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... English Harry , or the Queen his daughter , had a mind to the removal of a troublesome person , they handled the matter with some decency through the medium of an ambas- sador or envoy , though they paid not somely as 2 THE X JEWEL .
... English Harry , or the Queen his daughter , had a mind to the removal of a troublesome person , they handled the matter with some decency through the medium of an ambas- sador or envoy , though they paid not somely as 2 THE X JEWEL .
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... English ambassador alive in the Grassmarket , and sent his skin to his mistress . This and much more might they have done at that time with impunity ; for if the Queen of England feared nothing else , she did fear a war with the Scots ...
... English ambassador alive in the Grassmarket , and sent his skin to his mistress . This and much more might they have done at that time with impunity ; for if the Queen of England feared nothing else , she did fear a war with the Scots ...
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... English were chary of passing anybody into Scotland . There were in London , Newcastle , and Berwick , banished Lords , and banished Ministers , and many other banished Scots who were neither Ministers nor Lords . And the Amity between ...
... English were chary of passing anybody into Scotland . There were in London , Newcastle , and Berwick , banished Lords , and banished Ministers , and many other banished Scots who were neither Ministers nor Lords . And the Amity between ...
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... English posts , and to furnish me so effectually with what I required that early next morning , accompanied by David Carryg and another named John Sloan , I rode past the tennis - court to the north of Holyroodhouse , and into Edinburgh ...
... English posts , and to furnish me so effectually with what I required that early next morning , accompanied by David Carryg and another named John Sloan , I rode past the tennis - court to the north of Holyroodhouse , and into Edinburgh ...
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... English throne . She has kept these rebels in Newcastle and Berwick , at the King's nose , these twelve months past . " " You have heavy metal against you , my lord . You have put the Kirk against you ; and though I am neither for Paul ...
... English throne . She has kept these rebels in Newcastle and Berwick , at the King's nose , these twelve months past . " " You have heavy metal against you , my lord . You have put the Kirk against you ; and though I am neither for Paul ...
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