[1] Howbeit he was no ſooner returned home,Malcolme is required to relieue the Scottiſh eſtate. but the nobles of Louthian came vnto him, beſeching him to take pitie vppon his miſerable and torne countrey, and to employe hys whole force to [page 227] remoue away from the people ſuch imminent de|ſtruction as dayly haſted towards them which to do they thought it was partly euen his dutie, ſith God had beſtowed vpon him ſuche giftes both of body minde, and fortune, as moſt plenteouſly ap|peared in him, not onely for the weale of himſelfe but alſo of his friends and countrey, and therefore his part was to ſhew his earneſt diligence to deli|uer the common wealth of ſuch tyrannie as was practiſed by the miſgouernment of Gryme and his vnhappie counſellers. Which being done, he might order al things as ſhould like him beſt.