Select passages from the diary and letters of the late John Blackader, Esq.

LIFE AND PARENTAGE. X£
either in the word. My commiffion reaches to
houies and fields, within and without doors.
Cbanc. No doubt you know and have feen the
laws discharging fuch preaching.
A if. My Lord, 1 have ; and I am forry that
ever any laws were made againii preaching the
gofpel
Chan*:. Not againil the gofpel, but fedition and
rebellion.
yl if. I prepch no fedition nor rebellion.
The Lord Advocate, Sir George M'Kenzie,
came to the prifoner, and told him he was forry
to fee him upon the reierve, and difiiculted about
the excommunication.
Mr Blackader anfwered he was no wife
flraitened in that, but had kept on the referve
becaufe he thought himielf only obliged to fpeak-
upon fads relative to hirofclf, and that it was
hard to be obliged to declare his opinion as to
others.
The Chancellor afked if he kept conventicles
in Fife, which he did not deny ; and after he had
owned himielf of the family of Tulliallan *, and
* His family was an ancient one. Their original
efiate, a very onfidcrable one, lies in the county of
Berwick, of then own name, probably derived from it,
(Bidckdder of that ilk) afterwards the property of Sir
Home, Batt. now of Alexander Bolwall, Efq.
The familv came into puffdlion of the extenlive eftate of
Tulliallan (now belonging to Lord K.ei f h) by marriage.
One of the anctftors uf Mr Blackader, and whom he
lineally reprcfenttd, was creattd by Charles I. a Baronet