Strange adventures of Lewis Gordon

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and would obleidge me to waite longer if
I expected any preferment ther.
Abercorn knowing my sircumstances, and
that I was not eable to hold longer out in
Dublin, I durst not gee to Edinburgh, the
D : G : being in the north my creditors
would fall on me as I prepost to him, he
advist me to goe and stay at New Castell
and writte to the D : G : for a letter in
my feavours to the Earle of Rochester and
upon the D : G : letter, that Rochester
might wreitt to Esquair Kettby, his own
good brother, in my feavors, who is Lord
Chiff Justiess in Irland in the Duke of
Ormond's absence, one of them and un-
doutadlie Esquair Ketbie would provid for
me or if the D : G : would wreit or causs
any nobleman in Scotland write to the
Steat at London in my feavors, and that he
was goeing for London himself, to witt
Aber[oorn], if he seit me he would what
lay in his power to doe me serviss (for
which cause I pray the Lord to bliss him) ;
and acording as he advist I weint to New
Castell. After I payed my landlords, dis-
chairgt my nurss, sold my watch, severall
suits of fyn cloths and other abulements to
clear what I was. endue in Dublin, upon
twe-wtie day of March about four a' cloak
in the affternoon on the bank below Rings
End I cam abourd off the ship, Charls
Luckas Maister. In the mein tyme his
Grace the Duke of Ormond came by with
severall cannon, was sty-It at Rings End
and fyred but omoe round, hade been taiken
out from the castell yeard of Dublin and
planted ther to that effeck.
The twentie second day of March 1704
I landed at Wheitheaven, wher I cha-mbert
for sixtein dayes by reason of my seek
chaild, who was seek to death, yet the
Lord reoovrt him. My landsladys nam
was widow Walles, and ther I observed
there might be a good fishing and any man
with a leitll mony might leiv weill in that