The manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of ... - Electric Scotland

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given us, and that no body ever bad, or could bav, served him
better then ue had done. 1 told that if ue had taken thes uays
that had bein formerly taken, al the King had to look too had bein
hou to pay the debt of the ballance due by him upon that
accompt, wlieras, he sau by that peaper hou, in despite of all
discouragements, he uas yet a saver. And thou[gh] ue could not
promise that all thes sumes uold be effectuall, yet I durst say a
conciderable part of them uold come in, and that I thought the
best service could be done to the King, uas to giv him some
mony to lay up, for uithout that, our Militia uas but a name and
nothing els. But if ther uer mony to pay them, it uas a most
excellent cast for a Levie : and besides, a sume once layed up, uas
a constant fond for the King to pay the Militia uith, for the
country being obleiged to pay them from fourty days to forty
days, as long as the King had use for them. The giving out of
the King's mony for paying of them uas indeid but the advance,
for the country uold be obleiged to refound. The King and Duke
both uer extreamly pleased, and said that ue had done mor then
they thought had been possible. I told the King hou inconvenient
a post ue had, for ue had not only thes to resist uho uer enameies
to us, upon the accompt of processes reased against them, but
even thes in the government, uho finding things not fal to them,
as in former times, are apt to uish for chainges and alterations.
He told me ue should not neid to truble ourselves, for he, for his
oun sake, as uell as ours, uold protect us against all that uold
medle uith us ; and said, he kneu ther uas no body that uold be
fathfull to him in that trust of mony that could be uell spocken
off, and therfor, he never minded uhat uas said against his
Thesaurer. Therafter, he said a great many kinde things of you,
and the Duke did so too, and intreated me not to lett that litle
peaper be seen to any, no not the Secretaries, and to stop peoples
mouths from seiking. I told them it uer fitt that retrinchments
uer made, at least till the Ballance be equall, which the Duke said
he uold, and therafter present it to the King. I uill assure your
lordship, ue hav gained mor by shouing them that prospect of
ther affairs then I could hav imagined, so that I most begin to
knou hou farr ue shal enter upon other affairs, for I am most
certaine you cannot be better both with the King and Duke.
This galloping up and doun gives us great hinderance.
Yesterday, the Duke and Duchess, the Prince and Princess, came
hither, and the Duke is gon this day early. I am to follou him
to-morrou, not having yet quite done uith my Lord Midletone,
with whom I uas yesterday all the afternoon, and you have
good reason to be assured of him. I layed all befor him
that you had commanded me, and finds that he is as right
in your sentiments as ye could uish. It uer to make too
long a letter to tell you all I said to him. All the stories
that ever I had heard, uith all ther agravations, I told him, and
found that he expected no better from that airthe, for he knous
the man since he uas Morton's Chamerlane; but after all, he asked
uher the remedy uas, for he could not in fathfullness and duety
represent it, and hou it uold be taken uas the questione. I told