Series 2 > Seafield correspondence from 1685 to 1708

1695] FIRST EARL OF SEAFIELD 175
as you finde cause and clearness. When I go back to
Edr, I shall endevour to speak with your son about his
progress in providing for Cullen, and give him all the little
assistance I can in that matter. As for Mr. Watt, the
Presbytery have appointed some to converse and confer
with him, that we may be better acquainted with him,
and may know how to represent his case to the Generali
Assembly or the comittee thereof; for the rules given
to this Presbytery of Afod do require them not to admitt
any person in Mr. Watts circumstances into ministerial!
comunion without advice from the Gen11 Assembly or
comittee. Yet I have and will befriend Mr. Watt as far
as I can. But for a more full account of these things I
refer your Lp. to the relation of Mr. Innes. I do humbly
salute your Lps. family, and thank you and them for the
kinde reception I had at your house. Grace mercy peace
and wisdom be multiplyed upon your Lps. honorable
family, so prayes, My Lord, Your Lps. most obliged serv*
in the gospell, W. Trail.
Mr. George Chalmers was not settled in Rathven. Dr. Cramond
in his Church and Churchyard of Rathven, pp. 31-44, gives an account
of the long drawn-out fight in settling Presbytery in Rathven.
For THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE EARLE OF
FFINDLATER fid
Edr., 26 Nov. 1695.
My Lord,—I hade the honor of your Lops lyne in
relatione to the comsirs rateing of what affaires passes
heir. I doubt not but your Lop. receaves the publict
news letters weiklie, which are transmitted at leist twyce
in everie weik. As for other affaires ther are few or of
litle import. The sederunts of the Councell receave.
President Stair dyed three dayes agoe, and this night
betuixt fyve and sex at night his corps was transported
from his loodges to the Abey of Holyruidhous under a
pale, the murners nobilitie and gentrie beng surroundit
on each syd of the strat with numerous torches. Who is