toun, according to the Catalogue infert in the Presbiterie book, excepting onlie fuch books as are marked, viz. :

[The names of the Books are not specified; but the mark affixed to four Books in the above Catalogue, indicates those which had not been found.]

Of which he could give no other accompt, but that by no deed of his own they were inferted.

Lykwayes, he added of his own, to the Librarie, the Books following, viz. :

Comment. Suarez in 3. partem Thom. 5 vol. fol.
Idem contra Sectæ Anglicanæ Errores, in fol.

Ejufdem Opufcula de Div. Gra. pars prior et poft..

Ejufdem Metaphyfica.
Calvin. in Pentateuch.

Idem in Job.

Idem in Pfalm.

Idem in Daniel.

Idem in Minores Prophet.

[Idem] in Evangel., fex vol. fol.

Haddington, 23 December.

Mr Patrik Cook reported, that he had preached at Saltoun, and declared that Church vacant.

1674, July 30.- [In the Report of the Visitation of Saltoun Church by the Presbytery, it is mentioned, "That there are of utenfils belonging to the Church, viz.: -Two filver Cupps, gifted to the Church by Mr Gilbert Burnet at his dimiffion, a table cloth, a basin for the Communion, and ane other for Baptifme, and two Towels, and a Church Bible."]

LETTERS

OF PATRICK EARL OF BOTH WELL,

AND ARTICLES WHICH HE UNDERTOOK

ΤΟ ΜΑΙΝTAIN AT THE APPOINTMENT OF THE

KING OF FRANCE.

M.D.XLVIII.—M.D.XLIX.

THE following Letters of PATRICK EARL OF BOTHWELL are printed from the originals in H. M. State Paper Office; and in connexion with his "Fealty" to Edward the Sixth, in 1549, there is added, from Rymer's Foedera, the Instrument by which the King settled on the Earl an annuity of 3000 crowns, with an assurance of indemnity for his estates, which lay on the Borders.

In the prefatory notice to the Hepburn Charters, printed in this volume, it was remarked, at page 279, that the chief cause of the divorce of Patrick Earl of Bothwell from his wife Agnes Sinclair, was no doubt to facilitate his ambitious projects. Considering the degree of propinquity, as no other ground of divorce has been alleged, it is singular that a dispensation had not been obtained before their marriage; but even this may have been set aside by some technical informality. The following table explains their relation to each other:

It may be added, that James Earl of Bothwell, at the Craigmillar conference, in December 1566, on the subject of the proposed divorce of Queen Mary and Darnley, said, that his father and mother had been divorced, yet his titles, and offices, and estates, had descended lawfully to him.1

Sir Ralph Sadler speaks of Earl Patrick as devoted to the French interest; and in a letter, dated 5th of May 1543, he says, "As to the Earl of Bothwell, who, as ye know, hath the rule of Liddersdale, I think him the most vain and infolent man in the world; full of pride and folly, and here, I affure you, nothing at all esteemed." On the 24th of that month, Sir William Parr, in a letter to the English Council, says, "that one called the Master of Hales, being chief officer or deputie to the Erle Bothewell in Ledisdale, dothe not onlie anymate the faid Ledisdales to entreprise and attempte difpleasures to Englande, promytting unto theym aide and assistance of fyve hundreth men if nede bee, but also diffuadethe theym from any bande favour or amytie to be takene with Englande; whiche, as me thinkethe, doth moche declare the faid Erles affections to be correfpondente to the fame."2

After the Castle of St Andrews had surrendered, in July 1547, a register was discovered, from which it appeared that a number of Scottish noblemen and gentlemen had secretly bound themselves to the service of England. In this number was Bothwell, who had agreed to surrender his Castle of Hermitage, and renounce all allegiance to the Governor, for which service he was to receive in marriage the Duchess of Suffolk, aunt to Edward the Sixth. The following Articles, dated on the 1st of April 1549, render indisputable the intention on his part of aspiring to an alliance with the Queen Dowager. His assertion of clearing himself " of all promifes alleged made by him to England," is not so easily reconciled with his conduct in 1547, or his "Covenants" with Edward the Sixth, a few months later in date. The original paper of the Articles was recently discovered in the General Register House, along with several interesting documents connected with Mary Queen of Scots. There is reason to expect that these papers will appear in a separate volume, as a contribution to the Bannatyne Club. I avail myself of this opportunity to supply some additional documents con