[402] Half a page blank in MS.

  A breife account of my expenses from my taking horse at Edenborough, 20
  of March til this present 11 of May 1665, according to the Scots
  account, and also after.

First before my parture I got from my Father in Gold 10 Caroluses, or 20 shiling peices, 8 Jacobuses,[403] or 14 pound peices, wt 2 5 shil. peices, and as many 10.  In money[404] I got first 50 shilings, then 60 halfe crounes, thats 30 crounes; and last I had my horse price, for which I got 5 pound and a croune to lift at London.  Of my gold I spended none til I was in France, whence their remained only the silver mentioned to spend.  Of this our journey to London spent 50 shilings, including also the 5 shilings I payed ut for the baggadge horse at Durham.  At London of the silver resting, to wit, the 31 crounes and 5 pound sterl.  I payed 9 pound of silver for 8 caroluses, whence they had 7 groats[405] of gain for every peice.  This consumed the 30 crounes, a pound sterling and 2 crounes out of the horses price; so that for defraying my charges from my first arrival at London, on Saturday, April 1, til monday com 8 dayes, April 10, compleit 10 dayes, I had only the remaining mony wt in 4 pounds.  Of which 20 shilings by that halfe day of posting to Dover was exhausted, comprehending also our expense for our meat, and in paying the postilion, for betuixt Gravesend and Rochester burn we payed halfe a croune; from it to Seaton, 14 miles (the former stage being but 7), 4 shillings; from it to Canterbury, 16 miles, 5 shilings; from Canterbury to Dover, 16 miles, 5 shillings:  their was 17 of the 20 shil.  At Dover, as dues we payed 4 shillings to that knave Tours; our supper at one Buchans was halfe a croune; our fraught throw the channell was a croune, and to the boat that landed us a shiling.

    [403] See Introduction, p. xliii.

    [404] i.e. smaller coin than gold; Fr. monnaie.  The half-crown, 30s. 
        Scots, 2s. 6d. sterling, was coined by James VI.

    [405] Groat (English), value 4d.  No groat Scots had been struck since
        1527, value l8d.  Scots, or ijd.

We landed at Calice on the Saturday morning, and stayed their til the Monday afternoone, spending much mony; so that from my arrival to London and my joining wit the messenger for Paris I spent 3 pound 10 shillings.  Thus is all my silver, so that now I have my recourse to my gold, out of which I pay the messenger 40 livres to carry me to Paris, giving him 3 Caroluses, which according to the French rate roade 41 livres, 10 souse, whence 1 got 30 souse againe.[406] At Paris I changed [on]e carolus to pay Mr. Strachan and Mr. Hamilton, who on the rode in France had payed for me, as in the drink money, and in paying the messenger halfe a croune.