene published out of Scotland a treatise detectyng the foule doynges of some that haue ben daungerous to our noble Quene by which detection is induced a very excellent comparison for all Englishmen to iudge whether it be good to chaunge Quéenes or no and therwith a necessary enforcement to euery honest man to pray hartely for the long continuaunce of our good mother to rule ouer vs that our posteritie may not sée her place left empty for a perilous stepedame Some caryed with Popishe affection that regardeth neither naturall Prince nor contrey and puffed with the dropsey of a trayterous humor labour what they can to discredit the same detectiō as vntrue Some of them whyle they lyke good sincere men forsoth would fayne seme very indifferent iudges say they will credit nothyng till they heare both parties not remembryng that in the same one booke are both parties to be heard the one in the former parte both in the declaration and oration of euidence the other in the latter part in the parties owne contractes songes letters iudiciall procedynges protestations examinations and confessions Some other more open fellowes say flatly that all is false the booke hath no credit the authour is vnknowne obscure the matter counterfaite and all is nothyng If any such rumors come to your eare first I thinke verely in truth you may be bold to say to the partie Et tu ex illis es thou art also one of them And for the matter I haue thought good to enforme you of so much as I know for profe of the same treatise to be of credite wherwith you may aunswere and stoppe the mouthes of such rumor spreaders The booke if selfe with the oration of euidence is written in Latine by a learned man of Scotland M. George Buchanan one priuie to the procedynges of the Lordes of the Kynges secret Counsell there well able to vnderstand and disclose the truth hauyng easie accesse also to all the recordes of that cōtrey that might helpe hym Besides that the booke was written by hym not as of hym selfe nor in hys owne name but accordyng to the instructions to hym geuen by common conference of the Lordes of the priuie Counsel of Scotland by him onely for hys learnyng penned but by them the mater ministred the booke ouerséen allowed and exhibited by them as mater that they haue offred and do continue in offeryng to stand to and iustifie before our soueraigne Ladie or her highnesses Commissioners in that behalfe apointed And what profe they haue made of it already when they were here for that purpose and the sayd authour of the sayd booke one among them when both parties or their sufficient procurators were here present indifferently to be heard and so were heard in déede all good subiectes may easely gather by our sayd soueraigne Ladyes procedyng sins the sayd hearyng of the cause who no dout would neuer haue so stayed her request but rather would haue added enforcement by ministring of aide to the Lady Marie of Scotlād for her restitution the presidēt honor of Princes her Maiesties own former exāple of sinceritie vsed in defence of the Scottish Quéene her selfe in Scotland against France and her maintenance of the French Kinges honor and libertie against the hye attemptes of some his Popish subiectes considered nor would haue lyued in such good amitie with the yong kyng of Scotland the Regentes the true Lordes mainteiners of that side if these haynous offenses alleged on that part had not ben prouable or if the yong Kyng had ben an vsurper or hys Regentes and other Lordes of that faction traytors as they must haue ben if all be false that is obiected agaynst the sayd Ladie Marie I recite not what subscriptions assentes haue ben to confirme the booke and the maters in it conteined Byside that I do you to wyte that one written copie thereof in Latine was now vpon hys late apprehension found in one of the Duke of Norfolkes mens houses and thether sent by his commaundement a litle before his apprehension to be secretlie kept there with diuers other pamphelets and writynges Whiche thyng not onely addeth credit to this booke that it was not counterfait but also geueth shrewed suspicions that the Duke could not so well lyke the woman beyng such a woman as for her persons sake to venture the ouerthrow of such a florishyng state wherin he stode before but that some other greater thyng it might be that he lyked the gredynesse whereof myght temper his abhorryng of so foule conditions of so great a danger to hym selfe to be sent after his predecessours The Byshop of Rosse lykewise doth both knowe that the Duke had this booke and can tell how the Duke came by it The other mater of the contractes letters songes c. haue among other these proues Liuely witnesses of great honor and credit can tell that the very casket there described was here in England shewed the letters other monumentes opened and exhibited and so much as is there sayd to haue ben written or subscribed by the sayd Ladie Marie the Erle Bothwell or other hath béen by testimonies and othes of men of honor credit of that contrey testified and auowed in presence of persones of most honorable state and authoritie to haue ben written subscribed as is there alleged so deliuered without rasure diminution addition falsifieng or alteration in any point And a number there be in England of very good and worshypfull callyng byside the Commissioners thereto apoynted that haue séene the originals them selues of the same handes whoe 's this booke doth say them to be Whiche thinges haue been heard and vnderstoode by these that can tell and those whoe 's truth in reportyng is aboue all exception Wherefore sithe the Scottishemen haue for satisfaction of vs their good neyghbours among whom the sayd Ladie Marie remayneth to the perill of both Princes as the Scottishmen say published these maters to the intent that the impudencie of the sayd Ladie Maries fautors in denyeng those truthes may not seduce English subiectes to the vnderminyng of the estate honor and noble procedyng of our most gracious soueraigne and diuertyng of affections to vndue places and to the great perill of both Realmes which the aduersaries call beneficiall vnityng but is in déede most maleficiall confoundyng intended to ioyne the Realmes in other persones excluding the person of our sayd soueraigne Lady Let vs receiue this