Series 2 > Seafield correspondence from 1685 to 1708

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FIRST EARL OF SEAFIELD
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endeavour to be busie at my book and to aprove my self,
My Lord, Your Lo. most humble and obedient servant,
Ja. Ogilvie.
Abdn., Ap. 1700.
Viscount Seafield’s eldest son was in Aberdeen studying under
his tutor Mr. Blake. Next year, as ‘ nobilissimus Jacobus de
Deskford,’ he was enrolled a student of Marischal College in the
class of the regent Mr. Peacock, which ran from 1701 to 1705.1
For THE EARL OF FINDLATER
Newark, May 3d, 1700.
My Lord,—I know you can’t be the worse of traveling
to the Parliament, and therfor I expect to see you ther.
It sitts down upon the 21st, and it is better to be over a
day or two sooner as to miss to be at the electing of
the comittees. I wish that our Bamffshire commissioners
may come up also about that time, and I hope they will
not determine themselves in any thing untill they speak
with me. I cannot communicate to yor Lop. what
measures we have taken untill I see you, but I hope all
honest men will have reason to be satisfyed. [I hope your
Lop.] may bring me as clear an ace4 as is possible of the
state of my affairs in the north, and particularly that which
concerns Kempcairn ; and if the borrowing of money be
needful on that acct. yor Lop. may do it, and I do hereby
impower you to grant bond for nine or ten thousand merks,
wch shall be as binding upon me as if the bond were granted
by my self ; and if you find any difficulty to do this, I shall
do it at Edr, but let it not hinder you from comeing south
against the down sitting of the Parliament. I do also
expect that Provost Stuart 2 will come along with yor
Lop., or at least about that time, and expecting to see you
so very soon I shall only add that I am, My Lord, Yor
Lops most obedient son and most humble ser4,
Seafield.
1 Records of Marischal College and University, New Spalding Club, vol. ii.
p. 281. ‘The Education of a Scots Nobleman Two Hundred Years Ago,’ by
the Editor, in Transactions of the Banffshire Field Chib, 1909.
2 Commissioner for Banff.