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82 LETTERS.
XXXIX. From The Commissary to Wm. Watson.
Edr., 20 July.
William Watson, —
I perceive your simplicity is turned to ingratitude, that ye now having got, at
Auchmedden's desyre, a discharge of all your bygone farms, ye would now take
the advantage and put away the boy that waits upon Mr. Andro. I perceive you
be but an unthankful man, who has breakit my bread these aucht or nyne years
bygone and have never payd a groat, and this is my thanks. Always be ressolvit
ye sail flit before that man flit, for ye have been shooting at that thir twa yeirs, but
ye sail not mend yourself so long as my son lives.
I rest your friend as ye deserve at my hands. 1
XL. From Lewis Marquis of Huntly to Sir James Baird of Auchmedden.
Huntly, last of Octr. 1651.
Much respected friend, —
Having a purpose to make use of the advyss of our friends in relation to the
present difficulties of these dangerous tymes, and being confident of your affection
and respect to us and of your abilitys on such occasions, these are therefore to
desyr you to take the pains to keip at the Kirk of Culsamond upon Thursday the
sixth of November, be ten o'clock before noon, whair you sail find me ready to
impart to you our resolutions, and to prosecute the same be advyss of our friends,
in relation to the present occasion.
Till then we rest.
Huntly.
1 There are five other letters of the Commissary's transcribed in the MS. ; three of them
addressed to his brother, and two to his nephew. Auchmedden says : — " These are all that now
remain of the honest Commissary's letters. He must have writ a vast number. And indeed I remember
when I was a hoy to have seen large drawers filled with them. But, alace ! the rats and mice got in and
gnawed most of 'em, which is much to be regretted, as they would have made a valuable collection, by
affording materials for the history of one-half of the last century, and shown the great changes that have
happened in this country as to familys and names." — Ed.
XXXIX. From The Commissary to Wm. Watson.
Edr., 20 July.
William Watson, —
I perceive your simplicity is turned to ingratitude, that ye now having got, at
Auchmedden's desyre, a discharge of all your bygone farms, ye would now take
the advantage and put away the boy that waits upon Mr. Andro. I perceive you
be but an unthankful man, who has breakit my bread these aucht or nyne years
bygone and have never payd a groat, and this is my thanks. Always be ressolvit
ye sail flit before that man flit, for ye have been shooting at that thir twa yeirs, but
ye sail not mend yourself so long as my son lives.
I rest your friend as ye deserve at my hands. 1
XL. From Lewis Marquis of Huntly to Sir James Baird of Auchmedden.
Huntly, last of Octr. 1651.
Much respected friend, —
Having a purpose to make use of the advyss of our friends in relation to the
present difficulties of these dangerous tymes, and being confident of your affection
and respect to us and of your abilitys on such occasions, these are therefore to
desyr you to take the pains to keip at the Kirk of Culsamond upon Thursday the
sixth of November, be ten o'clock before noon, whair you sail find me ready to
impart to you our resolutions, and to prosecute the same be advyss of our friends,
in relation to the present occasion.
Till then we rest.
Huntly.
1 There are five other letters of the Commissary's transcribed in the MS. ; three of them
addressed to his brother, and two to his nephew. Auchmedden says : — " These are all that now
remain of the honest Commissary's letters. He must have writ a vast number. And indeed I remember
when I was a hoy to have seen large drawers filled with them. But, alace ! the rats and mice got in and
gnawed most of 'em, which is much to be regretted, as they would have made a valuable collection, by
affording materials for the history of one-half of the last century, and shown the great changes that have
happened in this country as to familys and names." — Ed.
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| Histories of Scottish families > Genealogical collections concerning the sir-name of Baird, and the families of Auchmedden, Newbyth, and Sauchton Hall in particular > (106) Page 82 |
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| Description | With copies of old letters and papers worth preserving, and account of several transactions in this country during the last two centuries Reprinted from the original MS. of William Baird, Esq. (last of the family), of Auchmedden ... ; with notes, and an appendix containing a deduction of the family of Ordinhnivas to the present day. |
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| Description | A selection of almost 400 printed items relating to the history of Scottish families, mostly dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes memoirs, genealogies and clan histories, with a few produced by emigrant families. The earliest family history goes back to AD 916. |
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