Series 2 > Seafield correspondence from 1685 to 1708

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CORRESPONDENCE OF JAMES [oct.
refuised to allowe, and what is due over that will not be
much. I shall take caire that in the mean time the shyre
sustaine no damnage. ... I ame in all deuty, My Lord,
Your Lops, most deutiefu[ll] most humble and most
obleid[ged] servant, Ja. Baird.
The third reinforcement, usually called the Second Expedition
to Darien, left the Clyde on 24th September 1699) after news
arrived of the desertion of the colony. The ships were the
Rising Sun, the Hope, the Duke of Hamilton, and the Hope of
Bo’ness.
For [THE RIGHT] HONOURABLE [THE EARL OF]
FINDLATOR
Edb., the 9th Nov. 99.
My Lord,—I gave in your Lordships letters to the first
packet went of, after I came here. There was besides
the adjourning of the Parliament only three papers past
the Kings hand, to witt Daniel Stewarts gift for collecting
the bullion, and mine as Warden, and Captain Taylours
for being Commissor of Dumblen. All your Lops friends
here are in good health, and I hope to hear the lyke of
your Lop. Mr. Francis Montgomery inquired very kindly
for you and all the family. The Council sate on Tuesday
and there was an address from the Africa council and
directors subscribed by Lord Basil Hamilton in very
mooth terms, desyring there Lops recomendation to his
Majesty for assistance in their present distress. Their
Lops delayed giving an answer to it, in respect there was
that morning by an flying packet an return given by his
Majesty to their address sent him. The Council sate this
afternoon and they sent one White of Banachy, an advocat,
to the tolbooth for reflections he had put in his informa¬
tions by way of answers to the Lords of Council anent
my Lord Ranculer. Beazlie Edie is also put to the tol¬
booth, since by an letter of his written to Provest Sckeen
he appeared to be a traffecting papest. I shall wish all
happyness to attend your Lop, and continue to be, My
Lord, Your Lordships most obedient servant,
Alexr, Ogilvie.