| Summary: | Description: Contents include: f.1. From James Sharpe to James Wood. London, May 29, 1660.; f.6. Sir Robert Moray to the Earl of Lauderdale. Paris, 7 June, 1660. (Sir Robert Moray was to become Lauderdale's deputy in London at times when he was away on business abroad, frequently when Lauderdale was absent for long periods in Scotland).; f.9. Benjamin Whichcot to the Earl of Lauderdale. June 12, 1660.; f.13. For Mistresse Anne Red in Scotland. [Sent by Robert Moray.] Colombe, 29 June, 1660. ("Anne Red" is pseudonym for Anne Maitland, Countess of Lauderdale).; f.25. Relates to a White Ball of 14 December 1631.; f.31. Petition to Charles II asking for the removal of all English Forces from Scotland. The King answers by promising to remove the Forces as soon as possible and also orders the 1651 Committee of Estates to meet on 23 August. A further document is a Petition to the King's Most Excellent Majestie, signed by Helen Hay. This is the Humble Petition of Helen Hay, Spouse to Sir Archibald Johnston of Wariston, (One of the framers of the National Covenant and a Commissioner to the Westminster Assembly.) See later letters for his trial and execution.; f.74. Robert Douglas and George Hutchesone to the Earl of Lauderdale. Edinburgh, November 10, 1660.; f.75. James Sharp to Patrick Drummond (n.d.).; f.76. The Earl of Rothes to the Earl of Lauderdale, Edinburgh, 13 November, 1660.; f.88. Copy of Earl of Middleton's Instructions. Charles R. Instructions to John, Earl of Middleton, our Commissioner to our Parliament of Scotland. Signed "By his Majesties Command, Lauderdaill", 17 December, 1660.; f.90. James Sharp to Patrick Drummond, (the latter was a Presbyterian minister in London), 11 December, 1660.; f.92. James Sharp to the Earl of Lauderdale, Edinburgh, 13 December, 1660.; f.94. James Sharp to Patrick Drummond, Edinburgh, 13 December, 1660.; f.96. James Sharp to Patrick Drummond, Edinburgh, 13 December, 1660.; f.106. James Sharp to Patrick Drummond, Edinburgh, 18 December, 1660.; f.126. Fragment of Letter from James Sharp to the Earl of Lauderdale. n.d (end of 1660 ?) a private letter to Lauderdale in which Sharp shows his true colours. "...I fear ther can be no remedy against this malady without exercising severity upon the leading impostors, Guthiree, Gillespy, Rutherford, which will daunt the rest of the hottheads who in time may be beat into sound minds and sober practises. When many here together are takin notice of, putt under restraint and to subscribe bonds, it drives them to stick together, wheras the readier way to render them insignificant seemeth to be divyde & separat them, by not taking further notice of those who are but misled, then by dismissing them with a sharp rebuke and threatening in case they obstinately percist in ther seditious preaching and shutting up close the cheef sticklers; in a short time the folly of ther way would thus be manifest and they not beeng exposed to the pity of the people (as by imprisonment they are) would be left to stand upon ther own legs & lose ther interest, &c. so their bustling would cease of it self....".
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