The family of Burnett of Leys, with collateral - Electric Scotland

BURNETTS OF KEMNAY : II. THOMAS. 123
his intromissions. I am become more tender at the age I am off then
ever my father wes at ane old age and utterly unfitt for any businesse
certain dayes (as he was) according as the weather rules ; so that I need
much the help of some kynd freind ;
And that my affaires were put into
ane good hand ; And it wold be ane furder satisfaction that they were
so manadged in Scotland as not only to please myself bot you especially.
I should be glad to have ane more exact account of the estate both of
Craigmyles and my Cusing Monbodos famelie since there deaths. Iff
of lawe to the old estate of
you think it were advyseable to sell the right
Craigmyle which is now part of the joyntour lands of the lady you may
give me your oppinion. I should think if the lady have sufficient
security for her joyntour aliunde that it wer unreasonable a joyntour
should exhaust the whole of ane old estate bot I know the law is most
favourable to womens joyntures that I know not what advantage I shall
mak of that tailzed estate unlesse by selling the I right. am sure
whowever it stands to reason and all reasonable law that the tailzed
estate cannot be burdened with more than the proportionale part of the
debt. I doe not think I need say anything to you of my brother only I
desyre not to give him the truble of manadging my affaires upon account
of a reason easier supposed then to be named I may give you a general
one That I never knew a brother manadge to ane other brothers mynd
bot we all knew one Andrew manadge
for ane other Thomas of our
name to his sorrow and ruine. I am greived exceedinglie for his cariage
to his aunt Corsindae wherof she lamenteth to me bitterly. We are
fallen certainly into the last and worse tymes. I ad no more at present
bot my dewtifull respects to your worthie lady and all other freinds.
"
deir Cusen
" Your most humble and obleidged servant
"T. BURNETT."
"
There is no discourse heir bot of the real designs and inclinationes of
the frensh to a general pace in so much that I had ane account from a
to the States in Holland
person that saw a letter from on of the deputies
to one of the eminent merchands heir telling in terminis, he had imployed
his tyme, freinds, and money this long tyme to get the best intelligence
of the result of the treatment with the frensh ministers this summer ;
that the particulars were kept secret, Bot that certainly the last meeting
the great article of acknowledging the king of England by the Frensh
was aggreed to."
"
Sir T. B. fr. Mar. of Tul."
When the death of the Duke of Gloucester opened to the Electress
the possible prospect of succession to the throne, he returned home
charged with secret instructions to carry her sentiments to some of the