Series 2 > Seafield correspondence from 1685 to 1708

1707]
FIRST EARL OF SEAFIELD
435
We will long to hear from yr Lop. after you receave ours
concerning the equivalent. I wrote to you some dayes
ago w* the four English gentelmen of the equivalent, wch
they are to deliver themselves. ’Tis only recomending them
to your favour. This place is so dull and so little passing,
that I will have but seldome occation of wryting to yr
Lop.; but when anything happens worth yr while, yr Lop.
may be sure I will not neglect giveing you an account of it.
I am wl all respect, My Lord, Yr Lps. most obedient and
most humble servant, Mar.
Whythall, Julie 15th, 1707.
Ten at night.
My brother wryts me of that affair w1 my Lord Glasgow
being ended.
On the 20th June 1707 Seafield received a new warrant1 for a
commission as Lord High Chancellor of Scotland. Next year, on
13th May, he received a warrant2 for a commission as Chief Baron
of Exchequer.
For THE EARL OF SEABTELD
My Lord,—This afternoon I have ye honor to receave
your Lop’s, of ye 17th with ye memorall. I immedeatly
got a meeting of ye Duke of Queensbery and ye Lords
Secretaries. They had all taken leive of Windsor and
designd to set out ye morrow for ye Bath, I mean ye
Secretaries, for ye Duke is somwhat indisposed and can
not travell for a day or two. Yet his Grace and ye Earle
of Loudoun designe on the subject of ye memorall to goe
back to Windsor the morrow, whither I shall have ye
honor to attend them, that I may be ye better able to write
what is to be said on it, for there Lops, can not well staye
longer from ye Bath. I shall by this beg leive to give some
answer to one point of ye memoriall, viz., ye provideing
the necessarys for conage. I had a letter from Doctor
Gregorie two posts agoe with a notte of ye severall things
wanting, which I caryd immediatly to Sr Isack Newton
and convinced him of ye necessity of a speedy dispatch,
1 Slate Papers (Scotland) Warrant Books, vol. xxv. p. 21.
* Ibid., p. 143.