He was Sir John Carnegie of Ethie, co.

Forfar, Lord Lour since 1639, and created Earl of Ethie in 1647,--which title he exchanged, after the Restoration, for that of Earl of Northesk.
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V.p.227, in connexion with Vol.

IV, pp._ 487-494:--A paper found very recently by Mrs.Everett Green in the Record Office, and kindly communicated by her to me, in continuation of those for which I have already acknowledged my obligations to her, enables me to throw some further light on Milton's friend and correspondent Andrew Sandelands, and on that scheme of his for utilising the fir-woods of Scotland in which he sought Milton's assistance.

The paper, which is in the handwriting of Sandelands, is dated "30 June, 1653," i.e.two months and ten days after Cromwell had dissolved the Rump and begun his Interim Dictatorship; it is addressed "For the Honor'ble.