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TURNBULL’S DIARY
1691
1692
assembly Janry 15th ; about this time the bass, which some of
king James partisans surprised by stratagem, and which still
holds out for him, was supplyed with all things necessary out
of france.1
29th.—Did my Lady Marr and whole family goe for Edenr.
I went along to queensferry, and returned the last day of the
year.
Janry. 3.—Att dumblan I lectured on eph. 4, preached on
1 cor. 1, 30, and ordained elders there 24 in number. I was
also there called to sie on margaret Robertson, who had
brought forth a child and murdered it; she shewed few or no
signs of serious repentance.
\0th.—Att alloa lectured on luke 21, and preached on mat.
13, 30.
Friday, \5th.—This day the generall assembly sat doun
about 3 in the aftarnoon, Mr. John Law,2 on of the ministers
of Edenr having preached in the fornoon in place of Mr. hugh
Kennedy,3 moderator to the last assembly, now unwell. Of
this assembly Mr. William Crichton, minr att bathkett,4 was
1 The fortress of the Bass, of which Charles Maitland was the Deputy-
Governor, was surrendered to King William in. in 1690; but four young
Jacobite officers who were imprisoned there, boldly surprised the garrison, and
sending all the soldiers ashore, actually succeeded in holding the rock till 1694,
every effort to dislodge them proving ineffectual. Supplies were secretly con¬
veyed to them by friends, and on the occasion referred to in the text, a French
vessel brought them ‘ all sorts of provisions and stores, and two boats, one that
carried two pattararoes, twelve musquets, and rowed with twelve oars, and
another small boat.’ Eventually, two ships of war sent by the English Govern¬
ment, aided by some smaller vessels, cut off their supplies, and reduced them to
the necessity of capitulating in April 1694.—Bass Rock, p. 35 ; Miscellanea
Scotica, vol. iii. ; Crichton’s Memoirs of Rev. John Blackader, App. p. 348.
2 See note, p. 321.
3 Hugh Kennedy, M.A., graduated at Glasgow in 1641; ordained at Mid-
Calder 13th April 1643 ; deposed in 1660, but returned to his charge on the
toleration being granted in 1687 ; translated to Edinburgh that same year, and
after preaching for some time in a meeting-house, was admitted to Trinity College
Church in 1689. He was elected Moderator of the first General Assembly after
the Revolution, 16th October 1690. He died 25th April 1692, aged about
seventy-one.—Scott’s Fasti.
4 William Crichton, M.A., obtained his degree at the University of Edinburgh
26th July 1649; ordained (by the ‘Protestors’) at Bathgate, 10th April 1654.
Inhibited by the Synod in 1655, he was removed, for intruding, in 1660, but
returned at the toleration in 1687, when he opened a meeting-house at Hilder-
stone, in the neighbourhood, where John Blackader held a large conventicle in