Given under our Signet, and subscrivit be our said Cousing and Regent: At Dalkeith, the ix day of November, and of our regnne the Tent zeir 1576.” The Copie of the REGENTIS GRACE LETTER send to MR. WILLIAME MUDY and WILLIAME HENDERSON to the effect within contenit— “TRAIST FREINDIS. “For the furthering of Justice, and halding in of the trauaill and expensses of the subjectis of that cuntrie, quhilkis ar requirit to be examinat vpoun the declaratioun of the attemptatis and disorderis committit thair, We have grantit and maid commissioun to zow, to inquire and try the treuth of the Complaintis of the inhabitantis maid to Ws, quhilk commissioun tending to sa guide and necessar a purpoiss, We desyre you to accept in and upon you, and according thairto, with all diligence pas to the executioun thairof, efter the forme and tennor of the saime, alsweill tuiching the tryall of the attemptatis and disordaris, as reporting of that quhilk ye sall try and find out to Ws, that we may caus ordour may be put to the same, to the ease and satisfactioun of the . . . and quietnes of that cuntrie. Als ze . . . and us verray acceptabill . . . the ix day of” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (_The last two lines of this page are much worn, and the latter words illegible._) THE COMMISSION BY KING JAMES THE SIXTH TO THE CHANCELLOR AND OTHERS, TO TRY LORD ROBERT STUART FOR OPPRESSION. M.D.LXXXVII. THE COMMISSION BY KING JAMES THE SIXTH TO THE CHANCELLOR AND OTHERS, TO TRY LORD ROBERT STUART FOR OPPRESSION. 1587. The first Commissione derect to the Chanseler, the Justeis Clark, and Sir Patrick Ballentyne.