GORDON, Alexander James Portioner of Broadland ¹

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  General Notes:

" 'Alexander Gordone, son to Sir William Gordone of Lesmoir,' witnessed the charter by his father and brother to John Gordone, elder, burgess of Banff, of Balmad and other lands, at Lesmoir, June 17, 1654 (Banff Sasines). He is called, in the 'chimney' pedigree, 'Alexander Gordon, minister'.

He is evidently the Alexander Gordon, 'brother to Lesmoir,' who was at the Scots College, Rome, in 1657 'studuit casibus conscientiae ante conversionem fuit predicans'. He 'discessit' in 1659, and then became a Benedictine in Germany. Macpherson, the rector of the Scots College at Rome, adds to the registrar's entry :

'All the attempts possible were made by him to get admittance into the Scots College, Paris. Messrs. Barclay and Walker stood firm and would not receive him. He was sent to Rome by the Jesuits, who complained grievously of the Superiors in Paris to the Cardinals of Propaganda. Without orders he went to Germany, entered among the Scots monks, whom he soon left, and thereafter made no secret of his having come abroad as merely a spy on these places of Catholic education' (Records of the Scots Colleges, p. 116)."

from Lesmoir ¹