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MEETING OF PARLIAMENT
431
May 2.—Lect. on acts 24, preacht on ditto,
Moonday, 3.—I went to Edenr to attend the synod of
Lothian ; Mr. George Andrews, on of the ministers of Eden1",1
was chosen moderator.
Thursday, 6th.—Our parliatt mett,2 the duke of Queensbury
comissionar; the Queens letter and speeches both of comis-
sioner and chancellour were very generall with respect both to
our religion and church govtt, this parliatt was also crouded
with a great many of the nobility who had not sitt in any
parliatt befor since the revolution ; and thogh our courtiers
ptended pbiterian govtt was to be continued, yet they as plainly
appeared for a toleration and the restoration of patronages,
visible steps to our subversion; god guide that supreme court
of this nation, and putt it to a happy period.3
Fryday, 7th.—The comission of the kirke mett also, where I
also attended; they ppared an address to the parliatt with a
repsentation of grievances, and did what else was proper or
possible with the members of parliatt for the preservation of
the church govtt.
I staid in town till Thursday 13th, wch day I returned home,
and found my family in health, glory to my god. On wedens-
day may 5th a very tragicall accident fell owt, the laird of
Colts town4 with his two only sons were drowned in Coltstown
watar near yre own house, and the Lady who was in the coach
with them was very miraculously pserved.
Sunday, \6th.—Lectured on acts 25, preacht on mat.
26, 41.
On Wedensday and fryday this weeke I with some other
1 George Andrews, M.A., graduated at Edinburgh in 1685; ordained at
Tarbolton, Ayrshire, in 1689; translated to Prestonpans in 1694, and to the
New North Church, Edinburgh, in 1699; died 15th May 1705, in his thirty-
ninth year.—Scott’s Fasti.
2 An account of the ceremony called ‘ The Riding of the Parliament,’ on this
occasion, is given by Hugo Arnot in his History of Edinburgh.
3 For a full account of the proceedings of this celebrated Parliament, see
Burton’s History and Queen Anne; Marshall’s History of the Union; and
Account of the Proceedings of Parliatnent of 1703.
4 Sir George Brown, second Baronet of Colstoun, in the parish of Haddington,
and about two miles south of the town. He married Lady Elizabeth M'Kenzie,
daughter of George, first Earl of Cromarty.
1703