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A04803	A discouerie of the vnnatural and traiterous conspiracie of Scottish papists, against God, his church, their natiue countrie, the Kings Maiesties person and estate: set dovvne, as it vvas confessed and subscribed by Maister George Ker, yet remaining in prison, and Dauid Grahame of Fentrie, iustly executed for his treason in Edenburgh, the 15. of Februarie. 1592. Whereunto are annexed, certaine intercepted letters, written by someof that faction to the same purpose. First printed and published in Scotland, at the speciall commandement of the Kings Maiestie	Ker, George.; Grahame, David. aut; Davidson, John, ca. 1549-1603.	1593 (1593)	STC 14938; ESTC S107999	22,155	32

said blankes and Letters which were procuréd for that errand were all deliuered by maister Iames Gourdoun and maister Abircrumby to maister George Ker to be carried by him to maister William Creichtoun Iesuit And to be filled vp at the discretion and direction of the said maister William and of maister Iames Tyrie who was best acquainted with the affaires there For the vnderstanding of the borrowed counterfaited names that occurre in the Letters following good Reader thou shalt finde them interpreted on the margent where they are pointed out by this Marke * which interpretations are conteined in the originall depositions of the practisers and in some of their intercepted Letters A Letter directed from an English Iesuit and intercepted with M. George Ker the 27. of December 1592. Good father the inclosed to my Lord I pray you reade and take it as written to your selfe what I write to him I write to you what I craue of him I craue of you what I hope of him I hope of you as of my Patron Pedagogue in spiritualibus as of a man whose discretion and moderation I haue well experimented in all cases and at all times If I had so far ouerlashed gone beyond my compasse as some good fellowes would imagine yet I wonder that some good men both in their owne conceits and other spirituall means will admit no excuse no satisfaction no purgation when S. Paul to the Galathians in most euident terms setteth downe this rule amongst the perfect and spirituall Fratres si praeoccupatus fuerit homo in aliquo delicto vos qui spirituales estis hujusmodi instruite in spiritu lenitatis considerans teipsum ne tu tenteris If I had spoken with you at my last being in Italie as I well hoped I had perhaps made a better conclusion of my businesse there then I did to my own content and all my friendes satisfaction which hope for all these stormes I will neuer giue ouer and when I leaue by your meanes to be vnder the good habering I wil write to you of that subiect The Lord Seytoun in whose house I soiourn sometimes salutes you Of the affaires of the Catholikes here I leaue it to them to write and relate by whose meanes these letters shall be conueighed My Lord Seytoun hath a hauen of his owne which may be hereafter very commodious for our purpose Commend me I pray you to F. Barth Pere c. maister Dudley Iipher knight and Iohn Thules which vpon some sudden pushes of persecution haue made their repaire hither are in health and salute you And maister Syall a priest dyed here lately in Edinburgh Loue me and pray for me I beséech you all solito And if you send any into these parts let them come furnished with as ample faculties as you may Let them enquire for one maister Ionas which will be a token betwixt vs. Our Lord blesse vs and send vs to méet once ere we die Seytoun this 2 of October 1592. Yours euer most assured Ioan Cecilio Blanke on the backe A letter directed from the Earle of Angus all written and subscribed with his owne hand intercepted with maister George Ker the 27. of December 1592. MY most affectionat commendations premitted this present is only to know of your welfare and friends and of the estate of matters where you remaine and to shew a testimonie of my good affection towards you For God be praysed if you were in this countrie I could doe you greater pleasure then I was able to doe before albeit good will lacked not at any time as you know The bearer hereof can informe you of such things as occurre with vs for we are here dayly subiect to alteration You may credit him as my selfe for so his vertues do deserue It is not needfull that I trouble you with his recommendation séeing he is to you that he is you know his honestie and good intention and the causes of his departing to whose sufficiencie referring the rest my hartie salutations and my bedfellowes with all our companie young and old remembred vnto you and your good company commits you with them to the protection of God Edinburgh the tenth of October after our count 1592 Yours euer to his power Anguss Blanke on the backe A Letter directed from maister Iames Gordoun to maister William Creichtoun intercepted with maister George Ker the 17. of December 1592. TRustie friend after most hartie commendations your friends that are here haue directed this present bearer to you for full resolution of all your affaires in these quarters we haue delayed ouer long I graunt but he wil shew you the cause of all The best is first ye vse all expedition in time comming against the next summer otherwise you will lose credit here with your factors If ye come ye will find more friends then euer ye had but otherwise ye will find fewer because the next summer manie are bound to other countries and wil not abide on you no longer Hast home hither some word to your friends that we may put them in good hope of you and they will tarrie the longer The bearer is an honest man and very sufficient ye may credit him as my selfe I should haue come with him my selfe were it not I was persuaded that you would remaine satisfied with our answere and because I had a let out of Flaunders As the bearer can shew you ye haue gotten all that ye desired therefore make hast The bearer is come vnto you on his owne charge therefore ye must haue respect to him The last bearer that ye sent came behind hand here and hath gotten no satisfaction as yet because nothing could be gotten here and we could find no man but this that would passe on his owne charge and I feare that if he had not come on his own expenses ye should not haue receiued answer so soone therefore ye should intreat him the better We looke for your selfe here shortly and I would you brought the rest of your friends with you that are beyond the sea for if your purpose passe forward they must be also present otherwise we must come and visite you All other affaires of this countrie I will commit to the bearer who is faithful Your wife and your children commend them vnto you and looke to sée you shortly If I or Sandesoun your friend receiue any siluer from the bearer you shall be aduertised by an other ticket how much it is and subscribed with both our hands The rest I will refer to the bearer God preserue you euer from all euill At Dundie the 20 of Nouember 1592. Your most affectioned to his power I. Christesoun Directed on the backe To his assured friend George Craufurd A Letter directed from maister Robert Abircrumby to maister William Creichtoun intercepted with maister George Ker the 27 of December 1592. AFter my due and humble salutations and offer of seruice I gréeue

principally to that end as also to the aduancement of some ciuile cause which hath verie great affinitie coniunction with ours here That I may testifie by this present the affection that I haue to the weale of the one and the other hauing euer before my conuersion bene one of the number of your friends and seruitors for the respect of the last to the which the first of religion which is the greatest most important that is in the world being ioined thereto I am also become altogether yours which I most humbly beséech your highnesse cause to be signified to his Catholike Maiestie and to promise him in my behalfe that he hath not in this countrie a more affectionate seruaunt then I neither yet your highnesse as ye shal vnderstand more amplie of my intention in particular by him by whom your highnesse shall receiue this present To whom after I haue most humblie kissed your hand I beséech the Creator to giue you the accomplishment of your holy desires From Edinburgh this 24 of Ianuarie 1589. Your highnesse most humble and most affectioned seruitant Francis earle of Erroll A Letter from Robert Bruce to Monsieur Francisce Aguirre Spaniard c. intercepted in Ianuarie 1589 written in French and translated into Scottish as followeth MOnsieur de Aguirre I haue receiued your Letter dated the ninth of Nouember written from And werpe wherby I was glad to vnderstand of your arriuall there and health and that you haue guided your selfe so wisely in the execution of all that I committed to you Your maister who at my request hath giuen you entertainment hath giuen me the like testimonie of your behauiour and hath promised me by his letters to haue you in the fauourable commendation I desired and to employ you in good occasions If he send you hither againe into these parts cause your selfe to be set on land néere Seytoun where I pray you to enter secretly and there you shal be kept while I may come and find you c. The rest of this missiue being set downe in obscure terms is to be seene in the originall A Letter from Robert Bruce to the Duke of Parme intercepted in Ianuary 1589. Lately before the Rode of the bridge of Die ciphered in French deciphered afterward and translated into Scottish as followeth MY Lord Monsieur Chesholme arriued in this countrie fiue daies after his departing from thence and with requisit diligence came to the Earle of Huntlie in his own house in Dunfermeling where hauing presented to him your highnesse letters of the 13 of October be declared amplie vnto him the credit giuen him in charge conformable to the tenour of the letters from your highnesse wherein they perceiued your highnesse great humanitie and affection to the aduancement of the glorie of God in this countrie with other consolations most conuenient to moderat the dolour displeasure conceaued by the harts of the Catholikes by reason of the successe of your armie against their hope and expectation Also some dayes afterward as the commoditie offered to me to receiue the money the said Chesholme deliuered to me six thousand two hundred thrée score twelue crownes of the Sun thrée thousand seuen hundred Spanish Pistolets and likewise hath caried himselfe in all his actions since very wisely and as becomes a man of God chéefly then when vpon the suspition conceaued of his so suddaine returning the king sent to take him I shall behaue my selfe by the grace of God in the kéeping and distribution of the monie last sent and of that which resteth yet of the first summe according to your highnesse prescription and as I ought to answer to God in conscience and to your highnesse in credit and to the whole world in the reputation of an honest man and will mannage it in such sort that by the grace of God there shal be fruit drawn therof pleasant to your highnesse It is true that I find as all others would doe that would enterprise such a charge here my self inuolued in great difficulties for on the one part I am in great danger of the heretikes of them of the faction of England by reason of the open profession that I make of the Catholike religiō and of the suspicion that the last hath of my secret practises and dealing against them On the other part I haue much ado to moderate the appetite that some Catholike lords haue to haue the monie presently for the hope which they giue of some pretended occasions which will neuer fall out as they promise The Earle of Huntlie made instance to haue the third part of the summe which was sent hither as soone as it was deliuered to me but he hath not toucht nor shal not touch herafter a half peny but vpon good tokens I haue paied him in the meane time with inexpugnable reasons wherwith in the end he is cōtēted I beséech your highnesse by the first letter it shall please you to write into their parts to the Catholike Lordes to remoue one errour from thrée who haue written there in name of the residue that moues them to thinke by reason they were the first that made offer of their seruice to the King Catholike that all the money that comes hither should be parted in thrée and immediatly after the arriuall thereof deliuer it to them without giuing part to others which beside them are in great number to the King Catholikes seruice and yours and also deliberate to hazard after their power for the aduancement of this cause as they are of whom the others will not depend in any sort in the accepting of the means that comes from your liberality both acknowledge them as comming directly from your Highnesse to whom onely they will be bound and obliged and not to the other thrée Of the which the Earle of Mortoun hath hitherto contented himselfe with reason As also the Earle of Huntlie hath neuer showne himselfe subiect to money but since he hath bene induced by the third to wit my Lord Claud Hammiltoun his vncle who is somewhat couetous of gaine and thought vnder such pretext to make his profit The sayd Earle of Huntlie is constrained to remaine at Court he is fallen from his constancie in his outward profession of the Catholike Religion partly for hauing lost all hope of your support before the returning of the said Chesholme because of his long staie there partly by the perswasion of some politikes partly to eschew the perils imminent to all them that call themselues Catholikes partly to kéepe himselfe in the fauour of his King who pressed him greatly to subscribe to the confession of the heretickes and to be at league with England But for all this his heart is no whit alienated from our cause for he hath the soule euer good albeit he haue not such vigour to perseuere and execute so as is requisit in so great an enterprise but they may helpe the