Series 1 > Miscellany of the Scottish History Society (First volume)

BIRTH OF A SON
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Twesday, 3d.—I went to Edenr to attend the synod of
Lothian then matt pro re nata, and returned on Thursday 5.
Fryday, Aug. Gth.—About twelve of the cloake in the day
my wife was delivered of her fifth son, who next lords day 8th
of Aug. was baptised in the church of Tyningham by the
name of William1 by Mr. John shaw minr at Lesly who
preacht for me y4 day on song 5 last; I called this boy William
also in testimony of the lords kindness, who having taken away
on son gave me another for him.
This same day Mris Glass fell unwell att my house, and in
the night parted with child.
Wedensday, Aug. Ytth.—I preached att Stenton church on
luke 7, 38, that being a fast day befor the sacrament.
loth, Sunday.—I preached there in the aftarnoon aftar the
sacrament on heb. 3, 14, and served two tables.
No sermon this day at Tyningham.
It was a sweet day of the gospell at Stenton.
About this time I was much troubled with the toothach.
Saturnday, Aug. 21.—My brother in law Sauchy,2 Mr. Glass,
writtar,3 and with them Mr. William fowls4 came here, and
went away on moonday.
Aug. 22.—Lectured on Joshua 3, and preacht on psa. 19,12;
I intimat a nattionall fast to be kept next Thursday.
Thursday, %6th.—Being a nationall fast day lectured on
jer. 36, and preacht on lam. 5, 16; it was a very windy harvest
day, yet the people mett very well.
Much corn shaken this harvest and litle or no herring fishing.5
1 Became minister of the parish of Abbotsrule in Roxburghshire. He was
licensed by the Presbytery of Jedburgh, yth May 1729, and ordained 16th April
1730, died 6th April 1764.—Scott’s Fasti.
2 John Glass, who succeeded his father Alexander, as proprietor of Sauchie in
1683. He was married at Dunipace, on 4th July 1695 to Margaret Foulis,
daughter of Sir John Foulis, Bart, of Ravelston, who was born 30th Sept. 1671.
•—MS. account of the Foulis family. He died about 1745, when his son John
succeeded, and sold the estate about 1750 to a Captain Cheape.
3 See note, p. 405.
4 William Foulis of Woodhall, fifth son of Sir John Foulis, Bart, of Ravelston,
bom in 1647.
6 Many of the inhabitants of the village of Tyninghame were fishermen. A small
hamlet which formerly stood on the bank of the Tyne a few hundred yards south¬
east of the church and mansion-house, was called Fisherhouses. The Session
Records contain many references to cases of discipline for fishing on the Sabbath.
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1703