Series 2 > Seafield correspondence from 1685 to 1708

1692]
FIRST EARL OF SEAFIELD
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be werie vnffortunat, he is out of the way, being ffor-
warned. This youer Ho. may keep to youer selfe. And
now I have sent youer account of resteing cess to you,
qch must be here this night preceislye, vyrwayes I
cannot exeem the lands ffrom ane pairtie. Your Ho. will
send the wholle sume required; ffor youer Ho. will
ffind the 100 fts. peyt by the daills sent, and 29 its. dew
by my Lord youer ffaither. This is peremptor, so that
youer Ho. will excuse this ffreedome ffrom, Right Honll,
Your Ho. humble srvant, Ja. Cock.
Colonel John Buchan of Auchmacoy, Aberdeenshire, was brother
of Major-General Thomas Buchan the Jacobite leader.
Next day James Cock writes: ‘The pairtie that went out last
night as I told your Ho. in my last hes missed yr mark and are
returned. I wish God that bussines were done away, and that
youer Ho. were at Edr.’
For SIR JAMES OGILVIE
Dear Sir,—Im sory to hear yr bussines should make it
uneasy for you to doe my cussine the favour to be att
hir manage. I hope you11 gett it so ordered as to come
one Tusday. All of us intreats it; and I particularly beg
it, for Im pleased w4 all occasions wher I can have the
good fortune to waite one you, and mey convinc you hou
intyrly I am, Drst Sir, Yr most affectionatt humble servant,
Keith.
Inverugie, Octr. 23, 1692.
Lord Keith was William, afterwards (16.94) ninth Earl
Marischal.
ffor THE RIGHT HONBLE THE EARLE OF FINDLATIRE
My Lord,—I shall be glad of any thing I can doe to
serve yr LoP and famely, and have sent yr Lop the drinke
for the head ack, which is to be warmed a litle, and half an
English pint drunke at night iust going into bed, and as
much the next night in the same maner. I am sory to
heare Sr James’s Lady is soe indisposed. I send her some
histerick water as desired. She is to take but the one