your confidence in us, after having seen how far so many of your nobility and gentry have owned our d... terest and inclinations of the people, that after so much trouble and great suffering, they may live h... side all animosities and factions that may impede so good a work.
We were glad to find that so many of the nobility and gentry, when here at London, were
re to meet together at our good town of Edinburgh some time in this instant March by the usurped autho... fulness and affection of your our Ancient People, so much that in our greatest misfortunes heretofore ... tance and that with good success to our affairs.
So now again we require of you to support our royal ... ur posterity, the gracious promises which we have so often made of securing your religion, laws, prope
