They were brought by Father Clement, who came in a pilgrim's cloak, or dalmatic, ready to commence his return to the southward, and desirous to take leave of his companion in exile, or to accept him as a travelling companion.
"But what," said the citizen, "has so suddenly induced you to return within the reach of danger ?" "Have you not heard," said Father Clement, "that, March and his English allies having retired into England before the Earl of Douglas, the good earl has applied himself to redress the evils of the commonwealth, and hath written to the court letters desiring that the warrant for the High Court of Commission against heresy be withdrawn, as a trouble to men's consciences, that the nomination of Henry of Wardlaw to be prelate of St.Andrews be referred to the Parliament, with sundry other things pleasing to the Commons?
Now, most of the nobles that are with the King at Perth, and with them Sir Patrick Charteris, your worthy provost, have declared for the proposals of the Douglas.

The Duke of Albany had agreed to them--whether from goodwill or policy I know not.

The good King is easily persuaded to mild and gentle courses.

And thus are the jaw teeth of the oppressors dashed to pieces in their sockets, and the prey snatched from their ravening talons.

Will you with me to the Lowlands, or do you abide here a little space ?" Neil Booshalloch saved his friend the trouble of reply.
"He had the chief's authority," he said, "for saying that Simon Glover should abide until the champions went down to the battle." In this answer the citizen saw something not quite consistent with his own perfect freedom of volition; but he cared little for it at the time, as it furnished a good apology for not travelling along with the clergyman.
"An exemplary man," he said to his friend Niel Booshalloch, as soon as Father Clement had taken leave--"a great scholar and a great saint.