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1714.] ARREARS OF SALARY, 1705. clxiii
sixty years, he now finally resigned that office, and retired into private life.
His salaries and pensions were not paid with that exemplary punctuality
which the officers of the Crown can reckon upon at the present day. In the
time of Lord Cromartie, there were frequently great contentions and scram-
hlings for the payment of salaries and pensions. In his correspondence
with Lord Mar, he often alludes to the non-payment of the money due to
him. In a letter to the latter, dated 23d October 1705, Lord Cromartie
reminds him — " Ex officio, the intrant secretary should assist the exeant to be
payed of his bygones. I want £1100 sterling of my very dues. I have her
Majesties letter for my self and all succeeding secretars payments to be
made ante omnes ; and in justice it should be so, for he most advance it,
which all the other officers needs not doe, besides many other reasons." *
Lord Cromartie frequently recurs to the subject of his arrears of salary.
He writes to Lord Mar on the injustice of not paying salaries which are over
due, especially where, by the Queen's express appointment, the secretaries
should be paid p'imo loco, and yet others are preferred long before them. He
feelingly alludes to his having too long served the Crown unchallenged of
failure, except of having over zeal, for which he suffered, to be now either
guilty or condemned unheard. 2
He subsequently wrote to Lord Mar that unless his arrears of salary were
paid, he was thinking of taking refuge in the sanctuary of the Abbey of
Holyrood ; and he complained of the injustice of paying the salaries of other
ministers in preference to his own, which was promised by the Queen to be
paid before all others. Lord Cromartie wishes Her Majesty to be informed
that he is " barbarously used," and declares that if he deserved no riches, he
never deserved such unusual hardship from the Crown or Royal Family. 3
1 Letter, vol. i. pp. 2S9, 290. 3 Letter of 22d Nov. 1705, vol. i. p.
2 Letter of 17th Nov. 1705, vol. i. p. 295. 298.
sixty years, he now finally resigned that office, and retired into private life.
His salaries and pensions were not paid with that exemplary punctuality
which the officers of the Crown can reckon upon at the present day. In the
time of Lord Cromartie, there were frequently great contentions and scram-
hlings for the payment of salaries and pensions. In his correspondence
with Lord Mar, he often alludes to the non-payment of the money due to
him. In a letter to the latter, dated 23d October 1705, Lord Cromartie
reminds him — " Ex officio, the intrant secretary should assist the exeant to be
payed of his bygones. I want £1100 sterling of my very dues. I have her
Majesties letter for my self and all succeeding secretars payments to be
made ante omnes ; and in justice it should be so, for he most advance it,
which all the other officers needs not doe, besides many other reasons." *
Lord Cromartie frequently recurs to the subject of his arrears of salary.
He writes to Lord Mar on the injustice of not paying salaries which are over
due, especially where, by the Queen's express appointment, the secretaries
should be paid p'imo loco, and yet others are preferred long before them. He
feelingly alludes to his having too long served the Crown unchallenged of
failure, except of having over zeal, for which he suffered, to be now either
guilty or condemned unheard. 2
He subsequently wrote to Lord Mar that unless his arrears of salary were
paid, he was thinking of taking refuge in the sanctuary of the Abbey of
Holyrood ; and he complained of the injustice of paying the salaries of other
ministers in preference to his own, which was promised by the Queen to be
paid before all others. Lord Cromartie wishes Her Majesty to be informed
that he is " barbarously used," and declares that if he deserved no riches, he
never deserved such unusual hardship from the Crown or Royal Family. 3
1 Letter, vol. i. pp. 2S9, 290. 3 Letter of 22d Nov. 1705, vol. i. p.
2 Letter of 17th Nov. 1705, vol. i. p. 295. 298.
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| Description | Their kindred, country, and correspondence. By William Fraser. Edinburgh: Printed by Thomas and Archibald Constable, 1876. With plates, including portraits and facsimiles, and genealogical tables. 2 volumes: I. History of the earls of Cromartie. Cromartie correspondence, 1662-1705.--II. Cromartie correspondence, 1706-1774. The Cromartie charters, 1257-1499. The Cromartie patents of honour, etc., 1685-1861. Narrative by John, lord Macleod ... Of the insurrection in Scotland in the years 1745-6 ... Narrative by John, lord Macleod of his campaign in the seven years' war in Germany, 1757.--The Grandvale and Cromartie branch. The Royston branch. Baronies and castles inherited and acquired by George, first earl of Cromartie, 1654-1714. History of the family of Mackenzie, by Sir George Mackenzie, first earl of Cromartie. |
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