Guard, ‘is appointed to keep constant watch at the Gate’; and all manner of Earls and persons of Whiggamore quality come to visit the Lieutenant-General; and even certain Clergy come, who have a leaning that way.[1]—The Earl of Moray’s House, Moray House, still stands in the Canongate of Edinburgh, well known to the inhabitants there. A solid spacious mansion, which, when all bright and new two-hundred years ago, must have been a very adequate lodging. There are remains of noble gardens; one of the noble state-rooms, when T last saw it, was an extensive Paper Warehouse. There is no doubt but the Lieutenant-General did lodge here; Guthry seeming to contradict this old Pamphlet, turns out to confirm it.[2]
The Lieutenant-General has received certain Votes of Parliament,[3] sanctioning what he has done in reference to these Scotch Parties, and encouraging and authorising him to do more. Of which circumstance, in the following official Document, he fails not to avail himself, on the morrow after his arrival.
FOR THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE COMMITTEE OF ESTATES FOR THE KINGDOM OF SCOTLAND: THESE
Edinburgh, 5th Oct. 1648.
Right Honourable,—I shall ever be ready to bear witness of your Lordships’ forwardness to do right to the Kingdom of England, in restoring the Garrisons of Berwick and Carlisle; and having received so good a pledge of your resolutions to maintain amity and a good understanding between the King-
- ↑ True Account of the great Expressions of Love from the Noblemen etc. of Scotland unto Lieutenant-General Cromwell and his Officers; In a Letter to a Friend (London, 1648; King’s Pamphlets, small 4to, no. 392, §26, dated with the pen 23d October): Abridged in Rushworth, vii. 1295.
- ↑ Guthry’s Memoirs, p. 297. For a description of the place, see Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, 21st January 1837.
- ↑ Commons Journals, 28th September 1648.
