Series 2 > Seafield correspondence from 1685 to 1708

1700] FIRST EARL OF SEAFIELD 303
6 lewtenants . . . . . . 26 12 00
6 cornetts . . . . . . 22 8 00
1 quartermaster . . . . . 2 16 0
In all 3117 17 5
Item the monthlie subsistence of a regiment
of foot officers and souldiers consisting of
10 comp, is .... . 335 13 0
Item the monthlie subsistence of a regiment
of dragoons consisting of 8 troops, officers
and souldiers ..... 609 5 8
Item a regiment of dragoons of six troops,
officers and souldiers is . . . 462 2 0
Item quarter lie precepts amounts to . . 966 18 4
5491 17 3
Coppy of a LETTER to HIS MATY jN favour of
MR. PINKARTOWNE and HIS CREW
May it please Yor Ma^’,—I should not have presumed
to have troubled yor Ma^ at present, nothing of conse¬
quence having occured since I wrett to yor MaW with
Mr. Carstairs, but that the letters from Spain bring acco1
that Captain Pinkarten and those of his crew, who were
taken near to Carthagena and are now prisoners in Sevilia
and some other places of Old Spain, are sentenced to dye.
Yor Ma^ may remember that you was graciously pleased
to promise to the Affrican company in a letter to the
Privy Council, about the time I went Commissioner to the
General Assembly, that you would demand them ; and
some time thereafter when I was in Scotland yor Maty was
pleased to allow my Ld. Carmichael to write to some of
the company that you had demanded them ; and after all
this, if they suffer death, it will very much increase the
present ferment in Scotland, and in my humble opinion it
will be ane act of great injustice and cruelty in the King
of Spain, and contrary both to the law of nations and
yor Mats treatties with him, for the ship they were in did
spring a laik and they were necessitat to run to the nearest