Series 5 > Miscellany [of the Scottish History Society] XIII

TWEEDDALE’S RELATIONE’, 1683
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& familie, which passion & humor he discovered at severall times,
once he said there should never any that came of the Earle of
Tweeddale enjoy a groat that belonged to him. Speaking once with the
Bishop of Glasgow1 of his [i.e. the bishop’s] goodsone Rorie
Makenzie one of the Clerks of the Session2 who when he was ane
advocat joined with the rest in the matter of appealls, whereof the
Bishop complaining to the Duke, he said he had a goodson whom he
would change with the Bishops with all his heart. And when any thing
came befor Councell & Sessione wherein the Earle of Tweeddale &
Lord Yester was concerned it was treated by his brother Hatton as if
they had been Turks & pagans & so likewise by Petrichie,3 as once
ane suspensione being offered ag[ains]t the Earle & the Clerk offered
to read the reasons thereof, Petrichie said, ye need not, I shall pas[s] it
ag[ains]t him without questioning what reason there is for it. The
Earle of Tweeddale having petitioned the Councell to have the Earle
of Dunfermlings4 writs visited which was deposited in the Clerk of
Counsells hands that some writs which belonged to him
unquestionablie might be taken out from amongst them, he having
privat use therefor, and produceing ane former act of Councell
bearing Dumfermlings consent therto & appoynting the thing to be
done 5 or 6 year befor, onlie some of the persons being dead who
were appoynted to visit the same, desired others might be named in
their place, My Lord Halton stormed that application should be made
be [i.e. by] the Earle of Tweeddale for any thing, though never so just,
and said it could not be granted, & though it had been ordered some
years befor, Then was then and now is now, there is change of Market
dayes, & when the Earle of Erroll broke the entaille of his Estate he
had made to the Earle of Tweeddales second sone, which he was
encouraged to do by the Dukes declared enmity against the Earle of
Tweeddale & his familie, upon the passing of the new resigna[ti]on of
his Estate in favours of the person that succeeded him, the Duke of
Lawderdale being present in Exchequer sayes, let me see it for I think
1 Alexander Burnet, properly archbishop.
2 Roderick Mackenzie of Prestonhall, the younger brother of Sir George Mackenzie
of Tarbet, married the archbishop’s daughter Mary in 1674. He was an advocate
like his brother, became a clerk of session in 1678, and ultimately a lord of session
in 1703.
3 In the first draft the italicized phrase reads ‘by his brother Halton & Pittrichie as if
they had been Turks & Pagans’.
4 Charles Seton, 2nd earl of Dunfermline.