[1] What face hath this of conquest? We intend not to disherit your queene, but to make hir heires inheritors also to England.The case of the foresaid mariage still vrged. What greater honour can ye séeke vnto your quéene, than the mariage of|fered? What more méeter mariage than this with the kings highnes of England? What more sure defense in the nonage of your quéene for the realme of Scot|land, than to haue England your patrone and gar|rison? We séeke not to take from you your lawes nor customes; but we seeke to redresse your oppres|sions, which of diuerse ye doo susteine. In the realme of England, diuerse lawes and customes be accor|ding to the ancient vsage thereof. And likewise, France, Normandie, and Gascoigne haue sundrie kind of orders. Haue all the realmes and domini|ons that the emperour now hath, one custome and one sort of lawes? These vaine feares and fantasies of expulsion of your nation, of changing the lawes, of making a conquest, be driuen into your heads, of those, who in deed had rather you were all conque|red,The lord pro|tector telleth the Scots who they be that put doubts into their heads, &c. spoiled, and slaine, than they would lose anie point of their will, of their desire of rule, of their estimation, which they know in quietnesse would be séene what it were, as it were in a calme water.