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lite ratione maxime literarum Cæsarearum variis in locis insumptum est, id totam in ruinam Monasterii S. Jacobi Scotorum Ratisbonæ iam utcumque reflorescentis vertetur. Undeque et fieret ut patentes illæ literæ, sæpius dicta a Sacra Majestate ad petitionem Sanctissimi Domini nostri, ad supplicationemque Serenissimæ Reginæ afflictissimorumque Catholicorum Scoticæ nationis, ad Principes aliosque Status Imperii datæ, non in commodum aliquod Scoticæ nationi sed multo meliora, omni adverso quod forte ostendi poterit ac potissimum præscriptionis jure neglecto, ab afflictis propter Christum exulibus sperantur ex consueta optimi Cæsaris clementia, quem felicitate plurima florentem servet nobis Omnipotens. -Brockie MS., p. 5648, et seq., Blairs.

APPENDIX S.

LETTER OF PROFESSOR TURNER TO ABBOT NINIAN.

Robertus Tornerus Niniano Vinzeto Abbati Ad Sancti Facobi
S.P.D. Ratisponam, LXXII.

O bellas literas! expectabam aureas tantum, recepi et argenteas, quod pecuniam; et aureas, quod ab aureo beneque defœcato animo: et gemmulis distinctas, quod spirant vel amorem in Turnerum, vel charitatem in suum. Quid? quod ab Abbate? quid? quod ad misellum? quid? quod iubeant sperare? quid? quod inuitent, quid? quod excitent? quid, quod amem? quid, quod gratulentur? O bellas literas ! tua charitas, Reuerendiss. D., id exhausit riuulum meæ dictionis, vt cum nihil ex eo iam possit fluere vberius, cogatur tamen fons inclusus in mente sæpé sæpiusque fundere illas voces tanquam guttulas rariores. O bellas literas! Nam fons sic natus est, vt si vel objectis aggeribus, vel exclusa via non possit in riuulis scaturire largius, quærat latebras, faciat anfractus, exscindat sinus, vi fluat guttatim; quare si tua vel facultas, vel charitas tanquam obiecti aggeres, excludant meorum riuulorum apertum flumen; amabit tamen tua pietas mei fontis expressas guttulas, atque sic amabit, vt, si riuuli intersepiantur, ne fluant; facilè existimet meum fontem non posse impediri, ne erumpat, quare agerem gratias de istis florenis, de amore, de charitate, de perpetua tua in me beneuolentia, nisi mallem te potius inspicere mei animi, tanquam fontis, limpidam guttulam quàm gustare meorum riuulorum aquam turbidam, sed turbidam tamen tuæ facultatis magnitudine, non suæ originis natura: tuus ergo sum. Numquid aliud? tuis meritis tuus sum; etiamnum expectas? sincere tuus sum; minutula sunt ista? minutula sunt si spectetur tua fortuna collocata in summo honoris gradu. Vale.-Turner, 'Epistolæ,' p. 221, Col. 1615.

Lertane tractatis foz

Reformatioun of Doctryne and maneris, fet furth at the defyze, &d in ye name of § afflictit Catholikis, of inferiour ozdour of Cler= gie, and lapit men in Scotland, be Niniane inzet, ane Catholike Preist borne in Renfrewv.

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CERTANE TRACTATIS

FOR

REFORMATIOUN OF DOCTRYNE AND MANERIS

SET FURTH AT THE DESYRE AND IN THE NAME OF

THE AFFLICTIT CATHOLIKIS, OF INFERIOUR

ORDOUR OF CLERGIE, AND LAYIT

MEN IN SCOTLAND

BE

NINIANE WINZET

ANE CATHOLIKE PREIST BORNE IN RENFREVV

QUHILKIS BE NAME This Leif TuRNIT SALL SCHAW

Murus aheneus, sana conscientia

EDINBURGI

21 MAIJ 1562

A

THE FIRST.

NE Exhortatioun to the maist excellent and gracius

Souerane, Marie Quene of Scottis, etc. To the Bischoipes, and vtheris Pastores, and to al thaim of the Nobilitie within this hir Graces Realme: For vnfenzeit reformation of doctrine and maneris, and for obtening 5 of licence, to propone in wryt to the Precheours of the Protestantis, certane artyculis tweching doctrine, ordour, and maneris approuin be thame.

THE SECVND.

HRE Questionis, tweching the lauchful vocatioun

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of Iohne Knox and his brether Precheours to IO the Protestantis in Scotlande: quhilkis1 ar in noumbre the xxxiii. xxxiiii. and xxxv. of The Four Score Thre Questionis proponit to thaim be the saidis Catholickis, togidder with thre wryttingis deliuerit to the said Iohne : quhairin is replyit aganis his ansueris maid to ane part 15 of the said thre questionis.

A

THE THRID.

NE Declamatioun to the honourable Prouest, Baillies, and Counsell of Edinburgh, for the obseruatioun of the glaid solemniteis off the blyssit Natiuitie, Circumcisioun, Epiphanie, Resurrectioun, and 20 Ascensioun of our Saluiour,2 with the feist of Witsonday, haistelie maid one Pasche twisday, Anno 1562, quhen thair apperit ane daingerous seditioun in Edinburgh, throw calking of the durris on euery syde: as efter sall follow.

1 Original edition, quhilks.

2 O.E. Saluioour.

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