England under Charles II. from the Restoration to the Treaty of Nimeguen, 1660-1678: English History from Contemporary Writers
Taylor, W. F.
1889
Middleton returns to London.
Ibid., p. 200. . | |
The earl of Middleton . . came up to London, and was very coldly received by the king. The earl of Lauderdale moved that a Scottish council might be called. . . When it met the lord Lauderdale | |
122 | accused the earl of Middleton of many malversations in the great trust he had been in. . . Towards the end of May the king called many of the English counsellors together . . . the king said his errors were so great and so many that the credit of his affairs must suffer if he continued them any longer in such hands. Yet he promised . . . he would still be kind to him, for he looked on him as a very honest man. Few days after that secretary Morris was sent to him, with a warrant under the king's hand, requiring him to deliver up his commission, which he did. . . . The earl of Rothes was declared the king's commissioner. But the earl of Lauderdale would not trust him. So he went down with him, and kept him too visibly in a dependence on him, for all his high character. |