A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . yow all my friends here are very fully satisfyd that it will be much for myadvantage more then anything I can doe, and I do not doubt but both my Lordand yow will be of the same opinion, for its impossible I can expect to settlemyselfe here now any way; and as I know by experience the way I live here,with only one servant, and making no great appearance, as in my cloathes andthe like, has been a hindrance hitherto to that. ... So I am sure it will bemuch more probable to expect a m
A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . yow all my friends here are very fully satisfyd that it will be much for myadvantage more then anything I can doe, and I do not doubt but both my Lordand yow will be of the same opinion, for its impossible I can expect to settlemyselfe here now any way; and as I know by experience the way I live here,with only one servant, and making no great appearance, as in my cloathes andthe like, has been a hindrance hitherto to that. ... So I am sure it will bemuch more probable to expect a match after I have been abroad a year or two,where I am certain I can live cheaper then I could doe here after this consider-ablie, and that I come to know the world a little more, and be known. If,when I come home, my father can allow me two or three hundred pound tomake a figure with here for some few months, I say it is much likelier I shallget a fortune that way then by living here privately as I do now, by whichpeople take notice of the lowness of the family, and think it to be worse thenit really is. ^. Figs. 56, 57.—Signet and Signature of James, Lord Angus, son of James,2nd Marquess of Douglas (c. 1692). The marquess offered no objection: on the contrary,he approved of a plan which should take his son far fromGoes to Great Britain; for although Bonnie Dundee had Holland, fallen at Killiecrankie, still the war-cloud stooped^ low on the land. So King Williams leave was obtained, and Angus hied him to Utrecht to know theworld a little more. Before he had been there many weeks, echoes beganto reach him of uncomely comments passed on the colonelwho allowed his regiment to go to the front, while hesauntered secure in academic groves. The said regiment Fraser, iv. 2S4. 230 THE HOUSE OF DOUGLAS was serving in the Netherlands against the Grand wrote home to his father in January 1692, begginghis permission either to join it or to return to obscurityin Scotland.^
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