Series 2 > Seafield correspondence from 1685 to 1708

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CORRESPONDENCE OF JAMES [april
with this, but conclude in assuring your Losp. that I am
with all respect, My Lord, Your Losp. most humble and
obedient servt., Al. Wedderburn.
On 7th April the Queen wrote to the Treasury ordering the ship
Katherine of Rotterdam, captured by Captain Thomas Gordon, and
condemned by the Scots Court of Admiralty as a prize, to be
restored or her value paid.1
To THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE EARLE OF SEAFEILD,
LORD HYE CHANCELLOUR
My Lord,—It was this day ere I had the honour of your
Los., soe that is not possible for me to wait on your Lord-
shipe in time to attend the Councill to-morrow. Ther are
many more capable to serve her Majesty, but non more
willing then, My Lord, Your Lordship’s most humble and
obedient servant, Strathmore.
Glamis, Apr“ 12, 1705.
For THE EARL OF SEAFIELD
My Lord,—I receiv’d your Losps. of the O1, and gave in
the two letters inclosed with it as they were directed. Sr
Charles Hedges is here, but my Lord Treasurer is still at
New Market. I have nothing new to write save that
just now Captain Greens brother brought to me Iserael
Phippenny and Peter Freelands, the two men who made
the affidavits before the Maior of Portsmouth, which I
sent to your Losp. amongst the other papers with the last
flying packet. Mr. Green showd me a letter from one
Mr. Stewart, who he says is agent for his brother in
Scotland, telling him that if these men gave their declari-
tions before the Secretarys for Scotland of what they
knew concerning Capt. Drummond, it would have more
weight; and the Secretarys being absent he came with
them to me, but I having no commission to put them upon
oath, and but litle time to discource with them, it being
late, all I can informe your Losp. concerning them is, that
1 State Papers (Scotland) Warrant Books, vol. xx. pp. 216-217 5 and
Historical MSS. Commission, Fourteenth Report, App. Part III., MSS. of the
Countess-Dowager of Seafield, p. 220.