Memoirs of the Maxwells of Pollok > Correspondence

250 FAMILY AND DOMESTIC LETTERS. [1633-34-
himself therm. And about your hading, I was loth to aquent my Lord Traquair
with it (becaus he was Tresurar deput) without your knoleg ; bot shng you
have aquented him with both, I hop at his heircuming, which will be shorthe,
they will be done ; but I will assur you of the tak. I have sent horn be Wil-
liam Cokburne ane memorandum of thes things I wold have done at Paslay
befor my homcuming, which I most recomend to your oversiing, and intreat
you to doe me the favour to goe to Paslay at sum tyms and si them weill done.
So giving you manie hartie thankes for the pains that you tak in my affairs,
with my servic remembred to your ladie, I shall ever remaine
Your most affectionat frind to serve you,
Londoun, the 30 of November 1633.
Sir William Hamilton, third son of James first Earl of Abercorne,
to Sir John Maxwell of Pollok, 2d February 1634.
'AS. Eight worshipfull and lowing eame, I hawe reseved yowr letter deated at Pollok
the second of November, wharby I wnderstand of yowr good halth (to my
great contentment), and that yow hawe reseved an gift of the keiping of the
Castell of Dwmbarten with swm other lettres I sent yow from the Dwke. I
perseve yowr cair in my bosines to be extraordiner ; for it is evident by the
affects wharof I am veiy sensible, and does rejoys that I hawe so trew a real
freind in my absence. I wonder mwch at Sir George Elphinstown, who, after
hee had reseved the Dwk's letter, did mak his twa sonnes-in-law endevoir to
resist yowr entromission ; bot I hawe learned since that hee is in som mesowr
rewardet for his folly, and that yow ar in fwll possession of all. I sowld be
glaid that the hows war keiped in good ordir as every thing els that belongs to