1st Duke of Gordon

Mr Andrew Hay, my truetie friend, will inform e
yr Lordship), for the utilities of him who is and
shall remaine inviolablie, my lord,— Your Lord-
ship's most humble and most oblidged servant
and censing,
HUNTLTE.
On July 4, 1664, he wrote (Add. MSS. 23,122, f.
80) from "Ed in borough" : —
My Lord [Lauderdale],— The many and singu-
lar experieinses I have of yr Lordship's favor and
assistanc in all my consernments gives me a cer-
taine confidenc of the continuance of the same,
asseuring yr Lordship that boath my concern-
men tea and my self shall ever be att yr service
whils I breath. Now, my Lord, having allmost
attuned to the 14 year of my agge cotnplit, I ame
resolved to chose my curators for the better
managging of the esteat, which His Majestie ha9
been graciously pleased to confer upon me: of
which as I hopDe yr Lordshin will doe me the
honor to be on[e] yr selff. [1 trust] my noble
Lord Treasurer, of whom I receve dayly mor
favors as I can express, will doe me the same
honor, and I horip, will signifie his minde so
shortly in this. To yr Lordship I send hear in*
closed fhe names of such as i intend to have for
my curators, which if yr Lordshin and my Lord
Aubignie (to whom I have wreatin to this pur-
pose) shall thinck t'hem fitt, I humblie begge of
yr Lordshin that they may be presented to His
Majestie, of whose Roval pleasur both the Easteat
and my selfe totaly depends; and yr Lordship's
advice and consent to my just desires shall be a
greatt addition to the .many favoures conferred
uppon, my Lord, — Your Lordshin's most humble,
most affectionat, and most oblidged servant and
cousing,
HUNTLYE.
On September 20, 1664, be wrote from Edin-
burgh (Add. MSS. 23,122, f. 157): —
My Lord [Lauderdale], — I have mead bold upon
yr Lordship's gratious return to my last, to
nominatt yr Lordship on[e] of my curators. I
hoppe you will eontimie yr accoustumed favors,
which, as I acknowledge, they ar great, so they
shall never be forgott bot in<rraven in the
memore of, my Lord,— Yr T.ordshin's most humble,
most affectioned, and most oblidoed servant and
pupil,
HuNTLYE.
The young Marquis, according to the "History
of the Illustrious House of Gordon," went abroad
"about 18." He really crossed the channel in
the end of 1664, at which time he was, on his
own showing, only 14. His first letter from