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TURNBULL’S DIARY
1689. Sunday, 14.—Att murrinside on mat. 3, 8; lectured on
ditto; and baptised a child.
Thursday, 18.—Preached att Kirkliston on mat. 3, 8 ; bap¬
tised a child, and married a couple of persons.
Sunday, 21.—Att Dalmenny on mat. 3, 2 ; and lectured on
luke 15, last part.
Sunday, 28.—Att inchmahin 1 on jona 3, 10. lectured on
mal. 3; and baptised a child.
Aug. Sunday, Aug. 4.—On ditto at ditto, and lectured on Jer.
10, from v. 19.
Thursday, 8th.—Att Dalmenny on heb. 3, 11 ; and bap¬
tised two children.
Sunday, Wth.—Att abercorn church2 on ditto, and lec¬
tured on Isay 53.
Sunday, 18.—Att Dalmenny on ditto, and lectured on heb.
3; and baptised a child.
Thursday, 22.—Att Dalmenny on ditto.
Sunday, 25.—Att inchmachon on heb. 3. 13; and lectured
on psa. 19.
Twesday, 27.—I marryed Alexr mastar of melvill,3 and Mris
Babie Dundass 4 att Dundass.
1 This is the name still given by the country people to the parish of Eccles-
machen. A small stream runs through the parish, and at one point divides into
two branches, which, after some distance, reunite, thus forming an ‘ inch ’ or
island.
2 Robert Gordon, the minister of Abercom, was deprived by the Privy Council
on the 23d of this month, for not reading the Proclamation of the Estates, and
not praying for William and Mary, but for King James.—Scott’s Fasti.
3 Alexander (son of George fourth Lord, and first Earl of Melville, and Lady
Catherine Leslie, only daughter of Alexander, Lord Balgonie, and grand¬
daughter of the famous General, the first Earl of Leven), who bore the courtesy
titles of Master of Melville and Lord Raith, born 23d December 1655. After
the Revolution he was appointed a member of the Scottish Privy Council, and
Treasurer-Depute, an office which he discharged with great zeal and ability,
although amid much discouragement. He was as staunch a Presbyterian as his
father, whose ecclesiastical policy he supported, and was subjected to the assaults
of the same political adversaries. He died 28th May 1698.—Sir William
Fraser’s The Melvilles, Earls of Melville, and the Leslies, Earls of Leven, Edin¬
burgh, 1890, vol. i. p. 241.
4 Barbara, third daughter of the deceased Walter Dundas of Dundas, and
Lady Christian Leslie. She survived her husband for upwards of twenty years,
dying 23d February 1719. They had issue, two sons, born in 1693 and 1695,
both of whom died in infancy.—Ibid.
TURNBULL’S DIARY
1689. Sunday, 14.—Att murrinside on mat. 3, 8; lectured on
ditto; and baptised a child.
Thursday, 18.—Preached att Kirkliston on mat. 3, 8 ; bap¬
tised a child, and married a couple of persons.
Sunday, 21.—Att Dalmenny on mat. 3, 2 ; and lectured on
luke 15, last part.
Sunday, 28.—Att inchmahin 1 on jona 3, 10. lectured on
mal. 3; and baptised a child.
Aug. Sunday, Aug. 4.—On ditto at ditto, and lectured on Jer.
10, from v. 19.
Thursday, 8th.—Att Dalmenny on heb. 3, 11 ; and bap¬
tised two children.
Sunday, Wth.—Att abercorn church2 on ditto, and lec¬
tured on Isay 53.
Sunday, 18.—Att Dalmenny on ditto, and lectured on heb.
3; and baptised a child.
Thursday, 22.—Att Dalmenny on ditto.
Sunday, 25.—Att inchmachon on heb. 3. 13; and lectured
on psa. 19.
Twesday, 27.—I marryed Alexr mastar of melvill,3 and Mris
Babie Dundass 4 att Dundass.
1 This is the name still given by the country people to the parish of Eccles-
machen. A small stream runs through the parish, and at one point divides into
two branches, which, after some distance, reunite, thus forming an ‘ inch ’ or
island.
2 Robert Gordon, the minister of Abercom, was deprived by the Privy Council
on the 23d of this month, for not reading the Proclamation of the Estates, and
not praying for William and Mary, but for King James.—Scott’s Fasti.
3 Alexander (son of George fourth Lord, and first Earl of Melville, and Lady
Catherine Leslie, only daughter of Alexander, Lord Balgonie, and grand¬
daughter of the famous General, the first Earl of Leven), who bore the courtesy
titles of Master of Melville and Lord Raith, born 23d December 1655. After
the Revolution he was appointed a member of the Scottish Privy Council, and
Treasurer-Depute, an office which he discharged with great zeal and ability,
although amid much discouragement. He was as staunch a Presbyterian as his
father, whose ecclesiastical policy he supported, and was subjected to the assaults
of the same political adversaries. He died 28th May 1698.—Sir William
Fraser’s The Melvilles, Earls of Melville, and the Leslies, Earls of Leven, Edin¬
burgh, 1890, vol. i. p. 241.
4 Barbara, third daughter of the deceased Walter Dundas of Dundas, and
Lady Christian Leslie. She survived her husband for upwards of twenty years,
dying 23d February 1719. They had issue, two sons, born in 1693 and 1695,
both of whom died in infancy.—Ibid.
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