Lot 2 | # - James VI and I. , Letter signed ("James R"), as King of Scotland
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in Scots, on the trade conducted in England by John Porterfield and Gilbert Maistertoun, burgesses of Edinburgh, complaining that "we ar informit sum stay and difficultie has bene maid unto theme thair at Berwick", and requesting they be given free passage to transport their wares by land to London ("...they behaving thame selffis dewtifullie and paying the customes as apperteins..."), 1 page, small folio, Stirling Castle, 6 September 1579, damp damage with slight internal paper loss (about two letters), laid down, trimmed, slightly affecting the signature
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