| Administrative History | Born in 1670, William Mitchell was minister of two churches in Edinburgh, the Canongate in 1695 and Old Kirk in 1708, before being called to the second charge of St. Giles, the High Kirk, in 1718. He was moderator of the General Assembly on six occasions from 1710 to 1726. He died, still at St. Giles, in 1727. |
| Description | Diary belonging to Reverend William Mitchell kept during a brief visit to London, accompanied by Reverend William Hamilton, on behalf of a commission of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 'to endeavore redress of grivances of the Church', arising from the Patronage Act (10 Ann. c. 21), the Toleration Act (10 Ann. c. 6) and other measures concerning the church (February - April 1717). |
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| Publication Note | The text was printed in J. Stuart, ed., 'Miscellany of the Spalding Club' (1841), i. 71-72, 225-253. Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, i. 28, 67, 76. |