lamentable sute for peace, as people browght to extreme distresse and not wottyng how to lyue. ‘Thus haue I here vttred my pore and symple mynde ryght hartylly thanckyng yow all of yo_ur_ benygne Supportacion and how that yow haue Wytsaufe to here so pacientlie my ignorance most humbly beseching the tender benygnyte of my most dere and most redowtyd souuerayn whiche w_i_t_h_drawyth hys m_er_cifull yee from Wylfull offenders yf they humbly make sute vnto his grace for pardon, that he wyll of his haboundaunt goodnes wytsaufe to take me as I meane whiche am as desyrous that all his most noble entrepases should prosperously go forward as any symple creature that eu_er_ was borne vnder his obeisaunce thinckyng after my Ignorant Jugement that yf yt wold please his magnanime Courage to conuert Fyrst and chief his hole intent and purpose not only to the ouer ro_n_nyng and subduyng of Skotland but also to Joyne the same Realme vnto his, Soo that both they and we myght lyue vnder oone Bessaunce Law and Pollecy for eu_er_. He shold therby wyn the highest honour that eu_er_ dyd any noble p_ro_genito_ur_s synse thys Iland was fyrst Inhabyt to Joyne vnto his noble Realme so populus a Cuntray wherby his strength shold be of no small parte e_n_cresid and of this acte should follow the highest abasshement to the saide Francoys that eu_er_ happened to hym or any his p_ro_geneto_ur_s afore hym not oonly for that he Left the saide Skott_e_s his auncie_n_t allies and which haue for hys and their Sak_es_ p_ro_uokyd o_ur_ nacion so notably heretofore at thys tyme vndefended by reason of o_ur_ souerayns naiuye whiche he dare not encounter w_i_t_h_ nor neu_er_ dare send theim soco_ur_ so long as he shall know the narrow sees substansially to be kept, but also for somoche as he shall vnderstand that we haue chaunged o_ur_ ma_n_n_er_ of warre, whiche were wont nought else to doo but to skore the nacions abowt, but whan he shall p_er_sayue that by the hygh and pollytyk wysdome o_ur_ saide most redowtid Souerayne they be Joyned vnto vs in oone politik boddye what fere shall we then stand in to Lose his possessions w_i_t_h_out any hope of Recou_er_e agayne, and thowgh hit be a co_m_men sayng that yn Skotland ys nought to wyn but strokes, for that I alledge another co_m_men sayng, who that entendyth Fraunce to wyn w_i_t_h_ Skotland let hym begyn, Whiche enterpret thus truely hyt ys But a Symplenesse for vs to thyncke to kepe possessions in Fraunce, ‹which› ys seuowryd from vs by the ocean see, and suffre Skotland Joyne‹d› vnto vs by nature all in oon Iland, vnto which we may haue Reco_ur_se at all tymes whan we woll, whiche also to subdue, god beyng indiffere_n_t lyeth eu_er_ in o_ur_ hand to lyue vnder a nother pollecy and to Recognyse another Prynce send god that o_ur_ most Redowty Souuerayne ‹may conquer Scotland› whiche whan we haue ones Joyned vnto o_ur_ polecy as a memb_re_ by nature dyscendyng apon the hole, than shall we therby have