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When their commission was renewed in 1597, they faced disabling opposition from vested interests, and some of the
Octavians were suspect as sympathetic to Catholics. But the concept of the commission as an extension of the exchequer into government persisted, and under the name of
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described events at the end of
December 1595 in a letter to James Hudson: "The queen's council joins with the prior (Alexander Seton) and other of the king's council for the reformation of the king's particular affairs". The committee for the queen's estates continued after the
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Octavians lasted only one year, and was much disliked. Presbyterians attempted a coup on 17 December 1596. One demand was that the Octavians should be disbanded. James VI was in the
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