1686] DIARY OF PATRICK GORDON. 121 wee hyred fresh horses, haveins

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

1686] DIARY OF PATRICK GORDON. 121

wee hyred fresh horses, haveins: payed for those from Berlin eight dollers.
Payed here for dinner, nine good grosse. From a Uttle hill, hard by, can
be seen thirty six churches. Wee traviled througli the village Wildberg,
on a small brook, which hath been fortifyed ; and through Canser, another
village, where a fort hath been without bulwarks, to Wusterhausen, in all
two mylles. This is a decayed towne, and situated in an illand, haveing
the remnants of a brick wall. To Kirits, one mylle. Here wee payed for
bear, and butter, and bread, six good grosse. Here wee tooke fresh horses,
haveing payed for the other, two dollers and a half.

Wee rod all the night, and came to Perlberg, a good considerable towne, March 20.
four mylles ; where, getting fresh horses, wee rod three mylles, and crossed
the river Mean, which is the borders of the Elector of Brandiburg his do-
minions ; and, half a mylle further, dyned in a village called Korlous, where
payed fourteen grosse. And, on the left hand, wee crossed the river Elbe by
bridges. Wee came to a gentlemans house and village, by the river Elbe
called Benug, and to Tripko, a village, being three mylles; where getting
fresh horses, we came to Neuhausen by the river Elbe, a village, two mylles ;
where, taking fresh horses again, wee passed in the night tyme througli a
litle towne called Bitsiburg, belonging to the Duks of Saxen Lauenburg,
being two mylles ; and, by day light, came to Lauenberg, a mylle. This March 21.
towne giveth title to a brench of the Saxoniau family, who have a palace
here. Then, a mylle further, wee changed horses in a village. Wee
went three mylles further to a towne called BaredorfFe, a little towne
belonging to the cityes of Hamburgh and Lubeck, but now the Duk
of Luneburgs people had by force taken possession of it, and lived upon free
quarter. Here I was stopped untill t had shouen my passe. Then passing
thorou, we came to Hamburg, two mylles. In this passage we see many
pleasent houzes and gardens belonging to the towne of Hamburg, as also
the small fort, where the Duck of Luneburgs people and the Hamburges
had lattly a bloody rencounter. This Hamburgh is most pleasantly situated
on the river Elbe, most convenient for traffick, as being in the very center
of the north parts of Europe, and wanteth no convenience but good neigh-
bours.

This day, a man and a woman, a burger of the towne, being the womans March 22.
master, for murthering, were carted from the prisone to the house where the
murder was comitted ; and there before this house, with hotte pinsers, the