Selections from Unpublished Manuscripts in the College of Arms and the British Museum Illustrating the Reign of Mary Queen of Scotland, M.DXLIII.--M.DLXVIII. |
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Page vi - LL.B. GEORGE HOUSTOUN, ESQ. YOUNGER OF JOHNSTONE. JAMES IVORY, ESQ. ADVOCATE. JOHN KERR, ESQ. GLASGOW. 35 ROBERT ALEXANDER KIDSTON, ESQ. GLASGOW. GEORGE RITCHIE KINLOCH, ESQ. ADVOCATE. JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART, ESQ. LL.D. LONDON. ALEXANDER MACDONALD, ESQ. EDINBURGH. WILLIAM MACDOWALL, ESQ. OF GARTHLAND. [VICE PRESIDENT.] 40 THE VERY REV. DUNCAN MACFARLAN, DD PRINCIPAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW. ANDREW MACGEORGE, ESQ. GLASGOW. ALEXANDER MACGRIGOR, ESQ. OF KERNOCK. DONALD MACINTYRE, ESQ. GLASGOW. JOHN...
Page 106 - SCOTLAND. 115 me : the one is never to goe for any respecte from that that he hathe promised to be, a professor of Christ's worde, and setter forthe...
Page xi - To this he has added some musters of the King's army on various occasions. Besides the foregoing, there are three volumes of Collections for the County of Essex, now in the library of the College of Arms, to which they were presented in 1710 by Gregory King, then Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms, and who appears, by a note in one of the volumes, to have become the possessor of them in 1685. These now form, as we have said, three volumes, but Symonds speaks of them in the Harl. MS. 963, as " my two...
Page 77 - ... the ordnance in Edinburgh castle upon band of the Lord Erskine, to have the same safely delivered to them again, and the said 6th of November about midnight removed to Lithgow, where they remained in consultation and preparing for the wars, and will set up a coin, saying they shall coyne a good part of their plate for maintenance of the word of God, and the wealth of Scotland. " The morrow next after, being the 7th of November, the queen removed to Edinburgh about ten of the clock before noon,...
Page 120 - ... That afternone she and my Lord Darlye walked up and downe the towne dysguysed untyll suppertyme, and retorned thyther agayne, but laye that nighte in the Abbaye ; thys manner of passinge to and fro gave agayne occasion to maynie men to muse what might be her meaninge. The nexte daye in lyke sorte she comethe after dyner upon her feete from the Abbaye, the Lord Darlye ledinge her by the one arme and Fowler by thother. In that troupe ther were the Ladie Ersken and old Ladie Seton, the Erle of Lenox...
Page vii - ... OF PORTERFIELD. HAMILTON PYPER, ESQ. ADVOCATE. PHILIP ANSTRUTHER RAMSAY, ESQ. EDINBURGH. 60 JOHN RICHARDSON, ESQ. LL.B. LONDON. WILLIAM ROBERTSON, ESQ. GLASGOW. ANDREW RUTHERFURD, ESQ. ADVOCATE. JAMES SMITH, ESQ. OF JORDANHILL. JOHN SMITH, ESQ. OF SWINRIDGEMUIR. 65 JOHN SMITH, YGST., ESQ. GLASGOW, [SECRETARY.] WILLIAM SMITH, ESQ. OF CARBETH GUTHRIE. MOSES STEVEN, ESQ. OF POLMADIE, ADVOCATE. DUNCAN STEWART, ESQ. EDINBURGH. SIR MICHAEL SHAW STEWART, BART. MP • 70 JOHN SHAW STEWART, ESQ. ADVOCATE....
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Page 103 - ... in the syght of as maynie as wer in the chamber, onlye one letter from his master, and moe than that he had not unto her. It contained three whole sheetes of paper. I was present at the deliverie, and sawe her Grace reade it greatlye, as it appeared, to her contentment. He reporteth the whole state of thinges in France, as well of the Prince and his power as the Guisians, with all the supportes, I thynke, as trewlye as he coulde.
Page 153 - ... doth travaile to bring it to pafs. There is a band lately devifed, in which the late pope, the emperor, the king of Spain, the duke of Savoy, with divers princes of Italy, and the queen mother...
Page 35 - Grace to signifie your pleasure, howe and where you mynd t'employe the service of th'Almaynes, which as yt is thought might be well placed in the West bordres, wheras they may be doing both to annoye th'enemye and also well victuelled for this wynter tyme. As knoweth the living God, who ever prousper your Grace in honor and felicitie long t'endure. From the campe at the Pethes, the 12* of October, 1548.