Compare 1577 edition: 1 You will not haue peace, you will not haue ali|ance, you will not haue concord; and conquest com|meth vpon you whether you will or no. And yet if all things were considered, we feare it will appeere that it were better for you to be conquered of vs, than succoured of strangers, lesse losse to your goods, lesse hurt to your lands, lesse dishonor to your realme; this nation which is one in toong, one in countrie and birth, hauing so little diuersitie to occupie the whole, than other powers come in to you, neither like in language, nor yet like in behauior, who should rule ouer you, and take you to be but their slaues. But we eftsoons and finallie declare and protest vnto you, that although for the better furtherance of this god|lie purpose of vniting the realmes,The lord pro| [...]tor protest|eth what the kings deter|mination is. and for the sure defense of them which fauour the marriage, we are compelled for the time to keepe holds, and to make fortifications in your realme: yet the kings maie|sties mind and determinat pleasure is, with our ad|uise and counsell to be as before is declared, that where fauour may be shewed, not to vse rigor, if by conditions you will receiue this amitie offered, not to follow conquest: for we desire loue, vnitie, concord, peace and equalitie. Let neither your go|uernor nor your kirkemen, nor those, who so often haue falsified their faith and promise, [...]nitem to the Scotish go| [...]ernor and [...]irkemen, &c. and by treache|rie and falshood be accustomed to proroge the time, féed you foorth with faire words, and bring you into the snare from whence they cannot deliuer you. They will peraduenture prouide for themselues with pen|sions in some other realme, and set soldiors stran|gers in your holds to kéepe you in subiection, vnder the pretense to defend them against vs. But who prouideth pensions for you? How are you defended when they are fled away? Who conquereth you when the strange capteins haue your holds, when your land is wasted, and the realme destroied, and the more part kept from you? Who will set by the mariage of the quéene to buie a title with the war of England; to marrie the name, an other mightie king holding the land?What Eng|land & Scot|land might do being made [...] by amitie. If we two being made one by amitie, be most able to defend vs against all nations, and hauing the sea for wall, the mutuall loue for garrison, & God for defense, should make so noble and well agréeing mo|narchie, that neither in peace we may be ashamed, nor in war afraid of anie worldlie or forren power: whie should not you be as desirous of the same, and haue as much cause to reioise at it as we? If this ho|nor of so noble a monarchie doo not moue you to take and accept amitie, let the griefe and the danger of the aforenamed losses feare you to attempt that thing which shall displease God, increase warre, danger your realme, destroie your land, vndoo your children, wast your grounds, desolate your countries, and bring all Scotland either to famine & miserie, or to subiection and seruitude of an other nation. We re|quire but your promised quéene, your offered agrée|ment of vnitie,Nothing re| [...]red of the Scots that was not pro| [...]sed by them. the ioining of both the nations, which God of his infinite clemencie and tender loue that he hath declared to beare to both the nations, hath offe|red vnto vs both, and in manner called vs both vnto it, whose calling and prouocation we haue, and will folow to the best of our powers, and in his name, and with his aid, admonition, exhortation, requests, and ambassages, not being able to doo it, and to find sta|blenesse in promises, we shall not willing, but con|streined pursue the battell, chastise the wicked & ma|licious by the angrie angels of God, fire and sword.Fire & sword Gods angrie angels.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Wherefore we require and exhort you all, who haue loue to the countrie, pitie of that realme, a true hart to your quéene and mis [...]resse, regard of your honors and promises made by the great seale of Scotland, and who fauoureth the peace, loue, vnitie, and concord and that most profitable marriage to en|ter and come to vs; and declaring your true and god|lie harts thervnto, to aid vs in this most godlie pur|pose and enterprise. To be witnesse of our dooings we refuse no man, temporall nor spirituall,An argument of vpright me|ning that re|suieth no wit|nesse. lord ne lard, gentleman nor other, who will aid this our pur|pose, and minish the occasion of slaughter and de|struction, to whom we shall kéepe the promises here|tofore declared, and further sée reward and recom|pense made according to the desert.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 And for a more sure proofe and plainer token of the good mind and will which we beare vnto you, that which neuer yet was granted to Scotland in anie league, truce, or peace betwixt England and Scot|land, because yée shall haue proofe of the beginning of loue and amitie of both the realmes: the kings highnes considering the multitude of them which are come to his maiesties deuotion,The kings grant as a proofe of the beginning of loue betwéene England and Scotland. and of them that be well-willers and aiders of this godlie enterprise, hath by our aduise and counsell granted, and by these presents doth grant, that from henceforth all maner of merchants and other Scotishmen, who will enter their names with one of the wardens of the mar|ches, & there professe to take part with vs in this be|fore named godly purpose, to his owne commoditie, & to serue all such as be of the same agréement, may lawfullie and without anie trouble and vexation en|ter into anie port, créeke, or hauen of England, and there vse their traffike of merchandize, buie and sell, bring in the commodities of Scotland, and take and carrie foorth the commodities of England, as libe|rallie and as fréelie, and with the same and none o|ther custome or paiments therefore, than English|men and the kings subiects doo at this present: min|ding further vpon the successe hereof to gratifie so the furtherers of this most godlie enterprise and vni|on, that all the world may be witnesse of the great zeale and loue which his highnesse dooth beare toward you and your nation. And all this the kings high|nesse, by our aduise and counsell, hath willed to be declared vnto you; and giuen in commandement vnto vs, and all his lieutenants, wardens, rulers, and other head officers, ministers, and subiects, to sée executed and doone, according to the true purport, effect, and meaning thereof. Fare you well.