_The Earl of Home to Walter Grosset_
Linlithgow Dece^r 23 1745.
SIR,--Having receiv’d information That John Liddel in Haugh of
Dalderse lying in Newtown Pow hath a Boat, and that there are
another Boat upon Carron Watter belonging to James Simpson on the
west side of John Liddels in the Pow about the Slyde bank bridge,
I desire you’l order them to be immediatly secured or destroyed
as you think proper.--I am Sir Your Humble Serv.