| Description | Has been to Cumbernauld. Charles Elphinstone was visiting Aske but writer has asked him to attend next head court. Conversations with Colonel Mackay about Orkney affairs and trouble caused by Mitchelson and with Captain Graham of Douchine about sale of Herbertshire (?) estate, whcih he wished Sir Lawrence would purchase. Legal methods of objecting to qualifications devised by Cheap 'I would be for keeping them off and if a parliament is dissolved before it's time it would be of consequence |