Series 1 > Miscellany of the Scottish History Society (First volume)

SIR THOMAS HOPE
1627]
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Brochtoun, becaus your lordschip referris it to Sir James
Baillies cumming I will rest thairupon. And for the nott of
the Irische landis,1 it salbe sent with the securities quhen thay
go to Irland, and .nothing salbe omittit of that quhilk your
lordschip lies gevin in directioun to he done ather be your
present letteris or be your lordschipis former. And becaus Sir
Archibald Achesoun 2 is better acquaint with Irische bussines
nor I, thairfoir I sail follow his counsell, and advyse thairin.
As to George Graham and his complices, I think thai may be
persewit for reif and thift; but becaus he is absent furth of
the cuntrey he man be persewit on lx dayis; and for his
complices Robert Creychtoun hes promisit to bring me thair
names betuix and the tent of this moneth, and sa sone as I
gett tham I sail ryse criminall letteris both aganis George
Graham and tham ; and if possibly the complices can be
separat from George Graham, quho is principall actor, I sail
travell to draw tham to thair tryall within xv dayis, quhilk is
the ordinar course of citatioun. But I feir it salbe difficult to
separat the principall from the complices, or tham from the
principall. But seing your lordschip is so ernest, and that it
tuichis your lordschip in credit, it sail haif ane essay, and the
worst is to bring tham also in vpon lx dayis if I can not gett
tham in apart without George Graham.
As to your lordschipis declarator againis your brother,3 it is
very liklie that the first gift wes takin to your vmquhile
brotheris4 behove, and be his awin moyen and moneyis, but
this man be provin, and it can not be provin but ather be
1 See note, p. 89.
2 Son of Alexander Acheson of Gosford, Haddington; admitted to the Scottish
bar in 1607; obtained a large grant of lands in the county of Antrim, Ireland,
in 1611, and in the following year another grant in the county of Cavan ; raised
to the Scottish bench in 1626 as Lord Glencairney ; created a baronet by
Charles 1. in 1628 ; for many years one of the Secretaries of State for Scotland.
Married a daughter of Sir Robert Hannay of Mochrum, Bart.; died 9th Septem¬
ber 1634.—Brunton and Haig’s Senators of the College of Justice-, Burke’s
Peerage.
3 Sir Richard Murray of Cockpool, succeeded his elder brother, Sir James, in
1621; created a baronet by Charles 1., and died sine prole, in 1636.—Douglas’s
Baronage.
4 Sir James Murray of Cockpool, the Earl’s eldest brother; succeeded to
Cockpool in 1605 ; died in 1620, leaving three daughters, but no son.—Ibid.