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JUNE AS MACK AT, 1695. 109
shall. . . . Let me congratullat my Lord Duke of Gordons inlargrnent with
all transport ; I doupt not (and faithfully I wish) that, in order to a greater.
Tell him I haue his coller of the order of St. Andrews, in which some of the
small chaines that fasten the thistles to the crosses are brock, which in my
opinion can he better fastn'd here as their. If his Grace pleases, I shall see
them weall don. I will not faill to serve Madam Monro all that lyes in me,
and shall be proud if in that, or any thing else, I appeare as much as I
really am, my deare Lord,
Your most oblidged and faithfull affectionat servant,
Eobt. Mackay.
If my Ladie Tarbat come last under this pen, it is not that shee is last in
my thought, but last out on't.
88. iENEAS Mackay to [George Viscount of Tarbat].
Bommel, January -J-§, 1695.
My Lord, — The expectation I vas in of giveing your Lordship the ac-
count of some decisive action this sumer in Flanders, and the missforton I hade
of falling sick, soon after my returne from the baithes, could only have made
my silence hithertoo excuseable. I am informed by my brother your Lord-
ship vas pleas'd to favour me with your recommendation to succeed in the
command of the forces in Scotland, which is soe much the mor feeling that it
comes unrequered : soe if I were oblidg'd to show in wryt the resentment I
' have of your friendship, I could not but be at a loss, tho I may with all free-
dom say ther's not a Mackenzie alive mor yours than my self, and that in
what ever sircumstance I may be found, inclination shall newer be wanting
to wittness the same. I doubt not but your son, the Master, and Mr. John
Mackenzie, have inform'd your Lordship of the sircumstance he and his lady