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TWEEDDALE’S ‘RELATIONE’, 1683
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Lawderdale signed the Resignation of the remnant of his Estate in
favours of his brother & Nephew, upon the 12 of Aug. 1682, being
the Saturday befor he went to Tunbridge.1 And the band was sent that
night by ane express to Scotland, to be subscribed by the Lord Hatton.
And being signed by him, & returned, the Resignation was made in
the Kings hands the selfsame day the Duke of Lawderdale dyed, who
next day after he had signed the Resignation, being Sunday, he went
to the Church of Petersham,2 not altogether unsupported, and on
munday being the 14 to Tunbridge, where trying the waters two or
three times befor wedenesday come seventh-night after, and finding
them not to do well with him, in regard of his decay, & the weak
condition he was in, he was perswaded on thursday morning the 24 to
take of the salt of Epsom to bring away the waters he had drunk,
which working accordingly upon the old infirm man gave him a flux
of blood, so violent that it had almost brought away his bowells, but
dispatched him befor night with great pain and torment.
1 On 15 Aug. John Drummond of Lundin, the future earl of Melfort, wrote to the
marquis of Queensberry from London that ‘Lauderdale’s estate is settled on his
brother for good and all, as I am informed. So all his relations here are as merry, as
other people think, if they got justice, they would have reason to be sad’. HMC,
Buccleuch and Queensberry, ii, 109.
2 St. Peter’s church. Petersham, was the parish church of Ham House.
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Lawderdale signed the Resignation of the remnant of his Estate in
favours of his brother & Nephew, upon the 12 of Aug. 1682, being
the Saturday befor he went to Tunbridge.1 And the band was sent that
night by ane express to Scotland, to be subscribed by the Lord Hatton.
And being signed by him, & returned, the Resignation was made in
the Kings hands the selfsame day the Duke of Lawderdale dyed, who
next day after he had signed the Resignation, being Sunday, he went
to the Church of Petersham,2 not altogether unsupported, and on
munday being the 14 to Tunbridge, where trying the waters two or
three times befor wedenesday come seventh-night after, and finding
them not to do well with him, in regard of his decay, & the weak
condition he was in, he was perswaded on thursday morning the 24 to
take of the salt of Epsom to bring away the waters he had drunk,
which working accordingly upon the old infirm man gave him a flux
of blood, so violent that it had almost brought away his bowells, but
dispatched him befor night with great pain and torment.
1 On 15 Aug. John Drummond of Lundin, the future earl of Melfort, wrote to the
marquis of Queensberry from London that ‘Lauderdale’s estate is settled on his
brother for good and all, as I am informed. So all his relations here are as merry, as
other people think, if they got justice, they would have reason to be sad’. HMC,
Buccleuch and Queensberry, ii, 109.
2 St. Peter’s church. Petersham, was the parish church of Ham House.
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| Description | Edinburgh: Printed for the Scottish History Society by Lothian Print, 2004. Scottish History Society ; 5th ser., v. 14. Contents: Eight thirteenth-century texts / edited by W.W. Scott -- Dunfermline gild court book, 1433-1597: missing folios / edited by E. Patricia Dennison -- A memorandum on the customs, 1597 / edited by Athol L. Murray -- The trial of Geillis Johnstone for witchcraft, 1614 / edited by Michael B. Wasser & Louise A. Yeoman -- An early seventeenth-century Scottish conversion narrative / edited by David G. Mullan -- Fiscal Feudalism in seventeenth-century Scotland / edited by Julian M. Goodare -- Witchcraft cases from the register of commissioners of the privy council of Scotland, 1630-1642 / edited by Louise A. Yeoman -- John Hay, earl of Tweeddale, 'Relatione of the wrangs done to the Ladie Yester, 1683' / edited by Maurice Lee, Jr -- Colin Maclaurin's Journal of the 'Forty-five / edited by Bruce A. Hedman. |
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