you to be the onely Masters: Yet them say we and you must be married,
I fear nothing but emulation to forbid the Banes; unless it
be a Dutch match, for each party to keep his own, and dispose of it
as will.
WEDNESDAY, July 23.
You have the Affairs of Scotland very fully
represented in the two following Letters,
one of the 14. the other of the 15 instant.
SIR,
I received your letters of the 5 & 8 of July, upon Munday
the 14 of July, as we were marching neer Lithgow. Upon
Saturday we marched out of Glasgow, having eaten up
all their provision to prevent any entertainment for any party
of the Kings. When we lay at Glasgow we sent a party to
a house called Newark very strong, and to which there is no
accesse with Ordnance but by sea: we took it, and put a garison
into it, to make it with the help of som ships, Magazine
for to supply us in the West part. The hous stands upon Dumbritton
Fryth, below the Castle of Dumbarton, so that that
Castle will be of no use to the enemy, and wee shall have a
readier supply to our Army in their occasions Westward.
The enemy during the time that wee
were at GLASGOW, marched to Kilsieth,
for fresh quarters, nine miles from Sterling,
where they had a great Bogge on
one side, and the ragged Crags and Mountaines
on the other side; and therefore to
us were in accessible.