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

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whistled it over. On of the Elders, seing what he had done,
in a great anger cryes out, even the devil go doune wt it, for
that might have geined1 a dozen.
Its reported of Gustavus Adolphus that he was used to say,
that for ennemies he had to do wt a fool (which was Valstein,
Due of Fritland, one of the Imperialists generals, a cruell man
and a foolish man, he thought to make himself Emperor;
wheirupon at the Emperors instigation he was slain by our
countrymen Leslie and Gordon : Butler would not do it), wt a
soger (which was Pappenheim, a brave souldier, slain in that
same battell of Lutzen that Gustavus was slain in), and a
preist; which was Tilly who never wanted his chappelets of his
arme,never missed a Messe, and boasted he never know a women.
Many a brave Scotsman served in thesse wars of Germany
(we most remember what he did to that tyran the Due of
Cleves), amongst others on Colonel Edmond,2 a baxters sone
of Stirleving.
The Bischop of Munster, a merry man, wil cry whiles,
donnez moy trois grande verves de vin, then, dest a la sanU
des mes trois Charles et Charles Seconds: Charles 2d D1 Angle-
terre, Charles 2d WEspaigne, et Charles 2d [sic] de Suede: this
is wery remarkable.
Philip, the 2d, Charles the Emperors son, had also a
Charles, Prince of Spain, whom most barbarously he caused
strangle, as Peter Mathieu reports it, tho Strada would
dissemble it.
We had several marks of the Spanish gravity in this
Prince. When the news was told him of the great victory
of Lepanto, woon over the Turks by his natural brother, Dom
John of Austria (the way whow they made D. Jean know his
quality is worth the knowing), generalissimo of the Christian
forces, he would not appear to be moved wt the least joy, al
he sayd was, Dom Juan a beaucoup hazardL When the news
was told him of the dissipation of his invincible Armado,
commanded by the Due of Medine Sidonia, he would not seim
1 Gein or gane, sufficed for.
2 Colonel Sir William Edmond. See Scots Brigade in Holland (S.H.S.),
vol. i. p. 577, where it appears that his father was a baker in Edinburgh.
Colonel-Edmond died in 1606.