Series 2 > Seafield correspondence from 1685 to 1708

1686]
FIRST EARL OF SEAFIELD
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Parliatt wer ower I hop wee sail soon cleir all thes things.
The Parliatt sitts on Moonday, and its thought then will
adjourn or rather dissolwe. The Commissioner is to goe
up once the nixt week. I sail referr your LoP to the in¬
closed ane account of the acts of Parliatt past since I
wrote last and prior to this daite. Muretoun wes knighted
att Dinnibisle last day, and now called in rolls of Parliatt
Sir James Callder. My Lord, pardon the trouble to caus
deliwer the inclosed to the Baylies off Cullen. This
Parliatt is the most renouned Parliatt hes been heir thir
many yeirs, ffor ther resolutiones in standing fixt to ther
religione, qch I hear is much approwen by our nighbour
natione England. I giwe my humble duty to your LoP
to my Lady, and to all your ffamilie.—So being hasted att
thetyme, this is all from, My Lord, Your Lo. wery affec°natt
and most humble serwant, Geo. Leslye.
My Lord, just as I wes to seall this letter I had yours
by fforskans 1 sone.
Henceforth James, in England as well as in Scotland, ruled
without a Parliament, freely using his prerogative in carrying out
his policy.
The key to the disagreement between Lord Boyne and his
Lady disclosed in the following letters of 1st, 2nd and 26th
October 1686, and more incidentally referred to in the letters
of the 27th of November and 21st of December 1686, is found in
Fountainhall’s note of 11th March 1686: 'Campbell of Calder,
younger, invades and affronts Ogilvie of Boyne at 12 o’clock, after
he had come of the bench (being Lord of the Session) and spat
in his face in the High street of Edinburgh. The cause was,
he was said to have lyen with Boyne’s lady, daughter of Earle of
Eglintoun.’ On the 27th April following. Lady Boyne’s brother,
Francis Montgomerie, in a letter to his sister, writes: ' Sine
the sad breach betuixt my Ladie Ann and her Lord is too notour,
I only express myself trulie afflicted therwith and wishes heartilie
an reparation.’
1 William Gordon ofFarskane, Rathven, Banffshire.