148 MEMOIRS OF PERIOD vxIi. waffred her' head everymorning with cold water, got pretty clear of the pain- of her head, for about the apace of a year : but at length fpurning the remedy, it recurred, and went on periodically as formerly. By this time Dr John Trotter at Dunfe was our or- dinary. From him I got a receipt for a diet - drink, dated March 7. 1706, confiftingof antifcorbutics : the which I ufed for many. years, though now the difeafe hath much overcome me, maugre all oppofition made to it, by that and the like means. Some time before this, there had been an acquaintance begun between the fold .1)r Trotter and me, which arrived ata particular friendfhip ; and, towards the latter end of the time I was in Simprin, became molt aria and intimate : and fo it continued until his death, about the year 1717. . He was fecond fon to Alexander Trotter of Cattlefheill, and married Mrs Julian Home, lifter to.the Laird of Kimmerghame, a grave, virtuous, and pious gentlewoman. By her he had feveral children, but all dead by that time, except his daughter Elifabeth, a pleafant and promífing girl. She alto died of .a lingering difeafe, fome little time after his own death : by which means his.fubftance went to his elder brother. He was a grave man, truly religious, a&ing from a principle ofconfcience towards God, ,temperate to a pitch, concerned for the: fpiritual good of others, particularly his relations ; ufeful by his advice and con- vere, not only to the bodies, but to the fouls ofhis patients; fkilful in his bufnefs ; and more ready, than ever I knew another, to Phew to fuch as he judged capable, the l'ationaleof his pra&ice in phyfic : withal he was ready to do good to all, but efpecially to thofe öf the houfehold of faith. He had fomething revere in his temper, but was neverthelefs a molt affeaionate and ufeful friend, whole memory is exceeding dear to me. He not only laid out himfelf, and that always freely, for my health, and that of my family, both at Simprin, and in Etterick; but, upon my' removal from the former to the latter, propofed my looking out a piece of land in Etterick for hire to buy, that we Might Rill live together : the which, though it did. not take effeét, was a fign of lingulacfriendfhiip. 'To him it was owing, that I ever thought of writing the Fourfold State. I have a piece of gold of his, which I received after his death as-a token, and keep wrapt up in a letter,of his to me. Betides, there were about 50 merks received for a token to my two eldeft children, and -about L 3 Sterling for the two youngeft. But by this time I have had occafion to give all of them,,except my youngeft fon, their parts thereof, and much more. The fynod meeting at Dunfe March 19. there was no motion about the affair ofEtterick, the whole prefbytery of Selkirk being abfent, through mittake of the deit: but there was laid before them a competition of calls for the parifh of Kelfo ; the one to Mr Andrew Mitchell minder at Manner, given by the Earl of Roxburgh, other heritors, and feveral inhabitants of the parifh of
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