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LAUDERDALE CORRESPONDENCE [mar. 2
have been made by such who have no other foundation to make
up the standing of their faction upon, except that of libals,
and misrepresentations.
I am yett of the same mynd, ready to doe any good office
wherin I shall be esteemed so worthy as to be trusted; and
upon that hed doe I again make this profession to yr Grace.
Itt is a great trouble to me to fynd the difference run so high
as itt is now between ye Marquis of Douglas and his Lady.1
I beseech you take the matter so far into yr care as to keep itt
from publick seperation, and iff his Losp will not live with his
Lady, yett perswade him to lett hir keep hir sonn, and to give
hir an alliment fitt for hir quality, woh is his concerne as well
as hirs. I ernestly desire yr Grace and my lord of Glascow to
signifye to my Lord Marquiss how much I doe concerne my
selfe in itt, haveing the honour to be related to his Lady 2 and
being trewly a lover of hir. I have writtin to ye Mar. of
Atholl to the same effect, and to the E. of Mar. Once more
I beseech yr Grace to make use of both my Lord’s naime and
myne as far as may be conducive towards perswading my Lord
to doe like a person of honour to his Lady, and withal be
pleasd to represent to him (in case hee be implacable as to the
seperation) w* other Ladys, of less rank then she is, has had :
besids that his Lady is the Mother of his only Sonn3 who
is his only Successor to his Noble family.
I am not able to write to my Lord of Glascow this Post;
this therefore must serve for both.—My Lord, I am Yr Grace’s
most humble and faithfull servant, E. Lauderdale.
[Not addressed.]
XXX
CHARLES MAITLAND, LORD HATTON, TO SHARP
Neumarket, 5 April [1674 ?].
May it please yr Grace,—I have had litl to say since I cam
to London or hier, els I had given you the trouble off a letter.
I most in the first plac returne yue my humble thanks for the
1 See Introduction.
2 See Introduction.
See Introduction.
LAUDERDALE CORRESPONDENCE [mar. 2
have been made by such who have no other foundation to make
up the standing of their faction upon, except that of libals,
and misrepresentations.
I am yett of the same mynd, ready to doe any good office
wherin I shall be esteemed so worthy as to be trusted; and
upon that hed doe I again make this profession to yr Grace.
Itt is a great trouble to me to fynd the difference run so high
as itt is now between ye Marquis of Douglas and his Lady.1
I beseech you take the matter so far into yr care as to keep itt
from publick seperation, and iff his Losp will not live with his
Lady, yett perswade him to lett hir keep hir sonn, and to give
hir an alliment fitt for hir quality, woh is his concerne as well
as hirs. I ernestly desire yr Grace and my lord of Glascow to
signifye to my Lord Marquiss how much I doe concerne my
selfe in itt, haveing the honour to be related to his Lady 2 and
being trewly a lover of hir. I have writtin to ye Mar. of
Atholl to the same effect, and to the E. of Mar. Once more
I beseech yr Grace to make use of both my Lord’s naime and
myne as far as may be conducive towards perswading my Lord
to doe like a person of honour to his Lady, and withal be
pleasd to represent to him (in case hee be implacable as to the
seperation) w* other Ladys, of less rank then she is, has had :
besids that his Lady is the Mother of his only Sonn3 who
is his only Successor to his Noble family.
I am not able to write to my Lord of Glascow this Post;
this therefore must serve for both.—My Lord, I am Yr Grace’s
most humble and faithfull servant, E. Lauderdale.
[Not addressed.]
XXX
CHARLES MAITLAND, LORD HATTON, TO SHARP
Neumarket, 5 April [1674 ?].
May it please yr Grace,—I have had litl to say since I cam
to London or hier, els I had given you the trouble off a letter.
I most in the first plac returne yue my humble thanks for the
1 See Introduction.
2 See Introduction.
See Introduction.
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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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