Your Graces most humble and
bounden Servants,
John Rossen.
Wal. Brechinen.
Postscript.—What goes from my Lord of St Andrews directed to me, I beseech your Grace to open and read for your own use.
Hamilton, Nov. 20. 1638.
1638.—November 21.
89. Letter from the King to Hamilton.[114]
Hamilton,
This is rather to give the reason of My Answer than the Answer it self, (you being to receive it at large by My Lord of Canterbury.) The truth is, that the same reason which made me blot out the whole Sentence before, hath made me desire to alter a word now; to wit, that I should not be thought to desire the abolishing of that in Scotland, which I approve and maintain in England, namely, the Five Articles of Perth: now the word content expresses enough my consent to have them surcease for the present; but the word pleased, methinks, imports as much as if I desired them to take them away, or, at least, were well pleased that they should doe so. But I leave it to your ordering, so that you make it be clearly understood, that though I permit, yet I would be better pleased if they would let them alone; and so I rest,
Your assured constant Friend,
Charles R.
Whitehall, 21ᵗʰ of
Novemb. 1638.