Letter from John Maitland to Sir Robert Moray, 2nd November : John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale

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Letter from John Maitland to Sir Robert Moray, 2nd November 1669. Letter written from Holyrood House, Edinburgh, by John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, (when Earl of Lauderdale, Secretary of State and High Commissioner of Scotland), enclosing the Act of Supremacy to be shown to the King (Charles II), and giving graphic details of its preparation and of the debate upon it before the Lords of the Articles at Edinburgh. From the fifth series of Facsimiles of royal, historical, literary and other autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Series I-V. (London, 1899).

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