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HIGH TIDE ON THE EAST COAST
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21, 33, to the end, and preacht on 2 cor. 7, 1. no sermon
here.
All this moneth of January was exceeding windy blowing
weather; the sea was observed to flow very high in some
places as at Barrostounness and leith, but att different times,
and to stand still for some hours att other places, as att Tyn-
ingham here, dumbar, and along the east coast.
Febry. 1.—Lect. on act. 6 ; preacht on job 5, 6, 7.
My lord Haddington being now recovered of his feavar was
come home with my Lady.
8<A.—Lectured on ditto, preacht on Jer. 31, 31, having-
ended the examination of the paroch the last weeke for the
first time this winter, I entered this weeke upon a second
examination of them.
\5th.—Lectured and preacht on ditto, this day the Earle
of Rothess,1 his lady, and my lord thesaurer deput,2 were in
church, and Mr. Henry shaw preacht in the aftarnoon on Eph.
2, 1. This weeke was cold frosty weather and some snow.
22d.—I lectured on act. 7; preacht Jer. 31, 31; the same
strangers there still.
March 1.—Lectured and preacht on ditto, lord anstruther,3
his lady and son in the church.
Wedensday, March Mh.—The presbitry of dunbar held a
visitation of this paroch. I preacht on my ordinary Jer. 31, 31.
they allocatt as a further provision of grass for the ministers
here, besids the church yard, a piece of ground comonly called
the fold last possessed by Tho. Ewart, officer to the Earle of
1 John, eighth Earl of Rothes, elder brother of the Earl of Haddington ; born
at Tyninghame in August 1679; succeeded to the earldom on the death of his
mother, the Countess of Rothes in her own right, in 1700; appointed Vice-
Admiral of Scotland in 1714. He took a prominent part in the suppression of
the Rebellion of 1715. His wife, to whom he was married on the 27th April
1697, was Lady Jean Kay, daughter of John, second Marquis of Tweeddale,
Chancellor of Scotland. He died in 1767.—Sir William Yrastr’s Memorials of
the Earls of Haddington, vol. i. p. 235.
2 Adam Cockburn, of Ormiston ; see note, p. 405.
3 William Anstruther of that ilk, M.P. for Fife in 1681, and from 1689 to
1707 ; created a Baronet in 1694, and raised to the bench in 1689. He married
in 1677 Lady Helen Hamilton, fourth daughter of John, fourth Earl of Hadding¬
ton—an aunt of/Thomas, the sixth Earl,—and died 24th January 1711.—Ibid.;
Burke’s Peerage ; Brunton and Haig’s Senators, p. 443.
1702