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ILLNESS AND DEATH OF HIS SON
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punished for his qtumacy in preaching being deposed, and
mr. dunbar1 was required upon his peril not to employ any
such again, the pbitry was adwised to proceed qaamprimum to
settle ane eldership in the place. I returned home wedensdays
evening.
Febry. Ith.—Lectured on acts 20; preacht on mat. 16, 26.
Fry day, IQth.—I was taken ill of the gowt.
14^.—No sermon here, I being indisposed.
On Thursday 11th in the evening Lord Binny 2 grew ill of a
scarlet feavar, but soon recovered.
Next fryday 19th my son William, and on the saturnday my
daughtar marion were both seized with a feavar: marions
proved to be a scarlett feavar and she recovered soon; but
william sickned more and more.
21.—I lectured on rev. 2 from the beginning, and Mr. Hary
Lickly preached for me all the day on gen. 6, 3.
Moonday.—My son williams feavar encreased: he much
troubled with a gross defluxion both att his eys, nose, and
mouth, and that night grew worse, on Twesday morning very
early I sent for provost Edgar apothecary in Hadington, and
Mr. Brown minr of spot, both persons of known skill, about
ten of the cloake they came, aftar they had seen the child,
and qsidered his case, dovs were applyed to his soles, and a
blistering plaistar to his neck, and a cordiall julep given him
now and then, it being the fifth day of his sickness, about
midday he passed some wrin, which being kept did not appear
ill, and about two in the aftarnoon he gott passage of his
Belly, and came owt of the bed himself to do it: but in the
evening all grew worse upon him, and next day, Wednesday 24
of febry 1703, about midday, it pleased a holy and wise god
1 George Dunbar, M.A., a native of Dallas, in Morayshire; graduated at
Aberdeen in 1673 » settled at Kilmaurs, Ayrshire, in 1685 ; translated to second
charge, Haddington, in 1685. Notwithstanding his Episcopacy, he was allowed
to preach on alternate diets in the church, till he died, 23d October 1711, in his
sixty-third year.—Scott’s Fasti.
2 Charles, Lord Binning, eldest son of Thomas, sixth Earl of Haddington ;
born in 1697; married about 1720, to Rachel, younger daughter of George
Baillie of Jerviswood, and Lady Grizel Home; died at Naples, 27th December
1732. His son, Thomas (born in 1720 or 1721) became eventually seventh Earl
of Haddington, on the death of his grandfather, the sixth earl, in 1735.—Sir
William Fraser’s Memorials of the Earls of Haddington, vol. i.
1703