Prævaling

He and Montrose perfectly hate the prævaling party in Scotland; yet the governing party had much strenthened the hands of Montrose by makeing thire King be received by them, whose commission to Montrose by that is more authenticall.

[…]; and that in the Canon Law, Non firmatur tractu temporis quod de jure ab initio non ſubſiſtit, there being no Cuſtome of ſuch prævaling authority, ut aut Rationem vincat, aut Legem, as the Emperor well determines.

I HOPE this Interruption may præſume ſome Prætenſions of a Pardon, after You have been pleas’d to conſider the Prævaling Motives of my many Obligations.