Sales catalogue 536: Maggs Bros

Date:
1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/91
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 536: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MAR (ohn Erskine, Sixth Earl of), 1675-1732. 1315 1216 A Lenoetuy AutTocrapH LETTER SIGNED To Lorp GopDoLpHIN. 3 full pages. to. Edinburgh, 23rd June, 1708. £9 10s Written whilst Secretary of State for Scotland. ‘¢My Lord, I have now got that draught of the proclamation for the circuits from the Lords of Justiciary to transmitt to your Lordship w¢} is here inclosed.. I spoke to the Justice Clark & the rest of those Lords again of that parte of the Proclamation concerning the Peers attending the circuits, but they wou’d not allow it. They say ’tis conforme to the former proclamation of that kind, & that if any thing of it be not agreeable wh the Union the Queen’s lawyers will rectifie it there. There is little enough time now for the publication of it, therefore the sooner your lordship gets it expead & sent back the better. Res ‘‘The Provost or Mair of Edinburgh has apply’d to me, desiring we might apply to the Queen to get the guard wch has been kept on the port of this town call’d the nether bow ever since the Parl: removed, all things being now quiet. It was put on by the Parl: & my Lord Leven thinks he cannot take it off without the Queen’s allowance. The provost is now a member of Parl: w¢bh makes it the more reasonable to oblige him & beside he was very usefull the time of the last Scots Parl: He is very concern’d about it web I believe is to oblidge the town’s people.’ Ete. Avutocrary Lretrer SIGNED To Harry Maute, of Kellie, Titular Earl of Panmure. 3 PP, 4%- London, 20th January, 1710. {10 10s A very rare autograph letter by this famous Jacobite Leader, written to another prominent Jacobite, and evidently concerning negotiations which ulti- mately ended in the disastrous rising of 1715. ‘¢T do not doubt but you are angrie at me for being so long of answering yrs. concerning Cha. ffleeming. The true reason was until I cou’d be more at leasure, but it has proved otherwise, for ever since that time they have been kept so bussie wt the affairs wch you wou’d hear has been before the House of Peers & other business that it has not been possible to get them spoke to of any affair of that kind. I spoke to the Duke of Argyll of it as soon as I had yrs. & he is of oppinion that it is not yet fitt time to move in it, but that when it is he will do whatever is in his power for his service. I hope my Dear Harie that neither you nor any of his friends will doubt of my concern to have his business done & I assure you there shall be nothing wanting in me that I can bring it about.’’ LEtc., etc.
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