Series 2 > Seafield correspondence from 1685 to 1708

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CORRESPONDENCE OF JAMES [march
obleiged me to fail in my duty of asking your Lordships
commands hither. My Lord the Earle of Rosberry has
wakened his appeal of an decreet of the Lords of Session
concerning the fishing of Cramond water, which decreet
having been obtained by your asistance I now beg your
Lordships concurrence to mantain it in the House of Lords,
and to divert its being determined this session of Parlia¬
ment, and begs your Lordship may pardon this trouble
from, My Lord, your Lordships most humble and obleiged
servant, Jo. Inglis.
Edinburgh, March 2d, 1708.
For THE EARL OF SEAFIELD
Ednr., 6 March 1708.
May it please yor Lp.,—In yours to me about this
threatened invasion, you appear’d sollicitous that the
Presbyterians specially their ministers should shew their
zeal against it; and I must confess that tho many of them
be but ill affected toward the union, yet I never appre¬
hended that any of them would be so desperat as to joyn
with a French popish party to the overthrow of religion
and liberties and all dear to men. I have heard that there
is a manifesto come home promising the fairest things on
the p. Prince of Wales part, but I can neither get a sight
of it nor the knowledge of particulars ; and there are also
whisperings that the French have a correspondence here
more than is imagined, but yet by all the inquiry I can
make I cannot give any farder information. However the
Commission of the last Gen11 Assembly met here Wednsday
last. I was not in caice to attend them, but I heard that
on Thursday some motion’d that this threatened invasion
did call for a solemn fast, but then they fell into their
ordinary scruples about the power of inditing fasts, which
considering the late fast we have had I thought very
unseasonable. However on Friday some of the bretheren
came to me and spoke of the motion had been made for a
fast. I told them that their zeal against the invasion was
very just, and would be acceptable, but that the questions