SCOTTISH POLICY

mind, will or consent; His Majesty therefore not only desireth
his said good nephew to cause his said subjects to be retired, and
in such wise to be governed from henceforth as they do nothing
that shall sound to the breach of the said league, but also specially
trusteth that his said good brother and nephew will rather study
for the conservation and continuance of the love and amity,
which is already so firmly knit betwixt them as the same for ever
seemeth indissoluble, than in any wise suffer anything to be done
or attempted whereby the said league and treaty, or any the pacts
therein contained, might be dissolved, blemished, or interrupted
in any manner of wise, likewise and in semblable manner as His
Majesty doth and daily will do.

And farther, forasmuch as the King's Highness, minding by
some noble means to declare his integrity of heart and entire
zeal towards his said nephew, is content to ordain, constitute and
make him one of the Honourable Order of the Garter, the rather
for that the Emperor, the French King, and the King of
Romans, have already accepted and taken that Order, which
should be very honourable to his said good nephew to be joined
with such noble Princes in the same Order, the said Lord William
thereof shall advertise and make, privy the said Bishop of Aber-
deen, declaring unto him the same considerations, to the intent
that he may the better set forth the same to the King his master.
And upon knowledge of his pleasure and advertisement thereof
unto the King's Majesty, His Highness will be content to prepare
and send all thing propice and meet therefore accordingly.

Finally, the said Lord William, taking his best opportunity
and occasion, shall on the King's Highness behalf further declare
and say to his said good brother and nephew, that where the
King's said Highness hath before this sundry times written unto
his said good brother and nephew for the restitution and recon-
ciliation of the Earl of Angus, and Sir George Douglas his brother
to the grace and favour of his said dearest nephew, without
receiving again his desired answer, which (the King's said High-.
ness cannot otherwise think) hath been suspended and deferred
by the suit of some of them that procured his exile and banish-
ment; yet the King's said Highness, considering that not only
the ancestors of the said Earl of Angus have been of noble con-