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( 47 ) we found him tenaciouſiy reſolute to continue his purpoſe. He ſaid, "His father uſed always to communicate at Chriſtmaſs,, Eaſter, and Whitſunday, and he behoved to do ſo likewiſe, and that people would think ſtrange of him, if having reſolved to communicate he ſhould forbear it, and that he did it to procure a bleſsing from God on his intended voyage." We ſhewed him that we feared the Lord ſhould indeed declare whether he approved that his way or not; and earneſtly preſſed he would forbear, ſeeing altho’ the action were never ſo lawful, he might upon ſome conſiderations forbear it; but we could not prevail. He did communicate kneeling, and beſides ſome diſorder committed by the chaplain, Bramble, who was once pretended Biſhop of Derry, and did give the bleſſing after the action. It was abundantly known to all the commiſſioners, that moſt of all the malignants and evil inſtruments about the king were intending to go to Scotland with him; yet no effectual courſe was taken to debarr them, altho’ it was one of the inſtrudtions to urge the ſame.

On Saturday thereafter when all the commiſſioners were aboard, except Caſſils and Lothian, who were with the king at Unſlidyke, the new letters and inſtructions from the parliament and commiſſion of the kirk, were brought, wherein they declared their diſſatisfaction with the treaty; and ſuch other things to be obtained; and declared the treaty otherways to be null and void, and the perſons names were ſet down who ſhould be left in Holland. Theſe came to the two lords, and being read by them, and, as ſome ſay, ſhown to Hamiltoun and Lauderdale, who were expreſly by theſe inſtructions forbidden to come to Scotland, were ſent aboard to us. How welcome theſe were to ſome of us is not eaſy to expreſs; others, as particularly Libbertoun, were not ſo well ſatisfied with them, but preſently we took boat to go aſhore, with reſolution not to come aboard till we had obtained ſatisfaction to the parliament. The wind did not fuller us to go aſhore at Torbay, which was the next way to Unslidyke, but put us to Savelin, where landing about midnight, and not being able to go in waggons