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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

A DISCOVERIE OF THE VNNATVRAL 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 some of that faction to the same purpose First Printed and published in Scotland at the speciall commandement of the Kings Maiestie LONDON Printed by R. F. for Iohn Norton 1593. TO THE READER MAny and dangerous points good Reader of vnnaturall and treasonable practises of Scottish Papists or as they vvill needs be styled Catholicke Romanes against God his church their natiue coūtry and the Kings Maiesties estate and person being discouered by Gods great and mercifull prouidence partly by the depositions confessions of some of the practisers them selues namely Maister George Ker vvho for that cause is imprisoned and Dauid Grahame of Fentrie iustly executed for the same in Edenburgh the 15. of Februarie 1592. and partly by diuers letters of sundrie of the practisers intercepted at diuers times It is thought good by the Kings Maiestie and his honourable Counsaile that the most substantiall poynts of the sayd depositions should be faithfully taken out of the originals vvhich vvere deposed and confessed by the said M. George and Dauid Grahame of Fentrie before the honourable persons deputed by the Kinges Maiestie and his highnesse Counsell to that effect and subscribed vvith their ovvn hands for the greater ease of the memory of the Reader should be summarily gathered into this forme follovving vvhich otherwise vvere scattered here there in their depositions according to the occasion of the diuerse demaundes at diuerse times for the readier taking vp vvhereof the times of the depositions and persons deposed seuerally and coniunctly as the matter craueth should be set dovvne in marginal quotations As also that some of the most remarkable Letters of the practisers should be ioyned hereunto word by word vvhich vvere intercepted vvith Maister George Ker and the rest decyphered and translated as after shall appeare and so the vvhole togither to be imprinted and set forth vnto the vievv of the vvorld to the glorie of Gods Maiestie the only reuealer of these secrets to the comfort edification of his Church the perpetuall detectiō shame of the vnnaturall enemie All vvhich things are so faithfully done in this volum folovving that no man how impudent soeuer he be can iustly challenge it vvith any falsifying forging or chaunging one thing for another to the vvresting of the original depositions in any the least substantiall parts thereof as by conferring this extract vvith the first records vvhich are in the Clerkes hands most euidētly shal appeare if any list to looke vpon them Thou art therfore good Reader greatly to consider the goodnes of our God in this case so vvatchfull ouer his church for the good and safety therof by discouering such deep dangerous practises of the deadly enemy euen thē vvhē as we thinking nothing lesse are readie to be surprised by their close courses so cunningly craftily conueied as vve may vvel say vvith the Prophet our soule is escaped euen as a bird out of the snare of the Fowlers c. As also thou art to be vvakened vp to the earnest consideration of the diligence force and crueltie of our enemies vvhich yet is nothing abated but more eager presently then euer heretofore to atchieue their diuellish intent no vvaies to trust them or be secure as though they vvere sleeping minding no danger to vs vvhile in the meane time so deeply and deadly they conspire vvithin without vvith so great force craft against our religion landes and liues that they dare be bolde in their pride to assure the Spaniard of no resistance here to their cr●●● enterprise as by their ovvne bragging vvords hereafter in their letters euidently shall appeare yea all kindly natiue Scottish men true louers of the Christiā religion ought speedily substanciallie to concur to the vvithstāding ouerthrowing of this our cōmon enemie vvithin our ovvn bowels whose vnnaturalnes barbarisme high attempt cā be matched with no example domesticke or forrain that we read of whether vve consider the cruel barbarousnes of the Spaniard to vvhom they haue sold their countrie K. and people vvhereof let the monument vvrittē by one of their ovvn Friers against the Spanish crueltie beside experiēce vvher they be maisters beare witnes or vvhether vve cōsider their most deceitful dealing couering their most bloody purposes with cloak of most tēder friendship vvhich most closely they haue coūterfeited by subscriptiō to the true religion by hearing of the vvord preached and common profession thereof vvith vs and participation of the Sacraments by bands finally affinities othes and all attestations lavves sacred and humane that might seeme to procure credit amongst men and many other things to be enlarged in time and place as mens callings in Church and pollicie craues Consider and consider againe good Reader vvhat should be the estate of all honest and godly men their vviues and daughters the estate of Church Common vveale Prince yea and of the miserable vvretches themselues if their purpose to make the Spaniard our maister for no mans seruaunt nor fellovv vvill that proud beast be should take effect O miserie miserie miserie vnspeakeable especially to themselues if their vvofull purpose succeed to their mind and far proceeded practises VVherfore yet againe it is high time and more that all good men and louers of their natiue countrie be vvakened vp to true repentance to the Lord vvho so heauily threatneth and in a part alreadie striketh and to a diligent and substantiall concurring euery one according to his calling and place both in land and Burrovv to vvithstand these desperat attempts before they passe remedie and timely to preuent the farther danger by assisting the execution of Iustice vpon the rest of the detected traitors vvithout respect of persons that so vve labouring to take euill out of Israell the Lord vvho hath so notably begun the vvorke may bring it to an happie end to his glorie our comforts through Christ our Lord. Amen A DISCOVERIE OF THE vnnaturall and traiterous practises of the Scottish Papists against God his Church their natiue countrie and the Kings Maiesties person and estate BY the confessions and depositions of maister George Ker and Dauid Grahame of Fentrie it is discouered That in March 1591. Maister William Creichtoun who hath remained these two yeres past in Spaine sent to maister Iames Gordoun Iesuite brother on the fathers side to George now earle of Huntlie a Gentleman called maister William Gordoun sonne vnto the Lord of Abiryeldie with letters to let the Catholikes here vnderstand what trauell maister William Creichtoun had taken with the king of Spaine since his

and lament heauily the slouth and negligence your merchands haue vsed in answering of your last sute you proposed to them For apparantly if they had made answer in due time our wares had bene here in due time with our great profit and consolation The stay and stop of the matter apparantly was lacke of expenses that no man would of his owne charges take that voyage in hand yea some craued a thousand crownes for his expenses So the matter was once wholy giuen ouer and almost cleane forgot vntill it pleased God of his diuine prouidence to stir vp this bearer to take the matter in hand on his owne expences as hée hath bene euer bent in that cause not onely to spend his goods but also the thing which is more deare to him that is his life therefore I thinke he should be the more acceptable as also for the affinitie of blood ●or both his grandmothers were Creichtones And as for wit abilitie in treating of those affairs he is not inferiour to any of your merchands which you desired as ye wil perceiue by experience God willing And albeit that he of his couragious liberalitie and zeale to the cause hath takē the matter in hand on his own charges yet all your friends in these quarters thinke it verie reasonable that al should be repaied to him againe cum vsurs with promotion till any other accident should fall out for the weale and furtherance of this cause c. But now I will say one word of him and so come to some other purpose of our own If I had a thousand tongues with so many mouthes with C●ceroes eloquence I could not be worthie ynough to commend this Gentleman to you and all your company as I shall let you vnderstand God willing if euer we doe chaunce to méet face to face and therefore whensoeuer ye may preuent him with any benefit either by your selfe or any other abide not till he craue it of you for he is the worst asker in his own cause that euer ye conversed with Sed nunc ad alia If you be well remembred at your departing out of this countrie you gaue maister Iames Makcartnay a procuratory to intermeddle with maister Alexander Homes little liuing he hath here in East Lowthiane the which he pleaded and obtained in law and tooke vp the yearely rents therof to his own behoofe giues his none of it In the mean time there falles out such incumbrāces touching that land that we are like to loose the whole The sayd maister Alexanders nearest friends and heires haue in iudgement prooued him to be dead and so enter as heires to him In the meane time the Land of Spot his chiefe lord is forfeited and so the land wairds so that we are like to lose al if remedie be not found Wherefore falling in consultation with maister Alexander King he thought best to sell the land vnto him and we to vse the siluer in a more sure manner of the which ye shall receive some writings from this bearer the which ye will vnderstand better then I. Onely I thinke if some meanes be not vsed we shall loose all better it is to haue some thing nor loose all As for the price set ye it downe for he hath mentioned none as yet but he will giue as much as any other because as he saies he hath some land lying neare to it I pray you answere vs with spéede I doubt not but ye haue heard how the yong man whose father was slaine by the Laird of Ruthvenis slue him againe whose Ladie is married to one Iames Reid Camnay is come into the Constables hands and your Nephew is priuie of it and that by the meane I trow of Abraham your brother but your Maich is litle better thē beggred Drumkilbo is dead and Thomas Tyrie is Tutor I pray you aduertise me by what manner maister Stephen Wilsoun came by my Lord Leuingstons Obligation the which you had of the fortie Crownes his L. owed you For maister Stephen hath gotten the fortie Crownes rendering the Obligation which ye had I durst neuer make mention of the hundreth Crownes from the father and fortie Crownes from the sonne which ye left me authoritie to aske c. My Lord Leuingstone is departed out of this world Ye heard before that Dauid Forester had one sonne and now hath an other borne in the Castle of Striueling where he is in ward hardly handled There is but one of our Nobilitie here which hath of the King of Spaine any pension well payde of twelue hundreth Crownes The which apparantly are euill bestowed For he nor none of his as yet hath euer done any kind of good in the promotion of the Kings matters wherfore such pensions were better bestowed on others who trauell daily and hourly putting in hazard both their goods liues as this bearer hath done and daily doth and others as he can shew you c. Because I haue no other thing to write and haue bene long inough I commend me to your praiers and you to God At Scotland the 15. of December 1592. Yours at his power Robert Sandesoun Directed on the backe To his trustie friend George Cranfurd A Letter directed to the King of Spaine by three Noble men of Scotland whereof two haue since returned to the profession and defence of the truth by their oathes and subscriptions wherfore their names are suppressed the third his name expressed to wit the Earle of Huntly because he continueth as yet in his former wicked course This Letter writtē by them in the name of the Catholicke Noblemen of Scotland cyphered in French was intercepted in Ianuarie 1589. lately before the time of the Rode of the Bridge of Die afterward was decyphered word by word and translated into Scottish as followeth SIR we cannot sufficiently expresse by spéech the great griefe we haue conceiued being frustrate of the hope we haue so long had to sée this yeare past the desired effects fall out which we attended of your Maiesties preparations And our displesures haue bin so much y e greater that your naual armies should haue passed by so neare vs vnuisiting vs who expected the same with sufficient forces for the peaceable receipt and assisting thereof against all enemies in such sort that it should haue had no resistance in this Country and with our support should haue giuen inough to do to England At least if it had come here to refresh it it had preserued a number of vessels and men which we know haue perished neare our Iles and vpon the coast of Ireland And had discouered an incredible number of friends in full readinesse to haue run the same fortune with it in such sort as we dare wel affirme it should not haue found halfe so many in England for all that is spoken by the English Catholikes refuged there who by emulation or rather by an vnchristian enuy extenuate

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

defectes ioyning with him a man of credit resolute to assist him as we haue aduised to do since the Baron of Fentrie is put in ward by the King in the Towne of Dundie So that he durst not goe out of the gates thereof vnder the paine of a great summe vntill occasion may be offered to depart the Countrie within the time limitted And I by the Kings Commandement am forbidden to come neare the said Erle because they haue attributed to the said Laird of Fentrie and me his constancie in the Catholike Religion and his absence from Court against the Kings will His warding hath somewhat hindered our course and permits me not to moue him as it hath pleased you to command me and as I desire to dispence the money coniunctly with me so that for supplying of the default of him I haue associated to the same end a verie honest man verie wise called father William Creichtoun Iesuit who was deteined some yeres in the Citie of London after he was taken vpon the sea comming hitherwards from France Likewise I shall helpe my selfe by the prudence of Sir Iames Chesholme eldest brother to the said Iohn who brought the mony from your Highnesse For he is a man confident wise one on our part and verie litle suspect In the mean time the one part of the money is in the principall house of my Lord Leuingstoun a verie Catholike Lord the other here in Edinburgh in suretie inough to helpe as it shall néed the Lords Catholiks who will come verie soone hither to resist to the purposes of them of the faction of England who in the same time are purposed to remaine at Court with forces to raunge all things at their fantacie As for the like summe or greater which your Highnesse will is to cause follow the last sent hither it is good in al euēts it were very soone sent hither secretly to help the necessitie that may fal out to cause things incline to our side when they are in ballance as there is great appearance they will be by the occasion aforesaid And in case that necessitie requires no distribution the said summe shall be kept and reserued to better occasions or till the arriuall of your forces in this Ile There is suspition as also arguments probable inough that Thomas Tyrie who hath brought hither your Highnesse Letters to our King hath not behaued himself according to his dutie For he hath accommodat himselfe in his behauiour more after the affection of our Chanceller who is of the faction of England and abuseth the credit he hath with the King then according to the instructions giuen him there He hath not presented nor made mention to the King of Colonell Sempills Letter whereof I haue caused the copie to be presented to his Maiestie by the Earle Bouthwell as if it had bene sent to him with another of the said Colonells to himself which he receiued from Thomas Tyrie at his arriuall who hath reported to the said Chanceller all that Seigneur don Bernardino spake to him in Paris to the disaduantage of the said Chanceller Also he hath reported to the King that my L. Bishop of Dumblane being returned thither spake to your Highnesse and to others many things to the great preiudice of his Highnesse And it is beléeued also that he is the cause of the suspitiō which is conceiued of the comming of the said Iohn Chesholm newly to the said Bishop How euer it be the other reports aforesaid which he hath made haue not serued to conciliat but to alienate the affection of the King of the Chanceller and many others Heretickes from the said Siegneur don Bernardino the sayd Bishop and Catholikes here that haue had to do with them As for me albeit I speake not willingly to the disaduantage of any whatsoeuer chiefly of them whom I haue recommended as I did the sayd Thomas Tyrie to the said Don Bernardino yet I will preferre the loue of the truth to men and would not in concealing thereof bring preiudice to the publike weale nor to the fidelitie y t the one oweth to the other and specially to that we owe all to the King of Spaine and your highnesse to whō I am presently seruant particularly addicted by the Obligation of fiue hundreth crownes of fée and fortie for monethly entertainment which it hath pleased your highnesse to giue me fréely in name of the King of Spain not being required for my part nor other thing for my particular to this present by reason whereof I am the more bound to giue your highnesse most humble thanks to endeuour my selfe to deserue by my most humble and faithfull seruices as well the said entertainment as the recompense it hath pleased your highnesse to promise me of your grace fauour The said gift of your liberalitie came well for my purpose séeing by reason of the danger of my person it behoued me to augment my ordinarie traine for my greater suretie which I was not able longer to haue borne out without helpe For from all the Lords of Scotland A haue not retained but a part only of the mony which I spent trauelling for the weale of this cause in Spain with his Catholike Maiestie and with your highnesse in the low countries As for the foure hundreth crownes imployd for the deliuerance of Colonell Sempill out of prison I haue put it in coūt with the residue which I disbursed of the first sum according as it hath pleased your Highnesse to commaund me The Earle of Mourtoun to whom I haue giuen consolation by writing in prison hath instantly praied me also by writing to remember his most affectioned seruice to your highnes Finding himself greatly honored by the care it pleased you to haue of him By the grace of God he is no more in danger of his life by way of iustice It not being possible to his enemies to proue against him any thing which they had supposed in his accusation As also the Kings affection not so far alienate from him as it hath bene heretofore And incase they would noy him or that it were presently requisit for the weale of our cause to deliuer him we haue euer meanes to get him out of prison and attend in the meane time but the Kings will toward his libertie onely to auoid all pursute that they would make if we deliuer him extraordinarily When they offered him in the Kings name his libertie if he would subscribe the Confession of the heretikes Faith he answered he would not do it for the Kings Crowne nor for a hundreth thousand liues if he had them to lose And hath offered to confound the Ministers by publike disputation I shall solicite the Lords his friends to procure of the King his libertie verie soone For he imports more the weale of our cause thē any of the rest by reason of his forces which are neare England and the principall Towne of

Scotland and the ordinary residence of our King As also he is a Lord the most resolute constant and of greatest execution of any of the Catholickes It is no small maruell considering the meanes the heretickes haue to hurt vs and their worldly wits so far passing ours and their euill will and intention against vs that we subsist Truly we cannot but attribute the effect thereof to God who then when the certaine newes of the returning of the Armie of Spaine by the backe of Ireland were dispersed through this countrie the heretikes of the faction of England triumphed and the constancie in the outward profession of the Earle of Huntlie and others was altered caused the Earle of Angus to die who was chéefe of the English faction the selfe same time grew some dissention amongst the heretikes by reason of some offices that some pretended to vsurpe aboue others at Court and by the instant prayers and holy persuasions of two fathers Iesuits conuerted to our holy faith two heretike Earles of the chiefest authoritie amongst them the one wherof is called the earle of Erroll Constable of Scotland conuerted by father Edmund Hay the other called the Earle of Craufurd conuerted by the said father William Creichtoun They are both able and wise young Lords and most desirous to aduaunce the Catholike faith and your enterprises in this Ile which they are determined to testifie to his Catholike Maiestie your highnesse by their owne letters which by the grace of God I will send by the first opportunitie In the meane time they haue required me to make you offer of their most humble and most affectioned seruice promising to follow whatsoeuer the same Iesuits and I shall thinke good to be done for the conseruation of the Catholikes and to dispose and facilitat the execution of your enterprises here which they may do more easilie then they that are knowne to be Catholicks whose actions are euer suspicious to the heretickes for their religion whereof these two Earles haue not yet made outward profession but in that as in the rest they submit themselues to our will and to that we think most expedient The said Fathers of that companie do profit verie much in Scotland and so soone as any Lord or other person of importance is conuerted by them they dispose and incline in the very meane time their affection to the seruice of the king of Spaine and your highnesse as a thing inseparable conioined with the aduancement of the true Religion in this countrie If I had commandement from your highnesse I would giue them some little almes in your name to helpe them eight others whereof foure are also Iesuits and the other foure are seminarie priests of Pontawmoussone in Lorraine which are al the Ecclesiastikes that produceth so great spirituall fruit in Scotland and acquires to you here such augmentation of your friends and seruaunts After the parting of Colonell Sempill from hence the Lords sent letters with the said father Creichtoun and other Gentlemen after the armie of Spaine to cause it land in this countrie but it had taken the way to Spaine few daies before their arriuall at the Ilands where it had refreshed it selfe so that it was not possible for them to attend on it They of this countrie that are of the faction of England were in a maruellous feare during the incertaintie of the landing of the sayd armie and confessed plainly if it had landed here they had bene vtterly ouercome The Earle Boithwell who is Admirall of Scotland and as gallant a Lord as any is in the countrie albeit he make profession of the new religion yet is he extremely desirous to assist you against England hauing waged and intertained all this summer vnder pretence to go daunt the Isles some troupes of men of warre which togither with his ordinarie forces should haue ioined with yours if they had come hither He suffers himselfe to be peaceablie guided by me notwithstanding the diuersitie of our religion and hath often times sayd that if the Catholikes would giue him suretie to possesse after the restitution of the Catholikes religion two Abbies which he hath that he would euen presently be altogether one of yours He intends to send the Colonell Halkerstoun to accompanie certaine Captaines and gentlemen to Spaine and almost foure hundred souldiors all safe from the Naufrage in our Iles. And because they are in great necessitte he is purposed to furnish them with ships vittels and other things necessarie to testifie thereby to the king of Spaine the affection he hath to do him most humble and affectionate seruice And if we thinke it good hath offered himself to go out of the countrie and to go offer himselfe to your highnesse in the low Countries and by your aduise afterward doe the like to his Catholike Maiestie in Spaine But here vpon we will aduise what is most expedient If we may alwaies be assured of him he will be as profitable for the weale of our cause as any Lord in Scotland for he hath great dependance about this towne which is the principall of Scotland as also vpon the frontiers of England He hath offered to maintain and defend me against all that would attempt any thing against me We haue chosen for euery Catholike Lord a gentleman of the wisest and faithfullest Catholikes and best beloued of their friends to serue them in counsell and to meete at all occasions to resolue vpon the most expedientest courses that may concerne the weale of our cause according to the will and intētion of their Lords who haue obliged themselues to approue and execute their resolutions and in no wise to contradict the same and by that means we hope to proceed with greater securitie and effect then we haue done heretofore Alwaies they shall know nothing of our intelligences there nor our finall intentions but according to the exigence of the affairs which shal be in hand and that superficially and without discovering our selues ouer far Your highnesse shall vnderstand by the particular letters of the Lords that which resteth to be sayd to you by these presents by reason whereof I will make an end most humbly kissing your highnesse hands and praying God to giue you all the good hope and felicitie you desire From Edinburgh the 24 of Ianuarie 1589. Your Highnesse most humble and most affectioned seruitour Robert Bruce Deposed by maister George Ker 3.5 and 6. of Febr. 1592. Deposed by maister George Ker the 3.5 6 of Febr. 1592. And deposed by Dau. Grahame of Fentrie the 13. of Feb. 1592. Deposed by maister George Ker the 3. of Febr. 1592. Deposed by maister George Ker the 3. of Febr. 1592. And by Fentrie the 14. of Feb. 1592 Deposed by Fentrie the 13 of Feb. 1592. Deposed by M. George Ker 3. of Feb. 1592. Deposed by Fentrie 13 of Feb. 1592. Deposed by Da. Grahame of Fentrie the 13 of Feb. 1592. Deposed by Fērtie

13. of February 15●● Deposed by Maister George Ker. 3. of Feb. 1592. Deposed by Fētrie 13. of February 1592. Deposed by master George Ker 3. of Febr. 1592. Deposed by master George Ker 3. of Februarie 1592. Deposed by master George Ker 3. of Febr. 1592. and by Fentrie 14. of Fe. 1592. Deposed by M. George Ker 3. of Febr. 1592. Deposed by M. George Ker. 5. of Feb. 1592. Deposed by M. George Ker the 5. and 6. of February 1592. Deposed by Fētrie 13. of Febr. 1492. Deposed by Fētrie 14 of Febr. 1592. M. George Ker. To M. William Creichtoun M. George Ker. Relation to the blankes The Spanish armie The Catholike Romans and their confederates M. Robert Abircrumby M. Iames Gordoun M. William Creichtoun The hyperbolicall and ridiculous commendation of M. George Ker. * These writings intercepted with the rest are a charter and obligation to be past by M. Alexander Home of Palywell to M. Alexander King his heires and assigns of foure teame lands in the Lordship of Spot with a missiue letter directed by him to that effect Dauid Grahame of Fentrie Enuy amongst the Papists themselues * M. Robert Abircrumby * M. William Creichtoun They are sory that the Spanish fleete past by without landing in Scotland The Spaniard should haue had great assistance in Scotland They haue informed the K. of Spaines subiects wracked here of the meanes to do good by landing in Scotland Aduise to the king of Spaine how to assault this Iland hereafter Aduise to the king of Spaine how to assault this Iland hereafter With 6000. men sent from Spaine money to leauie a power in Scotland they will in sixe weekes be far in Englad Bruce is the mouth of these Lords to the King of Spaine and Duke of Parme. Letters receiued frō the D. of Parme by Iohn Chesholme Support of 10000. crownes from the Duke of Parme. He dissembles his religion for feare and pollicie He hath established gards about the king at his own deuotion to be maister of his person when occasion shall offer The causes of the Papists are inseparable for the king of Spains seruice Letters sent by Iohn Chesholme frō the Duke of Parme to the Harle of Huntlie and receiued by him at Dunfermeling 10000 Crounes receiued from the Duke of Parma by Bruce to be imploied for the king of Spaine his seruice in Scotland The mony is to be distributed among the Catholike Nobilitie of Scotlād The Earle of Huntlie would haue a third part to himself What euer this Noble mā hath bene at this time it is not to be obiected to him now after his faith and subscription giuen to the contrarie The Earle of Huntly dissembles his Religion first for feare and pollicie after to worke his matters the better Sir Iames Chesholme brother to Iohn Chesholme a confederate The mony is in my L. Leuingstones chiefe house and at Edinburgh to serue the Catholike Noble mens turnes that are shortly to assemble More money promised by the Duke of Parme. It is ment that Spanish forces should arriue in this Iland They count our King amongst the heretickes Bruce seruant to the King of Spaine and to the D. of Parme hath one pension of 40. crownes in the moneth and 500. crownes of ferill Bruce hath negotiated in Spaine with the K. and in the low countries with the D. of Parme. Whatsoeuer this Noble man hath bene at this time it is not to be obiected to him now after his oath and subscription giuen to the contrary if he remaine constant The king of Spaine duke of Parma haue enterprises to be executed in Scotland The Iesuits and Priests do great hurt in Scotlād Hereby it is euident that the declining of papistrie draws with it defectió from our natiue kings obediēce to the seruice of the king of Spaine and D. of Parme. The Popish Lords did send by Chreichtoun to moue the Spanish fleete to land in Scotland A counsell of chosen men for euery Catholike Lord are erected by Bruce for the execution of Catholike enterprises