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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58601	The coppy of a letter written by a friend, to the Laird of Blaikwood and his answer, with the coppy of my Lord Angus's letter, from Utrecht, 21/11 January 1692. To My Lord Marquess of Dowglas his father, Edinburgh, 16th: August 1692.	Lawrie, William, d. 1700?; Angus, James Douglas, Earl of, 1671-1692.; Marketing/Technology Service.	1692 (1692)	Wing S119; ESTC R217869	6,262	5

THE COPPY OF A LETTER Written by a Friend to the Laird of BLAIKWOOD and his Answer With the COPPY of My LORD ANGUS'S LETTER From UTRECHT 21 11 January 1692. To My LORD MARQUESS OF DOWGLAS HIS FATHER Edinburgh 16th August 1692. SIR MY Lord ANGVS's Death is generally Regrated by all which occasions some that are better acquaint with his Circumstances to Reflect a little more freely on his going to this Campaign to serve under King William And on that part you are supposed to have had in it For they say that my Lord Marquess and his Family were particularly obliedged by King Charles the Second and King James his Successour For such was King Charles his Concern and care of that Noble and Ancient Family that in the year 1682. He wrote to the Lord Chancellour and Theasurer of Scotland to know it's present condition shewing that in regard of many signal services performed by that Family to his Royal Predecessours he would not only see to its standing but to its continuance in a splendid and plentiful condition And that in the mean time he would take care of the breeding of the Marques's Son For which effect in the Year 1684. There was realie granted to my Lord Angus a Pension of two hundred Pound Sterling And this pension King James in the Year 1686. Was pleased to continue and also to order all the Arrears thereof to be payed with two hundred pound Sterling more by way of advance Which were certainly singular marks of the Royal Bountie of these two Kings And a very promising earnest of far greater things that my Lord Marquess might have expected from them To this it is also added That my Lord Angus himself was not so forward to have gone to this Campagne but did rather incline to prosecute his Travells and that he wrote to you to obtain his Father's leave Which as the Event hath happened had been indeed his wiser and better Course However these things do a little burden both the Marquess and you And some are pleased to express themselves more freely by declaring that they cannot comprehend what could have moved the Marquess to be so forward in this Affair seing that notwithstanding of the eminent Character of his Family and that he himself was amongst the first to advance King William's Interest in Scotland and did both venture his Son to the Army and put himself without regard to the low condition of his Fortune to a considerable expence for his Equippage Yet it is visible enough that since the late Revolution to this day the Marquess hath been acknowledged in nothing and neither Place nor Pension conferred upon him It 's like the Marquess may be unwilling that this last part should be noticed as knowing That King William a Stranger cannot be blamed for this Omission And that the distribution of Favours depends often as much upon the Ministers as upon the Prince But seing these things do furnish discourse I should be content to hear from you such a clear and satisfying Account as might inable me to do my Lord and you the service in this occasion that you may very justly expect from For the Laird of BLAIKWOOD SIR Your humble Servant M. T S Edinburgh 26th August 1692. SIR I Take it very kindly that you do so far concern your self in this Affair touching my Lord Angus his Loss if he be lost which you may be sure we are loath to believe is indeed irrepairable and never enough to be regrated And thence you and all Equitable Men may very well conclude That my Lord his Father had never ventured him if the thing could possibly have been evited But as he was the only Son and hope of the Family and had from his Fathers extream Care and Tenderness received a sutable Education So you see that his Ripening years with the concurrence of other things did present to him this occasion which not only he himself but all acquainted with the condition of his Family judged very proper to recommend him to the Kings Notice and Favour And to introduce him to those Advantages which his Family stands so absolutely in need of The only demurr that stood in his Fathers way was the hazard of his Person And that did weigh so much with him and the principal Friends of the Family That tho my Lord Angus was exceedingly earnest to have made the last Summers Campaigne Yet his Father did restrain him But as that Restraint could not be made effectual without some insinuation of Hope for the ensuing year from those that were imployed to deal with him So both together wought so powerfully upon his boyling Spirit Aspyring so Vehemently to shew himself worthy of his Noble Progenitors That at the Return of this Campaign it was utterly impossible to make him defer any longer And I am perswaded that had the severest of his Friends known his Earnestness in this matter as well as his Father and I did They would this day have been very far from adding to his Fathers affliction the least censure of his proceeding I cannot tell you all particulars But here is one I think may answer for all Which is the coppie of the Letter he wrote to his Father with his own hand in January last which indeed broke his Father to a consent and without which it is probable he had never been broke This Letter I do therefore transmit to you Not doubting but since it was so powerful upon a tender Father and all that see it to prevail for their consent it will now be satisfying to answer all the murmuring that may arise on so sad an Event I could acquaint you with other Letters and Passages whereby you might be convinced that his Desire if not complyed with had certainly broke out into some more desperate Resolution But this Letter alone was too perswasive to need any other support It hath pleased GOD in his high Soveraignty to Dispose otherwayes nor was hoped But this only requires our Submission And I am perswaded when all things shall be considered all Men will conclude That my Lord Angus's Conduct in this whole Affair was so Rational in every Respect That it remains only to be lamented That so fair Appearances should have been prevented by a Death which thô most Honourable could never be too late And thus I leave you to peruse his Letter herein inclosed SIR Your humble Servant WILL LAWRIE Vtrecht 21 11 January 1692. MY LORD I Cannot express the Extreme Trouble and Grief it is to me to be so long without hearing from your Lordship since it is now near four moneths that neither Mr. Cranstoun nor I have had the honour of one Letter tho we have wrote several times both of us So I 'm assured our Letters must have been miscarried since the circumstances I am now under are so difficult and of so great importance both to me and if I dare say to your Lordship also and the Family I have the Honour to