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Updated: July 3, 2025
In 1715, the year before Governor Spotswood of Virginia, "with much feasting and parade," made his famous expedition over the Blue Ridge, there was a complaint that traders from Carolina had reached the villages on the Wabash, and were poaching on the French preserves.
Lord Hurdly took off his hat with an automatic motion which might have prompted the thought that the action arose from his ideal of himself rather than from any association with the woman before him. "Excuse me for detaining you a moment," said Bettina, "but I want to know whether Horace Spotswood actually received the money which you made over to him at the time of your marriage to me.
Before the middle of the century ministers were generally indifferent to the constitutional tendencies in the colonies; repeated recommendations of the Board of Trade for an independent civil list went unheeded, and governors, such as Spotswood, who stirred up trouble by endeavoring to carry out their instructions, were likely to be replaced by others whose adroit concessions to the assemblies created the illusion of a successful administration.
I am aware that the rupture of your engagement of marriage to Mr. Horace Spotswood was caused chiefly by a letter shown you by Lord Hurdly, and purporting to come from an altogether trustworthy source a man who was on the spot and who was a personal friend of his. I was that man. I was on the spot because I was sent there by Lord Hurdly for the purpose of writing this letter.
James's situation obliged him to dissemble his resentment of this traitorous attempt, and his natural temper inclined him soon to forgive and forget it. * Melvil. Spotswood, p. 351. * Spotswood, p. 349. Camden, p. 513. Rymer, tom. xv. p. 803.
James, however, succeeded in reducing to contempt the general assemblies of the Presbyterian church, and in confirming Archbishop Spotswood in the chief administration of ecclesiastical affairs, which, it must be confessed, were regulated with great prudence and moderation.
Arthur Spotswood by name. When his young relative, Horace Spotswood, who was cousin and heir to Lord Hurdly, came to travel in America, it was but natural that he should visit the rector in his home.
"I went to the Spotswood Hotel, mother, and I listened there to some tiresome talk about whipping the Yankees out of their boots in the next five minutes." "Aren't you going to do it?" Prescott laughed. "Mother," he said, "I wouldn't have your divided heart for anything. It must cause you a terrible lot of worry." "I do very well," she said, with her quiet smile, "and I cherish no illusions."
By a sudden and unexpected inroad, they seized that nobleman at Stirling; but finding that his friends, sallying from the castle, were likely to rescue him, they instantly put him to death. The earl of Marre was chosen regent in his room, and found the same difficulties in the government of that divided country. * D'Ewes, p. 213, 238. Digges, p. 152. * Spotswood, p. 263. Digges, p. 156, 165, 169.
I've got work for him to do." The man spoke with the utmost dignity and his big black eyes shot fire. "The king commands," said Raymond softly. Wood put his hand on Harley's arm. "Colonel," he said, "you are one of my lieutenants, and we're thinkin' about a movement that I've got to talk over with you. You'll come with me now to the Spotswood Hotel, because there's no time to waste.
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