| Summary: | Description: Contents includes: f.10. Robert Leighton, Bishop of Dumblane to The Earl of Lauderdale. Edinburgh, 6 April [1670]. Leighton is induced to succeed Burnet as Archbishop in order to promote the policy of conciliation.; f.11. Memorandum of Bishop Leighton. To be read in connection with the foregoing letter.; f.42. The Earl of Rothes to The Earl of Lauderdale, Edinburgh, 16 June [1670.] "We have sat this night in counsill till eight o' clock, and have received severall informasions concerning conventickells; they are reallie becum verie insolant and much more numerous."; f.53. Charles R. Instructions to John Earle of Lauderdale, our commissioner, for ensuing Session of Parliament. Whitehall 7 July, 1670.; f.57. Private Instructions from Charles II to The Earl of Lauderdale.; f.59. Private Instructions from Charles II to The Earl of Lauderdale, 7 July 1670.; f.81. The Earl of Tweeddale to Sir Robert Moray. Holyrudehous, 2 August, 1670.; f.95. The Earl of Lauderdale to Sir Robert Moray. Holyrudehous, 11 August 1670.; f.99. Charles II to The Earl of Lauderdale. Whitehall, 15 August: 1670, thanking Lauderdale for his good services in Scotland.; f.106. Report of the Commissioners, Holyroudhous, 24 August 1670.; f.114. Sir Robert Moray to The Earl of Lauderdale, Windsor Castle, 30 August, 1670.; f.123. Anne, Countess of Lauderdale, to The Earl of Lauderdale, from Paris, 22 September 1670? She had been sent to France for health reasons, although perhaps this was an excuse on Lauderdale's part to be able to get rid of her.; f.125. The Earl of Tweeddale to The Earl of Lauderdale, Edinburgh, 27 September, 1670.; f.133. The Earl of Tweeddale to The Earl of Lauderdale, Edinburgh, 29 September, 1670.; f.134. Sir Robert Moray to The Earl of Lauderdale. Whitehall 19 January, 1671. Through the influence of Lady Dysart, Lauderdale had broken with Sir Robert Moray. This dignified letter is the only record, further than the absence of other letters between them being significant, of the difference between them. That it is from Moray to Lauderdale is a fairly certain assumption, but it is neither addressed, signed, nor endorsed. It is in response to Lauderdale's letters of 14 November and 16 December 1670. Sir Robert Moray declines "to reply upon the answeres you here give, least it might continue a Dispute which I doe not desire to intertaine with your Grace; For I ame as willing as yow can be that not only past mistakes may not stick, but that bygones may be bygones, & faire play in time to come..."; f.157. The Earl of Tweeddale to The Earl of Lauderdale, Yester, 15 December, 1670.; f.161. The Duke of Hamilton to The Earl of Lauderdale, Ham 16 December, 1670.; f.172. The Earl of Kincardine to The Earl of Lauderdale, Edinburgh, 5 January, 1671.; f.183. The Earl of Rothes to The Earl of Lauderdale, 2 February 1671.; f.187. Archbishop Sharp to The Earl of Lauderdale, Edinburgh, 2 February, 1671. The Archbishop states that he "can not goe along with the Bishop of Dunblain's concessions, judging them to leave nothing to the authority of a bishop but the insignificant title...".
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