I trust that you, who have been always a good and obedient childe, will not devize any which has less than raison. It is trew that the contraxs of our house have heretofore been celebrated in a manner more besitting our Rank, and not in private, and with few witnesses, as a thing done in a corner. But it has been Heaven's own free-will, as well as those of the kingdom where we live, to take away from us our estate, and from the King his throne. Yet I trust He will yet restore the sightful heir to the throne, and turn his heart to the true Protestant Episcopal faith, which I have the better to expect to see even with my old eyes, as I have beheld the royal family when they were struggling as sorely with masterful usurpers and rebels as they are now; that is to say, when his most saered Majesty, Charles the Second of happy memory, honoured our poor house of Tillietudlem, by taking his disjune therein," &c. &c. &c.
We will not abuse the reader's patience
