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TURNBULL’S DIARY
1694 21.—I assisted att the comunion in Tillyallan : on Saturday,
20th, preacht on 1 pet. 2, 7; on the sabbath morning on song
2, 3; and on moonday fornoon on John 14, 23.
28tf/i.—Lect. on exod. 18, and preacht on coll. 1, 12.
Novr. 4.—Lectured on ditto, and preacht on coll. 1, 13.
IDA.—Lectured on gen.1 19, and preacht on ditto.
Twesday, 13tfA.—I went to Edenr to the comission of the
assembly called to meet pro re nata; and they sent up to
qgratulate the Kings safe return 2 and for some other affairs
two ministers, viz. Mrs William Dunlap 3 and pat. Cumin.4
Saturday, YHh.—I returned, and Mr. m‘claren, minister att
Kippen, preached for me on Sunday.
Novr. 25.—Lect. on ditto; preacht on coll. 1,14.
Deer. 2.—Lect. on ditto, and preacht on coll. 1, 15.
Thursday, deer. 6th.—Being a thanksgiving for our Kings
safe return from this year campagne I preacht on psa. 45, 6,7.
9#A.—Lect. on ditto, preacht on coll. 1, 16.
16tfA.—Lectured on ditto, preacht on coll. 1, 17.
About the beginning of this moneth I entered upon hoseah
in my weekly sermons on the Frydays, beginning from the
beginning of that prophet, and designing to goe through it.
23.—Lectured on gen.1 20, preacht on coll. 1, 18.
66th.—Lectured on ditto and preacht on ditto.
1695 Janry. 1.—I went to Linlithgaw to visitt my sister there,
next day to Blackness, third to lithgaw again, the 4th to
Lerbart, where I stayed all night with Mr. Whytt, and on
Saturday he and I being comissionatt to the pbitry of Irwin
to transport mr. Alexr or5 from beeth to Sterlin, tooke journey,
1 A mistake for ‘ exod.’ 2 On the Qth of October.
3 Principal of Glasgow University, to which office he had been appointed in
November 1690, probably through the influence of Carstares, whose sister Sarah,
he had married in 1681. He was the son of Alexander Dunlop, minister of
Paisley, and was born about 1655. He died in March 1700.—Wodrow’s Hist.
vol. iv. App. p. 521.
4 Patrick Cuming, M.A., sixth son of John Cuming of Relugas ; graduated at
Edinburgh in 1670; became minister to a Presbyterian congregation in Dublin ;
translated to Ormiston, East Lothian, in 1690. Died 10th March 1731, in his
eighty-second year.—Scott’s Fasti.
5 Alexander Orr, M.A., took his degree at Glasgow in 1671 ; ordained at
Beith, 1st October 1689; translated to Alyth in 1699, but, instead of giving
obedience, demitted his charge; was admitted minister of St. Quivox, in the
TURNBULL’S DIARY
1694 21.—I assisted att the comunion in Tillyallan : on Saturday,
20th, preacht on 1 pet. 2, 7; on the sabbath morning on song
2, 3; and on moonday fornoon on John 14, 23.
28tf/i.—Lect. on exod. 18, and preacht on coll. 1, 12.
Novr. 4.—Lectured on ditto, and preacht on coll. 1, 13.
IDA.—Lectured on gen.1 19, and preacht on ditto.
Twesday, 13tfA.—I went to Edenr to the comission of the
assembly called to meet pro re nata; and they sent up to
qgratulate the Kings safe return 2 and for some other affairs
two ministers, viz. Mrs William Dunlap 3 and pat. Cumin.4
Saturday, YHh.—I returned, and Mr. m‘claren, minister att
Kippen, preached for me on Sunday.
Novr. 25.—Lect. on ditto; preacht on coll. 1,14.
Deer. 2.—Lect. on ditto, and preacht on coll. 1, 15.
Thursday, deer. 6th.—Being a thanksgiving for our Kings
safe return from this year campagne I preacht on psa. 45, 6,7.
9#A.—Lect. on ditto, preacht on coll. 1, 16.
16tfA.—Lectured on ditto, preacht on coll. 1, 17.
About the beginning of this moneth I entered upon hoseah
in my weekly sermons on the Frydays, beginning from the
beginning of that prophet, and designing to goe through it.
23.—Lectured on gen.1 20, preacht on coll. 1, 18.
66th.—Lectured on ditto and preacht on ditto.
1695 Janry. 1.—I went to Linlithgaw to visitt my sister there,
next day to Blackness, third to lithgaw again, the 4th to
Lerbart, where I stayed all night with Mr. Whytt, and on
Saturday he and I being comissionatt to the pbitry of Irwin
to transport mr. Alexr or5 from beeth to Sterlin, tooke journey,
1 A mistake for ‘ exod.’ 2 On the Qth of October.
3 Principal of Glasgow University, to which office he had been appointed in
November 1690, probably through the influence of Carstares, whose sister Sarah,
he had married in 1681. He was the son of Alexander Dunlop, minister of
Paisley, and was born about 1655. He died in March 1700.—Wodrow’s Hist.
vol. iv. App. p. 521.
4 Patrick Cuming, M.A., sixth son of John Cuming of Relugas ; graduated at
Edinburgh in 1670; became minister to a Presbyterian congregation in Dublin ;
translated to Ormiston, East Lothian, in 1690. Died 10th March 1731, in his
eighty-second year.—Scott’s Fasti.
5 Alexander Orr, M.A., took his degree at Glasgow in 1671 ; ordained at
Beith, 1st October 1689; translated to Alyth in 1699, but, instead of giving
obedience, demitted his charge; was admitted minister of St. Quivox, in the
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| Description | Contents:The library of James VI. In the hand of Peter Young, his tutor, 1573-1583 / G.F. Warner -- Documents illustrating Catholic policy in the reign of James VI., 1596-1598 / Thomas Graves Law -- Twenty-four letters of Sir Thomas Hope, ... 1627-1646 / Robert Paul -- Civil war papers, 1643-1650 / H.F. Morland Simpson -- Thirty-four letters written to James Sharp, ... 1660-1677 / John Dowden -- The diary of George Turnbull, minister of Alloa and Tyninghame, 1657-1704 / Robert Paul -- The Masterton papers, 1660-1719 / V.A. Noël Paton -- Accompt of expenses in Edinburgh by Alexander Rose of Kilravock, 1715 / A.H. Millar -- Papers about the Rebellions of 1715 and 1745 / Henry Paton -- General index -- Index to the library of James VI. |
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