New Spalding Club > Records of Invercauld MDXLVII - MDCCCXXVIII [1547- 1828]

MONALTRIE PAPERS. 421
asking one half penny of money, which they would not have built for
some thousand pounds and the D— told him there was nothing he could
reasonably aske but he would grant, but then it happened at a bad time
being soon after the late P — of W — 's death, so that they could not mind
things of so little consequence. I have need to appologise for the length
of this confused letter, but as that would not mend the matter now I shall
only add that I am in esteem and sincerity D : S : Y : M : obt : H : S : —
Oct: the 3rd 175 1.
"P.S. I am really of opinion that there is nothing wanting to bring
about the principall part of my request, that is liberty, but a person of
Consequence and resolution to lay the case before the D — of N — e and
to put him in mind of Invercauld giving in the petition, and att the same
time to tell his grace how I am situate.
" This is a coppy of a letter to Mr. Mc — v."
The initials B — d stand for Bedford ; and D — of N — c for Duke of
Newcastle ; D : S : Y : M : obt : H : S : stand for Dear Sir, your most
obedient humble servant.
There is nothing to indicate the person addressed except the note at
the end ; but the identity of Mr. Mc — v, the editor cannot discover.
The following Petition, in duplicate, written on broadside, 15 by 20
inches, shows the esteem in which Mr. Farquharson was held by his
neighbours in Berkhampstead. It is signed in four columns by fifty-six
persons, all in good positions in society, and some who have left their
names in the literature of their country : —
" Petition — Francis Farquharson
TO
The Right Honble. The Lords Commissrs.
OF the Treasury, 1754.": —
"To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners
OF His Majesty's Treasury.
" The humble petition of Francis Farquharson late of Monaltrie.
" Sheweth That 3-our Petitioner has now been very near nine years
a Prisoner, and by his long Confinement, and a sense of his Misfortunes,
has often been reduced to a bad state of health, by which his Constitution
is much broke ; and by his having so little from the Publick for Subsist-
ance since he was sent into the Country, he has Inevitably run himself
greatly into Debt.
"That your Petitioner in 1748, being Indulged with the choice of
either going abroad when he pleased, or of remaining in England during