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MARCHMONT CORRESPONDENCE
Enclosure.
By order of his Royall Highness Charles Prince of Wales,
etc: Regent of Scotland, England, France, and Ire¬
land, and the Dominions thereto belonging.
These are ordering you to send in to the Palace of Holy-
Rood-huse ninty one firelocks found in the House of Red-
Breas by Mr Grahame of Garvock and the party that was
along with him on Wednesday last, and there deliver them
to Collonell John Stewart or the Master of the Ordinance
for his Highnesses use under the pain of military execution.
Given at Edinburgh the twelth day of Octobr 1745 By
his Highnesses Command Alexr Haldane.
To the Right Honouble Lady Jean Nimmo or to the Earl
of Marchmonts doers at Red-Braes.
FROM PATRICK BROUNFIELD.
Greenlaw, ye 18 October 1746.
This is humblie beging your Lordships pardon for troub¬
ling your Lorship with These Lines But as the old saying
is ‘ Need makes the old wiffe to Trott.’ I suppose that your
Lordship hath got a letter from your Lordships Honourable
Sister, Lady Jean Nemo, which Letter as I am informed is
levelled very much against me. But I hope your Lordship
will not put too hard a sentiment upon it untill your Lord-
ship be better informed. The matter is, Upon the ninth
day of this Instant, about ten of the Cloack at night, there
came to this toun Eighteen or Nineteen men blonging to
the Hygland army, and I being by your Lordship’s order
one of the Constables was called out of my bed to give them
Billets, and accordingly I did rise and went to Mr Steven¬
son’s, and when I came there, Mr Archer had given the
Billets ; and as I was standing in Mr Stevenson’s Kitching
some of these Strangers was talking about these arms that
was about your Lordships house and what way they were
Gone, and I happened to say that the Earle of Marmount
was not any way to blame about these arms goeing to
Berwick for the Government had sent for them, and I also
MARCHMONT CORRESPONDENCE
Enclosure.
By order of his Royall Highness Charles Prince of Wales,
etc: Regent of Scotland, England, France, and Ire¬
land, and the Dominions thereto belonging.
These are ordering you to send in to the Palace of Holy-
Rood-huse ninty one firelocks found in the House of Red-
Breas by Mr Grahame of Garvock and the party that was
along with him on Wednesday last, and there deliver them
to Collonell John Stewart or the Master of the Ordinance
for his Highnesses use under the pain of military execution.
Given at Edinburgh the twelth day of Octobr 1745 By
his Highnesses Command Alexr Haldane.
To the Right Honouble Lady Jean Nimmo or to the Earl
of Marchmonts doers at Red-Braes.
FROM PATRICK BROUNFIELD.
Greenlaw, ye 18 October 1746.
This is humblie beging your Lordships pardon for troub¬
ling your Lorship with These Lines But as the old saying
is ‘ Need makes the old wiffe to Trott.’ I suppose that your
Lordship hath got a letter from your Lordships Honourable
Sister, Lady Jean Nemo, which Letter as I am informed is
levelled very much against me. But I hope your Lordship
will not put too hard a sentiment upon it untill your Lord-
ship be better informed. The matter is, Upon the ninth
day of this Instant, about ten of the Cloack at night, there
came to this toun Eighteen or Nineteen men blonging to
the Hygland army, and I being by your Lordship’s order
one of the Constables was called out of my bed to give them
Billets, and accordingly I did rise and went to Mr Steven¬
son’s, and when I came there, Mr Archer had given the
Billets ; and as I was standing in Mr Stevenson’s Kitching
some of these Strangers was talking about these arms that
was about your Lordships house and what way they were
Gone, and I happened to say that the Earle of Marmount
was not any way to blame about these arms goeing to
Berwick for the Government had sent for them, and I also
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| Description | Edinburgh : Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable for the Scottish History Society, 1933. Contents: Miscellaneous charters, 1315-1401, edited from transcripts in the collection of the late Sir William Fraser / William Angus -- Bagimond's roll for the Archdeaconry of Teviotdale, from a thirteenth-century transcript in the Vatican archives / Annie I. Cameron -- Letters from John, Earl of Lauderdale, and others, to Sir John Gilmour, President of session / Henry M. Paton -- Letters to John MacKenzie of Delvine from the Rev. Alexander Monro / William Kirk Dickson -- Jacobite papers at Avignon / Henrietta Tayler -- Marchmont correspondence relating to the '45 / G.F.C. Hepburne Scott -- Two fragments of autobiography, by George Keith, 10th Earl Marischal of Scotland / J.Y.T. Greig. |
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