1686] DIARY OF PATRICK GORDON. 129 tooke no effect. Expended this day, for tea, four pence

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

1686] DIARY OF PATRICK GORDON. 129

tooke no effect. Expended this day, for tea, four pence ; for dinner, three
shillings ei<iht pence ; to the servants, with my sonne, two pliillinjis six
pence. I went and saw Westminster Abbay, and the monuments in Kinc^
Hary the Sevenths Chappel.

Being St. Georg his day, wee heard devotion, and a elesrant sermon in April 2S.
St. Jameses. The Queen, being somewhat recovered, walked to Hide
Parke, through St. James Pai ke, in her coach, attended by fyve others, and
a troope of guards. Expended this day, for dinner, four shillings four pence ;
at night, nineteen pence ; to my sonne and servants, two shillings six pence,
being a shilling to my sonne, and six pence to each servant.

I went by water to London, and spoke with my fFriends upon the Ex- April 24.
change, who entertained me with a "lasse of wine, in the Ship and Castle.
Expended for tea, two pence ; for oares, a shilliuir ; for coach hire back
againe, eii,'hteen pence ; for sei'vants, two shillings ; at night, fyve pence •
for trimming me, six pence.

Heard devotion at St. Jameses, where was the King and Queen, who April 25.
dined pubHckely this day, with rausick, at which I stayed, and was forced to
dine alone afterwards, all my ordinary company haveing dined already.
Expended this day, for dinner, with sonne and servants, six shillings eight
pence ; at night, to the servants, a shiUing ; for my self, fyve pence.

Hearing that the King intended to go to Chattam, I procured a note from April 26.
my Lord Melfort to be taken aboard of one of the Kings yachts ; and so, ac-
cordingly, went in coach to Billings Gate, the King being at dinner in the
Towre by my Lord Dartmouth ; and, hireing a boate, wee came to Detford,
and was received aboard of a yacht, which wee could have done without a
note, there being six yachts, and very few attendants, with the King.
Being come to 'lilberry skonce, over against Gravesand, the King went
a shoare, and went round the fortress, takeing a view of every thing, and
asked my opinion concernint>' the fortifications and oppurtenauces, which, as
reasonable, 1 extolled. The King made hast to the yacht, and was saluted

tried in the fleet and hiphly approved of, tlie thin?, it still remains a secret in the family.'

and louiid tar to exrccd any tiling ot ihiit kind (Douglas' Haronape of Scotland, pp 8, 9.)

then known, lioth for the facility of working, An underground chamber at (ioidoiistoun is

and the quintity of water it disciiarged; l)ut, shewn as his ialioratory, and he :ivcs in the

as ncitiier the inventor, nor the present pos- popular tra.litions of the neighhourhond as a

sessor [his son, the fourtli baronet, who died mighty wizard— the Michael Scott of Murray-

in 1772|, had ever an offer of any encouraj,e- land.,
ment suitable to the merit and usefulness of