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Salisbury and Portsmouth ; aud when I thought to have written then, I
had not tyme to do it, hauing had only leasur to writ to the Register by
the Kings command concerning Carestairs j which the Register will,
before you have this, haue given you an account of. I am glad to find
b}' yours of the 6 : that you made Duke Hamilton sensible of his error,
and I hope he will continu of the same mind after he has been at home.
Since I had yours of the 9 : v/hich is the last I have had from [you], I
haue had an account both of Monroe's and Philiphaugh's confessions,
which will bring you to the bottom of the conspiracy in Scotland. This
I beleve will not find you at Edenburg, so that at present I shall say
no more to you till I be at London, which I intend to be on Wensday,
and their Majesties on Thursday.
For the Lord Tresurer of Scotland.
65. Bishopric of Ross.—Bailie Drummond to be Provost of Edinburgh,
— Stubbornness of the City of London.
London, October 2 : 1683,
I had yours of the 14 : of September when I was at Winchester, and
have been in such motion till 1 came to towne and so much bussinesse since
my arrivall here, that till now I have not had tyme to answer it ; and as
to the bishopricke of Rosse, haue lett the Arch-Bishope of St. Andrwes
know I do aproue of what he has proposed concerning it. You have
showen very good example in causing men to be put into some of your
owne house.=!, and am sorry to heare others did not mind those things as
they aught to have done, tho you wrot to them about it ; and am sorry
any of his Majesty's officers of State should shew themselves partial for
the towne of Edenburgh against his Majesty ; and care shall be taken to
advertise them to be more carfull for the future. As to what you
propose concerning sending downe the Lord Middleton, I do not thinke
it necessary ; for against November, when you will all be in Edenburgh,
such directions will be sent as will I hope settle the management of his
Majesty's affairs there for the better, and hinder any occation of dispute
amongst you. Sir James Dicke is come hether, and by the next letters
we shall heare what the towne of Edenburg has done in persuance of
his Majesty's letter to them for chusing Baily Drummond to be their
Provost. The cilty here haue been a little stuborne, for they haue rather
chosen to lose all their privileges then to agree to what was offerd them
by his Majesty—it is the worse for them, but not for the Crowne. Lord
Dumbarton is come this night from France, who says the King of
Portugal is dead, and that he was told Tanger was beseiged by the
Moors.
For the Marquis of Queensberry.
66. Sir James Dick had got nothing by coming up—the Scots
prisoners ordered down—Algernon Sidney to be tried.
London, October 26 ; 1683.
If it had been necessary, I had answered yours of the 12 : soner ; but
that not being I deferd the doing it till now, hauing had much business
since my coming from Newmarkett. I am glad to heare that the
generallity of the towne of Edenburgh is so well pleased with what has
been done; and I beleve Sir James Dick thinks now he had done
better not to have come vp, since he has gott nothing by it. As for
the Eari of Marrs affaire, nobody is more for shewing him favor then I
am, but do not thinke it proper to move his Majesty in anything
concerning it till I have an account from you of the true state of it. I