| Summary: | Description: Contents include: f.25. James Sharp to Patrick Drummond, Edinburgh, 15 April, 1661. ; f.30. Robert Baillie to the Earl of Lauderdale, Glasgow, 18 April (1661).; f.31. James Sharp to James Wood, Edinburgh, 22 April, 1661.; f.51. Sir William Bellenden (Deputy Treasurer) to the Earl of Lauderdale Edinburgh 1 May 1661. "Pardon me to be so bold as to let your Lordship know that yow have many enemyes heir, who doe entertayne themselves with a full expecatation of your fall, believing undoubtedly that the dispatch sent by the Lord Chancellor & Lord Rothess from this Parliament will doe your turne. Ather now or never your part is to be acted, which I hope will be in such a way as may best confirme people in the former high esteeme held of yow, and give occasion to your enemyes to blush and repent themselves for ye attempts against yow..." This is the first hint of the plots that were being formed by Middleton to oust Lauderdale.; f.68. Sir William Bellenden to the Earl of Lauderdale, Edinburgh, 16 May, 1661. About the death of the Laird of Petcurr.; f.76. Edinburgh Ministers to the Earl of Lauderdale, 4 June 1661.; f.86. Dispatch to his Majestie in London from the Lord Chancellor (Middleton) and Lord Rothes. (This is the dispatch mentioned in f.51).; f.121. Earl of Tweeddale to the Earl of Lauderdale, Edinburgh 14 September,1661.; f.122. The Earl of Tweeddale to Charles II, endorsed by Tweeddale.; f.125/6. Unto the right Honorable the Lords of his Majesties Privy Council, Johne Earl of Tweeddale. Attachment: Privy Council of Scotland to the Earl of Lauderdale, Edinburgh 18 September 1661.
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