Series 2 > Seafield correspondence from 1685 to 1708

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CORRESPONDENCE OF JAMES [june
soe often trublesome to your Lop. on these heads, but you
wold see a necessity for it, if you were here. Therefor I
hope your Lop. will pardon, My Lord, Your Lops, most
humble and most obedient servant,
David Nairne.
16^ June 1705.
Sir Gilbert Elliot was clerk to the Scots Privy Council.
For THE EARL OF SEA FI ELD, LD. CHANCELLOR
My Lord,—I came from Windsor last night after elleven,
where I had been to get her Matys. hand to ye letter to the
Par. and instructions to ye Com1-. They differ a litle from
what came to ye Treas1-, as I wrote to my Ld Com1 last post.
I also got ye letters signed to ye Lords of Session and
Justiciary to admitt Sr Gilbert Eliot as one of ther number.
At my comeing to toun, I found your Lops, of ye 12th with
one to my Lord Tresr, which I sent to his Lop. this morn¬
ing, because I could not goe myselfe, haveing ye above
papers and severall others to dispatch. I shall observe
what your Lop. directs concerning the French prisoners
taken by Capt. Campbell, and by next post shall, I hope,
receave her Maty8 commands and transmitte them to your
Lop. I containou with al duty, My Lord, Yor Lop8 most
humble and most obedient servant, David Nairne.
Your Lop. has here on from my Ld. Treas1-.
mh June 1705.
For THE EARL OF SEAFIELD, LD. CHANCELLOR
My Lord,—I told your Lop. in my last that I shoud by
this day receave her Mat8 commands concerning ye ffrench
prisoners taken by Cap1 Campbell, and accordingly I went
to Windsor for that end and am just returned. She was
pleased to ask me if any such caice had occured befor. I
told her Maty, that there had, when I had ye honor formerly
to serve—and that then I was commanded to attend ye
Secretarie of State here and ye Com18 of transportation,
who tooke the same methode of exchangeing as with those
taken and brought to any remote pairt of England or in
Ireland, and thus her Maty, has ordered me to apply again,