4 DIARY OF PATRICK GORDON. [1640-46 in Easter Achluichries, within the parisli of Crochdan and the shirefdome of Aberdeen

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

4 DIARY OF PATRICK GORDON. [1640-46

in Easter Achluichries, within the parisli of Crochdan and the shirefdome
of Aberdeene, I was borne ; my parents, John Gordon and Mary Ogilvle, '
heritours and proprietours of the same lands of Achluichries.

A.D. 1640.

I was sent to the schoole at the kirk of Crochdan on Lambe masse day,
and put to lodge and dyet by a widdow called Margaret Allan, ray school-
master being William Logon.

Here I, together with my eldest brother, stayed foure years, haveing
proceeded to Multiplex v.no sensu in the first part of Despauter's Graramer.^

A.D. 1644.

My father, dwelling in Achridy, in the parish of Ellon, I was sent to
that schoole, my schoolmaster the same, being translated hither, being
lodged and dyeted in Alexander Scrogges his house.

I was at this schoole about a year, when, because of the great troubles
both before and now, all publick schooles were abandoned. My father
tooke a schoolmaster called Georg Murray into his house, who teached us
halfe a year very Avell.

A.D. 1646.

My father^ removeing to , wee were now sent again to the

schoole of Ellon, and lodged in John ]\Iill his house, our schoolmaster being
Mr. Hary Tom.

Here we learned about a year. My father, in the meane tyme, re-
moved to Achmade, and afterward to his own lands, and dwelled in Wester-
town. .

' [In a subsequent volume of his Diary, on James marryed Marjery Gordon, daughter
the 23d August 1698, the Author writes: — • to Georg Gordon of Coclaraghy. These
'■ Gott this aecount of my mother's father. were my grandflither and grandmother."]

The Laird of Petlurg maryed Janet Ojrilby, oruAT i.- i i- * i ., i^,,^

, , i ^1 r • 1 c n> 11 1 "^ -["Multiplex uno sensu chcatnr abundans:

daughter to the Laird ot CuHen, and was j'-g,^^^ y^,l ;,v^,„„,j gu ^^^^i^, pimque pisum :

soone after killed at the battel of Pinky, Cum pene innumcris, quae lectio multa

leaving him who succeeded unborne, or in docebit."

the cradle. She was afterwards marycd to (loannis Despavterii Ninivitae, Gramma-
one Olgilby of Blarak her cousin, a cadet of ticae Institvtionis Lib. vii. docte et concinne
the house of CuUcn, and of 3000 merks in in compendium redacti, per Sebastianvm
the Boyne. By liitn she had a son called Dvisbvrgensera, lib. iii. ' de hetcroclitis,' p.
James, brother uterine to Sir John Gordon 89, edit. Edinb. 1617.) ]
of Pvtlurge, and unkle to Mr. Robert. This