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[The fi~ 1eave&-i)C'the Manueript are wanting. Iauder left Edinburgh.
on 20th l\Iarch 1665, travelling by Berwick -and Durham; ànd
arnved in London on lst April. See page 164. 1

WE saw also the fatall chair of Scotland wheirin our kings
fôr many ages used to be croune. I fand it remarkable for
nothing but its antiquity, it being thought7to have come froui
Egypt some 3,000 years ago.

I went in the nixt place to the Tower, wheir on our entrin
according to custome I left my sword. Heir first we saw a very
strong armory for weapons of all sorts, as many as could
fumish 20,000 men we saw great field pieces of ordinance as
also granadoes we saw also many coats of maill, and among
the rest on 1 very conceity all joined like fines of fisches on to
another, which théy informed me came as a present from the
great Mogull who comands over 36 kings. Tbe[ re] ware
hinging their as Trophees several peices of armour that they
had taken from the french in their wars wt them. Their we
saw the huge armour of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster.
We came nixt and saw the honors, wheir we saw the sword
and seipter of honor the croun was not their, by reason the
parliament had use for it at Whitehal. We saw also a most
rich Globe of christal beset wt most precious diamonds. We
came in the' 3d place to sie the Lyons, the Leopards, the
aigle, and a long skine of a snake.

We arrived London on Saturday 1 of April, we left it on
Thursday 6 of April about 4 a cloack we took boat, and
landed at Gravesend about 10 a cloack at night, in which
space we ware so merry in'singing never but some of us,
One. Lauder's usual spelling. 1
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