Letter of James IV to various Scottish Lords, 1600(?)

We by these presents, both written and subscribed with our own hand,
faithfully promises in the word of a prince that how soon it shall please
God to possess us in the crown of England according to our just and
undoubted title, we shall, within the space of a year thereafter,
thankfully pay and content every one of these persons that have advanced us
at this time with such sums as the Duke of Lennox has in ticket for the
furtherance of our honourable adoes in foreign parts; like as we also
faithfully promise to employ the said sums and every part of them for the
furtherance of our attaining to the said crown allainerlie [only] and, for
the further surety hereof, will retain them in Our own keepIng privlly in a
little coffer whereof the said duke shall keep the key, and will also
favourably gratify the persons advancers at all good occasions that shall
be presented.

JAMES R.

Document Location: Scottish Record Office,Lennox Charters and Letters,Item
186

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