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BIRTH OF LADY CHRISTIAN HAMILTON 425
and sentence of deposition passed agst him by the synod of
fife was long debated, and yet aftar the comission had sus¬
tained his appeal was remitted to the next comission.
Deer. 5, Saturnday.—The Earle of Hadinton with sr John
anstruther returned home from London aftar fowr months
absence.
Sunday, Qth.—I preaebt on Eph. 5, 14.
Twesday, 8th.—I entered upon examination.
13^.—Lectured on acts 16; preacht on John 5, 28, 29.
This Sabbath the church of Haddington was taken possesion
of by yt pbitry mr Forman1 on of the Episcopall min” there
being dead. Mr. Matthew Reid minr att north Berwicke
preacht. Mr. John Bell was refused access the day befor.
Wedensday, \6th.—Our pbitry att dunbar where I was psent.
Deer. 20.—Lectured and preacht on ditto.
Moonday.—I dined att the Biel with my Lady Bellhaven,
and aftar visited mr. Starke.
Twesday. —Examination.
Wedensday.—I assisted att Mr. Tho. Findlay his admission
as minr to prestonhaugh. mr. Starke preacht on 2 cor. 2, 16.
Thursday.—I visited the lady longformacus2 att Lochend.
On Twesday decr 22 was my Lady Haddington delivered of
a daughter about twelve att night: she was baptised by me
Sunday 27, by the name of Christian3 aftar the aftarnoon
sermon in the church of Tyningham.
Decr.—Having caused draw Mr. Will. Crichton4 his picture
1 James Forman, M.A., graduated at Edinburgh in 1663; admitted minister
of Middlebie, in Dumfriesshire, in 1666 ; translated to second charge Haddington,
in 1676, and to the first charge in, 1678 }• died 3d December 1702, in his
fifty-ninth year.—Scott’s Fasti.
2 Christian Cockburn, daughter of Adam Cockburn of Grmiston, Treasurer
Depute, and Lady Susanna Hamilton, fifth daughter of John, fourth Earl of
Haddington,—a cousin-german of Thomas, sixth Earl of Haddington. She
married Sir Robert Sinclair, third Baronet of Longformacus, M. P. for Berwick¬
shire, 1702-7.
3 Married in December 1725 to Sir James Dalrymple of Hailes, Bart., auditor
of the Court of Exchequer, by whom she had sixteen children, and died at New
Hailes, 30th June 1770.—Sir William Fraser’s Memorials of the Earls of
Haddington, vol. i. p. 263.
4 See note, p. 350.
1702