Strange adventures of Lewis Gordon

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for the most pairt in my faitlier's house.
The fardest of my learning at that scooll
was the two pairt® or three of the gramer
they calt dispoter [Despauter], with
sever all la tine outliers and the comon
rewells [of] arthemitick and a leitle
mussike. Tliere I stayed untill I was past
twelv years of age.
Then I went with Sir Robert Gordon off
Gordons-town to Sutherland in March to
the Earle of Sutherland's house calt Dun-
rob-ein and stayed uintill May nixt. From
that I went to Edinburgh and quartert
with the said Sir Robert in the top of
Pecearleies land, a litl above the oroass.
In Edinburgh the Earle of Cromartie now,
who was Tarbit, then Lord Registur, haid
the lodging nixt to our storie. Buckaris
[Buchane ?] haid a room off a flour, with
Tar bet, Banockburn bellow them. My
Lord Tarbet, Mr John MeoKenzie then,
haid his chamber nixt doar to Gordons-
town ; nixt to him Mr John M'Kenzie,
Cowls brother, advocat then, who is now
dark to the Sesshion in Scotland ; nixt to
him Sir John Gordon, advocat, Gordons-
town's brother who is dead long agoe.
Theri I was att the Duke of Lenox and Yorks
parlement, who- was aiffter King Jeams
servent and seoound. My education and
my employement for two years or thereby
was to learn to writ in Mr Thomas
Gordon's chamber, Lesinoris brothers, and
a pairt of that tyme I weint to a
kiniester, ane Ganell, ane Heigh German,
who lived at the back of Bells: Wyn, and
studiet a pairt of that pairt ; likeas to
dansejng and fenseing sooals and other
museik sooalls 1 .
And in the Mairch nixt aiffter that par-
lyment, which I judge was in eightie two,
I read [rode] post with Sir Robert Gordon
and ane other Captain to Newmarrkatt in
England wher King Ohairls Court was with
himself (of the blissed meinorie) where