Series 2 > Seafield correspondence from 1685 to 1708

428 CORRESPONDENCE OF JAMES [oct. 1706
lenth. I would be weill pleased the honest toun ware out
of debt, and shall never faill fathfullie to doe all the good
I am capable to perform for it. So without aney seremoney
frielie give me your commands, since I wish you all helth
and good things to attend you, being sincerelie, Honobll
Gentlemen, Your humble servant,
Alexr. Ogilvie.
Edinburgh, Novemr. 27th, 1706.
William,—You may compt with my tennants and allow
them for what of there old rests they paid in bear and
meal, ffour pound and half merk the boll of bear and fyve
merks for the boll of meal, qch is fully as much as I gott
for the last years wictuall deduceing ffraught and other
charges; and for the rests of cropt 1705 I leave it to my
wife to determine as she shall think best for getting my
rents duely paid hereafter, qch may be higher than what
I allow them for there former rests.
You may give Thomas Murray ffour bolls of meal out
of this cropt, and I shall hereafter determine what yearly
allowance I ’ll give him for being clerk to my regality
court and barronrie . . .
You may transact with Hary Cathell about the vacant
stipends as conveniently as you can, and send me south
what bond is to be signed to him, for I beleeve his right
will be sustained, and I would have it setled without any
debate, for I doe not desyre to be heard with the Church.
You should write frequently to me of what occurs in the
north, and send me ane abbreviat of last years accompts.—
I am, Your assured ffriend, Seaeield.
Seafield’s regality court was that of Ogilvie in Banffshire. An
account of that court is given by Dr. Cramond in the Transactions
of the Banffshire Field Club of 18th March 1886.
The Scots Parliament met on 3rd October 1706, and the Act
ratifying the treaty of union was passed on l6th January 1707.
For WILLIAM LORIMER, Chamberlane to the
EARLE OF SEAFIELD att Cullen
Edinburgh, Janry. 22, 1707.
D. C.,—. . . The treattie is ended and sent to London