Series 2 > Seafield correspondence from 1685 to 1708

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CORRESPONDENCE OF JAMES [sept.
and Advocat anent it, and should send a list of the persons
ye requyre to be added.
James Hay is not in toun that the old disposi°n of
Reidhyth may be sent north.
The inclosed for your Lop, and my Lady I hope will
give your Lop. satisfaction anent the peace. It is talked
at London and here that the principallitie of Oraing is to
be restored to our King, with all the estate his predices-
sors hade in Burgundie, that Luxenburgh, Mons, Dinant,
Charleroy, Arth, and a great many other touns in fflanders
are to be restored to Spaine, with all Catolonia, at least
so much therof as wes in the possession of that croun at
the treatie of Menungen,1 and that the equivalent is offered
to the Emperour for Strathsburgh and the Dutchie of
Loraine. The peace is to passe the seals of England and
ffrance, and to be therefter ratified with all diligence. I
hope James Baird will lett your Lop. knowe what comes
to his eares. Ther is no Scots newes here.—I ame, My
Lord, Your Lops, most humble and most obedient servant,
Jo. Andersone.
Showe my Lord Secretary’s Lady that Mr. Crauford
continues yet to serve her Lord as Keeper of the Signet,
that her Laps, letter shall be this night sent off, and nixt
post I shall answer hers.
The treaty of Ryswick, which recognised William’s title, was
signed on the 10th and 11th of September 1697. The terms
mentioned in John Anderson’s letter were inaccurate. The news
reached London on the 13th, and Edinburgh on the 17th Sep¬
tember.
For THE EARL OF FINDLATER
My Loud,—I pray your Lo. pardon my boldness in giving
your Lo. this trouble, qh I doe being desyrous to see
Hollyoaks dictionarie. If your Lo. hav it, and will be
pleased to let me see it for a three weeks tym, your Lo.
shall remain assurd I will tak mor car of it nor it war my
oun, and return it saff. My Lord, a week or tuo agoe I
Meaning probably Nimeguen.