1665-6] DIARY OF PATRICK GORDON. 57 it was not fitt that lie should make any advantage for himself

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

1665-6] DIARY OF PATRICK GORDON. 57

it was not fitt that lie should make any advantage for himself, seing in his
masters business, for which he came, he had received no satisfaction ; and
that, two dayes thereafter, the present which, at his first audience, he had
presented from himself was returned ; and that, on the twenty-fourth, he
went from Mosko towards Sweden.



[A.D. 1665.]

Doktor Thomas Wilson came to Mosko, and lodged by Doktor Collins.* june lo.
But because the pestilence was in England, and he should have holden the
quarantine, befor he came to the citty, he, with one Kenedy, who came
with him, were sent back to stay at Klin, ninety verst from hence, and
Doktor Collins to Veschreseziansky,'!' where they were to remaine six weeks,
where all who conversed with them had liberty to go and come from Mosco,
but themselves not.

Yasily Yek. Deskow | returned, without satisfaction, as to his complaint
against the Earle of Carlile, haveing had but a cold reception ; yet, by the
bounty of the King, at his dismission, recompenced.

[During tliis year, 1665, Gordon had tidings of the death of his elder brother, Alexander, in
Scotland. He now earnestly petitioned for leave to revisit his native country, hut was refused.
But in the following summer, the Czar resolved to despatch him on a mission to England, under
circumstances which he himself shall describe.]

[A.D. 1666.1

1 fififi

I was sent for to the possolsky office, but comeing late, was ordered to june 22.
come the next day.

I went to the possolsky or ambassy office, where the Dumny Diak june 23.
asked me, If I had a mind to go for England? I told him, Yes. He told
me, that his Majesty was to send a letter to the King, and that I should
take that along with me. I replyed, that I had indeed, last yeare, desired
to be let of to England, but that now I had no necessity or businesse there ;
and that, if I should go about my owne business thither, I could not well
take such a letter with me, because it should be a shame for me to carry a

* [Samuel Collins, M.D., physician to the t [Woskresenskoje, forty versts from Mos-

Czar Alexis Michaelowitsch. He returned to cow.]

England, and published at London in 1671 a t [Wassily Jakowlewitsch Daschow.]
work on the ' Present State of Russia.']