Strange adventures of Lewis Gordon

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to the presbytery for advice. On April
28 Ludovick Gordon, and Lady Linkwood
were reported as going through the coun-
try together. (Cramond's "Records of
Elgin," li. 325).
As both persons accused disappeared, the
Session could do nothing, and the case is
not further mentioned. Besides, Elgin
was still strongly Episcopal, and the Session
had to walk warily and was forced to wink
at things which would otherwise have been
dealt with. Indeed, there was no need
to punish Lewis, for the lady seems to have
done him as well as Gibson. Lewis says —
She falling upon my house with severall
others did brak open dours in the night and
took all my domesele with my chartert lust,
which I was at a loss abov fyf hundred pound
by them.
Lewis's dates do not quite fit in with these
facts. He calls the lady who ruined him
"Ma. Se." : which I do not understand,
and speaks of Lady Linkwood as his wife.
Perhaps he was in tow with two ladies at
the same time.
He had had children before this, pro-
bably legitimate, though his wife's name is
not given in the Drainie Register, where
their baptisms are recorded —
Alexander Gordon, baptised April 1, 1690 ;
witnesses' — Alexander Gordon in Kinnedor,
the father of Lewis and John Gordon there.
Isobel Gordon, baptised June 13, 1692. In
both cases foe is called "Ludovick Gordon in
Aikenhead."
What was the result of Lewis's petition
I cannot say : nor do I know his subsequent
career. The following references may
apply to him or to another Lewis : —
1708 — Ludowick Gordon, merchant in
Elgin, and Margaret Charles, daughter to
umqll James Charles, merchant there, were
proclaimed 3 July, and married 14 Aug.
1709, July 6 — Ludovick Gordon, merchant
in Elgin, and Margaret Charles had a child