Description
Autograph Letter Signed to "Me Lord Hamyltoun, Leutenant for his Majestie upon the West", relating to disorders in the Borders: "to leis ony force at all upon the heids of the disorderit pepill and of sik as refusit to yeild thair obedience to your lordships court of Justiciarie... the brokin men of the bordour persaveing your lordship to cum in swa quyetlie accumpaneit and na appeirance of ony garesone to be leviat and left behynd yow for dautenyng of sik as suld happyn to be rebells and fugetives from the court..." referring to "the nychtlie raids and heirshipis in Glencarne... the slauchter of the Lard of Lagis men and heirship betwuixt the Walter the burnyng and murther of the Moresonis in Galloway... all committit be the foirsaid thevis belonganed to the Lard of Johnstone", 2 pages, integral address panel, 4to, 23 March 1586
Footnote
Note: Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Angus, was appointed Warden of the Marches and Lieutenant-General on the Border in 1686, and performed good services in restoring order, but was unable to overcome the king's hostility to the establishment of Presbyterian government.