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TURNBULL’S DIARY
1702. Wedensday.—I came to redhouse, next day to aberlady, and
on Fryday home.
Saturnday, 14.—It blew most fiercly all night, tirred1 houses,
overthrew stacks, and among others, all mine.
15th.—Att home lect. on act. 14 ; preacht on James 3, 18.
Wedensday, 18th.—Att dunbar, being a phitry day I was
chosen modr. that day we all tooke the oaths to Queen ann
hefor the magistrats of dunbar, I as modr first praying, and
then bespeaking the magistrats thus—Gentlemen, magistrats
of this city, We own Quen [sicjann as our lawfull soveraign,
and sieing we have ptection under her gov*1 we reckon it our
diuty to swear alleadganc to her maj., being required so to
do by lawfull authority, and we are also encouraged to this
because her maj. has taken the coronation oath, and entered
upon the govtt according to the claim of right and upon these
terms we swear and subscrib.
Novr. 19, Thursday.—I was in a comittee for a visitation att
Whyttingham.
20.—I was att dunbar upon a tryst for aggrieing the widow
of Tho. Bryson and her brother [in] law William Bryson there.
22.—Lectured on acts 15 ; prea. on Eph. 5, 14.
This weeke I began again parochiall visitations.
9Qth.—Lectured and preacht on ditto.
This day the old Countess of Haddington was very sicke
and indisposed, but soon bettared.
Deer. 1.—I went to Edenr to attend the coihission of the
church, and returned on fryday decr 4th. att this comission
mr. John or2 was transported to Edenr from Botwell, and Mr
James Grham episcopall minr att dumfermlin,3 his process
1 Unroofed.
2 John Orr, ordained minister of Bothwell (in the meeting-house at Holytown)
in 1688; translated to St. Giles parish, Edinburgh (second charge), in 1703;
died 25th January 1707, in his forty-fourth year.—Scott’s Fasti.
3 James Graham, Regent of Humanity in St. Leonard’s College, St. Andrews,
where he had the son of Archbishop Sharp as his pupil; admitted minister of
Salton in East Lothian in 1670; deprived for refusing the test in 1681 ;
instituted to the second charge, Dunfermline, in 1687 ; deposed by the Synod
of Fife in June 1701, for Arminianism and neglect of ministerial duties, but
reponed by the Commission ; died in 1710, aged about seventy-one.—Jbid.