History and genealogy of the family of Wauchope of Niddrie-Merschell

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most deficult be past, withowt occasions extraordinary, I cannot hope it but in
my rank.
We are fare here from all niewes, wh. we rather expect from your parts,* so
you cannot from hence. We wait dayly for a confirmation of peace with you, wh.
is much wisht for, since warr cannot content our necessitys, it's certain that both
officers and soldiers wish it earnestly, which never was heard off before ; but bad
payment being no less singular to France, brings this along with it — none receives
but what supllys the necessity of liff, and requires econemy, which fiew ever
practis'd to the degree they are oblig'd too at present, only receiving billes for
payment, and a 4th or 5 th part in muny. The soldrs of lait are pay'd intirly an
obsolut necessity appearing for it, and the Dixme giving the King this means it's
hoped that it will even restablish all affairs in their former cours. It were to be
wisht for many reasons. Those depriv'd me intirly of the means of answering
your expectations and my earnest desir, in paying to my d r . cusin the muny he so
kindly supply' d me with when prisoner, by any other means than the only left me,
wh. was all the appointments due to me during my imprisonment, in billes, wh. I
pleast in ye Town hows of Paris, as Mr Whitford desir'd me, the rent of wh. was
to have been pay'd, and is the same as to all those who have reddy muny in the
same place, and it has actwaly been receiv'd by all those in the cass, so I Strang
[wonder] Mr Whitford has not given you an account of it. The sume I pleast
amounted to about 60 ub more than what I owed my cowsin, however I being
perswaded if I had remitted him the sume oweing, he would have turned it to
a much greater advantag than the uswal interest of muny. I neither remembr
exactly what the sume was that I pleast nor owed, my papers being with the
regiment. Whenever I am in a condition to pay, as I receiv'd, in the same kind,
you may be surr I shal do it with a perfect pleasure. I was allredy inform'd of
all you mention regarding your nepheu, and of your taking the hows and estat of
Niddery into your hands, wh. I was extreemly glade off, and aproved much of the
motives that oblig'd you to it.
I wish all health and happyness to my young cusin. His destine is great, if
it may be thought soo, by the raport it has to the present K. of Spain. His pre-
decessor's testament was not approved off, which has occasioned so much bleud
shed as we have all ben witness too. However justice, by all appearance, will
take place at last. I find further observations may be made nearer home ; by
excluding all Catholic right, the nearer to it, and running to it the nixt in the
* Alluding evidently to the rumoured intentions of the Chevalier, which resulted in the rising of 1715.