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1. Answer to Articles offered by the Commendator of Dunfermline. |
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[158–.] |
“To be considered of upon a treaty to be made betwixt the Queen's Majesty and the King of Scots.” |
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To the first, second, and third : considering it is notorious that the Queen's Majesty and the King of Scots have for themselves, their realms and subjects, delivered their crowns of the unjust and violent challenge, which the Bishop of Rome, naming himself Pope, hath heretofore made, to have a superior jurisdiction over the said kingdoms, and the persons of the said Queen of England and King of Scotland, and over their subjects of all degrees, contrary to their wills and assents, and without any warrant of the laws of God or man, and therefore it is a reasonable motion that they two should for themselves, their kingdoms and countries, foresee by mutual consent and aiding the one to the other, to withstand all forays and attempts that shall be devised and offered by the said Bishop of Rome, or by any for him and by his incitation, against the said Queen or King, or pretence to recover the unjust superiority which he claimeth over the said kingdoms, and to make a charge and alteration of the form, order, and institution of Christian religion according to God's word lawfully established by the said Queen and King in their realms, with the universal consent of the three estates of both their realms. |
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To the fourth : it is reasonable that aid be given from one of the realms to the other, and the offer of service to be done with the forces of Scotland upon the Borders, at the charges of Scotland, and of other forces to serve within the realm of England, at the charges of England, seemeth reasonable. It is reasonable, also, that whensoever any foreign
forces shall be notoriously prepared to invade any part of the Kingdoms of England, Ireland, or Scotland, and any of the two Princes perceived needful to have the aid of the other to withstand and repulse the same, then, upon warning given by the one to the other, and request made for some aid by sea or land, either of them shall yield to the other such reasonable aid, &c. |
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To the fifth : it is reasonable that neither Prince shall make any contract or league with any Prince, without comprehending of the other. |
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Considering that the Queen hath with her great charges of treasure, hazard of her subjects' lives and spending of their blood, and other continual charges yet enduring, procured to the King of Scots the delivery of his Kingdom from subjection, nothing should be by him determined, without making her Majesty privy thereto, before dealing with any foreign Prince, either for his marriage, or for his departure out of Scotland, &c. |
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Burghley's holograph. |
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4 pp.
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