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VISIT TO THURLOW
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nesses Lord Kerdross,1 Coltness,2 Moriston,3 Mr. Stevinson, and
others.4
Febry. 12^, Sunday Jbmoon.—I preached att Mr. Blakys on
marke 7, 23.
24^ Ditto.—Upon ane invitation from Mr. Soalrhs5 to goe
doun to his countrey house at Thurloe in suffolke, I came from
London, passing thorow stratford. I dined at harlaw (dear),
thence thorow starford and stanstead. I lodged att Waldin at
ye whit hart; not dear.
1 Henry Erskine, third Lord Cardross, born in 1650, succeeded his father
David in 1671 ; was fined ^5000 in 1674, for permitting his wife to have wor¬
ship in his house of Cardross with her own chaplain, Mr. John King. Of this
fine he paid ^1000, and asking in vain for a remission of the remainder, he was
imprisoned in the Castle of Edinburgh for four years. When released in 1679,
on giving a bond for the amount of his fine, he went to London to seek redress
from the king, but meeting with no success, he emigrated to North America, where
he established a colony in South Carolina, which was destroyed by the Spaniards.
Broken, but not dispirited, he returned to Europe, and sought refuge in Holland.
Came over to London in 1688, and in the Scotch Parliament of 1689, ob¬
tained an act restoring him to his estates, and to all his other rights and privi¬
leges. He was also made a Privy Councillor and General of the Mint, but died
from the effects of his sufferings at Edinburgh, on the 21st of May 1693, in his
forty-fourth year.—Wodrow’s Hist., vol. iii. p. 194.
2 Thomas Steuart, eldest son of Sir James Steuart of Coltness and Kirkfield,
whom he succeeded in March 1681. Born 1631. After the defeat of the Cove¬
nanters at Bothwell in 1679, orders were issued for his apprehension, on the
suspicion that he had supplied some of those who were there with meat and
drink. He fled to Holland in 1683, when his estates were forfeited. Returning
to London in 1687, and to Scotland after the Revolution, he was knighted by
the Earl of Melville, Lord High Commissioner, in 1689, created a baronet in
January 1698, and died 7th May that same year.—Wodrow’s Hist., vol. iii.
p. 113 ; Foster’s Members of Parliament (Scotland).
3 John Kerr of Morriston, in the parish of Legerwood, Berwickshire. See
notice, note, p. 329.
4 For notices of the other ministers mentioned here, see notes, pp. 321-323.
5 Bartholomew Soame, a London woollen draper, who became proprietor of
the estate of Little Thurlow, in the county of Suffolk, by gift of his nephew, Sir
William Soame, Bart., the seventh son of Sir William Soame, Knight, who was
Sheriff of Suffolk in 1655. It was in his house that Robert Fleming, junior,
who had been licensed and also ordained (probably) along with Turnbull,
became domestic chaplain about this time. He married Susanna, daughter of
Richard Hutchinson, a London merchant, on whose death on the 14th of Feb¬
ruary 1691-2, Fleming preached and published a sermon, with a preface contain¬
ing some account of her life and death. His Poetical Paraphrase of the Song of
Solomon is dedicated to the same lady.—Burke’s Extinct Baronetcies of Eng¬
land-, Steven’s Scottish Church, Rotterdam, p. 121.
1688