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we ar far short of Clidsdelle in tlie Bond of Peace, and that Clidsdelle
could have been broght to tuenty moneths suplie, if the Bond had been
in the terms Galloway or Nidsdelle took. As to that, I said that befor
we sawe that draught, we had proposed all we thoght raisonable or
practicable ; but we could have easily broght them to seign the other, if
we had thoght it good for any thing, but to insnair people. Houever, I
fynd it is the opinion of your Lordships friends, and the President tells
me he desyred Heu Wallace to wryt so to you, that it wcr good to cause
the Bond be seigned acording to their draught of Clidsdelle, and after it
might be explained and restricted here. If your Lordship think fit to
send it to my brother with order to see it seigned, 1 dout not but it will
be don, and Lagg may doe so in Kilkoubright, in Nidddelle (sic)
and Anandelle. Your Lordship may doe it being on the place ; after
which they will have nothing to say, and when it is don, I think it
should be altered, for it is unjust to desyr of others what we would not
doe our selfs. For I declair I think it a thing not to be desyred, thai I
should be forfaited and hanged, if my tenents wife, tuenty mille from
me, in the midest of hilles and woods give mate or shelter a fugitive.
The Register I could not see, but I have writen from this my mind to
hime. All your Lordships friends ar very desyrous to see you soon at
Edinbourg, for things will take no setlement till then. I dessein to be
over again the end of the nixt week. My Lord Lauderdaille is com
doun, and dessein s, as T hear, to goe briskly on and lait lay the submission
in my affair. But in this and all other things, I relay upon
your Lordship intyrly ; and, tho I can not make so many compliments as
others doe, yet I am with all sincerity and respect, my Lord, your most
humble and faithf ull servant,
J. Graham,
My Lord, excuse this way of wryting for peaper is as ill to be hade
here as at Kilkoubrigh.
227. Lady Erroll, the Chancellor, Sir George Lockhart etc.
Edinbourg, November 4, [c. 1684].
My Lord, Last night I had the honor of your Lordships, and this day
after sermons Heu Wallace told me he was just going to dispatch your
servant. I begged him to delay so long as I could see my Lady Arroll,
because the Chfancelor] had been there. She bids me tell your Lordship
that there passed a great deall betuixt them : but, because he compleaned
that things he had only told to your Lordship and her wer copi
abraad, she thoght best to forbear giving you acount of it till meeting.
I hear he is mad against me, tho I have mor raison to be so against him.
He and all his people seem very confident, and they say talks briskly.
Houever, by all I have yet beared they have no very solid fundation. Sir
George Locart is com home, who it is thoght, has been a considerable
agent, and has got a neu light, for as I hear he stood to Glory to the
Father with the Ch[ancelor], to-day. My Lord Lauderdell came up in
the coatch from Lieth with the Ch[ancelor] and was above ane hour closs
with him imediatly after he came up, and Sir John Dalrimple is
assidous there as he used to be. It is said here the Treasurer Deput is
coming doun, but my Lady Aroll bids me tell you not to lait him stur
till my Lord Pr[esident] be com aff, for it is thoght things will be as hot
as ever, and that this man has wryten up having nou beared all that they
alleadge has been said against him, and will be vindicat. He and I fell
fooll in councell yesterday about the fanatiks bakslyding and the causes
of it. I told that we wer interupted by his telling that those who had
taken the test could not be fyne^, and that there wer abondance had
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