104 JOURNAL OF JOHN ASTON, 1639 



without linnen, clad in a kinde of white flannion, and petti- 

 coate bodies, and upon there heads a kercher with the corner 

 behinde hanging loose and unpinned. 



I was with my landlord, where I lay in Barwick, at a 

 place called Fleck, "^^ where a prime kinsewoeman of his, the 

 Lady "Williamson, a Liiicolne-shire woman lived. It was 

 neere Dunce and the Scotsh army, and hither my landlord 

 carryed his wife and my selfe, as an especiall favour, to the 

 topp of his kinred to bee entertained, but wee found noething 

 woorthy that name. The lady was now the widdow of a 

 Scotsh knight, a very meane homely woeman, and in a house 

 liker a dungeon than the dwelling of a laird (as it was). 

 Shee was wrapped in a plad mantle to hide a poore tatterd 

 gowne. There were two red haird gentlewoemen, her daughters 

 (I take it) with her, as homely apparrelld as herselfe. And 

 there wee had a cupp of poore smoakie drinke, and a livery 

 napkin, much like a postillion's livery, indeed, for cleanliness; 

 and when wee came into the parlour out of the ladie's towre, 

 where shee lodged, there was hanging a couple of muttons, 

 lately killed, and the roome was soe smoakie I could not 

 endure to stay in't. My landlord was ashamed of his wellcome 

 and our entertainement. The greatest vertue I observed in 

 the lady w^as her fervent zeale to the covenant, which shee 

 affirmed was soe backed with God Almightie's immediate 

 blessings that bee had manifested himselfe in miracles to 

 confirme them in their stout defence and maintenance of his 

 truth. One was, when the crowne, scepter and other regall 

 ornaments were remooved from Dalkeith to Holy-rude house 

 (whence they were taken when the Lord Marquess Hamiltoun, 



•^^ No such place as Fleck is now known, nor is it noted either on Font's 

 or Armstrong's map of Berwickshire. The small estate of Oxendean 

 was held by a family named Auchenlock (Scottish pronunciation Affleck) 

 in the 18th century, and there is a wood near by called Flecks or Flecksie 

 to this day. Ex. inf. Mr John Ferguson. From an entry in the Record 

 of Great and Privy Seals, 1680, it is shown that George Auchenleck of 

 Cumledge died seised of lands in Cumledge and Nana war (a place near 

 both Cumledge and Oxendean). He was succeeded by his wife, Mary 

 Williamson, who married, secondly, Patrick Gillespie, and before the 

 year 1680 resigned her first husband's lands to his and her son, John 

 Auchenleck. Ex. inf. Mr William Maddan. 



