JOURNAL OF JOHN LAUDER

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6nt Merug,l then Baniency.i At night we came to Blois,
wheir 1 was the day after to wiew the Toune. 1 fand it
situat on a wery steep eminence, in some places as wearisom to
go up as our Kirkheugh. I went and saw the Kings Garden
as they call it but nowise in any posture only theirs besydes
it a large gallery on every syde, wheirof I counted 60 windows,
and that at a considerable distance one from another it hath
pillars also fôr every window on whelk it stands. 1 went nixt
and saw the Castle whilk stands on a considerable eminence,
only its the fatality theirof not to be parfaited, which hath
happened by the death of the Duke of Orleans, who had
undertaken the perfecting of it and brought it a considerable
length. On the upmost top of that which he hath done stands
his portraict in marble. She that showed in the rooms was a
gay oldmouthed wife who in one chamber showed me wheir
one of the Kings was slain, the very place wheir he fell (the
Duke of Guise, author of the Parisien massacre) and the back
door at which the Assasinates entered in another wheir one
of their Kings as also seweral of the nobility ware keipt
prisoners, and the windows at whilk one of ther queen mothers
attempted to escape, but the tow proving to short she fell and
hurt hirself.

When I was in the upmost bartizan we had one of the
boniest prospects that could be. About 2 leagues from us in the
corner of a forest we saw the Castle of Chamburgh,3 a place
wery worthy the sieng (as they say) for the regularity of its
bastimens. We saw wtin a league also tuo pretty houses
belonging to Mr. Cuthbert, whom we would have to be a Scot.
I went and saw sewerall Churches heir. 1 lay not at the Galere,
but at the Chass Royall part of the company went to the
Croix Blanche.

I cannot forget one passage that behappened me heir
bechance to supper I demanded give he could give me a
pullet, he promises me it. My pullet comes up, and wt
it instead of its hinder lega the hinder legs of a good fat
poddock. I know them weill enough because I had sien and
eaten of them at Orleans. I consedering the cheat called

1 Meung, now hieun.

Beaugency.

:a Chambord.