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TURNBULL’S DIARY
1701
1702
21.—Lectured on acts 5; preacht on ditto.
Moonday.—I went in to Edenr about my affair with the
heritors of Dalmeany. I obtained a favorable interlocutor
from the lords, but the minister and kirke of session of dal-
menny giving in a petition against me I was obliged to consult
Sr david dalrumple,1 and give in answers to there bill, this
tooke me up till Saturnday, janry 3, 1702, wch day I returned
home again. I had the cold ill all this time. I mett my
mother att Edenr.
Sunday, deer. 28.—No sermon here.
Janry. 4.—Lect. on act. 5, and preacht on rom. 6, 14, 15.
Twesday, 6th.—I went again to Edenr about the affair of
Dalmenny, and had a conference about it betwixt the psident
and Lord whitlaw,2 to whom I submitted it, and returned
home on Thursday 8th.
Wth.—Lectured on acts 5, and preacht on John 6, 68.
13, Twesday.—My Lord Haddington being ill of a feavar,
my Lady was called in to sie him, being att Edenr, and I went
with her, and stayed till Fryday 16th, when my Lord being
better I returned home.
Sunday, \Sth.—Lectured and preacht on ditto.
Moonday, \9th.—I tooke a litle blood for a cold I had gott,
and purged on Twesday.
Wedensday, 21.—The pbitry mett here and choosed yre
comissioners to the assembly, and Mr. Henry shaw,3 chaplan
to the Earle of Haddington, preached his popular sermon on
rom. 6, 14, and having finished all his other tryalls, was
licensed to preach.
Thursday.—I purged again.
9,5th.—I was att preston-kirke, where I lectured on mat.
1 Fifth son of James, first Viscount Stair; admitted an advocate in 1688;
created a Baronet of Nova Scotia in 1700 ; became Lord Advocate in 1720, and
died 3d December 1721.—Foster’s Members of Parliament—Scotland.
2 Sir William Hamilton, Knight, fifth son of John Hamilton of Bangour,
admitted advocate in 1664; raised to the bench as Lord Whitelaw in 1693 ;
appointed Lord Justice-Clerk in 1704; died 14th December the same year.—
Brunton and Haig’s Senators of the College of fustice, p. 462.
3 Henry Shaw studied at Glasgow, Leyden, and Utrecht, ordained minister of
Cockburnspath, 14th May 1702 ; died 8th June 1746, in his sixty-seventh year.
—Scott’s Fasti.

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