(THE PAGES AND LINES AT THE LEFT-HAND SIDE REFER TO THE PRESENT
EDITION.)
Page 9, line 18. _that they destroyed not_--to stop them
from destroying.--22. _all credibility_--almost credit.--28.
_they slew_--was slain.
10, l. 9. _but a cowart_--a very coward.--13. _the
said_--and.
11, l. 10. _schybaldis_--scybalds and rascals.--13.
_glansing ... feirceness, stamered almost_--glasing ... fear
stumbled.--20. _scatring ... creatures_--straying and
wandering ... people.
13, l. 1. _xxiij. day_--the thirteenth.--3.
_sea-cost_--coast.--11. _seased_--seized upon.--15.
_foir-ryderis_--forwarners.--17. _the ryveing of a
baird_--pulling of bairds for anger.
14, l. 8. _Verry tyme reteiring_--time returning.--10.
_fouchtein_--foughton with.
15, l. 30. _of Ingland_--of State in England.
16, l. 7. _occupyed_--taken up.--10. _as it_--as the favour
it.--12. _these my presentis_--my present letter.--13.
_breve_--few.
17, l. 9. _and_ p. 21, l. 28. _defectioun_--desertion.
19, l. 9. _cruellie_--rudelie.--19. _guid_--cleare.
20, l. 14. _against_--against, or answered.
21, (_Marginal note wanting._)--9.
_dejectioun_--defection.--10. _thair faces_--faire
faces.--21. _ather yet of any continuance to remaine in
England_--or yet to remain any long time in England.--23.
_furthe to my awin_--thorow to my.
22, l. 12. _theirefter_, (_omitted._)--18. _Yff England_,
(_in margin_,) As England had interest then not to suffer
Scotland to perish, so likewise Scotland hath interest now
[1644,] not to see England undone.
25, l. 17. _naturall_--wise.--32. _humill_--most humble.
26, l. 6. _in tennour as efter followis_--The tenour whereof
follows thus.--11. _in_ a few and simple words of _my_.--15.
_writter_--writers thereof.
27, l. 1. _Chryst Jesus_--for Christ.--2, 3. _of the same
to_, (_omitted._)--7. _nott_--not should.--20. _Quenis
Grace_--Queen's favour.--21. _not_, (_omitted._)--23. _The_
common things here.
28, l. 17. _retract_--recant.--19. _that either your Grace,
either yitt ony_--that your Majesty, or any.--29.
_thristit_--wished.
29, l. 3. _that_--that book.--14. _crouche_--crouche and
bows.--23. _factioun_--fact.--27. _woman_--women to command
and bear rule over men.--30. _before men_, (_omitted._)
30, l. 4. _be long, prosperouse_--be both prosperous.--14.
_hasard_--travall.--21. idollatrie--_idolatry_, going to
Masse under your sister Mary, her persecution of God's
saints.--33. _contrair to nature_--contrary to the ordinary
course of nature.
31, l. 5, 6. _gif the premisses ... neglected, ye sall_--if
you neglect ... these things, and shall.--19. _discretioun
of spreittis_--direction of his spirit.
33, l. 8. _Lords_--Lords of the Congregation.