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TURNBULL’S DIARY
leaves their exact designation blank, which I have not been
able to fill up. Her sister Isobel, who was implicated in the
disturbance in Edinburgh in 1679, referred to above, and who
was specially denounced by the Privy Council as ‘ a known and
most irregular fanatic,’ fled with her nephews and the other
alleged offenders on that occasion, as we learn from the
Council’s proclamation. Most probably, with other of her re¬
latives, she sought refuge in Holland. Long afterwards, in
1701, her sister Jeane, when seventy-two years of age, made
a voyage to Holland, presumably to visit relations who were
still residing there.1 Several persons of the name of Crawford
are mentioned as office-bearers and benefactors of the Scots’
Church at Rotterdam, in the records of that congregation.2
George Turnbull, the writer of the following pages, supplies
us himself with the principal events in his own life, and regard¬
ing these he may best be left to speak for himself. When he
returned from Holland 3 after his sojourn there, and after his
licence and ordination in London in May 1688, he seems to
have taken up his abode at South Queensferry,4 where he had
two married sisters,5—one of them married to an Andrew Bisset,
who died there in March 1692,6—and in the immediate neigh¬
bourhood of his father and mother at Blackness. And here
he continued for some months to exercise a sort of irregular
ministry, preaching constantly, administering baptism, and
performing marriages in various places, the churches of which
were either vacant, or occupied by Episcopal incumbents, whose
services were unacceptable to many of the people.
About this time a Presbyterian meeting-house had been
erected in the neighbouring parish of Dalmeny, at Dundas, the
residence of the ancient family of that ilk, the laird of which
1 Diary, p. 408.
2 Steven’s History of the Scottish Church, Rotterdam, pp. 128, 348, 370.
3 This course was made open to him, and to many other fugitives, through the
publication of the indulgences issued by James 11. during this and the preceding
year.
4 Diary, p. 334. 6 Ibid. p. 443. « Ibid. p. 352.
TURNBULL’S DIARY
leaves their exact designation blank, which I have not been
able to fill up. Her sister Isobel, who was implicated in the
disturbance in Edinburgh in 1679, referred to above, and who
was specially denounced by the Privy Council as ‘ a known and
most irregular fanatic,’ fled with her nephews and the other
alleged offenders on that occasion, as we learn from the
Council’s proclamation. Most probably, with other of her re¬
latives, she sought refuge in Holland. Long afterwards, in
1701, her sister Jeane, when seventy-two years of age, made
a voyage to Holland, presumably to visit relations who were
still residing there.1 Several persons of the name of Crawford
are mentioned as office-bearers and benefactors of the Scots’
Church at Rotterdam, in the records of that congregation.2
George Turnbull, the writer of the following pages, supplies
us himself with the principal events in his own life, and regard¬
ing these he may best be left to speak for himself. When he
returned from Holland 3 after his sojourn there, and after his
licence and ordination in London in May 1688, he seems to
have taken up his abode at South Queensferry,4 where he had
two married sisters,5—one of them married to an Andrew Bisset,
who died there in March 1692,6—and in the immediate neigh¬
bourhood of his father and mother at Blackness. And here
he continued for some months to exercise a sort of irregular
ministry, preaching constantly, administering baptism, and
performing marriages in various places, the churches of which
were either vacant, or occupied by Episcopal incumbents, whose
services were unacceptable to many of the people.
About this time a Presbyterian meeting-house had been
erected in the neighbouring parish of Dalmeny, at Dundas, the
residence of the ancient family of that ilk, the laird of which
1 Diary, p. 408.
2 Steven’s History of the Scottish Church, Rotterdam, pp. 128, 348, 370.
3 This course was made open to him, and to many other fugitives, through the
publication of the indulgences issued by James 11. during this and the preceding
year.
4 Diary, p. 334. 6 Ibid. p. 443. « Ibid. p. 352.
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