1666] DIARY OF PATRICK GORDON. 79 I did writt to Sir John Hebden

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

1666] DIARY OF PATRICK GORDON. 79

I did writt to Sir John Hebden,* informing him of ray business and stay, September i
to my Lord Lawderdale, and father. T did writt to Russia to my wyfc and
her mother, to Doktor Collins and Mr. Bryan, and to the Dumnij Almais
Ivanovitz, giveing- notice of my tedious and expensive jorney, and my beino-
forced to stay here for want of passage, not dareing adventure by the
ordinary packet boat for fear of being robbed, as a Brandeburgish envoy
was lately by the piokarowus, desireing and hopeing that consideration
should be taken of my expenses.

I received an answer of my letter from Sir John Hebden, desireing me
to land at Deptford, and ask the way to Peckham, where he invited me co
stay in his house untill so long as cloaths and other things should be fur-
nished, which offer I resolved to embrace. I received an answer of my
letter to Mr Mettellan, giveing me notice that a Kings yacht, which was to
land at Newport, had orders to take me in.

I borrowed ten pounds sterling from Mr. Collison and recommended my
trunks and other things to Mr. Skeine, takeing only a bagge with my cre-
dentialls and other letters, and went downe by boat to Newport, and tooke September 2i
up my lodging in an Irishmans house.

Here I was farr more grieved as at Bruges, not hearing any thing of the September 2(
yacht, and wanting company. The next day, the packet boat arriving, one,
a Scotsman, told me that the Kings yacht, which had orders to take me
over, was forced to land at Bolloignej and would hardly come to Newport,
which grieved me exceedingly.

of Lieutenant General, together returned to torical Observes, p. 28.) Elsewhere he relates
their native country in 1665. It was not with how a Covenanter, brought before a committee
out great difficulty that King Charles II. pre- of the Privy Council, denounced the members
vailed on the Czar to allow them to leave his as 'bloody murderers and papists,' and railed
dominions. The severity of the military dis- at Dalyell as 'a Muscovia beast who used to
cipline to which they had been habituated roast men,'— (FountainhaU's Historical Notices
abroad, seems to have been matter of frequent of Scottish Affairs, vol. i., p 332.) The same
allusion in Scotland. TheCovenanting Kirkton assiduous annalist, in recording an instance of
speaks of Dalyell as a man whose 'rude and torture by the thumbscrew.", in September,
fierce natural disposition hade been much con- 168-1, tells us that 'the authors of this inven-
firmed by his breeding and service in Muscovia, tion of the thunimikins were General Dalyell
where he hnde the command of a small army, and Drummond, who had seen it in Moscovia.'
and saw nothing but tyrranie and slavery.'— ' But,' he adds, 'its also used among our
(Hist, of Church of Scot., p. 225) Bi'^hop coilyiars in Scotland, and is called the pilli-
Burnet's character of Drummond is, that he wincks.'— (Id., vol. ii , p. 5.')7 )
had yet too much of the air of llussia about Dalyell died at Edinburgh in August, 1685.
him, though not with Dalziel's fierceness." Sir Drummond was created >'iscount of Strath-
John i.auder chronicles the popular murmurs allan in 1686, and died two vcars afterwards.]
against the 'Muscovian rigour' of Dalyell's * [The Kussiau resident at London.]
military administration — iFountainhall's His-