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TURNBULL’S DIARY
1701 27.—Lectured and preacht on ditto, this day severall
strangers were in the church.
28.—I went to ormiston again, and on wedensday 30
mr. Crichton and I went in to Edenr, and on Fryday
Aug. 1 returned home, my sister in law mris Glass came
also.
Aug. 3.—Lect. on acts 1 ; preacht on Tit. 2, 13.
10£A.—Lectured and preacht on ditto.
YSth.—Being a fast day befor the sacrament in stenton, I
preached on job 13, 23.
17.—Lectured on acts 2, preacht on Tit. 2, 13.
18tfA—Moonday aftar the sacrament att stenton preached
on jude 21.
My sister in law mris Blackwood came here Saturday 9U|,
and went away Thursday 14th of august.
All this moneth of August my children George and marion
were ill of the kinkcogh.2
This moneth there was extraordinary lightning and thunder
both in the night and day time, yet the rains not excessive.
Aug. 24.—I preacht att preston-kirke by order of the
pbitry on mat. 7, 13, 14; and lectured on that chapter from
v. 1 to 13. This evening about eight at night my Lady Had.
brought forth a son, whom next day, being Moonday, I baptised
by the name of John.3
31.—Att home lectured on acts 2, and preacht on Tit. 2,14.
about this time Lord Basil Hamilton, son to the late duke of
Hamilton, was very strangly drowned in the river of
travelling from his own house att Baldoon to Cassells in com¬
pany with his Brother Lord Selkirk and others.4
graduated at Edinburgh in 1691; ordained minister of Salton in 1696. Died
Father of the Church of Scotland, 4th November 1759, in his ninety-sixth year.—
Scott’s Fasti.
1 Hooping-cough.
2 The Honourable John Hamilton, second son of Thomas, sixth Earl of Had¬
dington. Educated at Glasgow University, where he matriculated in October
1716 ; admitted advocate at the Scotch bar in 1725 ; married, in 1728, Margaret,
daughter of Sir John Home, Bart., of Blackadder, Berwickshire, and died at
Edinburgh, nth February 1772.—Sir William Fraser’s Memorials of the Earls
of Haddington.
4 A detailed account of this accident, which occurred at the Water of Minnick
TURNBULL’S DIARY
1701 27.—Lectured and preacht on ditto, this day severall
strangers were in the church.
28.—I went to ormiston again, and on wedensday 30
mr. Crichton and I went in to Edenr, and on Fryday
Aug. 1 returned home, my sister in law mris Glass came
also.
Aug. 3.—Lect. on acts 1 ; preacht on Tit. 2, 13.
10£A.—Lectured and preacht on ditto.
YSth.—Being a fast day befor the sacrament in stenton, I
preached on job 13, 23.
17.—Lectured on acts 2, preacht on Tit. 2, 13.
18tfA—Moonday aftar the sacrament att stenton preached
on jude 21.
My sister in law mris Blackwood came here Saturday 9U|,
and went away Thursday 14th of august.
All this moneth of August my children George and marion
were ill of the kinkcogh.2
This moneth there was extraordinary lightning and thunder
both in the night and day time, yet the rains not excessive.
Aug. 24.—I preacht att preston-kirke by order of the
pbitry on mat. 7, 13, 14; and lectured on that chapter from
v. 1 to 13. This evening about eight at night my Lady Had.
brought forth a son, whom next day, being Moonday, I baptised
by the name of John.3
31.—Att home lectured on acts 2, and preacht on Tit. 2,14.
about this time Lord Basil Hamilton, son to the late duke of
Hamilton, was very strangly drowned in the river of
travelling from his own house att Baldoon to Cassells in com¬
pany with his Brother Lord Selkirk and others.4
graduated at Edinburgh in 1691; ordained minister of Salton in 1696. Died
Father of the Church of Scotland, 4th November 1759, in his ninety-sixth year.—
Scott’s Fasti.
1 Hooping-cough.
2 The Honourable John Hamilton, second son of Thomas, sixth Earl of Had¬
dington. Educated at Glasgow University, where he matriculated in October
1716 ; admitted advocate at the Scotch bar in 1725 ; married, in 1728, Margaret,
daughter of Sir John Home, Bart., of Blackadder, Berwickshire, and died at
Edinburgh, nth February 1772.—Sir William Fraser’s Memorials of the Earls
of Haddington.
4 A detailed account of this accident, which occurred at the Water of Minnick
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