A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . d I hovp cannott be thovghtt deir, whan it cornsonly to a thovsand thritie avghtt povnd, ten shilin Scotts. This, uith what wasdew to hir befor hir death of the localitie - yovr inrdship aloved on yovr lady,I expeck yow will order the presantt payment, since it is ivsst; and being themother of yovr farailie, I hovp yow will nott svfer her nam to be hard by thosshe is oving monie too. Itt shall allso be against my will if anie mistaks bebetvixt yow and me for all the wnk)ndness my d
A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . d I hovp cannott be thovghtt deir, whan it cornsonly to a thovsand thritie avghtt povnd, ten shilin Scotts. This, uith what wasdew to hir befor hir death of the localitie - yovr inrdship aloved on yovr lady,I expeck yow will order the presantt payment, since it is ivsst; and being themother of yovr farailie, I hovp yow will nott svfer her nam to be hard by thosshe is oving monie too. Itt shall allso be against my will if anie mistaks bebetvixt yow and me for all the wnk)ndness my davghter meett with att hir pray God to bless the only pleg she hes lefft behind hir, that he may be ashappie as hir lyf was wnfortvTiatt. I beeg to knov whar and how he is.—I am,my lord, yovr most affectionatt mother and hvmbill servant, Jane JIackenzie.* Mvchall, 1S//2 August 1690. Affter all the fvnerall ar payed, if yovr lordship desir itt, yow shall have aparticvlar accovnt. Mr. Mackell refers himself to yovr lordship, being yovrapoticarie befor. For the right honerable the Marqvss of Figs. 52, 53-—Seal and Signature of Lady ^Slary Ker, second Marchionessof James, 2nd Marquess of Douglas (1695). Douglas waited more than two years before marrying again, and then, after the death of his son and Mary Kerf ^ heir [Ixxiii.] at Steinkirk in 1692, chose as his 13th Decern- second wife Lady Mary Ker, daughter of the Earl [afterwards Marquess] of Lothian. This lady soon became unpleasantly aware of the almost hopeless About £6q sterling. - Allowance. ?* Her son, the Earl of Angus [Isiii.]. * Fraser, iv. 2S4. A PRUDENT WIFE 225 insolvency of the marquesss affairs, which had gone frombad to worse under Lawries administration. I see, wrote the marchioness to this individual in 1695, a letter ofyours to my lord which gives me very mellencoUy thoughts of the condition ofmy lords fortoun, and that which meks it stik the more with me that I fynd somuch of the difcul
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