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INTRODUCTION
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Presbyterian minister of Enniskillen, had to return to Broom-
hall ‘to oversie and manadge his affairs’ there during his exile
{Diary, p. 312). When he returned to Scotland is uncertain,
hut apparently he was in Holland with a number of his friends
and relations in November 1686, ‘ because of trouble at home ’
(p. 319).
Meanwhile his family continued to reside for a time at
Broomhall undisturbed, till the month of June 1683, when,
in consequence of increased severities against the Covenanters,
they were ejected from their tenancy by Sir Alexander Bruce
the proprietor, who, though himself a conformist, had hitherto
treated his tenants with great leniency, and been heavily fined
in consequence (see note, p. 312). They seem to have crossed
over to the south side of the Forth, and to have located them¬
selves in the parish of Carriden, Linlithgowshire, at the village
of Blackness, near the celebrated castle of that name—at that
very time the dreary prison of other covenanting sufferers. It
is probable that they had relatives and friends in this neigh¬
bourhood, at Borrowstounness and Grangepans, etc., many of
the inhabitants of which were all along devoted adherents of
the cause of the covenants. Here Andrew’s second son James
died and was buried in October 1684; and here Andrew
Turnbull himself seems to have ultimately settled on his
return to his native land after the Revolution, when happier
days had begun to dawn, with his wife and some of his family,
till his death on the 8th of May 1697 {Diary, p. 372). His son
records a journey which he made to Montrose in March 1696,
to bring him home after a serious illness which he had while
paying a visit there.
Regarding Jeane Crawford, Andrew Turnbull’s wife, and
the mother of the writer of this Diary, I have been unable to
gain much information apart from what may be gathered from
the Diary itself. Sibbald in his History of Fife says that her
brother, James Crawford, the Laird of Mountquhany, in the
parish of Kilmany, belonged to a west country family; but he
299
Presbyterian minister of Enniskillen, had to return to Broom-
hall ‘to oversie and manadge his affairs’ there during his exile
{Diary, p. 312). When he returned to Scotland is uncertain,
hut apparently he was in Holland with a number of his friends
and relations in November 1686, ‘ because of trouble at home ’
(p. 319).
Meanwhile his family continued to reside for a time at
Broomhall undisturbed, till the month of June 1683, when,
in consequence of increased severities against the Covenanters,
they were ejected from their tenancy by Sir Alexander Bruce
the proprietor, who, though himself a conformist, had hitherto
treated his tenants with great leniency, and been heavily fined
in consequence (see note, p. 312). They seem to have crossed
over to the south side of the Forth, and to have located them¬
selves in the parish of Carriden, Linlithgowshire, at the village
of Blackness, near the celebrated castle of that name—at that
very time the dreary prison of other covenanting sufferers. It
is probable that they had relatives and friends in this neigh¬
bourhood, at Borrowstounness and Grangepans, etc., many of
the inhabitants of which were all along devoted adherents of
the cause of the covenants. Here Andrew’s second son James
died and was buried in October 1684; and here Andrew
Turnbull himself seems to have ultimately settled on his
return to his native land after the Revolution, when happier
days had begun to dawn, with his wife and some of his family,
till his death on the 8th of May 1697 {Diary, p. 372). His son
records a journey which he made to Montrose in March 1696,
to bring him home after a serious illness which he had while
paying a visit there.
Regarding Jeane Crawford, Andrew Turnbull’s wife, and
the mother of the writer of this Diary, I have been unable to
gain much information apart from what may be gathered from
the Diary itself. Sibbald in his History of Fife says that her
brother, James Crawford, the Laird of Mountquhany, in the
parish of Kilmany, belonged to a west country family; but he
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