Registrum Honoris de Morton: Original papers

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T. Constable, 1853 - Family archives
 

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Page ix - We do not know them in the fountain, but in the stream; not in. the root, but in the stem; for we know not who was the first mean man that did by his virtue raise himself above the vulgar.
Page 79 - JAMES, be the Grace of God King of Scottis, to all and sindry quhom it efferis.
Page xxxii - Dei gratia rex Scottorum omnibus probis hominibus tocius terre fue clericis et laicis falutem...
Page 23 - Or yit to lend advertifmentis or direft hir intelligence with ony levand perfonis / except in ther awin prefence and audience Or be the commandiment and direftioun of the Lordis underfubfcrivand or ane part of thame reprefenting the counfall at Edinburgh or utherwife quhair thai fall refort for the tyme As thai will anfuer to God and upon thair dewitie to the commoun weill of this cuntrie Kepand thir prefentis for thair warrand / Attour the faidis Lordis and utheris underfubfcrivand / obliffis thame...
Page xlii - ... in futurum Et adeo libere quiete plenarie integre honorifice bene et in pace in omnibus et per omnia sicut...
Page xxvi - Mit-ccl. of Maitland Club, vol. ip 250. written after the visitation under which he suffered in October 1570, and from which he only partially recovered. He was not in the habit of refusing his active aid in such matters as this letter refers to ; but now he declines to interfere ' in that and all other cases worldly, for I have tacken my gude nycht of it.
Page xii - Douglases with that diocese, to which they had already given a bishop, and perhaps also with that great family of the north, the De Moravias, with whom they had arms in common, and of whom old Wyntoun says, — Of Murrawe and the Dowglas, How that thare begynnyng was, Syn syndry men spekis syndryly I can put that in na story.
Page xcii - ... order and manner of the burial of Mary, queen of Scotts. (4) The chardges of diet for the Scottishe queen's funeralls at Peterborowe, Mondaye supper the laste of Julie, and Tuisdaie dinner the firste of Auguste. (5) A justification of Queen Elizabeth in relation to the affair of Mary, queen of Scots. Act for sequestrating the quenis maiesties person and detening the same in the hous and place of Lochlevin. xvi Jun. MDLXVII. (Maitland Club. Miscellany. Edinburgh, 1834. 4°. v. 1, p. 247-252.)...
Page iii - GEORGE BRODIE, ESQ. CHARLES DASHWOOD BRUCE, ESQ. O. TYNDALL BRUCE, ESQ. THE DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH AND QUEENSBERRY.
Page xii - The sternis set in lyk manere ; Til mony men it is yhit sene Apperand lyk that thai had bene Of kyn be descens lyneale, Or be branchys collaterele.