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Title : Journals of Sir John Lauder, lord Fontainhall : with his observations on public affairs and other memoranda (1665-1676) / edited, with introduction and notes, by Donald Crawford,...
Author : Lauder, John (1646-1722)
Publisher : printed at the University press by T. and A. Constable, for the Scottish society (Edinburgh)
Date of publication : 1900
Contributor : Crawford, Donald (1837-1919). Éditeur scientifique. Préfacier. Annotateur
Subject : France -- Descriptions et voyages
Subject : Grande-Bretagne -- Descriptions et voyages
Type : monographie imprimée
Language : English
Format : LI-[347] p.-[1] f. de front. : portr. ; in-8
Format : application/pdf
Copyright : domaine public
Identifier : ark:/12148/bpt6k102873r
Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France, 8-Nm-433 (36)
Relation : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb30749069j
Description : Collection : Publications of the Scottish history society ; 36
Provenance : bnf.fr
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JOURNAL OF JOHN LAUDER
4
me hèar from you what ye think wil do it and what ye will
take for the frank. So being confident of your cair heirof, and
in doing wheirof ye sall very much oblidge him who is, Sir,-
your reall friend, JOHN LAUDEB.
The bill of exchange is as followeth
Edïnburgh, 17 March 1665, for 400 livres T.L.t
81&41 dayes after sight of this my first bill of exchange
(my 2 not being payed) please pay to Mr. John Lauder or his
order 400 livres TL value receaved heir from his father B. John
Lauder. Make punctuall payment and please it to account, as
by the advice of your humble servant, THOMAS CRAFURD.
For Mr. Francis Kinloch, Merchant in Paris.
Francis having read thir, out of his kindnese would suffer
me to stay no wheir but in his oune house, wheir I stayed all
thè space I was at Paris, attended and entertained as give 1 had
bein a Prince. While I was heir .I communicated my inten-
tions and directions for going straight to Poictiers to these
countrymen fornamed, who ware all unanimously against it,
not sieing what good I could do their since the Colledge was
just upon the point of rising; they conceived theirfor that 1
might imploy my tyme much better either in Orleans at
Mr. Ogilvyes house, or Saumur at Mr. Dualls for in either of
these 1 could have a richer advantage in reference to the
laDgu~e, both because its beter spoken their [then at)
Poictiers, as also fewer Scotsmen their then in Poictiers. 1
sould also have for a pistoll a month a master to give me a
lesson on the Instituts once a day, which I could not so have
at that rate at Poictiers. Thus they reasoned, and I fand
Mr. Kinloch to be of the same mind. I considering that it was.
not expedient for me to step one step wtout direction from
my father, 1 wrot the Vednesday following, 19 of Aprill,
acquaintinghim wt it; and that I sould attend his answer and
win at Orleans.
While I was at Paris I went and saw the new Bridge, and
Henry 4 his stately statue in brasse sent as a present hy
the King of Denmark. I was also at the Place Royalle
1 See Introduction, p. xlii.
2 See Introduction, p. xliii.
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