Autograph letters of Charles I and Charles II, with transcripts., [1643], 1663.
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An autograph letter of Charles I to William, 8th Earl of Glencairn, [1643], assuring him ‘upon the word of a Prince that I shall neuer retract any thing I have graunted either in religion or liberty to my subiects in Scotland’, with transcript. (Folio 74.)
An autograph letter of Charles II to ‘My Lord Chancelour of Scotland’ (William, 8th Earl of Glencairn), 1663. The bearer, ‘my Lord St. Andrews’, will acquaint him with the reasons and motives for the alteration in the management in Scotland. ‘The Crowne can have no other pure foundation but vpon the Churches being well settled’. With transcript, endorsed by Sir Walter Scott. (Folio 77.).
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- Creation: [1643], 1663.
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