Series 2 > Seafield correspondence from 1685 to 1708

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CORRESPONDENCE OF JAMES [aug.
Mackin cleans lands, which holds treu or not I know not.
This is all at present from. My Lord, Your humbell
servant, F. Ogilvye.
Whitelums is in the parish of Gartly, Aberdeenshire. On the
8th of May the Committee of Estates sent out a new commission
to the Master of Forbes ‘for raising his Troop, in place of the
former which was intercepted.’
When the Convention met again on the 5th of June, James
Ogilvie is entered in the rolls as Sir James Ogilvie. There is a
subsequent entry in the rolls of Parliament for the new session
beginning 15th April 1690, where he is designed ‘ Mr. ’; but he
had received the honour of knighthood before that date. In the
sederunt of the Convention of Royal Burghs, which he attended
on 2nd July 1689 as the representative of Cullen, he is entered as
Mr. At a particular Convention held on 14th August he was
designed Sir James, and was appointed one of three commissioners
to proceed to London, to present an address to the King to have
the grievances of the Royal Burghs especially as to trade redressed.
Sir James Ogilvie proceeded to London, and met the King. In
the written reply of his Majesty, dated 27th September, he is
called Sir James.1 His territorial designation of Churchhill the
editor has been unable to identify.
Killiecrankie was fought on the 27th of July. On the 1st of
August Parliament authorised the Privy Council to call out all the
heritors and fencible men within the kingdom, with their best
horses and arms and forty days’ provisions. On the 3rd of August
James Ogilvie, who was then heartily in sympathy with the
government, sent his father the following account of the state
of affairs and of the defensive measures taken after Mackay’s
defeat. The letter dated 7th August from John Innes, laird of
Edingight, refers to the levy ordered on 1st August.
Edr., August Sd, 1689.
My Lord,—I received your Lo: leter with one inclosed
for General Major McKay, hot he being with the army, I
could not get his letter delivered to him. I therfor went
to the Commissioner,2 and did read to him both the Generals
letter and mine, and did hold out to him the steat and
1 Records of the Convention of Royal Burghs, 1689, pp. 99-104.
2 William, Duke of Hamilton.