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1714.] ACCESSION OF KING JAMES, 1685. cxi
tyme to tell you that the change of my condition has made no alteration in kind-
nesse to you, having the same esteeme and consideration for you I had before,
which I am sure you will give me no reason to alter, so that you may be at quiet
in your mind, and shall find I have the same trust and confidence in you I had,
and am sensible none has served me better and more faithfullie than you, and do
rely on the continuance of it. As to other things, you will know my pleasure
from the letter I have signed, and what the Secretarys will say to you.
"J. R.
"For the Lord Treasurer of Scotland." 1
In another letter, the King writes to the Lord Treasurer of certain steps
taken by him to carry on the Government. This letter alludes to Lord
Tarbat, and is as follows : —
Whitehall, Feb. 25, 1686.
By that tyme this getts to you, you will haue the Lord Tarbot with you, who
I haue charged to tell you the reasons which moued me to put the Tresury againe
into Commission. I haue also discoursed at large upon the same subject both to
Lord Rochester and your Sonne, and assured them, as I now do you, that nothing
but my being satisfyd, upon long and mature considerations, that it is absolutly
necessary for the good of my service could haue obliged me to do it. And to lett
the world, as well as yourself, see I do it upon no other account, I make you Pre-
sident of the Councell, and put you into the Commission of the Tresury, in both
which stations, as well as in that of the See. Com., you may haue the oportunity
of serving me as well and as usefully as in the former station you were in. As to
my puting the command of the Castel of Edenburgh into the Duke of Gordon's
hands, I thought that necessary at this tyme, to make that towne haue more
regard for my commands, and civiler to the Catholiks, by seeing it in the hands
of one of that persuasion, who, I am sure, never thought of asking for it, nor dos
he know yett I intend it him. I shall end as I began, with assuring you I haue
done all this upon no other consideration then what I already sayd ; and as I
expect the same service from you which I always did, so you may be sure of my
kindnesse and protection to you and yours. J. R.
For the Duke of Queensberry. 2
1 Original Letter in Queensberry Corre- - Original Letter in Queensberry Corre-
spondence, at Lrumlanrig. spondence, at Drumlanrig.