To Rinuccini [Footnote 1: Balfour, iii. 405; and the Proceedings of the Commissioners of the Church and Kingdoms of Scotland with his Majestie at the Hague.

In the beginning, the statute recites that "Your most excellent Majestie in your Royall Judgment ... did In the yeare ...

I neede not feare, death cannot offer wrong; The majestie of thy presaging face, Would vanquish him, though nere so terrible.