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this and London, I haue been in such a hurry that I could not write
to you soner then now that I am come hether ; and even now I haue
not so much leasur as to say so much as I haue a mind to, but to
answer as mucli as I can of your letter. I shall follow the aduice you
give me and not offer any thing to passe his Majestys hand but what
has been seen by the Chanceler or your self, and shall take care that
no new pentions, or precepts be granted, but to those you may
remember I spake of to you before I came from Scotland. As for
what concerns L^ Halton, I thinke he did very ill in coming away as
he did, tho he had my leaue, since you and the Chanceler thought it
necessary for the Kings service he should have stayd some few days
longer. But for all that, I did not thinke it proper to send him back,
since he could not have been there so sone as was desired ; for I could
not have done it, without speaking to his Majesty, and his Majesty
falling sick the day after I landed, and it not being fitt for me to trouble
him with any businesse till he was quite well, it was to late to send
him the Treasurer Deput, to have been tyme enough for the meetting
and that being past I thought it would have been hard vpon him, that
is looking after his privat concerne, with his brother, to send him away
now till the end of this month, for by that tyme he will be able to see
what he can do, for I beleve his brother will not hold out much longer
being so very broken, both in understanding and body ; besid?, he says
things may go on as well in his absence as if he were present. And pray
do not fancy that the not sending him back, those things hauing
happned as they did to hinder it, can be of any disreput to you that
are trusted with his Majesties affairs, for you shall find I will stand
by and suport you ; and lett people haue a care that they do not misbehaue
them selves to you his Majestic trusts, for they shall not find
their account in it. I have not tyme to say more, but that you shall
still find me as kind to you as ever.
For the Marquis of Queensberry.
James.
2. Introducing Sir William Sharp.
St. James's, June 25: 1682.
I could not refuse this bearer. Sir William Sharp, to recomend him
to you in generall, hauing never found him behaue him self other wise,
then as an honest man ought to do in what I haue knowne of him,
whatsoever others may haue done ; so that I hope you will use him
accordingly, in the concerns he may haue with you ;
which is all I shall
say now, this being the only subject of this letter.
For the Marquis of Queensberry.
3. Salary of the Earl of Morray as Secretary.
St. James's, July 5 : 1682.
I haue been in such a perpetual motion ever since the arrivall of
Mr. Wallis, that I haue not yett been able to gett him dispatched, but
nope to do it by the end of this weeke, when we are at Windsor, all
the papers being in Lord Morrays hands. He desired me to write to
you about a concerne of his ; it is, if I understand him right, about
the mony he should have had as Secretary. You will understand it by
-what he writs, and can judg how far it is resonable, and methinks
neither he nor the King should be suffrers ; which is all I shall say to
you till I send back Mr. Wallis to you.
For the Marquis of Queensberry,