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hear that any parliamentary business should be done further
then to make a loyall address to ye Queen, so that much fire
and faction is like to be this session of parliatt.
9,Uh.—In the kirke of aberlady lectured on Tit. 2, 11. etc.,
and preacht on Tit. 2, 14.
Moonday.—My wife mett me here, and we returned home
that same day by the way of Dirlton and saw mr. clerk and
family.
Twesday.—The old lady lochouses1 was buryed, having dyed
the saturnday befor.
May 31.—Att home lectured on acts 9, and preacht on
jer. 31, 34 ; about this time some flying showrs of rain yet the
grass all burnt up.
Twesday, June 2.—I went to Edenr to attend the comission
of the kirke wch mett next day, where the causes of a nationall
fast being qdescended on by the minrs and some members
min” and Elders being deputed to waitt on the duke of
Queensberry her majestys comissioner to obtain the civil
sanction ; he answered, it should be granted and being again
desired to call a councell for that end that necessary diuty being
allready too long delayed, he answered that the councell was
adjourned till Thursday 11th befor which time the parliatt was
to sit, where he would take care of it. this answer being
returned to the comission, aftar some heat and debate the Lord
yester2 protested that no other civill court might be applyed
for the civill sanction to this fast but the privy councell, in
reguard it might be of dangerous qsequence to the peace of
the church in this junctar : to this protest the Lord Rugglen,3
1 This was the name of a hamlet and property in the parish, long in the pos¬
session of a family of the name of Jackson.
2 John, second Marquis of Tweeddale, born 1645; appointed Lord Chancellor
of Scotland in 1704, and was High Commissioner to the Parliament of that year,
which passed the famous Act of Security. Died 20th April 1713. He was at
the head of a strong party in Parliament called the ‘ Squadron Volante,’ from
their sometimes opposing, at other times supporting, the measures of Govern¬
ment.—Burke’s Peerage; Brunton and Haig’s Senators, p. 477.
3 Lord John Hamilton, fourth son of William and Anne, Duke and Duchess
of Hamilton ; born in 1665; created Earl of Ruglen in 1697; succeeded his
brother Charles as third Earl of Selkirk in 1739; died 3d December 1744.—
Burke’s Peerage.
1702