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TURNBULL’S DIARY
1677
Irland.
1679
Scotland.
1683
Holland.
About two years aftar septembr 1677 I went over to Irland,
and stayed there in Mr. Taylzors family,1 minister in ye county
of Fermanagh, and my uncle, till about August 1679 I re¬
turned to Scotland: tooke shipping at belfast, and landed not
farr from grinocke. from that time till July 1683 was in my
fathers family to oversie and manadge his affairs, he being at
that time forced to abscond, and was in holland.
June 1683.—Being cast out of our dwelling place by Sr
Alexr Bruce of Bromhall2 for nonconformity to Episcopacy,
I went for Holland, and arrived att Roterdam, July 2, 1683,
haveing been five days at sea betwixt it and Borostounness.
Edward Hodge was mastar of the ship I came in.3
after twelve or more years, might easily make,—for on this date the eighty-
seventh class at Edinburgh University, under Paterson, graduated to the number
of forty-eight, ‘after solemn disputation in Lady Yester’s church, the Theses
being dedicated to the Right Honourable James Currie, Lord Provost, and the
other members of the Town Council, patrons of the university.—Dalzel’s Hist, of
the Univ. of Edinburgh, p. 205.
1 James Tailzeur or Taylor, went to Ireland from the north of Scotland,
recommended by Thomas Hog, the famous minister of Kiltearn, and in Sep¬
tember 1675 was ordained to the pastoral charge of Monea, Enniskillen, and
Derryvallen, in the county of P'ermanagh. In 1677 he was living within two
miles of the town of Enniskillen. He appears to have left soon after 1681, being
succeeded by Mr. Robert Kelso, celebrated for the part which he took in con¬
nection with the defence of Enniskillen after the Revolution.
2 Sir Alexander Bruce, served heir to his father (Robert Bruce of Broomhall,
third son of Sir George Bruce of Carnock, and one of the Lords of Session in
1649, who died 25th June 1652) in 1655 ; joint-receiver of the Supply and Excise
from 1693 to 1695 ; M.P. for Culross, 1661-3, 1669-74, 1678; conv. 1685-6, and
for Sanquhar, 1692, until 12th June 1702, when he was expelled from Parliament
for objecting to the Act for securing the Protestant religion and Presbyterian
government: contested the claim to the Kincardine peerage with his kinswoman,
Lady Mary Cochrane, in 1705, and succeeding, took his seat in Parliament as
fourth Earl of Kincardine, 10th October 1706. He married Christian, daughter
of Robert Bruce of Blairhall. In July 1677, Sir Alexander Bruce was fined
twelve hundred pounds, because, though he had himself conformed to Episcopacy,
yet he had not violently pressed his tenants to subscribe the bond. Some of
these had been at conventicles, and their fines accumulating, he was required to
pay them.—Douglas’s Peerage', Wodrow’s Hist. vol. ii. p. 360; Foster’s
Members of Parlt. (Scotland).
3 About a month before this, this same ship-master conveyed Lady Coltness
to Rotterdam to rejoin her husband, Thomas Steuart of Coltness, who was then
a refugee at Utrecht. She was accompanied by her step-son David, and her
husband’s niece Anna, a child of three years of age, the daughter of James
Steuart, who became Lord Advocate after the Revolution. The weather was so
stormy, that they were from eight to ten days on the voyage between Borrowstoun-