JOURNAL OF JOHN LAUDER

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During my staying heir 1 have learned a lesson which
may be of use to me in the rest of our travels, to wit, to
beware of keiping familiar company wt gentlemens servants,
for such a man sal never get respect from the Mrs.l ta
beware also of discoursing homly with anie servants. We
sould keip both their for at a prudent distance. The Mr. of
Ogilvy and I ware wery great. 1 know not what for a man he'el
prove, but 1 have heard him speak wery fat nonsense whiles.
About 20 dayes ere I left Johns house the Mr. of Lour
(Earle of Ethie's sone) 4 wt his governour Datid Scot, Scots-
torvets nephew, came to Orleans the Mr. the very day after
took the tertian ague or axes .8 a
That Globe that stands on the top of S. Croix is spoken to
be of so large a periphaeria and circumference that ~0 men
may sit wt in about a round table.

One day as 1 was going to my Mr. of Institutes as I
was entring in a lane (about, the martroy) I meit in the
teeth the priests carrieng the Sacrament (as they call it)
with a crosse to some sick person my conscience not suffer-
ing me to lift of my hat to it, 1 turned back as fast as 1
could and betook me selfe to another street wheir I thought 1
might be safe it followed me to that same v ery street, only
fortunately I got a trumpket wheir 1 sheltred myselfe til it
passed by.

Theirs a pretty maille their; we saw a better one at Tours one
many accounts the longitude wheirof we meeted and fand it to
be neir 1000 paces, as also that of Orleans is only 2 ranks of
tries in some places of it 3 all the way ye hav e 4 ranks of tries
all of a equall hight and most equally sett in that of Tours.
About 10 days before my parting from Orleans at Made-
moiselles invitation the 1\lr. of Ogilvy and I went w t hir,
hir mother and 1\lr. Gandy ther Tutor, in their coach (for
which 1 payed saUy,!¡ that being their policy) to their country
village 9 leagues of, situat in the midest of the forest of

1 i.e. Maslers.

Apparently David, aflerwar<Âs third earl. The title was changed from Ethie
to Northesk after the Restoration. The Master was grandson to the first earl,
who died in 1661. 1 Seven lines erased in ats.
4 Spiral stair. 1 i.t. Sautly, saltly.