Your assured constant Friend,
Charles R.
York, 3 Apr. 1639.
1639.—April 5.
11. Letter from the King to Hamilton.[172]
Hamilton,
This is to tell you, that the News of the rendring of Aberdeen came immediately after the dispatch of the last Post, and that though Huntley be retired, yet he is neither beaten nor over-run: but the chief cause of my writing at this time is, that since I have shown the Proclamation to Orbiston and Sir Lewis Stewart, they have both been very instant with me to change something in it: which (though my Judgment goes with them in the most, and therefore I will not be wilful; yet) I think I shall alter, or (but rather) palliate one point, to wit, not to set Prices upon the declared Rebels Heads, until they have stood out some little time; which time is to be expressed in this same Declaration. Another thing is, whither and when to send you Devick; and lastly, whether I shall see you before you put to Sea, which I should be glad of, if it should not retard the Service: and so I rest
Your assured constant Friend,
Charles R.
York, 5 Apr. 1639.