1686] DIARY OF PATRICK GORDON. 145 ffriends ; and in the evening, were merry with my Lord Dumferling

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1686] DIARY OF PATRICK GORDON. 145

ffriends ; and in the evening, were merry with my Lord Dumferling,
Licvcteunaut Collouell Buchan,* and Coxstowne.f

I went early and tooke my leave of the Duke, who excused his not June 21.
convoying me to Lieth as he intended, by reason of his indisposition. And
so takcing' coach, I was convoyed by many fFriends to Lieth, where brcack-
fasting, and takelug leave of fFriends, I tooke boat, and crossed to Burnt
Uland, where, hyreing a horse for one of my servants, with a guide, I rode
to Dagatie,f four miles, and there tooke my leave of the Lady Dumfcrling,§
who tooke me exceeding kindly. I rode from thence to Kirkaldy, where I
had notice that the ship wherein my trunks were had this day weighed
ankor from the roade. I lodged in Kennoway.

I came to Cowper in a very rainy day, and crossed the ferry at Dundee June 22.
where I made no great stay, havelug dined on the other syde, and came to
Ardbroath, where I rested and baited the horses. At the Redhouse, Sir Georg
Skeenii and Baily Adie^ overtook me, and wee lodged together in Montrose.

Wee crossed the Northwater,** and through Bervy by Steenhave, and June 23.
dined in Cowy, it being all the tyme a deluge of raine. At the Bridge of
Dee, wee drank a glasse of wine, and about four a clock, came to Aberdeen,
and lodged in the Katherine Raes. Many fFriends came to see me. I
dispatched a post for my sonne.

My unklc,tt brother John, and my sonne, came, and many ffriends in June 24,
the towne came to see me.

* [Thomas Buclian, a younf^cr son of the IMarquis of Huntly, and sister of the first Duke

house of Anchmacoy, in Aberdeenshire, was of Gordon.]

horn about the middle of the seventeenth || [Sir George Skene of Fin tray, for many

century. After serving in France and Holland, years Lord Provost of Aberdeen, and repre-

he was appointed a lieutenant-colonel by King sentative of the city in Parliament He was

Charles II., in 1682. By King James II , he knighted by the Duke of York, at Holvrood,

was made colonel in 1086, and major-general in 1681]

in 1689. In the following year, after the death ^ [Sir John Lauder says that Bailie Ad}-, in

of Dundee at Killiecrankie. and the repulse of Aberdeen, was conspicuous, along with Mr.

General Cannon at Dunkeld, he was des- Thomas Gordon, and Sir William Patcrson.

patched from Ireland to take command of the for importunity in soliciting members of

Jacobite forces in Scotland; but within a few I'arliament to support the bill for repealin?

weeks after his arrival, was surprised and de- the penal laws against the Koman CiithoHcs

feated by Sir Thomas Livingstone. He sur- (FountainhairsHistoricalNotices, pp. 73.% 7.07 ;

vived the year 1721, and died at Ardlogie, on Cf. Miscellany of the Spalding Club, vol. 11

the banks of his native Ythan. There is a p. 295.)]
portrait of him at Anchmacoy.] ** [The North Esk ]

t [Alexamler Innes of Coxtoun. He was ft [His father's brother, James Gordon of

one of the representatives of the shire of Elgin, the Eastside of the \Vesterto\vn of Auchleuch-

and a Lord of the Articles, in the Parliament rics. He was afterwards entrusted, by General

of lG8fi.] Patrick Gordon, with the charge of ids affairs

X [Delgaty.] in Scotland.]



§ [Lady Jean Gordon, daughter of the third



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