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THE FIRST COUNTESS OF CRAWFORD. 7
[We offer the following translation
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Editor.]
To our beloved son, the noble man David, born of
our beloved son, the noble man Alexander de i.yndesay,
lord of the lands of Glenesk, of the Diocese of St
Andrews ; and to our beloved daughter in Ciaist, the
noble woman Elizabeth, born of our dearest son in
Christ, Eobert, the illustrious King of Scotland, greet-
ing, etc.
The careful liberality of the Apostolic See, temper-
ing sometimes the severity of the law with gentleness,
permits, of its indulgence, that which the authority of
the law forbids ; especially when it perceives that to
do so is wholesome and expedient before God, the
situation of persons and the quality of places and times
considered.
Truly, a petition on your part lately put before us
bore, that ye desire mutually to be united in marriage ;
but, because at the same time ye are connected in the
fourth degree of consanguinity, ye cannot fulfill such
your desire without having obtained the apostolic
dispensation thereupon ;
wherefore it has been humbly
entreated of us on your part, that we should condescend
of our apostolic indulgence to furnish you with the
favour of a suitable dispensation.
We, then,—in consideration also of our dearest son
in Christ, Robert, the illustrious King of Scotland,
humbly praying us to the same purpose—have given
heed to such supplications, that of the King himself
and yours ; and, in order that ye may be able freely
and lawfully to contract a marriage with each other,
and, after it shall have been contracted, to abide
therein, notwithstanding the impediment which arises