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TURNBULL’S DIARY
1702 K. Williams accession to the crown and had been turned from
a qvention of Estats to a parliatt.
\%th.—Lect. on acts 8 ; preacht on Jer. 31, 31.
19^.—Lect. on ditto, preacht on jer. 31, 32.
My gowt now gone ; the weather very cold.
Wedensday, 22.—Our pbitry mett att dunbar where I was.
on the Twesday befor my youngest son Thomas fell sicke of
a feavar, it qtinued till saturnday, when he grew bettar.
Thursday.—I preacht on John 6, 44, and baptised a
child.
Fryday.—I went to Aberlady to assist at the sacrament
there next Sunday ; I preacht on the saturnday on Tit. 2,
14 ; served a table and comunicatt. the assistants to the min1
were Mrs Webstar, Bell,1 and my self: it was a sweet gospell
day.
Mr. Henry shaw preacht this day for me in Tyningham.
Moonday, 27.—I returned home together with my mother,
who also was with us.
May 3.—Lect. on act 8 ; preacht on jer. 31, 32.
Moonday, Uh.—I went on my way to the synod as far as
aberlady, next morning went in to town, heard the sermon,
and staid till the synod ended ; mr. Riddell2 was chosen
moderator.
I returned home on fryday.
lOtfA.—Lect. on ditto ; preacht on jer. 31, 33.
All this time a great drought, the wind still eastarly.
\4ith.—I preached att cockburnspath on 2 Tim. 4, 1. 2,
att the ordination of mr. Henry Shaw, minr there;3 1
stayd two nights at dunglass and returned home on Erydays
evening.
YUh.—Lect. on acts 9 : preacht on jer. 31, 33.
Still a violent drought and easterly wind.
About this time our nobility who went to court returned :
the Queen thought fitt the parliatt should meet att the
time appointted, to wch our nobility qsented, but would not
1 John Bell, M.A., son of a Glasgow merchant; born 2d February 1676;
ordained minister of Broughton in 1697 ; translated to Gladsmuir in 1701, and
died 30th October 1707.—Scott’s Fasti.
2 See note, p. 400.
3 See note, p. 410.
TURNBULL’S DIARY
1702 K. Williams accession to the crown and had been turned from
a qvention of Estats to a parliatt.
\%th.—Lect. on acts 8 ; preacht on Jer. 31, 31.
19^.—Lect. on ditto, preacht on jer. 31, 32.
My gowt now gone ; the weather very cold.
Wedensday, 22.—Our pbitry mett att dunbar where I was.
on the Twesday befor my youngest son Thomas fell sicke of
a feavar, it qtinued till saturnday, when he grew bettar.
Thursday.—I preacht on John 6, 44, and baptised a
child.
Fryday.—I went to Aberlady to assist at the sacrament
there next Sunday ; I preacht on the saturnday on Tit. 2,
14 ; served a table and comunicatt. the assistants to the min1
were Mrs Webstar, Bell,1 and my self: it was a sweet gospell
day.
Mr. Henry shaw preacht this day for me in Tyningham.
Moonday, 27.—I returned home together with my mother,
who also was with us.
May 3.—Lect. on act 8 ; preacht on jer. 31, 32.
Moonday, Uh.—I went on my way to the synod as far as
aberlady, next morning went in to town, heard the sermon,
and staid till the synod ended ; mr. Riddell2 was chosen
moderator.
I returned home on fryday.
lOtfA.—Lect. on ditto ; preacht on jer. 31, 33.
All this time a great drought, the wind still eastarly.
\4ith.—I preached att cockburnspath on 2 Tim. 4, 1. 2,
att the ordination of mr. Henry Shaw, minr there;3 1
stayd two nights at dunglass and returned home on Erydays
evening.
YUh.—Lect. on acts 9 : preacht on jer. 31, 33.
Still a violent drought and easterly wind.
About this time our nobility who went to court returned :
the Queen thought fitt the parliatt should meet att the
time appointted, to wch our nobility qsented, but would not
1 John Bell, M.A., son of a Glasgow merchant; born 2d February 1676;
ordained minister of Broughton in 1697 ; translated to Gladsmuir in 1701, and
died 30th October 1707.—Scott’s Fasti.
2 See note, p. 400.
3 See note, p. 410.
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