[1] [2] Among other banners, standards, and penno [...]s, a banner of white sarsenet was found, vnder which it was said these kirkmen came,A baner [...] papists [...]|uise. wherevpon was painted a woman with hir haire about hir shoul|ders, knéeling before a crucifix, & on hir right hand a church, after that written in great Romane letters, [page 989] Afflictae sponsae ne obliuiscaris. It was said that this was the abbat of Dunfirmlings banner, but whether it was his or the bishop of Dunkels, the gouernours brother, who (as was said) were both in the field, his meaning was, [...] was [...] signifi [...]| [...] and mea| [...]g of the [...] so [...]. to signifie that the church made inter|cession to Christ hir husband, not now to forget hir his spouse, being at that time afflicted and persecuted by the Englishmen. But whose deuise soeuer it was, it maie séeme, that this church comming thus to bat|tell, full appointed with weapon, and garded with such a sort of deacons to fight, howsoeuer in pain|ting he had set hir out, a man might well thinke, that in condition, he had rather framed hir like a curst queane, that would plucke hir husband by the pate, except she had hir will; than like a meeke spouse, that went about humblie by submission and praier to de|sire hir husbands helpe, for redresse of things amisse.