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PART among all Christian people. Also ye shall pray for all our parishes, where that they be, on land or on water, that God save them from all manner of perils; and for all the good men of this parish, for their wives, children, and men, that God them maintain, save and keep. Also ye shall pray for all true tithers, that God multiply their goods and encrease; for all true tillers that labour for our sustenance, that till the earth; and also for all the grains and fruits that be sown, set, or done on the earth, or shall be done, that God send such weather that they may grow, encrease, and multiply, to the help and profit of all mankind. Also ye shall pray for all true shipmen and merchants, wheresoever that they be, on land or on water, that God keep them from all perils, and bring them home in safety, with their goods, ships, and merchandises, to the help, comfort, and profit of this realm. Also ye shall pray for them that find any light in this church, or give any behests, book, bell, chalice or vestment, surplice, water-cloath, or towel, lands, rents lamp or light, or any other adornments, whereby God's service is the better served, sustained and maintained in reading and singing, and for all them that thereto have counselled, that God reward and yield it them at their most need. Also ye shall pray for all true pilgrims and palmers, that have taken their way to Rome, to Jerusalem, to St. Katherines, or St. James, or to any other place, that God of his grace give them time and space, well for to go and to come, to the profit of their lives and souls. Also ye shall pray for all them that be sick or diseased of this parish, that God send to them health, the rather for our prayers; for all the women which be in our Lady's bands, and with child, in this parish, or in any other, that God send to them fair deliverance, to their children right shape, name, and Christendom, and to the mothers, purification; and for all them that would be here, and may not, for sickness or travail, or any other lawful occupation, that they may have part of all the good deeds that shall be done here in this place, or in any other. And ye shall pray for all them that be in good life, that good them hold long therein; and for

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them that be in debt, or deadly sin, that Jesus Christ bring BOOK them out thereof, the rather for our prayers. Also ye shall pray for him or her that this day gave the holy bread, and for him that first began and longest holdeth on, that God reward it him at the day of doom; and for all them that do well, or say you good, that God yield it them at their need, and for them that otherwise would that Jesus Christ amend them; for all those, and for all Christian men and women, ye shall say a Pater Noster; Ave Maria; Deus misereatur nostri; Gloria Patri; Kyrie Eleison; Christe Eleison; Kyrie Eleison; Pater Noster; Et ne nos; Sed libera; Versus; Ostende nobis; Sacerdotes; Domine salvum fac regem; Salvum fac populum; Domine fiat pax; Domine exaudi; Dominus vobiscum; Oremus; Ecclesiæ tuæ quæsumus; Deus in cujus manu; Deus a quo sancta, &c. Furthermore, ye shall pray for all Christian souls, for archbishops and bishops souls; and in especial, for all that have been bishops of this diocess; and for all curats, parsons and vicars souls, and in especial, for them that have been curats of this church, and for the souls that have served in this church. Also ye shall pray for the souls of all Christian kings and queens, and in especial for the souls of them that have been kings of this realm of England; and for all those souls that to this church have given book, bell, chalice, or vestment, or any other thing, by the which the service of God is better done, and holy church worshipped. Ye shall also pray for your father's soul, for your mother's soul; for your godfathers souls, for your godmothers souls; for your brethren and sisters souls, and for your kindreds souls, and for your friends souls, and for all the souls we be bound to pray for; and for all the souls that be in the pains of purgatory, there abiding the mercy of Almighty God; and in especial for them that have most need and least help, that God of his endless mercy lessen and minish their pains by the means of our prayers, and bring them to his everlasting bliss in heaven. And also of the soul N. or of them that upon such a day this week we shall have the anniversary; and for all Christian souls ye shall devoutly

PART say a Pater Noster and Ave Maria; Psalmus de profunII. dis, &c. with this collect, Oremus; Absolve quæsumus Domine animas famulorum tuorum pontificum, regum, sacerdotum, parentum, parochianorum, amicorum, benefactorum nostrorum, et omnium fidelum defunctorum, ab omni vinculo delictorum; ut in resurrectionis gloria inter sanitos et electos tuos resuscitati respirent, per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.

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Number 9.

Bishop Tonstal's letter, proving the subjection of Scotland to England. An original.

PLEASE it your grace, my lord protector, and you right honourable lords of the king's majesty's council, to understand, that I have received your letter of the 4th of this month, by which ye will me to search all mine old registers, and ancient places to be sought, where any thing may be found for the more clear declaration to the world of the king's majesty's title to the realm of Scotland, and to advertise you with speed accordingly: and also to signify unto you what ancient characters and monuments for that purpose I have seen, and where the same are to be sought for. According unto which your letters, I have sought with all diligence all mine old registers, making mention of the superiorities of the kings of England to the realm of Scotland, and have found in the same of many homages made by the kings of Scots to the kings of England, as shall appear by the copies which I do send to your grace and to your lordships herewith. Ye shall also find in the said copies the gift of the barony of Coldingham, made to the church of Duresm by Edgar the king of Scots; which original gift is under seal, which I shewed once to my lord Maxwell at Duresm, in the presence of you my lord protector. I find also a confirmation of the same gift by king William Rufus in an old register, but not under seal, the copy whereof is sent herewith. The homages of kings of Scotland which I have found in the registers, I have sent in this copy. I send also

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herewith the copy of a grant made by king Richard the BOOK First unto William king of Scots and his heirs, how as oft as he is summoned to come to the parliament, he shall be received in the confines of the realm of Scotland, and conducted from shire to shire unto his coming to the parliament; and what the king doth allow him for his diet every day unto the court; and also what diet and allowance he hath, being at the parliament, both in bread and wine, wax and candle, for his time of his abode there; and of his conduct in his return home.

And where king William, king of Scots, made homage to king Henry the Second, and granted, that all the nobles of his realm should be his subjects, and make homage to him; and all the bishops of his realm should be under the archbishops of York; and the said king William delivered to the said king Henry, the castles of Roxburgh, Edinburgh, and the castle of Barwick, as is found in my register; and that the king of England should give all abbeys and honours in Scotland, or at least they should not be given without his counsel. I do find, in the confirmation of the same, out of the old registers of the priors of Duresm, homage made by the abbots, priors, and prioresses of Scotland, to king Edward the First, in French, which I do send herewith. Also I do send herewith in French, how king Edward the First was received and taken to be supream lord in Scotland, by all those that pretend title to the crown of Scotland, as next heirs to the king, that was then dead without issue, and the compromise of them all made unto the said king Edward the First to stand to his judgment, which of all them that did claim should have the crown of Scotland: the transcript of which compromise in French, was then sent by the said king Edward, under the seal of the king's exchequer in green wax, to the prior of Duresm, to be registred for a perpetual memory, that the supremity of Scotland belonged to the kings of England, which yet the chapiters of Duresm have to shew, which thing he commandeth them to put in their Chronicles.

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PART will me to advertise you what I have seen in the premisses; so it is, that I was commanded by mine old master, of famous memory, king Henry the 8th, to make search among the records of his treasury, in the receipt for solemnities to be done at his coronation in most solemn manner; according to which commandment, I made search in the said treasury, where I fortuned to find many writings for the supremacy of the king to the realm of Scotland; and among others also, a writing with very many seals of arms of Scots, confessing the right of the supremacy to the king of England; which writings I doubt not may be found there.

I have also sent a copy of a book my self have of homages made to the kings of England by the kings of Scotland, which the chancellor of England in king Henry the Seventh's days had gathered out of the king's records, which I doubt not, but out of the king's records and ancient books, the same may be found again by my lord chancellor and the judges.

Furthermore your grace, and you the right honourable lords of the council, shall understand, that in making much search for the premisses, at the last we found, out of the registers of the chapters of Duresm, when it was a priory, the copy of a writing, by which king Edward the Second doth renounce such superiority as he had in the realm of Scotland, for him and his heirs, to Robert king of Scots then being, as will appear by a copy of the same, which I do send you herewith, making mention, in the end of the said writings, of a commission that he gave to Henry the lord Percy, and to William the lord Souch, under his letters patents, to give his oath upon the same. And after the said writing, we found also in the said book, a renunciation of the said king Edward, of a process that he had commenced before the bishop of Rome, against Robert king of Scots and his subjects, for breaking their oath to him, as will appear by the copy thereof, which I do send also herewith. And touching the said renunciation of king Edward the Second, to the superiority of the realm of Scotland, I have often heard it spoken of by Scots, but I did never see