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GEORGE FIRST EARL OF GROMARTIE, 1705. 295
You may tell my Lord Findlater to send you the newspapers after he reads
them, that you may send them to my Lady Seafield, and in the mean time
may serve you and my cousine, Mr. Wattsone. I have no further to trouble
you this night, but bid you adieu. The reason why I did not write last post
was, that being engaged with Captain Peter Campbell, Adam Smith, and
Coline Campbell, wee made ourselves incapable drinking the Baron of Bristoll's
health, which is the Duke of Argyles English title, and all our other friends.
For Mr. John Stewart, under-keeper of the great seal, att Edinburgh.
240. George first Earl of Cromartie to [John Earl of Mar, one of the
secretaries of state for Scotland]. 1
17 November 1705.
My Lord, — I had the honor of yours, and I acknowledg the favour of your
minding my litle concerns so minutly ; but my straits, by what necessitatly
expended in that (to me) unhappy station, that if at least herr Majesty be
not pleased to give some peremptor ordor for paying now what should have
been pay'd to me at Mertimas 1704, it will very much hurt me : nor is it
just, that of salaries equally due, and yet more, when in justice and by the
Queens express appointment the secretaries should be payed primo loco, all
others should be pay'd so long before him. As to that of my locality for
15001., all others of the like natur, and mine stopt, it is hard, if I have not
offended ; and the Queen promised to hear me, ere shee would beleev any accu-
sation : and I have been too long serving the crown, unchallengd of failure
(except of haveing too much zeal for it, for which I have sufferd), to be now
ether guilty, or condemned unheard. My Lord, I hope your Lordship will
lay this before herr Majesty, and that herr royall pleasure may determine it.
1 Original Letter in the Mar Charter-ehest.
You may tell my Lord Findlater to send you the newspapers after he reads
them, that you may send them to my Lady Seafield, and in the mean time
may serve you and my cousine, Mr. Wattsone. I have no further to trouble
you this night, but bid you adieu. The reason why I did not write last post
was, that being engaged with Captain Peter Campbell, Adam Smith, and
Coline Campbell, wee made ourselves incapable drinking the Baron of Bristoll's
health, which is the Duke of Argyles English title, and all our other friends.
For Mr. John Stewart, under-keeper of the great seal, att Edinburgh.
240. George first Earl of Cromartie to [John Earl of Mar, one of the
secretaries of state for Scotland]. 1
17 November 1705.
My Lord, — I had the honor of yours, and I acknowledg the favour of your
minding my litle concerns so minutly ; but my straits, by what necessitatly
expended in that (to me) unhappy station, that if at least herr Majesty be
not pleased to give some peremptor ordor for paying now what should have
been pay'd to me at Mertimas 1704, it will very much hurt me : nor is it
just, that of salaries equally due, and yet more, when in justice and by the
Queens express appointment the secretaries should be payed primo loco, all
others should be pay'd so long before him. As to that of my locality for
15001., all others of the like natur, and mine stopt, it is hard, if I have not
offended ; and the Queen promised to hear me, ere shee would beleev any accu-
sation : and I have been too long serving the crown, unchallengd of failure
(except of haveing too much zeal for it, for which I have sufferd), to be now
ether guilty, or condemned unheard. My Lord, I hope your Lordship will
lay this before herr Majesty, and that herr royall pleasure may determine it.
1 Original Letter in the Mar Charter-ehest.
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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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| Description | A selection of almost 400 printed items relating to the history of Scottish families, mostly dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes memoirs, genealogies and clan histories, with a few produced by emigrant families. The earliest family history goes back to AD 916. |
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