Series 2 > Seafield correspondence from 1685 to 1708

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CORRESPONDENCE OF JAMES [july
have much busnes on my hand. All yowr freinds ar weill.
I am told ther is propositions from Ardes to yowr sister
L. Anna. If his circumstances be as they ar represented,
I dout not it pleas all freinds. Yowr northcoming ia
longed by all yowr freinds, and particularly by, Sr, Yowr
affectionat cusing and humble servant,
Patrick Ogilvie.
I have wrott to Mr. Jams Elfingstown,1 if he have any of
my monie undisposed off, that he send it north with yow,.
which I hop yow will caus your servant cary.
For SIR JAMES OGILVIE OF CHURCHILL
Banff heast heast 3d
ERr., the i5th of Sptr. 92.
Right Honorable,—. . . I expected befor this tyme to
haue had commission from you for taking of Ladie Annas,
nesesaries, but in that you may dou a[s] you thinke fitt.—
I trou[b]lie you no farder, but that I still ame, Sir, Your
most affectionat and humble srt, Ja. Dunbar.
Turn over.
For neues ane Ostende ship cam to Lith last day, who was
but four dayes betuixt Holand and this. He gives ane
accoumpt that befor he cam off the wholl Confedirat armie
had invested Dunkirk be land, whell a great manie of the
Inglish and Duch flitts wer bombarding it by sea. This
is both the greatest and leatest neues we haue heir.
Adeu.
James Dunbar, Younger of Burn, was brother-in-law of Sir
James Ogilvie. Late in July William and the Confederates were
defeated by the French at Steinkirk, and Dunbar’s news about the
bombardment of Dunkirk points to the date of the letter being
1694.
Martha Stevensone, bookseller, Edinburgh, continued to supply
the Earle of Findlater with books.
Eden., Sept. 22d, 1692.
My Lord,—^According to yowr Lordship’s order I have
Of Logie, commissioner for Aberdeenshire.