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TURNBULL’S DIARY
1699 9.0th.—Lect. on ditto ; preacht on 2 sam. 22, 31.
Wedensday, \0th.—Did Mr. Brown, minister at Spot,1 in
the pbitry of dumbar, with two elders from Tuningham, pro¬
duce befor the pbitry of sterlin a call to me from Tuning-
ham, wch I received and tooke to consideration; my Lady
Rothess 2 wrott also pressing me to accept of it.
Thursday, 24.—Ane express came to me from Tuningham
with letters from my Lord Hadingtown,3 pbitry of dumbar
and session of Tuningham, earnestly expressing yre desire of
my accepting ye call. I promised to pay them a visit against
the second sabbath of septr, and in ye mean time I still
implore the lords direction.
91 th.—Lectured and preacht on ditto.
90th.—I went to Tillyallan, thence on Thursday 31 to
Blackness, my sister there having had a child dead, and on
fryday septr 1 I came to Torry and to Tillyallan agst night,
next day home.
Septr. 3d.—Preacht and lectured on ditto.
This weeke Mr. James Areskine4 went to Holland, whom
god prosper.
This same day, Twesday, septr 5th, I went to Edenr, on
Thursday 7th I went to redhouse, next day to preston-kirke to
Mr. Forrests, and on Sunday, septr 10th, I preacht in Tinning-
ham church for the first time, lect. on Isay. 35 : preacht on
mal. 4, 2: I staid there that night, and on moonday and
Twesday att preston.
When I came to this countrey I found a letter left by my
1 Andrew Broune, M.A., graduated at Glasgow in 1676, ordained at Spott
in 1693, and died 20th March 1726, in his sixty-fifth year.—Scott’s Fasti.
2 Lady Margaret Leslie, elder daughter of John, sixth earl, and afterwards
first Duke of Rothes, Chancellor of Scotland, whom she succeeded as Countess
of Rothes, in her own right. She married, 8th October 1674, Charles, fifth Earl
of Haddington, and by the contract of marriage it was arranged that her eldest
son should succeed to the earldom of Rothes, and her second to that of Hadding¬
ton. The latter is referred to in the next entry. Her husband died in 1685,
and she survived him till the 20th August 1700. See this Diary, p. 395.
3 Thomas, sixth earl, born September 1680, died 28th November 173$.
Being only five years old when he succeeded, he was brought up with his mother
at Leslie in Fife, under the guardianship of tutors.—Sir William Fraser’s
Memorials of the Earls of Haddington, vol. i. p. xxiv,
4 See note, p. 357.