Series 2 > Seafield correspondence from 1685 to 1708

1705]
FIRST EARL OF SEAFIELD
397
I inclose a copie, for stopping any further execution till
further light be gott in this matter. The hanging of Green
occasions extraordinary censure and resentment here
against our nation, and the not publishing of the trial
makes it hard for any to find satisfying answeres to the
objections made both against the sentence and the pre¬
cipitancy of the execution ; and people may flater them¬
selves by thinking to lay the blame, if ther is any, upon a
party. In that I do beleeve they may be mistaken, for
if ther is ground for reproach none will escape it. Therfor
in my humble opinion none should appear backward in
publishing a justification of what has been done in this
matter, and the sooner the better.—I am, with all respect,
My Lord, Your Losps. most humble and obedient serv1,
Al. Wedderburn.
I have gott so late advertisement for sending this express,
that I have not time to inlarge.
For THE EARL OF SEAFIELD
My Lord,—I acknowledge the honor of haveing your
Lops, letter of ye 17th wth on to ye Duke of Queensberry
which I delivered. Whatever pairt of her Matys. affairs
that I shall be imployed in, I shall to ye best of my capacity
most fathfully execute. That affaire of Capt. Green and
his crew maks soe much noise here as is enugh to frighten
Scots men in some pairts of ye city to oune themselves as
such. What adds to the flame is not publishing ye tryall,
and, besids ye vulgar, people of good understanding think
thers some weakness in it, for wch its toe long concealed.
I quetion not but your Lop. has had sufficient truble in
this mater since your arivall. The insolence that was
offered to your Lop. has been much talked off. I hope ere
this the bottom of that affaire is discovered, and ye
fomenters duly punishd.1 The Duke of Queensberry gives
his humble service to your Lop. He and his familly are
in such disorder that he can not write, ye Dutchess being
in labour but not bad enugh. I shall always acknowledge
1 Tht Jerviswood Correspondence, pp. 75-77.