| Summary: | Description: Contents include: f.11. Instructions as to Church Affairs unto John, Earl of Middleton, our Comissioner to our Parliament of Scotland from Charles II, 22 January 1662.; f.19. Instructions to John Earl of Middleton, our Comissioner to our Parliament of Scotland from Charles II, concerning the act of Indemnity signed "By his Majesties command, Lauderdaill"; f.52. Lady Balcarres to the Earl of Lauderdale, 6 September 1662. "Since I had this I have received another from my brother [Lord Rothes] wherein he tells me there is some now hier yet did talk my good Lord Crafford shall not return treasurer, and desayrs me to shew your Lord so much yet you may have a care you lose not such a friend in the State, he hopes you will disapoynt ym in this usin, they profess yet invie against Craford, but truly (he says) it's against Laderdeall, for they think if you war out being as they think on of the prym offesers of stet, if you war out our Samson, who hear is cot, wold be in your place, and they would doe what they please..." This latter is probably a reference to Newburgh, who had been Lauderdale's rival for the Secretaryship, or to Primrose or to Tarbet.; f.79a. William Sharp to the Earl of Lauderdale (Here begin the letters concerned with the Billeting affair. This is the first having the private mark under the signature W.S. which informed Lauderdale that there was writing in sympathetic ink on the other side. Lauderdale does not fall victim to acts mentioned in this letter which was directed against Lauderdale and Crawford. But Lauderdale was willing, as he said, to take a cart load of such oaths. Crawford, by refusing it, lost the Treasureship), 6 September 1662. (William Sharp, was the brother of James Sharp, and Lauderdale's private agent in Scotland).; f.80a. William Sharp to the Earl of Lauderdale. Again includes secret correspondence on political matters, 9 September, 1662 (Tuesday).; f.81. William Sharp to the Earl of Lauderdale (addressed to "Mr John Red" Lauderdale's pseudonym), Wednesday, September 10, 1662.; f.82b. William Sharp to the Earl of Lauderdale, Edinburgh, [Thursday] 11 September, 1662.; f.86. William Sharp to the Earl of Lauderdale, Edinburgh, [Thursday] 2 October, 1662.; f.92b. William Sharp to the Earl of Lauderdale, Edinburgh, [Thursday] 16 October, 1662.; f.98b. William Sharp to the Earl of Lauderdale. Enclosed is a letter to the Hon Charles Maitland, 16 October 1662.; f.98b. William Sharp to the Earl of Lauderdale.; f.106. The Earl of Tweeddale to the Earl of Lauderdale, Bolhans, October 1662.; f.112. Sir Peter Wedderburne to the Earl of Lauderdale, Edinburgh, 6 September, 1662.; f.116. William Sharp to the Earl of Lauderdale, Edinburgh, [Thursday] 6 November 1662.; f.122. William Sharp to the Earl of Lauderdale, 18 November, 1662.; f.134b. William Sharp to the Earl of Lauderdale, Edinburgh, Saturday December 13, 1662.; f.137b. William Sharp to the Earl of Lauderdale [Tuesday, December 16, 1662.].
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