1686] DIARY OF PATRICK GORDON. 143 Gordon, and as much to the Lord Chancellour

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

1686] DIARY OF PATRICK GORDON. 143

Gordon, and as much to the Lord Chancellour. I dined in the towne with
some noblemen ; and, in the afteruoone, did writt letters to Russia, London,
and Hamburg.

I dated and dispatched my letters to our chieiFe Minister of State, to my June
wyfe, Mr. Vinius, Mr. Cambridge in Hamburgh, my cousin, Mr. Meverell,
and Maior Dowgall, in London.

I payed some visitts to those I had not seen, and, intending to have June
gone north, I was, by my cousine, perswaded to stay untill my writeings
should come.

The Duke of Gordon tooke me up to the Castle, and show me all the June
places worth the seeing therein. I gave two dollars to the keeper of the
magazine, and four doUers to the guards. From thence I gave a visitt to the
Lady Marquess of Huntley.*

I dined in my lodging, and, in the afteruoone, passed the tyme in the Parke. '^^^'^

Father Leslyt came to me in the morning, and gave me a letter from June
my Sonne, James, and another from the Rector of the CoUedge of Doway,
called Gilbert Inglis,:|: I dined in the towne with some noblemen, and was
in company this evening. Our dinner costed us ordinarily about halfe a
crowne, and our collations, two or three shillings a peece.

I heard devotion in Lady Lucy Hamiltons,§ and, being invited, dined J""^

with the Earle of Airly ; and, after noone, went to Lieth, and passed the

tyme there. In the evening, the Duke came by me, to whom I gave a

Turkish cimiter. Then wee went and walked in the Parke.

*[Mary, daughter of Sir James Grant of + [The Reverend Mr. Griffin informs me that

Freuchie, widow of Louis, third Marquis of Father Gilbert Inglis, a native of Aberdeen,

Huntly, and now wife of James, second Earl was more than once Rector of Douay. He is

of Airly.] mentioned in Dr. Oliver's Biography of Mem-

t [William Aloysius Lesley was a son of the bers of the Society of Jesus, p. 24.]
house of Balquhain. He was born in Aber- g [Lady Lucy Hamilton, third daughter of
deenshire in 1641, and, in 16G6, became a the first Earl of Abercorn, was affianced, before
member of the Society of Jesus. He was 1627, to Randal Lord Dunluce, afterwards
Superior of the Scottish College at Rome, from Marquis of Antrim, who refusing to complete
1674 to 1683. He returned to Scotland in the marriage, was ordered to pay £3000 to
1685, and continued to labour as a missionary the lady. (Sec-retaiy Stirling's Register, MS.)
there imtil liis death in 1704. (Dr. Oliver's She had a pension from the Crown, which
Biography of Members of the Society of Jesus, had fallen'into an-ear in January, 1686-7, when
p. 28 ) King James II. ordered the Lords of the Scot-
Father Lesley is believed to be the author tish Treasury to see it paid. (Abstracts of the
of the ' Laurus Lesliaua Explicata, sive clarior Records of the Secretary's Office, no. 478, 15
enumeratio personarum utriusquc sexus cog- January, 168G-7, MS.) Her house in Edinburgh,
nominis Leslie. (Graecii 1692.' fol. To him with tho.'^e of other Romanists, was plundered
also is ascribed the Italian Life of St. Mar by a mob at the Revolution in 1688. Count
garet, Queen of Scotland, printed at Rome in Anthony Hiimilton, the author of the Me-
1675. (Vitae Antiquae Sanctorum Scotiae, moires du Comte de Gramont, was her ne-
p. 308.)] phew.]