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TURNBULL’S DIARY
1687.
utrecht.
apr.
at sea.
England.
may.
England.
also I taught my Lady Southerland.1 at utrecht I lodged with
one Mr. Wallace, alias adrington, till decr. 20, and all the rest
of the time with the widow Van habboken in S4 anna straet.
a dutch young gentleman praewailled also with me to teach
him and his sistar the english languadge which I also did : his
name was monsr Vapour. I had from my scholars two ducatons
a moneth.
Wearying of this employ I resolved for england; and in
order thereto came doun to Roterdam apr. 3d, where takeing
leave of all my freinds I shipt aboard of a small ship, mastar
Tho : Wood, apr. 26, went down that evening to Skydam, and
tooke in some horses: 27, went as far as the brill: 28, about
noon loosed, and sett to sea, and haveing a fair easterly gale
made suffolke land fryday 29 about 8 in the morning, and
stirring our course west south west came in through the kings
channel, and arrived at London safe Saturday 30 about eleven
at night.
In London I lodged with Mr. Quiney, a turner in addle street
near to aldermanbury : I had my chamber of him for 18 pence
pr weeke and stayed with him till Octobr 10th from may 3d.
June.—About the middle of this moneth I lett some blood.
Towards the lattar end of July I, togither with Mr. Robt.
Fleming,2 were engadged by the ministers here to come on our
walks beyond the gates, must have been, in those days, as it is now, a cheerful
and pleasant residence. ’—Story’s William Carstares, p. 25.
1 Jean, daughter of David second Earl of Wemyss, and relict of Archibald
Earl of Angus, married at Edinburgh, nth August 1659, to George fourteenth
Earl of Sutherland. She died in January 1715.—Douglas’s Peerage.
2 Robert Fleming, the son of the minister of the Scots’ Church, Rotterdam,
formerly noticed (see note, p. 313), was born at Cambuslang, and educated at the
Universities of Leyden and Utrecht. He was privately ordained on 9th Feb¬
ruary 1688 by several ministers of the Church of Scotland. Steven, in his
History of the Scottish Church at Rotterdam (p. 120), says he was ordained
there, but this is probably a mistake for London, where, on that very same day,
George Turnbull records in the Diary (p. 326), his own ordination. They are
here said to have been licensed at the same time, and there is a strong presump¬
tion that they were also ordained together. Fleming thereafter acted for some
years as domestic chaplain to Bartholomew Soame, Esq., of Thurloe in Suffolk,
and was admitted minister of the Scots’ Church, Leyden, in 1692. On the
death of his father in 1694, he was invited to succeed him in the pastorate of the
Scots’ Church at Rotterdam, and was admitted there as colleague to Mr. James
Brown, 30thjanuary 1695. In 1698 he accepted a call to the Scottish Congre-