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

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MISCELLANY XIII
it is not to David Hay as was expected,1 and for the space of 5 years
being for most part in Scotland, he never enquired for his daughter
nor Grandchildren nor did so much as send any to see them though
within 14 miles of them, & sometimes 3 miles, but two of them was
sent sometimes to wait upon him whereby he was moved last year2 to
come 3 miles to see his daughter & the little ones that could not come
to him. And in return of this visit, the Earle of Tweeddale, who was
then at the wells of Scarbrough, with his sone the Lord Yester came to
Barrowbridge at 40 miles distance to salute the Duke in his way to
London,3 where the Dutches and the Earle discoursing of the journey
he intended to London to kiss the Kings hands after 5 years absence,
haveing his affair with the Duke of Monmouth to represent, that if
possible the Kings Ma[jes]tie to whom that bussines had been
formerly submitted and who had given his award therein could be
prevailed with to put a stop to the pursuit & command his sentence as
finall to be made good to the Earle of Tweeddale & his Lady, the
Dutchess did insinuat some dissatisfaction with the Earles journey but
did not directly diswade it, yet the Duke and she as it seems being
displeased that any of the least insinuation of theire dislike should not
have determined the Earles purposes looked upon him when he came
to Windsor worse then ever, & as they had been for the halfe year
preceeding in visiting terms, & then all that was past between them
was told & made up to the Earle’s disadvantage, the Duke upon some
occasions acting him mimically, though himself be the person living
whose cariage & deportment makes him most obnoxious that way.
And when the Earle had endeavoured to state himself as well with the
King as possible [sic] he could, his Ma[jes]tie proposing to him that a
better understanding might be between the Duke & him, & as it seems
endevouring it with the Duke, did so provoke his rage and fury
thereby that he fell upon his old way of misrepresenting him, & most
injuriously & unjustly charged him with all the opposition he had mett
with in the late Convention, and that at length he had left the
convention & gone to the wells, notwithstanding the Earle had not in
one vot[e] differed with what the Com[missione]r desired, but in two
Elections, the one debated between Sir John Cuningham & Blair, &
1 Gilbert Hay, 11th earl of Erroll, died early in 1674, leaving no direct heirs. He had
entailed his estate and the earldom to Tweeddale’s second son, David Hay, and
changed his mind. He named as his successor his second cousin John Hay, who,
like him, was a great-grandson of Andrew Hay, the 8th earl.
2 He paid this visit shortly after he arrived in the summer of 1677.
3 In Aug. 1678.