Now have with you for _Leith_, whereto I no sooner came, but I was well entertained by Master _Barnard Lindsay_, one of the grooms of his Majesties bed-chamber, he knew my estate was not guilty, because I brought guilt with me (more than my sins, and they would not pass for current there) he therefore did replenish the vaustity[14] of my empty purse, and discharged a piece at me with two bullets of gold, each being in value worth eleven shillings white money; and I was creditably informed, that within the compass of one year, there was shipped away from that only port of _Leith_, fourscore thousand boles of wheat, oats, and barley into _Spain_, _France_, and other foreign parts, and every bole contains the measure of four English bushels, so that from _Leith_ only hath been transported three hundred and twenty thousand bushels of corn; besides some hath been shipped away from Saint _Andrews_, from _Dundee_, _Aberdeen_, _Dysart_, _Kirkaldy_, _Kinghorn_, _Burntisland_, _Dunbar_, and other portable towns, which makes me to wonder that a kingdom so populous as it is, should nevertheless sell so much bread-corn beyond the seas, and yet to have more than sufficient for themselves. So I having viewed the haven and town of _Leith_, took a passage boat to see the new wondrous Well,[15] to which many a one that is not well, comes far and near in hope to be made well: indeed I did hear that it had done much good, and that it hath a rare operation to expel or kill divers maladies; as to provoke appetite, to help much for the avoiding of the gravel in the bladder, to cure sore eyes, and old ulcers, with many other virtues which it hath, but I (through the mercy of God, having no need of it, did make no great inquisition what it had done, but for novelty I drank of it, and I found the taste to be more pleasant than any other water, sweet almost as milk, yet as clear as crystal, and I did observe that though a man did drink a quart, a pottle, or as much as his belly could contain, yet it never offended or lay heavy upon the stomach, no more than if one had drank but a pint or a small quantity. I went two miles from it to a town called _Burntisland_, where I found many of my especial good friends, as Master _Robert Hay_, one of the Grooms of his Majesty's Bed-chamber, Master _David Drummond_, one of his Gentlemens-Pensioners, Master _James Acmootye_, one of the Grooms of the Privy Chamber, Captain _Murray_, Sir _Henry Witherington_ Knight, Captain _Tyrie_, and divers others: and there Master _Hay_, Master _Drummond_, and the good old Captain _Murray_ did very bountifully furnish me with gold for my expenses, but I being at dinner with those aforesaid gentlemen, as we were discoursing, there befel a strange accident, which I think worth the relating.