bereave  us  of  the  sincere  ai)d  true  religion  of  Almighty  God,
bringing  us  and  this  noble  crown  back  again  into  the  thraldom
of  the  Romish  ij'^ranny,  but  also  utterly  to  ruinate  and  over-
throw the  happy  state  and  commonweal  of  this  realm  :  and
seeing  also  what  insolent  boldness  is  grown  in  the  heart
of  the  same  Queen,  through  your  Majesty's  former  exceeding
favours  towards  her;  and  thereupon  weighing,  with  heavy  and
sorrowful  hearts,  in  what  continual  peril  of  suchlike  desperate
conspii'acies  and  practices  your  Majesty's  most  royal  and  sacred
person  and  life  (more  dear  unto  us  than  our  own)  is  and  shall
be  still,  without  any  possible  means  to  prevent  it,  so  long  as
the  said  Scottish  Queen  shall  be  suffered  to  continue,  and  shall
not  receive  that  due  punishment  which,  by  justice  and  the  laws
of  this  your  realm,  she  hath  so  often  and  so  manj'  ways,  for
her  most  wicked  and  detestable  offences,  deserved :  therefore  . ..
