142 DIARY OF PATRICK GORDON. [1Q8Q to be fed in the Parke. I did writt to the Earle of Middleton

Passages from the diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries : A.D. 1635-A.D. 1699"

142 DIARY OF PATRICK GORDON. [1Q8Q

to be fed in the Parke. I did writt to the Earle of Middleton, the Yiscount
of Melfort, to the Paters Dumbar* and ]Marr, and to Alexander Gordon.

I received some visitts in the morning, and dined in my lodging.
After noone, I gave a visitt to the Earle of Aberdeen, and had much dis-
com-se with him, concerning my owne particular. I agreed with my
landlady to pay for three servants dyet, eighteen pence a day. I did writt
to my brother to send me some papers to Edinburgh, and the necessary
charters, of the business betwixt my Lord ErroU and me.

I was in the ParHament,t and dined in Blaires^ with some noblemen.
In the afternoone, I payed some visitts to the noblemen who had done me
the honour. In the evening, meeting with some noblemen, wee went and
tooke a merry collation.

I dined in my lodging, and, after noone, went and visitt my cousin, Mr.
Thomas, where I received letters from my sonne, James, from Doway,
dated . . . May.

I dined in my lodging, and, after noone, went into the Parke to walke. I
gott up my trunks from Lieth, which came from Dantzick, and found all safe.

Haveing been invited by my Lord Chancellour to dinner, I went and
heard devotion, after which, in my Lord Chancellours packet, came, in a
coverto of Mr. Cambridge of Hamburg, a letter from our chieffe Minister
of State,§ acknowledging the reseat of some of myne on the way, and giveing
me power, in their Majesties name, to bring along some officers of inferiour
quality, as also some engeniers, fireworkers, and minirers, and to promise
them yearly pay, according to their quality, and liberty to go out of the
countrey when their occasions required. After noone, I went downe to
Lieth with the Earles of Airly and Dumferling.

I sent in the morning some cavear, and forty ermines, to the Duke of

* [Father William Dunbar, a member of The Parliament met upon the second and the

the Society of Jesus. In November, 1686, he fourth, but not upon the third of June.]

was appointed Almoner in Scotland to the t [A tavern of note. A kinsman writes

King, with a pension of £100 a year. (Ab- from Edinburgh to the Countess of Erroll, in

stracts of the Records of the Secretary's Office, November, 1688: ' I am oveijoyed to be con-

1686-7, no. 393, MS.) firmed of my Lord's final transaction with the

The Reverend Mr. Grififin of New Abbey town of Edinburgh, which was performed on

informs me that the papers of the Douay Col- Thursday last in Blair's, where my Lord Chan-

lege describe him as bom ' ex parentibus cellor was with my Lord [Erroll], and where

Domino Alexandre [Dunbar] de Berwick, et both were treated by the town.' (Miscellany

Domina Margarita Abercromby nobilibus.' of the Spalding Club, vol. ii. p. 294.)]

Father Dunbar was alive at Douay in 1714.] § [Golizyn.]

t [Here again Gordon's reckoning is wrong.