Amongst the events recorded of the year was the acquaintance he made by officiating at the funeral of Lady Scott, Sir Walter's wife.

In 1827 he mentions a change, "a considerable move to me, which, under God, has been a good one." He closed with an offer of the curacy of St.John's, under Bishop Sandford, when he was thirty-seven years of age.

In spring he was ill, and went to visit his old place and friends in Somerset.--"Interesting, very: received at my old curacy of Buckland with much joy, and on the whole enjoyed my visit." At Whitsunday 1827 he came home to enter on St.John's with Bishop Sandford, being thus half of 1827 in Carrubber's Close and half in St.John's.

I was in Edinburgh then, and can well remember what general favour accompanied Mr.Ramsay in church and society.

Perhaps he was not prepared for the vehemence of church dissensions among us.