Series 2 > Seafield correspondence from 1685 to 1708

1691]
FIRST EARL OF SEAFIELD
71
to promise me some; and if ye could allowe me ane
falcon or tuo at this tyme, I shall cause haulk one of yfh
for your owen use, y1 ye may knowe the goodnes of your
airie ; and when they are fitt to be berried, upon your
Lodps advertisement I shall send my man for ym. This
favor I hop ye will not refuse to him who is, My Lord,
Your Lodps most affect°nt cousine and humble servant,
Airlie.
Alexander Ogilvie,1 younger brother of George, third Lord Banff,
in next letter writes from Allardes in Kincardineshire, the home of
his first wife, Mary, eldest daughter of Sir John Allardes of that
Ilk. Related to the family of Findlater he was a frequent corre¬
spondent of theirs, and several of his letters are included in this
collection. Apart from the facts disclosed in these letters, it may
be noted that he was probably born in 1660. Through the
influence of his cousin, Seafield, he was appointed in 1699 Deputy
Keeper of His Majesty’s Signet. On 13th March 1700 he got
sasine of the family lands of Forglen and part of Inchdrewer.
In 1701 he was created a Baronet. He represented the royal
burgh of Banff in the Scots Parliament from 1702 until the Union
in 1707. On the 29th of March 1706 he was made a Judge of
the Court of Session, and took the title of Lord Forglen. He
actively supported the union of the Parliaments, and was appointed
one of the commissioners for the treaty. In the troubled times
after the death of Queen Anne and down to 1723 he took an
active part in the county government of Banffshire. His
grandson Sir Alexander Ogilvie became seventh Lord Banff.
For SIR JAMES OGILVIE OF CHURCHHILL,
Adwocat, edr.
Allardes, 15 July ’91.
Right Honobll Sir,—The Earle of Craufoord having
sloped resignation to be made upon ane disposition be
my Lord Bamff to me, upon the pretence that my Lord
Bamff was in the rebellion, qtch is a mistacke, for my
1 ‘Banffshire Roads,’ by the editor, in Banffshire Field Club Transactions,
I9°S- PP- 81, 82; and The Scottish Peerage, vol. ii. p. 23.