Memoirs of the Maxwells of Pollok > Correspondence

1662.] FAMILY AND DOMESTIC LETTERS. 309
poure, that if I had not been with the Count of Belsunce, I could have made
litil or no profit. As for the way how I was robbed, I was comming from
Bayonne to Bourdeaux in the company of tuo marchans that wer agoing to the
fair at Bourdeaux, but in the midst of a wood we wer set vpon by 9 or 10
robbers, who immediatly asked vs our pources, but we not seing at the first
but 4 or 5 of them, we stood to it and fyrecl on them, and they on vs, in quhich
tyme ther compaynions invironed vs behind, wher we wer all takin and stript,
after that on of the marchands had bin wonded in the arme with a shot. I
then, not knoing quhat to do, went back to the Count of Belsunce his house ;
but befor I came, I sent him word into quhat a pitiful condition I was, who
sent immediately his lacquay with on auld shut of clothes and a hors for me ;
si > I stayed at his hous the matter of 7 or 8 wickes, and he caused mack me a
shut of clothes of droget, and being to go to Bochel, he gave me a hors to
Bourdeaux, and caried me along with himself e ; and then he gave me 100 lib.,
praying hartily for my prosperity. I had stayed with him 5 years, so that if I
had not fallin into the robbers hands, I was in a wery good posture. As for my
eminency in physick, it is not myn to vant it ; but this I may say, that I have
a good report in the contry from quhich I am now last come, — I say even from
the doctors themselves, and it hath pleased God to blees any tiling that I have
as yet gon about. I kno not how to exprese my thankfulnes to yow for the
supply that yow offer me, but I shall pray quhil I breath to be inabled to
serue yow. As for to make a shift hear in Ingiand, I beleve really I shall, if I
be in any thing relived a litil now by my frincls, to quhom I hope, or it be long,
to repay, if the fawors that I have receved wer of such a nature. As for the
mistack that was in my information about the nammg of Sir James Hamilton,
I was informed so at first, and the day efter that I had wrytin speking about
that same bussines with Mr. Maxwell, he tould me that I had mistakin him, and
that it was thos gentilmen that ded mannage his affairs ; but as for the mater of
the bussines it is wery trew. As for the bussines of fines, I can get no assur-
ance. I have met with Mr. Fork, but he knos no mor as yet then I do ; but
we are bothe resolued to labour conjontly that ye may be informed of every
thing. I am exciding glad of your ladis health, as also of that of my freand,
for whos hapnes I shall still pray. I thanke yow most hartily for the consel
that yow give me in the last end of your letter, and I pray God Almighty that