Memoirs of the Maxwells of Pollok > Correspondence

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and your Lordship being of the number, I am directed by Her Majesty to give
you nottice thereof, to the end you may qualify yourself, as soon as conve-
niently you can, that affairs which lye before that Court may have the neces-
sary dispatch, for the benefitt of all concern'd. I am,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most humble and obedient servant,
Whitehall, July 1707.
To my Lord Polock Maxwell.
James first Duke of Montrose, President of the Council, to [Sir John
Maxwell, Lord Pollok.]
London, the 18th March 1708.
112. My Lord, The good news we received this morning from Scotland, as it occa-
sions ane universal! joye amongst all honest men here, so no doubt the mis-
carriage of this project, which did so threaten us, has the same effect amongst
yow. Our countrie in general! has been represented as entirely disafected ;
tho' now it appears planely to people here that the faults of particular persons
have been charged upon the whole nation. The zeall of our Clargie is verie
much, and verie deservedly, applauded ; and the firmery which the body of
our people did shoue when the danger threatened them most, demonstrats
pretty much how false the aspersions layd upon us have been : so that I'm
hopefull it will not be so easie to impose upon people again. I should still
wish, as a furder demonstration of the zeall of our countrie, that addresses
were sent to the Queen upon this occassion. I hope they will come from
several! pants of the countrie, and in a particular manner I wish, too, that in
these shyres where I have any concern, the gentelmen would shoue themselves.
I have wrote to Dugalstone, whom I have disired to wait of your Lordship,