1686] DIAEY OF PATHICK GORDON. ]4T In the morning, I walked and tooke a view of some places

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

1686] DIAEY OF PATHICK GORDON. ]4T

In the morning, I walked and tooke a view of some places which I had June 29.
not seen ; and after long discussing with my brother about his accompts,
wee scarsely came to ane agreement, and some ffriends being come to see
me, wee tooke breakfast, and afterwards horse, and rode to New Deer
parish, some tfriends meeting me by the way. I first touched at Barak,*
then Knavin,* and so Achmunyell,* and befor evening, I came to Dalgaty,
where I found my Lordf but newly come home. He made me very
welkome. Wee supped merrily with good company.

Haveing walked untill about nyne a clock, afterwards wee did fall upon June 30,
our particular ,^: and after litlc scruples and difficulty, wee gott an end, my
Lord very nobly condiscendlng to all we desired. Wee dined with my
Lord verry merrily, among the most excellent discourses of a complect,
well bred lady ;§ and, indeed, all the civilities imaginable were showed me
by both those worthy persons. Haveing, with great satisfaction, taken my
leave, I made a visitt at Achry, || who was in company with us in Dalgatie,
and being nobly entertained, I rode to Achmunyell,^ Achridy,^and Nether-
mulr,^ where I made short vlsltts, and came to Barak,^ where I lodged.

After breakfast, I rode to Ellon, some tfriends haveing mett me by the July i.
way, so that wee were about thirty horse. Here I spoke with the Lairds of
Rothemay ** and Watcrtowne ft about my owne particulars, the last
whereof I visited in his house ; and being returned to Ellon, I, by a notar,

* [All three dwelling places of Gordons.] One of these shows that the new town of Edin-

t [The Ear! of Erroli.] burgh was projected so early as the yearlG93:

J I The lands of Anchleuchries were held by ' they design to build on the other syd of the

Gordon in feu-ferme, of the Earl of Erroli, for Nore Lt>ch, and to cast a bridge of stone over

a yearly rent of twelve pounds Scots. His it, jind to enclose that new tane in ground with

'particular' with the Earl was doubtless the a wall."]

arrangement of some question in their relation || [William Cuming, first of that name, laird

of lord and vassal.] of Auchry, had a Gordon for his first wife,

g [Lady Anne Drummond, countess of The lands of Auchvy were of old the patrimony

Erroli, only daughter of James, third earl of of the lionian Catholic family of Conn, whose

Perth. iShe is understood to be the authoress expatriated representatives appear to have

of 'An Account of T-uchan. and what is re- lived at I'aris till about the beginning of the

niarkable therein,' printed in the Collections eighteenth centuiy. Tlie tomb of a son of tliis

for a History of the Shires of Aberdeen and house, the author of the ' De Duplici Statu lic-

Banflf, pp. 'J4-'J7. A few letters written to her ligionis apud Scotos,' who died in IGIU, when

by her brother, in his exile, have been printed about to be made a Cardinal, is still to be seen

for the Camden Society, in the Correspondence in the Church of San Lorenzo in Damaso, at

of James, Earl of Perth, Lord Chancellor of Kome. His portrait is at Gordon Castle.]
Scotland, Lond. 184J. Four of her own t [All seats of Gordons]

letters are preserved in the Miscellany of the ** [John Gordon.]

Spalding Club, vol. v., pp. 193-200. It appears tt ['I'honias Forbes, son of Sir John Forbes

from these that she was in correspondence of Watertown, and iicplicw of the Earl of

with Bishop Burnet, and w'ith Dr. Turner, the Aberdeen. He claimed tlie office of Constable

deprived bishop of Ely. Some letters, ad- of Aberdeen, as an appurtenance of his lands

dressed to her. are published in the Miscellany of Carmucks, the old inheritance of the Ken-

of the Spalding Club, vol. ii.. pp. 293-29U. nedys.]