| Summary: | Description: Contents include: f.3. Lord Bellenden to the Earl of Lauderdale, Edinburgh [Tuesday] 13 January 1663. f.3b. William Sharp to the Earl of Lauderdale.; f.4. William Sharp to the Earl of Lauderdale, Edinburgh, January 13, 1663.; f.9b. William Sharp to the Earl of Lauderdale.; f.10. William Sharp to the Earl of Lauderdale, [Thursday] 29 January 1663. "Yesterday about four o'clock I received your lordship's of the 23rd, though the express by which it was sent came to this place about six o'clock the night before..."; f.12. William Sharp to the Earl of Lauderdale, Edinburgh [Saturday] January 31, 1663.; f.15. A speech concerning the Act of Billetting & some other Acts before his Majesty & about 20 members of the Council of Scotland, 5 February 1663. A note by Lauderdale at the end reads: "The whole substance of this speech was next day delivered to his Majesty in wryting by his order and sent to E. of Middleton with proclaimed answers & replys." (total of 7 folios).; f.33. William Sharp to the Earl of Lauderdale, Edinburgh, 26 February, 1663.; f.34. Document re: Billeting; written at Edinburgh, the night of - ? September 1662.; f.36a. William Sharp to the Earl of Lauderdale, Edinburgh, 28 February 1663.; f.36b. William Sharp to the Earl of Lauderdale. "B. desires me to acquaint my Master that by the last Nothing received a letter from Newburgh telling him that when the Committee was putt to it to give a why for the stop of the proclamation about the fynes [procured by Lauderdale's influence and superseding the Act for Fining]; his first answere was, that by letter sent to the councill here for this there was a latitude left to them to doe what they should see fitt. The Advocate here [Sir J Fletcher] is of the mynd the councill in cases may and should take that latitude, but by the production of the letter there is found no latitude, but a positive command; and therefore the nixt answere is, his Majestie Command intimate by the Chancellor of England; he being called sayes it was so, and this what the Com: wrot was upon warrant. What truth may be in this my Master best knowes; and with this I am bid acquaint him that he may make what use of it is fitt, but this last box has alarmed some and putt them now to second thoughts, and now some spare not to say they fear my Master he's the better of it...".
|
|---|