A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . 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 difculty that my lords
A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . 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 difculty that my lords afairs heth run into luged upon the acountsof this tow years bygon or therby. I wish you had condesended on eney of theunwiser perticulers in thes acounts Ihet they might heue bene helpt for the I shell be well pleasd, as Im shoor my lord will, to tak your adviys in theretrinching our familly from the very stabill to the hall. ... I confess nethermy peartts nor edwcation qwallefies me to understand how acounts may be medup, and it might be I would heue sad thoughts of them when I considerd the. Fig. 54.—Seal of J; las (1660-1700). eastatt of my lords afairs in the bullk, if I did nott trust more in your integrityin the discherging of the inteyr trust you heue, both as a good morrall andrelligius man, then I woud in bundills of acountts, and it is from that confidansI heue in you that you shell ever fynd me reddy to take your addvys. Douglas continued to repose blind faith in Lawries man-agement, whatever ill people doe say to the contrair, - Fraser, iv. 285. ? Ibid., 2S7. VOL. II. P 226 THE HOUSE OF DOUGLAS and paid no attention to his wifes warning about thecharacter of his chamberlain. But despite the low esti-mate she put upon her own peartts and edwcation, theMarchioness of Douglas had plenty of sound commonsense, and had no intention of letting the princely domin-ions of her husband go to wreck for want of ordinarycare. She imparted to her father, Lord Lothia
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