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WITH ARCHBISHOP SHARP
281
1674]
yett hee should find me willing to serve him when ever hee
should ingage me to doe itt. Now, my Lord, when I say this,
and sett itt under my hand, I hope yr Grace will not entertaine
so ill an opinion of me as to think I foment ill humours
amonngst frinds. Of the contrary I doe abhor itt; and the
Chancelour neither has[?] nor can injure me more then by
sogesting so ill a temper to be in my nature. I am really sory
hee has so dishonoured him selfe as to dissert his best frinds to
adheare to his greatest enimyes. I have long known how my
Lord’s heart has stood to him, and the deepe impressions I
found in my Lord’s mynd att the time of the Chancelours
desertion did not a little agravate the greefe of mynd wch lay
upon my spiritt all that Sessions of Parle1.1 But, my Lord, I
have but given yr Grace too much trouble upon this subject.
I humble crave yr Grace’s Blessing, being yr Grace’s most
humble servant, E. Lauderdale.
[Not addressed.]
XXV
THE DUCHESS OF LAUDERDALE TO SHARP
Whitehall, March 16, [1676?].
May itt pleas yr Grace,—I have received yrs dated ye 9th;
and tho I am now in hast, and that I am invited to the Lord
Mai ores to diner with my Lord, yett I must say this one word
to yr Grace, that I hope you will not so much give yr self
trouble as to solicitt a matter wherin I canot possibly be ye
least concerned more then in comon justice and in due respect
to yr Grace. I beseech yr Grace lett any aftayre of that kind
goe its owne way and in its owne place. I am now fully in-
litned as to all the designs now on foot, and I am not unsensible
how much both yr Graces endeavours and my good wishes have
been not only nedglected, but even traduced, so y1 I againe
1 A graphic account of the attack made in Parliament on Lauderdale by the
Duke of Hamilton, with whom Rothes, Argyll, and Tweeddale allied them¬
selves for the time, will be found in Burnet. See too a letter (No. XIX in
O. Airy’s Lauderdale Papers, vol. iii. p. 26) of Lauderdale to the king. Lauder¬
dale had to find his protection by having the Parliament prorogued.
281
1674]
yett hee should find me willing to serve him when ever hee
should ingage me to doe itt. Now, my Lord, when I say this,
and sett itt under my hand, I hope yr Grace will not entertaine
so ill an opinion of me as to think I foment ill humours
amonngst frinds. Of the contrary I doe abhor itt; and the
Chancelour neither has[?] nor can injure me more then by
sogesting so ill a temper to be in my nature. I am really sory
hee has so dishonoured him selfe as to dissert his best frinds to
adheare to his greatest enimyes. I have long known how my
Lord’s heart has stood to him, and the deepe impressions I
found in my Lord’s mynd att the time of the Chancelours
desertion did not a little agravate the greefe of mynd wch lay
upon my spiritt all that Sessions of Parle1.1 But, my Lord, I
have but given yr Grace too much trouble upon this subject.
I humble crave yr Grace’s Blessing, being yr Grace’s most
humble servant, E. Lauderdale.
[Not addressed.]
XXV
THE DUCHESS OF LAUDERDALE TO SHARP
Whitehall, March 16, [1676?].
May itt pleas yr Grace,—I have received yrs dated ye 9th;
and tho I am now in hast, and that I am invited to the Lord
Mai ores to diner with my Lord, yett I must say this one word
to yr Grace, that I hope you will not so much give yr self
trouble as to solicitt a matter wherin I canot possibly be ye
least concerned more then in comon justice and in due respect
to yr Grace. I beseech yr Grace lett any aftayre of that kind
goe its owne way and in its owne place. I am now fully in-
litned as to all the designs now on foot, and I am not unsensible
how much both yr Graces endeavours and my good wishes have
been not only nedglected, but even traduced, so y1 I againe
1 A graphic account of the attack made in Parliament on Lauderdale by the
Duke of Hamilton, with whom Rothes, Argyll, and Tweeddale allied them¬
selves for the time, will be found in Burnet. See too a letter (No. XIX in
O. Airy’s Lauderdale Papers, vol. iii. p. 26) of Lauderdale to the king. Lauder¬
dale had to find his protection by having the Parliament prorogued.
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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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