1661] DIARY OF PATRICK GORDON. 39 small stock I had ; as for the 1000 reichs dollers promised me

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

1661] DIARY OF PATRICK GORDON. 39

small stock I had ; as for the 1000 reichs dollers promised me, I might pos-
sibly wait for that some tyme too, and spend the most part of it befor I
should get from thence ; and so, at last, being dismounted and ill provided
of money, and without ffriends or acquaintance in any other place, in a tyme
of peace, a lyvelyhood or honourable charge would be very difficult to gett.

These and many other things considering, I began to waver in my re-
solution, and, at last, found my self very apprehensive of the foresaid rea-
sons, and convinced so that I resolved not to go to Vienna ; to the which
the great soUicItatlons and promises of the Russe ambassadour, Zamiatv
Fiodorovitz Leontiuf, and Colonell Crawfuird, with others, contributed very-
much. The only difficulty was, how to come handsomely of from the am-
bassadour d'Isola ; for, albeit, I should have been very welcome againe to
the crowne and I'eltniarshall ; yet was I ashamed, and feared to have it ob-
jected to me hereafter ; and also, albeit, I should have been accommodated
in the crowne or Littawish army, with a charge to my contentment, yet
durst I not, for fear of offending such a prince, who had been so gracious
to me, and who was of so great power, and whom I had already but too
nmch offended by soUiciting for my pass, and quitting the service. So,
haveing made sure with the Russe ambassadour, and let of the most of my
servants, I went to the Roman Emperours ambassadour, and desired to know
how long it would be befor his dispatches w^ould be ready. He told me that
it would be eight dayes. Then I told him, that I had all my best things
lying in Thorun, thirty miles from hence, and that he would permitt me to
go and fetch them, promiseing to returne precisely against that tyme ; which
he granting, and desireing me not to delay, nor disapoint him, I tooke my
leave.

I had nothing now to do but to prepare for my jorney ; so, haveing gott
Colonell Crawfuird and Captain Menezes* ready, I tooke leave of my
ffriends, and, to make clear with the Roman Emperours ambassadour, I left

* (PaulMenzies, the younger brother of the land in the beginning of 1672; and, m the
gallnnt boy who bore the royal standard in next year, was sent as envoy from the Czar
Mor.trose's last battle, was a son of Sir Gilbert Alexis to the Republic of Venice, the Pope,
Menzies of Pitfoddels, by his marriage in :623 the Emperor, and the Elector of Brandenburg,
with Lady Ann Gordon, daughter of John, When at the court of Rome, he prevailed with
twelfth Earl of Sutlu^rland. He entered the Pope Clement X. to sanction a service in corn-
Roman Catholic College of Douay when at the memoration of St. Margaret, Queen of Scot-
age of ten, in the summer of 1647. In 1G61, land — (Pinkcrt. Yitt. Autiq Sanctt. Scotiae,
he appears as a captain in the Polish ranks. pp 301,309) He died, a lieutenant general in
Joining the Muscovite l)anner in the same the Russian service, on the 9th of November,
year, along with Patrick Gordon, he rose to 1G94.]
the rank of major in 1663. Ue was in Scot-