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TURNBULL’S DIARY
1702 and gott it owt of Edenr, I caused putt it up in the wester
chamber as a remembrance of my worthy relation and kind
benefactor.
27.—Lectured on acts 17; preacht on John 5, 29.
1708 Janry. 8.—Lectured on acts 18, and preacht on John, 5, 29.
10^.—Lectured and preacht on ditto.
Wednesday, 13.—Was a pbitry day att dunbar, where I was.
Fryday, \5th.—I was att north Berwicke visitting Mris Reid a
dying.
Sunday, YUh.—Lectured on acts 19, and preacht on mat.
16, 26.
Wednesday, 20^.—Mris reid was buried. I was there.
24^.—Lectured and preacht on ditto.
Janry. 26, Twesday.—We had a pbitry pro re nata for sub¬
scribing ye synods act of adhaerence to the doctrin purity of
worship, disciplin, and pbiteriall government of this church:
which accordingly was done cheerfully by all psent, of whom
I was on and there modr.
27, Wednesday.—A pbitry day att dunbar.
29, Fryday.—My wife and I went to Heldon to sie George
Turnbulls wife there, stayed all night att mr. Browns in spot,
and came home saturnday morning, we found Mr allan att our
house, who stayed till the next moonday.
31, Sunday.—Lectured on acts 20, and preacht on mat.
16, 26.
Twesday, Febry. 2.—I was att Hadington town together
with some other minrs, assistants to that pbitry. upon there
desire there was a call psented by the session of that town1 to
Mr. alexr Herriot late min'" att dalkeith,2 but deposed by the
synod of Lothian, to be .there minr. this call the pbitry
rejected both because the man was inhabile and the call illegall.
they appealed to the Queen and parliatt. the minrs resolved
to address the privy councell to gett the sd Mr. Herriot
1 On the death of James Forman mentioned above, a strenuous attempt was
made by a party in Haddington to have an Episcopal successor appointed to him,
but this was prevented by the Privy Council.—Scott’s Fasti.
2 Alexander Heriot, M.A., graduated at Edinburgh in 1666; admitted
minister of the second charge, Kirkcaldy, about 1676 ; translated to Dalkeith in
1683 ; deposed for contumacy, 3d December 1690.—Ibid.

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