[76] Blately, modestly.

On the 2’d day after this dispute, being the 14 of July wt the French and consequently the 4 wt the Scots, I took boat at Orleans, the Mr. of Ogilvy wt James his man, as also Danglebern accompanieng me to the boat.  I left Salt[77] Orleans and sett up for Blois.  In the boat among others were 3 of the order of Charite (as they call it) who beginning to sing their redicoulous matins, perceiving that I concurred not wt them, they immediatly suspected me for a Haeretick.  One of them put me in mind of honest James Douy not only for his wisage but also for his zeall and ardeur he showed to have me converted and brought back to the mother church.  That he seimed to me to personate Mr. Douy not only in his wisage but also in his strickness and bigotry—­being oftner in telling of his beads then both his other 2 companions fat-looged stirrows[78] ware—­made me fall into the abstract notion that thess who resemble in wisage usually agry in nature and manners, which at that tyme I thought was to be imputed to that influence which the temperament or crasis 4 primarum qualitatum hath on the soull to make it partaker of its nature.

    [77] Dear, expensive.

    [78] Fat-eared fellows.  I presume that loog is lug, ear.

Betuixt Orleans and Blois of tounes on the river we saw first Merug,[79] then Baniency.[80] At night we came to Blois, wheir I was the day after to wiew the Toune.  I fand it situat on a wery steep eminence, in some places as wearisom to go up as our Kirkheugh.  I went and saw the Kings Garden as they call it; but nowise in any posture; only theirs besydes it a large gallery on every syde, wheirof I counted 60 windows, and that at a considerable distance one from another; it hath pillars also for every window on whelk it stands.  I went nixt and saw the Castle whilk stands on a considerable eminence, only its the fatality theirof not to be parfaited, which hath happened by the death of the Duke of Orleans, who had undertaken the perfecting of it and brought it a considerable length.  On the upmost top of that which he hath done stands his portraict in marble.  She that showed in the rooms was a gay oldmouthed wife who in one chamber showed me wheir one of the Kings was slain, the very place wheir he fell (the Duke of Guise, author of the Parisien massacre) and the back door at which the Assasinates entered:  in another wheir one of their Kings as also seweral of the nobility ware keipt prisoners, and the windows at whilk one of ther queen mothers attempted to escape, but the tow proving to short she fell and hurt hirself.

    [79] Meung, now Meun.

    [80] Beaugency.

When I was in the upmost bartizan we had one of the boniest prospects that could be.  About 2 leagues from us in the corner of a forest we saw the Castle of Chamburgh,[81] a place wery worthy the sieng (as they say) for the regularity of its bastimens.  We saw wtin a league also tuo pretty houses belonging to Mr. Cuthbert, whom we would have to be a Scot.  I went and saw sewerall Churches heir.  I lay not at the Galere, but at the Chass Royall:  part of the company went to the Croix Blanche.