182 DIARY OF PATRICK GORDON. [1694 Gordons my lawfull, undoubted, and irrevocable procurators

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

182 DIARY OF PATRICK GORDON. [1694

Gordons my lawfull, undoubted, and irrevocable procurators, actors, and
factors, to the effect underwritten ; givelng, granting, and committing to them
(they acting allwayes in my effaires by the especiall advice of the noble Georg,
Earle of Aberdeen,) my full power, commission, and warrand to receive from
my oldest son, John, in Scotland, the summe of two hundred punds Scottisch
vearly, dureing the naturall lives of me and my wyfe, beginning at the
terme of Whitsunday uexte ; to which effect in my prescriptions to the dis-
position of the heretable right of my lands of Achluichries, I have ordained
my wyfe, Elisabeth, to be infeft in the lands of Easter Achluichries ; as also to
keep and dispose of the bond of three thousand merks Scottish, according to
my order in the said disposition ; and also receive any summes of money
which I may remitt to Scotland, or are due to me there, especially the debt
due to me by J. Gordon, Laird of Rothemay, upon his brother William his
account ; and also to uptake, lift, and recover the rents, profits, and duties
of any lands, summes of money, and annuall rents, which may accrew to me
hereafter ; as also to satisfy and pay all debts due by me to whatsumever
persons or person, whither by peisonall or reall security, and to obtaine dis-
charges and acquittances thereupon, or such other conveyances of the samme
as shall be thought most expedient for my behoofe, with lyke power to sue,
call, and persue all and every person whomsomever, who are or may be
due or indebted to me, to obtaine sentences and decreets therein, and put
them in due execution, compone, transact, and agree thereanent, acquit-
tances and discharges to give thereupon, and generally all and sundry other
things requisite and necessary to do, use, and exerce anent the liaill pre-
misses, and anent all my effaires, business, and concernments, within the
Kmgdora of Scotland, that I might do myself if I were personally present ;
which I shall hold firme and valid, without revocation ; declaring hereby
that my said factors shall be bound and obliged, by the acceptance hereof,
to make just accompt and reckoning and payment to me, my heirs, or assignes,
ot" all such summes of money and things whatsumever, which they shall
uplift and receive by vertue of this present factory, they haveing alwayes
allowed to them such summes of money and debts as they shall satisfy for
me, with such charges and expenses as they shall happen to disburse and
give accompt anent the premisses ; and I, the said Generall Patrick
Gordon, bynd and obliges mc, my aires, executors, and successors, to
warrand the above written factory good, valid, and effectual), at the hands