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as secretary. " Ought not the Secretary to injoy the place diu
to his office ? I pretend to it on no other account, and I uill
not uillingly loss a titill of it in my time, lett others doe uhat
th[e]y pleas that corns after." Sends copy of letter from the
Lord Justices in Ireland to the Earl of Sunderland, with the
depositions of witnesses, containing '* a furder informatione
of the rogs that uent to Scotland from the Hand of Magee in
Irland." By the letter, he would see the rebels had encouragement
" from some verry extrordinary thing th[e]y expect to fall
out in Scotland. Your Grace will hawe uatchfull eyes to observe
ther motions, and provvied aganst the villanus practises of thes
inhumane barbarous rebels."
Whythall, May 2 : 1685.
106. Yisterday morning I had a verry free conferens uithe Z
and first, conserning 80 : he sayd he had applyed to r : fn
being present, and yit q q had sayd nothinge to him of : it Sh
:
sayd uhat application uas made uas as bade, and rather uors, then
he had forborne it : and pro: hauinge done a fault uhich L 9
thought fitt to punishe uithe a marke of displeasur, some signall
acknowlegment uas fitt, uhich it seemed his humor uould not
submit to. A 13 walked up and doune a great uhyll silent, and
then sayd he uould consider of it. Then G. tould him he fownd
that OTspok verry malicous things of Or, and iff any thinge uas
sudgested to him conserning q
:
q 204 houped he uould giue no
ear to it, since pik and humor uas apparent to all persons he
conversed uithe agaenst c 8 : G. sayd he had nothing of this from
r, but his oune observation, uharef he uas oblidged to giue him
notice. A great deall past uhich is not fitt to be urytin, and 120
haweing since compaered nots uithe G., uee find that uhat past
betuixt 18 K and Z : uas the same that Sh : meet uith. It is our
joint oppinion to urge littill till r : sees Z : for L 9 says posetively
that 07 hes yit sayd nothinge of that to him.
120 and 204 hawe consider'd the matter of q q upcominge after
96 is over, and do conclud, iff r had Z posetive leave to come
befor his going from this, that nothing showld be moued of it
furder, but that he showld com ; but iff not, uharof we desire to
be speedily informed, then it uill be fitt for q q to uryt a letter to
that purposs to A 13, uhich 120 and 204 uill delyver and second.
It uas never yit heard of but the person uho served the Kinge in
that capasety did come, and giwe account of his service, and reseave
approbation in his owne person. . . Gosforde is not yit come, and
120 and 204 houp by him to hear mor particularly from q q, and
accordinge as wee ar informed and reseave advyse, uhich we shall
not faell to doe our paerts. It uill be the middle of next week
befor Earle Dunbartone can paert from this. The Kinge is
every day so takin up uithe musteringe of his troups, and
other bussines befor the Parlament, that ther is mutch to doe to
gett any time to talk uithe him of other matters. I come in
uaetinge on Monday, and then I shall haw occatione of
opportuneties to spek uithe Z, uhich I could not so conveniently
hawe a ryse to before.