Series 1 > Journal of the Hon. John Erskine of Carnock, 1683-1687

110 JOURNAL OF THE HON. [mar
of law at Leyden, and with James Murray, an officer of Foot,
son to Polmaise.
15th.—I heard sermon upon the same texts, and Mr. John
Harrowar; also I was with Cultness and his eldest son David,
and at night with Mr. Forrester.
\Qth.—I was preparing for my going to Leyden, and with
Mr. Langlands.
Ylth.—I was with Mr. Will. Cleland, Mr. Alexander Hastie,
Mr. Brown, Mr. Kirktoun, and several others, and in James
Dunlop’s.
18^.—At ten o’clock I left Rotterdam, and walked to
Delph with Mr. Langlands and William Sythrum, and was
a while in Mr. John Sinclair’s house, minister of the English
congregation there. From Delph I went to the Hague in a
scout with Mr. Langlands, and was at the Prince of Orange’s
Court, but missed a sight of himself. Before five in the after¬
noon we left the Hague, and came to Leyden about eight, and
met with some Edinburgh Colledge Fellows.
19^.—I dined with David Hamilton, Mr. Blair, Carberrie’s
son, and Walter Seton, son to Sir Walter Seton. I did take a
chamber near the Colledge, and was with Sir James Dairymple,
Lord Stair, sometime President of the Scots Session.
%0th.—I went to the fields with David Hamilton and David
Davidson, and was upon the mount, from whence I got a sight
of the city, where there were white pheasants and several other
beasts.
—I heard Mr. Hinckman, minister of the English church
at Leyden, and afternoon was a little in the great church, and
heard the organs.
22d.—I was a while with Mr. Hay, student of Physick, who
was going for France. I went to the scout with Mr. Lang¬
lands, who went back for Rotterdam. I was with Mr. Charles
Ker, Mr. Blair, and others, and calling for Matthias, a Pro¬
fessor of Law, to speak to him anent taking a colledge of the
Institutes, three who had colledges already having condescended
to take a new Colledge of the Institutes, which was a good
opportunity for me, having come in a time when colledges
usually begin not.
23d.—I was several times at an auction, buying books, and
a while in Mr. Adair’s chamber, an Irish student of Physick.