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THE CROMARTIE CORRESPONDENCE.
dome, as if it ware rent with devisions and discontents, when a person in the
eonditione he is in dare writt so to a privie cunseller. Least yow be not
provided with acts of parliament, I have sent yow some, that Lorns gvilt
may the better appear. I doubt not but it will be cleer anevgh to his
Majestie, that he heas trangressed against those. I could have sent yow more
acts of this natvre, for ther is not anie crime that heas so manie standing
lawes against it as this ; and that vpon most excellent and solid grovnds : for
if ther be not a good vnderstanding betwixt his Majestie and his people, it
wold be a sad misfortune ; so that all fomenters of jealosies, misinformers,
and lyers, are strongly provyded against by ovr lawes. That letter of the
parliaments concerning the favovrs done by his Majestie to the familie of
Huntly, and ther hvmble desire relating to the creditors of the late Marqvis
of Argyll, is that which Lorn mainly aims att, when he says the King is not
weill satisfied. That which he says of me (thogh I be not named), is, that I
vse the King's name on trvst to mack men beleeve it wold be acceptable to
the King to be his ennemie ; and then his inference is, that the parliament
most derect the King. He is vncivill, giveing the lye to that which was a
cleer trvth, as yow know ; for no man spock on word against that ; only my
Lord Lothian desired that Lorn might be recommended to the King leckwayes,
which was all. But the blowing over of this storm, as he calls it, can import
no less then a dissolveing of this parliament, and that vpon the worst of
accompts, for tricks : which yow know is the most significant way in ovr
langvage to express the height of rogrie and willanie. Eeallie I most say
Lome is a stout man, and bold things may be expected from him, if he come
to that eonditione which he seems to be verie confident of. His letter is
verie plain, and needs no commentarie. It was weill vnderstood by the
parliament, and indeed was loocked vpon with astonishment, for sveh a
paper in a time of pace heas not been seen in this kingdome : and his