A private instruction to the Earl of Mar and the Abbot of Kitiloss, my ambassadors towards the Queen of England.

Ye shall temper and frame all your dealing with the Queene or Council by the advice of my friends [1] there, whose counsel ye shall directly follow in all of your behaviour there, with these reservations only which by tongue I delivered unto you. And if that actually they perform their promises on their part, I give you by these presents of my own hand ample power to give them full assurance of my assisting them accordingly.

JAMES R