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280 LAUDERDALE CORRESPONDENCE [SEPT. 30
be the last occassion the Church and my Lord will have to
ingage freinds in that nature : and as yr Grace did begin the
worke, so is none so fitt to end itt as my Lord of Glascow.
Here is a hous full of company, so I am able att this time to
write no more, but to assure yr Grace I am yr Graces most
faithfull obliged servant, E. Lauderdale.
I beseech you excuse me to my Brother Halton, and all
frinds for this post.
XXIV
THE DUCHESS OF LAUDERDALE TO SHARP
Ham, Scpr. ye 30, 1674.
May itt pleas yr Grace,—I am sory wee were the other
day interupted in our discours, and to show you itt is trew I
take this liberty to cleere my selfe, wch I had done by way of
discours had not company prevented me. By w* yr Grace said
to me I find the Chancelour1 must have misrepresented me to
yr Grace as iff I were, att the best, coole in his concernes. I
doe acknowlege, affter I had had a long tryal of Patience upon
ye account of his cariage the last Sessions of Parle4, I could not
but once before I left Scotland deale freely wth him. I thoat
itt both honest and generous, seeing I have ever taken my selfe
to have been, iff not his best freind, yett one of thos whom hee
did in comon justice owe fidellity to,2 and then itt had been un¬
worthy in me to have left Scotland without useing the freedom
I did wth him. And tho hee might be ill satisfyed wth the
way I did itt in, yett I canot beleive him so insensible of my
freindshipp to him as to object att formes when hee is so dis-
serning in the reallity of things. And indeed no less concerne
was itt possible for me to express, alowing the provocation to
have proportion wth the freindshipp I ever have professed to
the Chanclour ; yett must hee doe me the justice to acknowlege
that affter all I said to him att that time by way of reproach,
I did att parting (in my closett att ye Abbie) tell him That
1 Rothes.
2 It was believed that Rothes, as well as Lauderdale, owed his life to the
intervention of Lady Dysart with Oliver Cromwell.
be the last occassion the Church and my Lord will have to
ingage freinds in that nature : and as yr Grace did begin the
worke, so is none so fitt to end itt as my Lord of Glascow.
Here is a hous full of company, so I am able att this time to
write no more, but to assure yr Grace I am yr Graces most
faithfull obliged servant, E. Lauderdale.
I beseech you excuse me to my Brother Halton, and all
frinds for this post.
XXIV
THE DUCHESS OF LAUDERDALE TO SHARP
Ham, Scpr. ye 30, 1674.
May itt pleas yr Grace,—I am sory wee were the other
day interupted in our discours, and to show you itt is trew I
take this liberty to cleere my selfe, wch I had done by way of
discours had not company prevented me. By w* yr Grace said
to me I find the Chancelour1 must have misrepresented me to
yr Grace as iff I were, att the best, coole in his concernes. I
doe acknowlege, affter I had had a long tryal of Patience upon
ye account of his cariage the last Sessions of Parle4, I could not
but once before I left Scotland deale freely wth him. I thoat
itt both honest and generous, seeing I have ever taken my selfe
to have been, iff not his best freind, yett one of thos whom hee
did in comon justice owe fidellity to,2 and then itt had been un¬
worthy in me to have left Scotland without useing the freedom
I did wth him. And tho hee might be ill satisfyed wth the
way I did itt in, yett I canot beleive him so insensible of my
freindshipp to him as to object att formes when hee is so dis-
serning in the reallity of things. And indeed no less concerne
was itt possible for me to express, alowing the provocation to
have proportion wth the freindshipp I ever have professed to
the Chanclour ; yett must hee doe me the justice to acknowlege
that affter all I said to him att that time by way of reproach,
I did att parting (in my closett att ye Abbie) tell him That
1 Rothes.
2 It was believed that Rothes, as well as Lauderdale, owed his life to the
intervention of Lady Dysart with Oliver Cromwell.
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| Description | Contents:The library of James VI. In the hand of Peter Young, his tutor, 1573-1583 / G.F. Warner -- Documents illustrating Catholic policy in the reign of James VI., 1596-1598 / Thomas Graves Law -- Twenty-four letters of Sir Thomas Hope, ... 1627-1646 / Robert Paul -- Civil war papers, 1643-1650 / H.F. Morland Simpson -- Thirty-four letters written to James Sharp, ... 1660-1677 / John Dowden -- The diary of George Turnbull, minister of Alloa and Tyninghame, 1657-1704 / Robert Paul -- The Masterton papers, 1660-1719 / V.A. Noël Paton -- Accompt of expenses in Edinburgh by Alexander Rose of Kilravock, 1715 / A.H. Millar -- Papers about the Rebellions of 1715 and 1745 / Henry Paton -- General index -- Index to the library of James VI. |
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