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Correspondence of King James Vi of Scotland With Sir Robert Cecil and Others in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; With an Appendix
Correspondence of King James Vi of Scotland With Sir Robert Cecil and Others in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth With an Appendix Author:John Bruce General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1861 Original Publisher: s.n. Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select fro... more »m more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CORRESPONDENCE KING JAMES VI. OF SCOTLAND, RESPECTING HIS SUCCESSION TO THE THRONE OF ENGLAND. PART I. CORRESPONDENCE WITH SIR ROBERT CECIL. No. I. 30 [KING JAMES] to 10 [SECRETARY CECIL.] [hatfield Mss. Vol. cxxxv. Fol. 54. Orio. Autograph.] I arne most hairtelie glaid that 10 [Sec. Cecil] hath nou at last maid choice of tuo so fitt and confident ministeris quhom with he hath bene so honorablie plaine in the affaires of 30 [K. James], assuring 10 [Sec. Cecil] that 30 [K. James] puttis more confidence in thaime, according to the large and long proofe that he hath had of thaime, then in any other that followis him, lykc as 10 [Sec. Cecil] is most beholden unto thaime for the honorable reporte that thay haue maid of him to 30 [K. James], quhomto thay hauc, upon the perrel of thaire credit, geuin full assurance of the sinceritie of 10 [Sec. Cecil]; and because 30 [K. James] can not haue the occasion to speake face to face with 10 [K. James], that, out of his owin mouthe, he may giue him full assurance of his thankefull acceptance of his plaine and honorable dealing, he thairfore prayes 10 [Sec. Cecil], to accepte of his long aproued and trustie 3 [Lord HenryHoward], both as a suretic of his thankefulnes and his constant loue to him in all tymes hearafter, as also to be a pure and secreutc inter- prctoure betwixt 30 [K. James] and 10 [Sec. Cecil], in the opening up of euerie one of thaire myndis to another ; quhom 10 [Sec. Cecil] hath the bettir cause to lyke of and truste, since, long before this tyme, 3 [Lord Henry Howard] dealt uerrie earnistlie with 30 [K. James] to...« less