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TURNBULL’S DIARY
1687 Saturday, Deer. 17.—I went down to Delph, and Sunday
fornoon preached on Job. 4, 24.1 moonday returned to RoA
thursday evening at Rott. deer. 22 I preached on Exod.
19, 11.
Sunday, December 9,5th.—Two dyetts at Delph on psa.
93, 5.
Fryday, Deer. c60th.—I shipped aboard of a ship, John An¬
derson mastar, for London, where next Thursday, Janry. 5th,
I arrived safe.
1688 Janry. \Qth, 1688.—Preached at Mr. Blakys meeting house
London. on Isay. 55, 6, thursday.
Moonday, Janry. 23.—Preached for tryall in order to ordina¬
tion on that Scripture, act 10, 34.
Moonday, Janry. 30.—Delivered my common head de judiee
eontraversiarij as ye second tryall.
Fryday, Febry. 3d.—Came under a third examination in
catecheticall quaestions, etc.
London. Febry. 5th, Sunday aftarnoon.—Preached at Mr. Aigus his
meeting house on Isay. 55, 6, last part.
Febry. 9.—I was ordained a minister of ye gospell by im¬
position of hands, ministers concerned, Mrs. Geo. Hamilton,
abram Hume, Nicol Blaky, Ro11. Traill, James Frasar, James
Broun,2 David Blair, Thomas Douglass, John Herbert.3 wit-
1 The pastorate of the English Church of Delft, originally founded in 1622,
was at this time vacant, through the death of the minister, Mr. John Sinclair,
on the 24th of March 1687.—Steven’s Hist, of the Scottish Church, Rotterdam,
p. 295.
2 James Brown, M.A., said to have been an ordained minister since 1660.
Where he was first settled is unknown, but in 1677 he was the pastor of a con¬
gregation at North Ferriby, on the Humber, eight miles above Hull. In 1683
he became chaplain to the British residents at Kbnigsberg, in East Prussia.
Here, however, he did not remain long. In 1689 he had become resident in
Rotterdam, where he preached in the Scots’ Church during part of the vacancy
occasioned by the retirement of Mr. John Hog in 1689, and in September
1691 he was admitted to be joint minister with Mr. Robert Fleming, senior,
of that charge; retiring from active duty in 1713, he died on the 22d of
November that year, at the advanced age of seventy-nine.—Ibid. p. 107 et
seq.
3 John Herbert, M.A., graduated at the University of Glasgow, 27th July
1676; became minister of North Berwick in 1690, and died at Edinburgh, 14th
July 1691, aged about thirty-six.—Scott’s Fasti.