Series 2 > Seafield correspondence from 1685 to 1708

FIRST EARL OF SEAFIELD
475
1708]
Yesterday:—D. of Gordon, Vis. Kenmure, Ld James
Murray, Fortheringham of Pourie, Lyon of Auchterhouse,
Robertson of Strowin, Gordon of Gollachie, Seton of
Touch, Stewart of Tannachie, Ross of Kippendavie,
Newton of Edmestoun, Mackdonald of Keppoch.
The D. of Gordon would not provide himself with coach
or horse for his journey, so that one of the troopers was
forced to be dismounted, and he exalted on the outside of
the uncouth beast. The Ds friends do not admire his fancy.
The carrying up of those gentlemen occasions too much
uneasieness here.—I am, Yor most obedient and humble
serv11, Rich. Dowdeswell.
Excise Office, Edenburgh, 8 Maij 1708.
The French landing at Garmouth had rendered many in the
county of Banff suspect, and Colonel Grant had been sent north,
and had arrested some who who were said to have consorted with
the French. These, the Countess intreated her son to interest
his father, her husband, in. Gordon of Gollachie, Rathven, and
Steuart of Tannachie, Rathven, Banffshire, are both mentioned
in Mr. Dowdeswell’s letter of 8th May as Jacobite prisoners.
To LORD DESKFORD
Dear James,—I wonder that you never write to me nor
causes any other do it, which you might do and sign it, if
it were uneasy for you to write. I ’me truely impatient
to know what is come of my Lady Peterburgh’s letters
from her daughter,1 which came under your ffathers cover
and yours. Pray let me have some satisfying answer
concerning them. I believe this shall find you on the
road, if not at Edinburgh, where I intreat you make no
long stay, for I am sure it would be for your health to have
your own country air. If you be curious to wait there to
see the election of the nobility, you may easily return to
Edinburgh again from this. I send you inclosed some
letters to that Mrs. Lindsay I wrote of last to you. They
are open and you may read them, and if your father will
not hear of her, you may send back the letters, but I hope
The Marchioness of Huntly.