Series 1 > Journals of Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, with his observations on public affairs and other memoranda, 1665-1676

ARRIVAL AT PARIS
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discontent, denieng J. Ogilvie, who was then in Germany for
Mr. le Barons busines, to have bein given him as his Governor
by my L[ord] his father. They would wery fain had me sub¬
scribing a paper (for they brought a notaire wtout my know-
ledg), wherin I sould have attested that I had heard from him
that he was his gouwerneur, which they could not all obtain
of me, . . . They pressed me so sore, making remonstrances,
that I would obligd them infinitly by subscryving it, also
that I could incurre no dommage by it, that I was put to
feigne that I had made a solemme oath not to subscryve any¬
thing while I was in France, which stoopt their mouths.
I went wt Mr le Baron D’Angleberne and Christophle, le
Barons valet, after supper to the lodging, whither my Lord
was retired, which was at the back of the Church Ste. Croix,
wheir I plead 1 the dissembler. Just at the port of the toune
I meet James Hunter, who had bein at my quarters to
sie me.
Being on horseback, tomorrow being a Sundy, ere 3 bowers
of the morning we dined at Thoury, a little toune 10 leagues
from Orleans; came at night wt foul weather to Estampes, a
ruinous toune, their no being so meikle as a whole house
standing in al the fauxbourgs, and that since the late troubles
raised by Mr le Prince,2 who defended the toune against the
King. Their is one long street in the toune. We lay at the
trois Rois. We went to the Cordeliers Convent to sie that
Barbet3 rough t4 water dog that taks the Escrevisses,5 but we
could not sie it.
Nixt day, having past by a Hermitage, wheir 2 hermites
dwells, and seiks almes of al that passes, we came and dined at
Linas, besydes Montlery, 9 leagues from Estampes, . . .
At 5 oclock the afternoon we entred Paris by the fauxbourgs
St. Jacques, wheir we passed by the Val de Grace, builded by
Queen mother of France, lately dead, wheir hir heart is keeped ;
by the colledge of Clermont and the Sorbonne. We quit our
1 Played.
2 In 1652 the Prince of Condi’s troops held Etampes against Turenne,
Louis xiv.’s general.
3 A kind of dog with long curly hair.
4 Rought, rough : as he spells laugh, laught.
5 Ecrevisses, crayfish.