[229] State Papers, v. p. 174.
[230] State Papers, v. p. 170.
[231] State Papers, v. p. 170.
[232] Spotswood, p. 70. Petrie, p. 180.
[233] State Papers, v. p. 177.
[234] ‘Rex provisus jam hæredibus de sua salute securior.’—Buchanan, p. 510.
[235] State Papers, v. p. 178.
[236] Knox, Ref., p. 82. It is difficult to say what this word jefwellis exactly means. Another manuscript has josrellis; another jeffels; and a fourth, Jesuits. The last reading is improbable. The Jesuits had only been confirmed by the pope the year before, and their name had not yet become a term of reproach.
[237] The State Papers, v. p. 125, contain a letter from him to Lord Cromwell, on a political subject, and suggesting that Henry VIII. should give his nephew a young lion, in token of his friendship. ‘He saw one zoung lyoun in Flandris.’ The King of Scotland wished for it, and Scott thought that his wish should be gratified.
[238] Knox, Ref. in Scotland, p. 69. Spotswood, p. 71.