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LETTERS OF ANDREW FLETCHER
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not now leave them: Haddo answered that they might get a man for
sixpence a day that could do them more service than he could: to
which Mareschal reply’d you have put a just value on yourself, and
they that would make you pass for more are in the wrong to you. The
pretender landed the 22 or 23 of December our style near Peterhead,
came to Aberdeen on the 24th with 2 Gentlemen and 2 Servants, he
did not make himself known there, but took a guide to Fetter-esso,
where he first discovered himself. ... He was very sick at sea with
vomiting and purging, and has now an Ague. ... Some people talk
of a Coronation at Scone and a Parliament at Perth, but I believe they
will hardly get leisure for these things. My Lord Argyle has made a
demand of sixteen hundreth baggage Horse from the Country that is
near him, whereof East Louthian puts out 100 Carts with 3 Horse a
piece, your proportion is two, the demand was made on Saturday last
and the Carts marched on Tuesday; the Government pays to the
Carter 8 pence a day and 2 pence worth of Bread, and allows for the
entertainment of each Horse a shiling a day besides fodder, and the[y]
pay the Horses that are lost or spoyled. The Season is extremely cold,
the frost has lasted already 7 weeks, I have given your Carters Boots
and furred Caps and a double Highland plaid to keep them warm, and
the Horse are sheated. ... It is said the Pretender when he entered
Perth made a very moving speech to those who crowded around him.
There are pressing orders from above to hasten the march of our
Army, notwithstanding of the rigor of the season, and it is thought
Argyle will march the beginning ofnixt week
Andrew Fletcher to his nephew
Paris, 20 Feb. N.s.
This is in answer to yours ofjan. the 7th and lickways to that of Feb.
the 8th. Tell Mr Cuningam, if he be still with you, that I thanck him
for his presents; and chiefly for having supplyed du Canye.1 Let Ju.
Grollun be bound in parchment without any bands on the back and
in two volumes as little cut as may be. ’Tis lick I may give you the
trouble of buying for me several books newly printed in Holland
befor you come hither for which you shal draw a bill on your father
to be placed to my account: because their are several books lately
printed there which I neglected to buy and are necessary for me. Aske
1 Charles Dufresne, Dominus du Cange, French historian and philologist.
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not now leave them: Haddo answered that they might get a man for
sixpence a day that could do them more service than he could: to
which Mareschal reply’d you have put a just value on yourself, and
they that would make you pass for more are in the wrong to you. The
pretender landed the 22 or 23 of December our style near Peterhead,
came to Aberdeen on the 24th with 2 Gentlemen and 2 Servants, he
did not make himself known there, but took a guide to Fetter-esso,
where he first discovered himself. ... He was very sick at sea with
vomiting and purging, and has now an Ague. ... Some people talk
of a Coronation at Scone and a Parliament at Perth, but I believe they
will hardly get leisure for these things. My Lord Argyle has made a
demand of sixteen hundreth baggage Horse from the Country that is
near him, whereof East Louthian puts out 100 Carts with 3 Horse a
piece, your proportion is two, the demand was made on Saturday last
and the Carts marched on Tuesday; the Government pays to the
Carter 8 pence a day and 2 pence worth of Bread, and allows for the
entertainment of each Horse a shiling a day besides fodder, and the[y]
pay the Horses that are lost or spoyled. The Season is extremely cold,
the frost has lasted already 7 weeks, I have given your Carters Boots
and furred Caps and a double Highland plaid to keep them warm, and
the Horse are sheated. ... It is said the Pretender when he entered
Perth made a very moving speech to those who crowded around him.
There are pressing orders from above to hasten the march of our
Army, notwithstanding of the rigor of the season, and it is thought
Argyle will march the beginning ofnixt week
Andrew Fletcher to his nephew
Paris, 20 Feb. N.s.
This is in answer to yours ofjan. the 7th and lickways to that of Feb.
the 8th. Tell Mr Cuningam, if he be still with you, that I thanck him
for his presents; and chiefly for having supplyed du Canye.1 Let Ju.
Grollun be bound in parchment without any bands on the back and
in two volumes as little cut as may be. ’Tis lick I may give you the
trouble of buying for me several books newly printed in Holland
befor you come hither for which you shal draw a bill on your father
to be placed to my account: because their are several books lately
printed there which I neglected to buy and are necessary for me. Aske
1 Charles Dufresne, Dominus du Cange, French historian and philologist.
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| Description | At head of title: Volume X. Edinburgh : Printed for the Scottish History Society by T. and A. Contable, 1965. Contents: E.W.M. Balfour-Mellville (1887-1963), a memoir / by D.B. Horn. -- Bagimond's roll for the diocese of Moray / edited by Charles Burns -- Accounts of the King's Pursemaster, 1539-1540 / edited by Athol L. Murray. -- Papers of a Dundee shipping dispute, 1600-1604 / edited by W.A. McNeill -- A scottish liturgy of the reign of James VI / edited by Gordon Donaldson -- Lists of schoolmasters teaching Latin, 1690 / edited by Donald J. Withrington -- Letters of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun and his family, 1715-1716 / edited by Irene J. Murray -- Sir John Clerk's observation on the present circumstances of Scotland, 1730 / edited by T.C. Smout -- A Renfrewshire election account, 1832 / edited by William Ferguson. |
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