The Ayrshire Legatees

What I hav to say for the present is, that you will, by a smak, get a

bocks of kumoddities, whilk you will destraboot as derekit on every on of

them, and you will before have resievit by the post-offis, an account of

what has been don. I need say no forther at this time, knowin your

discreshon and prooduns, septs that our Rachel and Captain Sabor will, if

it pleese the Lord, be off to Parish, by way of Bryton, as man and wife,

the morn's morning. What her father the Doctor gives for tocher, what is

settlt on her for jontor, I will tell you all aboot when we meet; for

it's our dishire noo to lose no tim in retorning to the manse, this being

the last of our diplomaticals in London, where we have found the Argents

a most discrit family, payin to the last farding the Cornal's legacy, and

most seevil, and well bred to us.

As I am naterally gretly okypt with this matteromoneal afair, you cannot

expect ony news; but the queen is going on with a dreadful rat, by which

the pesents hav falen more than a whole entirr pesent. I wish our fonds

were well oot of them, and in yird and stane, which is a constansie. But

what is to become of the poor donsie woman, no one can expound. Some

think she will be pot in the Toor of London, and her head chappit off;

others think she will raise sic a stramash, that she will send the whole

government into the air, like peelings of ingons, by a gunpoother plot.

But it's my opinion, and I have weighed the matter well in my

understanding, that she will hav to fight with sword in hand, be she ill,

or be she good. How els can she hop to get the better of more than two

hundred lords, as the Doctor, who has seen them, tells me, with princes

of the blood-royal, and the prelatic bishops, whom, I need not tell you,

are the worst of all.

But the thing I grudge most, is to be so long in Lundon, and no to see

the king. Is it not a hard thing to come to London, and no to see the

king? I am not pleesed with him, I assure you, becose he does not set

himself out to public view, like ony other curiosity, but stays in his

palis, they say, like one of the anshent wooden images of idolatry, the

which is a great peety, he beeing, as I am told, a beautiful man, and

more the gentleman than all the coortiers of his court.