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88 BISHOP OF GALLOWAY’S CORRESPONDENCE
prayers to God to sende out fitt and select Instruments
and means for their Reconciliation and peace that among
other great advantages consequent thereupon,1 yor Lo’p
might enjoy ane uninterrupted quietnes and serenitie in
yor recesses from the world, which is the hearty desire
and shall be the true endeavour of him who is.
[Unsigned.]
XII
From James Gordon2 to the Bishop of Galloway
Carletoun, Sepber 13th, 1682.
My Lord,—Harvest and such necessary lets doe stop
a personall attendance, at present very requisit, yet in
the meantime till the other be I request your favourable
acceptance of this account anent Mr. Hasting 3 whom ye
have offred minister heir. Upon the 3rd of Sept, his
edict was intimat, being the first sight and knowledge
that any of us had of him, after which it was desired oftner
than once that he would delay his course some longer time
than the Edict seemed to allow of, wherein we might
endeavour to be better knowne each one to another which
he refuseing once and again the parish were necessitat to
entir some objections agt. him before the moderator and
certain brethren with him, which was done with all respect
to your concernment and reverence to your place and
authority. I humbly therfor desire your Lop. not to
mistake us in it, for I protest I am conscious to no by end
1 The case came before the Privy Council on 12th February 1683. That
body condemned Sir John Dalrymple, the Master of Stair, and acquitted Claver-
house. Sir John was deprived of his jurisdiction and office as bailie and fined
^500 sterling. He was committed to prison in the Castle of Edinburgh until
payment was made. The fine was paid 20th February 1683.—Mark Napier,
Viscount Dundee, vol. ii. pp. 306, 309.
2 James Gordon, son of Wm. Gordon and Margaret Fullerton. It was
through his mother that the lands of Carleton came to him.—M'Kerlie, Land¬
owners of Galloway, vol. iii. p. 190.
s Patrick Hastie or Hastings got the church of Borgue in 1683, and was
there till ‘outed’ in 1689.—Scott, Fasti.
prayers to God to sende out fitt and select Instruments
and means for their Reconciliation and peace that among
other great advantages consequent thereupon,1 yor Lo’p
might enjoy ane uninterrupted quietnes and serenitie in
yor recesses from the world, which is the hearty desire
and shall be the true endeavour of him who is.
[Unsigned.]
XII
From James Gordon2 to the Bishop of Galloway
Carletoun, Sepber 13th, 1682.
My Lord,—Harvest and such necessary lets doe stop
a personall attendance, at present very requisit, yet in
the meantime till the other be I request your favourable
acceptance of this account anent Mr. Hasting 3 whom ye
have offred minister heir. Upon the 3rd of Sept, his
edict was intimat, being the first sight and knowledge
that any of us had of him, after which it was desired oftner
than once that he would delay his course some longer time
than the Edict seemed to allow of, wherein we might
endeavour to be better knowne each one to another which
he refuseing once and again the parish were necessitat to
entir some objections agt. him before the moderator and
certain brethren with him, which was done with all respect
to your concernment and reverence to your place and
authority. I humbly therfor desire your Lop. not to
mistake us in it, for I protest I am conscious to no by end
1 The case came before the Privy Council on 12th February 1683. That
body condemned Sir John Dalrymple, the Master of Stair, and acquitted Claver-
house. Sir John was deprived of his jurisdiction and office as bailie and fined
^500 sterling. He was committed to prison in the Castle of Edinburgh until
payment was made. The fine was paid 20th February 1683.—Mark Napier,
Viscount Dundee, vol. ii. pp. 306, 309.
2 James Gordon, son of Wm. Gordon and Margaret Fullerton. It was
through his mother that the lands of Carleton came to him.—M'Kerlie, Land¬
owners of Galloway, vol. iii. p. 190.
s Patrick Hastie or Hastings got the church of Borgue in 1683, and was
there till ‘outed’ in 1689.—Scott, Fasti.
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| Description | Third volume. Contents: Dundee court-martial records, 1651 / edited by Godfrey Davies -- The bishop of Galloway's correspondence, 1679-1685 / edited by William Douglas -- The diary of Sir James Hope, 1646-1654 / edited by Sir James Balfour Paul -- Instructions for the trial of Patrick Graham, 1476 / edited by Robert Kerr Hannay -- The Scottish contributions to the distressed church of France, 1622 / edited by D. Hay Fleming -- The Forbes baron court book, 1659-1678 / edited by J. Maitland Thomson. |
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