Series 2 > Seafield correspondence from 1685 to 1708

48 CORRESPONDENCE OF JAMES [march
For MASTER JAMES OGILVIE son to the EARL OF
FINDLATUR att Edr.
to be delivered with car
March the 29, 1689.
My Dearist,—Your leatter did give very much satis¬
faction to me, and your resolution of coming hom; for
as I still beliued my self unhappy when you was from me,
so nou I think I haue mor reason then ever to think so,
when you are in a pleas wher ther is so much confousion
and danger. I wish the Lord may preserve and protat
you; for I beliue ther was never a tym wher in popel
had mor reason to diseyr that ernastly then nou. I
shall not trubl you longer, but to intreat that you may
not chines your resolution, but com hom hou sun you
can, and that I am till dath, Dear heart. Your most
affectionat and fathful Anna Ogilvie.
On the 4th of April James Ogilvie is said to have voted against
the resolution of the Convention declaring the throne vacant and
settling it on William and Mary.1
On the 18th of April, in view of Dundee’s activity, an act was
passed for a levy of five hundred horsemen out of the several
shires of Scotland, of which forty-four were apportioned to Banff¬
shire and to Erroll’s part of Aberdeenshire. These were put under
the command of the Master of Forbes on 22nd April. The follow¬
ing letter from the Sheriff-Clerk of Banffshire details the procedure
taken in that county. Major Hugh Buntein of Kilbryde, Ayrshire,
was muster-master of the whole levy.
ffor THE EARLE OFF FINDLATER
thes
My Lord,—I have received ane act from the Conven-
tione of Estates, wheirby I am ordoured to give advertis-
ment to all the comssrs. of militia and outputters of horse
theirto within this shyre to meete att Banff upon Thursday
nixt the 2d of May for outreicking the ffourth horse of the
ordinar militia, and that they be ready to be presented
heir agt the 9th of the sd month with ten dayes provision
1 Anderson’s Scottish Nation, vol. ii. p. 215.