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1684 Febry. 10, Ditto.—Did enter into the tutory of Mr. Vane’s
children, ane english gentleman, but then liveing at Utrecht.1
holland. Aug. 30.—I and all Mr. Vane’s family went to Nimmeguen,
where we stayed till Septr 19. We were lodged in a widows
house next door to the hart tavern, in the great merkat place:
had 3 furnisht chambers, kitchen, and all kitchen necessarys,
bed and table linnen for 40 gilders per moneth.
October 16.—Dyed my dear and only brother James, and
was buryed att grange panns,2 18 ditto.
1685 Febry. Qth.—Dyed king charls the second, and was
succeded by his brother King James, now regnant, who was
crowned Apr. 23, ditto.
Apr. 13.—Did I, togither with Mr. Vane's wholle family,
Flanders, depart from Utrecht, with a designe to goe to France, and
haveing hired att Roterdam a yacht at two ducatons per day,
arrived at Machlane, or Malines, a city in brabant, or rather
ye chief city of ye province of that name, Apr. 16. We lodged
*mdsoille van there at a young gentlewomans* behind the great church,11 had
camen. g rooms, kitchen, and all necessarys except linnen, at 60 gild, pr
henew &.eth moneth.
fand called St. May 9X)th.—Went from Machlane to Brussells, there
i>Uhbman,’ who May 23.—On our designe toward France, haveing hired a
'ha^e^fTrst0 coack f°ur horses for 12 gilders a day, men and horses
qverted y™ to upon there own expenses, from the tavern of the port rouge,
of Edinburgh, 26th July 1534; licensed by the Presbytery of Dalkeith 13th
October 1636; ordained to the charge of Linton, in the Presbytery of Peebles,
5th February 1740; translated to the Canongate, Edinburgh, 19th May 1646;
translated to South Leith, 28th July 1653. Ejected thence in 1662, he was
called to succeed Mr. Alexander Petrie, the first minister of the Scots’ Church,
Rotterdam, and was admitted there 31st December 1662. He retired from
active service in July 1689, and, continuing to live at Rotterdam, died there in
the spring of 1692. An original portrait of Mr. Hog is preserved in the session-
house of the Scots’ Church.—Steven’s Hist, of the Scottish Church, Rotterdam,
pp. 22, 104.
1 Mr. Vane appears to have been one of those who were implicated in the
Rye-House plot of 1683. I have been unable to ascertain any particulars about
him, but he is referred to as one of ‘the English conspirators who had fled to Hol¬
land,’ in the list of questions put by the Scottish Privy Council to Carstares when
examined under torture, September 1684.—See Wodrow’s Hist. vol. iv. p. 101.
2 A village on the Forth, in the parish of Carriden, Linlithgowshire, half a
mile east of the seaport of Borrowstounness.