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<HEAD>Copy of two Holograph Letters under the decea&s;t Vi&s;count of <HI>Stormonts</HI> Hand, which (be&s;ides &s;everal others) prove, that the Rights acquired by the &s;aid Vi&s;count on the E&s;tate of <HI>Annandale Murray,</HI> were in Tru&s;t for the behove of Sir <HI>Robert Murray</HI> alias <HI>Creichton,</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE>
<DATELINE><HI>London,</HI> <DATE><HI>June</HI> 19, 1666.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>MY Brother <HI>William</HI> can inform you, That I have pre&s;ent u&s;e for &s;ome Papers of the Earl of <HI>Annandals,</HI> (which are in the Lady <HI>Carlips</HI> po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion) and hitherto I would not &s;uffer tho&s;e I intru&s;ted to &s;earch the&s;e papers, unle&s;s you were pre&s;ent; And therefore I &s;hall mo&s;t earne&s;tly intreat, you may be plea&s;ed to favour me &s;o much, as to throw away one Hour with my Brother <HI>William</HI> and Mr. <HI>Allan,</HI> for making &s;earch of the&s;e papers, which I &s;hall acknow|ledge a mo&s;t &s;ingular Obligation, and &s;hall endeavour a Requital: By my Brother <HI>John,</HI> (who came here Ye&s;ternight) I had a very &s;atisfactory Letter from Sir <HI>Robert Murray,</HI> who expre&s;&s;eth a great deal of Readine&s;s and Dutifulne&s;s to &s;ign that Ratification, (which he &s;ent to you in order to your Advice) I did indeed declare to him my Re&s;olutions of not moving in his Com|mi&s;&s;ions, until that be done; And therefore I hope Sir <HI>Robert Sinclair</HI> and you will return it me back with their Advice to him for &s;igning of it, which is neither Illative to me of a greater Right, nor prejudicial to him&s;elf: Be&s;ides, I wi&s;h he would &s;atisfie the Sums I really payed for the&s;e Appry&s;ings, which I purcha&s;ed at his De&s;ire, and I &s;hould mo&s;t cheerfully &s;tate him in my Condition: I do pre&s;s &s;olely upon Sir <HI>Roberts</HI> Account, as retarding his Bu&s;ine&s;s, and be&s;ides I am loath to appear to undo that Structure, which I have been (not without Succe&s;s) endea|vouring to rear up; My Brother <HI>William</HI> will acquaint you with an Addition which I de&s;ired to be made to it; I did never &s;tate a Difference betwixt Sir <HI>Roberts</HI> Intere&s;t and my own, and I hope both Sir <HI>Robert Sinclair</HI> and you will acknowledge the &s;ame, you being eye Witne&s;s of my Carriage this la&s;t Winter, when <HI>Brouchtons</HI> Remi&s;&s;ion was pre&s;ented in Exchequer; I &s;hall leave all to your Con&s;ideration, and &s;hall &s;ay no more, but that I am,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Sir, <HI>Your mo&s;t Affectionat Friend to &s;erve you, Sic Sub&s;cribitur,</HI> Stormet,</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Directed on the Back, For Mr. <HI>Robert Dick&s;on</HI> Advocate. The&s;e.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE>
<DATELINE><HI>London,</HI> <DATE><HI>September</HI> 25. 1666.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>YE&s;ternight I received yours, dated <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> which is all I have had from you &s;ince my Brother <HI>John</HI> came here; And tho I &s;hall not offer any more to pre&s;s you to &s;ign that Ratification I &s;ent you, leaving it Arbitrary to your &s;elf, to do or not do as you &s;hall think fitte&s;t, yet (be&s;ides that) it &s;eems you ab&s;olutely di&s;tru&s;t me, (which I wi&s;h you had expre&s;t &s;ooner) I &s;hall, I &s;uppo&s;e, &s;atisfie the&s;e Rea&s;ons you adduce, which &s;eem not to me to have that weight you lay upon them; For in the Contract of Wad&s;et pa&s;t betwixt us, you have therein ratified Sir <HI>George Mouats</HI> Appry&s;ing, both as it &s;tands, and as to its preference, which enervats that Hundred Thou&s;and Pounds Bond as to that: And all I now de&s;ire is, ye do the like as to the re&s;t of the Appry&s;ings I purcha&s;t; And tho his be included in that paper, yet the Letter of Rever&s;ion I granted will free you from importing double payment of one and the &s;ame Sum; And, in that very Contract, you'll find the Warrandice the very &s;ame which is in the paper I &s;ent you; <HI>Sir,</HI> I mu&s;t tell you freely, that it &s;eems you are now Jealous of this which is meerly de&s;igned for my own Safety, being ingaged in a Bu&s;ine&s;s full of Intricacies, to which you gave the fir&s;t Ri&s;e; For (be&s;ides that it was yout De&s;ire, as I can make appear by your Letters) I was con&s;trained to purcha&s;e the&s;e Appry&s;ings, for defending the Wad&s;er I had from you, which, if pulled from me, would have imported a con&s;iderable prejudice upon your &s;elf, and yet <HI>Pit&s;coties</HI> are in&s;i&s;ting again&s;t me; I &s;hall not offer to relat to you what, be|&s;ides all this, you owe me, as notour to your &s;elf, and I pre&s;ume you will not &s;ay, that I ever de|clined any thing conducive to your Intere&s;t; And I ever de&s;igned, that my Brother <HI>John</HI> &s;hould have pro&s;ecute the Sute upon my Charges, (which is con&s;iderable, I pre&s;ume, the property being yours) but &s;eing you are not plea&s;ed to do it, I &s;hall not offer to create you any more Trouble upon this, only I am &s;orry you force me to that which I never de&s;igned: I intend (God wil|ling) this next Week for <HI>Scotland,</HI> &amp;yet to demon&s;trate to the World my unwillingne&s;s to relinqui&s;h you, if you &s;hall be plea&s;ed to &s;end over to my Brother <HI>John</HI> that paper &s;igned as I &s;ent it you, he &s;hall wait upon you for pro&s;ecuting of our Intere&s;t, otherways you will be plea&s;ed to pardon me for taking another Cour&s;e; And be&s;ides, I do ingenuou&s;ly declare to you, I never did nor does de|&s;ign any thing to your prejudice, and I wi&s;h you meet with as little from others, in whom you &s;eem to repo&s;e a greater Tru&s;t, I am,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Sir, <HI>Your mo&s;t obliged Cou&s;in and Servant, Sic Sub&s;cribitur,</HI> Stormet.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Directed on the Back, For Sir <HI>Robert Murray</HI> of <HI>Cockpool.</HI> The&s;e.</P>
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