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(■ V PREFACE. 1 HE pieces composing this volume relate to an important period of our national history, which, after all that has been written on it, stil? admits of farther illustration. The Memoirs of Mr. William Veitch are print- ed from a MS. belonging to David Constable, Esq. advocate, who very obli^ngly put it into my hands with a view to publication. It bears to have been « written and carefully collated with the original, Aug. 11, 1727." In the Advocates Library is a copy of a Diary, chiefly religious, written by Mrs. Veitch, which confirms and throws light on several passages of her husband's Memoirs. The original of this is in the posses- sion of W. Henderson Somerville of Fingask and Whitecroft, Esq. a descendant of Mr. Veitch, to whom I am indebted for the use of several docu- VI PREFACE. inents relating to the family. Others were com- municated by Mr. Short, Town Clerk of Dumfries. I have also to acknowledge the kindness of the Reverend Dr. Duncan of Dumfries, and the Re- verend Mr. Somerville of Drumelzier, in furnish- ing me with extracts from the church-records in their bounds, which were very useful to me in drawing up the Supplement to Veitch's Memoirs. The Memoirs of George Brysson are printed from a MS. belonging to Mr. Robert Whyte, Ediuburg;h, who is married to a lineal descendant of the author. As the preceding article includes a curious account of the escape of the Earl of Argyle after his condemnation, so the reader will find in this article a no less interesting account of the expedition which issued in the capture and execution of that public-spirited but unfortunate nobleman. To make the account of this expedi- tion more complete, I have introduced distinctly, in the form of extract and of abridgement, such parts of Sir Patrick Hume's Narrative as state facts which did not fall under the personal obser- vation of Brysson, or which he has omitted. • ^ Colonel Wallace's Narrative of the Rising sup- pressed at Pentland is taken from a MS. in the College Library of Edinburgh, which is rather 2 PREFACE. Vll Strangely entitled « Rump Parliament," but which contains a history of the affairs of Scotland, chiefly ecclesiastical, from the year 1659 to 1675. It is evident that Mr. Kirkton had consulted it, when he composed his History ; but a narrative of that affair, drawn up by the individual who command- ed the Presbyterian forces, appeared to me to merit publication. The collection is closed with a Narrative of the Rising suppressed at Bothwel Bridge, written by James Ure of Shargarton, a gentleman who acted a prominent part on that occasion. It is preserv- ed in the Advocates Library, and may be viewed as an appropriate accompaniment to the preceding narrative. The circumstance of its having been composed by one who took the moderate side in the disputes which divided those who had recourse to arms at this time, was an additional induce- ment to publish it ; as all the separate accounts of this affair already before the public, were written by persons attached to the opposite party. Biographical notices of the writers of the two last articles are prefixed to their respective nar- ratives. The object proposed in the notes was to illustrate the text, not to indulge in reflections on the facts which it details. In collecting mate- viii PllEFACE. rials for theae, I derived much assistance from Mr. Meek, on whose accuracy in making extracts I could always rely, and who often discovered facta additional to those which he was instructed to search for. Some may be of opinion that unnecessary pains has been taken in the editing of the work ; but having undertaken to superintend the pubUcation of these memorials, and considering them to be valuable, I reckoned it incumbent on me to do them as much justice as possible. With a little more labour a connected history of the period might have been produced, but I am persuaded that no account which I could draw up would present so graphic a picture of the men and mea- sures of that time, as is exhibited in the following historical pieces. The reader has an opportunity of listening to persons Miio describe scenes which they witnessed, and in which they bore a part, more or lesc distinguished. Agreeing in their religious and political sentiments, they were plac- ed in very different situations : one of them being an ecclesiastic, another a military man, a third a private gentleman, and a fourth a farmer and a merchant at different periods of his life. Their style of writing is of course various ; but all the K^l PREFACE. ix narratives have that pleasing character which marks the compositions of men who write on a subject with which they are familiarly acquainted, and in which they feel a deep interest. Brysson's Memoir is by far the best written of the whole ; and, indeed, it appears to me to be a masterpiece of the kind, for unaffected simplicity and the na- tural picturesque in historical description. In the Appendix some papers are inserted which do not bear a very intimate relation to the nar- ratives in the preceding part of the work, but which I thought worthy of being brought to light. Of this kind are the letters which contain a noti- fication of the seizure of the registers of the Church of Scotland, and which give an account of the printing of Calderwood's History. It appears from these documents that the last-mentioned work, though in a form much more contracted than that in which it was ori[ i.ially compiled, was exactly printed from a manuscript which the author himself had carefully prepared for the press ; and, consequently, it can no longer be view- ed either as of doubtful authority or as an abridge- ment made by a different hand. Edtnburgh, \6th May, 18S5. d'mm i^«i X I ii^ -'W' It/. ill"/ .Ol^ CONTENTS. Mkmoim of Mr. Wi!!.ain Vdtch, Supplement to the Memofri of Mr. Waiiam Veitch Memoirs of OeoigeBrysMn, . ' ' Biographical NoUce. of Colonel James Wallace 't^uir'' ."""":• °'*°'^'«"'^*~—' Biognphicd NotioM of J,^ Ure of Sbutuum, ' * • • • APPENDIX. No. I.-Indictment of John Muir, late Provost of Ayr, ""V^Trt"^!^ ""' John Carstata, to Mr. Robert No. IV.^From the same to the same. No. V.--Prom the same to the same/ . a 193 MT SSi 388 iSS 487 481 495 497 498 xfi CONTENTS. Page No. VI. — From Mr. Macward to Mr. John Brown, with the answer, ...... 501 No. VII.— From the King, liberating Mr. WiUiam Veitch, &0* No. VIII. — Representation of the Archbishop and Clergy of 8t Andrews to the Priry Council, . 505 No. IX. — Declaration of Colonel Blood and his accom- plices in Ireland, . . . . . 508 No. X. — Rules andOrdiuances by the Parliament of New Caledonia, for the j|Jo«d|;0«ertini«Bt6{ the Colony, . 510 No. XI. — Extracts of Letters from Mr. Macward to Mr. Blackader and Mr. Cargill, .... 518 No. XII.— Extracts from the Diary of Sergeant James Nisbet, ...... 515 No. XIII.— Letter from King William to the Privy Coun- cil, concerning Mr. Archibald Riddell and James Sin- clair of Freswick, . • • *83 No. XIV.— Letter and Receipt to George Ogilvy of Bar- Tn<. lA ras, conceriiing the Registers of the Church of Scotland, itii Index, 587 ret li-fidioii ! ■>! •«rfb»ri«i; AiVw.:^ '• , with . 501 1 Vdtcli, 504 Clergy • 505 iccom- • 508 fNew 'y. • 510 to Mr. • 513 James . 515 Coun- » Sin- • 5S3 >f Rar- cotland. 534 ifft^fiV 5S7 MEMOIRS or MR. WILLIAM VE"rCH, MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL, CONTAIMKO A SHORT ACCOUNT OF HIS BXTBAOTION AND RBtATIONS ; AND OP SEVERAL REMARKABLE PROVIDENCES, AND SIN- GULAR DELIVERANCES, HE WAS TRYSTED WITH IN SCOT- LAND, ENGLAND, AND HOLLAND, WHERE BE TRAVELLED AND PREACHED TWENTY-TWO YEARS, BEING FORFEITED LIFE ANn FORTUNE ; ALSO THE TIME HE PREACHED IN WHITTON MEETING-HOUSE NEAR KELSO THREE YEARS, IN THE TIME OP KING JAMES HIS LIBERTY; AFTER THAT SETTLED FOUR YEARS IN PEEBLES; AND THEN MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS AT DUMFRIES : IN ALL ABOVE FIFTY YEARS. il Psal. Ixvi. 16. « Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.*' Psal. cxvi. 8. " He hath delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling." Psal. Ivi. 8. «' Thou tellest all my wanderings, put my tears in thy bottle ; are they not in thy book ?" Psal. Ivii. 1. " Yea, in the shadow of thy wings wUl I make my refuge until these calamities be overpast." Psal. xxxii. 7. " Thou art my hiding-place ; thou shalt preserve me from trouble ; thou wUt compass me about with songs of deliverance." Psal. btxvii. 10. «' I wiU remember the years of the right hand of the Most High." Ver. 1 1. " I wUI remember the works of the Lord , surely I will remember thy wonders of old." Psal. xlii. 6. « O my God, my soul is cast down wthin me : there, fore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Her. monites, from the hill Mizar."_77ic iMnd of Jordan is the Scotch and Snglith grmtnd on both lidet of the Tweed i The Hermonites are the Jteidt- daUUi : Mizar U the Carter, where I hardly escaped the enemiet' tearch. ' .'tjli .Mv^h lO 11^! MEMOIRS OP MR. WILLIAM VEITCH. Mr. Veitch was bom at Robertony in the shir© of Clydesdale, seven miles from Lanark, and in that presbytery, in the year of our Lord 164(^ April 27. He was the youngest child of Mr. John Veit<*/ minigter of that place fdir the space of about forty-five years. His mother was a pious and frugal woman, very dexterous in house- keeping and educating of children ; which her husband knew little of as to family affairs. Hei? name was Elizabeth Johnston, a merdiant's daughter in Glasgow. He (Mr. John Veitch) had many sons, three whereof were ministers, and of no mean repute in this church, viz. Mr. John Veitch was minister in**, ^!' ''k*'" ^^^^' ** ^**^*''' ^"* ^^"^^ ^o™ his parish, and in September 1664 was residing at Lanark. In 1671 he was stiU vZl 7/" **' ^'"' ®'*°^' ^' ""^ «"«* » retotuwMr. John Ih^' 1 ""Tf ' ^' lU^bertoun, heir of Mr. David Veitch, schoolmaster at Salton, his brother. (Inquis. Retom. Gen. SMi.< 4 MEMOIRS OF wil: :am veitch. of Westruther, in the shire of Berwick, above fifty-four years. He died at Dalkeith, the day of in the year , as he was returning home from attending the commission of the Kirk ;♦ and is buried there among his an- cestors, who had a considerable estate in and about that town for a hundred years together ; and his eldest brother Robert Veitch sold the last of it, and lies there himself: the one of them was eighty- four and the other eighty-five years when they died. On Oct. 4, 1685, by order from Chancellor Perth, Mr. John Veitch, minister of Westrutiier, was taken, and '-arried prisoner to Edinburgh, by Sir Addm Blair of Carberry, younger ; and lay aU night in the guard keeped at Holyrppdho^se. Oct. 5, 1685. He was sent to the tolbooth in a most uiiusual manner; made dOse prisoner, his keeper sworn neither to carry any word to him, nor take out any from him, nor suffer any to speak to him ; and, in his absence, lest any should speak in at the door to him, or he to them, two soldiers constantly guarded his door: p^n and ink were taken from him. In this case he continued for the space of twenty weeks, till January 16, 1686. f • « Mr. John Veitch, miimter of Westruther, died at Dalkeith, gmng homefi«m the Commisaion, Dec. 1703, 1 think." (MS. note on Mr. William Veitch's family Bible.) t Tbsre must be some oversight here. It is not twenty weeks from October 4, 1685, to January 16, 1686. From the King's letter of the 1 7th October to the Council, (Wodrow ii. 477,) it is evident MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH/ S This was found marked with his own hand among his papeni..'fty;gbx m^tmxmrmi ivmi Imd o/i t/jU.' that his examination was on or before Slst September 1685. Per- haps October in Veitch, is an erratum for September. The same error 18 committed by Wodrow, ii. p. sff. Pountkinhall hU the foUowing notice concerning him, October 84, 1«85 :-^" J. Vdtch faffing sick, and suppUcating for a physidany diey i»(nfld aHow none to go in to him but the aposute Doctor Bfbbtid, which was looked on by some as strange." (Deds. i. 371.) The Doctor here referred to, is the weU-known Sir Robert SibbaM, irho had turned "PW*^ ■ ■ ■ '^ ''-'■ '-■'■ ■'■'"'^'■v? 'iii'ft aid i ^imulnilff sftO-aa^l -mt • W6dr6# »». iiiiirted a iwt(i^ ffeai m )mimwaiii muk' (Septemb* 81, i«84,) giving an account of th«^ haying exami^ Spen<» and Mr. John Veitch, on some suhriises thrtwn out by Sir JctonGochriin and bis son, affecting UieEarlrfMu^y and theLrd HegiWer, as to aUeged correspondence witii Lord Melvii; and some T^^IZ''^'^^:^^^^'^'^- Th^ King, by a letter of the lJlw?2^^t?.*^?J -e^lyfit interfering with the Chan. rorfd have bceh teduoed so to do. The council replyoh the 8*th. i„?;?r^?T'?::^**^*^*^''**^'^*^ ^ Vdtch,and add: tog, « One of the chief motives that induced us to T^ere that we might examme him, was, that my Lord Chanodlor's order did not tTr!r-^.?!!!* "° P*^ "^ itdfeature sh^d examine Mm, l!^ ri ,f ^''^ ""^^ ^^"^ ^*^ that just deference to m^ LordChanceUors order, as not tohave examined him j but theoiv. der beanng only, that no person should speak with or see him we ers, whom the council uses to examine. But whateveif the teac^ce Z^^lli 1 "^t"^' ''' "• *"* y'"" ^'i^'y has exclu^ aU Z^^TV'"'\T '" '^' ^^"^^ "'^^'^^^ ^ humbly ?uduL Jfr*!:^* And toshow that nbinterestofoursdidor shaH mf^ «r ^ ' *'* y°" M^-esty, by yourself or your brdc.; my no examine any person whatsoever, either as to us or you^ f^m^rlUT?- T "^'^ '""^"*^^ acknowledgement i/our rf^ir* ^ *°^*"™*t»<»'>» *« to be reeeived against the best In^ar^^.^K ''""^*^ *^ ^^*''" '"^ ackTwIedgement, mnocence of his approved servanU." (Wod. ii. 576, 577, 578.) 6 MEUOma OF WILLIAM VEITCH. Another son of his was Mr. James, who, after he had been seven years a regent in <;hecoU It would app««r tittt Mr.JOax V$UA h»A boen proMcuted, if npt impiuoiied, more thra once. Wgitow say8> he wai suonnoned before the couodl, October i, 1680j for preaebing without licence «tA^9trutber, probably Westruther. , ^pt (sompewijg, he -wn denopi^ed, and put to Oieiham. '* We db^jlLf^ftervaixlii hear Uh^ he waa takeu and kept dose priaener at jeidiabuigh about a year's time, unf}er uo small hardahipe. He waa allowed neither candle nor fire the whole time ; his wife was never allowed to speak to bioit but in i^ prescnceof two or three soldienu He ptcfssedmndy to be bro^t to a triwd, but that could apt be aUowed. The reason of this cruel and uodiriatiaa treatment was, that whoi the oMrato died, at the inTitotion of ^ people, he returned ^pd preaobed to fa» own pe(>ple,A-om w^pmrvbe had hm Wfii^ail^^f^ tkmhm^^ (Wod.^ii..l«8.) -^r-^fT ; \ -vr'n! -^di '^^ :;!,. ' ■ ■■ .r^-'v; Though his name does not appear in Wodrow's lists of indu^ ministerp,both that historian and FountainhaU apeak of him as ^^ 4uteed, " Aiigust s, 1 (W3, seven of the indulged ministers b^ pwinelkd for breaking their inatruotioM, in preaching without their boundsi or against the test; fiveof them were continued under caution to the 1st of December next; and the oliier two, viz. Mr. John Veitchi once at Wester-Anstruther, (Weatruther,) and Mr. Antony Shaw, wow inearcerato, because thor guitt seemed greater than that of the reat." (FountalnhaU's Decis. i. as«-7.) Decern* ^r 10, " Mr. Veiteh'adietis deserted, on caution that he competiT when called." (Wod,4i. 307.) " In 1684, at the oireuit court hell by Balearms, Yester, and Drummelausr, for Berwick, Roxburgh, &c. at Jedburgh, October 10th, on application made by George Veitcb, writer in £ktiaburgh, the Lords repone Mr. John Veitch at Westruther, agaiitst the sen- tence past at Dunse upon absents, his absence being owing toinfir- Baity, on the said Qewge giving bond of 5000 mtirks for his fa- t^r's compearing when called. In the aUtraet of their proceedings, th^ state that Mr. James Fletdier at Nentheraie was the only in- aulgedministerwithintheh-dlstrict. (PuHicPapers.) If Mr. Veitch^ therefore, had been formerly indulged, his indulgence must ham beepwithdriw»,pwbab|y inissa. (Wod. ii. SOf.) The above. MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. f lege of Glasgow, was called to be minister in Mauehlin, in the shire of Ayr, about the year 1656, and was turned out by the prelates and parliament that set up prelacy, anno 1662 ; he being one of the seven leading ministers in the west, that the parliament took to task to see if they could bring them into a compliance with thai new government ; which, if they could have done, might be a mean, as they apprehended, to make the other ministers that were outed of their kirks to comply also.* The nainistejjs' names mentioned sentoice at Dunse, in hif ibwnijfr, ip*y h«ve been on some chai^ of irregularity ; or, if aft heritor, the court, hy their instructions, could punish him for »haen«e from the King's host. The disUnctJon, suggested in the Mowing q^oUtpon, between connivance and indulgence, may perhaps ^plajn what appears ob- scure in the aboTe statement. In a cause of a uonjurant q^^ Bister claiming his teinda, Feb. Ifl, lej*, " The Lords compfwfsd the kte act with the 3d act 1662, depriving the Presbyterian x^ Bisters; the one (the act 1663) inflicted it ijuojurc, and the oiku ipso facta and it was aUeged, that such Presbyterian minigteiv as continued to preach by connivance, contr^y to; the law, got their stipmds, as was ibund in 1664, ip the case of Mr. John Veitch, minister rtf Westmthers." (FountainhaU's Dem- i. §09^ Possibly the subject of this note is the person intended in a retour recorded 2d AprU 1824, Christie patri. Among other Uqdf of the barony of Bassendean, referred to, is the five merk landof Bassendean " acquisit. a Joanne Edgar de Wedderlie, ^t Mr^ Joanne Vdtdi, evangelii ministro apud Woolstruthpr," &c. with- in the parish of Woolstruther and shire of Berwick. The date of the purchase is not given. • In March 1669, we find Mr. James Veitch in a list of eleven ministers, who, at the instigation of the Archbishop of Ghwgow, were cited to attend a mt«ting of noblemen and gentlemen at Ayr, for preaching and baptizing irregularly. The officer, a M^jor 8 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. that were thus staged before the parliament with my brother, were, Mr. John Carstairs, minister of Glasgow ; Mr. James Nasmyth, minister of Ha- Cockbuni, employed to cite them, bot only obliged them to giTC bond for their competrance, but turned some of them with their iiimUies out of doors at twenty-four hours warning. Two of them, Veitch and Mr. filair of Galston, were allowed SOO merks each for damages ; so sensible were the council of the injustice done them. The council's procedure, and Mr. Fullerton's speech in name of the whole, are given in Wodrow. (Hist. i. 898, &c.) It is some- what curious, that this matter was issued on the very day, (April 8,) that the council ordered a proclamation against conventides in the shires of Lanark, Renfrew, Ayr, and Kirkcudbright, making heritOTs liable to a fine of £50 sterling for every such meeting held on their property ; and in the printed copies, it is said, a clause was added, for fining tenants on whose bounds they were held in £100 Scots. (Wod. i. 300.) When the indulgence was re- sorted to, James Veitch was appointed to Mauchlin, his former chaise. (Ibid. i. 307.) In 1675, he, with Mr. John Gemble, confined to Symington, and Mr. Hugh CampbeU, confined to Muirkirk, are summoned for exercising their office beyond their own parishes, appointing a fast, and ordaining young men. Wo- drow gives the letters and summons at length, (Hist. i. 399, 400,) but supposes the prosecution had been let fall through the interest of Lord Stahr, whom we afterwards find to be a friend to our Veitch. Nov. 3, 1681, he, together with Messrs. John Hutchin- son at Dnndonald, and Robert Miller at Ochiltree, is libelled be- fore the council for excommunicating (debarring from the sacra- ment) such as deserted or disowned the covenant by taking the bond of peace; and not compearing, he is denounced. On the 24th of November he compeared, and petitioned to be leponed; but was served with an additional libel, further changing him with tak- ing parents obliged, at the baptism of their children, to educate them conform to the National and Solemn League and Covenants • and with not only breaking his confinement, but keeping classical meetings for discipline and ordination. The Advocate referred all to his oath. Mr. Veitch denied all the articles of the libels MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 9 milton ; Mr. Alexander Blair, Minister of Gal- ston; Mr. Matthew MoWat, and Mr. James Rewat, ministers of Kilmarnock ; and Mr. Wil- " as they stand libelled/' and no probation being ready, he was assoilyied. (Wod. ii. 176.) On the 2d of August 1883, weiind him one of the seven mentioned in a former note, (p. 6,) the others being his brother John, Messrs. Robert Miller at Ochiltree, John Campbell, Antony Schaw, Ro- bert Boyd, and William Baily of Hardington. They had been inserted in the Porteous roBs, and remitted by the cinmit to Edin- burgh, and indicted on the charges contained in the Porteous rolls. Mr. James Veitch and other four have their diet continued. On December 19, he and Mr. John Campbell were remitted to the council, and found caution for their compearance. They compear on 8d January 1684, and are charged with the breach of their con- flnement, and th« probation is remitted tc their oath. They con- fiessed this charge; and also that they had prayed and exercised in priirate families; and that they had not read the proclamation for the thanksgiving. The councU decUire their licence void, and ap- point them to go to prison, or find caution, under five thousand merics, either to go forth of the kingdom against the first of March next, or to attend the curates, and not exercise their ministry. (Wbd. ii. 307, 351.) Mr. Veitch accordingly went into banish- ment, to his brother's, at Stanton HaU, in Northumberland, whence both of them retired to Holland, as will ^ippear from the sequel of the memoir. During his residence there, " he con- tinued under some trouble from Robert Hamilton and his party, but increasing in learning and grace tiU the toleration, he return- ed to his charge at Mauchlin." (Wod. ii. 351.) It would ap- pear, that he had been in Rotterdam soon after the rising atBoth- wel, Mr.Robert Fleming "was settled minister in the Scots Con- gr^ation in Rotterdam. He invited Mr. James Veitch, one of our Scots actuaUy indulged, to preach with him, who was there occasionally." M'Ward, Thomas Dougks, Walter Smith, and others, heard and conversed with him, on which account Robert HamUton and Mr. Bogue withdrew from them. See the facts stated at large in Walker's Remarkable Passages, p. 99, 108. From aletter of Mr. John Dickson to Mr. M'Ward, 167», itap- Id MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. liam Adair, minister of Ayr; • all men of great peart that Mewn. James Veitch, Robert MUlar, and John Baird were appointed by their brethren to answer the argumenta brought by the miniatera in Holland against hearing the induked. (Wo. drow MSB. LIX. art 106.). •Wodrowgivea the proceedings with these ministers. (Hist, i p. 138, &c) On the i6th of September 1669, the affldr was issued by an act of CouneU, tgecting them fVom their churches; pro- hibiting them from residing in GUsgow or Edinburgh, or within the Presbyteries where their said churches lie, and dedaring that they have no right to tho stipend for the current year. JUr. Jamei Nasmyth had in 1660 been before the Committee of Estates, for words alleged to have beeu spoken by him in 1 650, when pressing his hearers, of whom theEngU8hgeneral,Umbert,wasone, " to employ their power for God, and not in opposition to the Gos- pel ; otherwise they might expect to be brought down by the judg- ment of God, Of thote who went before were." He was imprisoned, and for several months kept from his charge; (Wod. i. l«.) and now by the oath of supremacy, was removed from Hamilton, to make way for Mr. James Ramsay, Dean of Glasgow. In 1670, when tho ministers in the west, indulged and non-indulged, met with Bishop Leighton and his friends, Messrs. Adair and Nasmyth 8r« found taking an active part. (Wod. i. 337.) Mr. Nasmyth is included in the indulgence 1 678, and confined to Glasford. ( Wod. L app. p. 138.) That he accepted it with a protesu^on before the people, appears from the Grievances of the diocese of Glas- gow to the Parliament, which state, that "gunerally, not only conventiders, but indulged ministers, preach sedition, and pray to the same purpose; and, in their apologies at their entry, avow pubUdy that they owe neither to the King nor his Council their entry to their charges; as, Mr. Nasmyth at Glasford, Mr. Stir, ling at Kilbarchan, Mr. WaUace at Largs, and others." (Wod. i. 380.) Mr. Alemnder Blair, minister at Galston, was, in 1669, indulg- ed to his own charge. (Wod, i. 307.) In 1673, when the Coun- dl Aunlshed each of the indulged ministers with a copy of in- structions, limiting them in the exerdse of their ministry, Mr. Blair Mid,—" My Lord Chancellor, I cannot be so undvil as to MEMOIRS OV WILLIAM VJBITCH. 11 worth. They wehj all put in prigon except Mr. William Adair;* for whom Sir Archibald Prim- rose, then Clerk Register, and a witty man and great poUtician, who had a great hand in the new gotemraent, interposed, and got him off. The rest w«re kept so close that their wives and li^arest relations had no access to them. " After several appearances before the parii». ment, the oath of allegiance was tendered unto them ; which, under that name, had the oath of su- Tff&ue a paper offered me by your l^ordabipa, but I cm tfoeire no instructions from you for regulating the exerciae of my ministry; for if I should receive instructions from you, I should be your am- bamdor." For this he was committed dote prisoner. A peti- tion which he presented to the Council for liberation, waa rqect- ed. Having sickened in the end of the year, he waa permitted to go to a private house in Edinturgh, on a bond of five thousand merles, that he shaU re-enter in a month, and not keep conventf- dea; and in the monUi of January foUowing, " thia excellent person died, in much joy and full assurance of faiUi." (Ibid. i. SS8.) In the Wodrow manuscripts are three different copies of verses to bis memory. * We hear little of Jfr. Adair. In Wodrow'a list of nonconform- mg ministers, he is marked as confined to his parish. He is not in any list of Uie indulged; but is explicitly denominated an in- dulged minister, in an act of the Committee of CouncU at Ayr, S9d February 1^78, denouncing John Muir, lateprovost of Ayr, which wiU be found in the Appendix. It would appear, however, that Primrose's interest failed to protect him ; for he had been for some time previous to his deatii prohibited from preaching.—" Feb- tairy 11, 1684, dies Mr. WilUam Adair, the old minister at Air, who waa hud aside a littie time before for not taking tiie test, and Mr John Stirling, indulged to Irwine, bpth worthy men in the mini- ■try." (Law's Memorialls, p. 860.) 12 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VlfilTCH. premacy intermixed. The i^ninisters desired a day Ui gi >- tlieir answer, and sen word to Mr, Adair, who was yet in town, to see if he would join with them in subscribing their answer; which was an explication of these oaths that were mixed, and contained certain conditions upon which they were willing to take it ; but he took his howe and went home, and did not stay to join with them. Their answers were not pleasing to the parliament, and some of their speeches did highly offend them ; for which they were more severely treated. But it happened that Mr. William Veitch, be- mg then governor to young Greenhead, at the College of Edinburgh, through the interest he had in Middleton's page, who wa^ then Commissioner, preferred a petition to his Grace, that he would give him Hberty to see to the accommodation and provision of these ministers in prison, whereof Ms brother was one. This petition was granted through the moyen of his servant, and Mr. Wil- liaro's fair promises, that he would endeavour both by himself and others that he should in- troduce to them, to convince them of their errc^r^ if they were in any, and reduce them to ritfh^' to which Middleton replied, "Quod si facias.^Hs j^iihimagnus Apollo." Some weeks after he went back to his Grace according to onier, and condoled their ^tmaty ; and begged once more of his Uracfci tt •, te - -^^ ' - -- - m\d give them liberty of seven MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VJ TCH. II miles about, to see if the free air, and ; freer prisoa, might bring them into a better temper \ so that the parliament gradually overlooked them, and let tbeLi fall under the six mile act. A\ aa^ others that Mr. Veitch introduced, the famiAis A' r. Wood, Professor in St. Andrews, was c) !!, to see M r.Carstairs, his brother-in-law,* &c. ; but the Parliament being to sit, he desired Mr. Veitch his company, at ten o'clock, to James Glen's shop, to see Sharp, whom he had never seen since he turned bishop. He came up in the commission- er's coach, and coming first out, turned to receive the commissioner with his hat off; so we had a full sight of his face, to which Mr. Wood look- ed very seriously, as being much affected, and said these words in my hearing, and others in the shop, ** O thou Judas, and apostatized traitor, that hast betrayed the famous' Presbyterian church of Scotland to its total ruin, as far as thou canst ! if I know any thing of the mind of God, thou shalt not die the ordinary and common death of men." And though it was 8|M>ken about eighteen years before, ;'et it is well known that it was exactly ac- complished anno 1679. A third son of the foresaid Mr. John Veitch • An interesting account of the testimony which Mr. Wood gave in favour of Presbytery on his death-bed« is contained in a letter from Mr. Carstairs, his brother-in-law, to the ChanceOor. (See Appendix.) 14 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. was Mr. David, who was minister about four or five years at Govan, near Glasgow ; one to whom the great Mr. Rutherford gave that testimony to the presbytery of Biggar, when he passed his trials, (not being suffered to do it in St. Andrews, because he was a protester,*) that the like of Mr. David Veitch, in his age, for great learning and piety he had never known. He died about the twenty-fifth yearof his age, being cotemporary and co-presbyter with the famous Mr. Durham, who foretold his death. The occasion of it was this : - Mr. Durham being several months confined to his chamber by sickness, before he died, the magii strates of Glasgow and some of the ministers at that time being for the public resolutions, the better party, called the protesters, were afraid that • The Scotlsh parliament had passed some acts, particularly the act of classes, for excluding from places of trust, civil and military, persons who had manifested a malignant opposition to the religion and liberties of the nation. After the defeat of the Scotish army by Cromwell at Dunbar and Hamilton, the Court, in the end of 10*0 and beginning of 1661, put two queries to the Commission of the General Assembly, with reference to the admission of malig- nants. The Commission's answers, otherwise called the public rc- solutions, were favourable to the views of the Court, and Ae act of classes was repealed. The resolutions, and subsequent procedure of the Commission and General Assembly, vreie protested against by a considerable number of ministers and elders. This gave rise to a division between the Resohtioners and Protesters, (as they were called) which, though accommodated, was not completely healed when the Restoration took place. The protesters, being the stricter Presbyterians, were most obnoxious to the restored government.^ MEMOIRS OP WILLIAM VEITCH. 15 the magistrates and they, after Mr. Durham's death, would put a public resolutioner in his place ; therefore they contrive the matter so as to get a commission subscribed by both parties, for Mr. Durham's nominating his own successor. The reverend and singularly pious Mr. John Car- stairs,* being. both his brother-in-law and col- • Mr. John Carstairs, father of Principal Carstairs, was married to Janet, and Mr. Durham to Margaret Mure, (widow of Mr. Za- chary Boyd,) daughters of William Mure of Glanderston. (Craw- ford's History of Renfrewshire, p. 40, 41.) An account of his ci- tations and appearances before the Privy GouncU may be seen in Wodrow's History, (i. 209, 315, 348 ; ii. 155.) In 1666 he was, m opposition to his own judgment, induced to accompany the party of CaldweU, Kersland, &c. who intended to join the insur- gents at Penthnd, but were prevented. (Kirkton, 346.) In July 1681, the Earl of Rothes, being on his deathbed, « appeared con- cerned upon views of eternity; and the Rev. Mr. John Carstairs upon his desire, waited upon him, and prayed with him, the Duke of Hamilton, and many others of his noble relations, being present • and few were present without being aflfected very sensibly. Whei the Duke of York heard that Presbyterian ministers had been with tiie Chancellor, he is said to have had this expression, ' that all Scotland were either Presbyterian through their life, or at their death, profess what they would.' " (Wod. ii. 222.) From an inte- resting letter by Mr. Carstairs to the Secretary of State, Nov. 8 1684, it appears that he was bom on the 6th of January 1623 (See Appendix.) Wodrow thinks he did not long survive the date of this letter, which is rendered very probable by the postscript to a preface of his to Durham's Sermons, entitled. The Unsearchable Riches of Christ : « I heartily wish that this mite of service may be acceptable to the saints, it being not improbable that it may be the last service of this kind that I shall have access to do them, l-eb. 4, 1685. ' He had performed various services of this kind besides the one now mentioned ; in prefacing Durham's Lecture. 1 ied in the Advocates Library :— " The last words of Mr. John Carstairs, sometime mi- nister of the Gospel at Glasgow, as they were taken from his own mouth when a-dying, anno i685 or 1686, by Mr. WiUiam Crighton, sometime minister of the Gospel at Edinburgh. " Being asked how it was with him, he answered, that he had laid aside all his duties and all his performances whatsoever; and that he had betaken himself to the righteousness of Jesus Christ, and rested thereon ; and that thereby he concluded that within a little he should be as well and much better than ever in the best frame of soul he was in, being made holy as God is holy, ahd knowing him as he was known of him. Being asked as to the public matters of Gor" and the times, he said, that it was a very great depth; but if I be not far mistaken of the word and ways of God, the heart of God is not towards these men; and that not- withstanding of all their successes and prevailings of a long time against the people and work of God. He was persuaded tandem bona MEMOIBS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. a for his successor, seeing he was to be his cdieagiie; after his death ; the power being now in his hand to choose whom he pledsed. After some scruple to tell him so soon, lest it should come to m person's ears, and his promise to conceal it from' aU persons, he told him that Mr. David' Vdtch was the man he purposed to nominate, but not until he was near death; thinking that theait ^vould have the more weight with hhn. To which Mr. Carstairs cordially assented, saying, that was the man he himself would have chosen. But when a^dying, having caUed some of the ma- gistrates, ministers, and elders of the place, he named other three ministers, for them to choose any of these they pleased. This alteration so surprised Mr. Carstairs, that he could not satisfy - ■ ( catua triumphabit. He exhorted aU bis friends to walk humbly with God, to lay on the dust before him, to wait patiently on him, and to shun all manner of compliance with this generation; the sooner, the better; the straiter, the better; the more universal, the better. For himself he blessed the Lord, that he had in some measure preserved him ; for God had made him many a time willinR to have hud his head upon the block, if so be God had called him thereunto. He said he blessed the Lord, he had these twenty or thirty years no chaUenges for any mints he had made at the service of the Lord in the gospel ; but he bad many for his short- coinmgs therein. He left his children and family on God, who had given him them, and would be their portion. If it were possible that Christ and his interest in the world could mine, I had much rather ruine and fall with him, (said he) than stand with any or all the powers in the world; but as I am persuaded that these cannot perish, so I am confident in the Lord these shall revive in aU the churches of Christ." (MS. xxxiii. Jac. L SS, art. 119.) |8 Mi^I$p|;^8 9M ^|Lt.X>VM YipiTCH. luoiself ^il} h^ had inquired tlie reason afteir the i^^mrej^ gow, to ;iif l^ich Mr, Xhirham gave this T^piy, " O brother! Mr. David Veitch is too ripe f^r keftYen to be transported to any churoh on,^arth i ho will be there almost ^ soon as I." This I had from Mr. Carstl4rs*s own mouth> and itiMTpved sa For this being spoken on Wednes- day's mght, Mr* Purbamdied on Friday at three of the qIqcI^ in the morning ; and Mr, Veitch preached n^xt Sabbath, (knowing nothing of this pi^edictioni) wherein he told his people, in the af- temoQn» it would be the last sermon that ever be would pj:teaehito them t and* going to ]^is sick- bed, that . night, he died the itext Friday, tit the same hour in the morning that Mr. Durham died;^ as: good Dr. R baptize one of his child- ren, gave in the following declaration ; whidi is a specimen of the way in which many of the same persuasion reconciled themselves at that period, to continuance in tht; communion of the established church.—" I declare unto you. Sit, before this meeting, that really I am of the Presbyterian persuasion and judgment ; and that, not only because I. was brad and brought up under it, but also being ,«M ■^sA. aiEMOIRS OP WILJ.IAM YEITCH, l^ Mr. William b^iiug laureate at Glasgow, anno 1669, was called to Sir Andrew Ker of Green- head's family the year after,* where he resolved in his spare hours to read physic books, thinking to betake himself to that study, haying so many bre^ thr^n already in the function of the ministry ; and especiaUy now when episcopacy was like to be settled in the kingdom. But the great Mr. Xohn Livingston, minister at Ancrum, who frequented convinced by cle^u: evidence from Scripture, that it is the only «,- vem«ient Christ and his apostles did leave behind them, wTifereby the churdi should be ruled to the end of the world : as aUo, bji cause of themany obhgations, ties, and vows yet recent upon n,y spmt for adhenng unto it : as also, I am convinced that Selacv IS an human invention, which derives its rise only from some an- tiquated customs in the church. And albeit the Lord, in his holy and sovereign providence, hath suffered this hedge of Pres- • bytery to be broken down, wherein ye have borne de^ shares to ^TiT w .^f ^^^' *^' ^ "^ °°» «^P«~t« fr«»» Ae church of God, but will participate of the ordinances so long as theVrZ mam pure among us, only with this proviso, that this mypartid- patmg of the ordinances do not infer my approving any ulwf^ or unwarrantable practice in you, or any other of the dfsi^n.^^ rf the ordinances. Doctor S. R^TTaAv." (Wodrow, i. p 18;^ Sir Andrew Ker of Greenhead married, in 1634, Elizabeth el- dest daughter of Sir William Scot of Harden. (Douglas B^on;^ V-2U,)ln U,2, he was fined in MOOO. (Act.S S^I"^* VII. p. 4B4.) In 1664, he married Lady Catharine flfthS. t L\ L ? '^^ ^'''^'' ^^*- "• P- ««'• W^ood'B edit.) On SeptemberlO, 1684, the Committee for Public Affairs reL^ the C^cU « that the Lady Graden is fined by the sS o( leviotdale m twenty-six thousand and odd pounds, TZdy Greenhead in sixteen tliou^ind and odd pounds The CommU^ i^ MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. that hott^"" (^ did other godly ministers,) with many arguments and much earnestness, dissuaded him from it, and exhorted him to follow the footsteps of his worthy brethren^ who were in so great estimation in the church. This happened a little before the setting up of prelacy by act of Parliament, anno 1662, which, when it was erected, not only ministers were turn- ed out that did not comply with the government, but all chaplains and pedagogues, and he among the first, by the instigation of Fairfoul, Archbishop of Glasgow, about the beginning of the year 1663, in which summer he went into Murrayland, to Sir Hugh Campbell of Calder's family,* who was * Feb. 6, 1669, Sir Hugh CMonpbell of Calder was served heir to his ooosiii-germaii, Colin CampbeU. He was heritable Bheriff of Nalmriiire, (Inquis. Retor. Nairn. 96,) and waa very firiendly to the penecttted party. His name appears in the list of persons fined in 166S for the sum of L.18,000 8cote. (Wod. i. App. 61.) His engagements as cautioner for ministers amounted to upwards of L.1700 sterling. Frazer of Brae had been dted for a field con- venticle ; but being in the north, and afflicted with an ague, Camp- bdl, who was his surety, pn^KMed to him to write the council to put off his appeu-ance. Frazer assured him they would press it the more, in hope of forfeiting the bond. Campbell however wrote himself ; and the consequence was, that the citation was renewed, requiring his appearance nths stay bishop of of Forres, Dyke, to ly pleased ;hat place i: i , wherein jodly mi- ains that rt turned Mr. Wil- Roberton 8 solitude ing in ac- place, he In in that a wife of narrated, fy, which e actings of pray- as per- lel; and : of God, B, under mdantly r ancient ce. MKMOIKS OP ^ILLIAM VlilffcTft. ffy family of the Pairlies, of the house of Braid, iiCtfr Edinburgh, and a friend of the Lord Lee'6 first My, who was of that housfeahd ilame: ^ " '^ Beiii^ hiarried annd 1664, November SS, fetid having lived together near two years, he M^tis prevailed With by Mr* John Welsh, niinistef ' y taking up irner, which of that cor- 'ch to Kdin- i'i but were city* by the e of Hamil- leral Drum- taken pri- ly note that Qe, and that tted piece of King's Ad- lnef?8 might t ot Parlia- and so did t might be* manded by F Corsack,* elsh and Sem- I. MS. G. s.) Robison and •ew Gray, the t the prisoner, fered, saying, lim quarters." sll he deserrrd i statement of ^ames Turner by. the curate I'JiH . , , , came by a surprise, and apprehended Sir Jamea Turner at Dumfries, and immediately after march- (Dalgleish) for nonoonfonnity, and Sir James exacted an hundred pounds Scots from him, and, contrary to promise, be was sent prisoner to Kirkcudbright. He suffered very much by quarteringa of soldiers upon him ; f^om the beginning of March, to the end of May that year, he had troopers lying on him, someUroes ten; sometimes nix, sometimes four at once, and waa forced to pay each man half a crown a day, which came to eight hundred and niqe- teen pounds Scots, and free quarters besides to man and horse • which, moderately computing at fifteen pence a day, amountii t« four hundred and eight pounds, ten shillings. Next year, Sir Jamea Turner sent six foot soldiers to quarter upon him, from March to the middle of June. These had each of them twelvj pence a day, besides free quarters, which amounts to seven hun- dred and fifty-six poands. By those hardships, Corsack was obliged to leave his house, and wander up and down; and upon his hiding, he lost his horse worth an hundred pounds, and waa sewed himself, and imprisoned for some time. The loss of his household stuff, victual, and most part of his sheep, cannot be weU reckoned. When they had turned his lady and children to the doors, they feU next upon his tenants, and obliged them to brinir them in sheep, bmbs, meal, and mall, till they were weU nigh rmned. And kst of all, they drove all his oxen and black cattie to Glasgow, and sold them. And all this for nothing else but precise nonconformity. After all this oppression, of which I have before me an attested account, the reader can scarce wonder that he, and many others in the like circumstances, took hold on the first opportunity that offered to comphdn of, and relieve themselves of those cahiniities. When essaying this, he is taken at Penthmd and, when a prisoner in Edinburgh tolbooth, Su Jamea TumeJ used his interest to get his life spared, because Corsack, out of hi. n 5!™vf ^'TP^'' '"^"^ ^*' •'*"«'> 'h^n «>"« were seeking to take his hfe, both at Dumfries and afterwards, though few had felt more of his severity than this gentleman j Mr. nSgldah the curate, getUng notice of it, appUed himself to some of S? bisho«, and acquainted them, Corsack was a ringleader to the phanaticsi^ W l^MbmS OF WILLIAM \ETTCH. ed toward the west country, sending theli* mes- sengers to the shires round about to come and assist them. And the information coming to Mr. Veitch that he would not only come himself, but bring as many as possible along with him, especi- ally such officers, if there were any, as understood how to command. And Major Learmont living near him, a man skilful, resolute, and courageous enough, but of no great projection, he went to his house and persuaded him to join .♦ And so £fS' '?"*^f^?'"'«''«f^«J. h« needed not think of continuing in h^.pjn.h and they might Bpare themaU. This went farther than Sir James hi. interest could go, and so he was executed." But his execution was not the greatest severity lo which he was subjected ; for, disregarding the claims which he Cto^ntT" ^^ent, he was the first person whom the council p^t^i torture, a mode of examination which had been disused in Scotland for a great number of years. " Corsack (say. Wodrow) was fc^- ft^y tormented, so that his shrieks wo.dd have mel J an^^J but those present, who still caUed for the other touch." AfterS t^^XT'^^'^^'^^^y-^^^f^-^o.^^ (w2^ • In the Uit of fine, by Middleton's ParUament in 1668. is Jo- nowfir. « ' T ^^"^^^^ I-earmont. an old soldier, and MlMnT "y**"'.*"^* ^y»0' to his trade, who wasat Peniand ?6 fl wt^\'""^''r ''''' ""'''* ^*^^*" bridgeinsurrecUon! 1679. was taken in his own house within three mUes of Lanerk mg. It had its entry m his own house, upon the syde of a waU and closed up with a whole stone, so closs aTthat non would l^e judged It but to have been a stone of the building; it desli^ below Uie foundation of the house, and was in length aS^ yards and m the far end, the other mouth of it, Xl^ lift faill, having a fain dyke builded upon it, so that wUhlT^when MEMOIRS OF Wn LIAM VEITCH. 27 they with several othera went westward and met the forementioned forces on the hill above Gals- toiui, where, after consultation, they thought fit to halt in that country for a little time till theii^ friends should come in ; and that they might be more conveniently quartered, some of them went to Mauchline, and others to Tarbolton. The next day they sent Mr. Veitch with forty or fifty horse to the town of Ayr to take up quar- ters for them ; the magistrates absconding them- selves for fear of what might be the issue, he, upon information given him by some friends where one of them was lurking, did apprehend and bring him to a public house, causing him to give billets fo^ quartering seven or eight hundred horse and foot. The forces following drew up in the dtadel ; and through the great rains and coldness of the WeftJ he went out he shutt out the faUl, and closed it again. Here he sheltered for the space of 16 years, hy taking himself to it at every alarm, and many times hath his house been searched for him hi the soldiers, but where he sheltered non was privy to it but h^ own domestics, and at length he is discovered by his own herds* man. He is carried before the council, and examined : confesses he was at Pentland hills, and at Bothwell bridge fight, but ca'.ie only there to advise the people to accept of the Duke of Mon- mouth s offers he qiade them in the King's name." (Law's Me- morialk p. 216, 217.) He had been forfeited in absence iter PenUand, and on April 8, this year, was appointed to be executed on the 98, bBt through interest made for him the sentence wiis commuted into imprisonment in the Bass. He survived the He. volution ; and soon after that happy event died in his own house ofNewholm in the dghty-elghth year of his age. (Wodrow, ii; S8 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. ther, several that were not used to such hardships were like to turn valetudinary ; and the worthy Mr. Hugh M*KeU had fallen off his horse if one had not laid hold of him and kept him up; and they carrying him into a house in that fainting fit, laying him in a bed, and giving him some-, thing for a cordial, by which his spirits returned* and he recovered. After a little respite there, they marched up the water of Ayr toward Douglass, and from that to Lanark. In the mean time, General Dalziel and his fprces came westward to meet them th^ length of Strathaven ; but, hearing that the west country men were got to Lanark between them and Edinburgh, they turned their march after them. The honest party at Lanark being about fifteen hundred horse and foot, thought fit that the ministers should preach something suitably to the people, and to the present circumstances of things, both in church and state, which they did; and there both the National and Solemn League and Covenant were renewed, for spiriting and encouraging the people to this work. The rumour of DalzieFs pursuit made them that night send spies to find out the truth of it, and which way he was intending ; and coming back before day with the information of the ene- my's being resolved that night for Lanark, a council was called of officers, gentlemen, and ministers, to see what was most proper to be done MEMOntS OP WILLIAM VEITCH. 29 ih hardships the worthy horse if one m up; and tat fainting him some-; ts returned^ larched up d from that ral Dalziel t them the at the west ween them larch after eing ahout tit fit that g suitably lumstances i^hich they id Solemn r spiriting tade them nth of it, d coming F the ene> [ianark, a men, and ;o be done in such a juncture. And it was by the generality- thought most proper that they should abide at Lanark; and that because the enemy being on the other side of Clyde, and the rains having made it impassable except by boat, Dalziel and his forces could not reach them (the boat being broken) until the water decreased, which could not be very suddenly. And, if but five hundred of the Western forces were sent to the place where they were to pass, would overawe them to ven- ture upon the water. And, they being stopped- tfaere, they could not subsist without victuals and lodging twenty-four hours in such stormy wea- ther ; and therefore would be necessitated to re- tire back again : and this dash being given to them, it would contribute to discourage the ene- my, and encourage their friends to arise for their assistance. But a letter, I may say unhappily, coming from James Stewart (who after the Revolution was King's Advocate) to Mr. Welsh and Mr. Semple, to come as near Edinburgh as possible, where they would get assistance both of men and other necessaries, made them break their former resolu- tion, and march instantly towards Bathgate; where night coming on, and no quarters could be had for sudi a number, they were forced to stand with their arms wiibout in the field. And a great snow coming on like to discourage the company, some pi the officers, thinking it was better to be 30 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VBITCH. matching than standing in such a posture, gave a false alarm that the enemy was approaching; and so they concluded to march to CoUington! and sent one befwe with a party of horse to take up their quarters. Now when they came there it was necessary to consult what was fit to b^ done in answer to Mr. Stewart's letter. Amonff the rest, Mr. Veitch was caUed for to give his judgment ; but he, both that night and several nights before having been wet to the skin, beinir several nights out of bed in that service, w^ km down upon the top of a bed to sleep and re- fresh himself, ordering his men to let nobody in- to the room When their messenger came! he returned with that answer, that he could not ffet access to him, for he was gone to rest; wiSi Which they not being satisfied, sent him back again, and told they would do nothing until he eame. In their consultation. Colonel WaUace who commanded in chief, was for sending one of their number into the city, if it were possible, to converse with James Stewart, to see how he would STtr/r'"'- They generally voted that Mr. V teh should go, but he refused, being persuaded that, the measures proposed at Lanark beingrieglected,they had lost an opportunity put m their hand, the like whereof he could not see Oiey would get again : and if it had not been for discouraging of them he would have left them al Lanark ; and he feared that, in such a maligTa^ MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 31 comitry,;t}»^y would meet with a disappointment However, Wallace told that, if Mr, Veitch would not go, he would do it himself; wljich made all of them urge him to a compliance, which he did, But how unreasonable and daugerous th# under- tpldng was, you hear by what follows * ,j Afr, Veitch sends for his man, orders him to bring him his baggage horse, au old hat and an old cIq^; puts all oflf him tjiat might give suspicion to any that shpuld search him, as sword, pistols, &c. ; and rides straight from Colliugton to Biggar way, that, if any should meet him going into town, he might say he came out Biggar way. Mr. Andrew M*CormicI^ (called aftertv^ard the goodman of the whigs) a minister in Ireland, a man pf good years, and judicious, conveyed him from CoUington, talk^ ing to him of several things necessary to be minded when he came to James Stewart ; and then left him. Not long after, having ridden fattt a little in Biggar road, he met a very * NotmthsUnding the difficulty of the undertaking, it appears that Mr. Jamea Mitchell, afterwards executed for the attempt on Sharp, having gone from Edinburgh with Colonel Wallace, did, at the desire of Captain Amot, return to toWn the sam^ ni^ht Veitch was in it. (Bee the Act of Privy Council of March la, Ifln ; in Wo4row, Hi«t. i. 376.) This act contains also a statement and revocatiQp of that assurance of his life, on the faith of which he confessed his attempt on the bishop. It is well knowii that, on his trial, a number of the Counsellors solemnly swore that no such assurance "had ever been giv^n. (Ibid. .515, 616.) M MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. brisk strong-like fellow riding with a dmwn sword, who asked him which way he came? He replied, he came out Biggar way. " But," says he, "did you not see all CoUington on fire ? I fear my house be burnt, for I hear the whigs are come there.'* But it was replied by Mr: Veitch that he knew nothing of it ; thus they parted. This gave occasion to think what the issue of this joiurney wias l?ke to be. So he went forward till he came to the as- cent ere you come to the Greenhill park dyke, where three country women walking on foot met him ; and asked him, ** Friend, which way are you going?'* He answered, carelessly, " Into the town.** They tell him that, if he go by the Greenhill house into Bruntsfield Links, he is a dead man ; for there the Lord Kingston, with several horse and foot under his command, are all drawn up to stop the whigs from coming into the town ; praying him not to go forward. He considering the thing, and seeing a by-road upon his right hand, going down by the Grange to Libberton way, he turns into it, and, rides on in that way till he came to the Sciennes ; and, seeing a sentry upon horseback drinking, with his horse's head and his own within the door, he turns from him to the right hand, and rides through by the Bur- rowmuir to Dalkeith way. When he came thither he met a number of colliers, who ask- MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. S3 the as-- irk dyke, ; on foot 'hich way ly, " Into go by the i, he is a ton, with nand, are 1 coming forward. I by-road by the > it, and, ! to the Lorseback his own L to the he Bur- he came who ask- ed him whether he was going? He replied, " Into the town." Say they, «• You cannot come there ; for all the gates are shut up,- and guards without to apprehend every person that passes." This put him to think, whether it would be more profitable and creditable to go back, or go forward. Reason and light was for going back ; but credit cried, you must go forward, else lose your reputation, as a coward that durst not go forward to prosecute your commission. Upon which he proceeded, and was taken by two sentries at the Windmiln ; one of whom car- ried him into the Potterrow Port, when the captain of the guard searching and examining him, and finding no just ground to detain him, he desired him either to let him in at the gate, or let him go seek his lodgings in the suburbs. He replied that neither of these he could do ; for he had not the key of the gate, and also he bad a particular commission to send every one he apprehended to my Lord Kingston, who com- manded the main-guard without the West Port : and so called a corporal with a rate of mus- keteers to carry him thither; which they did by the back of Heriot Work walls. The pri- soner now, leading his own beast in his hand, and walking with them, thinking on his dan- gerous case, sent up some desires to God, that, if he had a mind to spare him and deliver him out of this danger, he would deliver him from fear, and give him nresenw of niin«l anA «««^^~.„ . D 34 MEMOIBS OF WIIiLIAM VEITCJI. which was mercifully granted him, so that when my Lord Kingston, who was a huffie* and hot- spirited man, examine him, he gave him very smooth and suitable answers, and such as gave him to Uiink that he had no ground to commit him. But, in the mean timie, ah alarm arises that the Whigs were all at hand ; and he crying to stand to their arms, the prisoner says, ** My Lprd, if you have any arms to give me, I'll venture against these Whigs in the first r»nk." To which he replied, ** Thou art ^ honest fellow : if there be any arms there let him have some." Buit the noise being quashed, the prisoner says, " Now what will your Lordship do with me ? " Says he, " If I thought all ye had spojcen were true, I would let you go ; but I doubt of it,*' « Then," says he, ** my Lord, if you will grant nie one favour, I shall easily clear y<^ » and that is, if you will send one with nie to the diean of Sdinburgh's house, viz. Mr. Robert Lau- rie, I shall bring a line from him to sa- tisfy and clear your Lordship in the matter." " O," says he, " th^t is my friend, to whom I have as great respect as to any; but no 4oubt he and all his friends are fled ^ the castle for safety; but seeing you are a friend of his I let you go." He had not well said it, when a gentleman standing by him and looking toward • Huffish. MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM YfilTGH. S5 the Links says, " My Lord, yonder is a prisoner coming in with our two scouts ;" and he, loofo ing that way, perceives it to be Mr. Hugh M«KeJI, which made him tljink it was high time for him to be going; and therefore says to my Lord, «« I am sensible of your Lordship's kindness to me, for your friend and my friend's sak^, \l desire that you would order this corporal land the musketeers that are going back to the [Potterrow Port, to l?id the captain there look [on me now that he may know me, that Jjw sentries, that are standing in the streets ia Potterrow and Bristo, may pot appjrehend me ap4 bring me h^ck ^ trpwble ypijf J^prdsWp, when I am seeking my quarters ;'' which the cor- [pord did, for which he gave hipi a s^JUing. Here Iwps a remarkable 4e]ivpry j fpjr ^p 4oHJbt %. [M'Kell W(mld have owned me instantly and in, j nocently ; so we should have died together. • * Mf. M'Kail'* suflferingg are fiiequently adverted tQ ia ae* Fcounte of this period. The notices of them by £tigli«h «rriten [ furnish us with instonces of their inaccuracy on the affiurs of Scot- knd. In the Life of Lord WiUiara Russel, by his noble de- jscendant, (voL i. p. 169,) M'ludl is stated to hare died under die jtorturej a blunder copied from Burnet, which might have ■^ eorrected l^ looking into Wodrow.-JThe f(dlowing extract irom a manuscript in the Advocates Librtoy, is given as contam- ng some particulars not generally known. » The forementioned Mr. Matthew M-Kail, then apodiecary in Sdwbuigh, and afterwards Doctor of Medicine, when he heard ^his cousine Mr. Hew M'Kail, his being taken, and put in pri- «, went to Mr. James Sharp, Archbishop of St. Andrews, to S6 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. Then, the prisoner being liberated, he went to the end of the Potterrow, where he knew Bolicit for him : the occasion of this was, the said Mr. Matthew M'Kail, was employed at London, 1657, by the said Mr. James Sharp, to write several papers, to be sent to Scotland, concerning the affairs of the church, for at that time Mr. Sharp was agent- ing for the publick resolutioners, against the protestors against the Assembly at St. Andrews and Dundee. When Mr. Matthew spoke to him, he desired him to assure Mr. Hew that he would befriend him if he would reveel the mystery of the plot, which he not being able to do, occadoned his ti)rture : but there was, indeed, a plot to have surrendered the castles of Edinburgh, Stir- line, and Dumbarton, in July that year, and the chief contrivers failing, nothing was done. '* Upon the Thursday thereafter, the Bishop went to St. Andrews, and Mr. Matthew followed him on Friday, but reached only to the Weems that night. After dinner he arrived at the Bishop's house on Saturday, and the servant told that the barber was triming him, and when 'he had done Mr. Matthew would get ac- In the mean time, whilst he was walking in the outer room. cess. the Bishop's son (about 12 years old) came, and enquired of Mr. Matthew if he camefromEdinburgh, to which it was answered, yes; then he enquired for the news there, and Mr. Matthew answered there were none, but that other 4 of the west countrymen, were hanged yesterday ; then the youth said '* No more ! it will be long before they hang them all ;" and thus was verified the old proverb, as the old cock crows the young cock learns. When Mr. Matthew got access, he delivered to the Bishop one letter from the Marchioness Dowager of Douglass, in favours of Mr. Hew, whose brother Mr. Matthew was governor to her son. Lord James Douglas, and another from the Bishop's brother. Sir William Sharp, his lady ; and when he had read them, he said, " The business is now in the Justiciaries hands, and I can do nothing; but however I shall have answers ready against the next morning ;" at which time, when Mr. Matthew came, the bishop called his family together, prayed, and desired Mr. Matthew to come and dine with him, and then he would give the answer : then he went to the church, did MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 87 there was a widow that kept a public inn ; but when he t\ame and looked into her hall, he saw it standing full of curates, who had fled preach, and inveigh much against the Covenant. Immediate- ly after dinner he gave the answers to the letters, and Mr. Matthew said, he hoped that his travelling that day about so serious a business [[would give no offence Q to which the Bishop answered, that it would give no offence. Then Mr. Matthew went to enquire for his horse, but the sta- bler's family were all gone to the church, so that he could not travel till Monday morning early ; and when he came to Buck- haven, the wind being easterly, the fish boats wei« coming into the harbour, and he hired one of them immediately, and arrived at Leith in the evening, having sent his horse to Bruntisland. He went immediately to the Archbishop (Burnet) of Glasgow, and delivered a letter to him, who did read it, and then said, that the business was now in the Justiciaries hands. The next day being Tuesday, Mr. Hew was arraigned before the Justice Court, wbich sentenced him to be hanged at the Cross of Edinburgh on Friday nextj and the night before, Mr. Matthew went to the executioner's, John Dunmore's house, and did drink with him, and gave him six dollars, desiring him not to meddle with Mr. Hew's clothes; and the next day the executioner did nothing, but put the rope about his neck, and a napkin about his face, and turned him off the ladder, and Mr. Matthew received him, and drew down his feet. When he was cut down, he was laid into his coffin, which Mr. Matthew had provided, and was carry- ed to Magdalen's Chapell; and when his grave clothes were put on, he vas carryed to the Gray Friar's Church Yard, and was interred near the east dyke, a Kttle above the stair, at the entry, being conveyed by a great company of honest men. "It will not be amiss to insert here, that immediately nfter the execution of the forementioned four men, there came a letter from the king, discharging the executing of moe; but the Bishop of St. Andrews kept it up till Mr. Hew was executed, and then no moe were panelled for that business. " The night before his execution, the said Mr. Matthew did 88 MEMOIRS OP WILLIAM VEITCH. out of the countiy^ tb ^dtef themselves from the trfeigSi but coiiW not g«t in at the ports ; so he sliprped off, Und turned about to firisto Street, where he lighted upon a man that was a cow-keeper and seller of milk, to whom he Bijrt, as people do sometimes, carelessly, " What iidtifuftibn is this about this toirri to-night i 1 cannot get in at the port^ and think I shall iMit get qriarterfi withdut \ do yoti know of an^ hi&i^Boiit t** Sayls he, ** 1 ctda. g^^e yoil quarters for your beast, but 1 have none for yourself." fiajrs bBi " Thilt wiU dd Very i#elM" ti^ which he #«httb1ii6 h6T(ise dfad gatiB hiih his beast, and a fiiiqience to bujr draft" to it all ipght ; and so hit iam^ for it wta just Rowing darit; And ttbiigfft tie hduBi he irit6fided io I6dg6 lii ivas just above 4iini> yet te jtassed by it at that time to bHrtd the ifttoi that he taight ftot know itrhere h& was gbtog, Ahd MMi6' Wb own activity and d4i»tety' m btidnete, Rihisay was afterWar^s advanced in the dHirc^. " James Iten8ay,8«i oCRobertRaWMiyy iniAirte^atDiffi- donald, and afterward principal of the CoUege of Gkasow was fi«t minister at KirkintuUoch, next at Linlithgow,^d ii the m l^^o h^J^is made D.«n of rovember, he cannot but mention ; viz. that the Laird of Austown,* who lived near by his house in the Westhills, and was his landlord, having cleared some accompts between them, one particular was omitted, which occasioned him to go down in the moonlight to his house. And taking his servant with him, as he came in sight of the town, his man perceives a great many troopers, some of them riding about the dikes, and o of them searching the yards, for Major Leiu ;, ut, the gentleman's son-in-law, whom Dalziel heard he had received ; for it was his troop. Mr. Veitch's man says, « Master, Oh ! yonder troopers ; what will you do ?" and so ran straight home. His master fearing that if they saw him they would follow him as a suspected person, he himself being in a country habit, like one of the birds of the place, thought it fittest and safest to go forward ; and coming to the green where the pedees and countrymen were holding the troopers horses tiU they searched the house and yards, goes, to one of the tenants called Hugh Graeme, an honest man, who was holding four or • « John HamUton of AulcUtain, or Austane, was, in January, 1667, apprehended by the CouncU's order, upon a suspicion that Mioor Lermont, his son-in-law, had been in his house after Pent- land. Nothing could be proven, and with difficulty he got out, upon giving bond to compear when caUed, under penalty of ten thousand merks." (Wod. i. S66.) 46 MUMOJBS oy WILLIAM VEITCH. «ye of ti-lr bpwef, md says, *' What think you of Wis i%hit, Hugbie ? wiU it be snow or not ?" fie. perwiFing who it was. says, f* Willie, take two of time hQm$ aB4 lead;" and he leading thm to a»d ftgaip* wlwn they got^tone from the company, b^ 8w4, « Q. what brought you here to-night ?" ami hp telling him th^t it was to speak with the laird, h^ s*ys, « That you wiU not get done, for they m tmng Um m&y prisoner." In the mean time. tW pent » party up to Mr, Veitch's house tp swph for Wm, but found neither him nor his bom ; for his mm had taken him out to the WQpr. When th^ troopers mounted and took away the laird prisoner. Mr. Veitch held the stir. Wps of the two horses till his masters mounted their horses, with his greasy bonnet under his arm. After that, he went to the bird's house all flight. And lay in th« «alf.house among some TheSaturdayafter he sentonedownto Tweed* ^. to see if there was any safe travelling through that country ; a»d the matt that went carried his Wife behind him, upon his fine horse, to Mr, *leming'shou8e, minister of jStobojf and she was to send him word by the man, if there was any searching that way ; and hearing of ^o danger, he came about midnight to Mr. Fleming's ftouse, p. 78.) •»«««««' OWtW. (W|«i»0W,l.«pp.No.X3Wliii. MEMOIRS OF WILUAH VBITCH. 47 ai|d taking his wife oi^ behind him, they ro^e to Glenvetches befor^e day, and H^e ppxt nigh( ^ Tp^ woodlee, and so to his brother Mr. John's, who had sent James Huine of Flass, his b|X)ther-ii»-law, to Edinburgh, to hear how all was going ; who reaming the next day, brought the printed pricr Glam^tion against the leading Whigs, to apprehjen4 tbem wherever they could be foun^, and not to harbour them, as they wpul4 npt be punislied ac- cprding to law, as the persons harboured f}|4 de- serve. His name being there, he was forced that night to fly into England and leave his wife, who was at that time big with child of his eldest son William. He left with his wife the fine horse he rode upon, being one of the Lord Loudon's horses that was taken from him, because he had sent his of- ficer to warn all his tenants not to rise to the as- sistance of their friends. She delivered him at Edinburgh to a friend of my Lord's, and went back to her family at the Easthills. He, intend- ing for Newcastle, and being wholly a stranger in that country, and fearing to be robbed by the way, left his money with a merchant in Kelso ; and not daring to take a written bill, he got a vei*ai token to Robert Ker, merchant in the Groat Market of Newcastle to pay him the money ; biit, before Mr, Veitch came there, he had got advice by letter so to do. He found several of his friends there who were in the proclamation, and finding ! 48 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. them go under other names for their safety, he took the name of William Johnson, his mother being of that name. The worthy Mr. John Spreul, town-clerk of Glasgow, being fled thither,* they took a cham- ber and dieted together that winter ; where Mr. Veitch fell into a great flux, through the fatigue and cold he had got that winter. He met with great kindness from the good people in that place, so that he was not only able to live comfortably • Mr. Spreul had not fled, but was banished. He had been im- prisoned ii^ September 1660, along with John Graham, Provost of Glasgow, as a person friendly to the Remonstrance. At that time he obtained his liberty. But he was afterwards brought before the Council, " and the oath of allegiance being tendered to him, he refused the same, alledging he had not freedom to sign the same by reason of the tie that lay upon him by the oath of the Coven- ant: Wherefore the said Lords (December 18, 1664,) judging it uqjust, that any person should have the benefit of the protection of his Majesty, and enjoy the liberties of a free subject, who refuse to givetheir oathof aUegiance, ord the said Mr. John Spreul to enact himself under pain of death, to remove out of the Jcingdom against the first of February next, and not to return without licence and find caution to behave peaceably till then, under the pain of two thousand pounds, and not to go within six miles of Glasgow " He returned in 1671, and, in consideration of sickness and theinflr- mities of age, was liberated on bond. (Wodrow, i. pp. lo, 216 348 ) Provost Graham, mentioned above, on regaining his liberty, reUred to Holland with Provost Porterfield of Gksgow, who was in simi- lar circumstances ; and in the latter end of 1665, during the Dutch war, the Council declared them rebels and fugitives. ( Wod. i. 266.) 1.L »!r '^ """f '" *^^ "'* ''^ P^''«'"« «"«* ^y ««t of parliament, 1662; Mr. Spreul in L. 1200 Scots, Provost Graham in L. 1000^ and Provost Porterfield in L. 3000. Several letters from M'Ward to Forterfield are in the Advocates Library. MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 49 himself, but also to help his friends that were there in strait, viz. Mr. Spreul, BarmAgae- han, Sundywell,* Andrew Gray, and James • James Kirko of Sunday well was served heir to his father, John Kirko, July a, 1647. (Inquis. Retorn. Dumfries, 196.) This public-spirited genUeman, and Andrew Hay of Craignethan, had the honour to be the two ruling elders wh^: were present with Mr. James Guthrie, and other ministers, when they met in the house of Robert Simpson in Edinbui^h, at the restoration of Charles II., to agree in an address to the King, congratulating him on his return, and putting him in mind of the engagements which he had for- merly come under to God and liis people. On that occasion he was imprisoned for some months, and was afterwards vexed with repeat- ed fines and quarterings of military, which obliged him to quit his house and property. (Wodrow, i. 7,269 ; App. 60.) i.t He was closely connected with those ministers who preached in the fields in the year 1665, as appears from the following ac- count by Mr. Blackader. Being invited by Gordon of Bariston's lady, to baptize a daughter whom she had bom at Drumshinnock, in her journey from GaUoway to Edinburgh, Blackader (to use his own words) " would needs venture, finding it a neceMary duty none of the nonconform ministers being in the bounds, at least whi would venture to do it; and also, the laird, her husband, being banished out of the kingdom, and at London, after the beginning of the persecution in Galloway. John Neilson of Corsack, a godly gentleman, who was executed after PenUand, having fbrmerly fled out of GaUoway to Edinburgh, about the time of Mr. Ad. (Adam- '^^1^^'^^'^^'''^ assumed name) flying, did ride along with him to Drumshmnock that day they went out of Edinburgh, beinir to ride home secretly to see his wife ; end when they came, Mr. Ad bapbzed the child, who was caUed Margaret, now married sinc^ to Menstree; the child was presented by Corsack in the father's absence. After he had baptized this child, he rode forward next day, in Ae evening, to Barndannoch, to visit his children and ser- vants whom he left behind; and though he came moftt privately there, souldiers being quartered not far off, yet was itdisoovered to several in the country, who brought thither five or six yottdg ohUd- 50 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. M*Dugald, with some others, who stayed all winter. ren to be baptized, whom he baptized at night in his own house ; and after he had ordered John Osbum to bring his youngest son, a child of two years old, to be earryed for Edin'. and meit him that night at Mr. Samuel Austine's, in the place of Auchinson, near Sanquhar, early in the morning he rode ba,.i: to Drumshinnock, stayed while near night, and witii a guide rode to the said Mr. Samuel Austin's where he had trysted his son, where also he met witii Sundy well, being on his journey to Edinburgh. In the morn- ing they set away the man, with the bairn on horseback before lam ; his father and Sundaywell followed soon after, and overtook them in the hollows of Menoch Water, an unusual way j having ridden a while beside the child, he, with SundayweU, was forced to leave hun with the uncouth man, where he cryed out pitifully till the hills resounded again. They were forced to take bywayes all the way, for the present danger. His father turned back a littie and then rode on with Sundywell, and came to the parish of Dunsyre on Saturday night, to Mr. Veitch's house at Hills, where he preach- ed on the morrow, being Sabbath, but to a few persons, publick oreaching not having been practised in these bounds before." This happened in spring 1666. (Blackader's Memoirs, MS. H. 3, 4.) John Osbum, mentioned above, belonged to the parish of Keir, and was joined with the ministers against whom let- ters were directed January 25, 1666, ailing, "the said John Osbum does presume to take upon hun to be an officer for giv- ing notice to the people of the said unlawful meetings, and ac- cordingly, from time to time, doth acquaint them heiewitii. ( Wod. i. 834, S3S.) His own account of his suffbrings is here subjoined from a manuscript in the Advocates Library. " In the first pkce when the ministers came to preach in tiie hills, to wot, when Mr. John Welsh, Mr. Gabriel Sample, and other eight wifli them were denunced, and I was also denunced with Aem, as being muntan beddall, as likeways afterhend I was forced to flee, and afterward returning home, was apprehended at my master's har- vest by a party of Turner's men; being taken to Dumfriece, was intenogate whoe th^ were that preached, and who were Kudi- MEMOIRS OP WILLIAM VEITCH. 51 twn house ; 9| ungett son, 9 :it him that :M inson, near ^^ nathinnock, iH le said Mr. ^H ilso he met ^H \ the mom- ^M >efore him ; ^H rtook them IH ring ridden ^ ed to leave ^ ily till the M yes all the M I little and 1 f Dunsyre m he preach- :^ IB, publick -fl re." This M i. S, 4.) U (Muish of S vhom let- ;^M said John jB er for giv- ^9 ;s, and ac- fl Ji. (Wod. S subjoined i^M first place j^| when Mr. ^^^ ith them -^H as being |^| flee, and '^^^ iter's har^ ^H hmifriece, SB rare audi- <^B One of his greatest and kindest friends was Madam Johnson, wife to Mr. William Johnson of Kipplesworth, who, at that time, was present Mayor of Newcastle, who did often visit him incognito, especially in his sickness, letting him want nothing. And when he began to recover of his flux tabled him in the country with an in- dependent minister, that he might have a better air for his health ; and took him along with her as her chaplain to Naisborrow Spa, ♦ which was an occasion to acquaint him with many persons in the several counties about, such as General Venableswho lived at West Chester, t and Jus- tors of my acquaintance; the which I absolutoiie reftised upon all haaards. Thence he put me in the thives hole, and threatned me by sterving, keeping the key the space of three days himself, thinking to make me confess whome I knew to be preachers and hearers, the which I absolutlie refused; afterwards my wife wen-t to one of the tune bailies, declaring to him that she would goe to Edinburgh and complain. Afterward I was brought out of the prison, and was put in another, where I received meat and drink, otherwayea I had sterved." (No. 6, M8. XL. art. 44.) • Knaiesborough, a town in the North Riding of Yorkshire, pleasantly situated on the river Nid, on a rugged rough rock. It is famous for four medicinal springs, and is 1 8 miles W. by N. of York. (Walker's Gazetteer.) Andnow(says Sir John Reresby) Lord Faufax, a Roman CathoUc, and Lord LicutMjant of the North Riding, being at York, observed to me, « it could be for no good end that the Lords Devonshire and Danby were come down to the country; though the former pretended he was only come to view hii eatate,and the Litter to drink the waters of Knairsbourah." Oct 4, 1688. (Reresby's Memoirs, p. 8/5,6.) t This is the dty Chester, as evidenUy appears from what 52 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. tice Sharpless at Blakeburn, with merchants about Leeds, Wakefield, and other places of that countiy, who earntstly invited him to come and sojourn with them. Venables earnestly solicit- ed the lady Johnson to let Mr. Veitch to go in his coach with him, and stay with him next win- ter ; but he desired the lady not to grant it till he went back with her, and got things fit for such a journey. After he returned with the lady, he longed to see his wife and family, and know what was be- come of them ; hearing that she was greatly mo- lested with parties of troopers, who ordinarily came in the night (offering to break up her doors if she did not quickly open) to search for her husband, and also for Major Learmont, who liv- ed within two miles. And they being often dis- appointed of their design, made use of a malig- nant laird and lady who lived hard by, to inform them when he came home; and coming some weeks after to that house first to get informa- tion, they told that they never heard of his com- ing home, and it were a pity to disturb such a follows. After the battle of Naseby, Mrs. Hutchinson states, that "Fairfax tooke again the towne of Liecester, and went into the west, reliev'd Taunton, tooke Bristol, and many other garrisons. West Chester alsoe, and other places were taken that way."— (Life of Col. Hutch, p. 2AS.)-The king when at York sent a message to the parUament, that he was going to Ireland and would form * ^i^^ad at West Chester. ( Ibid. 88. ) MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 58 good gentlewoman, who was big with child: and, giving them drink, persuaded them to pass by to the major's house. Here was a special hand of God, for that night Mr. Veitch was come home, and they would have undoubtedly found him and his horse both. But he that evening went away, and advised his wife to give up the farm and go to Edinburgh, where she might live quietly: and he returning to Newcastle, Justice Sharpless, who lived at a hundred miles distance iii Lancashire, sent his son to conduct him into the country, where he sojourned with him and General Venables * many • Cdonel Venablo arrived at Dublin with reinfor emenu to the ParUameufs troops in July 1649. (Carte'a Ormond, U. 78.) He was employed in Ireland, and was in Cromwell's Parlia- ment, (which met September 3, 1654,) for the counties of Downe, Antrim, and Armagh. (History of Irish Parliament, ii. 94«.s.) His attempts, in 1650, to induce the presbyterian ministers to own the Rump Parliament, proved abortive.~(Historical Es- say upon the Loyalty of Presbyterians, pp. 288— »97.)— Jn 1655, an expedition was fitted out to St. Domingo, under the command of Pen and " General Venahles, a gentleman of a good family in Cheshire, who had served long in the army in the con- dition of a Colonel, and was then called out of Ireland to com- mand in this expedition." Ckrendon says, that both these offi- cers were well affected to the King's service, and had, unjcnowu to one another, signified so much to him ; but he wished them to reserve their affp'tions to a more proper season. (History vi. 739.) Having iailed in die attempt on St. Domingo, the object of the expedition, though tiiey succeeded in a descent on Jamaica CromweU was so highly incensed that at their return he com- mitted them for some time to the tower, and could never be 54 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. months : then came to Leeds, where his acquain- tmices there he had gotten at the Well made him very welcome. Among all these parts he preached to the people as conveuiency offered, it being a persecuting time. From thence he was invif«d to go to London, where he sometimes preached in meeting houses, particularly for Mr. Nichol Blakie, * one Sabbath periuaded to tnist either of them again.— (IWd. 744.)— In 1««3 Venables was examined on the Marqaia of Antrim'a alleged cor- reapondence with Cromwell or his offlcers.--(Carte'a Ormond. IL S79.) • Mr. Nichol BUckie, or BUkie, was author of some Sermone under the title Laaarut Redivivut, published in 1671 at London, where they had been preached about the period when Vdtch was oecaalonally with him. They were reprinted at Edinburgh in 17»0, with a preface by the Reverend Adam Gib, who had looked in vain for the author's name in Calamy'a Account of Non-conform- ing ministers, but appears to have had no suspicion of his being a Scotchman. This, however, was the fact. Mr. Alexander Shields mentions his having gone to London with a letter of recommen- dationto one Mr. Blackie a Scottish mim8ter.~(Minutesof the general meeting of United Societies, MS. p. 17S. Advocates Li- brary.) On looking into Wodrow's bn of Scottish non-conforming ministers, I find Mr. Blackie tjected, by the Glasgow act in 1669, from Roberton in the Presbytery of Lanark, the very parish in which Veitch's father had been miraster, and from which he was driven, after 45 years ministrations. But it does not appear whether Blackie was inducted to the parish after Veitch's qection, or had been previously settled as assistant and micoessor to him. At any rate, both were turned out before this time, and our Veitch's acquainunce with Blackie is accounted for. Mr. Bhckie uur- vivcd the Revolution, but I know not if he ever returned to Scot- land. MEMOIPS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 5A day, ofi Luke 19, 41, 42. *« If thou hadst known in this thy day," &c. where there happened to be some From a ptange of his Scrmona, it is probable tlut Mr. Blackie was one of thoM who preached to the people of London, in 1665 and 1666, on occasion of the plague and buminir of the city. " Waa not this a hopeful b^nnuig, to aee a p . pi to. s'ng out of the fire and from the plague — trembling anr lO ixd d vn at Chriit'a feet? Then you tpakt trembling, ar 1 4" exalib you, by sending forth firora thcHe flames the cooling wa: ' , of *li lanc- tuary, Uiat run plentifully towards you, when th ,'ob^1 had a free passage, by the indulgence of the supreme authority, for ae> veral years." (Lazarus Redirivus, p. 17. ed. Glasgow, i/&4.) " Onu great benefit (says Mr. Baxter) the plague brought to the city ; that is, it occasionad the silenced ministers, more openly and laboriottidy to preach the gospel, to the exceeding comfort and profit of the people ; insoinach, that to this day the freedom of preaching, which this occasioned, cannot, by the daily guards of soldiers, nor by the imprisouraenti> of multitudes, be restrained. The ministers that were silenced for nonconformity, had, ever since 166S, done their work very privately, and to a few (not so much through their timorousuess, as their loathness to ofiend the king, and in hopes still that their forbearance might procure them some liberty ; and through some timorousness of the people that should hear them.) And when the plague grew hot, most of the coufoHdable ministers fled, and left their flocks, in the time of their extremity : whereupon divers non-conformists pitying the dying and distressed people, that had none to call the impe- nitent to repentance, nor to help men to prepare for another world ; nor to comfort them in their terrors, when about 10,000 died in a week, resolved that no obedience to the laws of any mortal rnen whosoever, could justify them for neglecting of men's souls and bodies in such extremities; no more tlian they canjustify parents for famishing their children to death: And that when Christ shall say, inasmuch as ye did it not to one of these ye did it not to me ; it will be poor excuse to say. Lord, I was forbidden by the law." (Life of Baxter, part iu. p. 2.) 56 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. hearers who were esteemed to be spies, (which was a Court trick at that time) who cried out The piouB intrepidity with which one of theae ministers (Mr. Tbomis Vinoent, author of a well-known CatechismO devoted himself to this perilous work of love, surpasses any of the jnstly- buded labours of the philanthropic Howard. To the arguments em- ployed to pemiade him not to expose his valuable life, by his bre- thren assembled for the purpose of dissuading him firom his purpose, Vincent r»»Mlied^ " that he had very seriously considered the matter before he had come to a resolution : he had carefully examined the state of his own soul, and could look death in the face with com- fort. He thought it was absolutely necessary that such vast numbers of dying people should have some spiritual assistance. He could have no prospect of service in the exercise of his ministry through bis whole life like that which now ofibred itself. He had often committed the case and himself to God in prayer; and, upon the whole, had solemnly devoted himself to the service of Oodand souls upon this occasion; and therefore hoped none of them would endeavour to weaken his hands in this work." " When the ministers present had heard him out, they unanimously declared their satisfaction and joy, that they apprehended the matter was of God, and concurred in their prayers for his protection and suc- cess. He went out hereupon to his work with the greatest firm- ness and assiduity. He constantly preached every Lord's day through the whole visiution in some parish church. His sul^ects were the most moving and important, and his management of them most pathetic and searching. The awAilness of the judg- ment, then everywhere obvious, gave a peculiar edge to the preacher and his auditors. It was a general inquiry through the preceding week, where he was to preach: multitudes fallowed him wherever he went; and several were awakened by every ser- mon. He visi d all that sent for him, without fear, and did the best he could for them in their extremity, especially to save their souls fVom death. And it pleased God to take particular care of him ; for thoUf^li the whole number reckoned to die of the plague in London this year was 68,596, and seven persons died of it in the family where he Lvtd, he continued in perfect health all the while, ai'id was afterwards useful, by his unwearied labours, to a MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. ' 57 listen (Mr. a>) devoted 'thejuatly- umentg em- by hit bre> bis purpose, 1 the matter amined the 9 with coin> Mt numbers He could try through i had often i>npon the »f God and e of them ' When the ly declared matter was •n and suc- jatest firm- Lord's day [is sulgects ■gement of the judg- Ige to the trough the B fdlowed every ser- nd did the save their lar care of the plague d of it in th all the oursj to a after the blessing was pronounced, treason, trea- son; which surprised and frightened Mr Blakie and the people ; but the famous Colonel Blood, who went then under the name of Allan,* with some of his accomplices, sitting near the only door of the meeting-house, while the others who cried were on the far side of the pulpit, Colonel Blood stands up, saying, " Good people, what are these that cry treason, treason ? We have heard no- thing but reason, reason. You that are in the passage there stand still, and you who are be- twixt and the pulpit, make way for the minister to come to me, and I'll carry him safe to his chamber." And so he did, and we heard no more of that business. Thus did Mr. Veitch travel from place to place, sometimes at London, sometimes at Not- tingham, sometimes in Cheshire, and sometimes in Lancashire; and stayed frequently at Mr. Scurr's house at Haguehall, five miles off Leeds ; and preached much at the meeting-house of Top- cliff-hall about three miles from Leeds ; t and numerous congregation, till the year 1678, when he died at Haxton." (Palmer's Non-conformist's Memorial, vol. i. p. 185-6.) • " Thomas Allen, the pretended doctor, was really Mr. Blood, under that fictitious name. (Biographia Britennica, vol. ii. p. 365. Last edition.) This singular character comes to be mentioned again in the memoir. t It is evident that the parts of England frequented by Veitch abounded with nonconformists. They had been deprived of 58 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. sometimes in Northumberland, especially in Reedsdale and the borders thereabout, until the their ministers by the act of Uniformity, and by subsequent pro- cedure. The foUowii^ notices relate to the places mentioned in the text. Hagve-HatU—Wc. Leonard Scurr, ejected from Beeston, was a native of Pontefract, and had a good estate in that neighbour- hood. About 1 680 he and his family were murdered. The mur- derers fled to Ireland, but were apprehended. (Palmw's Non- conf. Memorial, vol. ii. p. £55.) Mr. Gamaliel Marsden, ejected from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1660, and from a chapel near Halifax in 1662. « He afterwards went into Holland, and at his return taught some young students at Hague-Hall philoio- phy," &c. He died May 28, 1681. (Ibid. p. 563.) Topcliff-Hall—Mt. Christopher Marshall, gectedfrom Wood- kirk in 1662; preached in 1672 at Topcliff-hall. He died in 1673. (Ibid. 579.) Mr. James Calvert " had been several years at Topcliff, when he was silenced by the act of Uniformity." After some stay at York, he, about 1675, became chaplain to Sir William Strickland of Boynton. On his death he removed to Hull, and thence to Northumberland to Sir WiUiam Middleton's, who made him his chaplain, and left him tutor to his only son. Ibid. p. 596.) Leeds.— Mr. Richard Stretton ejected from Petworth in Sussex, preached in Leeds from about 1670 to 1677. (Ibid. p. 469.) He was succeeded by Mr. Thomas Sharp, qected from Addle, in the West Riding, who survived the Revolution. (Ibid. p. 469.) Mr. Cornelius Todd, ejected from Bilton, West Riding, was one of four who preached in a meeting-house erected in Leeds on the Indulgence, 1672. (Ibid. p. 556.) Messrs. Robert Todd, James Sales, and Christopher Nesse, were ejected from Leeds. (Ibid, p. 565-6-7.) Wakefield. — Mr. .>'eremiah Marsden was ejected from Ardesley chapel near Wakefield in 1662. (Ibid. p. 552.) Mr. William Howden, born near Leeds, being ejected from Broadsworth, re- moved to Wakefield, where he preached, even after the loss of his sight, which happened about 1690. (Ibid. p. 558.) MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 59 year of Qod 1671. Being prevailed with by that people to bring his family into the north, that he might be some way useful among them, he removed his wife and two sons, William and Samuel, in creels, from Edinburgh into a village called Falalies, farming a piece of ground from Charles Hall, who was owner of that place and village, within the parish of Rodberry in North- umberland. After some years wandering, he had found that lot much embittered with his great and almost continual distance from his wife and family, as also with the great troubles they under- went, (parties of soldiers besetting and breaking up the doors at midnight,) so that he resolved to transport them into Northumberland; neither his affection nor ability serving to carry them farther at that time, he being forfeit life and fortune and all that he had taken from him, except a little they knew not of. But they were not well settled there (though in a moorish retired place) when their neigh- bours of the Bomish gang, which abound there. BkKkbum.—Mr. Charles Sager, master of the school of Black- bum, Lancashire, preached there, or in the vicinity, till 1668 or 1669. He was afterwards imprisoned. (Ibid. vol. i. p. 336.) Mr. Jeremiah Marsden, mentioned in the last paragraph, had preach- ed at Blackburn, and in various pkces in Yorkshire, Cheshire, &c. previous to his settlement at Ardesley. flbid. ii. 4*3.) 60 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. did stir up the Lord Whiterington* to mar some small meetings that he had. It being about the time of the English indulgence,! he pretended a Commission to apprehend and secure all minis^ ters that had not the king's license, and thinking belike that this stranger had scarce friends or time to procure one of the licenses, he, accom- panied with Esquire Thornton, | a great Ro- manist, and several other gentlemen, came to the minister's landlord, whom they sent to see for the license, and finding one, which indeed was come but the preceding day, went away with a great disappointment. i- ,,. This liberty occasioned him to be called five miles farther into the country, and to farm an house suitable to the work, called Hamamhall, * Sir waiiam Widdrington of Widdrington Castle was ex- pelled the House of Commons, 1642; created a Baron by the King in 1643; and slain at Wigan on the march of Charles II. to Worcester. William, Lord Widdrington, his son, was one of the Council of State on the Restoration.— (Hutchinson's North- umberland, ii. 317.)— Being Governor of Berwick, he took of- fence at a sermon which Mr. Luke Ogle, the minister of that town, preached on the 5th of November, shut him out of his church without waiting for the Act of Uniformity ; threw him after- wards repeatedly into prison, and refused to allow him to live in Berwick, even after the English indulgence was granted, unless he would conform.— (Palmer's Nonconf. Memor. ii. 244—6.) t March 15, 167S. I Sir Nicholas Thornton's estate was sequestrated by parlia,- racnt 8th Nov. 1052.- (Hutchinson's North, ii. 283, note.) MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 61 Babington,* where belonging to Ma tory increased daily. The very report made several persons come to see the novelty, and satis- fy their curiosity ; of some of whom, it can be said, they went not as they came ; for the pro- fanation of the Sabbath by baking their bread, starching their clothes, mucking their byres, &c. was wonderfully reformed by his preaching on Sabbath sanctification. Likewise many Anabaptists, who keep seventh- day Sabbath, came to hear, and being taken with the ordinances, did also keep our Sabbath, and were punctual attenders. One young gentlewo- man who was married to a Presbyterian, after the baptism of her first child, was long under trouble of mind, and confessed that shame kept her long back ; but coming over all at length, stood up in the congregation, and making a sa- voury confession of her faith, was baptized — (it was a weeping day, and I think did more good than many sermons) — ^which did much good in • " Harnham was the mansion of the Babingtons (a family as ancient in Britain as the Conquest) and of Colonel Babington, in the reign of Charles II. Governor of Berwick. His first wife, Catharine, was under excommunication for contempt of an eccle- siastical sentence, on which account she was not entitled to sepul- ture on consecrated ground."--(Ibid. i. 217--8.) It is probable that protestant nonconformity was her crime, as she was the wi- dow of Colonel George Fenwick, and eldest daughter of Sir Ar- thur Hesehigge of Nosely, and of Dorothea GrenviUe, sister to Robert Lord Brook. (Ibid.) «i MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. the comer, several foUowi^ig her example. By this and other motives the meeting still increas- ed, by many who lived at a great distance, tiiey would have come ten miles tn the on<: aide, and 845 far on the other. , v il^ bitj^ And here I caunoft paas a remarkable story corscaraing a village e lUed Fenick or Phemdci, about five iil . i- off this meeting, where a godly weaver and his mte iived, who were the scorn of tbe place tor li^Sw piety, and used to steal in the back way to f heir own house ; but being dis- covered by a number of young men playing at the foot-ball on Sabbath afternoon, they left their game f'xynuug to mock them ; but the honest man addressing himself to some of them who were of good age, after he had laid before them the dan- ger of such an open profanation of the Sabbath, he invites three or four of them but to go once along with him and hear sermon, and it might be that they would change their thoughts ; and if they were not persuaded to go again, yet he hoped thay might be so far convinced as not any more to lanck him for going. These went with him next day, and it pleased the Lord that they got that vfliich made them invite others, and they others, till the most part of the tovt a came ; and family worship, with Sabbath reformation, was so remarkable there, that it was +he talk o^" the country about, e i greatly incensed the ht gy- I MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 63 Wliilst the bulwark of indulgence continued iie preached peaceably, although eome of several offices, profession^ and qualities meanwhile were sharpening their teeth and snarling, which visibly appeared upon the back of that proclamation re- calling the liberty. For Sir Thomas Lorrain of Kirkharle, a justice of the peace, being instigated, as is confidently reported, by several of his pot ';ompanioi;is, the clergymen, did once and again issue out warrants to the high and petty consta- bles of that ward to apprehend him ; which proving ineffectual, he, to gain his point, retrieve his credit, and gratify the renewed desires of his forementioned friends, drinking one Saturday afternoon with him in his own house, did so- lemiily promise that the next Sabbath, which was then very nigh, he would go himself in person and apprehend him, and consequently, once for all, put a stop to that meeting. But not many hours after, if any, he by an imusual mean got his leg broke, so that for many weeks he could not travel : his lady. Sir John Fenwick's sister,* * Thomas Loraine of Kirkharle, was created a Baronet in the 26th year of the reign of King Charles II. and died in January 1717. He married Grace, daughter of Sir William Fenwick, Baronet of Wallington, in the county of Northumberland. Sir John Fenwick was executed on TowerhUl in 1696 for a conspi- racy against King William.— (Hutchinson's North, i. 320, 221.)— " Northumberiand — Sir John Fenwick, a Captain under the Duke of Monmouth, and promised a place at Court, had L.2000 given him for his election."— (MarveU's Works, ii. 571.)— He ap- 64 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. calling him out from the instigators to the stair- head, being in a passion, kicked him down stairs for seUing four oxen and spending the price of them in drinking. The clergy then resolved to make use of their mstruments of death, seeing his were blunted • and that they might be completely furbished and sharpened effectually to do the work, one Par- son Ward of Kirkharle* goes up to the chief grmder and polisher at Durham, viz. the bishop, t Fars to have sitten in all the parliaments from the Restoration to the^Revolution.-(Hutchin8on'8 North, ii. 447-8.) rain/.'^m^"v "'""■8«-«i«- ^ard. 1671, Pr. Thomas Lor- +%Cl?"*'^'"'^"'' ^'"■*- State of Churches, p. 46.) Oxf<^^n^l ^' 'Vt ^'*""'*^ ^'^"« ^"^ *""«l«t«d from Oxford to Durham. (Surtees, Durham, vol. i. P. i. p. cxv ) th VT.*^?.^'^'°' ^°""''»»*^ *" ««"* «» general^agXst Ae Sco^h Covenanters. Bishop Crewe's zeal L thisl^ e «innot he doubted; he posted to his diocese, [[of which hTwas Lord Lieutenant;] raised the miUtia of the i^unty wUh J^! progress and h.s return." He solemnized the marriage of Z Duke of York with Mary of Modena, and on the D^Xac^ «o„ *< went headlong into the destructive measures wW h h^. ed that pnnce and aU his family into exile." Though he voted ^at James had abdicated the throne, he was except from t^ ^nerd pardon granted by William and Mary, and fledrHol- land, but having returned and taken the oaths to the new govern ment was restored to his bishopric. On Sir John PenSs" ^ for treason against King William, the Bishop hSltl James s thanks sent him from St. Germains for his'^attentifn^ the ^nev. Bishop Crewe felt the ruling pas«on (av^don to before the fire, he cned out, in almost his last moments, to his MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 65 and no doubt returned, as he thought, well arm- ed for the destruction, not only of this but of other non-^onforming ministers and people about: and being so well pleased that the bishop had given him and his brethren about, orders to ex- communicate all of them, &c. But being a con- siderable way off his church on Sabbath (being detained by the parson of Pontiland who drank all night together) rides so hard to be home in time, that he tired his horse by the way, and not being able to get him on alone, he hires the herdman of Hamam, the town where this mi- nister lived, to lead him, taking his club to drive him on. But while he is unmercifully (as it is like) beating the poor beast, it doth (without respect had to his coat, the canons, or the orders he carried) smite him violently with his foot upon the cheek bone until the blood gushed out and he fell ; and so like the ass in sacred story presaged his unsuccessfulness. The boy that led the horse runs into a lady's house hard by ; the old gentlewoman sent out the two servants that waited on her (the rest being at church) with a barrow, and they with the boy carried him in. She dressed his wound, and he lay there several weeks under cure ; by which providence their malicious design at that time was disappointed, and I am credibly informed he carries the mark of that stroke to this day. 66 MEMOIBS OF T TA.M VEITCH. After he had i rcirncu lOur years in a hall at Harnam, the hot se and ground pertaining there- to got a new master, one Thomas Dawson, a roper in Newcastle, who, upon reasons best known to himself, refused to continue thib mi- nister his tenant, and thereby that meeting was dissolved ; yet he was a dissenter, and his riches melted iway afterwards. ;yrmq i.oi ^{cj This occasioned his removal to Stantonhall, in Vac parish of Longhorsly, May 16, anno where he found his lot fallen in none of the best places ; the country side abounding with papists, and the parish church filled with a violent perse- cutor, one Mr. Thomas Bell, a Scotsman, of whom more afterward: and there vv^anted not justices of peace at hand meet helpers for them, two whereof, viz. Sir Thomas Horsley of Long^ Horsley,* and William Ogle of Causeway Paiji,t • " Long Horsley.— T't'~ famUy of Horsley aid lands v ithin this manor from distant ages. lutdb. Worth, ii ji9.) EdwaiJHorsley Widdrington, whose only daughter and -ir married Thomas Rid- dall, Esq. of Swinburn CasMp. (Ibid.) Sir Thomas Hovsley, knight, was appointed a Cjmwiissioner of 8 \i>ply for the tounty of Northumberland, anno 1679. (Statute:, of the Realm, vol. v- 9U.) t " Cawsey Park— the inheritan-" of a younger branch of the noble family of Ogle." James C E f Cawsey Par! a steady royalist, died 4th December 166 ( hinson, ii. S18. William Ogle, Esq. was appointed a jtr.nimf.ner of Suppl fcT the county of Northumberland, anno 1679, and member fw that county, anno 1685. (Statutes of the Realm, v. 915.) AfEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 67 cair " with somr men to take Mr. Veitch at a meeting in his own hoiiHe, upon the second Sab- bath of August 1677. One of the justices with his party came to the foregates, but Mr. Ogle with his rame to the postern gate, and broke up a nailed door about three of the clock in the afternoon, without ever demanding entrance, and bursting up another door that the mir iter's wife was shutting till her husband escape a, whereby she had t-ertainly I een spoiled, she being great with child, if he tailing down of the sneck had not prevented it. In the mean time the minister got in< a hole within the lining of a great win- dow which had been made on purpoh ', for the 'vhole roo; i was 'ned about with wainscot. A Scotsi'in that was their gardener came along witi ^w >m, and bursting first into that room pen ^.ved t' miii.«te^ going into the hid- ing place, which hi; ' > perceived, and stand- ing near hj n, he «»bserved her to be afraid of him, anu he said to her " Fear not," which eased her mind They sent their serva ^ up through the rooms and garrets to search for he minister and others ; and one of their aervb i falling in upon tl garret that was abi ^e u gi H lower hall which was the meeting place, looi down through a hole that whp brol " ' :iw a great crowd of neople (whicn were the town's i,= gazing,) and one of them being ii Mack clothes, whom he took to be the mini; *er ^e crieil with 68 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. a loud voice, " Master, master, where are you? 1 have four'^ 'em all." Justice Ogle running into the hah, cried « Where are they ?" " Sir, you are just among them." " Come down, sirrah," says he ; « the d confound you, for here is none but the people gazing." " 'I'roth," says he, " dir, I have been through so many gar- rets that I know not where I am." So missing their design, and advising his wife to let her husband preach to herself and her children only, then she should not be troubled, they went away. Their carriage was very rude, coming in with pistols in their hands ; and all this was done upon the naked information oi one single person, seconded with Mr. Bell's tbreatenings and persuasives. The laymen being vexed, and the clergy about galled at this disappointment, resolved, on more frequent and close pursuits, to catch the prey. Mr. Bell drinking with a mixed company, some professed papists, others little better, who it is like were stimulating him on against that meet- ing and minister, vowed, as it is reported, that he should either ruin him or he him ; and as the event proved, he was no false prophet. For af- ter several essays against him and others, both such as dwelt in the country, and those that came in transiently from Scotland and preached, he, with several of that gang, as we hear, repre- MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 69 Y about 1 more e prey. , some 10 it is t meet- i, that as the b'or af- I, both le that iached, repre- sented > Lauderdale, returning from Scotland to the Court, the dangerous condition of these northern counties, and that because of many V ugrnnt Scotch preachers, by whose means the be- gun infection did spread, and was like to pass Tyne Bridge, and approach the very noble parts of the nation if not timeously prevented. Shortly after his arrival at Court, several troops of horse and dragoons were sent thither, to crush all meetings, apprehend the abettors, and stop the infection. One Major Main was over the horse, and Major Oglethorp the dra- goons.* These were sent to chastise the now * During the riuag at Bothwell, the Privy Council of Soot' land (lebired Major Main to march to Kelso, and both he and M^or Oglethorp appear to have been actively employed in «up- prewing the insui rectlon. (Wodrow, ii. 69, 596.) The forfeiture of life and fortune which followed the affiiir at Bothwell (says Ker of Kersland) " still affects some gr;ntlemen who then forfeit- ed, beca. e their estates were given by the Crown to Colonel Cornwall, Sir Theophilus Oglethorp, and General Main, three Englishmen, who never having any of their effects in Scotland, could not be reached by the laws of that nation. Nevertheless, Mr. Gordon of Craighlaw, Mr. Gordon of Eariston, Mr. Cochrane of Waterside, Mr. Ferguson of Caitlock, Mr. Martin of Cuicloy, and others, have been always reckoned among the loyalest subjects, since King William of glorious memory came to the Crown ; who from that year 1679 have laboured under insuperable difficulties, (which all others, who then forfeited, were relieved from) without any probability of reparation, as much as if the rfeiture had never been reversed, notwithstanding all the repreacntatiops that have been made of their case, not only to the governmei^t and Mr. Cornwall himself, but by the Parliament also recommended to the Crown, and even in spite of the Union too." (Memoirs, p. 5.) " If 70 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. bad (commonly called, and never more deserv- edly, the good) town of Berwick upon Tweed. These men bemg all strangers were to act by counsel and command of Ck)lonel Strothers, a de- puty Lieutenant of Northumberland, who was set over them, and preferred to have a troop of his own raising for his own guard ; and as their commission was ample, so he was sine quo non in all their actings. After they had carried on their work a great length (being feasted and encouraged by the papists, the clergy, -\^ the corrupt justices) Major Ogleth(M*p hp €> notice given him in the very night Mr. Ve; lu came home, by some billed, for that p'lri ^e, ii« being a stranger in the country, h- one Thomas Qeugh, a she- riff's bailiff, t' j;e his guide from Morpeth ; and afl^er they had beset the house upon the 19th day of January 1679, about five of the clock in the morning, this Cleugh rapping on the glass window of the parlour where the minister lay, and calling him till he awaked, Mr. Veitch being surprised asked who was there, wk' h, when Cleugh heard, « Now," said he to the Ma- jor, standing besides him, « Yonder he is, I have no more to do." Upon which the M^or broke CUvm and Oglethorp had been left to their own discretion, they had put an end to that rebellious crowd, and pm^ed the nation of much 8uperi!uou8 and comiptsd blood." (Memoirs of Dundee, p. 13.) MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 71 down the glass window, thinking to get in ; but finding iron bars in his way, called to open the door quickly, quickly ; and being impatient they broke in at the hall windows, and had their candles lighted ere the maid opened the inner doors; apprehended the minister, and carried him to Morpeth jail, where he continued prison- er twelve days. The warrant they had was by way of letter from Colonel Strothers and Mr. Ogle of Causeway Park his son-in-law, and now Lieutenant to his troop. It was given several months before, and directed to Major Main at Wooler ; he directs it to Oglethorp at Morpeth, three or four miles from Stantonhall, to execute, the true copy whereof is as follows : " Sir, We are credibly informed that there is one Mr. Johnson, a preacher or teacher to the nonconformists in the church of England, who stands outlawed for rebellion in the kingdom of Scotland, and a fugitive in this kingdom j his constant abode is at Stanton, about four miles from Morpeth in this county. We desu-e that you will give out your order to some of your forces under your command, that the said John- son may be taken and sent to jail: and the jailor, his deputy or deputies, is hereby required, and in his Majesty's name straitly we command him or them, to receive the body of the said Johnson into their custody, and him safely keep 72 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. in their jails until the next assizes, and this shall be the jailor's security. Sir, this with our humble service to you, we rest your faithful friends and servants, Wm. Strother.* Wm. Ogle." (( Fowherry, Nm. 21. 1678." It was thus directed. " For the Honoured Major Main. Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Forces, in these Northern Counties, at his quarters at Wooler.' It seems this warrant is sent to Major Ogle- thorp, Major of the dragoons, who lay at Mor- peth, to be put in execution. This warrant was no way formal or legal, as afterward was declared by good lawyers. The executing it upon a Sabbath day was against a late act of Parliament, f But the zeal and • " Fowbury, the possession of the Fowburys, in the reign of King Edward I. ; afterwards of the family of Strothers, and now of Sir Francis Blake of Twizell." (Hutchinson's North, i. 240.) William Strothers was a Commissioner of Supply in 1679, (Sta- tutes of the Realm, v. 915.) and an active agent of the Council in Scotland, for apprehending Scottish ministers who had Uken refuge in Northumberland. (Wodrow, ii. *54, 267.) t Veitch refers here to the Act for the better observation of the Lord's day, commonly called Sunday, by tlie Parliament 1677, MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 73 love of reward carried them over all these dif- ficulties, and a deep storm of snow to the boot ; which made the Major and Griffith his Lieute- nant, and Ensign Owen, (who was hanged at York, the Lammas after their disbanding, for robbery,) and the rest walk on foot all the way, and were often up to the middle in snow miss- ing the tract in the night. The foresaid Justices being acquainted by a messenger from the Major, and fearing the war- rant, (for the Head Sheriff, * upon information of which the t'ollowing is an extract : " Provided alsoe, that noe person or persons upon the Lord's day shall serve or execute, or cause to he served or executed, any writt, pro- cesse, warrant, order, judgement, or decree, (except in cases of treason, felony, or breach of the peace) but that thj service of every such writt, processe, warrant, order, judgement, or decree, shall be void to all intents and purposes whatsoever. And the person or persons soe serveing or executeing the same, shall be as lyable to the suite of the partie grieved, and to answere da- mages to him for doeing thereof, as if he or they had done the same without any writt, processe, -.varrant, order, judgement or decree at all." (Statutes of the Realm, v. 848.) * Marke Milbanke "^ was High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1679." (Hutchinson's Njrth. ii. 461.) He was of Scottish ex- traction. Ralph Milbanke was cup-bearer to Mary Queen of Scots; and having fought a >^uel in Scotland, retired and settled at Chirton, near North Shields. Mark Milbanke " his grandson and heir," was twice Mayor of Newcastle, and once High 8h:- riff of Northumberland. He was active in the Restoration, aud a contributor to the money sent by the town of Newcastle to the' King at Breda Mark Milbanke, Esq. his " only surviving son and heir, wat* advanced to the degree of a Baronet [|of Halnaby, Yorkshire^ 13. Car. H. — and dying June 1680," was succeeded 1 7i MEMOinS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. of the illegalness of it, wrote to his deputy to turn the prisoner out of his jayl, which he obey- ed not,) two days after, they send another, di- rected to the jaylor Feuwick, to keep him in safe custody until Lammas assizes, and that without bail or main prize* This warrant had Henry Ogle of Eglingham's hand joined to the other two. * i in honouv and estate by bis eldest son. Sir Mark Milbanke.*-* (Baronetage of England, ii. 228, 224.) Sir Ralph Milbanke of Halnaby, the father of Lady Byron, took the name of Noel in 1816. (Surtees, Durham, vol. i. part ii. p. 274.) * " Eglingham is a seat Oi a branch of the Ogle family," of whom waa " Henry, one of the ee jue^tratorsof lands in Northum- berland for Parliamer , 19 King Ch.ries 1. 1643." " He was repre- sentative for this county in Parliament 6 King Charles II. 1653. " (Cromwell's Parliament.) He is also in i>e list for 1 654. " Henry, High Sheriff for this county, 6th Queen Anne 1707." (Hutchinl bob's North, i. 234, ii. 447.) In his account of Mr. Henry Erskine's sufferings, Wodrow says:—" Jtdy 2, 1682, \j.\, should be 1686. Palmer's Nonconf. Mem. a. 253.;] he was appi tended by eight of the militia horsemen, and carried first co Wooller and next day to Forber7 CFowbury]], to Colonel Strutiicrs, who acquainted hfm he must go to Newcastle to Si? John Fenwick, by virtue of an order from the King, and so was retuniati '\at night to Wooller prison, where he met with the Reverend I - i^uke Ogle, a feUow prisoner. July 4, both of them were carried under a guard to Eglingham, to a Justice of Peace his hou-: ; and upon Munday July 6, for it seems the EngUsh were a little more careful of the Lord's day than our Scots persecutors, they were takeo to Newcastle." (ii. 2*7.) It would suem they had grown more religious sirce Veitch's imiwinonment.— Between 1648 and 1662, a Mr. Jr to a friend's hous^ m the town, and wept my fill, and some friends with me/' f MS Memoirs, p. 3, 4, 5.) ^ ' r'sr MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM ^'r.ITCH. 79 every night, lest he should escape, which care wa« not taken of the popish priest, prisoner in the 8am>^ room, as was observed, either before or after. The next day the kettle-drums beat early, and by Lieutenant Griffith he is brought to Ahiwick, where the fore-mentioned justices that had given the two warrants lo apprehend him, with the majors and other officers, about twenty of them» all assembled at the post-house to see the prison- er. The lieutenant drew up the guard before that door, and Colonel Strothers called out to bring up the prisoner, and, as he entered the dining-room, saluted him, regretting his hard circumstances, and hoping he would nof mistake them, being obliged, by their places, to obey his majesty's orders. To which the prisoner replied, that he thought all persons in their several sta- tions and capacities should act so in every one of them, as they may be answerable to a good con- science, the kings of the earth, and the Sovereign Judge before whom all of us must appear at the great audit. So he was desired to dine with them, but not to say grace, for some of them made the fashion of taking off their hat, and some not. When the healths drinking came about he re- fused, at which Major Main cried out, « Colonel Strother, you see what a rebel this man is, who refuses to drink the king's health." To which he 80 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. replied, '• Sir, if yc-u understood the law you would [find] yourself t'ae rebel, and not rae. It seemn you know not that the king, by proclamation, has discharged healths drinking, and his own in particular, which you will find in the booksellers' shops at Newcastle."* After that he was bidden drirV no more healths. Dinner being ended, the trumpet blew, and Major Oglethorp, with a fresh party of Major Main's horse, borrowed to ease his own dragoons, the way being deep, and storm • There may have been proclamations of a later date, but I give the following extract from a " proclamation against vidouB, debauch'd, and prophane persons. — Given a< our Court at Whitehall, the Ju.*i.rth day of May, in the twelfth year of our reign." ZAun^y :660.3 " Charles Ilex.— There are likevrise another frf ,«i nen, of whom we have heard much, and are suflScient*y ^iiiamed, who spend their time in ta- verns, tipling- houses and debauches, giving no other evi- dence of their affection to us, but in drinking our health, and inveighing against all others who are not of their own disso'ute temper ; and who, in truth, have more discredited our cause, by the licence of their manners and lives, than they could ever ad- vance it by their affection or courage. We hope that this extra- ordinary way of delivering us all, from all we feared, and almrat bringing us to all we can reasonably hope, hath, and will work upon the hearts, even of these men to that degree, that they will cordially renounce all that licentiousness, prophaneness, and im- piety, with which they have been corrupted and endeavoured to corrupt others; and that they will, hereafter, become examples of sobriety and virtue, and make it appear, that what is past, was rather the vice of the time than of the persons, and so the fitter to be forgotten leather." (Pamphlets in Adv. Libr. ccc. 3. IS. No. 9.) MEMO'HS OF WILLIAM VLITC'H. 81 *?^B ?reat, conducted him kj Bt : ard, another stage, sendinjr an express before to Captain Ivory, who lay there with a troop of his dragoons to be rca< «« receive them ai*d keep guard all night. Ttie luain guaiu lodged in a great barn before the post-house ; Major Oglethorp and the prisoner lay in two beds in a chamber at the end of the lower hall. Thviv were ten dragoons ordered to stay i the hall all night, and one of them to stand oeutry within t1 chamber door, at the pri- sojK r's bedside. Th. as a great coal fire in *''o !-oom all night, which was very refreshing, both for light and heat, in such a cold night. About midnight, our guard in the hall were all got drunk, and had neglected to relieve the sen- tinel, he crying out to the corporal to relieve him, and he bidding one of the dragoons go to it, and he bidding him go himself; they fell a-fighting, and made such a noise as they awaked the major,' who came leaping out of his bed toward the pri- soner, to see if he was gone ; but he perceiving It, said, « Major, what are you afraid of?" Said he, « I thought you had been gone." So ^^mg to his bed, he asked the sentinel within the door what the matter was, who told him that they had got a little drink, and they would not come and relieve him. He caused the captain tie them all neck and heel in the main guard till he arose, and mit fresh soldiers in the hall. G IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I ilitlA §15 Ui ^ 12.2 UP 12.0 lit IL25 II 1.4 I liiSi III 1.6 ■4> V] -1^ /2 /a ^a '*i^. >v /A 7 Photographic Sciences Corporation 23 WfST MAIN STRUT WEBSTER, N.Y. MSttO (716) •72-4503 * ^ % <' ^ 82 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. The next day they went to Berwick, and tiiought to have delivered the prisoner at the boundary- road; but the Earl of Hume, the high sheriff, sent him word that he had no orders as yet to receive the prisoner, and the magistrates of Berwick re- fusing to receive him into their jail, he was com- mitted close prisoner in a room at the Crown, and a guard in the room with him night and day; none to see him or correspond with him ; pen, ink, and paper taken from him, so that none got into the room but a servant maid to make his bed and fire, and bring him his meat. Providence fitted her weir for his case, both for wit and af- fection ; for when she came to make the bed, she brought paper and an ink-horn, and laid in the bed 8 head, and letters now and then, as they came to her hand, under the pillow, and looked to him, not daring to speak, to take notice thereof, the soldiers being at their game in the other end of ihe room ; so that he had letters from his wife and friends, giving him an account of matters that fell out at home and elsewhere, in which he was concerned. Under that hard usage he continued twenty days, in which time Duke Hamilton, coming from London, and lodging there, the prisoner was re- moved to another room ; that being his bed- chamber.* The maid carrying up candles before * The Duke did not find such good accoramodation in Berwick on a former occasion. " Dec. 8, 1673. Duke Hamilton, and the MEMOIBS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 8S hiin,heciiimingly askedher," Who lay in this room last ?" She answered, «* If it please your grace, an honest minister, though now a prisoner." " It seems," said he, « you have a kindness for him." "Indeed have I," said she, « my lord, and would give anything in mypower to have him set at Uber- ty ; and would forgive your lordship, all my drink- money, and all that you will leave in the house, if you would befriend him ;" with which he was «o taken, that he left double drink-money, as was said. He sent quietly his master of hoiw«s, to see wherein he could do the prisoner a kindness. He gave his service to his grace, and thanked him, telUng that his owning him at this time would be no kindness, when he and Lauderdale were so hotly contending. Earle of Tweedale, take jurney for London, to present to the kingV majestie tlie grievancerfof the kingdom of Scotland, and to keep themselvee fra being miataken by the king in their actings that way. Lauderdale coropUments them at their departure ; they went not with his consent. Duke Hamilton, in his jurney to London, is necessitat to pass through Berwick, and that night aeek lodging elsewhere, in regard of the great convoy he had with him, of an 100 horse, that lenth; which the govemour wold not suffer to abyd in the city. The govemour intercepts the letters before- hand the duke had sent for London, and sent them to Lauderdale , at Edinburgh, wherAy he understood aU his and his parties pro- ject«. Lauderdale keeps great hopes of the king's favour, and tells his iavorites that Duke KamUton will come down Commissioner, Tweedal Secretar, and Sir John Harper Lord Phsident. He 8e«ms to be very Uttle concerned in all this adoc." (Law's Memori^Us, p. 56,57.) 84 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. He was now parted from his dear and loving wife, a meet helper for him indeed, in this very ease, and six small children ; and was necessitated to sell his stock for money to bear his charges, and by so doing to lay his farm lee, rendering it presently useless to his family, yea, so disabled as the way-going crop was lost, in which sad posture he left them ; the children young, insen- sible of the matter, and unfit to do for themselves, so that the whole burden was laid on the mother. Trouble and sorrow did now compass her about in this darkest hour of her twelve years night of affliction. Her soul melteth for heaviness and grief; she is now jn deep waters in a foreign land, far from her relations, friends, and acquaint- ances ; distress and desolation at home, and de. struction and death abroad ; the sad report where- of, with trembling, she expects every day, be- cause of the fury of the oppressor. This puts her en a most serious exercise, and firm resolu- tion to take God for all. He should be the hus- band, and he should be the farm ; he should be the stock and the crop ; he should be the provid- er, the food, and the raiment, the master of the family, and the father of the children; yea, she re- solved to cleave faster unto this relation than Ruth did to Naomi, for that which parted them should bring her to the greatest nearness, most insepa- rable and comfortable communion with her God. MEMOIRS 01' WILLIAM VEITCH. 85 Thus, while deep called unto deep, she held by her compass, and followed the precedents of the word. Her prayer was in this night to the God of her life, and Jacob-like, she gave it not over tiU she got a new lease of her husband's life granted her ; which, when she obtained, she wrote an encouraging letter to him at Berwick, (the weaning of her child Sarah not suffering her yet to visit him) telling him, that he should be like Isaac, with the knife at his throat, near to death ; but the Lord would find a sacrifice, and the ene- my should be restrained. She wished him also not to be anxious about his familj-, for the meal and the oil, little as it was, should not fail; not only till he returned, but also the kingdom to Israel. These instances, so clearly and convin- cingly borne in upon her, gave her good ground to say with the Psalmist, « Thy word is my comfort in all my afflictions ;" her prayers and pleadings were turned to praises, and his statutes were her songs in the house of her pilgrimage; and she was persuaded that her night would yet have a day succeeding it, wherein he would, as a special favour to her and her family, command his loving kindness. What insultings were over him and his honest hearers it were strange and tedious to rehearse ; his enemies concluding, he should trouble them and the country-side no more ; and who boasted 86 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. more than Mr. Bell, the parson of that place, * as having now accomplished his design and fore- mentioned vow ? For, meeting with a gentleman, (about two days after Mr. Veitch's transportation*) called Mr. Moor, who was a friend and hearer in the meeting-house, after other bitter invec- tives, Now, said he, this night he will be at Edin- burgh, and hanged to-morrow, according to his demerits ; and how could such a rebel as he, who did so and so, expect to escape the just judgment of God ? But though the good man was silent, and gave him no answer, yet he met with a re- markable one within three days. He being then in his journey to Newcastle, and returning to Pontiland, (a fatal place to my persecutors,) on Wednesday afternoon, falls a drinking there till about ten ot the clock at night, and then he would needs go home. But the parson of that place f urged the contrary, the night being dark and stormy, and the water big. No persuasions will prevail. He is not well got out of that town till he loses his way, and riding on, comes at length to the river Pont, where it is probable his beast • " Allenton curacy. Thomas Bell, A. M. ap. Scotos, Cur. Al- linton Ord. Deacon, Sept. 80, 1663. Joh. Stewart, 167L (Hut- diinson's Northumberland, I. Stat. Chur. 4.)— « Longhorsley Vicarage, Tho. Bdl, A.M. 21 June, 1665, Pr. Cha. D. Somerset." (Ibid, p. 46, 47.) t " Ponteland Vicarage.— Gawen Knight, A.M. 1672, P. Mort. Nansop. Vincent Edwards, A.M. 1679, P. Mort. Knight." (Hut- chinson, North. I. Stat. Chur. 55, 56.) MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 87 Stopped ; and, he alighting to find where he was, and, as the jury apprehended, moving forward to feel with his foot in the snow what stopped his passage, slipped over the brink of the river unto the armpits, where, though it was a great depth, yet the old ice bare him up ; the water, because of the two days thaw, running that deep above it ; and now the frost returns so violently, that it freezes him in. He was found two days after, standing on his feet, with his arms stretched out, his hat on, and all dry above the arms. He had wrestled much to get out, as his boots and gloves did testify, being worn with his struggling among the ice. When he was found, the rumour went ; and albeit several came to help out the dead man, yet few conducted his corpse home, or else they would never have carried him laid cross the horse, as they did, with one end of a rope about his neck, and coming under the horse belly, was tied to his feet to keep him on.* • The following is Mrs. Veitch's account of this affair. " He (Bell) was a great enemy to ray husband, because some of his hearers withdrew from him and would not hear him.— Three or four days after he was taken, one William Collinwood, who Hved in Mr. Bell's parish, came to see me. He had been once a hearer 01 his, but had withdrawn and heard my husband. He going to Mr. Bell's to pay him some tythes, I desired him to come to me back, and teU what Mr. Bell said of my husband ; for, I said, its like he may think now he hath gotten his desire accompUshed. I'm told he bad him go to Edinburgh and get a preaching, for he would be hangedagainst Tuesday. When he told me, that Scripture 88 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. This speaking dispensation made great and va- rious impressions on the people, especially those who knew how instrumental he had been in Mr. Veitch's trouble, and to show how bitter an enemy he was to the non-conformists' way, I shall only set down what he said to a parishion- er of his whom he was chiding for going to con- venticles. The man told him it v/as better to go to them than play at foot-bpjl or go to an ale- house ; to whom he tartly replied, « You had bet- was in my mind, "• Let Uiem curse but bless thou;" and that also, " He that rendereth evil for good,evil shall not depart from his house." He was just going to Newcastle when he spoke to William Col- lenwood, he stayed all night and came the next day to Pontland, where he drank till 10 o'clock at night with the curate. There was a great storm of snow on the ground, and that day there had been a thaw. He would be home that night. They took his watch from him, his horse they locked up in the stable, but all would not do. He told them, he had a good horse ; and nobody knew what way he rode, but he was found 12 [[two ?2 nights and a day afterwards standing in a water, frozen just to his arm-pits, dead ; for there came on a great frost that night. His hat was on, his band dry, his gloves on, he standing at the side of the water, had worn his boots and gloves to get out of the water. They could scarce get as many countrymen as carry him home, and getting forehammers, they brake the ice, and ty'd him on a horse and carried him to his wife. The whole country about was astonished at the dispensation, and often said to me there would none trouble ray husband again ; for they all knew that he was an enemy to my husband. I told them, they that would not take warning from the word of God would never take warning from that. That Scripturs was often borne in upon my spirit, "Rejoice not at the fall of thine enemy, lest He see it and be displeased." (MS. Memoirs, p. 57.) MEMGUIS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 89 ter drink drunk, and kill one in your way home, as go hear any of these men." Now this Mr. Thomas Bell was a Scotchman, of the meaner sort of gentry, born in the parish where the prisoner's brother, Mr. John, was mi- nister, who took him from herding, (his father being brought low,) put him to the grammar school, and got the presbytery's bursary to him when he went to the college. After his laurea- tion, and losing that benefice, he made his moan to the minister, that now he was in worse case than ever, and intreated his help for a little till he sought out a place. Upon which he wrote a letter to Torwoodlee, and some other good gen- tlemen, each of them to give him so much money at his desire, which they did ; and he, falling in company with Sir Thomas Ker of Fairly, con- tinued drinking with him some days, which irri- tated the gentlemen; and he hearing that they were sending to Mr. John Veitch to come and take their money from him again, which was like to be ill bestowed, he took straight to England, and complying with that government, obtained his parsonage. By this you may see what a bad requital he gave to the minister that did so much for him, when he persecuted his brother at such a rate. Upon the 20th of February, 1679, Major Hope, then deputy-governor of Berwick, and most of the officers there, carried the prisoner, guardec" with it MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. a company of foot before him, another behind, and they riding on each hand to the boundary, road betwixt the kingdoms, and delivered him over, with a great deal of ceremony, to the she- riflTs depute of the Merse, attended with some petty gentry, and a party of the Earl of Airly's troop of horse ; commissions from the king for so doing being read, and volleys shot on both sides. He was conducted by these, first to Ayton, where there was a treat of claret provided for the English officers ; and after they had drunk some hours there, he was carried that night to Dun- bar. The magistrates were required, in the king's name, to send eighty men to guard the house and him all night. David Hume of New- ton,* the sheriff-depute, being well acquainted with the prisoner, at his desire, sent his man quietly off to his brother, Mr. John, to meet them the next day about two or three of the clock in the afternoon at such an inn in the foot of the Canongate, where they might converse together a little before he should go to prison, which was done ; and then the sheriff carried him quietly up in a coach in the evening to the tolbooth, where • loth July, 1678. David Home of Newton was appointed a commissioner of supply for the shire of Berwick. (Act. Pari. Scot. viiL 394.) In Foontainhall's Decisions, (ii. 195, 196,) we find Edgar of Newton " bound cautioner" for David Hume " to Mr. John Veitch, minister at Foulstruther, \lWoohtrutker, as West- ruther was anciently written;] and sundry others his creditors." MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 91 he met with a very unexpected treatment. For, thinking on nothing he could purchase that night, being so late, for his accommodation, but candle for light and a stool to sit on, tiU the next day, which he desired the jailor would please cause one of his servants bring him these for payment. And he, caUing for one of them, bid him go fetch his wife, and she, after salutation, and drinking a glass of wine to the prisoner, said, "Sir, I am come to give you that compliment this night which I never did before to any prisoner, and that is, to convoy you to your chamber; " which was the only best room in the tolbooth, called Montrose's chamber, where the room was well and plenti- fully furnished, a good bed and chairs, fire, and a great candle on the table, several bottles of ale and brandy standing in a comer, wheat bread, and a great pigeon pye on a shelf, and coals laid in. When I asked how this came to be done ; she answered, « It is a thing you must not inquire about for it was ordered to be d . 3, un- der promise of secrecy, by one of the greatest la- dies in Scotland."* • It appears from the foUowing notice, that Veitch had a num- ber of warm friends in Edinburgh. " February 6, 1684. At Privy Council, James Row, George Mosman, and many others of the merehants of Edinburgh of the Presbyterian persuasion, are pur- sued ; as also Anderson of DowhiU, Craigie of Dumbamie, Oli- phant of Condee, &c. as they who, since the kst indemnity in August 1679, have frequented house or field conventicles, reset- ted fugiuve ministers or other rebeU; and particularly did con- tribute money to see if they could procure a remission from the 92 MEMOIllS or WILLIAM VEITGH. Griffith, the English lieutenant, came along with the prisoner, having an order from his Majesty to the Lords of the Treasury, to pay to Major Ogle- thorp or his order 2001ib. sterling for taking him ; but he only got llllib. English. He went to se- veral merchants in Edinburgh to return it, but none of them would; saying, it would spoil all their money * Oglethorp would have come himself, but king to Mr. William Veitch, a fanatic forfeited minister ; item, to educate and breed up Bome young itudcnts in the Presbyterian form, to be a nursery to perpetuate and hold up the schism. Some redeemed themselves by offering to take the test ; others escaped by taking the oaths of allegiance and prerogative, without any ad- ditions or limitations of their own, (which were all refused,) but as it is explained in the Assertory act, made in the parliament 1669, and which was expressly put to them. A third sort refused both, and so were committed to prison as disaffected to the govern- ment." (Fountainhall's Decisions, i. 338, 339.) • The meaning appears to be, that Griffith got L.lll in Eng* lish, and L.89 in Scottish coin, which last he wished to exchange for English, but that themerchante of Edinburgh refused this, on account of the badness of the money issued by government at that period. This last fact is established by a process before the Court of Session in 1682 and 1693, against Lord Halton (then Earl of Lauderdale) for malversations as Ute General of the Mint, " in making the fineness below the standard," &c. (Fountainhall's De- cisions, 1. 18*.) In Halton's defences, it was pleaded, inter alia, that he was discharged and pardoned by the general indemnity; for " this oblivion and indemnity in 1679 is more ample than any of them, being drawn in the most ample and comprehensive terms de- viseable, as mainly designed to secure Lauderdale and his party for the Highland army that they sent in upon the West in 1678, &c. and the pardoning the rebels who rote at Bothwell Bridge was but a sham and colour to draw on the other. " The Lords sustained this plea, and, upon that ground, altered an interlocutor which they had already given in the cause ; *'Jor after serious deliberation they MKMOII18 OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 98 was called back by an express from Berwick to London ; and, coming to ask the prisoner what service he had for him there, he said there was one kindness he would beg if he would do him it, viz. that he would write a letter to Lauderdale, and inclose it to him by the post, if he would de- liver it, which he frankly promised. Then said the prisoner, « You must order me paper, pen, and ink, that I may write it."—" Yes," said he, " but you must read it to the governor ; and if he like it, seal it, and he will send it me." When the go- vernor read it, he says, « Will you indeed send this to my lord ? If so, your circumstances are not 80 bad as men think." But he, instead of sending it to London, sent it out to Colonel Strother ; and they afterward sent it to the Major ; but he deli- vered it not till several days after the prisoner had durst not make too hold with the loosing of this act of indemnity " (Ibid. pp. 808, 209.) ^ It may be added, that the exchange of money between the two kingdoms was, at that time, a matter of considerable difficulty A Mr. Mertin, sent ii. 1683 from the protestant lords at London to Scotland, brought an unsubscribed letter in the hand-writine of Jerviswood (who was then in England) to Lady Tarras, his niece desiring her to transmit to him some money which he had left with her. This, at Mertin's desire, was given to Torwoodlee. " When Torwoodlie (says the Earl of Tarras, in his deposition on the trial ofSu-JohnCochrane,&c.)hadgottenthemoneyofJerveswoodsbe. fore spoakenofffrom my servant, he layd it by, and asked me if It was in English money. I said, it was the same I supposed he f. wf/ ^l TV ^' '"'•*' •' ^'^ "'"^ "«"«'•• he would send It to Wi 1 Veitch who would have a cair to get English money for nim. (Act. Pari. Scot. viii. App. 36, 37.) 94 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. been at Edinburgh, and written a second letter to Lauderdale mentioning that. When it came the Duke was in passion, and said, for any gentleman to promise to do a prisoner a kindness, and not to make it good, was a base and unbecoming treat- ment.* On the 22d of February, 1679, he is brought be- fore a committee of the council, whereof Sharp, the archbishop of St. Andrews, was preses. As he was coming along the pavement, the Earl of Mar's gentleman came to him from his master, desiring him to give the archbishop his titles ;f * It is gratifying to record instances of humanity in the rulers of that time. " October 5, 6, and 7, 1 680.— Robert Curry, writer, being hound as cautioner, to present a man who was im- prisoned upon suspicion as one of the rebels, but bailed by him to this council day ; and the man bein^ very sick and like to die, Robert, to exoner himself, did cause bring him from his own house, carried by five or six people on a bed, and brought him to the Privy Council doors, and took instruments on his presentation, to free himself. The Chancellor and Council took this rude and cruel usage of the poor sick man so ill, that they commanded Curry to prison, seeing he might, by a bill, have represented it, aud got him- self liberate." (Fountainhall's Decisions, i. 113.) t The refusal of these had been severely resented. Mr. Alexan- der Smith, minister at Cowend, who had been driven from his charge in 1663, was brought before the High Commission Court « for preaching privately, and giving Bishop Sharp only Sir."— He was put in the thieves' hole with a madman ; and, when the sympathy of the people of Edinburgh followed him there, the bishops caused remove nim to another room where he sickened. He was then banished to Shetland, where, for four years, his only food was of barley, and his fUel sea-tangle. In 1667, he was MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 95 that would prove a likely mean to prevail with the bishop for his liberty. He, giving his service to the Earl, answered, that he resolved to act accord- ing to his light. The bishop put many questions to him, to see if he could ensnare him, which were urged by Paterson, the bishop of Edinburgh. One whereof was, « Have you taken the covenant ?" He answered, « All that see me at this hon-nra- ble board may easily perceive that I was no. ca- pable to take the Covenant, when you and the other ministers of Scotland tendered it." At which the whole company fell a laughing, which nettled the bishop. « But," says he, "did you never take the covenant since :>" To which he replied, « I judge myself obliged to covenant myself away to God, and frequently to renew it." At which Pa- terson stood up and said, « My lord, you will get no good of this man ; he's all for evasion. But," said he, « was not you at Pentland fight'" To which he replied, « If you will give me power and hberty to seek witnesses to prove it, I was alibi •" having been all night and that morning at Edin- burgh. Many other questions they posed him with; and Hugh Stevenson, the under clerk wrote all. ' Being put out a considerable time, he was called in,andthebishopsaid,«Hearyourconfessionread." Sv ' mLf "It/ '''""" '' ^''"^"^«^> «"d ordered to "rkney. (Kirkton, 208, 209. Wod. i. 176, 280, 291.) 9(J MEMOias OF WILLIAM VEITCH. Many sentences they had interlined to make him a criminal, which, as he heard, he denied he had spoken such words, and refused to subscribe his confession when they desired him.* « What," says the bishop, " will you not subscribe your own confession ?" — " Not I," said the prisoner, " except you write it in mundo without your ad- ditions ;" at which they were like to be irritated. But my Lord Lithgow, sitting next the prisoner on the one side of the table, and Lundie, after- ward Earl of Melford, (who had been influenced to favour him,) sitting upon the other side, speaks over to Lithgow ; upon which he says to the arch- bishop, « My Lord St. Andrews, cause write it in mundo to the young man." So he was put out again, and it written over ; and being called in, it was read over to him ; and when laid before him to subscribe, he begged liberty to read it over himself before he could subscribe it, which was granted. They found nothing in it whereof to accuse him, so they remanded him to prison.t The archbishop did little more in public after that, being within a few days cut off at Magus Muir, as history wiii tell. * A similar device was employed in the case of Mr. Gabriel Semple; but whether from the motive which he apprehended, or at the instigation of some friend who wished to bring him off, may admit of a doubt. ( Wodrow, ii. 1 75.) + On the 2Sth of February the Council appoint£d Mr. Vcitch to be sent to the Bass, but it does not appear that this order was carried into execution. (Wolty of high treason ™ay t pZ^ hei^re the Justices, albeit they be absentand contumaL^f^S the Justices, upon citation and sufficient probation and^Wde^ n,J?, Jf^ ^ *" '**P' "" "^^ Of Parliament was afterwards I^^h u ''^'' ""•* *" P"««» «°d sentence against Veitch auer^ nV*. "'" " *^ circumstances described In the a^t queiy. OVodrow, i. 267, 268, App. p. 109, no • Acts of Parlia 1669 wJi' i P"^«^^hon, or any other crime, before the year 1669, were from the beginning null and void;" restored "^I pe«ons, or their representatives, so forefaulted by thTju^cest "^^t:^ ^^^-^-l^^'^r.s...uL Of ^""^ v«„* k r~"*'""'* Ker of Kersland, and Mr. William Veatch, minister of the tromu>] •" o«j w. • j J , 'T'lmara 1**1/1 uie gospel, and rescinded the act of tiArlu (Act. Pari. Scot. IX. 199, 200.) -uiiure-,. H m MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCK. «Dd tenants to Sir Tho^iias Wallace of Graigie, ^ue of the Lords of tiiki Justice Court, who took par- tjicular notice of the things and he himself deda* red they never did well after, one of them falling into murder, the other into adultery, upon whicti hoth fled, and were never heard of, their families broken and ruined* The murderer was since foufid and hanged at £ldinburgh. Some said Uiat he was taken that very day that Mr. Veitch was re- leased by a sentence of banishment ; and yet upon this soitence in absence must the prisoner die without granting him a new trial ; and the 18th day of March is appointed for the sitting of the court, and the intimation thereof, viz. the sen- tence ; but the perplexedness of the case occasions an adjotimment until the 8th of April.* The prisoner wrote to his friend Lauderdale ; and some ladies obtained a letter from archbishop Patersdh to the Duke in his favour ; and his bro- tW, Sir William, brought it open to the prison- er, and read it, being very well penned, directed to Dr. Hicks; his chaplain, to present, which the prisoner's messenger did at night ; and, coming next morning for an answer^ Hicks showed him a letter per post, forbidding him to deliver it; so he returned to Shaftesbury, and the bishop cheat- ed the ladies. -,*'# * Several documents relating to this process will be found in the Appendix. MEMOins OF WILT.IAJI VEITCH. - In the mean time the prisoner's case was re- presented to the Earl of Shaftesbury by his pa. pers, a messenger, viz. Mr. Gilbert Elliot,* beinir »Bnt therewith, containing the sentimente both of Enghsh and Scotch lawyers, all of them declarinff toe lUegalness of the procedure against him in both kingdoms ; as also a testimony of two ius- ^ces of the peace in Northumberland, witnessing how long and how peaceably he had lived there! AU which being patiently considered by that ju^ Bhlf^f^t^^^ "i ^"'^''^* ■"•* afterwMd.of Mintoand Head- 80»w, (Act. Pari. Scot. viii. S42, xi. 259—261 462 Aim loo \ Act. Pari. Scot. vm. 480, App. 44, &c. Wodrow, ii 492 49r .V .hJL, . *" ^^""^^^ **" '^^''^ '>««•««« the examinatort at^led to meet with him, till he &« ahewed his ^7 cU, and had extensive practice as an advocate, f Act P*rl JW |X. 166 211 290 ; xi. 140.) On the 28thTjune7r;rt; ^^^^ bs seat ,„ the Court of Session by the title of Lord S. "^^ Hailes, Catalogue, p. 15.) Wodrow (ii. 493.) says, he was al.« one of the Lords of Justiciary. ^ *^^ When Lord Minto visited Dumfries, of which Mr Veitch «f ! dd ml S''\'^^''^"'""' '^ "^^*^-P«"* «om:tim!t^HI old friend, when their conversation often turned on the periUo? their former life. On these occasions, his lordship JaslL tomed facetiously to say, « Ah I WiUie, WilUe • hS k w tl io. L ^ ''' ^'"''^ ''^^'^' " Ah .' Gibbie, Gibbie hadh too MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. dicioiu and renowned patriot the Earl of Shaftes- bury, he influences Prince Rupert, the Duke of Monmouth, with several other great persons, to join with him in petitioning the King for sending him back again to England to be tried there ; and that because he was an English subject, having lived so long in the kingdom ; that tlie laws were affronted in his removal, and this practice would make men expect little security from them ; and that it was more expedient to liberate, preserve, and encourage protestant ministers, than to take their lives at s^ch a juncture as this, when so horrid a popish plot is discovered for the ruin of the protestant interest, lest his Majesty should be thought a compiler therewith. Notwithstanding all the arguments made use of by these great persons for bringing him back to be tried in England, yet the King would by no means grant it. For the Duke of Monmouth (upon the King's saying that he thought by this time he would be execute, and deserved more deaths than one if his information was true,) said to his Majesty that he might yet be retrieved ; but the King answered, " I have written with my own hand to execute him ; and what I have writ- ten I have written." In this he acted like Pilate to the Jews. Upon this the Earl of Shaftesbury told his Majesty, that seeing the petition of so many of the greatest peers in England now stand- ing before him, for a thing so just and equitable, could not be granted, the new parliament for in- MEMOIRS OP WILLIAM VEITCH. 101 quiring into the popish plot was now sittinir down;* and no person that they found guilty, Presbyterian or other, should escape death, if the parliament would take his advice, and the lords now before the King; and then his Majesty should have pears for plumbs. Upon this Shaftesbury sent his servant to Mr. il'Iliot, who was waiting on, to go to the Parlia- ment door, and distribute to the members as they went m the doubles of these petitions ; and the lords takmg their leave of the King, followed af- ter ; and seeing the members standing here and there reading them, Shaftesbury asked their lord- ships jvhat they were reading? When they told him, he answered, « O, my lords, is that the text ? Come, 1 11 give you the sermon upon it ;" and, so telhng them the case of that minister as it stood m law, he influenced them to say, that if it be truly so, we'll pass an order immediately when we sit down for his remanding. Upon which one of the Tori^ (for the house then was made up of Tory, Whig, and Trimmer,) taking the petition m his hand, went instantly to the King, and tell- mg all that he had heard from the Earl of Shaftes- bury about that person, begged his Majesty to consider the thing; for this was not his sixteen yeaw old parliament, and he knew not what thev would do ; and it was dangerous for his Majesty, lOS MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. upda SO mean an account, to set two kingdoms hy the ears. Therefoi e he begged that he would pre* sently send for Lauderdale to dispatch an expreat for Scotland to stop all procedure against the crit nunal^ and he would report it to the lords to take them oif their resolved measures ; which was donei And» which is to be noted, this letter came to the hand of the Justice-General Tarbet, (he being providentially stopped by the Earl of Pertfa» who, at ten of the clock, took him up stairs again when he was coming to the court, and kept him till it was after, eleven,) just as he was entering the Parliament close, where the Lord Tarbet stood and read it at great hisure ; and then going through the throng, many standing in the pave- ment to see the issue of that business, and bi^ holding the criminal's brother, Mr. JcAm, called him and told, *' Now I can give you better ne\ra of your brother than I could in the morning, when you were with me ; for he has relinquished Lauderdale, and taken himself to Shaftesbury and the parliament of England ; and they are like to briiag him off, and I am going to dissolve the court" You may observe here how exactly this answered the prophetical letter he got at Ber<- wick. a«f>^ The prisoner's brother, and Mr. Thomas Rtgg,^« his agent, ran like Cushi and Ahimaaz, who should first tell the prisoner the good news, which was very surprising to the prisoner, but not so much to his wife ; for, though shfe often fell into MEMOins OF WILLIAM VEITCH. IdS fitfi of weeping, yet she had interludes of hope, saying, « I am often thinking that this day M^ill produce what t saw !" Iliis, indeed, gave the great stop to the rage of the persecutors, but the prisoner was not yet re- Jeased, but still kept in close prisoh, which gave him ground to fear that the storm would return. And thei* fell out sueh things within a short time as increased these fears ; such as the killing of the Bishop at Magus Moor, remarkable for the way of it, for the instruments that did it went out that morning from their houses with no such thought or design, for they had combined toge- ther that morning to be avenged upon one .. Carmichaid, who was put in conjunct Sheriff-De- pute by the King's order to his council in Scot- land, obtained by tlie archbishop, for the more vigorous, or rather rigorous, execution of their ini- quitous laws, for compelling all to come to church and comply with the government* Now this Carmichael had ruined several families by taking their com, cattle, and all they had from them, so that hearing he was to hunt in Coupar fields, they were resolved that day to be aveng- ed on him ; and whUe they were coming up the fields that day, toward the hunters, they from suspicion and fear^ leaving the dogs, rode to Gou- par for their safety. Upon which the pur- * Proofs of the activity of the archbishop and his clergy, in •tirnng up the government to severe measures against the non- coBfomiists, will be found in tlie Appendix. 104 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. Buen turned aside toward Magus Moor, with an intention to dissipate themselves ; and call- ing at a house for drink, the bamman came out to talk with them, (being it seems of their acquaintance) and said, " O, gentlemen, yonder is a prize for you ; if you have missed the one, you may hit the other who is the cause of all your trouble. Bishop Sharp is just going by, and J see none riding with him but one servant, HAnd you may easily do his business/' Upon which it seems they resolved on the enterprize ; only Hackston pf Rathillet (who was afterward hanged, drawn, and quartered for the thing) would not go with them, telling them it would be thought revenge, for the bishop and he had fallen out but the other day about his teinds, so desired to be excused. The rest went on, and one of them rid- ing faster than the rest stopped the coach, by cut- ting the harness. They shot several pistols at him while he was in the coach, at length pulling him out, Burley, a petty gentleman, one of these that had been so miserably spoiled and mined, having a brazen blunderbuss charged with seve- ral musket bullets, fired it so near his breast, as that his gown, clothes, and shirt, were all burned : At which he fell down flat upon his face, and they thinking they had made a window through his body, and that he was undoubtedly killed, went pway, leaving his daughter, who only was in the coach with him, crying beside him. But it happen- MEMOIBt) OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 105 «d that one of them being alighted on the far side of the coach to tie his girth, and hearing the daugh- ter calling to the coachman to help up her father, for he was yet alive, rode after the party, and teul ing them the story, and that if he lived they would be worse than if they had killed him ; they turn- ed back, and the foresaid Burley, as it is said, came up to him lying flat on his face on the' ground, and putting his hat off with his foot, struck him on the head till his brains were seen ; at which giving a great cry he presently expirl ed. They searched his pockets and found the King's letter empowering him and the Council to execute these cruelties ; as also a little purse in which they found two pistol buUets, a little ball made up of all colours of silk, bigger than an or- dmary plumb, and a bit of parchment the breadth and length of one's finger, with two long words written upon it, which none could read; the characters were like Hebrew or Chaldaic. These they brought with them, but meddled neither with his gold, money, or watch.* , • It isBingular to observe how differenUy persons think and ex- press themselves respecting deeds of assassination, according as the victim happens to be of their own party or of the opposite. Claren- don charges the parliamentary officers as guilty of murder in try- ing and shooting Sir Charles Lucas, who had, with his own hand, put some soldiers to death in cold blood, and enga«ed in an msurrection whUe a prisoner on parole. (History of Re- belhon, V. 339, foL edit. Brodie's History of the BriUsh Em- pire, ,v. U6, ii7.) But when he comes to relate the second 106 VtfeMOiRN OF WIM.IAAI VKITCH. The rmmdl met upon the ti&iht, ami it \Mng shortly aft&f tiin ^ ^^ere txatnination of Mr Veltch, which made people talk that he designed his exe- cution ; it made the rumour go that he would hi hvougfat out and sacriAced to his ghost; which came to the prisoner's ears, and could not but oc- casion thoughtfulness thereanent. The council sent two surgeons to view his and Bucceufu}. attempt to aMaatinate the parliamentary officer. Co- lonel Rainsborough, " Mre. Macaulay remarki, that Clarendon, to hla eternal inflimj, qiphradi every dronmitance of the fotil, un- manly deed." (Brodie, It. 187 ; ClaraDdon, r. UiS, 856.) The reaikr may consult Brodie (ir. 964.) for the account of the mu|i> del I Dr. Dorislaus at the Hagae, and Oldmixon (Critical Hist, i. «sjj ) for that of Avcham, reiidentfor the parliament at MadHd, of V horn Clarendon (who was then in Spain) speaka in a manner not very crediuble to himself. The followhig letter ot' Lord Ar- lington, and the accompanying statement of a sUundi cavalier, dibw that others beddes PresbyterUns can interpret diTine Jodg- "»">«•. ' ■ .. !i kitiu " WhUehal, Septem. 8. C;i6;]6*.— Mv Loan, The News Book will tell your Excellency a strange story of Lisle, the Usurper's keeper, which is in erery Word true; and the obsenratioii of It very well made, tJiat God Almighty's Jnitie^ would not let thtise viUains go quietly ? their grave." (Arlington's Letters, ii. p. 43.) " August the SI St, that notorious regicide Lisle, overtaken by di- vine vengeance at Lausanne, where the miserable wretch was shot dead by the galUntry of three Irish gentlemen, who atteto^^ted the surprisal of him and four more impiousparriddes." (Wharton's Geeta BriUnnonim, p. i04, apud Biog. Brit. v. i. p. SOSS, Lcmdon, t70O.)— Speaking of Captain Mannings a spy of Cromwell, the au- thor of Enghnttt Triumph (p. 69) iaya, '* one of his Majesty's servants (though contn - to orders) pistoled him ; which, though it cftue fir shwt of hif d> . -t y*'*^ wad not so well done, in sending the devil his due before hi*' iv. - ti gcnt'8 name was Mr. Kdward Thomson. (Records of tlie Uni- versity of St. Andrews.) Having, with his brother-in-law, BailHe Uaddoway, accompanieeople on their dismission^, (Oichton's Blackader, 811, «ia, sis.) A collection of Poems and verstti by Lieutenant-Colonel Clelland, was printed Anno l)on». 1697, in IVmo. They are chiefly in the HudiUraslic style, and discover etmsiderable talent. MKMOIRH OF WIM.IAM VFJTCH. 109 Lord RoHi and Claverhoiwe, if LIthgow came aot quickly to their relief. ' The iitorm did increase by the gathering of the we.t country people, which no frightened the Court that the Duke of Monmouth and neveral *.ngli«h force« came down from England to their aRsistance and the suppression of the Whigs The prisoner wrote out a letter to Mr. David Hume and the other ministers there, sewed with- in the «ole of a woman's shoe, who carried it and delivered ,t. intreating them, if by any means they could, to accommodate the matter upon any reasonable terms as quickly as possible, (the Duke of Monmouth intending tenderness for them) lest the divisions that were begun among them should expose them to greater ruin. But they not hitting it among themselves, ere they went to Monmouth at Bothwell Bridge, made it uneasy and unlikely to compound it with him • and so they were broke, and many brought in prisoners to Edinburgh. It cannot be denied but Monmouth was as ten- der and careful to avoid blood-shed as possibly he could ;* and obtained an universal indemnity forab .,,„,,,^ .nouth a) licence or paw. The Council found that the Gen'nU h^ no power to grant licence of absence till they had bv tW..l ancc at their colours, put themselves under L^ll^d T^n 110 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. to all that had been there, and all other prisoners upon certain conditions, which severals, especially ministers, could not come up to. One of them was that the ministers should never preach without liberty givt^n; and though the I>uke# upon Shaftesbury's recommendation, inserted Mi*. Veitch's name among the ministers that were toi be liberated, when the roll was read before the Council table, Bishop Paterson rose up and op- posed it ; saying, he was brought from England upon other heads, and so cannot be comprehend- ed here. It being put to a vote he was ex- cluded. ;.„ From what is said, it may be seen what grounds of fear the prisoner had notwithstanding the foresaid stop ; for now he saw no probable out- gate. But what follows teaches us tiiat man sees not as God seeth, for that which the enemy thought to destroy him by, viz. their instigating Lauderdale more violently against him, bwjause he had taken himself to Monmouth and Shaftes- •i ; . X rq;ard " Monmouth was a stranger, they excused these gentlemen for this time, but would not sustain it hereafter. There was great ground to suspect their licences were obtained ex post facto." (Fountainhall's Decisions, i. 117.) Ladv Melville produced to the Lords of Articles, a declaration under the hand of the Duke of Monmouth, warranting Lord Melville to send a messenger ** to the rebells armie to Mr. John Welsh and Mr. David Home, and tell them Arom him that they might send a petition to the Duke of Monmouth, and that they might expect good conditions." (Act. ParL Scot viii. App. p. S7 — *».) MKMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. HI bury'8 side, God's providence did work the con- tr»iy to what they purposed. For the Duke of Monmouth, seeing he could not deliver the pri- soneri rose in a passion from the Council-table. telhng the Chancellor and the rest, that, seeing they treated him so unkindly in excluding that person, he was now going post for Loudon, and It should be the first business he would bow his knee tti the king for. «K Here it is to be considered that Shaftesbury; who was president of the Council of England, and his party, had sent down Monmouth to Scot- land with a design to break Lauderdale's interest there ; for which cause Lauderdale had a con- stant spy upon him while he was here, to see if he could find hiifa trip in any piece of his manage, ment. Here likewise it is to be considered that Didfe Hamilton and Lauderdale lying at this time by the ears at court, Laudwdale had by the King*« order sent for several who had the trust under him in Scotland, for justifying his govern- ment, viz. the Lord Tarbet, Justice-General; old Stairs, President of the Session ; Sir George Mac- kenzie, King's Advocate; the Lord Glendoick, Clerk-Register; and Sir Thomas Wallace of Crai- gie, Justice-Clerk. * These persons were to ans- wer Hamilton's grievances, and satisfy the King. The prisoner's case coming in among these, • and these great persons among themselves dis- * See Fountainhairs Decisions, i. 13. lis MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. coursing upon it, Stairs, who was the prisoner's underfriend always, though apparently an enemy, did demonstrate to them, that in law they could not justify the taking of the prisoner's life : Glen- doick and the Justice-Clerk did second him, and so persuaded the rest to comply with their turning his sentence of death into banishment : and that it was fit they should jointly acquaint Lauderdale with their sentiments, that he and they might represent it to the King; which when they did, he told them it would not do well yet ; the King being hot upon it, and stirred up thereto by the Duke of York, and he by the priests in Northumberland, where the prisoner had been a preacher, his Majesty behoved to have some weeks for cooling and putting it out of his mind, and then they would do it. All this was done, as my Lord Stairs told the pri- soner some years after in Holland, before Mon- mouth was sent to Scotland, but was kept secret among themselves, and not as yet made known to the King. But the good providence of God put an un- expected opportunity in their hand; for my Lord Stairs, as he afterwards told him, having the draught of the prisoner's sentence of banishment in his pocket for several weeks together, which was consented to by the rest, waiting the season of the King's being in an humour for that effect ; he happened to visit Lauderdale that week Mon- MEMOIHS OP WILLIAM VEITGH. Ug niouth took post from Scotland, and that h«™y, had sent him an account what Monmouth S«i an. 1 r ^ "r"" <« ^» <« he saw the to rL^ ''"''^''^'"•'S ^'''^ •"«« to State toread, he says, "Now. ray lord, Monmouth is upon h.s way, and is like to relieve this prisoner fortheK '"..^' *"■ ^'"" ">«»»% to se„d for the King s Advocate, and the rest o{ the lords ^ho are her«, and we will get this se„,*nce^ bamshment out of the kingdom past upouhim before Monmouth come up; and if thr&C have any scruple about it, his advocate and «! other lords will dear him thereanent. This^dll be for our credit and stop the mouths ofT^ Scotland who reflect on our severity ; andtf h" come and doit, the dirt will lieu^k J. To whjch Lauderdale replies, - On my conscience w^^ wm do It, and Monmouth shall not have the h^ nom- and credit of it. Well send for ftfloS instant^, and tell the King a new story tLt^, make h,m do it;» which they did; the I^ superscribing and Lauderdale'^subsJriML th! new sentence ; and also an order from the^K^ to h,s ConncJ, to put the same in execution n^ »o:.h™:ix;;°s: u::s''~ *° ?' r* -'»■' »""- by Sir John RmsbTwLTj h' , '".S^o'tod, is contanri 114 M£MOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. sight. My lord Stairs sends for Mr. Elliot, the prisoner's agent, and delivers it to him. At this time was there also an order granted for the relieving Sir Patrick Hume of Polwart out of the Castle of Stirling, and a third for re- moving the sentence of James Stewart, that so he might appear in public again. The three agents thinking it was too expensive for all of them to ride post, they cast lots which of the three should do it, and it fell upon Polwart's agent, a Merse gentleman, who came by Mr. John Veitch, and bringing him in with him, they went to the Chancellor Rothes, who called the council, wherein they past an order to, the lords of Justiciary to call the prisoner before them, and intimate the new sentence, which they did next day, and so he was released. * This deliverance was very remarkable, if we consider that it was done by Lauderdale out of a ♦ " Jvly 28, 1679.— Mr. William Veitch, who had been forfeit in absence for being in the rebellion in 1666, and many ministers who were in prison, were all liberated by virtue of the King's pardon, indulgence and indemnity; and if Mr. William had been reponed to his defences, or needed them, it was alleged the decreet of forfeiture pronounced against him, upon a pro- bation taken in absence of his being in the Pentland rebeUion 1666, had a material nullity ; viz. that the executor of the ditty of treason, and the witnesses were not sworn in Court upon the truth of the execution. 2do, The ditty was not executed at his dwell- ing-house, which he had before the said rebellion and rising in arms."— In the case of Macdowall of French and others, 9th February 1680, " the witnesses to the execution were sworn." (Fountainhall's Decis. i. 54, 83.) MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. I15 mere antipathy to Monmouth, which pushed him on. not only to do it. but to do itTfo« h" shou d reach the Court ; and also upon Z t yet He could never have done it • vpf fj.o* k • i und^,.asthesp.n«:h:'re:''ir the u,urt, • York and Lauderdale iaving prevail «l w,th the King to debar him and ofderiTm had not fallen out, the prisoner in all likelih™^ ^dp«,shed; therefore he ought to ^mi^':^ cry out as long as he lives, " O the depth of fte wjsdom. mercy, and goodness of GoSl hh Zt^'7 "rr""""^' "-^ "'^ ""^^ P-t find- ing out ! Next, If we wiU consider that the suffer er had not only the enemies to that inte,^^t ^^^ fax.gdom, but in both to grapple with. In the tC Place,rfwe consider howeagerly,and withal treaZ • This stafement is not altogether comet ■ fn. itr appears to have had several interviews'^ h th^ r"""."* he returned from Scotland /n ! ., ^ ^*"^' *^*«'' Times, ii. 269, 270.) He left EdfnH t ^ "' ^" »"" at Windsor on the ilth Vn 7 ^'^'"''"'«^ °» *« 6th July, wag great trust th" he ,1^1;^- ' ''*'/\^ ^"^' '' ^- *J»«» Counsellor, James DuK n ^" T''^^ ^^''"^ «>""« «"d aCommis^ont'umtbfca"^^^^^ Scotland. (Wod- 0? iT 73 ,T ^ ^T** "^ *" '^' ^«'<«« « in September, aTte The !£ Jf^!??; ''' ,?^« "^ ^^^^drawn on occasion o^ the IWs relit "^ ' !iT^ ^""^ *' ^^"*'"««' »«; Carte's CW^I. 4 ^^"ir"^^'^^^^ ^'''^™"'"'' 116 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. erously, the prelates sought his life ; an instance whereof Paterson, bishop of Edinburgh, gave, (as formerly mentioned) when the prisoner's blood was laid at his door by some worthy ladies, being the person that appeared most against him. He, to take off the odium, writes a very plain and urgent letter to Lauderdale's chaplain. Dr. Hicks, to show his lord in the prisoner's favour. He sends it up to the prison with his brother Sir William, and reads it to the prisoner and his friends, and seals the same, delivering it to him to give his agent, who was taking post for London ; and, in the mean time, by the public post, writes a contrary one, discharging him to show it, as the agent at his arrival discovered.* And, lastly, if we consider how highly they in- censed the King by their misinformations, so that he wrote down three several letters with his own hand to the criminal lords to dispatdi him, as can be made good. Now, that after all this he should escape, and that by a letter from the King ordering to release him, as has been said, is such a thing as will not find many parallels in his- tory. Besides all the other troubles which attended him and his family through the forfeitry and giv- ing away of what they had in Scotland, and the * Other instances of such conduct^ on the part of the clergy of that time, may be seen in Wodrow, ii. 458, 513, 514. MEMOIllS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. II7 many removings from place to place occasioned by the prelates and their abettors, this sore trial involved him in great debt, being so expensive a busmess every way. It is well known also that It was the Lord's blessing other means that he was necessitated to follow for the maintenance of his family, being in a poor country side, that kept them together; for what the people gave was never able to do it ; and it was his wife's obser- vation, that things came never in so plentifully nor went so far, as when they had most strangers ;* their house being a restiug and refreshing place tor the wandering and weather-beaten flock of Christ. . His return home to his dwelling house in Eng- land made glad his friends, and more than for- merly galled his adversaries, so that Daniel Col- hngwood. Esquire,* and Justice of the Peace in a meeting at Morpeth with Sir John Penwick and others, would needs have him taken again had they not put him off, which debate ocfcasion- ed a friend immediately to write to Mr. Veitch and advise him to retire for a season ; there be^ mg httle access to redress such irregularities as • This gentleman obtains a place in Andrew Marvell's list of abourers in parhament, in the design of popery and arbitrary power. "^er^.^ck Daniel Collingwood, Esquire, a court jj^y ^ pensio^r of L 300 per annum. Governor of Holy Island. (M„- (ttntZl ''\'V-. ^" ''''' ^' ^asm^ber for Mo^th. (Hutchinson's North, ii. 294,.) *^ 118 MEMOIRS OP WILLIAM VEITCH. they might commit. Upon which information he withdrew a considerable time, and after his re- turn made his acquaintance more westward in the English borders, where he frequently preached, viz. Keilderhead, Wheel-causeway, Dead-water, &c. What wonderful success the preaching of the word has had, by ministers retiring thither under persecution, in order to the repressing, yea almost extinguishing these feuds, thefts, and robberies, that were then so natural to that place and people, is worth a singular and serious observation. These news ought to be matter of joy and thanksgiv- ing to all the truly godly in Britain, that though the ark, the glory and goings of our God, be, alas ! too, too much removed from Shiloh, Ephra- tah, the ingrounds, the places of greater outward plenty and pleasure, yet that he is to be found in the borders of those lands, in the mountains and fields of the woods. Some of the gentry on both sides of the borders commissionate to repress such enormities, have been forced both to see and say, that the Gospel has done that which their most severe execution of the laws could never accom- plish. And is not such a change worthy a re- mark? to see a people who used to ride un- weariedly through the long winter nights to steal and drive away the prize, now, upon the report of a sermon, come from far, travelling all night to hear the Gospel ; yea, some bringing their children along with them to the ordinance of MEMOIKS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. Ug baptism, although the landlord threaten to eject ,"Ae ^tenant, and the master the servant for Jdt Mr. Veitch having returned home again, bv a sent^ce of banishment, to his family Z friel! »d resolvij^f to carry on his ministerial work a StantonhaU. as he did formerly, is forced, as ha« promulgated, except in the coUection of tithes rSr ifrJ^ fi, I'rfe, pp. 51, 52, MS. penes the Reverend Dr T « p^- u ^If From a Jacobite account of 11 t ^^^' Edinburgh.) semblvi«on «; *'^''**""*5 *^ Proceedings of the General As- 120 MEMUIUH 0¥ WILLIAM VEITC'H. been just hinted, by the malicious designs of the justices of the peace, and others of thht kid- ney in the country, who were resolved to take him right or wrong, to retire into the western borders, where he exercised his ministry to the people of both sides of the borders, Scots and English ; keeping always the place of meeting upon the English ground, for fear of the Scotch 'iforces, who were sent to Teviotdale, under the fcommand of Meldrum and others, who much 'haunted Teviotdale and the Merse, to break all kneetings upon the Scotch side. It is worthy our noticing, that among other things that gave occasion to the sending of these forces, was some reflections that were cast in Lauderdale's teeth; that though he had made an act of Parliament* for punishing all the land- lords upon whose grounds meetings should be kept, yet it proved for several years ineffectual. And it happened at the time of the making of that act, that Mr. Veitch being at Hume, meeting with several preachers of the fields, and several other gentlemen to whom the news of that act was sent out, after several of that meeting had given their I suspect it should be Act of Council, April 86, 1676, which extended the provisions of a proclamation of the 8th April 1669 to the whole kingdom, ordaining " all heritors to be Uable to the fines above specified, (L.50 sterling, totien quoUes) in case any conventicle be kept on the ground of their lands, or in houses be- longing to them." ( Wodrow, i. 41 » ; comp. p. 300, ) MEMOIIIS OF WILIIA « VJincU. Igl 8entin.ei,t of it. thinking it would effectually break all meetings, and were lamenting the sad providence, they asked Mr. Veitch, what he thought proper to be done in this case. His l^r*",* """l "'""'^ Lauderdale had been the author of such a maUcious act, the best requital he thought could be given, was to set up pubHc field meetings in hi, bounds. They all iTk^ tL overture well, but were at a st Jt to falo' that would venture to begic, and bell the cat (as LTd r> '• ""* '" ''" "P"- '"Portuning h.m to do It, seeing he lived in another country for the present. After their refusal of several excuses he made, « Well." says he, " gentleme^ It you be so unanimous and forward for the thine seeing I proposed it. upon the condition ye wiU stTt «\"'k"1'"'" P""""'*' ' *"' -»»^ to et It up Sabbath next, at the Blue Cairn in Lau- der moor;* and you may warn them if you Please from Dan to Beersheba to be there." And *e meeting that day. at that place, was comput- ed to be above four thousand hearers ; and it was o ™,bly blessed of God, that it raised a spirit Tf zeal and forwardness both in ministers and people rampart of stones." mnTZ^^fe^ si ^^^?>.Y " """^"^ ledonia, ii. 70.) ^ ^' ^' ^^' "''"'^ Chalmers's Ca- II i M 1 1 122 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. in that country ; both to keep up that meeting, and set up several others in the Merse and Ti- viotdale, to the great advantage of religion for many years. And Mr. Veitch promised at that time, that, before that meeting should fall, upon their acquainting of him, he would come and help them to support it, which he frequently did. And it is a step of providence worth the observa- tion, that after King William's happy Revolu- tion, he was the first minister appointed to preach at Lauder church, (being appointed by the coun- cil, and by the great and good Earl of Craw- ford personally, to go and declare it vacant) where there was a vast confluence of people met upon the report of it to see the happy change ; but the lady Lauderdale hearing of it, caused neidnail * all the church doors and win- dows, that there might be no access for such ministers. In this posture Mr. Veitch found the church when he came, the lady and the magistrates of the town all retired, so that he could find no magistrate to open the church doors. When he was in this strait, several of his old hearers sent him word quietly that they would make open doors if he would allow them, which he did. And so, in the bringing the ark from Ephratah — from the fields of the wood, into the church and house of God, the pro- * Fasten with nails. MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 123 per seat of it, it proved such a day of weeping a«d singing as the like had not been seen here- thf r.;*^T^f ''' ^'"'"""^ ""^ P^^^hing upon the 182nd Psalm, and the text he preached upon was verse 8. « Arise, O Lord, into thy rest." ihis meeting at the Blue Cairn, after several years, and the importunity of the godly people about Berwick and the east-end of the l^e was removed to Fogo-moor for their better con' vemency ; and Mr. Veitch was sent for out of England to do it, which, at the importunity of the people, he did. His lecture and preaching was upon the 102nd Psalm, especiaUy these words « Thou Shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion; for the time, even the set time, to favour her is come." It was a great and good ^ay, as the auditory witnessed. It was the first day and it was the last day of meeting in that place ; for that very evening, several of the forces both horse and foot, by special orders, came from Haddington through Lammermoor, and feU m upon Gordon and Hume, and the places about ; searching all night to find Mr. Veitch, who very strangely and providential- iy escaped them by James Hume of Flass's* 1689 iTr"*""' "^ ^^' ^'^ « ComnnsBioner of militia in S ''^.^ Commissioner of supply in 1690, for the shire of Ber! lt::L ^' ''V'' ''^^ ^«™'"^"^ '' Estates, ddg^^e ZZtl ?'' ""'"'u'^ ''^''^^ *^* '^' command „g offiL of the troop, to muster the horsemen ordered to be raised out of 124 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. I carrying of him that night in the dark to the old lady Stitchell's at her house in Coonge- carle, * which the troopers passed by, upon the information that she was an old weakly gentle- woman. Lauderdale being then in Scotland, and in- censed that the meetings should have been so fre- quently kept upon his ground, inquired at the south-country gentry, when they came to see him, what minister it was that set it up first, resolving to make him an example. Many of the gentry shifted to tell him ; but Sir Alexander Don, not out of any dislike but mere heedless- ness, told it was Mr. William Veitch. « Was it so?" said my lord ; " My own relation! I'll think upon him." And indeed he did so ; for it made him cause search England diligently for him ; and stirred him up vigorously to pursue when he was sent prisoner to Scotland. This piece of the history, you see, did precede his be- ing taken and sent into Scotland. the shire of B- wick, upon Tuesday next at Dunce." (Act. Pari. Scot. ix. app. p. 31.) • Robert Pringle of StiC hell, who died in 164.9, left a widow, whom his son, Walter Pringle of Greenknow, in 1664, calls his aged mother. Walter's elder brother, John Pringle, Jiar of Stitchell, who died before his father about 1647, appears also to have left a widow. (Pringle's Memoirs, pp. 11, 14, 52.) Oct. 28, 1651. Robert Pringle of Stitchell is retoured heir of his fa- ther, John Pringle feodatary de Stitchell in Coningcarle, in domi- nio de Stitchell. (Inquis. Retorn. Roxb. 201.) MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 125 Another thing remarkable after Mr. Veitch re turned by a sentence of banishment, and preach- ed upon the borders, was his going to Berwick, upon a hne from his friend Mr. Temple, a mer- chant there, chiding him for his unkindness in not coming to give the good people of that place * thanks for their great kindness while he was pri- in flfS'fL' P'^'r^^^'r *'^'^"^ there is a search made n Berwick for Polwart, Mr. James Daes, aud other Scots fu^rf Uv^ residing there ; but they had advertisLent of i^ehZ There was a^so a guo warranto issued out at the king's attornevt nstance against the charter of Berwick, as forfeit by thtmL demeanour of resetting, and also because they had e^U to "r wTdi« TT '""r ""'^ -P-tions'had d'le But X ^/or H bltd Z r ''^- *"' '^ ' ''^"^ '^ *«- 'Charter, they wii . let, m j\ov. 1684, having debarred sundry of the Whi„ party by excommunication, for not keeping the church they^f cisions, 1 304.) Dec. 8, 1688, York and Berwick declared foV* free parhament. (Lady Russel's Letters, p. 187.) * ^ Ctrcnit Court, Dunse, Sept. 29, 1684.~The Lords beinir in formed, by depositions, &c. that several rebels and fugitivTs wl reset in the major's house of Berwick, resolved to wCtoT ^ornmmee."-<'Jediurgk, Utk October m*.J.vlaTttlfr^" the governor of Berwick, signifying thit he was^f^Ju p" W had not made his escape as yet, and that the minister of the ITd paroch could give notice thereof, the lords ordered the minTsterof wT I, ? *° ^ ''"^ ^'^°'' *«'" ' ^ho compearingrdZe? that he had not seen Polwart since his escape anfthe strchTat' for him, and that he knew not where he Z or couldT found " (Mmutes of Circuit Court for Berwickshire, &r)-P^wtneft his concealment in his own house about the t/me of MoTtrp^f mom, p. 41, 42.) Jemswood was Executed on the 24th December, T- 126 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. soner there. It happened to be at the time when the Earl of Argyle escaped out of the castle of Edinburgh. The news of which running through the town by an express, some officers who had read it at the post-house, coming along by Mr. Robert Watson's gates, where Mr. Veitch was taking his leave of him and his lady, and perceiving him to be in town, turned back to the po&t-house, where the governor was, telling him that such a one was in town, and he might have a liand in Argyle's escape, which was worthy the governor's consideration. They unanimously concluded that it was fit for them, in the first place, to double the guards; and then to go to the Miayor to get a warrant to search. In the mean time, Mr. Veitch, knowing nothing of the news, or of their resolutions, went confi- dently along the street to his lodgings, in order to his going out of town homeward, in company with Mr. Temple, his landlord. They see the mayor, who was brother-in-law to Mr. Temple, going up street to his house a little before them ; upon which Mr. Temple says, *• Yonder is the mayor going to repay your visit yesternight, and take his leave of you." When we came into the hr^l where Mr. Lowk, the mayor,* was standing. • 1677 and 1679, commissioners of supply for the burroughe of Berwicke-iipon-Tweede : John Lucke, maior for the time be- ing, Uaniel Collingwood, Sir John Fenwicke^ Robert Watson, &c. MEMOIBS OP WILLIAM VEITCH. 127 he says, " Mr. Veitch, I'm come to tell you great 2 r^f r"'' '■ *'•" ^"^ "^ ^'gyle is escaped out of Edinburgh Castle, and it's thought he is either for his own Highlands or London." V Veitch smiling at it as a mere story, says he," You need not doubt it, for I have read the ex- press just now at the post-house." The main guard was just over against that todgmg and the drums beating hard.^he mayor says. Le us go up stairs and see what the mat- hITTv "' .'^"^ »'■* '=^«'°«»'' »»e tells stm looking out, perceives the governor, and the officers with an additional party of g^irds, coming up. The governor comes from them to a barber's shop that a soldier kept, belonging to Mr. Temple, and inquires at him. if Mr. Veiteh lodged in IAM VJIIXCH. house,* the outed minister Qf Berwick, who laugh- ed heartily at the story* It being Thursday's night, he engaged him to stay till the Sabbath was ov«r,^od perform an old promise to Ittail t and his lady, giving them a Sabbath day's ser- mon, to which he asseilitfid. tmi aid mMi o^ , iBut going! 10 bed after this coafUsidn and weari- ness, and falling 4sk|e|», he dreamed that his house U Stanton haUr more th4n thirty miles off , that plaee, was aH c(n fire, which made him awake with gHeat consternation an(d trouble of mind, ond tiiink of alteritig his resolution, and taking his journey home'tto-tmoiTOW morning^ wishing it were near rising time that he might go. But hearing the clock strike two in the morning, and that it was not seksonable to trouble the house till six of the clock, he fell asleep, and dreaming the same over .• Probal^ly at Bousden, where Mr. Ogle had a property, to which he retired when expelled from Berwick. His gection from that place at the Restoration, and his imprisonment along with Mr. Henry Erakioe in 1685, hme been already mentioned, (See fboye, pp. 00, 74.) He was called to the pari^ of Langton in the Merse during the Scotch indulgence in 1§79, but this being quickly withdrawn, he had returned to his did retreat. Upoti King James's toleration he was invited again to Berwick, and fly- ing there had a numerous congregation. Iq King Wil^am's time he had calls both from Kelso and Edinburgh, but could not be prevailed on to leave Berwick, " \vher6 God had signally support- ed, and owned and blessed him. Th&te he lived beloved, and died much lamented in April 1696, aged sixty-six." (Non-con- formist's Memorial, ii. 244, 246, 253.) He is very affectionately mentioned by Walter Pringle of Greenknow, (Memoir, p. 12.) t Mr. Gabriel Semple married, as his second wife, Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert Ker of Itall. MEMOIRS OP WILLIAM VEITCH. 181 again, and awaking all in a sweat, todc the doub- ling of the dream to be a clear call to go home, which next morniiig he did, making his apology to Mr Ogle, and telling him his dream, ^Vhich he said was like one of his maggots) aiid desiring him to excuse him at the laird and lady's hancls. ^ being a violent frost, and the day short,* he could not ride above twenty miles, so that the next day being Saturday, it was near night ei« he tfot home. ° About a mile and a half from his own house, as he was going up a lane, he sees two men and three fine horses meeting him. The foremost of whom, when he perceived who it was, came ridinir fast up to him, (it was Torwoodlee's man,) say! ing, « O, Sir, you are long looked for at your' house ;» which made him ask, « What is the mat- ter / is my wife and family well ?» « Yes " says he, "but there is a stranger longs to see you, viz! Argyle ; f and your wife and he have been send- • It was the 23d of December. t R-eviously to the fact for which the Earl of Argyle was brou^h* !« tn^, the Duke of York and his party had tesSre St intenuons towards hi™, both on his father's account and h^owtt STri/totw^rron^^^""- ^^-^^^ ^^ u,ed hi^:; ::;riL^r iTTtTZtii^t m.i^t^ Tt '""^"'"^ ^' '^^"^^^ *° "^""Ply ^iA heir 2i^ tttS*^ r;° "^"^ '"' '' ' "^«"»»^' ^f Pri-y councn to teke ha ^-contradictory oath, the Test, he declared Lt he « dTd teke Ind that b " "°^*'"' "'^^ ''^'' '^^^ *« P™»««tant reUgi^n and that he meant not to bind up himself, in his station, aX ^ las MEMOI118 OF WILLIAM VEITCH. ing about the country these two days to find you." Then he saw that the dream was a clear call to bring him home. After their meeting, and talking about matters, Mr. Veitch, with his wife's consent, who wap then near her time, undertook to do his best for bring- ing him safe to London, and advised to send his two servants to-morrow morning, being the Sab- bath, to Newcastle, to stay there until farther or- ders. lawful way, to wish and endeavour any alteration he thought to the advantage of the ehurch and state, not repugnant to the pro- testant religion and his loyalty." (Act. Pari. Scot. ix. App. p. 47; comp. Wodrow, ii. 206, 807.) For refusing to retract this decla- ration, so honourable to him as a protestant and a patriot, he was immediately deprived of all his offices ; upon which, (says Lord Fountainhall,) " he, with great magnanimity, firmness, and coni stancy of spirit, answered, * Seeing he could not serve his Majesty and the royal family any more in his counsels within doors, h^ should never be wanting to do them all the service in his power without doors.' " (Decis. i. p. 160.) But, determined to put his loyalty to a still severer test, the government brought him to trial for the above declaration; and, on the 13th of December, 1681, he was found guilty of treason I " There was a great outcry against the Criminal Judges, their timorous dishonesty. The Marquis of Montrose was chancellw of his assize. Sir George Lockhart called it lucrative treason, to the advantage of church and state ; and ad- mired h w a man could be condemned as a traitor for saying, he would endeavour all amendment he can to the advantage of church and state." Even those viho thought the words deserv- ed some lesser punishment, called it " diabolical alchemy to screw them into treason." (Ibid. i. 166.) " December 20,^ 1681. This evening, about nine o'clock at night, the Earl of Ar- gyle, fearing his life might be taken, escaped out of the Castle of Edinburgh under the disguise of a page, and holding up the train MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. ISS He took Argyle, now called Mr. Hope, in dis- guise, along with him to Millburn Grange,* where he was to preach all that Sabbath day. On Mon- day morning ht took him to a friend's house be- tween Newcastle and Newburn, where he left him, until he went on to Newcastle and bought three horses for him and his two servants, which of Lady Sophia Lindsay, his step-daughter, and sister to the Earl ol Balcarhouse." (Ibid. p. 167.) On the 23d of December, the criminal court pronounced sentence of death against him. (Ibid. Wodrow, ii. 214.) Lord Halifax told Charles II. that " he un- derstood not the Scotch law, but the English law would not have hailed a dog for such a crime.' (Fountainhall's Diary, p. 21.) Both Charles and his brother endeavoured afterwards to «;xcuse their conduct in this affair. The latter pleaded, as his reason for refusing the intercession of Lauderdale in behalf of Argyle " thai he would not be diverted, to make friends for himself, from pur- suing the king's interest." Charles, on the other hand, thought fit to issue out a proclamation for apprehending my lord Argyle "that, if it missed his person, it might convince the world, at kiist, he was satisfied with the Duke's management." (Life of King James II. j " What an affecting picture of brotherly love •" says Lord John Russel. (Life of Lord William Russel, ii. 14.) On escaping from the casUe, Argyle, by the direction of Mr. John Scot, mmister of Hawick, rode straight to the house of Pringle of Torwoodlee, who sent his servant along with him to conduct him to Mr. Veitch. (Wodrow, ii. 212, 490.) • In August 1684, Mr. Robert Leaver, ejected from Bolara, the panah in which Harnam is situated, « was apprehended at his inn to Gateshead, for being the preacher at a conventicle at Mr. George Honky's of Millburn Grange, a gentleman of family and fortune, who spared neither his pains, nor purse, nor person, to serve the interest of religion among the despised nonconformists, and was a considerable sufferer, paid £60 for two sermons preached at his house in one day, by Mr. Owen and Mr. Leaver." (Palmer't Noncon. Mem. ii. 247.) ^ 134 MEMOIRS OV WILLIAM VISITCH. cost him about £27 Sterling, which Mr. Veitch p»id out of his own pocket, finding Mr. Hope scarce of money. Having done this, he ordered Mr. Hope's two servants to go to a change-house in the way to Leeds, seventeen miles from New- castle; and he and Mr. Hope crossed Tyne at Newburn, and went to a by-inn over against Durham. They called next day for the servants, and took them along. On Thursday night they came to Leeds, where Mr. Veitch was well ac- quainted. The next day they went toward Ro- deram, thinking to lodge four or five miles beyond it that night ; but the day being very rainy, and he complaining he was wet to the skin, and see- ing we must needs take up at Roderam, we re. solved to take the post-house, as least suspected, rather than a by-inn. We were not well in our chamber, and had got some faggots to dry us, when a liveryman, well mointed, and calling for the hostler, asked brisl^- ly, " Game there not here some gentlemen short- ly?" which put us all in fear. But, after inquiry, it was some gentleman's servant, who, having seen us before them upon the road, and, thinking we might call at the post-house and take up the lijest rooms, had sent this fellow to see. Mt^,' Veitch, calling for a flagon of ale and a bottle of wine, and some bread, called for the land- lord a^d landlady to drink with them, and talk- ed a little, asking for several gentry in the coun- MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VElTCH. 18^ try, how far they lived from that place, telling them that they were relationg to some of his neighbour gentry in Northumberland. This he did, that the landlord and landlady might know they were Englishmen, which happened well; for while we wfere at supper, the postboy^ coming in from Doncaster, gave his master a letter from that postmaster ; which after he had read, he at length reached it up to the table-head to Mr. Veitch, who was sitting there as the chief gentle- man of thfe company, having ArgyleV page, now in disguise, standing at his back. After Mi^. Veitch had read it at great leisure, he was almost nonplussed what to think or say : for the ntti*rat tive of the letter war to teTl, that Argyle was es- caped out of the castle, and that ther^ was f 500 Sterling bid for him. Whosoever shoiau a|>prelibnd him. « If you find him," [said tiie postrriaWer ih his letter] " and apprehend him in your road; l^t me go snips with you; and if I find him, you shall go siiips with me." H. [Mr. Veitch] broke out by way of laughter and said, « Mr. Hope, here are admirable good news for you and me. The Earl of Argyle is escaped, by these news ; we that are travelling southward may come to hit upon him ; for if he be come to England, he V^ill readily take byways, and if we hit upon him, £500 reward will do us good service : only I fear he ride mucn these moonlight mornings. I could find in my heart to give my landlord a bottle of aaolc. fn Ip* hie linofl^r fi chambers at a good dis- tance from one aio;i.cr, where two friends of hers might be quiet and retired for a while ; and when he sent her word they were ready, she sent them to the Major's lodging in the nighttime. None of them knew the Major, but they being set in an outer room to wait for his coming down, whenever the Major came into the room he knew ^Argyle, and getting him in his arms, said, « My dear Lord Argyle, you are most welcome to me." At which my lord seemed to be concerned, and said, « Pray, Sir, where did you know me ?" .«My lord," says he, « I knew you since that He choM the caMO<^k, cirdngle, and gown, The fittest mask for one that robs the crown : But his lay>pity underneath prevail'^. And whilst he sav'd the keeper's life, he fail'd. With the priest's vestment had he but put on The prelate's cruelty, the crown had gone." (Marvei.l'8 Works, iii. 837.) isro 140 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. day that I took yaa prisoner in the Highlands, when you were Lord Lorn, and brought you to the Castle of Edinburgh.* But now we are on one side, and I will venture all that is dear to me to save you :" And so sent each of them to their several chambers, where they lurked a consider- able while. None knew Mr. Hope's lodgings but Major Holmes and Mr. Veitch. After some days, Mr. Veitch being acquainted with the Earl of Shaftes- bury, went to pay him a visit. When he saw • Migor Holmes is described by Sprat as " an Englishman— h Major in the English army in Scotland." (Account of Conspir. 81, 110.) Argyle, when Lord Lorn, had distinguished himself by appearing in arms for the royal cause in 1653 and 1654, along with Glencaiin and Middleton. (Military Memoirs of the Great Civil War, p. 158, 197, 199, 215. Edin. 1822. Baiflie's Letters, ii. 377, 382, 394.) On this account he was favour- ably received at court on Uie Restoration ; and the same cause had rendered him an object of jealousy to Cromwell's officers, and caused his being imprisoned on every new occasion. (Burnet, i. 106.) It would appear that on some of these occasions, H^^es had commanded the party that apprehended him. When Argyk, in the end of 1682, escaped to Holland, his correspondence with his (Hends at home passed through the Major's hands, who being ap- prehended among the first, and examined, 29th June 1683, some letters in cyphers were found with him, which involved Mr. Wil- ham Spence, and eventually Mr. William Carstairs, and occasion- ed their being tortured. He is mentioned by both in their deposi- tions. Carstairs had been previously acquainted with him, and in one of the last letters which he ever wrote, calls him " honest and worthy M^jor Holmes." (Sprat's Account, p. Ill, Copies of In- form, p. 172, Act. Pari. Scot. viii. App. 35. Wod. ii. 387, 388.) MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 141 him, he took him into his bed-chamber, and sit- ting down tdgether, he asked him, what was be- come of my Lord Argyle. He replied, « How should I know any thing of that, my lord ?" Says he, « I no sooner saw your face, but I was persuaded you had brought him to the city. For when I heard of his escape, and consider- ed with myself he could not be so safe any where as in London, it was cast in my mind that you were the person that could safeliest conduct him thither." Upon which Mr. Veitch told him that he was in town, but his lordship behoved to keep it secret; which he promised to do, and said he would serve him to his power. After the hurry about his escape was over, Madam Smith brought out Mr. Hope and Mr. Veitch with him, to stay at their new house at Brentford, seven miles off the city ; and not long after, several nobility, gentry, and rich merchants, some jn the city of London, and some elsewhere, began to meet secretly, to see if they could fall upon any measures to prevent these nations, and the church of Christ therein, from sinking into popery and slavery, but all to little purpose, for It ended in that discovery that they called Mon- mouth's plot ; * when several gentlemen of Scot- land, and Mr. William Carstairs, were taken in London, and brought down to Edinburgh pri- * More commonly called the Rye-house Plot. 142 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. soBers; some of them put to torture, and the great, learned and pious Jerviswood was cruelly put to death.* Mr. Hope kept himself retired still from all these meetings, yet he knew their measures, and they wanted not his advice ; for he made himself known to nc^ne of these great persons at London by personal converse,! except only to Sir Arthur Forbes, the Earl of Granard, and liord Lieute- nant of Ireland, with whom formerly he had a peculiar intimacy and friendship. fa The Earl of Granard coming to London, and finding that Argyle was lurking in it, used all means to see him ; and finding out his son, the Lord Lorn, in the city, intreated him to do him the favour to bring them together. He replied, • For Baillieof Jcrrigwood's trial, see Wodrow, ii. 879, 387— 450. The depoutions taken in Scotland in relation to the Rye- house plot, furnish the following particulars respetung Mr. Veitch during the time he was in London.—" Veatche stayed sometimes at Nicolson Btablers hous at London uall; sometimes with one Widow HardcasUe in Morfielda." A letter having come from Argyle to Mjyor Hohnes, intimating that he would join with Monmouth and follow Ms directions, " this Mr. Veatch thought fltt to com- municate" to the Duke of Monmouth, and obtained from Car- stairs the key of the cypher, that he might hand it with the letter to Feiguson, for the purpose of showing it to the Duke. Veitch was dso at more than one meeting with his countrymen, some of whom came to London in the beginning of April, and others only at the beginning of May 1683. (Act. ParL Scot. viii. App. pp. 3'i, 36.) t See Gordon of Earlston's relation, in Sprat's Copies of In- formations relating to the Conspiracy, p. 145. M£MOIU8 OF WILLIAM VEITCH. US " It was the thing he could not do himself, for he waa as. igncwant of his lodging as his lord- ship, but he would speak to the gentleman that brings him and his father together, and see what could be done." At length Mr. Veitch being spoken to, and telling Mr. Hope the matter, he wae as desirous to meet with Gransrd as he was with him. Upon which my lord Lore, and Mr. Veitch, under the name of Captain Forbes, re- solved they should meet and dine together at the Dolphin in Lombard Street, being the ordinary place wh-re his father and he used to meet. There they spent several hours together, dis- coursing upon the times, and what they thought proper for them to do to prevent the evils that threatened both church and state. So much for the first meeting. They had only one other congress at the same place, though, in the interim, Captain Forbes went betwixt them with several messages, and was much caressed by the Earl of Granard to go along with him to Ireland, and he would prefer him to as profitable and honourable a post as possible, for which the captain heartily thanked his Lordship, but told him that in good manners he could not leave the Earl of Argyle. At the second and last congress, which they had at the same place, they concluded to join with the Duke of Monmouth, and the honest no- bility, gentry, and commons of England, that 144 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. f' should appear for the protestant interest, &c. Argyle heading the same in Scotland; and the Earl of Granard in Ireland ; and that he should, whenever Argyle appeared in the west of Scot- land, send over out of Ireland five thousand trained soldiers to assist Argyle. Upon which Mr. Forbes did see the two Earls pass thcJr pa- role, and change their walking canes upon that head. But when the time came, nothing of this was performed, and what was the obstruction he knows not.* , , • Arthur Forbes, Earl of Granard, was the son of Arthur Forbes of Castle Forbes, who, after bearing arms on the Continent, settled in Ireland, was created a baronet in 1628, and died in 1632." Sir Arthur was the 4th son of William Forbes of Corse and Oneil, and brother of Patrick, bishop of Aberdeen, and John, minister of Alford, who was banished to Holland for assisting at the Ge- neral Assembly held in Aberdeen in 1605. (Douglas's Baron- age of Scotland, p. 76. Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, i. p. 378, 379. Life of Andrew Melville, ii. 292, 2d edit.) His son was active in transporting troops from Ireland to Scotland in 1648, to join the Duke of Hamilton in his expedition to England. (Act. Pari. Scot. vii. App. 97.) He commanded a party of horse under Glencaim and Middleton in the Highlands of Scotland, when they appeared for Charles II. in the years 1653 and 1654, and distin- guished himself in several encounters with the English. Being ta- ken prisoner and confined in the Castle of Edinburgh, the Earl of Argyle, then Lord Lorn, at the time of his capitulation, exerted, himself in procuring his liberation, " for furthering his Majesty's service, and for personal respect to Sir Arthur." (Supplement to Diet, of Dec. vol. ii. 687, 688. Wodrow, ii. App. p. 65. Baillie's Letters, ii. 377, 382, 394. Lodge, i. 379, 380. Military Memoirs of the Civil War, p. 161. et passim.) In February 1660, he was sent to Brussels by Sir Charles Coote (afterwards Earl of Montrath) " to assure the King of his duty, and to give him an account of MEMOIRS OP WILLIAM VEITCH. 145 My Lord Argyle upon the prospect of the dis- covery went to Holland;* and Madam Smith. the state of the kingdom." (Carte's Omond, ii. 203. Brown's M«^llane. Auhca, p. 334.) His loyalty caused him to be em- ployed and advanced after the RestoraUon. In 1663/ he was sworn .n a member of the Privy Council; in 1670, made Marshal r T^.l *" '''"' Viscount Granard; and in 1684. Earl of Granard. (Lodge, i. 381, 382.) Veitch is mistaken in calling him Lord Lieutenant of Ireland: he never held that office, but he was on several occasions one of the two Lords Justices. (Lodge, yt ^upra.) Though loyal, he was decidedly attached to the protes- Unt rehgion and favourable to the presbyterian minister, in the North of Ireland. It was through his influence that Charles II. rZrV "J ^ T.'^ ^•''' """"''"y- ''^''^ ""^ '"trusted to Granard and doubled at the Revolution. (Memoirs of Ireland. V.' w , • ^""^ °" *•*" ^"y^^^y *»^ Presbyterians, p. 383- on V Z'fT' '• ^'"-^ ^" '^' P'-^J^* «^ '^' Whig Coun- cil of 1 679, he was one of three lords, supposed to be firm protes- tants, from whom it was proposed to choose the Chief Governor of Ireland. (Carte's Ormond, p. 494, 495.) The author of the Memozrs of Ireland says, that on the Duke of Monmouth's inva- sion, some were apt to believe that Granard was in suspence whom to declare for, but " the unalterable steadiness" of the Lord Pri- mate Boyle who was one of the Lords Justices, " hindered the other from desertmg. ' Hume says, that at that time " the whole ^wer was m the hands of Talbot, the general, soon after created Earl of ryrconnel." (Hist. vol. ix. 2Si. Lond. IQll.) Gates had "«ked Talbot for this employment, whence it came to be ob- served, "that If Gates was an ,// evidence, he was certainly a the Earl of Granard adhered to James, and sat in his Privy Council and Parhament in 1689; but becoming satisfied of the duphcuy of that Monarch and his intentions to esUblish pTpery. he left hun and went over to William in 1690. (Plowden^Hist of Ireland, .. 182, 189. Memoirs of Ireland, p. 39. Lady Rus- sel 8 Letters, p. 214. Rawdon Papers, 32ti, 327.) " Lord Argyle, in September 1682, waa pursued at London' 146 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. in : i£ If ¥iribo had a hand in that, also persuaded her hus- band to go to Holland, and dwell there, from other motives ; for he knew not that she had a hand in that plot: and then Argyle and they lived at Utrecht together. Mr. Veitch came from London down to the North to see his lamily and friends about fourteen days before it broke out, * and so escaped being taken with the Scotch gen- try ; and after he had wearied himself in hidings sometimes in one place, and sometimes another, he was necessitated to steal over to Holland. His brother Mr. James and his wife being banished by the Duke e£ York, and coming to his house at Stantonhall, being afraid to stay there, went along with him. t where he wts on his hidhig, and did escape." (Law's Memorials, p. 836.) From Carstairs's deposition, (Act Pari. Scot. viii. App. p. 34, 3A.) and €k>rdoii of Earlston's, (Sprat's Copies of Informa- tions, p. I4i2.) it would appear that Argyle was in Holland in or about December 1689. * The first information of the plot was given by Kealing on '* the happy twelfth of June," 1683, says Sprat; and the conspira- tors met " on Monday June I8th,at Walcct's Lodgings, in Grood- man's Fields, to consult, once for all, what should be done for their common safety." (Acco. of the Conspiracy, p. 89, 91. Co« pies of Informatbns, p. L) The discovery was announced on the 21st of June. (Wodrow, ii. 330.) f See before, p. 9.— The following extract relates to a period soon after Veitch went to London with Aigyle. — " My husband some weeks after sent me word what proffers he had for CaroKna, and he thought 1 might make for going thither ; which bred a new exer- cise to me. 1 thought in my old '^oyt I would hare no heart for such a voyage and leave these covenanted lands ; but at length I got sub- MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 147 Mr. Veitch met there with his old friendi, Monmouth, Argyle, Earl of Melvil, Lord Pol- wart, Torwoodlee, James Stewart, and many others, who did, by the instigation of friends from both nations, not only before but especially after the death of King Charles, contrive Mon- mouth's coming to England, and Argyle's to Scotland, to oppose King James's carrying on his malicious designs of bringing the nations back again to the see of Rome. Both of them had great promises sent them of assistance, but it turned to nothing, as the public history tells. And no wonder, for the one part kept not their promises, and the other parties followed not the measures contrived and concerted at Amsterdam ; to which meeting Mr. Veitch, with much per^ suasion, brought old President Stairs ; and it cost him giving in bond for L.IOOO Sterling to Madam Smith, who lent out L.6000 or L.7000 more, her husband being now dead, to my Lord Argyle and others, for the better carrying on that enterprise. Monmouth sent several of his mission to my God, and was content !f he had more service for me and mine in another land." (Mrs. Veitch's Mem. MS. p. 8.) gprat repre««»nt8 the scheme of a planution in CaroKna, by Sir John Cochrane and his aswciates, as a mere disguise, under which they met to carry on their coi.^piracy against the government. (Acco. of the Conspiracy, p. 3*, 87.) The extract from Mr». VeitchV Memoirs is ati addition to the evidence in support of the reality of Uie scheme produced by Wodrow, (ii. gso.) and furnished by the deposition of Commissary Monro. (Act. Pari. Scot. viii. App. p. 148 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VKITCH. : fritiuds iucogiiito to several places in England to warn then' to make ready ; and Argyle sent Tor- woodleetu Minrayland to prepare them, and Mr. Veitch to Northumberland and the Scotch bor- ders to give them notice. He had also a verbal commission, and a token for showing the verity of his fomraission from my Lord Gray to his chief steward in Northumberland, to instigate him to raise what forces of horse and foot he could upon his charges, that they might be ready to appear when they heard of Monmouth's landing in the Sopth. Mr.. Veitch also had a verbal commis- sion irom Argyle to procure money for buying of arms, colours, drums, horses, and taking on men, especially old Oliverian officers ; somewhat of all which he did, and through his too much travel- ling through the country, and the zeal of severals in many places to rise, the matter was like to take wind, so that he was forced to retire up to the mountains in the borders near Reidsdale-head, and hide himself from his very friends, until the season of appearing came. For Colonel Strother in the English side getting some notice of him, sent an express to the Scotch council hereanent ; and they sent an express to the Earl of Lothian who. commanded the militia in Tiviotdale, and U) Meldrum whose troop was lying there, to join with Strother in searching the suspected places of the border to find him, which they did. ITiey come upon a hill called the Carter, where Mr, MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH, I49 Veitch was lying in a hut aJnorig the rocks cover- ed with htather-turfs as if they had been grow- ing, which honest Mr. Thomas Steel had made up for himself, when he was forced to flee upon Aaron Smith's coming from London upon that errand ; ♦ which place he assigned unto him. and he was lying in it when these gi-eat penlmx^ne riding along that hill on every side of Wnj ; f . - no horse could come where he was. He w < m\h afraid of their doga, but providence on eti it well; for they missed their mark. * Thomas Steil was Chamberlain of Jedburgh Forest to J^ea Marquis of Douglas. Abodl the middle of February 1 683, Aaron Smith, being sent from the English Whigs to Sir John Cochran and other friend* in Scotland, came, the Thursday before Shrove Tuesday, to Newcastle, where Sheriff, the inn-keeper with whom he lodged, obtained one Bell to be his guide to Jedburgh, to SteU who WBS his (Sheriff's) acquainunce. From Jedburgh he was con- ducted to Douglas by Andrew Olipher, who was previously engag- ed, and now on his way to bring home Steil's wife from the latter place. Smith not finding a guide there, Mrs. Steil permitted Ohpher to go forward with him to Ochiltrie, where he left him He passed by the name of Samuel Clerk, and said that he was on the CaroUna business. (Sprat's Account, 183, 1 84, 1 8 4 j Copies of Informations, 154, 155, 156.) On the discovery of the plot, and trial of those accused, SteU,appears to have become alarmed, and provided the hut above mentioned for his concealment. Being at length apprehended, he, with Andrew Olipher, was on the 1 1th of December 1683, examined by the committeefor public affairs. On the 20th of that month, on the petition of the Marquis asserting StcU's innocence, and urging the injury his Lordship's dffiiirs would suffer by his detention, the Council liberated him, on a bond that he should compear, and not leave the kingdom without hcence, under a penalty of two thousand merks. ( Privy Council Records.) 150 MEMOIilK OF WILLIAM V£ITCH. i J!;'- The news coming that Argyle was landed in the Highlands, he knew not how to get the truth of it, hut sent one night for Mr. 8teel, by honest Sanders Stevenson his man, who came every night with milk, and bread, and cheese, to him. And they advising together how to get sure notice, thought it necessary to send one to Edinburgh, to a trusty friend there, to see if he could procure two printed passes, for at that time none could travel without them ; and filled up the names of two persons that he sent west, one toward Dumbarton, and another toward Irvine, to bring him a true account, which one of them did ; but it was a sad account, viz. that Argyle and his party were broken at Muirdykes, and he himself taken near Paisley, which occasioned no small sorrow to Mr. Steel and Mr. Veitch, and to all their other friends, for they conduded now their case to be hopeless and helpless, there being no other mean in outward appearance now left ; and (which put on the copestone of all.) within a few days after, the news of Monmouth*s being broken came down to Newcastle by post, and peremp- torjr and strict orders to search for all suspected persons, and to apprehend and strictly examine all travellers by sea and land. After the Earl <^ Argyle was apprehended at Paisley, he was earned to Edinburgh, and exe- cuted upon the old sentence, without any respect MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 151 had ilo this invasion .♦ He was a peiram of great wit and pcrficy, and true piety, so £ur as ev6r Mr. Veitch could discern, who was in his company from the time he carried him from his own house ^1 led in his mind an^nt the Duke, of York and his Jesuitical cabal's plotting h^^w to take the kipg off the stage, which made Ijim resolutely and generously venture to come ovt:t to London incognito, he sent for the lord AlHngton, then governor of the Tower of London, being his great friend ■mtd favouiJtft; telling him, that he must needs go to thekiu^ nd rcquaint him, that he is in town, and has a biv'mi i,« of great importance to impart to him, IJpiu wliicli his majesty sent him word with the hetirer when and where to meet him. The matter was, that he was cre- dibly informed that there was a design laying by the Duke of York and his cabal, to cut him off, and he could not but venture all that was dearest to him to come and acquaint him therewith. At out for apprehending him. King Charles not only knew where he was, and sent him messages every day, but saw him several times Inpiivate." (Memoirs, p. 166, 167.) That Monmouth had an interview with the Idng a short time before the death of the latter, ' as stated by Veittb^ is conflimedby the following passage in Carte. *'-Thbi^h the Duke of York was a principal means in bring- ing his Majesty to leul rh^ X)uke of Ormond, yet, within a month after the king had notmed th%t, resolution, theDuke of Monmoutli was suffered to come uvir into England, and admitted to a private interview with his Majesty, who, to remove his royal highness from about him, determined to send him to hold a parliameni in Scotland, on March 10th following." (Carte's Life of Ormond, ii. 539.) By comparing this with p. 536 — 538, it appears that thi:; interview itinet have taken place in ' /vember or December, 1 684. The king died on the 6th of February .< 185. MEMOIRS OP WILLIAM VEITCH. 157 i whicli the king was a little struck and amazed, not so much from his not being apprehensive of the thing, as that it hould have come the length of his ears when abroad, and that he should have showed so much kindness as to make such a dangerous adventure to inform him. So that after they had discoursed to the full, ere they parted, the king gav*> him as many jewels out of his cabinet as were valued at ten thousand pounds Sterling, and a secret order to his cashier to pay to the lord Allington, for the use of a friend of his, ten thousand pounds Sterling, as it is said : so he returned incognito again to Hol- land. This alarm put the king upon a more serious inquiry anent this matter, and finding several things that increased his fears, he sent one of his domestic servants to the lord Allington to desire him to come at such an hour, which being late at night, he thought it would be most quiet and unknown, and undiscovered. But it proved not so ; and the reason that was frequently given for it was this, that the Duke of York had so awed, influenced, and bribed all that used about the king, even to the meanest station, that nothing could be done now by the king, never so secret- ly, but it came presently to York's ears, so that he was not only able to carry on the fore- said design, but to frustrate all opposition there- unto. 158 M£MOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. ^i Now the king's business with AUington was this — to take his advice, he being a wise man, and one of his greatest confidents at that time, abont what measures he should make use of to prevent the Duke of York and his eabal's destroying of him ; for he saw now it was in- evitably a-coming. To which Allington replied, " Sir, you have brought it upon yourself, by your turning out Monmouth out of all his places, especially his command over the guards about your person, and suffering such to be put in who were York's creatures." » But what shall I do BOW," said the king ? *• Sir," said he, " I neither can nor dare advise you in that matter ; for if it be heard, as likely it will, it may hasten both our ruins." The king premised solemnly to keep it secret, and would not part With him till he told him, and that he would presently put them in execution ; and whatever befel him he should never discover or wrong Allington ; and they pa^ roled upon it. " Now," says he, « Sir, my ad- vice is this, that seeing within a few Weeks the appointed time will be that the Duke of York is obliged to go to Scotland, to hold the next ses- sion of his parliament, take care to give him his commission, and send him timeously away ; and when he is there, send for Monmouth, re- store him to all his places, and remove from the court all persons that are suspected to favour York's interest, as also, out of your guards, and #^ MEMOIRS OF WILIJAM VEITCH. 159 double them. When this is once done, he being in Scotland, we will see then what is farther to be done." ,,^ .This proved a costly advice to them both, for no doubt but there were some overhearing behind the curtain, who told all to York, as appears by the event. Alittle after, the king sends for his brother, telling him he must make ready to go down for Scotland, the time drawing near for his keeping the next session of their parliament, he would presently expede his commission, and upon such a day he must take journey. At which discourse the duke seemed to.be much displeased, tell- ing his majesty it was a thing he could not at all undertake at this juncture; for he having a great trade at Calais and other foreign places, and many years' accounts to dear with these foreign factors, wherein, he and other great merchants in the city were concerned, being now upon their journey, he must needs stay to clear with them, and therefore desired earnestly to be excused! To which the king replied, « James, either you must go, or I must go." And speaking these words with a kind of question, the duke as brisk- ly replied, " He would not go ;" and so took his leave. Then going h )me, and calling his friends and cabal, he told them what passed ; and that he perceived the king resolved to follow Allington's measures. After whieh, his cabal he trusted in 160 MEMOIRS OF W|IJ,fAW VK-TCH. i) resolved among themRehxK, ilut ttiey would go to their houses, and put themselves in such a pos- ture as that they might return within so many hours;' no doubt, to such a secret place whpr« they might sit withont parting, until thxy had de- feated the king's resolutions, and brought their purposes, if po silile, to the intended issue. And if the informatiiju be true, which the event seems to make probable, they all unanimously resolved to begin witii Allington, and see if they could take him off by poison ; which they did by brib- ing his cook and master-household ; which took place, and, if my memory f^il not, savs t e rela- tor, he either died on the Friday's night or morn- ing.* For York had i spy to tell him so soon as ever his breath went out; and the cabal re« solved, that if the business took, the Duke of Yoik should be the first that shoukl carry the • " In 1682, WiUiam, lord Ali. -n of 'jllarl, > Ireland, was created lord Alington of Wymley, in Hertford^ hire. H*- was constable of the Tower when the earl of Essex was there found murdered, and died of poison, as it is V.iic ed, two or tV x days before King Charles II." (New Peerage of England, Scotland. and Ireland, ii. 340.) He married lady Diana Russel, sinter of William, lord Russel, and widow of Sir GrevilVemey ol Comp- ton Verney, in the county of Warwick. (Russe/ ife, 14.) Notwithstanding his connexion with the family Rt I, he appears to have been a liteady adherent to the co«.' (.v. ^ar- vell's Work? ii. £d9. Oldrnixon's Crit. Hist. ii. 3iia. Statutes of the Reahii, v. 900, 901.) Lady Russel often mentions her " sister Alington," and refers to lord Alington's death in two let- ters to Dr. Fitzwilliam. ' (Letters, pp. 51, 99, 100.) 2 MEM >IRS OP WILLIAM VEITCH. 161 news to the king, lamenting such a heavy loss, to blind the matter. And it is said that he made such haste, for fear any should be before him, that he ran to the court at the nighest, with one of his shoes down ia the heel, and one of his stock- ings untied. Yet iie was prevented, for one of my lord's servants had just come in before him, and told that his master was dead sudder V, and undoubtedly poisoned. York coming in m the mean time, no! hearing this, made his lamenta- tion that Allingtoj his triend, was dead ; a very sad stroke to the court. » Aye," says the king, " and his ervant thinks he was poisoned : I wish you have not a hand in it, of which, if I w^re sure, you ; houl* sently go to the Tower ; for 1 ..m like to S nex But the duke intreat^ ing his majestv ^ hav « no «uch thoughts, and, iieknowledging li is fai i n iuf' ig to go to Scot- land at their last meeting, sf he was now resolv- ed to comply wi 'i his »uajesty s commands, and taki journey xiext week for Scotland, come of his business what would : Ant; therefore ired his mpiesty to expede his commission next v c, that he light not be hindered. Now these jre the wor that h. md his cabal had cone rted fu her to band the king withil, that so they might u t- ter effectuate their next reso1"*ion. The king beli ving him t speak seri. 'isly, and, that he might yet accomphsh what Alii. ,i n h i advised him, > ! _a the duke was gc^e »r Scot- M I 162 MSMOIUS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. F i land, ordered hit coministioii to be imtantlf drawn, that he might go d( n to hold the fore- said parliament. In the mean time, the duchew of Portsmouth, his present miss or whore, that the kii^ of France had sent him, and who in- fluenced him as 8^ e pleased to the French mea- sures, not being pleased wi^ the Duke of York's maltreating the king in refusing to go to Scot- land, his cabal thought fit that the duke should go to her and acknowledge his rashness with the king, and beg that she would iiiterpose for their amicable reconciliation, ' hich she promised to do ; and telling her that, he being to go away upon Monday or Tuesday next to obey his ma- jesty's commands in Scotland, the beet ^^ay and time to do it was to sup with her grace on Sab- bath night, and she might invite any of the court there that lihe thought At ; to which she consent- ed. When he came back, and told his cabal what was done, they said, ** Then our business is like to do," So they ordered the duke to send a good quantity of all sorts of wines and good liquors, especially claret, which the king loved ; that so she might be induced to entertain them liberally and long that night. And, the king being sotted with drink, it being usual, in such a case, to drink a good deal of coffee for a cure, they had liberally bribed his coffee-man to poison his coffee ; and some of York's faction, in that ease, when he was so drunk, was to advise the duchess to keep him 9 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VKITCH. Wi all night, to save him the trouble of going to hi» own room. Likewise knowing that, in the morn- ing, when he first awaked, he made use of much snuff, th» y hired the duchess's chambermaid to put in the poisoned sndfF into his box, and take out what was in it before. And so nothing doubting but their design now would take place, they ordered a spy to give an account of his car- riage when he awaked, timeously, before any of the court should know of it. When he awaked he cried out " he was deadly sick," and calling, for his snuff-box, he took a deal of it ; but still growing worse, he sent for his servants to put on his clothes, which when they were doing he stag- gered. So he got to the window, and leaned upon it, crying, «' I'm gone, I'm poisoned ; have me quickly into my chamber." The duke getting notice, came iiinning m haste, all undresi to lament his brother's fate, saying, ** Alas ! Sir, what's the matter ?" who answered, " O, you know too well," and was in great pas- sion at him. In the mean time, he called for his closet-keeper to fetch him out an antidote against poison, that a German mountebank had given him and assured him it would instantly cure him whenever he suspected it ; but it could not be found, neither his physicians, being, as . was thought, sent out of town. When he saw all ithese things fail him, being enraged at his bro- ther, he made at him ; but he having secured all «.l \ 164 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. the entries to the court, that the sentry should tell, if any courtiers or bishops, upon the news, should offer to come in to see how the king was. They were to tell them that he was gone to bed out of order, and had discharged all access to him that he might be quiet. And in the mean time the duke seeing him in such a rage, and that the poison was not like to do so quickly, set four ruffians upon him, at which he crying out so as he was heard, they presently choked him in hi» cravat, and so beat him in tnc \^ad that he in- stantly died. It is said that Im id swelled big- ger than two heads ; and ah l t his body sturJc so with the poison an'' .her things, that none could stay in the roe And it is said, thnt in the dead of the nigut they were forced to carry him out and bury him incognito. However the room was kept quiet, that none had access to the supposed sick king, as if he had been lying still in bed. None was admitted to that room but those who were true friends to York, who made the people believe he was still alive, but dangerously ill. And when his council met, and had concerted what measures to follow upon the supposition of his death, (an embargo being laid upon all ships for that time, that none might carry abroad the rumour of his sicLness,) then they gave out the news of his being just now dead toward the latter end of the week ; and, as they had con- certed in council, the duke of York was proclaimed MEMOIRS OP WILLIAM VEITCH. 165 king. One that was at court at this time, and was a friend of Monmouth's, brought him over this account, affirming it to be true. The duke of York was no sooner proclaimed king, but he sent over instantly an express to the prince of Orange, his good-son, to apprehend the duke of Monmouth, and send him over prisoner to England. It was a strange providence that the duke, upon the prince's invitation some months before, had gone up to visit him, and was that night in his lodgings when the express came. The prince being surprised with the news at first, upon second thoughts managed the business very well. He dispatched the express, and when all his household was gone to bed, he put oa his nightgown, and went up to the duke of Mon- mouth's bed-chamber; and letting him see the surprising news, both with respect to the king and himself, he advised him to get up and go away before day-break, to any place where he thought he might be most secure, for he had no mind to meddle with him. Which he did, and came to Rotterdam before five in the morning, to his friend and factor's house, Mr. Washington's, who kept the great brewery at the sigh of the Peacock, and, sending for several of his friends who were there, told them the strange news, asking their advice what was best for him to do. They, being all struck with amazement, knew not what advice to give him. He told them that 166 MEMOIRS or WILLIAM VEITCH. (1, the Marquis de Grana, governor of the Spanish Netherlands, being his intimate acquainttmce at the English court, had by a message invited him up to divert himself a while with him at Brus- sels. He thought now he was called to go there, since he was not admitted to stay where the prince of Orange had any power, lest it might beget a mistake between him and his father-in- law. His friends thought it a good providence that he should take the occasion, which he did ; and going through several garrison to\/ns which were in his way thither, with his camels, sumpt- ers, and servants attending him, he was compli- mented in his passage by the magistrates and go- vernors of these places. But how strange is it to think, that some days ere he came there, there came a message and or- der from the king of Spain to the marquis, giv- ing him an account that, if he heard by this time of the king of England's death, he should take care to apprehend the duke of Monmouth^ if he were in his territories. They were both sur- prised at their meeting, and condoled one ano- ther's fate ; the rnie that he had got such an or- der, that, cost him what it would, he would not execute ; the other, that he should have come now to put him in such a lode. So in that very night he was forced to disguise himself, and one of his trustiest servants, in a ccwnmon soldier's habit, ftud retuin again, sometimes by land and some- MEMOIRo OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 167 times by water, until he landed at Dort, where two spies. Englishmen, following them to the inn as suspected persons, the master going up stairs to a room, and his servant going into the cookery to see what iweat was for eating, he heard them saying to one another in French, " That fellow that went up stairs looked very like the duke of Monmouth." Upon which the servant took up bread and drink, paying for it ; and they went out by a back door, when they had done, and took a waggon, which brought them to Rotterdam; where they told their friends what was befallen them. What is above said seems to make it verj evi- dent that the king's death was a fore-contrived thing. For if the king of Spain knew of it be- fore his messenger was dispatched, as the stwy evinceth, so the popish princes in othei* countries could not but be acquainted also, as well as the papists in England ; for it seems to have been an universally laid thing, to hasten the duke of York to the crown of England for advancing the Catiiolic cause. After this, Monmouth was obli- ged to lurk sometimes in liotterdam, sometimes elsewhere, until they had perfected that concert of Argyle's coming into Scotland and Mon- mouth's into England, whers their friends in both nations promised to appear with them for retrieving, if possible, the protestaut interest that was now perishing ; ami tlxeir last meeting for that effect was at RotterilHin, l68 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. ..!1 i Here also, it is to be reinarked, that the duke of York, now king of England, pursued Washing- ton, as his factor, for receiving the crown jewels that tlie king gave to Monmouth ; but he not be- ing able to make it good that Washington had i-eceived them, the pursuit fell, and came to no- thing. Mr. Veitch, drawing nigher Newcastle, was in such strait that he was forced to betake himself to a wood ; these proclamations and penalties * put- ting his friends in such a fear, that they durst not harbour him ii> their houses. The harvest-nights growing cold, he got some straw to lie on under him, and a great covering above him all night ; which was supposed by travellers, or any that saw it, to be the herd's, whose name was Thomas Wilson ; and, when Mr. Veitch went from the place of the wood where he used to be, upon the noise of travellers, so that the lass that brought iiim his meat could not fina him, she was ap- pointed to cry « Tommy Wilson, Tommy ;" upon the hearing of which he came and met her. When that storm was p jile calmed, he ven- tured in to Newcastle to see his wife and family; where he met with some :>f his Scotch relations, that were come to see them, and inquire wiiat was become of him. Some other good people in town also were there. They spent together a * See before, p. 150. ■m:m MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 169 part of the night in prayer and mourning over the sad case that now the nations and church were in. * The most part of their discourse was telling their fears and discouragements, and that they were never like to aee good days again. After several had spoke to that purpose, Mrs. Veitch came to tell her thoughts, — * that, indeed, our night was dark, and all things looked with a black face, but yet she was persuaded that God would not leave his own work, but would raise up instruments from an airt that we did not ex- pect, to build his house, to bring back the ark and the glory, and bring home his captives ; and she was persuaded that she would see presbytery esta* blished, and her husband a settled minister, in the church of Scotland, ere she died.' Though they loved the thing, yet they little believed it in the time ; but when it came to pass, they both thought and talked much of it. Mr. Veitch, being wearied with such toil and confinement, went with one Caleb Wilkison, a Nottingham merchant and friend of his ; who carried him to that part of Yorkshire lying be- tween York and Hull, and left him as a friend of his to stay in a town called South Cave, with one Mr. John C^appelle, a merchmj.t (iiere : telling hira quietly, that he was an hiV' jst man under hiding, where he was most idndly entertained. * Bennet, ir his Memorial, (pp. 289— 29 1.) gives an recount of some young men in NewcasUe who were brought before Judge 170 MEMOIRS 0¥ WILLIAM VEITCH. And there was in that town one Mr. Beak, their dissenting minister, that preached in Swan- land Chapel,* but durst not at this time, the heat of Monmouth's business not being yet well cooled ; but some weeks being elapsed he began to venture. In the mean time, when the Sabbath came, his landlord, Mr. Chappelhs, read and spake his thoughts upon the Scripture, (which is usual in England,) and prayed in the forenoon. And he would have Mr. Veitch, who now went under the name of Mr. Robinson, to do the like in the afternoon; to whicu he was somewhat averse, but, being urged, did it. Next morning Mr. Chappdle comes to Mr. Robinson's bedside, and, after inquiring how he was this morning, he says, '* Truly, Sir, Iltave been in a mistake about you ; J«Abnes in 1683, imprisoQed for a year, and threatened with a trial for high treason, because they had subscribed a paper oon- taining rules for the better ordering of a society for prayer and refigious conference, which they had taken from a work of Isaac AmdroBe.— Ricfaard Gilpin, M. D. who was geeted from Gray-, •tadt, in CumlMxlaBd, and had refined the bishopric of Carlisle, a person of great accomplishments, practised as a physician, and f acftdic d to the nonconformists, in Newcastle. (Palmer, i. 300.) &«. Vdl^ «)eek8 of wtending his ministry before the Revocation. (Msmek, p. 89.) Mr. BeHgamin fiennet succeeded Dr. Gilpia as minuter at Newcastle. * Palmer (Memor. ii. 597.) mentions " Mr. James Baycock," f correstcd " Bayock,") as many years a preacher at Sovih Cave, whew he taamA nop several parsons f»>i people in it, and some of note, yet the mayo*% aldermen, and Sir Ralph Wharton,* deputy-lieu- tenant, were all high tories. However, the good people would have him to preach to them in a by-place of the town, called Paradise, walled about. They went in all before day broke ; but the country people, who came wandering in the * Sir Ralph Wharton — commissioser of supply fox- Ae east rid- ing of the county of York in 1679 and 16&0. (Stat, of the Realm, V. 90S; vi. 188.) 172 MEMOms OF WILLIAM VEITCH. day-time, Heeking sermon, occasioned tbem to be discovered. The mayor and aldermen compassed the house, and the mayor coming in with a ser- geant at his back, the people rising to give him way, ere he came near the minister, he cried, " Hold, hold ! Sir, enough of that ;" and stepped to the end of the table next him, to lay hold on the paper that one was writing the preaching upon ; but, they struggling, he did not get it. In the mean time, all being on their feet round about him, and the mayor being sand-blind, so that he could not distinguish him from the rest, the minister was advised to turn about to the other end of the table, and go into another room on the same floor where the people were hearing. He put on his steel-grey riding coat, which was lying on the bedside, and sat down and heard the mayor abusing his neighbours for being there; telling them that Monmouth was not as yet well cold in his g/ave, and they were beginning new plots against the government ; and many other things to that purpose. To whom Mr. Benja- min Dalton, a rich man, and one in good esteem in the place, replied, " Mr. Mayor, if you under- stood yourself, and the station you occupy, you would not speak so rudely to us, and threaten us so hard with a prison ; we know what you can do in law, and, if you go beyond it, we know how to be redressed." Upon which, one of the aldermen came in, and called him out to the door, , V, t MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VE7'^ H. ITS and he, with the rest, chid him for his indiscre- tion, and told him only to take up their names* and let them go till the court-day, where they would be called to pay their fines. Mr« Robin- son was afraid when he heard of sending all to prison, thinking then that he would be discovered; but when he heard of taking up names^ he hoped that he might escape. The mayor came back with his clerk, and stood in the great entry, and the clerk took all their names as they passed by. M»-. Chapelle, Mr. Robinson's landlord, was the mayor's cousin- german, and both were of one name. He thought fit to show himself to his cousin, the mayor, before his wife, and the minister, and the people that lived in that town should go out. When he came to him, he got up both his hands, and cried out, " O, cousin, are you here ? I'm sure there is a deep plot on foot that you are come seven miles to carry on; but, however, you may go, for I cannot forget your name if I mind my own." ** Nay," says he ; "I have my wife, friends, and neighbours here, and I'll go fetch them all out together ;" and, when he came back, he says to the minister, " Come you next after me, and let the rest follow." When he passes by, the clerk writes down his name by the mayor's order. In the mean time, the mayor takes Mr. Robinson by the sleeve, and says, " What is your name, Sir ?" to which he replies, "Mr. Mayor, my name is 174 M) MOIIIS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. William Robinson." " Where do you live ?" This question being a little puzzling, he pulls at his landlord's coat, and he» understanding the strait he was in, turns about, and says to the clerk, " Write down, William Robinson of Gilbert-tlykes;" and 80 they went out. But y . Robinson would go to no house, but desired his landlord to show him the next way out to the Windmills, and send his horse after him. He lay long among the bashes waiting, and seeing several horsemen coming by, he skulk- ed behind a hedge lest they should be enemies; but when they came nigh, seeing them friends, he asked, if they s .. v his boy and the hoi^ses coming. They sai No;" but one of them caused his son gh';^ um his horse, and he went along with them, and the young man waited for the minister's horse. So he went to that man's house, which was but two miles off the town, where he dined ; and, after preaching ont his ser- mon to a number of people that followed on that way, he went home at night with his landlord Chappelle. When the court-uay came, the mayor sat to fine the people of the town, and Sir Ralph Whar- ton those of the country, who most part appear- ed, yet the preacher was not found ; but they fined him, according to the law, in £20 Sterling, whose name and habitation was not yet known, whenever he should be found ; and if he be not, MEMOIKS OF WILLIaM VEITCM. 175 to lay that fine upon tht hear rs liroportionably next court-day. But some of them thinking that th« miniswer might be that Robinson of Gilbert- dykes, they ordered meir bailiffs to go to that plate, which . ttu miles off Beverly, and bring him, with all the other absents in the country, the next court-day, which was to sit at twelve of the clock. The bai ' ' ^n went to the place, and hap- pened to ''md a poor oid man of that name, who wa^ a .cdger and d'* her, whom when they wot bring away, he iled to the next jus- tif i) the peace, where n gave his affidavit that he hau never been in Beverly all his life, and that he was no dissenter ; which affidavit they presented to the court the next day ; and when it was read they fell all a laughing, and the mayor cried cut, «< My cousin Chapelle has undoubted- ly served us this trick." It is remarkable here, that more than an hour before, King James's act of indemnity, and his act for liberty to all dissenters to license meeting- houses and ministers, where, and whom they pleased, and that only for paying sixpence the next justice of the peace's clerk, were proclaimed at eleven of the clock n.t the market-cross in Be- verly ; yet the court that sat after twelve were going to exact the fines for the minister and people. But Mr. Dalton, with some of the lead- ing dissenters, went up to the Court, protested and took instruments in the hands of the clerk. IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) z .^ 1.0 I.I 115 !g lia 12.0 li& ^lii^y^ ^ 6" ► <^ y] /: ^ Photographic Sciences Corporation 23 WIST MAIN STREST WHSTM.N.Y. 14SS0 (716)t72-4503 M 176 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEXTCH. thilt now their proceedings were illegal, seeing the acts of indemnity and liberty weie>pn>elidni- ed b^lore they sat dbwn; and tbeyweiw forced to dissolve the court, so that neither minister nor people paid fines. Sir Ralph Wharton, meeting with Mr. Dalton, his physician, says, « How now, Dalton ; yonll have a minister and a meetingi^house, surely?? " Yes," says Mr. Dalton, " as soon as possible; and if we can, we will have Robinson of Gilbert^ dykes to be our minister, and then ye shall see him, though before you could not find him." It is to be remembered here, that Mr. Ro^ binson, after that meeting was taken, withiil a few days went straight to York, and Mr. Beak, the honest minister of Swanlandj was pleased to accompany Mm, being bom in that city, where he met with aiu>ther remarkable deliverance^ For Mr. Beak informing several of the good people of that city' what he was, they would needs have him to preach private- ly to them, the liberty not yet being come out.* * The Unfjfs DecUumtion for liberty of conscience in England wu dated April *, 1667. It nupended the execution of all penal laws in matters ecclesiastical, acquitted the sulgects from all pe- nalties which they had incurred, or might hereafter be liable to, for nonconfotinity, and freely gave them " leate to meet and serve God after thdr own way and manner, be it in private houses, or places purposely hired or built for that use."—" We cannot but heartily wish," (says his Miyesty) " as it will easily be believed, that all the people ol our dominions were members of the Catholic MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 177 He lying at the Bkck Greyhound, near the Min- ster, of York, a little befoi*e the time that the messenger was to come about him to the other ewl He exercised hia ministry there with great sa- tisfaction ; and the meeting increased daily, not only from the Scotch side, but also the English ; his old friends and hearers in Coqu^t-water and Reedsdale frequenting that place, and inviting him over on week days to preach with them, which he willingly complied with. He preached also in these parishes mentioned on the week- days, time about, both before and after the happy MEMOIHS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 185 Revolution by the prince of Orange, (who landed at Torbajr, with his fleet and army, the 4th of November, 1688 ;) and then in the churches about, as they were cleared from the prelatical clergy. ( Upon this good news, and the prospect of a happy change, the outed presbyterian ministers of Scotland thought it expedient to meet at Edin- burgh, and so wrote to all their brethren in the adjacent parts to meet at the Taylors' Hall, where tkey spent some time in praying together, that God would prosper the prince's undertaking, give him, and all that joined with him, counsel and direction how to manage so great and difficult an undertaking, and make them successful ; so as it might resolve to God's glory, returning of the captivity of the church and people of Qod, the building of the old waste places, and the bringing back of the ark and the glory that had been so long at Kirjath-jearim, the fields of the wood, and settle it again in his sanctuary; and particularly that, at this juncture, he would rlnt out to the jgodly ministry and people in Scotland what is their duty, and help them faithfully to perform it. It fell out, very unexpectedly and surprisingly to Mr. Veitch, that the meeting of the ministers voted him, the next day after he came, to preach in the new meeting-house over against Libberton's Wynd head; a thing to which he was greatly averse. His reasons that he gave were— his being 186 MEMOIRS or WILLIAM VEITCH. a staraiiger for tweuty years and more ia Sootlamf, and 00 very ill acquainted with the traiwactions bf diat time, which rendered him unfit at such a juncture to speak in public ; as also tiiat there were many old, grave, and wise men there to do it, and it might bring no small detriment to sudi a promising work of reformation as was now in prospect to set him or such as he was in such a public place. But these r^ons were not heard, and it was left upon him, which was so perplex- ing to his mind that he knew not what to do, for wh&& eight of the dock at ni^t was eome be could not find a text ; but at length he fell upon that 18th verse of the 119th psalm, (the words are, >** Thou hast trode down aK them that err from thy statutes, for thdbr deceit is falsehood,**) which took him up the whole night without going to bed in thinking upon it. And when he came up to the pulpit, his seeing of sixteen old ministers sitting in the loft before him, and the meeting so throng of all sorts of people, increased his fear mid confusion. However, he ddivered his thoughts upon the subject, with respect to the present circumstances of things and what was in view, with such jdainness and freedom as greatly offended the prelates, who sent him a particular message the next day by one of their own gang and his acquaintance, — that for such bold and unbecoming refiections upon them and their go- vernment they M"2re resolved to be even with MEMOmtt OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 187 Mm tre long ; as also, that he durst be so bold in such a public auditory to pray for the success of the Prince and Princess of Orange. All the answer he returned them by the messenger was, to hid them put on their spurs. Upon the other hand, he seemed to give offence to some of the godly party, by some free expressions that he had with respect to the future government, if presbytery should be erected. A worthy gentleman both for learning and piety took him by after sermon in the street, and told him, he doubted not but that he had offend- ed several of the good people by some things he had said. He replied, he was sorry for it ; but a little time would discover these things. About half a year after he came to him at the cross of Edinburgh, and taking him aside, he craved him pardon for what he had said upon that ser- mon, for all that was spoken in it was like to be too true. When the presbyterian church was restored by law, Mr. Veitcfa had calls from several parishes, vis. one to Crailing, another to Melrose, and a third to Peebles, which he was persuaded by the Earl of Crawford, Lord Argyle, old Stairs, and James Stewart, advocate, to embrace, notwith- standing the old Duke of Queensberry did vigo- rously and violently oppose it. But these four forementioned persons engaged to support him, telling that the duke and his iniquitous laws 188 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VBITCH. were now out of date, out of court, and un- der water; but, notwithstanding of his being overclouded for the present, he got up again, and maintained a vigorous plea against Mr. Veitch for seven sessions, both before the lords and the church ; so that the gentlemen who pro- mised to support him shrunk back as the duke increased in favour at court ; and at length he overawed, I may say, the church to loose him from that charge. And he having a call to Edin- burgh, another to Paisley, and a third to Dum- fries, the assembly was influenced by Mr. Veitch's speech, (wherein he showed so great an aver- sion to Edinburgh) to vote him to Dumfries; after he had served the cure four complete years in Peebles, viz. from Septeml)er 1690 to Septem- ber 1694, at which time he was admitted to his ministry in Dumfries. He left Peebles with great aversion, not only with respect to that parish, but also to the coun- try round about. He did foresee that his re- moval from thence would be of ill consequence both to the parish and the country-side, and, therefore, upon a new call given him to that place, struggled hard to be back again, and lost it only by four votes. He never got the legal stipend of that place all the four years he was there; so uiat he lost, what by expence of law, and not getting the stipend which was legally due, above ten thousand merks, by the potency MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 189r of his enemies, and the injustice of the bench, - which the old Duke, and his son Lord William,* have to account for to the Great Judge ; and, if Mr. Veitch be rightly informed, it did trouble the conscience of two of his greatest upposers on their death-bed. As Mr. Veitch was greatly perplexed with the hard usage the assembly had g^ven h^ in their illegal removing of him nierely to piease the duke, when they had many strong reasons to the contrary, and to send him to Dumfries, a place that he heard wanted not its own difficulties, he resolved to leave the nation, and so publicly re- fused to submit to the sentence of that judica-i tory, and undertook to give in his reasons for so doing. The assembly being about to rise, refer- red him to the commission of the kirk to hear him, to wLom he gave in a whole sheet of paper of reasons why he could not submit to the sen- tence, with a complaint of his hard usage and unbrotherly treatment. After the reading of which, he being put out, and the commission con- sidering the matter, instead of giving him writ- ten answers which he required, they thought it better to appoint a committee to confer with him, to see if they could give him satisfaction ; * In 169S, Mr. Veitch lost an action before the Lords, against Lord William Douglas, the Duke's second son, for the reduction of a tack which his predecessor. Hay, had granted for behoof of his family. (Fountainhall's Decis. i. 879.) 190 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. and they nominated Mr. Edward Jamieson, Mr. C^briel Semple, and his brother Mr. John, with some others, to confer with him and bring his answer to the commission. In the mean time his old friends in England, hearing of these things, sent a gentleman to Peebles to bring him back to them, engaging to give him a fine house and yards to dwell in, to furnish him with plenty of fire, and L.60 Ster- ling per annum, well paid, beside other things which he knew they used to give ; and the gentle- man promised to give his personal bond for the making all of it good before he went out of Pee- bles, and would not return to England without Mr. Veitch's going along with him, which he did. They would have had Mr. Veitch engag- ing to be their pastor ere he came back to Scot- laud, after he had preached a Sabbath day with them ; but he refused till once he should hand- somely end with the commission of the kirk. When he came back to the commission* they having heard of these things, desired the com- mittee foL ^mentioned to deal earnestly with him not to leave the nation, but to stay and comply with the sentence, if possible, and that because, among other reasons, it would be a very ill pre- cedent, it being in the entry of this new reforma- tion and church establishment, and give others afterward occasion to refuse submission to the sentences of church judicatories ; and they hoped MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. liU that Mr. Veitch, upon that very account, would be cautious and wary to do any thing that might afterward be prejudicial to the church, and de- sired him to do them that favour to go and preach at Dumfries four or five sabbaths, and acquaint himself with the people and the state of his af- fairs in that place, and see if he and they could comply together for his settlement, so as to prevent an early breach in the government, which would give much satisfaction to the commission. And indeed that had been in Mr. Veitch*s thoughts before they proposed it, and was the knocking argument persuading him to obtemperate the sentence. And this was a great encouragement, that after several conferences with some leading persons in the town, wherein he told them, among other differences needless here to be mentioned, that except they would free him of the drawing of the tithes (with which he had got on the finger- ends at Peebles, and " burnt bairns fire dread") and take a tack thereof from him as long as he should continue minister of the place, he could not settle among them, — they at length, consult- ing among themselves, complied with this ; and so he set them a tack of them so long as he was to continue their minister, at the rate that they often had told him the tithes were worth, viz. twenty-two hundred merks per annum^ out of which he is obliged by charter from the king to pay the second minister 400 merks per annum. 9 192 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. But the tacksmen considering among themselves thatthey had valued these titjhes at too high a rate, (it is like to be a temptation to Mr. Veitch to em- brace the call*) and that themselves would after- ward be losers, got a bond from so many sub- stantial persons in the town, every one of them to pay so much per annum as they conjectured would save them from being losers ; and so both the tack and bond continue to this day, 1714. fV'l * He means, that they had probably valued the tithe* high, with the view of ^n4ucing him to accept of their call. 'to SUPPLEMENT U)«Mf . TO THR MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH; The Memoirs of Mr. Veitch reach to the year 1714 ; but ai9 he has given only a general ac- count of himself from the Revolution, it may not be improper to commence at that period the statement of the additional fact* which have been collected relative to the latter part of hifr life. Though the non-conformist ministers enjoyed considerable liberty in preaching during the lait two years of the reign of James IL, yet it be- hoved Mr. Veitch to act with great circumspfec tion, as he was liable, if found on Scottish giSatfnd, to be seized in consequence of his bani^mteBt, and might be in£»rmed against as an accomf«i«e o 194 bUPPLEMENT TO THE of the Earl of Argyle. The Revolution reliev- ed him from all apprehensions of danger ; and, while it enlarged the sphere of his usefulness, added in no small degree to his labours. The people in that part of the country where he had opened a meeting-house, were generally disaiTected to the episcopal clergy, and embraced the first op- portunity, on the change of the government, or rather on the inter-regnum^ to forsake the bene- ficed clergy, with their curates, and to flock to the tents of such presbyterian ministers as were within their reach. Although there were no tu- multuous aspemblies in the south, similar to what was called the rabbling in the west, yet many of the clergy, either apprehending something of this kind, or influenced by some other motive, desert- ed their churches ; and others were soon after re- moved from theirs, for adhering to the old, or re- fusing to comply with the orders of the new go- vernment. In these circumstances, and when there were neither ministers nor constituted au- thorities to provide for vacant parishes, Mr. Veitch found himself, for a time, in the situation of the bishop of a diocese, and had to dispense divine ordinances to a whole country-side. His activity at this time, together with the distin- guished part which he had taken during the late period, of misrule and oppression, led him to be particularly noticed and abused by the advocates of that party who sought to embroil the nation, MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. I95 and who, for several years, kept two presses con- stantly employed in London, wftich teemed with pamphlets, containing accounts of the hardships of the outed episcopal clergy, and satires on the Presbyterian ministers and the proceedings of their church courts. The object of that party was, by means of their friends in England, to prevent the court from agreeing to the establish- ment of the Presbyterian church ; and, when they had failed in this, to obtain a legal and formal toleration of the episcopal church, under the wings of which they might carry on their plans for overturning the civil government and restor- ing the exiled family. Speaking of the applications which the presby- terian ministers, who temporarily served the va- cant churches, made for an aUowance from the le- gal stipends, the author of one of the pamphlets above referred to, says : « Thus Mr. WiUiam Veitch had been a great sufferer, for why ? he had been forced to appear actually in rebeUion against King Charles II. at Pictland hills, for which he was not hanged indeed, but declared rebell and fugitive ; but now that the fields were fair, and he had endured so much undeserved persecution, would he not have been to blame if he had not studied his own interest? And, therefore, he petitioned for no less than five va- cancies, viz. Creiland, Eckfurd, Yettam, Mar- bottle, and Cxnam. Tis true, the council were Id6 SUPPLEMENT TO THE 80 hard-hearted as to grant him only three of them, viz. Creiland, Eckford, and Yettam. Thia was hard enough ; but alas ! (though he had con- fidently affirmed in his petition the contrary,) it was afterwards found that the minister of Crei- land had not been deprived before Michaelmas 1689. So that Mr. Veitch could not get that benefice, which was certeinly a very dis^point- ing persecution to him." * Now, sorely, " the labourer is worthy of his hire;" and it is not uncommon for a person to state a claim on dif- ferent funds, while yet he expects from them only what he is entitled to in law or in equity. The privy council, by their act of the 24th December 1689, had suspended the payment of stipends to such as « were not in the actual exercise of their ministerial function on the 18th day of April last. " t And the parliament, on the 7th of June 1690, declared the churches of these persons to be vacant ; " and that the presbyterian ministers, exercising their ministry within any of these pa- rishes, (or where the last incumbent is dead) by the desire or consent of the parish, shall con- tinue their possession, and have right to the be- nefices and stipends according to their entry in • Account of the late Establiahment of Presbytemn Govern- ment by the Pariiament of Scotland, anno ICW), p. 67. Lond. 1W3. t Collection of Papers, in Case of the Afflicted Clergy, p. 83. Lond. 1690. -^ MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 197 ihe yeit 1689, and in time coming, ay and while (until) the church as now estaUished, take far- ther course therewith."* The parliament, in their act reversing Mr. Veitch's forfeiture, refer- red hiih to their committee for fines, to receive a remuneration for his bygone losses, f A well-known lampoon of that period has the following passage. « It is known in the shire of Teviotdale, that Mr. William Veitch murder- ed the bodies as well as the souls, of two or three persons with one sermon ; for preaching in the town of Jedburgh to a great congregation, he said, * There are two thousand of you here to- day, but I am sure fourscore of you will not be saved ;' upon which, three of his ignorant hear- ers, being in despair, dispatched themselves soo» after." | Those who have read the preceding me- moirs wiU not be inclined to think it likely that the author would preach in the manner which is here imputed to him ; and his printed sermons are certainly of a very different complexion. This remark applies also to a ludicrous note ascrib- ed to him in another part of the same publica- tion. § Mrs. Veitch gives the following account of her husband's call to Peebles.-—" A friend of mine, * Act Pari. Scot. ix. 134. t Ibid. p. 199. App. 167. t Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence^ p. IS.* i Ibid. p. as. I 19B SUPPLEMENT TO THE being thirty miles off the place where I lived, wrote a letter desiring my husband to come and see her, for she was in a very sad case. He was unwilling to go» but I urged him sore to go ; upon which he took horse, and, riding all night, when he came near Peebles, being weary he ask- ed an herdman on the way. Who kept an inn at Peebles. He directed him to Provost Muir's; and when he came and sat down and refreshed himself a little, he and some other strangers be- gan to discourse about Teviotdale. The provost hearing asked, if he knew one Mr. William Veitch that lived there : he said, he knew him. He asked, if he was at home ; and he said, * No, he is not at home.' My husband asked at him, what they would do with him. * They had a mind to call him for their minister ; and they had written a letter, and hired a man, who was going to his house to desire him to come and preach to them on the sabbath day.' My hus- band told them, * they needed^not to trouble them- selves; for they would not get him at home, nor yet to be their minister as he thought, for he had several calls in his own country.' The provost not knowing him, after some more discourse, asked at my husband, if he was the man they were seeking ; he told them, he was the man ; which made them both to wonder at that piece of providence. He took horse and rode ten miles farther west to see my friend, and they engaged MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 1^ him to come back that way to preach to them ; which he did. After he came home, he told me. I was put to wonder : I was like Abraham's ser- vant, who said, * it is of the Lord, I can neither say good nor bad.' They drew up a call and sent to him to the synod, where they condescended unto it, and my husband embraced it. But out of this pleasant rose there sprang many a thorn ; for both friends and foes were ready to reproach him, which was a trouble to my spirit, to see the people one day idolize him, and on another day reproach him, because he would not stay with them. I went to God with these words which David went with, * Help, Lord, for I am be- come a reproach unto them. Let them curse, but bless thou, and let them know it is thy hand, and thou hast done it.' It was my desire to God that he would show the gospel a token for good to Peebles, that they that hated it might see it and be ashamed. But the cloud grew thicker and darker ; for Queensberry and his chamber- lain were great enemies. They came all that length as to print a number of lies against the presbytery and my husband, because they could not get in one Mr. Knox, who was a curate. The presbytery had placed him, according to the act of parliament, so that his enemies could find no blame in it. He had the call of the elders, heri- tors, and town council, and the generality of all the people ; and he referred his cause to the ge- 900 BUFPJ EMENT TO THK fliflll Misetnhly, but though two aBsemblies sat, yet not i ne of them determined about him."* In a publication against Mr. Veitch (which ap- pears to be the one referred to in the preceding extract) the following reflections are made on the circumstances which led to his call to Pee- bles. *' To shake himself loose of the calls which were referred to the synod of Kelso, he had pre- vailed with some of his friends to represent his call to Peebles as the effect of an immediate and extraordinary providence ; which they did so flou- rish out in the several circumstances, that it might appear equivalent to a voice from heaven which he ought not to disobey. Whereas, it can be evinced by clear evidences, that it was a draught and design of men, carried on underhand for a considerable time," f Mr. Veitch has stated that the Duke of Queens- berry was the great opponent to his settlement ; ^ but his Grace kept in the back ground. The op^ position was managed by some of the smaller heritors in support of the alleged rights of Mr. Robert Knox. He, according to the statement oi his friends, had officiated as assistant or curate to Mr. John Hay, who destined him for his succes- sor. On the death of Hay, which happened about * M Voitch's Mem. pp. 48 — 54. f Iftftiv V i for the Heritors, £lders, &c. of the pariah of }>eeble», .«v . * *'^'- >/^iWi«nn Veitch, printed, in a collection of similar ;;•?);'? ,b«^ , 1600, p. *• .. X Sa: l-tiorc, ). 18T. MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM V trcH. 901 the time of the Revolution, application wa< made on behalf of Knox, to Queensbeny, the patron, and a favourable answer having been received, " upon tlic 17th of November 1689, being the Lor'tVi day, uuur sermon, the session being sitting, and the hike's letter read to them, the whole h»< rigors, elders, and parishioners then present, did unanimously and cheerfully receive the said letter and nomination, and promised to Mr. Knox all the encouragement that could be expected from a dutifiil people." * They acknowledge that he wanted the " formality of institution," but plead that the steps taken were sufficient to constitute a relation between him and the parish, " in regard there was no legal ecclesiastical judicatory then ir being" to confirm it. That the parish were by no means so unanimous in their desire for Mr. Knox as his friends would represent them, ap- pears from an attempt which was madie to pre- vent him by force from entering the pulpit ; and from the ease with which he complied with the first order of the presbytery to desist from the exercise of his ministry.f For, on the 24th of July 1690, on a complaint from the magistrates of Peebles, in the name of the parish, the pres- bytery found, that Mr. Robert Knox had ** taken possession of the kirk of Peebles without any le- gal or orderly establishnient," desired him to for- Information, ut supra, p^ 66. m» SUPPLEMENT TO THE bear preaching there, and appointed one of their number to declare the church vacant ; all which was peaceably done. * In consequence of a petiv tion from the parish, the presbytery, on the 7th of August, appointed Mr. Robert Elliot to mode- rate in a call at Peebles ; and, on the 2d of Sep- tember, the moderator reported, " that after ser- mon, the heritors, magistrates, and kirk session, and the heads of families, did subscribe a call to Mr. William Veitch." Upon this John Balfour of Kailzie renewed a protest which he had taken on the day of the moderation, " in the name of the Dukeof Queensberry and several of the heritors," craving that, in respect of the interest of Mr. Robert Knox, nothing might be done in the af- fair until the next meeting of the general as- sembly. Being asked for his commission, it was found he had none ; and the presbytery consi- dering that Knox " had not the least shadow of a legal establishment as incumbent in Peebles ; and that Mr. Veitch's call to the ministry in that place was due and legal ; as also, considering the urgency of the plantation of so considerable a place of that country with an able minister of the gospel, and that, in the like cases, inferior judicatories have proceeded notwithstanding of appeals to their superiors, they being always liable to their censure,— resolved to go on in that affair, and to be answerable to the general assembly. The moderator reported that he had, • Records of the Presbytery of Peebles. MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 203 according to appointment, written to Queens- berry, who had returned this answer, that they should do in Mr. Veitch's affair as they should be answerable to God." Accordingly, the pre- vious steps having been taken, Mr. Veitch was, on the 18th of September 1690, admitted with the usual solemnities.* In the preceding memoir we have met with no account of Mr. Veitch's ordination, at his first entrance to the ministry. It was natural for the presbytery to inquire into this before his admission at Peebles; and the following is the account of that matter in the minutes. Mr. Veitch, being desired to produce due testimonials of his ordination to the ministry, answered, " that the hazard and danger was such at the time of his ordination, that it was not thought fit by his ordainers to grant testificates, but promised to bring a testificate from a famous minister's hand, now in Scotland, who was one of that number who gave him ordination; upon which the presby- tery, considering how well known he was in this country, and that he had been admitted and own- ed as a minister by the general meeting of this church, did rest satisfied." f I have no doubt that Mr. Henry Erskine is the person from whom he offered to procure a certificate. In a paper which he appears to have drawn up for the use of Wod- .row, Mr. Veitch states, that Mr. Erskine assisted * Pc t Records, ut supra, September IT, 1690. S04 SUPPLEMENT TO THE at his ordination.* They were intimate friends ; the former was frequently at Mr. Veitch's house in Northumberland ; and on these occasions used to entertain him and his wife with anecdote^ respecting the istraits into which he was often brought with his numerous family, and the sin- gular manner in which he was extricated froir. them. The following is one of these, as related in the paper referred to. ** One evening he, his wife and children, went to bed with a light sup- per, which made the children cry, in the morning when they awaked, for meat. But there being; none in the house, he bade them be still, and he would play them a spring upon the citren (guit- ar.) He played and wept ; and they and their mother wept ; they being in one room, and he and his wife in bed in another. But, before he had dohe playing, one raps at the gate ; and it proved to be a servant-man, sent from a worthy and charitable lady, with a horse-load of meal, cheese, and beef."f It is probable that Mr. Veitch's ordination took place in the year 1671, when he settled at Fala- lies. X He had preached in different parts of Northumberland as early as the end of the year * Remarkable Providences concerning Mr. Uarie Erskine, senf, an. 1718, by Mr. W. Veitch: Wodrow MSS. Advocates Library, Bob. in. 4, 17. Mr. Erskine became minister of Chimside, in Berwickshire, after the Revolution. He was the father of Eben- ezer and Ralph Erskine, two of the first ministers of the Secession. t Remarkable Providences, ut supra. i See before, p. S9. MEMOIRS or WILLIAM VEITCH. 205 1668 ; * and there is reason to conclude that he had received license to preach before he left Scot- land, or during one of his secret journeys into it to see his family. Licenses and ordinations among the nonconformists, both in Scotland and Eng- land, were necessarily conducted with great se- crecy at this period. Mr. Robert Trail, who had been chaplain to Scot of Scotstarvet, was ordain- ed at London, in the year 1670, by presbyterian ministers, f Mr. Thomas Archer, who was exe- cuted at Edinburgh, received his license when he resided as chaplain in the family of Lady Rid- del, and was ordained, by Mr. Fleming and other Scottish ministers, in Holland. | William Mac- miUan of Caldow was licensed by the presbyte- rian ministers of the county of Down, in Ire- land. § Mr, Patrick Warner, minister of Irvine after the Revolution, a person of high respectabi- lity, and noticed, when in Holland, by the Prince and Princess of Orange, was licensed at Edin- burgh, and ordained by the presbyterian ministers of London, with the view of his going out as a chaplain of the East India Company to the coast • See before, p. 64 ; compared with Mr. Veitch's notes in his family Bible. t Wodrow, i. 442, App. 117. In one of Mr. Trail's note-books, at the beginning of a sermon on Heb. xii. 29, is the following no- tandum:—" London, April 22, 1669. The first time of my preaching at London. On the Thursday before the administration of the sacrament of the Lord's supper in Mr. Blaikie's congrega- tion." On another sermon is written : " Trial. Ap. 5, 1669." t Wodrow, ii. 258, 553. § Ibid. ii. 408. 206 SUPPLEMENT TO THE of Coromandel, where he preached for several years at Fort St. Greorge or Madras. * - Mr. Alexander Shields, in the account which he gave of himself to the general meeting of the Society People, states, " that he went to London with an intention to be amanuensis to Dr. Owen, or some other great doctor who was writing books for the press, and had a letter of recommendation to one Mr. Blakie, a Scottish minister, who having trysted to speak with him at a certain season, had several ministers convened, (unknown to Mr. Shields) who did press and enjoin him to take license. So he being carried to it in that sudden and surprising way, accepted of it from the hands of some Scottish ministers then at London, but without impositions or sinful restrictions." f In most of these instances, the facts as to license and ordination were brought out in examinations be- fore the criminal courts. Notwithstanding the vexation which he re- ceived from the family of Queensberry and their dependents, Mr. Veitch appears to have been happy at Peebles. His brethren in the presbytery and synod repeatedly testified their esteem for him. Within eight days after his admission, the presbytery elected him one of their commission- ers to the first general assembly held after the Revolution ; and he was chosen to represent them • Wodrow; ii. 249, 250, 624, 625. t Minutes of General Meeting of United Societies, p. 72, MS. in Advocates Library. MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 207 in the aesembly which should have met on the Ist of November, 1691. On the 19th of April, 1693, the presbytery appointed him as " a cor- respondent from them, to join other correspond^ ents from several presbyteries, who are to meet at Edinburgh about the public concerns of the church."* In the course of the following month he opened the provincial synod of Lothian and Tweedale with a sermon ; and was appointed by them to preach before his Grace the Duke of Hamilton, High Commissioner, and the Estates of Parliament, f On the loth of June, 1691, " two gentlemen, viz. Alexander Porterfield and Robert Pow," laid on the table of the presbytery of Peebles a call to Mr. Veitch from the parish of Paisley, with rea- sons for his transportation. They appear to have been very solicitous to obtain him as their minis- ter ; for Mr. Matthew Crawfurd, minister of East- wood, attended the presbytery on one occasion, and John Crawfurd, bailie of Paisley, on another occasion, to prosecute the call. It was carried be- fore the superior courts, and remained for a con- siderable time undecided. :j: On the 9th of January, 1694, commissioners from the presbytery of Dumfries, and from the * Records of the Presbytery of Peebles. • t Two Sermons — by Mr. William Veitch. EJin. 1693. X Records of the Presbytery of Peebles, for June 10, July 1, and 13, 1691. ao» SUPPLEMENT TO THE magistrates, town-council, and kirk-session of that town, presented a call to Mr. Veitch, which the presbytery of Peebles refused to read, a6 he was absent, but promised that it should be read next day; upon which the commissioners from Dumfries appealed to the general assembly, or the synod, which ever of them should first meet.*— At a public meeting held in the Old Church, on the 5th of February, 1694, the magis- trates, town-council, and kirk-session of Edin- burgh, elected and subscribed a call to Mr. Wil- liam Veitch at Peebles, to be one of the ministers of that city, to which the presbytery gave their approbation and concurrence, f When this call was laid before the presbytery of Peebles, and pre- sented to Mr. Veitch, " he would not so much as re- ceive it into his hand, and desired that his refusal might be marked." The reasons of transporta- tion having been transmitted to the magistrates of Peebles, they, in their answers, pleaded an act of assembly, in virtue of which " no inferior judica- tory of the church can be judges of any such call as this," and protested that the presbytery should proceed no farther in the matter. The presby- • Records of Presbytery of Peebles. t The call was subscribed by the provost, (Sir John Hall) the dean of guild, treasurer, and seventeen other members of coun- cil, and by Messrs. James Kirktoun, David Blaire, Jo. Law, J. Moncrieff, Ja. Webster, Jo. Hamiltoune, ministers, and upwards of twenty elders. (Records of Town-council of Edinburgh, 5th, 6th, and 9th of February, 1694.) MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 209 tery referred the whole affair to the judges com- petent ; and the commissioners from Edinburgh appealed to the synod, or to the general assem- bly, provided it should meet first. * Mr. Veitch attended the general assembly which sat down at Edinburgh on the 29th of March, 1694, and of which he was a member. Through the influence of the Duke of Queens- berry, who was now re-admitted as an extraor- dinary lord of session, and in great favour with the government, a final decision had not yet been given on the objections to his settlement at Peebles. The assembly, at this meeting, took up that question, and, in their sixth session, passed an act, declaring his call and admission to be legal, f In the next session, they took into con- sideration the three calls from Paisley, Dumfries, and Edinburgh; and having preferred the call from Dumfries, appointed Mr. Veitch to remove to that town, t As he testified great backward- ness to comply with this decision, some members were allowed to confer with him, " but without prejudice to the assembly's sentence ;" and a pe- tition from the parish of Paisley, requesting the assembly to reconsider their decision, or to refer the matter to the commission, was refused. § * Records of Presbytery of Peebles, for February 7, and 28, and March 21, 1694. t Acts of General Assembly 1694, p. 27. } Ibid. § Ibid. p. 28, 29. P SIO SUPPLEMENT TO THE Mr. Veitch could not be more unwilling to go to Dumfries than his predecessor had been to leave .. it. In October 1690, the general assembly trans- lated Mr. George Campbell from the ministry of that town, to be professor of divinity in the university of Edinburgh, — a situation which he was extremely averse to, but fwr which he- was eminently qualified by the ** learning and mo- desty^' ascribed to him, even by the avowed de- tractors of the presbyterian ministers of that pe- riod. ♦ It would appear that the parish had re- mained vacant, after his translation, for four yeans, owing partly to the scarcity of ministers, arid partly to the interruptions suffered by the supreme eccliesiastical judicatory during that interval. Mr. Veitch removed to Dumfries with his family in the month of September I694rf ^* That very day four years after I came to Pee- bl^f (says Mrs. Veitch) "that very same day I came out of it for Dumfries. I would not have wanted the experience of God's goodness, and free f HUt. Relation of General Assembly, 1690, p. 47. Second Vindication of the Church of Scotland, p. 175. Mr. Campbell had been ejected firom Dumfries in 1672; (Wod. i. App. 74. ii. 613.) and died in July, 1701. (Rec. of Town Council iof. Edin- burgh.) t The parish of Peebles was declared vacant on the 19th of August, 1694. (Records of Presbytery.) On the 16th of Sep- tember, Mr. Veitch baptized a child at Peebles. Mr. James Thomsone was admitted to the ministry of Peebles on the 2Sth of November, 1696. (Records of Kirk-session.) MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 211 love to me and mine, and the church, for all the trouble I met with in it." ♦ In October 1695, Mr. Veitch concurred with the kirkxsession and magistrates in giving a call to Mr. Robert Paton, minister of Caerlaverock, who was admitted as his colleague in the begiup ning of the following year, -f Mr. Veitch appears to have been much respected in Dumfries-shire, and to have enjoyed the confidence of his breth-* ren as a man of business. He was frequently chosen moderator of the provincial synod. In the end of the year 1695 he was appointed by the presbjrtery " to wait on the duke of Queens- berry, f to solicit his favour with respect to the settlement of stipends, &c. ; and reported a favour-^ able and satisfying answer, not only in respect ctf this comer, but of the government in general." On the 10th of September, 1696, « the presbytery^ considering that it is an ancient and laudable cusr torn of this church, to send some of their niynber to the place where the parliament sits, to concur with such other ministers as may be commissipn* ate from other presbyteries, in things which may be needful for the glory of God and the church's welfare, do hereby commissionate and af^oint Mr. William Veitch to attend at Edinburgh for * Memoir, p. 68. t Records of kirk-se^ion of Dumfries, 11th and 1 7th October, 1695, and 13th February, 1696. X James, the second duke, whose father died on the 28th of March, 1695. 21S SUPPLEMENT TO THE that effect during thig session of parliament."* His name is on the list of the commission of the general assembly annually from 169* to 1705. f A great many, both ministers and pe "ple, who were among the heartiest friends of the civil go- vernment and of presbytery, disapproved of some things in the settlement of religion in Scotland at the Involution, although they judged it their duty to join, both in Christian and ministerial communion, with the established clnirch. Their dissatisfaction was increased by various measures which were subsequently adopted by the ecclesias- tical judicatories, in concert with or under the in- fluence of the court; particularly, the refusal to approve of the laudable steps of reformation in for- mer times, and to condemn the deviations from them; the loose terms on which many of the epis- copal clergy were received ; the encroachments made by the court on the liberty of the church in the appointing of fasts and thanksgivings, and in the calling and dissolving of assemblies ; and the imposition of different oaths on ministers and preachers, as qualifications for office, if These sentiments were entertained by several minis- ters in the synods of Dumfries and Galloway, within whose bounds there were also many peo- ple connected with the United Societies, who • Recorda of the PrcBbytery of Dumfries. t Acts of Assembly. X See Memoirs of the PubUc Life of Mr. James Hogg, passim. MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 213 kept aloof from the Revolution church, and even disowned the civil government. In October 1698, Mr. Hepburn, minister of Urr, gave in a paper of public grievances to the synod ; and he was subsequently prosecuted both before the synod and the general assembly, and even im- prisoned for some time, for freedoms used by him from the pulpit in censuring the defections of the church, and for preaching and baptizing without the bounds of his own parish. * He was ulti- mately deposed, as was also Mr. John Macmil- lan, minister of Balmaghie, who subsequently joined the Cameronians, and organized them un- der the Reformed Presbytery. Mr. Veitch was engaged in the controversial warfare with Mr. Hepburn ; but I have not seen his papiphletf In October 1703, a petition was laid bt^ore the sy- nod of Dumfries, craving that steps might be taken for renewing the National Covenant. The synod approved of the zeal of the petitioners, and appointed some of their number to consult the commission, and advise with grave, godly, and experienced ministers ; and that, in the mean time, all the brethren should instruct their flocks in the nature of the covenant. It was reported at next meeting, that the commission having • Records of the Synod of DumfHes for the years 169S— 1704. Acts of Creneral Assembly during the same period. t An answer by Mr. Hepbiim to a pamphlet of Mr. William Veitch is preserved in MS. in the Advocates Library. 214 SUPPLEMENT TO THE risen suddenly, their advice had not been obtain- ed» but that it was the opinion of the grave and experienced ministers, that it was a very unfa- vourable juncture for that work. Another peti- tion, presented by four ministers, for subscribing the directory and covenants, along with the con- fession of faith, was referred by the synod, in October 1708, to the general assembly.* Simi- lar proposals for renewing or subscribing the national covenants continued to be made at a still later period, in several presbjrteries and synods, in the west and north of Scotland.f Even the statesmen, cautious as they were, had at one time nearly engaged themselves unwittingly in the pro- moting of that design. In the year 1696, on the alarm produced by the discovery of a plot for as- sassinating King William, and by a threatened in- vasion from France, the privy council of Scotland proposed the subscription of a bond of associa- tion by all well-affected subjects. Coming to the knowledge of this, the inhabitants of the western shires immediately drew up a bond, in which, to the engagement to defend the government, they added a clause respecting the defence of presby- teiy. This alarmed the managers. ** I expunged these words, (says the Lord Justice Clerk,) and * Records of Synod of Dumfries. t Glass's Narrative of the Controversy abqut the National Cove- nants, pp. 8, 109. 4pol(^y for the Church of Scotland, by J. W. against J. S. p. 46. Lawson's Letter, p. 38. MEMOIRS OF WlLwIAM VEITCH. 815 withal desired they might forbear to proceed hasti- ly in the bufiiness." — •' As to these associations in the country, (lays the Earl of Argyle,) I think, suppose one here for renewing the covenant, it is most improper at this time. I acknowledge, I incline not the length, though I am presbyterian."* Mr. Veitch's daughters having married into genteel and wealthy families, and his sons hav- ing been provided for, he felt himself pUced in easy circumstances in his old age, and had it in his power to do favotuw to some pei^oAs from whom he had formerly experienced little kind- ness. Some time after he settled at Dumfries, he received a visit from his old acquaintance Sir Theophilus Oglethoriii who had apprehended him in Northumberland, f Sir Theophilus lamented to him, that he had lost not only what he had re- ceived for seizing him, and for his other services under the former government, but all his proper- ty besides. Mr. Veitch forgave him any injury which he had done him, and made the humbled knight a handsome present, t Oglethorp's state- ment of his case appears to have been correct. In 1681, the parliament had granted to him, colo- nel Maine, and captain Cornwall, " for their good, faithful, and acceptable services," the forfeited lands of Gordon of Earlston, Gordon of Craich- • Carstairs's State Papers, pp. 287—289. ^ f See befwe, p. 69. X Notices attached to genealogical tree of the family. 1 216 SUPPLEMENT TO THE daw, and Ferguson of Kaitloch. * Before 1685, Oglethorp had purchased the shares of n^s fellow- officers ; f and accordingly would lose the money which he had advanced them, when the estates were restored to their original owners at the Re^ volution.t Mr. Veitch appears to have been of a robust constitution ; but his health began to fail in 1709» being the seventieth year of his age. In the be- ginning of the following year, " being under great indisposition of body," he engaged, with the consent of the session and presbytery, Mr. John Thomson, and afterwards successively Mr. John Veitch § (probably a relation of his own) and Mr. Patrick Linn, probationers, as his assist- * Act. Pari. Scot. vol. viii. p. 323, 492. . . t Ibid. p. 586. * ' X Gordon of Craichlaw and Ferguson had previously compound- ed with him for a considerable sum ; and, on their petition, the Scottish parliament recommended their case to the parliament and judicatures of England, to the end that " Colonel Ogelthorp may be obliged to refund the above-mentioned sum, paid upon aground which is, by act of parliament, generally rescinded in favours of the subjects of this kingdom." (Act. Pari. Scot. ix. 191, 202.) The derangement of his affairs was probably one reason why these gentlemen were so long frustrated in their claims, as formerly stat- ed. (See before, p. 69.) Sir Theophilus Oglethorp'married Elea- nors Wall, a grand-daughter of the Marquis of Argyle. His three sons had commissions m the army during the reijgn of Queen Anne. (Thoresby's Leeds, by Whittaker, p. 253.) § Mr. John Veitch, minister of Whitsom, was a correspond- ent from Merae and Teviotdale to the synod of Dumfries, in April 1716. MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 217 ants. The last named individual was ordained as one of the ministers of Dumfries on the 19th of May, 1715 ; and on the same day Mr. Veitch de- mitted his charge on account of his age and in- firmities ; reserving, however, a right to preach occasionally. * After this he sat no more in the session, but still retained his seat in the presby- tery and synod. -I Some time previous to this, a disagreeable va- riance had arisen between him and his colleague, Mr. Paton, in which Mr. Linn came also to be involved. It originated in a dispute about the right to a burying-ground. After being settled by arbitration, it again broke out, in consequence (as Mr. Veitch alleges in his papers) of his colleagues refusing to employ him to preach, because he bowed in the pulpit, after divine service, to the English governor and officers, whereas Paton and Linn confined that mark of respect to the magistrates. It is pretty evident, from the manner in which he conducted himself in this quarrel, and especially at the last stage of it, that his temper and mental faculties had be- gun to suffer in no small degree from his advanced age. In the year 1719, he carried the cause by appeal from the synod to the general assembly. The assembly were sensible of the impropriety * Records of Presbytery of Dumfries for Jan. S, 1710 ; and of Kirk-Session of Dumfries, Jan. 1, and Dec. 14, 1710; Oct. 1, 1713 : and March 99- 1715. 1318 SUPFLRMENT TO THE of their giving judgment on it ; but they testified their respect for Mr. Veitdi, by appointing their moderator to address the following letter to each of his colleagues. * «* Rev. AK0 Dear Bbothbb,— The very Rev. Mr. William Veitch having laid befoce thefcommittee of bills, an appeal from your synod, was, from a re- gard to peace, and the earnest desire of that com- mittee, prevailed upoin to drop it, and rest satisfied with an overture that the general assembly should write unto you^ which, according to their ap- pointment, I do: signifying that our worthy bro^ ther having served in the .work of the ministry for the space of fifty-two years, and during the worst of times ; and when exposed to the greatlest danger from th^ violence of persecution, did ac- quit himself therein with a distinguished zeal and faithfulness, and having demitted his charge by reason of infirmity and old age, with an ex- press reservation of liberty to pr^ch when he desired, the general ass^nbly recommends unto you, to carry toward him with that endeadng brotherly love and tenderness which his merit so justly chrUenges, and that, when his strength will permit, and he himself desires, and gives you * The letter was drawn up, at the appointment of Assembly, by four ministers, with the advice of the Lord Justice Clerk and Lord Pencaitland. MEMOIRS OP WILLIAM VEITCH. 319 timeous advertisement, ye may allow him to preach : And this we hope will be of use to main- tain that Christian love knd friendship, which on all occasions ought to take place among the ser* vants of our Lord Jesus Christ. And we ques- tion not but, as an evidence of your brotherly re- gard to him, all proper care will be taken by you to have a decent place of interment provided for him and his spouse. This, in name and at the appointment of the general assembly, is signed by, R. Di B., your affectionate btother and ser- vant in the Lord, vbtfA .Ijumidsia (S^ed) James OBiERsdN, ModJ "• Mr. Veitch was able to tiavel to Edinburgh to attend that meeting of assembly, but he was not present at any subsequent meeting of his presbytery or synod. He died in the month of May 1722, on the day after his wife ; the former having completed his eighty-second, and the lat- ter her eighty-fourth year, f They had been mar- ried fifty-eight years, and were both interred on the same day, in the Old Church of Dumfries, and in the burial-place which the kirk-session had • Papers of Mr. Veitch, in possession of Mr. Short, town-clerk of Dumfries, and obligingly communicated by him. t " May 1T22. Mr. William Veitch, minister of the gospel, and Marion Fairley, his spouse." (Register of Burials in Dum- fries, between 6th and 12th of May, 1733.) 220 SUPPLEMENT TO THE allotted to them^ according to the recommenda- tion of the general assembly. * The only printed work of Mr. Veitch which I have seen, consists of three sermons preached by him on public occasions, f They are pious and sensible discourses. He had ten children, four of whom died young. Elizabeth, his second daughter, was married to David MaccuUoch of Ardwall.4; Sarah, his third daughter, became the wife of James Young of Guiliehill, } from whom Samuel Denholm Young, Esq. of Guiliehill, is de- scended. And Agnes, his fourth daughter, married Mr. John Somerville, minister of Caerlaverock. * Narrative attached to a geneal<%ical tree of the family; and Record of Kirk-session for Feb. 2, 1721. t The title of the work i»—" Two Sermons preached before his Mi^jestie's High Commissioner and the Estates of Parliament. By the appointment of the Provincial Synod of Lothian and Tweed- dale. Upon Sabbath, the 7th of May, 169S. Unto which is sub- joined, ihe Sermon preached at the opening up of the Synod, May «, 1693. By Mr. Willum Vetch, Minister of Peebles. From Haggai ii. 4, and Col. iv. 17. Edinburgh : Printed by John Reid. Anno 1693." 12mo. Dedicated to his Grace the Duke of Hamilton, High Commissioner.— A copy ofthis book is in the pos- session of Mr. William Steven, a young man who has already dis- covered a laudable, and not very common, curiosity to become ac- quainted with the history of the church of Scotland, of which he is a licentiate. X Insi genealogical tree of th6 family, it is stated that Eben- ezer, son of Elizabeth Veitch, married a sister of Macdowal of French, afterwards earl of Dumfries. § " February 83, 1699. Baptised William, lawful son of James Toung of Goolihill and Sarah Veitch, daughter of Mr. W llicm Veitch." (Records of Kirk-Session of Dumfries.) MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 221 Mr. Charles Sheriff, the dumb miniature-painter, was her grandson ; and the present representative of the family is W. Henderson Somerville, Esq. of Fingask and Whitecroft. * Mr. Veitch's two eldest sons, William and Sa- muel, were sent to him when he was in Holland, and he left them behind him to prosecute their education at one of the Dutch universities. Their parents had destined them for the church, but the young men chose the army, and when the Prince of Orange came over to England in 1688, they held commissions under him. f Both of them served in Flanders during the war with France, which broks out after the Revolution. William was a lieutenant in Angus's or the Cameronian regiment, and was wounded in 1692, at the bat- tle of Steinkirk, in which his colonel, the earl of Angus, along with many of his brave comrades, was killed. " On the day after the battle he wrote to his father, that he was shot through the left cheek, an inch below the eye, and the ball falling into his mouth, he spat it out. The marks of the blood from the wound were upon his letter." I Referring to the battle of Landen or Nerwinden, which was fought in 1693, Mrs. Veitch says : " Word came, that King William and the King of Prance were going to fight ; and my two eld- ** Notes on family Bible; and Genealogical Tree, t Mrs. Veitch's Mem. p. 9, 32. X Ibid. p. 65. 322 SUPPLEMENT TO THE est sons being in the camp, when I heard that there, were so many killed, I was in great fear. Near five weeks after they sent a letter, telling that they were both living." * On the termina- tion of the war by the peace of Ryswick in 1697, William reached hpme, after escaping from the most imminent danger from shipwreck. His brother Samuel lay dangerously ill in Holland, but recovering soon after, joined the family at Dumfries.! - At the time of their return, the attention of the people of Scotland was engrossed vUh the project- ed settlemeiit of a colony in South America, under the direction of the Indian and African Company, which had been incorporated two years before by .^ti of parliament.! The scheme originated with William Paterson, a Scotsman possessed of true genius, united to great personal modesty and sim- plicity of character, who jselected a spot on the iBthmus of Darien, where the land separating the Atlantic from the Pacific Ocean is narrowest, as ftbe site of a colony of hia, countrymen, which promised, to his eager and discnminating eye, to become the emporium of the commerce «f the world. All classes in the ndtlon embarked Eager- ly in this sehemcj some actuated by the hope of making a fortune, and others by the nobler wish of promoting the honour of their country and ex- * Mrs. Vdtch's Mem. pp. 61, 62. t Act. Pari. Scot. ix. 377. t Ibid. p. 63. MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 223 tending the gospel Among others, William and Samuel Veitch offered their personal services, and obtained the rank of captain in the forces which the company were authorised by their charter to raise. Though William Veitch had, in addition to his rank in the army, received a commis- sion to act as one of the council for governing the colony, and had taken the oath of office^ he was prevented from going out with the first ex- pedition.* But his brother Samuel went in the fleet, which consisted of three ships and two yachts, and sailed from Leith Roads about the 17th of July, 1698, having on board 1200 ihen, ef whom 300 were gentlemen.f On the 3d of No- * In a scurrilous pamphlet^ by one who had been a surgeon aboard the fleet in the first expedition, and who afterwards hired himself to the English as a writer against the .Scots colony, Pa- terson and the counsellors are treated with the most ignorant and low abuse. " Veach, a man of no trade, but advanced to this post on tbe account his father was a godly minister, and a glorifler of God, I think, in the Grass-market. — — ^ Veach, being sick of the voyage, stayed at home; and on this occasion William Pa- terson was assumed into the senate in Veach's place, after we had got so far as the Madera's on our voyage.— I had almost forgot to tell you of our clergy, with whom I ought in good manners to have begun. Two minibters, with a journeyman to take up the psalm, were commissioned by the General Assembly, with full instruc- tions, I suppose, to dispose of the Bibles among the Indians. — Eqglish Bibles 1500 ; periwigs 4000, some long, some short. Cam- paigns, Spanish bobs, and natural ones," &c. (Defence of the Scots abdicating Darien, pp. S2, 34 — ^37.) t Caledonia Papers, series i. art. 1. 3. 4 : MSS. in Advocates Library, Jac. V. 2. 12. Carstairs^ State Papers, p. 393. Mrs. Veitch's Mem. p. 69. The fleet was composed of the Caledonia, 224 SUPPLEMENT TO THE vember they landed between Portobello and Car- thagena, at a fine harbour, four miles from the Golden Island; and having taken possession of the country, to which they gave the name of New Caledonia, proceeded to lay the foundation of a fort and a town, called Fort St. Andrew and New Edinburgh.* They made it their earliest business to establish friendly treaties with the chiefs of the neighbouring native tribes ;f and afterwards sent deputations to the Spanish authorities at Panama and Carthagena, to in- thnate their wish to live with them on terms of amity and reciprocal intercourse. | The pro- clamation of the council, made at New Edin- burgh, on the 28th of December, 1698, presents us with the singular and interesting fact, of the first colony established by any European people on liberal principles as to trade, policy, and reli- gion. The following are extracts from it. « We do hereby publish and declare, That all St. Andrew, and Unicorn, company's ships, and Dolphin and En- deavour, advice yachts or tenders. • Caled. Papers, ser. i. art. IT. t Caled. Pap. ser. ii. art. 39. Act. Pari. Scot. x. 249. History of Caledonia, by a Gentleman lately arrived, pp. 21 — 34. Lond. 1699. J Letter from Council of Caledonia to the Governor of Santa Maria, Feb. 15, 1 699 : Caled. Papers, ser. ii. art. 16. Address of Council of Caledonia to his Majesty : Collection of Addresses, &c. p. 75. Paterson's Letter to a Friend in Boston, Feb. 18, 1699: Enquiry into Causes of the Miscarriage of the Scots Colony at Darien, p. 74. MEMOIBS OK WILLIAM VEITOH. 225 manner Of persons of what nation or people soever are and shall from hence-forwarf be^^^^' and .lie capable of the said properties^priX^^ protections, immunities, and right, of toS S^irlfT,' "I-*"''— ntsfnd~! ants 8h ps of all nations, may freely come to and sons, goods, or effects, to any manner of eaptuS' confiscation, sei^re, forfeiture, attachment,^' rest, restraint, or prohibition, for or by^^on rf anyembargo, breach of the peace, lette^rfm™^ or repnzals. declaration of war with any foS prince, potentate, or state, or upon any otS count or pretence whatsoever. • u ^ and declare a general and equal freedom „f goverament and trade to those of all nati^rwti^ shall hereafter be of, or concerned with I- W ^ a fuU and free liberty of consdencefn mat^' 2:^T' '" " ** ^''""' "^ "°* unde^too^^ ^w, comnve at or indulge the blaspheming of o^f the LhT' " ""^ "'"'' divine'attribui; or rf the unhallowmg or prophaning the sabbath rendellf ''"^' "" *' "^'^ ™'' '"«' »«'«« to- render any government successful, duratje and happy. It shall (by the help of AlmighT^rh^ ever onr constant and chiefest care that ^ou^ farther constitutions, laws, and ordinances, L consonant and agreeable to the Holy Sc^^^ur^ S« at least, not to have attended duly to whi^t was expedient in the case of a new e^ahlishmepttQOQsisting of persons entirely unac- qu^ntod with one another, and strangers to the in^^urcs which were essential to their safety and ^uhslsteQce in circumstances so peculiar and so un- like to tho^i9 which they had hitherto been placed. The council were authorised, or rather instructed, pcal^ apiwUamevt. The fifth article of the cou- f ^t^tj^cip ^nf ^^ the foUowing terms : — " That #fr th#ir ^widiwg and i^ettlement as aforesaid, ♦h<>y (the council) shall class and divide the whole fK»Tmny ipohahitants of the said colony, into dis- tncliSr WCh district to contain at least fifty, and not exceeding sixty freemen, inhabitants, who sh^ti 0^ yewly any one freeman, inhabitant, WlWW they shall thini fit to represent them in a parliament or council-general of the said colony ; WhWfe ip-Uanient shall be called or adjourned by % 8^ council as they see cause, and being so ^•OP^tpt^, may, with consent of the said council, i|^e and ^nact such rules, ordinances, and con- .,;i,i ,,; • C«led. repCTB, Mr. i. art, ♦. MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 9137 «Ututions, and impose such taxes, as they shall think 6t and needful for the good establishment, improrement, and support of the said colony; proviOiiig always they lay no farther duties or impositions of trade than what is here under ex- pressed."* The parliament actually met, and had at least two sessions. During the first seswon, on the 24th of April, 1699. it enacted thirty-four laws for the regulation of civil and criminal ju». tice Jn the colony. Along with a desire to pre- serve a high tone of public morals, they discover great jealousy in guarding personal Uberty. The violation of women, though belonging to an ene- my, is made capital. The plundering of Indians is to be punished as theft. Ingratitude is stig- matized. « No man shaU be confined or detained prisoner for above the space of three montffcs, without being brought to a lawful trial." In all cases criminal, no judgment shall pass against any man "without the consent and concurrence of a ith • Caled. Papers, ser. i. art. 4. After January 1, 1703, importe of Euro^wan, Asian, or African goods, in shi>8 of Scoiland tethe colony, shaU pay 8 per cent, and in other shipe 3 per cent. Ito- ports of the growth and product of Ameriean plantations, of what nation soever, 1 per cent. Exports of growth of Asia, Africa, or America, in Scots or colonial vessels, shaH pay S per cent, and in other vessels 4 per cent. After reserving l-soth of the hinds, and of precious metals, stones, and wood, pearl-flshing, and wrecks. the company communicate to the colony, and its dependencies which It may plant, all their privileges secured by act of Parlia- went. (Ibid.) / . S2H SUPPLEMRNT TO THE jury of fifteen fit persons." The person of a free- man shall not be subject to any restraint what- ever for debt, " unless there shall be fraud or the design thereof, or wilful or apparent breach of trust, misapplication, or concealment, first proved upon him."* On the subject of the parliament, Mackay, one of the counsellors, writes to the secretary of the di- rectors, " We found the inconvenience of calling a parliament, and of telling the inhabitants that they were freemen so soon. They had not the true no- tion of liberty : the thoughts of it made them inso- lent, and ruined command. You know that it's expressly in the encouragements, that they are to serve three years, and at the three years' end to have a division of land." Mackay accordingly sig- nified it as his opinion, that the parliament should not be convoked till the end of that period.f One great objection to that measure, and indeed the principal cause of the ruin of the colony, was the character of the greater part of the settlors. No care had been taken in their selection. The young men of birth, who formed too large a proportion of the colony, were unfit for commanding, and too proud to submit to authority. And, among the lower orders were many Highlanders and others * Caled. Papers, ser. ii, art. 37. This curious document will be foftpii at length in lihe Appendix. ff Ibid. «er. ii. art. 4. Mackay's letter was written in Scotland, and the parliament had been called soon after he left the colony. MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 229 who had taken part against the Revolution, and were induced to join the expedition by dissatis- faction with the government at home. The idle, the unprincipled, and profligate, were ^t no loss to find persons to recommend them among the numerous holders of shares in the company. Nor were the persons nominated as counsellors, and especially such of them as were naval officers, qualified for that situation. It was not until after a long struggle that Peterson prevailed on his colleagues to exercise the right vested in them, by assiuning other individuals into the government along with them, of whom Samuel Veitch was one.* « There was not one of the old council fitted for government, and things were jgone too far before the new took place." f ,„, .;,/ ,r . , That the Spaniards wouiu be jealous of a colo- ny planted so near their possessions, and would do every thing in their power to weaken und ex- tirpate it, was whaf the Scots were prepared for ; but they did not ex]K'ct the same treatment from the Dutch, whose Stadtholder they had lately made a king, or (which was still more galling) from their neighbours and brethren, the English. Sir Paul Ry- caut,the Englisli resident at Hamburgh, had oppos- ed a treaty of commerce between that town and the * Pater%on's Report to the Directors^ on his return : Caled. Papers, ser. ii. art. 20. t Paterson to Shields, Edinb. Feb. 6, 1700 : Ibid, ser.iii. art. 54. Jj. ,^ (*. m SUPPLEMENT TO THfe ■'I/- i^at^di^0y\ ^'and the goV^nA^ of Jttkaf »i and the oilier plantations of England in the Wedt Indies and North America, now' issued proclama- tions, prohibiting all intercourse with the colonists of New Caledonia and the furnishing oi them with provisions or necessaries of an)r kind, and tending to excite the Spaniards against them as unauthorised intruders on their possessions.! To these discouragements, and the alarm of an attack from Panama, were added the difficulties which every infant colony must struggle with, and for which the most of the settlers, both of the better and poorer class, were ill prepared. A great part of the provisions which they had brought with them was found to be bad ; it was necessary to put them on short allowance; the diseases to which Europeans are incident in a tropical cli- mate made their appearance ; a spirit of insubor- dination broke out ; and a conspiracy, having for its object the seizing of one of the vessels and leav- ing the colony, and in which some of the counsel- lors were involved, was discovered.:}: Soon after their arrival, Paterson had proposed sending captain Veitch home to represent their * Collection of Addresses, Memorials, &c. relating to the Com- pany of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies, pp. 4 — ^33. Act. Pari. Scot. x. 84S, S43. t Collection, ut supra, pp. 7T— 90. Act. Pari. Scot. x. 261, X Letter from the Council of Caledonia to the Directors, April 31, 1609: Calcd. Papers, ser. ii. art. 13. MEMOillfr O^ WILLIAM VEltCH. 231 situation to the directors ; but h^ wA^ ovehrulM, and a Mr. Hamilton was sent, which ^veid 1^' great iiijuiy to th6 cidbiiy, A6 tie was <^a6cdin|>taht- general, and the Only pemoia. fit for that etiiidoy- lUent ^nd fbr the mtoagiemeht of the carjg^oes, at this tittle in disorder/' * After the assumption of lii^W counselloi^ in Mareh following, the discon- tents were checkied^ tod the coundl dispdtctied Mackny, one of their own numbw, to Britain, with an address to his Majesty,- and a priesung reqn^t to the directors to send out With all expedition sup- plies of provision, ammunition, and men.f But no word arriving from home, and the internal state of the colony becoming worse, the bOu^dl suffered themselves to be hurried into the da^tiird- ly resolution of ev&euating the settlement, which was carried into effect on the 23d Of June, I69i9, within eight months from the time that they had taken possession of it. t This was a blow which almost proved fatal to the vigorous intellect of Paterson. When the minute of council agree- ing to this step was brought to him to sign, he was on board the Unicorn, to which he had been conveyed some days before, in a high fever, brought on by vexation at the weakness of his * Patereon's Report to the Directors, Dec. 19, 1699: Caled. Papers, ser. ii. art. SO. •f Ibid. " Sarauel Veach" signs the council's address, sent by Mackay, who left the colony "on the 10th or 1 1th of April." Collection of Addresses, &c. p. 76. S82 SUPPLEMENT TO THE colle^igu^, and grief at the sudden frustration of his sanguine hopes* The depression of his api, rits continued after t|ie fever had abated; f but ha^-;^ ing recovered the tone of his mind at New Yprk^ he sailed for Scotland to make his report to the company, and give them his best advice in the further prosecution of their undertaking. Samuel Veitch, who accompanied him from Darien^ re- mained at New York, a circumstance which appears to have made an unfavourable impression on the minds of the directors.^ His conduct, in subse- quently declining to accompany his comrade Drum- mond, even after he had heard that his brother was on the passage to Darien, gives ground to believe that j though a brave and skilful officer, he was deficient in that political courage and resolution which were requisite for discharging the difficult trust committed to him. j • " Captain Thomas Drummond and captain Samuel Veitch had met with Pennycook and Campbell, and held their last council, (June 18,) and brought orders to Paterson to sign for their depar- ture by Boston to Scotland." (Caled. Papers, ser. ii. art. SO.) t "Sept «9,1699.--Meantirae the grief has broke Mr. Pater- son's heart and brain ; and now he's a child, they may do what they will for him." (Letter from J. Borland, Boston: Caled. Papers, ser. ii. art. 19.) } Caled. Papers, ser. i. art. 74. In this paper the Directors say, " Capt. Sam. Veitch having thought fit to stay behind at New York, and giving us but shuffling accounts of these matters, (the cargo) we wish that Capt Drummond, who was the only other coun- sellor there, would give us the best light he can into that matter." § " Mr. Samuel Veatch acquainted me (says Paterson) that he would look after the effects put ashore — ^and that by that means he MEMOIBS OF WII.LIAM VEITCH. 39^ After hearing from the council of Caledonia, the directors lost no time in sending out the re- quisite supplies for their colony. They had pre-, viously sent dispatches and provisions by a brig which sailed from the Clyde on the 24th of Feb* ruary 1699) but which unfortimately never reach- ed the place of its destination.* On the arrival of Hamilton, Jamieson of the Olive-Branch, ac- companied by another vessel, containing 300 re- emits, well equipped with provisions, arras, and ammunitioF as dispatched with all possible ex^ pedition. f waB followed by a larger fleet, con- sisting of four ships, and containing 1300 men, which sailed from the Isle of Bute on the 24thf of September 1699, and reached Caledonia Bay on the 30th of November, t With this fleet Wil-. liam Veitch went out, in the Rising Sun, com- manded by James Gibson, and in the double ca- would be in readiness to go back to the colony when he should re- cdve the company's orders." (Caled. Pap. ser. ii. art. 20.) * Seciet Committee of the Council General to the Council of Caledonia : Caled. Papers, ser. ii. art. 5. Borland's History of Darien, p. 92, S6. f Sailed from Leith, May 12, 1699. Caled. Papers, ser. ii. art. 14. X Caled. Papers, ser. ii. art. 30. The fleet consisted of the Rising Sun, Hope, Duke Hamilton, and Hope of Borrowstonness. Just as they were about to set sail, intelligence of the evacuation of the colony reached the Directors^ who sen( an express to stop them ; but they, " for reasons best known to themselves," had sail- ed hastily, twenty-four hours before Mackay, one of the former counsellors, could reach Bute with additional instructions founded on his local knowledge. (Ibid. ser. i. art. 71.) S34 SUPPLBMENT TO THE puiltf of captain attd a member of the cdUheil.^ The directors afeo eent off individuate, hy dlfifetw ent conveyances, with bills of credit ^ the Ute fef the colony, f Bat l>irovidenc6 frowned on bli thfeir attempts. The l^Cftiite in the Olive-Branch ^d her consort, finding; the settlemen*; de6ert^, de- termined to riBJwssebs it, and aWait the ftrtivkl bf the fleet which Was to follow ; but one of their vessels having been burnt in the hairbbur; they relinquisued the attempt, and set sail fojr Jamai whom died on the passage, and the other soon after his arrival at Darien. The council having written home to the directors, regretting the> death of their ministers, and begging that others might be sent to supply their place, the commis- sion of the general assembly, at the particular) desire of the board of directors, missioned the well-known Mr. Alexander Shields, and three other ministers, who sailed in the last fleet, f They were instructed, on their arrival, with the advice and concurrence of the government, to set apart a day for solemn thanksgiving ; to form themselves into a presbytery ; to ordain elders and deacons; and to divide the cole 7intoparishes,that so each minister might have a particular charge. After which it was recommended to them, «' so * Queries by Druraniond^ in his accusation of Byres : Caled. Papers, ser. i. art. 66. Borland, 4i. The committee appointed by the board of directors to inquire into this aflfair decided against Byres, and appealed, among other proofs, to the letters of Shields. Caled. Papers, ser. iii. art 44. He afterwards attempted, but without success, to vindicate his conduct, in " A Letter to a Friend in Edinburgh from Rotterdam — ^by James Byres ;" printed anno 1702. Byres was a merchant. Caled. Pap. ser. iii. art. 42. t Caled. Papers, ser. ii. art. 7, 31, 32. Letter, Robert Wylie to Mr. Shields : MSS. in Advocates Library, Rob. II L 3, 6. art. 145. Borland, 22, 34. MEMOIRS OP WILLIAM VEITCH. 837 soon as they should find the colony in ease for it, to assemble the whole Christian inhabitants, and keep a day together for solemn prayer and fast- ing, and with the greatest solemnity and serious- ness to avouch the Lord to be their God, and de- dicate themselves and the land to the Lord." They were also particulaHy instructed to " la- bour among the natives, for their instruction and conversion, as they should have access."* The circumstances in which they found the colony, precluded them from thinking of carrying the most of these instructions into execution. Two of them, however, preached on land, and one of them on board the Rising Sun, every Sabbath ; but the irreligion and licentiousness which pre- vailed among the colonists, in addition to the tin- favourable aspect of their external affairs, op- pressed their spirits, and paralysed their exer- tions. They undertook a journey into the in- terior, in company with lieutenant TurnbuU, who had a slight knowledge of the Indian lan- guage, with the view of becoming acquainted with the natives ; and having spent some nights with them in their cabins, brought back the first word to the colony of the approach of the Span- iards.! * Copy of the Commission to the Presbytery of Caledonia, in Borland, pp. 34 — 37. t Caled. Papers, ser. iii. art. 43. Borland, 38, 40, 44 — 49. -988 SUPPLEMENT TO THE H'Wh^Q apprised of all the circumstances, tlie di- rectors felt indignant at the conduct of those» whcb on such slight grounds, had left the settlement de- solate, and " whose glory" (to use their own em- phatic language) ** it would have been to have perished there rather than to have abandoned it 80 shamefully." In their letters w the new coun- sellors and officers they implored them to keep the example of their predecessors before their eyes as a beacon, and to avoid those ruinous dissensions and disgraceful vices on which they had wrecked so hopeful an enterprise. They blame the old council for deserting the place, " without ever call- ing a parliament or general meeting of the colo- ny, or consulting their inclinations in the least, but commanding them to a blind and implieit obedience ; which is more than they ever can be answerable for. Wherefore (continue they) we desire you would constitute a parliament, whose advice you are to take in all important matters. And in the mean time you are to acquaint the officers and planters with the constitutions, and the few additional ones sent with Mr. Mackay, that all and every person in the colony may know their duty, advantages, and privileges."* Alarm>- ed at the accounts which they soon after received from Darien, the council-general of the company dispatched a proclamation, declaring that it shall * Caled. PApers, ser. i. art. 74. MEMOIRS Q^ WILLIAM VKITCH. 939 he la\^ul to any person of whatevw degree in- hfWw^g ^he colony, ^ot only to protest against, bi^t to disobey and qppose, any resolution to de- 8«^ the ?plony ; "and that it shall be death either publicly or privately to move, deliberate, or rea- son ^pon" any such desertion or surrender, witbr out special order from the council-general for that effect. And they order and require the council of Cfti^oiji^ to proclaim this soleninly, as they shall be answerable.* 3ut before these orders were is- sued, the event, which the company dreaded so mMh had taken place. Tbough the men were now busily employed in r?b^lding the huts and repairing the fort, strenu^ QUA efforts to discourage the work continued to be made in the council, by the faction which sought th^ evacuation of the settlement. It was with difficulty that captain Veitch was allowed to pro^ test against some of their resolutions ;j- and for opposing theni with warmth, captain Drunn mqpd was Ijaid under arrest. Speaking of the * The proclamation bears to have been "Given at the Compa- ny's house in Edinburgh, the 3d day of June, 1700," Caled. Papers, ser. i. art. 69. "The unaccountable manner in which your predecessors left the settlement has been— detestable to this nation in general, and to our company in particular," say the di- rectors to the council. Ibid. ser. i. art. 93. Owing to the " unac- countable conduct and intolerable insolence in their double capaci- ties," of the commanders of the first ships, the directors had come td the resolution Aat none of the counsellors should have any other capacity. Ibid. ser. iii. art. 65. t Ibid. ser. i, art. 66, 69. ii. 29. 840 SUPPIiEMENT TO THE latter, Mr. Shields sayg,— ." Under God it is ow- ing to him, and the prudence of captain Veitclii that we have staid here so long, which was no small difficulty to accomplish.'** And in another letter, written a few days after, he says, — " If we had not met with him, (Drummond,) at our arrival, we had never settled in this place : Byres and Lindsay being averse from it, and design-' ing to discourage it, from the very first : Gib-' son being indifferent, if he get his pipe and dram : only Veitch resolved to promote it, who was all along Drumraond's friend, and concurred with his proposal to send men against the Spaniards at firsts and took the patronizing of his cause as long as he could conveniently, but with such caution and prudence, as to avoid and prevent animosity and faction, (which he saw unavoid- able,) threatening the speedier dissolution of this interest, if he shoidd insist on the prosecution of that plea, and in opposition to that speat that was running against Drummond. But now Fanab f coming, who was Drummond's comrade and fel- low-officer in Lom's regiment in Flanders, he is set at liberty." ^ ♦ Letter about the beginning of March, 1700 : Caled. Papers, ser. iii. art. 68. t Alexander Campbell of Fanab had been Lieut. Colonel, and Thomas Drummond, a Captafn, in Argyle's regiment. (Act. Pari.. Scot. xi. 17<1. App. ox.) X Caled. Pap. ser. iii. art. 07. MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. Ul In the mean time the Spanish troops from Panama and Santa Maria advanced by land against the colo- ny, being conducted through the woods by Indians and Negroes. Captain Campbell of Fanab, at the head of 200 men, drove them back in a skir- mish in which he was wounded ; but a fleet of eleven ships, under the command of Don Juan Pi- mienta, the governor of Carthagena, having block- aded the harbour, and lauded a reinforcement at some distance, they again advanced, and invested the fort.* Being cut off from water, reduced by sickness, and in despair of relief from home, the garrison were loud in their demands for a capitula- tion, to which the council were constrained to agree. Accordingly captain Veitch, being duly authorised by his colleagues, entered into a capi- tulation with the Spanish commander, to evacu- ate the settlement on honourable terms, f The in- * Caled. Papers, ser. iii. 68. Borland, 59. t The resolution to capitulate was agreed to on the 18th of March^ at a meeting of council ii: the fort, attended hy the land and sea officers. (Caled. Papers, ser. i. art. 83.) The following is the commisBion to Veitch: — "We undersubscribing, counsellors of Ca- ledonia, doe hereby empower you. Captain WiUiam Veitch, one of our number, to goe to the Spanish camp, and there with his Etx- cellencie Don Juan Pimienta, general of the army and governor of Cartha: ena, to treat, capitulate, and agree upon what articles you shall tind most convenient for our leaving our settlement here, and what you doe herein we obleige ourselves to perform. In tes- timony whereof," &c. March 21, iroo. (lb. i. 97.) The articles of capitulation, which wera subscribed on the 31st of March, are published by Borland. (Hist. pp. 66— 68.) R 242 iUPPLEMENT TO THE habitants of the colony having gone on both], ^ ith all their goods and provisions, they weighed anchor on the 11th of April, 1600, and 8, fertm nt at home, which it required all the arts w -.\ J;aiuence of the court to allay, f The scheme was ruined by the iirst desertion of the settlement, and that was ow- ing chiefly to disunion and want of energy in the council. If the directors had taken care to put the government of the colony at first into good hands ; if they had placed a man of capacity at their head for a limited time; if they had sent out advices and supplies early and frequently ; and if England had acted with a moderate share of liberality, or rather foresight, it would not have been in the power of Spain to mar the success of the settle^ ment. And if it had succeeded, who can estimate the extent of the changes which it would have produced on the state of the American ccmtinent, the British settlements, aisU the commerce of the world ? In that case, the author of the scheme, instead of being regarded merely as an ingenious speculator, would have had his name enrolled • Byres's Letter to a Friend in Edinburgh, p. 93. + Borland, 79—81. t Laing's Hist, of Scotland, ii. 244 — 6, 230. 344 SUPPLEMENT TO THE among great men and the benefactors of their species. William Paterson possessed the patriot- ism and love of liberty which distinguished his friend and coadjutor, Andrew Fletcher of Salton, without the strong shade of national partiality which narrowed the views of that celebrated po- litician. He was defrauded of the honour due to him in the formation of the Bank of Eng- land, by persons who were as inferior to him in genius as they were in generosity; but, in- stead of wasting his time in declaiming against the ingratitude of mankind, he directed his great powers to the opening up of another channel for promoting their good. And when that also failed, he did not seek to abate his mortification, or to vindicate his fame, by throw- ing the blame of its miscarriage on the directors who had undertaken to manage it ; but he went to these very individuals, and submitted to them a new plan of public utility less calculated to alarm men of timid minds ; and in order the more effectually to secure its success, ht proposed to admit to a large share i^f its advantages that very nation which had so ungenerously thwarted his favourite and most splendid scheme.* These are proofs of soiiiething which is greater than genius, and to which few men of genius, alas ! now-a-days at least, have a title to lay claim. • Carstairs, Sute k^feie, p. 631, 645, 656. Paterson's Last Plan: Ct.leA. Pap. ficr. i. art. 77. Dalrymple, Mem. App. to P. Hi. B. vi. MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 245 The reader will excuse this digression. I have been drawn into it by the interesting nature of the subject, and by regret at the unsatisfactori- ness of the accounts of it which are before the public. The modern accounts of the colony at D •- rien are chiefly borrowed from Sir John Dalrymple,* who, in his Memoirs, professes to have taken his facts from the unpublished papers of the company. But so far from having availed himself of thes^ do- cuments, he has given a very imperfect and inac- curate representation of what is contained in the printed narratives. All that he has done is to throw an air of romance over the story, and to tinge it with his own prejudices. He talks ridi- culously of the first fleet sent out by the company, as sufficient "to have gone from the northmost part of Mexico to the southmost of Chili, and to have overturned the whole empire of Spain in the South Seas."f He represents the Spaniards in the new world, as showing kindness to the Scottish colonists after they left Darien ; when it is well known that such of them as happened to be shipwrecked on their coasts, were treated with great barbarity, and de- tained for years in Spanish prisons. | He speaks * This assertion is not intended to apply to Mr. Laing ; though prepossessed with the idea that the Darien colony was of the same character as the South Sea and Mississippi schemes, he has not treated it with his usual research and penetration. t Memoirs of Great Britain, vol. iii. p. 133. 8vo. % Carstairs, State Papers, p. 676. Scotland's Grievances relat- ing to Darien, p. 8. Graham^ one of the persons wrecked in S46 KUPPLEMENT TO THE of colonel Campbell of Finab having " dissipated theSpanish force with great slaughter," when there were only eight or nine of the Spaniards killed, and three taken prisoners, in the skirmish referred to; and he represents that officer as Iwavely conducting the defence of the fort, when he was in fact lying sick on board one of the vessels.* His whole ao- count of the conduct of the ministers sent out by the church of Scotland is pure rodomontade ; f and had he looked into the papers of the company, he would have found all his statements on this head flatly contradicted. How could the ministers find, " when they arrived, the officers and gentle- men occupied in building houses for themselves with their own hands,'* when they all arrived at the same time ? It is true that one of the minis- ters, in a printed history of the colony, states that they could not get huts erected for them during the whole of their stay, and were obliged to live on board the ships, which prevented them from the proper discharge of their duty ; but there is no evidence whatever that they " complained griev- captaia Pinkerton's ship, depoaes that they were stripped—put in a dungeon — starved — made to work with slaves — put in irons at Havannah— sent in irons to Cadiz — sent in irons in a small boat to SeTille— condemned as pirates — and kept in irons till liberated in September, 1700. (CaJed. Papers, ser. iii. art. 48. comp. i. 85.) The treatment which the crew of the Little Hope met with, after the capitulation, was simiLir. (Act. Pari. Scot. xi. App. 114.) * Dalrymple's Mem. vt supra, p. 140. Carstftira, pp. 6 IS — 015. Borland, 58. f Dalrymple, pp. 1S6— 143. MEM0I118 OF WILLIAM VEITCH. U7 ously" that theee were not " immediiatdy built for their accommodation." So far were they from wishii^ to quit the settlement, and from foment- ing discontent, that, as we have already seen, they sup{»orted those counsellors and officers who were most anxious to remain. If they complain- ed of the licentiousness of many of the officers and gentlemen, ikis was no more than the court of directors did upon the beat information. " It's a lasting di^race (say they) to the memories of those officers who went in the first expedition, that even tlie meanest planters were scandalized at the Ucentiousness of their lives, many of theu. living very intemperately and viciously for many months at the public charge, whilst the most so- ber and industrious among them were vigilant in doing their duty. — ^Nor can we, upon serious reflection, wonder if an enterprise of this nature has misgiven in the hands of such as we have too much reason to believe neither feared God nor re- garded man."* The directors found reason soon after to express an opinion not much more fa- vourable of the successors of the first colonists, f The same papers bear an honourable testimony to the character of the ministers. In a letter to captain Thomas Drummpnd, Paterson says,— • " I have wrote to Mr. Alexander Shields. Pray * Directors to the Overseers and remanent Officers in the Co- lony, Feb. 10, 1700: Caled. Papers, ser. i. 75. t Ibid. ser. i. art. 76. 248 SUPPLEMENT TO THE converse with him, and take his advice ; for you will find him a man of courage and constancy, and that does not want experience of the world. I hope much from him and you."* " Pray re- member me kindly to Mr. Shiels, (says one of the leading directors,) whose joining with captain Thomas Drummond's motion for attacking Por- tobell makes him so valued and beloved here that it will never be forgot." f Writing to the officers of the colony, the directors say, " You have the ?,dvantage of having good ministers to watch over yoti ; and we hope you'll give them no occasion, by any indecent behaviour, to repine at their having gone such a voyage, which we are assuied nothing can make them do so much as the contempt of ordinances. We hope better things of you." I To the council they write : — " We earnestly press and recommend you, to suppress riot and immoralities ; but especially that you encourage virtue and discourage vice by the example of your own lives, and give all the necessary assistance to your ministers, in establishing discipline and good order among your people.'*^ There are three letters by the directors to " the moderator and remanent mem- bers of the church of Caledonia," written in the * Caled. Papers, ser. iii. art. SS. Corop. art. S3, 54. t Letter from Sir Francis Scot of Thirlstane to captain Daniel Mackay, Edin. June 13, 1700: Caled. Pap. ser. iii. art. &l. j: Ibid. ser. i. art. 75. § Caled. Papers, ser. i. art. 74. Comp. art. 72. MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 240 most respectful and confidential strain. They tell them, that they were in hopes to hear from them; that they were sorry to learn that divisions had again broken out in Caledonia; that they had no doubt of the patience and con- stancy of the ministers ; and trusted, they would urge and admonish all to unity, and in due time would prove the happy instruments of con- veying the gospel to the natives of that country. " As for what concerns you in particular," con- tinue they, " we shall not only perform our en- gagements, but contribute to make your present stations easy, by enjoining all under your charge to have a due regard to good discipline and order. We are heartily sorry for the death of Mr. Dal- gliesh ; and that amongst many other disappoint- ments, you should be under such discourage- ments in the execution of your charge, from the cold indifference of some, and the vicious lives of others of your people. We have written fully to the council about this matter."* Mr. Shields's account of the situation of himself and his two brethren, is written with a feeling which is an in- ternal evidence of its truth. " Our meetings amongst ourselves are in the woods ; where the chattering of parrots, mourning of pelicans, and din of monkies, is more pleasant than the hellish * Caled. Papers, ser. i. art. 76. " In respect that the company (say the directors to the council of Caledonia) has an entire confi- deace in the zeal, capacity, and integrity of Mr. Alexander Shiels, our council-general do recommend to you, to — ^admit him to be 350 JiUPPLEMENT TO THE hmguage of our countFyraen in their liuUs atad. tents of Kedar ; and our converse with the hi- dians, though with dumb signs, is more satiitfydng than with the most part of (nie owi\ ptopte. Se^ v^rala of them came to our meetings for worship, and we have exercised in tlwir famiiues^ wiiei* travelling »!n«>nig them, where they behavea tl aga- selves very * s ¥er'»,nt!y ; but wa have neither hm- guage nor inurprev*?!. H\it our people doe scan- dalize them Wiv hy aiealing from them, and teach- ing them to R vi'aar and drink." * Sir John Dalrymple inveighs against the Mii- nist^s for interfering officiously in the settli^ig of the terms of capitulation ; f but he takes care not to state the facts, whidi are highly honourable to them. One of the articles pro- posed by Veitch was, ** That the Indians who have been friendly to us, and conversed with us, since we came hither, shall not be molested on our account." To this the Spanish commander refused to accede ; and some of the Indian chiefs who had been most friendly to the colony, were taken froru the side of the Scottish ships and made priso^ei^. The ministers, pitying the poor natives, drew up a petition in their favour, and sent it to the Spanish fleet by Mr. Shit Ids. When present in your council^ that when you find it necessary you >nay take his advice in any im-^ortant affairs that r^ay occ "r," (!i:'d. B r. i. art. 94.) • Alexander Shidds to tue Presbytery of St. Andrews, . uedo- nia Bay, Feb. 2, 1700: Christian Instructor, vol. xviii. p. I?!'. t Memoirs, iii. 101. MEMOIBS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 351 iie was enforcing the petition, Pimienta, who was of an irasciWe temper, said to him in Latin, '^Mind your own business;" to which Shield replied, « 1 shall mind it," and retired. The conduct of the council, in leaving their Indian allies exposed to the vengeance of the Spaniards, was much condemned by some of the colonists.** To return to Samuel Veitch — ^he joined the army in New England, and was advanced to the rank of colonel. He came to Scotland in the year 1706, on a visit to his parents, but soon returned to the New World, f In 1710, he was ordered to join the expedition under Greneral Nicolson, which was sent against the Frf nch pos- sessions in Nova Scotia, where they took the town and fort of Port-Royal, t to which, in honour of the Queen, they gave the name of Annapolis, f * Borland, 67. Caled. Papers, ser. iii. art. 78. Mr. Shields died at Port Royal in Jamaica on the 14th of June, 1700, of a ma- lignant fever. (Borland, 78.) Mr. Stoho, another of the minis- ters, settled in Carolina ; (Ibid. 21—83.) and Mr. Borland re- turned to Scotland, where he wrote a narrative of the expedition. t Mrs. Veitch's Mem. p. 114. . t " When the Queen sent over my son, Samuel, and Oen^nl Nicolson went over, to take in Jamaica, she gave him a commis- sion to be governor there, if he took it in At length they yield- ed the place without much bloodshed." (Mrs. Veitch's Mem. p. 117.) Mrs. Veitch must have confounded Port Royal in North America with Port Royal in Jamaica, which last place would be impressed on her memory by the circumstance of her eldest son having died off it. § "Minehead, Dec. 11. A vessel came in on the 9th, five weeks from Boston, gives an account that Colonel Nicholson had token Port Royal in Acadia, belonging to the French^ with the loss of 253 SUPPLEMENT TO THE I Colonel Veitch was made governor of that place.* In the month of June next year he was recalled from Annapolis to Boston, f to take the command of two regiments of New England, which were to join the armament under Major-General Hill, and Admiral Sir Hovenden Walker, intended for the reduction of Quebec and Placentia. The fleet consisted of ten ships of war, and above sixty transports, having on board 5000 troops from Flanders and Britain.:]: They sailed from Boston ten men killed^ and of a transport vessel wherein the captain and the men were drowned. He says that Colonel Nicholson was re- turned to Boston, before he left that port, having left Colonel Vich and Sir Cliarles Hobby with 500 English troops in garrison in the Fort, in which were SO or 60 guns; the French governor with 200 men being made prisoners-of-war. He reports that Col- onel Nicholson had sent 2 gentlemen to Quebeck, to inform the governor of that place, that, if according to his use he should en- courage the Indians barbarously to scalp the English prisoners, he would use the same severity upon the French inhabitants in Port Royal, who are about 500 in number." The capitulation was signed by Francis Nicholson, Esq. and M. de Subercase, on the 2d of October, 1710, (The Scots Courant, No. 823. Monday, 18th, to Wednesday, 20th December, 1710.) • A Journal, or full account of the late Expedition to Canada. By Sir Hovenden Walker, Kt. P. 114, U2. Lond. 1720. t Ibid. p. 68, 94. X Ibid. pp. 106—108. The Scots Courant, Nos. 868—897. "Bos- ton, New England, July 24, 1 7 1 1. On the 25th past arrived here Admiral Walker's squadron, with the land forces under Brigadier Hill. The New English forces, consisting of two regiments, those of Hampshire and Rhode Island, commanded by Colonel Walton, and the Massachuset's Bay, by the Hon»>ie. Colonel Vetch, who commands both regiments, will be ready to embark the 25th in- stant, and will sail the first fair wind." (The Scots Courant, No. 941. Monday, September 24, 1711.) MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VF.ITCH. sns in the end of July, and entered the River of St. Lawrence; but encountered a severe storm, in which several of the transports, with the troops on board, were lost. * In consequence of this and the want of provisions to sustain the troops, if they should be locked up in Quebec by the frost during the winter, it was resolved by a council of war to abandon the enterprise and return home.f Colonel Veitch enjoyed the confidence both of the general and admiral, the latter of whom speaks very highly of his skill, zeal, and activity in the expedition. | He returned to his government at Annapolis, and ultimately settled at New York, where he married a grand-daughter of the well-known Mr. John Livingston, by whom he had a daughter called Aleda, who mar- ried an American gentleman of the name of Pinknie, near Philadelphia. § It only remains to say a few words respecting Ebenezer, Mr. Veitch's youngest son. Re was trained for the ministry of the church, and ap- * Seven transports, and a victualler of New England, were wrecked, and 884 men lost. Walker's Journal, p. 128. t Scots Courant, Nos. 950 — 954. Walker's Journal, p. 26, 141, 302. X Walker's Journal, p. 26, 93, 94. In p. 116, is a letter from colonel Veitch to the Admiral, stating his suspicions of a French pilot, and offering to proceed to Cape Breton, " in order to set the course of the fleet, when they come up, in case it be foggy." § Mrs. Veitch's Mem. p.H5; and Genealogical Tree of the Family. SM •UPPT ^ftfF.W'l TO THE pears to have 'oi%'u u young man of uncomiruHi piety. After i.iiing licensed to preach, he was the first person who received the appointment to a lectureship in Edinburgh, on yrh"*: nras called M'AUa's iiioniiication, which still subsists. i>avid Mackall, or M'AUa, was a merchant who, in tes- timony of his gpratitude for success in business, bequeatiied in the year 1639, besides other lega- cies for pious uses, a sum of money, the interest of which was to be applied by the magistrates and town council of Edinburgh, as a salary to one who should preach every Sunday morning in the Tron church.* A num^ier >f years elapsed • " Be it kend- -me Dtnid Mackall, merchant burges of Edin- burgh, for sa meickle m it had pleaaed God u bks8 me in my call- ing — whairupone — I vowed and promised to the Lord my God to dedicate some portioun if the meanes and subatance best H tip- on me to pious uses. Thairfore, and iu humble performance there- of, I, in the tenor heirof, give, dott, and f^'spone:— Item, thrie thousand and five hundrrd merk Js money f esaid, to hr employed upon land for annual ret to thv behoov v/f ane su. cient and qualified minister or preatcher, to m prayers and preatching everie Sunday in the mominn:, in the south eist kirk that is build- ing at Nuddries wynd heiu, quiiilk pretchinr tnd prayeric? sail be doone everie Sunday in the luoming, conforme to the Trew reU- gioun establishit presentlie profeat within thi? k vsgdome, without any alteration, additioun, or diminish] •^g theiiia iu anie sort, hot onlie to be doone as it is now usit, wit it ad-' g of any unneci sar ceremonie thairto, that was laitlie i' to I rocht in the kir> and no uthe: wayes. And I mak and hk* lui the provost as d h'jjlies of the said burgh, present and to cum, patrones for pre- anting of the said minister to the said kirk, with consent of my aires and successors in all tyme cuming." (Records of Town Coun- cil of Edinburgh, Dec. 88, 1039. vol. xv. f. 109, 110.) MEMOIRS OP WILLIAM VEITCH. 255 hefoi* tliat church was ready for public worsliip ; and when it vas opened the magistrates did not establish the lectureship, although they were in possession of the iunds appropriated to its sup- port, so that, at length, it came to be forgotten that any nuch bequest had been made. But the fact having been discovered in the year 1701, the town council appointed u coi rnittee to inquire into the matter, and on their i ^port agreed im- mediately to c rry the will of the donor into ef- fect, by pplyiiig the legal interest of a thousand pounds sterling to the srpport of a preacher.* A cordingly, on the 17th of June, 1702, they pre-jented " M Ebenezer Veitch, preacher of the gospv % to tue office of performing preaching and prayers 'n thi Troii church, at the time and in mant' . u^^o 'ted *'v Mr. M'AUa's mortification ;" and ret'onftt '"^ tu Mm further to preach one diet on the Lord' ^ay, as he shall be employed by * RecordB of iTown Council, Sept. 5, 1701. vol. xxxvi. pp. 690—892. Maitland, who has given lOrt account of this bene- faction, aftet saying that the council app riated " the income of one thousand pounds of the said money the support of preach- ing a the Tron Church, adds, "buth *v the remaining part of the money is applied, is to me u) known." 'st. of Edinbui^h, p. 166.) This vas owing to his own carel ss. For ir the minute just referred to, the interest < *" *ht oney is calculated im the death of the donor (1 ui to the year 1701, and when thi is auded i the principal the whole suir (loes not atnoun n quite 18,000 merles Scots, or £1000 Sterling that hert' wn -> sur- plus to' applied in any way, am' th; lagistrai ; a'cted i every res^tect honourably in the trust. ifi SUPPLEMENT TO THE any of the ministers of the burgh.* Subsequent- ly he engaged, at tJ desire of the town council and presbytery, " to visit the sick of the pariah of the Tron kirk when called thereto, to ease the reverend Mr. George Meldruin of that part of his minist rial function ;" he having been lately appointed professor of divinity in the university, on the death of Mr. George Campbell.f In May, 1703, he left Edinburgh, having re- ceived u call to be minister of Ayr ; t and he soon after married Margaret, daughter of the venera- ble Mr. Patrick Yarner, minister of Irvine, § • Records, ut supra, vol. xxxvii. p. 174. t Ibid. Oct. 9, 1702. vol. xxxvii. p. 308. X On the ISth of May, 1703, Mr. James AUtoun, preacher of the gospel, was chosen successor to him in the lectureship. (Re- cords of Town Council, vol. xxxvii. p. 891.) The Town Council came to a resolution, on the 17th of November, 1703, that, instead of one, two persons should be appointed to this office, to lecture per vices ; and that the annual rent should be divided between them. The reason assigned for this new arrangement is, that they had found by experience " the great good, blessing, and usefulness of the said morning lecture not only to the inhabitants of the citie, but to the preachers themselves, who have great opportunity to exercise and make known their gifts and qualifications for the rai- nistrie, so that severals alreadie have been called from that charge and settled in considerable congregations : and that the said lecture became lyke a kind of seminerie to some pairt of the church." (Ibid. p. 686.) § On the 8th of January, 1692, the town council of Edinburgh subscribed a call to " Mr. Patrick Vemour, minister of Irvine," to be one of the ministers of this city. (Records of Town Council.) The names Vernor and Warner are used interchangeably in do- cuments of that period. MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCII. 857 a young lady remarkable for personal beauty. Having gone to Edinburgh in December, 1706, to attend the commission of the general assembly, he obtained leave of absence for a few days to dis- pense the communion to his people. On his re- turn to the capital he was seized with a danger- ous sickness. For some time before this, his friends had observed that his thoughts turned much on death, and that when engaged in prayer, both in public and in his family, he appeared more like a person in heaven than on earth. His wife hurried from Ayr as soon as she received notice of his illness. Hearing him talk of his will- ingness and desire to die, she asked if he would not wish to live with her, and serve the church on earth, a little longer ; to which be replied in the negative, recommended her to God, who had been all in all to him, and gave her a parting embrace. Tl.en tiu-ning to the ministers who were present, he said, " Passengers for glory, how far think you am I from the new Jerusalem ?" " Not far. Sir,'* replied one of them. « Then I'll climb till I be up among that innumerable company of angels and the spirits of just men made perfect." They removed his wife ; but just as he was a-dying, she ' burst into the room and came to his bed-side, when, waving his hand, he said, I will not look back again," and expired.* • Mrs. Veitch's Memoir, pp. 111—114. Mrs. Ebeneaer Veitch was afterwards married to Mr. Robert Wodrow. the historian. 358 SUPPLEMENT TO THE I ! i I I I This Supplement to Mr. Veitch's Memoirs shall be closed with the following account of his child- ren, copied from a writing, in his own hand, on the margin of his family Bible.* r? " I was maryed at Lanark by Mr. Ro* Birnie — ^f twenty- third day of Nov' 1664. kiif* Mary, my first child, was born on Monday the 28 of Sept' 1665, at the Hills of Dunsyre, and baptised at Lintoun, by M' Ro* Eliot, t She dyed March 9, 1666, and was buried at Dunsyre kirk. Ill" William, my ■ d M, was born on Tuesday the 2** day of Apr/; .^7, at the Hills of Dun- syre, bot not hRp eu untill the 16 day of August following, a^ aat at Smalholm, by M' Thomas Donaldsons "^ Witnesses were John Murray of " This marriage was assented to by her father-in-law, Mr. William Veitch, whom she came to consult about its propriety all the way from Air to Dumfries, before it was soltmnized." (Geneal. Tree of the Family.) * This Bible is now in Dumfries, in the possession of Mrs. Ni- cholas Denholm, relict of the Reverend William Wightn. i, late minister of Dalton. t Mr. Robert Bimie, minister at Lanark, was a nonconformist to prelacy. (Wodrow, i. App. 75.) J Messrs. Robert Elliot, father and son, were, in 1672, indulged to Lintoun. Wodrow's list of nonconformists contains Mr. Ro- bert Elliot at Linton, presuytery of Peebles, who survived the Re- volution. (Ibid. i. App. 138^ 79.) § Mr. Thomas Donaldsone was confined to his own parish of Smailholm. (Ibid. i. App. 73.) MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 259 Ashiesteel, * John Brown, merchant in Kelso, and - M' John Vetch, minister of Westruther. " Samuel, my third child, bom on Wednesday, at Edenburgh, being the ninth day of December, 1668, and baptised the threttenth by M' John Blackadar, a Minister in Galaway ; the laird of Westshiel,t Andrew Stevenson, and M' William Livingstoun, | merchants in Ed" were witnesses. " James, my fourth child, was born at Eden- burgh, on Thursday, March 9 day, 1671 ; baptis- ed the 18 day, by M' Thomas Hog. } He dyed * " The laird and lady Ashiesteil" were cited t© appear before the privy council, along with several other gentlemen and ladies, for being present at a conventicle, in the parish of Galashiels, which was surprised by Claverhouse in 1679. (Wodrow, ii. 40.) "John Murray of Eshiesteill" was commissioner of excise for Sel- kirk, in 1661.—" Eshiesteill lyand in Etterick forest and shirreff- dome of Selkirk." (Act. Pari. Scot. vii. 91 ; viii. 356.) t " Sir William DenhoJra of Westshields was a religious gen- tleman, of excellent abilities, of a plentiful fortune, and got to hea- ven some years ago, after all his troubles." He was forfeited by the criminal court, along with Mr. Gilbert Elliot, July 16, 1.68.5 ; (Wodrow, ii. 493 ; Founlainhall's Decis. i. 366 ;) was restor- ed after the Revolution; and sat frequently in Parliament as mem- ber for Lanarkshire. (Act. Pari. Scot. vol. x. and xi. passim.) X Mr. William Livingston, son of Mr. John Livingston, minis- ter at Ancrum, was imprisoned, Feb. 22, 1682, for " collecting and distributing money to rebels," (prisoners) and " for importing and vending several seditious books." He was liberated on caution. (Wodrow, ii. 256.) Dec. 13, 1700. The town council settled a pension of " 200 merks yearly on Veitch, relict of Mr. Wil- liam Livingstoun, late clerk to the sessions of the good town." (Records of Town Council of Edinburgh, vol. xxxvi. p. 704, 70S.) § Among the nonconformists were two ministers of the name of Thomas Hog ; the one at Larbert and Dunipace, in the presby- 2(J0 SUPPLEMENT TO THE at Amistoun with the nurse April tenth, and was buried at the Temple the twelfth day, 1672.* " John, my fifth child, was born on Friday, at Fallowlees, in the parish of Roadberrie in Nor- thumberland, July 19, 1672, (having removed thither the Lambes preceding,) baptised by M' Wychliffe t the thirty of that Moneth, befor thes witnesses George Harle and William Zealile. He died at Stanton hall about Mertimasse 1684, and was buried at Nether Witton, 4 miles from Mor- peth. " iilizabeth, my sixth child, was born at Har- nam, in the parish of Bolam in Northumberland, tery of Stirling, and the other at Kiltearn in Ross-shirt. (Wodrow, i. App. 72, 73.) There is a printed Memoir of the last-men- tioned person. * It should be 1671. See before p. 59. " Having born four children ere I came out of Scotland, two of them died in the land, the other two I brought with me." (Mrs. Veitch's Mem. p. 3.) f Ralph Wiclif, ejected from Whatton in Northumberland, was, at the Restoration, a member of Mr. Ralph A^^ard's congregation at Hartbourne, and was " afterwards ordained a minister by the pres- bytery at Morpeth." When Mr. Ward was removed, a part of his congregation adhered to Mr. Wicklif, who continued among them ; but he complains that there was " such a fickleness and itch- ing humour in some old professors, that if a stranger, (a young raw Scotchman,) should come and say he was a minister, away some of ihem would run, by his door, perhaps three, four, or five miles, notwithstanding the hazard he had run by his entertaining them in dangerous times." (Palmer, ii. 970.) "Nether Witton chapel," where Veitch'i child was buried, was attached to "Hart- bourn vicarage." (Hutchinaon's Northumberland: State of Churches, p. 44.) '<*! MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 261 the 20 day of May, 1674, and was baptised on the 31, being the Sabbath, in the meeting house M' George Horsley, witness, of Mill- burn Grange, * (his mother being name mother,) and William Zealile. She was maryed to David M'Culloch of Ardwell, the 7 day of June, 1710 years at Dumfries. " Ebenezer, my seventh, born at Harnam the 16 day of March, ^1676, being thursday, hora 4 post merid. and baptised in the Meeting hous ther by M" John Owen, f the 26 day. He was educate at Ed"" and Saint Andrewes philosophy col- ledges, and at Ed' Divinity coUedge under the learned Mr. George Campbell, professor thereoff. He passed his tryalls befoir that presbitery with great approbation, and was settled as lecturer on Sabbath Morning, in the trone church, betwixt 8 and 9 in the Morning, upon M' M'Ala's mortifica- tion, new found out, tho' done 60 years befoir, and continued there from till Whitsunday 1703. he was called to the Ministry in the towneof Air, and ordained May 13 that year. He died at Ed' the 13 day of dec' 1706, a mem- ber of the comission, and his uncle M' John Vetch, • See before, p. 133. t Mr. John Owen, ejected from Stannerton, Northumberland, preacheil frequently in his own house, and in i,hose of the neigh- bouring gentlemen, for which he was fined and impriaoned. He was induced to acce))t of a settlement at Hounam in Scotland, pro- cured for him by the Duke of Lauderdale. (Palmer, ii. 870.) 262 SUPPLEMENT TO THE minister of Westruther, died at Dalkeith, going home from the Commission, dec' 1703. " Sarah, my eight child and third daughter, was born at Stantoun hall in the parish of Longhorslie in Northumberland, on Wednesday, betwixt 3 and 4 in the Morning, the T'^ day of Nov*^ 1677, hav- ing removed from Harnam thither the first day of May preceding, and was baptised the 5 day of dec" in my own hous, by M' Ed"^ Ord, sometyme minister at Noram * in Northumberland, old M' Fennick of Stantoun, f with his lady, (who was hame-mother) and his youngest son, M'^ Thomas, being witnesses. " Agnes, r .y ninth child and fourth daughter, was born at Stantonhall the 20 day of January, 1680, being tuesday, about 10 o'clock; she was baptised the 29 of April (my shaking ague liin- dering till then) by my brother, M' John Vetch, minister of AVestruther in Scotland ; the Laird and Lady witnesses. | She was maryed to M' John Somervel, minister of Car- laverock, the 16 day of April, 1701. — She bore unto *^im 6 child: , one son and 5 daughters, and died of the 7'** child, not brought to bed, (the two youngest daughters died before herself) the 14 of Agust, 1712; and when midwives, chirur- * " Norham vie. Mr. Edwitrd Ord." (Palmer, ii. 36C.) t See Surtees's Durhaiiij App. clii. X Mr. and Mrs. Fenwick of Stanton, most probably. MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM VEITCH. 263 geons, and doctors could dofe no good, after several dayes unsuccessful! pains, she said * Now I see God calls me to die and leave this world and all my relations, which I am most willing to doe.' Then taking her leave, with the greatest composure and deliberation, of her parents, children, and servants, and of her husband, who had been fetching more help, leaving her blessing to every one that was tliere, and to those that were absent far and near, like one that had left all to God [goe? J to her heavenly husband, with her eyes lifted up to hea- ven, she cryed, * O, my beloved, be thoii as a roe and as a young hart upon the mountains of divi- sion,' &c. Then she begged that we wold, (if we had any moyen with God) pray that he wold mitigate her torment out through her voyage, and land her in her wished port ; and her pain was abated or prayer was done, so she went off with great quiet- ness, closeing her eyes with her own hand, a little after. " Janet, my tenth child and fifth daughter, was born upon Sunday the 30 of January, 1682, and baptised there also, at Stantonhall in England, by her uncle Master John Vetch, Minister of West- ruther,* in the Mers, who came tbc-re to doe it on * " Mr. Veech, minister of 'i'^'estruthers, wrotte for jne anc dc- scriptione of Berwick shyr» i.i the Merse, two sheet and a halfe." (Sibbald's Repertory of Manuscripts, MS. p. 26. /idv. Library.) This is inserted in Sibbald's MS. Collections, from p. 198 to p. 215. " That parish (says the author, in his account of West- 264 SUPPLEMENT TO THE, &C. purpose ; her father was at London. She died ou Sabbath the 26 day of March, 1693, near eight o'clock at night, at Peebles, in Tweedale, Scot- land, and was buried there the day following."* ruther,) of old had great woods with wild beasts, fra quhilk the dwellings and hills were designed; as Woolstruther, fioecleugh, Uindside, Hartlaw, and Harelaw." (W. 5, 17. p. 208. Adv. Libra;y.) It was stated before, 'see p. 10, note,) that his brother, Mr. James Veitch, was appointed to answer the argu- ments against hearing the indulged ministers. In the Advocates Library is a MS. entitled " Ane Sober Inquirie into the kwfulnes of the presbyterian ministers their acceptance of a libertie to preach the gospel upon the indulgence, and the people's dutie to hear them. By Mr. James Veitch, minister at Mauchlin." 41 pages in fours. (Rob. III. o, 9. art. 16.) *"1693. March 87. Jennet Veitch." (Register of Burials in the Parish of Peebles.) KNW OF THJi MKMOIRH OF WILLIAM VJtlTCH. 'ii?sii! MEMOIRS or GEORGE BRYSSON, M£RCHi.Vv IN EDINBURGH. WRITTEN BY H I M S E 1 T. r B nil of • mi kn pi wi raj de A] m( an svih MEMOIRS OP GEORGE BRYSSON. Being now of a good old age,* and near to eter- nity, I thought it my duty to leave some remarks of God's providence towards me, in the course of my pilgrimage, which I think may be useful to my children, and other Christian friends who may have occasion to read the same, to let them know how kind the Lord hath been to me in my pilgrimage-state here, travelling through this wilderness-condition, that so they may be encou- raged to keep the Lord's way, who hath so won- derfully protected me in every step of my life :— And Oh ! that I could speak aright to the com- mendation of the riches of his great goodness and mercy towards me, who am less than the least of all his mercies. * He appears to have been born about the year 1949. subsequent note near the conclusion of the Memoir. See a S6t^ MEMOIRS OF OEOHUE BHV8S0N. And first, I acknowledge I was conceived in sin and brought forth in iniquity, and did, for a considerable time, live in a state of nature, with- out any thing of the knowledge of God. But it pleased him, who calleth whom he will, and by what means seemeth good in his sight, to make I; at length to see my lost state. And this the Lord did by letting Satan loose upon me, who assaulted me with dreadful temptations and blas- phemous suggestions, whereby I was almost driven to utter despair; in which lamentable condition I was kept for several years, meeting with nothing but fearful assaults from the ene- my. At th?:^ time I was a stranger to pure gospel-ordiB 0:;^ administered by faithful am- bassadors, till iA length God cast my lot to be apprentice m i i e city of Edinburgh, in a family where there were two godly servants. And I began to observe that their practice was net like the rest of the family, they rehiring alone on the Sabbath, when they came from any place where they had been hearing sermon, which was very private at that time, there being then a great persecution against the serious seekers of God. I began to think with myself, that the way these two took was diflferent from the rest of the fa- mily, and that I had never known any thing of the v/ays of God as yet : whereupon I did impart my mind to one of them, and desired that he would take me to hear some of his ministers that VtEMOIHS Oi GEOR^^E liRYSSON. 969 preached in private ; c« aclading with myself, that these only were the minisiers of the living God, and tuose that T had been hearing formerly "ere but hirelings, i'he which desire I at lengtii obta fl- ed, and after that, resolved never to ret those hirelings ; and so I continued to he nest ministers ever after that, as I could h; ,p- portunity , Mit without that desired effect at I )oked for, depending more upon the instruments than upon th. (iod of ordinances, so that my trouble rather ceased than decreased. None can tell how i ^as tortured and perplexed by Satan's temptations. So I became very desirous to have imparted my mind to some honest mini-^ ster concerning my case ; but being bashful and also simple, I could hardly adventure to do it, 'till once upon a day, a very worthy, famous, godly minister, (Mr. James Kirton) was in my master's shop reading the news, and I resolved to follow him, and impart my mind to him as I could ; and following him through the street, I was se- veral times resolving to touch his s.ioulder, but had not the confidence, and so I | a-ted from him as he entered his own house. And I went away with a grieved heart, and went to the north side of the Castlehill, near the loch, where I bemoaned my case before God as I could. And I can never enough wonder at the admirable providence of God, that kept me back from imparting my mind to him ; for upon the Sabbath following, I was led ^^.^ .^.^\^ > IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I laaiM 12.5 Ui ^ 12.2 1^ 1-25 IIIIM.4 111.6 6" 0% 71 /: ^'^^J^j" // M V ^ '/ Photographic Sciences Corporation 23 WIST MAIN STMCT WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716)873-4503 ^^' ^ m ^ .V %/^^ ► *^''. ■^ 270 MEMOIRS OF, GEORGE BRYSSON. to hear him preach, n^ho was, indeed, sent from God to me, and was made to speak out my case in every particular, as though I had written down my mind to him in every circumstance; and he made such free offers of Christ, as made me to see him a complete Saviour, able to save to the very uttermost all that come to God through him. And I must say, (to the eternal praise of my God be it spoken !) that my very heart and soul were made to close with him in the offers of the gospel; for by the power that came aloi^ with the word the Lord opened my prison-doors, and in a great measure he proclaimed liberty to a captive, and made his power to be known to- wards me ; so that I was made to wonder at his surprising love and goodness towards such a wretched sinner as me. After that, I kept close by the ordinances, and found the word sweet and refreshing to my soul ; for the word of God was precious in those days, and there went a converting power alongst with it. After that, I was not without many assaults from the enemy of man's salvation ; but I bless the Lord, who stood by me and supported me. These days were the sweetest that ever I had upon the earth, and I hope they were days qf espousals. t^^i^ After this, when Satan saw that he was disap- pointed of getting me brought to utter despair of the mercy and goodness of God, he stirred up MEMOIRS OF GEORGE BRYSSON. 271 outwurd troubles against me, to have me deprived of tfee precious ordiuances, which were the very food of my soul ; and set my master against me, who would not suffer me to go to hear the l^ord's servants, who preached then privately and on peril of their lives. My master was of a good natural temper, but fear of bringing himself to trouble, because of the dangerousness of the times, made him send for my father and uncle, to d^l with me to forbear going to those conventicles, lest I brought trouble both upon myself and him.* And so my father came to town, and sent for me to my uncle's, and gave me a very sore onset, telling me, that « the love and Section he carried to me as his only son, made him much concerned in me." He told me, « he expected better things of me, than that I should both bring trouble upon myself and master, by leaving the church, and following after men that were not allowed by law to preach ;" and there- * His master's fears were not groundless. To hear, as well as to preach, was made a crime by the act of Parliament Against Sepa- ration in 1669, (Wodrow, i. Append, p. 79,) and imprisonitig or fining the servant behoved to interfere with the master's accommo- dation. But matters did not rest here. Even before the rising at Pentland, a proclamation was issued for obedience to ecclesiastical amhority, (Oct. 11, 1663,) whereby heritors and masters were made responsible for their tenants and servants ; and if the former did not oblige the latter to conform, they were " liable to the same pains and penalties due to the contraveners." True, this was a vigour beyond the law, but that was no way unusual at that pe- riod. (Ibid. i. 240, App. p. 88.) 372 MEMOIRS OF GEORGE BRYS80N. fore assured me, " if I followed that couwe, he would disown me from being his son,**— which words affected me very much to hear, coming from a loving father. However, though I was but young, (about 20 years of age,) the Lord helped me to maJce a very good reply. I said, " Father, I am sorry to hear such words coming from you ! Indeed, if you had found me guilty of any vice, (such as cursing, swearing, sabbath- breaking, stealing, or uncleanness,) you would have had good ground to disown me as your son. But seeing the Lord has kept me from these things, and that all that ye have to disown nte for, is hearing the gospel preached by his sent servants, when I can have opportunity; and, seeing this is the only quarrel, I cannot help it : for I am firmly resolved to hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ preached by his faithful ambassadors, cost what it will, through the grace of God, although ye should disown me :" — which words did so affect the heart of the old man, that he gushed out in tears, and said, « God forbid ! my dear bairn, that ever I should hinder you from going where you may get most good for your soul.'* And so Satan was frustrated of his design ; for I continued hearing the gospel till the end of my apprenticeship, which was two years and a half after this,* carrying as obliging- ly to my master as I could. • The year 1672, jt thereabout, being the 23d year of his i^e. MEMOIRS OF GEORaE BRYSSON. 273 Then, about the end of my apprenticeship, it pleased God to remove my father by death ; and I was called to stay with my mother, to oversee her servants and other affairs, by which I was much deprived of hearing the gospel, which was my great grief and trouble. A little after I came home, there was a procla- mation issued out^ that all heritors, their tenants, and subtenants, should subscribe a bond,* that they should never go to any of the rendezvous of rebellion, (as they termed the meetings of God's people,) nor entertain any of these vj^grant preachers, (as they termed the servants of the Lord,) whereupon our landlord, who was one of the Lords of Session, sent through his officer, and warned all the tenants of the barony to com- pear at a court holden at his own house. My mo^ ther being warned amongst the rest, I was afraid lest she, through the weakness, should have com- plied with the wicked decree. I desired that she would let me go, and I would answer for her ; and so I went. Having read the proclamation, I resolved not on- ' ly to refuse the subscribing of the bond myself, biit to dissuade others from it also, as far as I could. And being come to the place appointed, there were none there that were concerned in any such • This seems to be the Proclamation of 1 8th June 1674. Tl^e bond was to be subscribed in the shire of Edinburgh, " betwixt and the last Thursday of July." (Wodrow, i. App. p. 156.) T S74 MEMOIRS OF GEORGE BRYSSQN. matters, except only other two. Beiog there a considerable time before the bailie and the clerk came, we three took all the pains we could upon the rest of the tenants, to dissuade them from taking that bond ; and told them the hazard of taking thereof ; that it was a binding themselves from hearing the gospel preached by any of the liiord's sent servants, and that they durst not give them a night's quarters, nor a meal of xoeaU though they were starving at their door. This seemed to affect the men, and they said, ** God forbid that, ever they should do such a thing !" But alas ! they were soon dung * from that ; for 80 soon as the court was fenced, my Lord said, •* Sirs, I will tell you for what I have called you together ; the King has put forth a proclamation, that none within the kingdom should go to these rendezvous of rebellion, nor reset any of their ministers." And told them, that he himself tad subscribed it at Edinburgh, and that tbey be- hoved to do the same ; and solemnly protested that there was no evil in it, otherwise he would not have desired any of them to take it. ** And for your encouragement I shall subscribe it again before you all ;" f which he did, and after, said, * driTeQ. t OfBcen of state, at this period, were not scrupulous in sub- scribing and swearing oaths; and with men destitute of principle, such bonds serve any purpose but that of supporting a government, er throwing out worthless individuals. Sir George Mackenzie, MEMOIRS OP GEORGE BRYSSON. 275 " I hope there is none here who will refuse it :** whereupon one of those honest men (formerly- mentioned) thinking that my Lord would take our silence as a grant of taking it, cries out, « My Lord, I am a man that will not take it" Whereupon my Lord grew in a great passion, and asked, how they called him, and where he dwelt. He answered, « My name is Alexander Wedderbum, I am a tenant under John Brown." Whereupon my Lord says, « John Brown, does speaking of the declaration 1662, observes, " The great design of that act was to incapacitate the Earl of Crawford ftom being trea- surer, and Lauderdale from being secretary; but Lauderdale laughed at thi e contrivances, and told them he would »ign a cart- ful of such oaths before he would lose his place : and though Crawford was thereafter turned out of his office, yet Middleton missed it ; and thus we see how God disappoints such as endea- vour to ensnare their native country with unnecessary oaths and engagements." (Hist, of Scotland, p. 64.) QMerjf : Had Sir George no hand in pressing such engagements ? — In a paper assigning reasons against subscribing the bond of 1679, it is said, " The imptwers neither regard their own bonds, but bind and break in one day at pleasure, nor doe they, or can they expectt, that these bonds should have weight with others. It is evident that their designe is to debauch the consciences of, and enslave the subjects ; for wliat reason is there first to urge the bond upon flie prisoners, and then sell them into foraigne plantations for slaves, where there is no fear of their rising ? A generous and honest magistrate would rather have condemned to the gallowes the subscribers as knives, and regarded the refusers as men of creditt and honesty." (M88. Adv. Lib. Rob. III. 5, 9. Art. 9.) " Argyle shaU have a peijured dog of you," Claverhouse was accustomed to say, after he had forced the people to take the oaths. (Wod. i. 512.) " If any refused to swear, or drink healths at y» pleasure, then away to prison with him. The debauched clargie thoxight it no shame to call thes dragouns the ruling elders of the church." (Wodrow MSS. XL. Art. 47. Advocates Library.) «76 MEMOIRS OF OEOKOE BRYSSON. this man live under you ?" He says, " Yes !" *' Thten I charge you, upon your peril, to cast him out as soon as you go home ; for I protest, if he be there to-morrow^ I shall come myself, and shall cause burn his house and all that he hath!" After this, my Lord called first upon the men that he knew would not refuse it, to comply with his design ; for his words to this honest man struck a terror upon them all. And after two or three had subscribed, I was very much concerned, and very gladly would have had my Lord call upon me, that through my refusing, I might put a stop to some of the rest taking the pen to sub- scribe. And accordingly I drew near where my Lord was sitting ; so he called me, and said, " George, I know you can write." I said, " Yes, my Lord, I can write." " Then take the pen, and subscribe this bond." But I refusing, said, " My Lord, I cannot do it." He said, « For what ?" I said, " I durst not bind up myself from hearing the gospel preached by the Lord's sent servants; neither durst I refuse to give them ehtertainment, if it lay in my power." My Lord seemed to be somewhat concerned about me, and said, " He was sorry for it, for he had always a great respect for my father's family, and could have wished us well; but seeing I would play the fool, he could not help it." And said, " Seeing you represent your father, I will not put you ofF thf! around imniediateW^ MEMOIRS OF GKOKGK BRYSSON. 277 which I might do ; but resolve with yourself to remove, with all that you have, against the term : and see what will become of you, for neither laird nor lord in Scotland dare set you either house or land." I said, " My Lord, I cannot help that; * the earth is the Lord's, and the ful- ness thereof !' " whereupon my Lord was in a great rage, and went to the other man I men- tioned formerly, (who was sitting upon a little stool on the floor,) and took him with his foot, saying, " Sir, I know you will not take it also !" He said, " No, my Lord." Then we three were packed to the door, and so we escaped that snare : all the rest complied. But most remarkable it was, that though my Lord threatened to turn us three out of his land, we all continued longer in it than himself, — he being, by an express, called over the water to his brother, and had stayed there but a few days, went to his bed at night as well as ever he was, but upon the morrow, when his man came to his chamber, he found him dead upon his bed, so that he never saw the honest man's house burned, nor any of us turned out of his land. * * That this was Sir Robert Preston, Lord Preston, will appear from ^^e following notices. In the Roll of Fugitives in Wodrow's Appendix, vol. ii. p. 119, we find " George Bryson, in Goursnout," Edinburghshire ; and that our Brysson is the person intended, is evident from his being discovered at London by this circumstance, in spring 1685, as he informs us afterwards in his Memoirs. A fa- mily of Prestons long possessed Preston, now Gourtown, ou the 878 MEMOIRS Oy OKOKGK BRVSbON. ' After this, I had an onset by the curate of the parish where I lived, who came with fair insinua- tions, saying, " He had a great kindness for my father, and that he had been still one of his el- ders, and now, seeing he was dead, he hoped I would come and supply his room." I told him, " I had nothing to do with him ; and he might never expect any such thing." Then he told me, " He had a precept from my Lord, before his banks of tbe North Esk, in the county of Edinburgh, compre- hending ** Gowrmout and Gourlaw/' together with the barony of Craigmillar. (Doug. Peer. i. 415, 416. Inquis. Retor. Edin. 8«, 853.) The /rmp/ar lands of Ooursnout bek>nged to the Earl of Haddington; (Inquis. Retor. Edin. 936, 1)70;) and CraigmiUar came into the possession of Lord President Gilmour. (Inquis. Retor. Gen. 5463.) October 9, 1668, the parliament ratified a charter of the SOth of August same year, " in favour of Robert Prestoun of Preatoun, and Johne Prestoun, his son, of the lands and barrony of Prestoun," alias Gortoun, comprehending Gor- toun, Gourstoun, {query Goursnout?) Auchindinings, &c. (Act. Pari. Scot. vii. 483.) Sir Robert Preston was the younger brother of Sir George Preston of Valleyfleld, near Culross, (who died in the reign of Charles II.) a branch of the family of Preston and Craigmillar. (Doug. Bar. 91, 92.) " He had been sumtyme collector oi tne assessments of Pearth;" (Wodrow, i. App. 147; Act. ParL Scot. vii. 190;) commissioner of teinds and of supply, and justice of peace for Edinburghshire. (Act. Pari. Scot. vu. 48, 90, 504.) In Middleton's Act of Fines, he is set down for L. 1200 Scots, (Ibid. 434,) but under Lauderdale's administration, he was one of four judges, whose appointment occasioned dissatisfaction. (See Short Account of Aftirs from Scotland, Nov. 16T3, apud Wod. i. App. 147. Sir George Mac- kenzie's Hist, of Scotland, «40.) He was appointed a Lord of Session, Mar. 4, 1672, by the title of Lord Preston ; and on No- vember 27, 1674, Sir James Foulis succeeded Lord Preston de- ceased. (Haifes's Catalogue of the Lords of Session, p. 13.) MKM01E8 OF UEUKUK BEYHSUN. 979 death, upon me for 200 merks* and that my Lord had several times drawn precepts upon my father, and he ever answered them, and he hoped I would be nothing short of my father." I refused to an- swer any precept After he had come to me se- veral times, I told hira positively I would answer no precept to bim ; whereupon he grew in a very great rage, and said, " You have never kept the kirk since your father's death, but have gone away and left me, and taken all the rest of the town with you : I will now forbear you no longer." And after he parted with me, he went to an honest man that had an house of me, and said, " Andrew, your master is a strange man ; he comes never to my kirk, and it seems ye are following his example, for ye have left me also. Ye should not follow after a daft young lad> for ye have been my eoitttaiit hearer of a long time, and I hope ye will not leave me now." He said, " I bless God that ever he took me alongst in his company, for I never profited hy 'he gospel till then." He said, " Andrew, seei.ig you think ye profit more by hearing these ministers than by me, I shall allow you to go sometimes to hear them ; but ye must give me your hand that ye will come sometimes to me." Andrew said, " I remember a Scripture that says, « How long will ye halt between two opinions ? He that is for God, let him be for God, and he that is for Baal, 880 MKMOlllS OF GEUUGE HHYbSON. let him be for Banl ;' for I resolve uo more to be your hearer." So they parted.* By this time field meetings became frequent on Gala water ;f to which place I, with several others, went frequently every Sabbath, though sometimes eight, ten, or twelve miles distant, all the summer, on foot, without wearying ; and never thought journey more sweet and refreshing, hav- ing sweet conference one with another, and often frequent prayer by the way, and amongst other things, that the Lord would bring the gospel nearer our boi'ders, which accordingly was gi'ant- • The grounds on which the Pi-esbyterians declined to attend the public ministrations of the episcopal clergy of that time, may be seen in Apology for the persecuted ministers and professors of the Presbyterian Reformed Religion, sect. iv. ; printed in 1677 ; in Apologetical Relation, sect. xv. ; and in Shields's Hind let Loose, p. S80, &c. Bishop Burnet's character of the clergy is well known. The following, relating to those in the western shires, may be given as the testimony of a layman, who held a public si- tuation in the government :— " Sir Robert Murray went through the west of Scotland : when he came back, he told me, the clergy were such a set of men, so ignorant and so scandalous, that it was not possible to support them, unless the greatest part of them could be turned out, and better men found to be put in their places ; but it was not easy to know how this could be done. Bur- net," (archbishop of Glasgow,) "had placed them all; and he thought himself in some sort bound to support them. The clergy were so linked together, that none of them could be got to concur in getting proofs of crimes brought against their brethren." (Bur- net's Hiat. of his Own Times, i. 247.) t Some interesting particulars respecting the rise of field meet- ings, are contained in a letter from Mr. Blackader to Mr. Macward, dated Feb. 21, 1679, preserved among the Wodrow MS8. in Ad- vocates Library. MEMOIRS OF GEORO£ BKY880N. 381 «d. The gospel then had good success, and there was a wonderful love amongst the people of God, though his people then got their bread with the peril of their lives, enemies being raging, and often disturbing their meetings.* On a time Mr. John Welsh was preaching in our country, on a week day. There were seve- ral of us convoyed him into Teviotdale, where we were to hear sermon, on Sabbath after, at a hill called Rouberslaw, where we were beset by the enemy, in time of sermon, there coming a com- pany of horse and a company of foot, commanded by the Earls of Dalhousie and Airly, who sur- rounded the mount, and sent us word to dismiss, or they would fall upon us. We told them we were met for the worship of God in the fields, being deprived of the kirks, and we would dis- miss when dermon was over, but not till then. * In the Advocates Library, is a memoir of a Mrs. Croodal, the wife of a mechanic who had been in Ireland, but brought his fa- roily back to Scotland in 1677 ; because, on a visit to his friends, " he saw so much of the power and presence of the Lord with his persecuted ordinances and people." The following extract from it supplies the date of the communion at East Nisbet, described in Crichton's Memoirs of Mr. Blackader, (p. 198, &c.) " I must make mention of three communion dayes the Lord trysted me with in Scotland. The first was at East-Nisbet in the year 1678, in the spring of the year ; another at Carrick, Aug. 4, 1678 ; and the third in the south at Cherrietrees. They were in the fields in the time of sad persecution. I set them down to keep in mind what confirming days they were unto me." (Goodal's Mem. p. 3. MS. Jac. V. 7, 22. ) 983 MEMOIRS OF OEbRGTE BRYSSON. 80 they went about the hill and viewed us, and seeing us very numerous, and also well armed, they left us. There were several meetings of the Lord's people up and down the country, attacked after this manner, and several times prisoners taken and carried to Edinburgh. * But the greatest onset that any of these meet- ings got was by Claverhouse at Loudonhill; where the enemy came upon tbem in a most in- human manner. Having taken one of ihe mini»< ters that should have preached there that day, they dragged him alongst with them to the place wb«re the meeting was convened. So that our friends there were necessitated to stand to their own defence. And, afte;* they were set upon by the enemy, made a ln*ave resistance, and put the enemy to the flight ; and killed abundance of their men, Claverhouse himself hardly escaping.' * An account of these meetings will be found in Wodrow^ i. 438, 590 ; ii. 40. The minutes of privy council inform us how the booty so honourably acquired on these occasions was disposed of. " The loris of his M^jestie's privy councilordain Captain Buckham" to advertise on Sabbath next, at the parish of Calder, *' certain horses and plaidb/buTKf'by him and his party, on dissipating the late conventicle, " with certification if the persons to whom they doe belong will not owne and come receive them back againe that day eight days they will be disposed upon ; and in case they be not owned, the saids lords ordains the said Captain Buckham to sell and dispose thereu^fon at the best availi for the use of the party." (Privy Council Record : September 3, 1 674.) Few owners, it is to be presumed, would make their appearance to claim these lost goods. MEMOIRS OF GEORGE BRYSSON. 288 After this, the forces were sent west to pur- sue after them, so that they were necessitated to send to several parts of the country for assist&Ace. So that I, with several others, went from Edin- burgh towards the south, where some more of our friends were got together, in order to join them, according to our solemn engagements, wherein we were bound to assist one another in defence of our religion. There was a siiiall p& r of us to- gether at Meuros (Melrose,) who were sent out from the rest upon some expedition, who were at- tacked by two troops of horse, who fell upon us at a place called Bewly Bog, where we were de- feated, and several of our men killed and some taken prisoners. The Lord was pleased to bring me oflf safe, though I hardly escaped.* * An account of the aufierers of Teviotdale notices those who were " slain and wounded— at Bewiy-hill, by a rencounter of a party commanded by captain Buckhame. — Seven men deed, some in the fields, and some in their wounds — and others hurt and maimed to this day." (MS. Adv. Lib. Rob. III. 6, 15.) Bewly is in the parish of Lilliesleaf, and difierent spots in or near it are referred to in the accounts of field meetings, and the attacks made on them by the military. Walter Tumb'oll of Bewly was in the rising at Both well. (Wodrow, ii. 65, 163. Wilson's Account of Bothw.) A petition to the privy council, by Mr. John Cook, minister at Eccles, states that " in the time of the late rebellion, in 1679, Turnbull of Bewly came with a party of horse to the petitioner's house, and there robbed and carried away from him two good horses and four saddles, which were worth two hundred pounds Scots — and seeing the petitioner, against whom the phanaticks have a great malice in regard of his principles and freedom of "ublic and tirivate discourse ao'sinst thein, was sin'''led 384 MEMOIllS OF GEOIIGE BRYSSON. After this we went straight to Hamiltcm, where there was a good body of our friends, from several parts of the country, gathered together. So the whole body of the king's forces, with all the militia, both horse and foot, with some English dragoons, came west, and engaged us at Both wel Bridge, upon a Sabbath morning ; where we were put to the worse, partly for want of conduct and partly through divisions. So that there were a great many killed, and many taken prisoners : the Lord, in his holy providence, being pleased to order it so for our hun^iliation and further trial. For, I dare say, there were a good many as godly men there, at that occasion, as were within the nation. But the time to deliver his church was not yet come. After our defeat, I wist not what to do. How- ever, after some time lurking, I ventured home, where my sister and family were together, who had suffered many wrongs from the enemy : my mother being dead a year before this fell out. And, that which is very remarkable, I dwelt be- out from among •U the ministers in the Merss where he lives, by the rebells, who did rob none but him," he humbly supplicates to be reimbursed from the sequestrated moveables of the rebels. The council recommend to the Lord High Treasurer to order payment to the petitioner, " it being first made appear to his lordship that the saids goods were robbed from the supplicant, and to give order to the laird of Meldnim to inquire thercanent." (Rec. of Privy Council, Feb. 2, 1683.) MEMOIRS OF GEORGE BRYSSON. S85 twixt two lairds who were both out in arms against us ; and one of them never conformed to the presby terian government to his dying day, though he lived thirty-five years after this. And the other was of the same judgment, though he complied with the government afterwards. How- ever, the Lord moved them to favour me in the day of my distress.* For they sent for my sister before I came home, and advised her to put all the goods from off the ground, and every thing but what was of present use for the family. One of the gentlemen was so kind, that he desired my sister to send over her milk kine and let them feed with his, and to send over her servants morn- ing and evening to milk them for the use of the family. And ordered her to pack up all things that she thought the enemy might make a prey of, and send them over to his house ; which, ac- cordingly, she did, where they were secure. The other gentleman was no less kind, for he desired her to send the milk ewes over to his ground, that she might not lose their milk ; and to send her servants to milk them. After that, she sent away * The one of these kind lairds is evidently Sir William Drum- mond of Hawthornden, son of the celebrated poet, " who (accord- ing to Douglas) inherited his father's principles and virtues," and died in 1713. His eldest daughter married a son of Lord Preston, Brysson's landlord. (Douglas, Baronage, 673.) I am sorry that I have failed in ascertaining the other gentleman, and in being able to do justice to an act of humanity done at a period marked by so many instances of an opposite description. 286 MEMOIRS OF GEORGE ilRYSSON. the horses, oxen, and other yeld beasts, to a friend who lived on the Earl of Winton's ground, who received them very willingly. Thus the Lord trysted me with favour both from my friends and foes, for which I desire to adore his wonderful providence. I durst not appear myself, but kept close, and lay sometimes in the wood, sometimes amongst the com, and sometimes ventured to my bed. At length there came out an act of indem- nity, that such as would comply, and keep the church, and subscribe a bond, should be liberat- ed. I, having no freedom to do this, was still in my old condition.* ,^ There was one Mr. Thomas Skene, an advo- cate, sheriff-depute of Mid Lothian, who got a gift of the escheat of all that had been in arms in Vw*°^Tf '^' ^^'"^ " ^^ •'"^y «^' b«t ^^<^^ wa. not pubbshed until August U, 1679, is given by Wodrow at length. there is truth in the allegation of Lord Halton's counil, that it was chiefly intended to screen Lauderdale and his friends. (Sec before p. 92 ) For in reaUty, the only persons effectually secur- «1 by the indemnity were "aU suchashavemalversedinany pub- lic station or trust, and-liable to any pursuit-relating to any pubbc administration." Not to mention the bond to be taken hi fore peiBons could be entitled to the beneiit of the indemnity all hentors and ministers who were concerned in the hte rebellion, and att who had refused to comply with the proclamation to attend the tangs host, were expressly excepted ; and other exception, could, without much difficulty, be exphdncd so as to comprehend every one who had been engaged in the insurrection of BothweU- bridge. MEMOIRS OF GEORaE BRYSSON. S87 that flhire. * My uncle, who was very intimate with him, went to him, (having a great love to me,) and desired that he would favour me, for there was none else that would trouble me if he did not. He promised to him, (upon his faith and conscience,) that he should not trouble me. Upon which, my uncle promised to give him the best paced horse that I had. And so he became secure and sent for me. f I came to him very * Mr. Thomas Skene, advocate, was the brother of John Skene of Halyards, and son of Sir Andrew Skene of Halyards, who mar- ried a daughter of William Forbes of Corse, brother to the bishop of Aberdeen. (Fountainhall's Decis. iL S77. Inquis. Retor. Fife, 812. Doug. Bar. p. 76, S16. Peerage, i. 148.) It belonged to the sherifib to appoint iheur own deputies, but as they came to be sus- pected of sympathisuig sometimes with their tmants or neighbours, the council took the nomination of these into their own hands. The Lord Treasurer-depute was at this time sheriff of Edinburgh- shire, and the council gave him Mr. Thomas Skene as his depute. (Wodrow, ii. 1 6, 1 7.) By statute the fines of all who are not he- ritors pertain to the sherifib. (Act. Pari. Scot. -viii. ».) In 1681 Skene's name as sheriff appears among the ordinary officers of Par- liament, and he obtained a ratification of the lands and bavony of Preston in Linlithgowshire. (Act. Pari. Scot. viiL 231, 298.) That same year, on the 7th of November, Mr. Robert Martin, clerk of the criminal court, having declined swearing the test, (see before, p. 93,) Mr. Thomas Skene was installed in his room. He was deprived of his offices before the Revolution, and subse- quently to that change, practised as an advocate, when his private affkirs appear to have been in disorder. (Fountainhall's Decis. i. 161, 192; ii. 277. Diary, 41. Act. Pari. Scot. ix. App. 89, 97, 109.) t The Records of the town council of Edinburgh mention " Andro Bryssone, mercer," as " city treasurer ;" and for several years before and after the Restoration, he is spoken of as "bailie of Poruburgh,"— " collector of impost," &c. S88 MEMOIRS OF GEORGE BRYS80N. privately. He told me he had procured my peace with Mr. Skene, and therefore I might bring home all my goods that were dispersed ; and desired me to live as quietly as I could. Accordingly, I brought home all with more confidence, and did lie more securely in my own house. u But within a littl6 while, the same Skene or- dered a party of foot, under the command of one Lieutenant Inglis,* to come and apprehend my- self, and missing me to drive my goods. And so he marched out of Edinburgh at night, thinking to apprehend, me in my bed ; and, to make the more dispatch, they went to Gilmerton, and took horses to ride upon, and a guide to conduct them. However, I had a friend who lived there, who • Several individuals of the name of In^is appear to have b^en noted among the military who scourged the country at this peripd. A capuin Inglis was guilty of great cruelty in the parish of Kil- bride, in the year 1 682. ( Wodrow, ii. 244.) Comet Peter Inglis, son of captain John Inglis, is celebrated in the annals of barbarity and crime. (Wodrow, ii. 509 ; Scots Worthies, App. p^ 47.) But the person referred to in the text is " Archibald Inglii, a com- mander under Hallyards," (the brother of Thomas Skene,) whose pillaging and cruelties in the parish of East Monkland are describ- ed by Wodrow, (u. 244-5.) Blackader mentions " a party of dra- goons, commanded by one lieutenant Inglis, who kept ^irrison in Midcalder, of purpose to suppress these meetings," and who dis- persed a conventide at the Black Dub in Bathgate parish, where James Davie was killed. (Chrichton's Mem. of Blackader, p. 171.) From Wodrow (ii. 432,) it appears that Thomas Kennoway, after- wards cut off at Swine-abbey, was active in the attack on this -field-meeting. Farther particulars respecting him may be seen in the Life of Alexander Reid, lately reprinted, p. 55. MEMOIRS OF GEORGE BRYSSON. 289 was apprehensive that they were either coming to take me, or some others that lived in Carington, ♦ who were in the like circumstances. So he mounts upon a horse that they had left, and made all haste to give nie warning. He, knowing the way some better than they, came by them in the night time, it being a thick fog. When he came to the house where I lived, he heard their tongues a little behind him, and so came to the chamber-window where I was lying, and called two or three times, " Make haste and get away, for there is a party at hand to apprehend you." I was fast asleep, but hearing a voice, I got up hastily and came to the window, but he was gone. I heard his horse's feet riding through the close, for he durst not stay, they were so near. I made haste and put on my breeches, and took the rest of my clothes in my arms. One of the servant- lasses that lay in the hall heard the man's words. She cried earnestly to me, to make haste, or then I would be taken. So I got to the back of the yard ; and before I had well on my clothes, they were all about the house, guarding both back and foreside. But, through the good providence of God, I escaped out of their hands, and got into a wood that was hard by the house, where I was safe. * The names of several persons in Carrington and the immedi- ate neighbourhood arc in the fugitive-roll given by Wodrow, vol. ii. app. p. i!0. U 290 MEMOIRS OF GEORGE BRYSSON. So the iniffiaas fell to their wor^, beating and bruising the servants, because they would not tell them where I was. I had then some very godly servants. There was one that they abused more than the rest, and dragged him by the hair of the head to a pool of water, where they threatened to drown him, if he would not tell them whether or not I was in the house the night before ; for not knowing that I h&d made my escape, but think- ing I was hiding in the house, he would not tell them, lest he shoulJ! have been accessary to my taking. And when they had brought him back from the pool, they stood with drawn swords at his breast, swearing they would run him ^hrough, if he would not tell. But they prevailed nothing with him. And then they made a diligent search ; and when they could not find me they began their spoil. And, first, they seized a chest, where my clothes and papers lay, which they seized upon. There were only fifty merks of money, which In^lis put in his pocket ; and then went to the fold and seized upon sheep, oxen, and all that was in the folds ; and after that, packed up sheets and blankets, and all the furniture of the house, as much as loaded several horses. And when they had set sentinels, and made all secure, they caused make ready breakfast ; and after that went away with horses, cows, oxen, sheep, and all that they could conveniently carry away with them. My uncle, hearing of what was done, came with all speed, MEMOIRS OF GEORGE BRYSSON. S91 and stopped all at the end of the Long Causeway, till he went to Mr. Skene With a grieved hearty and bought them from him for a considerable sum of money, for whidi he gave his bond to pay within a few days, which accordingly he did. After this I was made to wander up and down. My uncle and sister caused shear* the crop. And, after it was disposed of, I, paying off all debts I was owing. Went into Edinburgh, and took a house ; resolving, with what little money was left, I would fall a trading privately, and so went once to London, and another time to Newcastle. But I was soon deprivied of this design, times growing still worse and worse. It came to this, that none might set a house, or entertain or con- verse with any that were in my circumstances, but they were reputed to be as guilty as we were. Whereupon I was necessitated to leave the coun* try, with many others, lest we shoiild Mng trouble upon our friends. Then I went and remained at London for two years,f but did not agree with the air ; tobk the ague, and after that a sore flux, which continued long with me, and brought me exceeding Ibw. When I parted with my friends at Edinburgh, they were very pressing with me that I would write to them, to let them know how I was, which accordingly I did, which proved hurtful both to myself and them. * reap. + He probably went to London in April or May 1683. 29'2 MEMOIRS OF GEORGE BRY8SOK. There were two other young men that went ujj in the ship with me who were both in my circum* stances. We all three wrote home at one time, to let our friends know how it was with us; which letters we sent with a young gentleman that came up passenger in the ship with us. After he went from London he was detained by con- trary winds at Gravesend, and before he came to Scotland there was something broke out which was called Monmouth's Plot, so that all ports were stopped, and passengers searched for letters. Whereupon the gentleman was apprehended and brought before the council of Scotland, and cleared himself by his oath that he knew nothing of us, but that we went up passengers with him in a ship for London. But when our letters were read before the council, and our names found to be in the Porteous roll,* our friends were seized upon and carried to prison, and next day were examined. The Lords alleged we were concerned in the plot ; and especially, because of one expression I had in my letter to my sister, which was, after several exhortations for her to keep God's way, I said, " Though there be a sore scattering among God's people, yet I hoped the Lord would bring them together again, for there was a work upon the wheels which would tend to the glory of God and • This was a list of the persons indicted to appear before the justiciary court. MJi^MOIKS UF OKORUE BKY880N. 298 the good of his people." So our friends were continued in prison a considerable time, and at length, through moyen, came out upon bail. O ! how grieving was this to us. But that which made it still more weighty was, that we had desired our friends, when they wrote to us, to direct their letters to us, to be left at a very worthy Christian man's house, one John Brown, who lived near Bow Church-yard. And so the council had written up to court to apprehend three rebels, (as they were pleased to term us,) who were to be found in that man's house; where- upon, they sent to apprehend us, but we did not lodge there, and neither did the honest man know any of us by our names, we using only some- times in his house to take a glass of cyder, he being a Scotsman. However, he was brought be- fore the king and council. He told, he knew none of us. He was ordered, upon his oath, either to apprehend us, if we came to his house, or return to prison. This being straitening to the honest man, he was returned to prison, until he took advice of friends what to do. Their ad- vice was, for him to send word to us not to come near his house, assuring us of our hazard ; and then he did comply with what was demanded of him. After he came out of prison, he knew not how to get us informed what was done against us ; but being informed at court of our names, and that we were lately come from Scotland, he made MEMUIilS OF UKUUOK BHViiMON. ^ilgpint search fur us aifioiigst all Scotsmen that h» kiiwv» At length he hnppent "«i upon one John Whyt, wlivj had lately conw from Scotland, who was also in our circumstances, who knew us; and he desired him to make diligent search for us, and inform of our hazard, aud to desire us not to come to his house, for if we did, he was obliged to apprehend us. And likewise to tell us what was befallen our friends in Scotland upon our account. This man made search for us several days, and at length found us at a Scotsman's house about two miles from the city ; who, when he had found us, was very glad, and gave us a relation of the whole matter, which was very afflicting to us all. So we kept ourselves out of the city a considerable time, till I and one of my comrades fell sick, and came and lodged privately in the city. After my recovery from my long sickness, I began to think I had now spent considerable part of the money I had brought along with me; and I began to speak to friends to see if they could wish me to any employment. There was an honest man that made it his business to lay out himself for me, and at \exi\;th found out a family which was a very easy service, but some* what difficult for one in my circumstances to engage in. The gentleman was an old colonel to king '*?Hrks I., and being very zealous for his maswjr \u dar l^ was beheaded, in the pre- sence of tlitt a UyV j, spealn^ig in his master's fa- MKMOIUS OF (lEOlKiK IIRYS^^ON. m vours, was knocked down to the ground, tuiH was carried home almost dead, but recovered and re- mained deaf, without hearing to his dying day. He was great in favours with the king, and also with t'lK^ duke o^' York. This colonel had a gootl woinap to bis lady, that kept none in her family bi' t dissenters : * she being informed of me sent * Several instancea occur of shelter being found for the pemc- cuted in such situations as the above. Previous to the civil wars, while Dr. Scott, dean of York, was employed at cards or other games, to which he was much addicted, Mrs. Scott was attending ii conventicle in another room ; the dean's house being reckoned the safest place for holding such assemblies. (Brook's Lives of the Puritans, iii. p. 538.) Tradition has banded down a similar account of Chancellor Rothes's lady. She used to frequent conventicleii at Glenvail, and supported several of the persecuted ministers. The £arl, on her account, winked at them, and was in tb -" habit of saying, when he happened to see any of them about the house, " My lady, I would advise you to keep your chickens in about, else I may pick up some of them." Forty individuals having been taken into custody for a conventicle in Glenvail, were brought before the Earl of Rothes at Leslie, and he was asked what was to be done with them : " Put them (said he) in bailie Walker's back-room, the place they all like so well." The bailie was a religious man, and his back-room was often occupied as a place of social prayer. When the Earl was asked what farther commands he had about them, he answered, " Give them plenty of meat and (Irnk, and oct them about their business in the morning." The following anecdote of Crawford of Powmill is given on the same authority. A party of soldiers came one day to apprehend a neigh- bour of his, a tenant at Pittendriech. The man, who was build- ing a stack, threw down his fork and ran to Powmill, and meeting the laird, implored him for shelter crying, Where shall I run ? " O, never fear ! (replied Powmill) get into my bed ; they'll never seek a saint in hell." 'When the party came to Powmill, the laird had all his people called out to search for the fugitive, but he oouUl not be found. 296 MEMOIllS OF GEORGE Blli^SSON. for iiie. When I came to her, she told me, she had got an account of me that I was an honeat man, and it was such she wanted. And told me all the circumstances of the family ; and that I might have as much liberty upon the sabbath-day as I desired, because her husband, by reason of his infirmity, always kept at home on the sabbath- day ; but that he had no liking to dissenters, but I might be there long enough in his company, be- fore he understood what my principles were. So we agreed for six pounds per year, and a suit of clothes ; and all I had to do was to wait upon this old gentleman, who was past seventy years of age. I entered home, and pleased my master exceeding well ; for he took much delight in his garden, and I encouraged him as much that way as I could, it being a harmless divertisement. He was very temperate : only his garden, the cof- fee-house, and the king's court were the most part of his exercise ; and then I became a courtier, having him constantly to attend, because of his infirmity. I became very great in his favours, for in a short time I could answer him by signs, which were shorter than writing, which pleased him very well ; so that he mounted me all new, and bought me a fine walking sword. The man was rich, and had no children. I had both his kindness and my lady's. So I began to build a paradise to myself, which 1 was soon frustrated of, my master and I being warned to compear and MEMOIRS OF GEOllGE BRYSSON. 297 take the oaths. So soon as my lady heard there- of, she called for me, and said, " Woe is me ! for I fear this oath will discover you ; for if once your master knows your principles, he will keep you no longer." She told me the nature of the oath, and said, " If ye have freedom to take it there will be no hazard." I told her I had no freedom to take it, for if I had been clear for taking such oaths, I might have staid in ray own country. Then she said, " I fear your master will be your greatest enemy." And then she began to give me her advice what to do : and that was to convoy my master to the court, where there would be a great crowd of people, so that I might shift him among the throng, and when the court was over, to wait for him at the door of the house, and he would not know but I had taken it. My master, being zealous for taking the said oath, rose more early that morning than ordinary, and called me to go alongst with him. We came to the place, and were with the first ; the justice, and clerks, and constables being come, and but a few others. Whenever my master entered the house, and I saw so few, I withdrew and went away. The justice, seeing me come in with the colonel, said to the constables, « Call the colonel's man, who is going away, and bring him back to take the oath." I heard him give the orders, but I went fast away. However, the two constables ran after me, and overtook me, and brought me back. The justice 298 MEMOIRS OF GEOJIGE BRYSSON. said, « Sir, why do you go away before ye take the oath ?" I said, « I came to conduct my mas- ter, but not to take any oath." He said, « But ye shall take it before ye go." He said, « There was none that would refuse it." I told him I was but a stranger, and knew not the nature of their oaths. He said, « I shall cause read it to you." After it was read, he said, « What think ye of it?" I desired time to consider it, till the next court day. He said, « Ye shall have no longer time to consider it." If I would not take it presently I should immediately go to prison. And so he sent to call another justice, to concur with him, in sending me to prison. So I was brought within the bar. The colonel, sitting beside the justice having taken the oath, asked, what was the reason why his man was brought within the bar as a prisoner. They wrote to him, (knowing his infirmity) that I had refused to take the oath, and that I desired time to consider of it for I was a stranger. Then my master pled strongly for me, saying, « I was a stranger indeed ; a north countryman, that understood not an oath." But, said he, « Give him liberty till next court day, and my life for it he will take it, for he is a true church-of-England-man " However, he could not prevail, till an answer came from the other justice that he could not come at present. Whereupon, he demanded my name, and I told him. He said, " If the other MEMOIRS OF GEORGE BRYSSON. 299 justice had come, ye should surely have gone to prison, but seeing he has not come, go your way, in regard ye are the colonel's man ; but resolve with yourself, to take it against the next court day, or ye shall surely go to prison !" I gave a bow, and so came away.^ * It does not appear what oath or oaths Brysson was required to take ; but when Mr. Frazer of Brae was apprehended at London, in 1683, the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, and the Oxford oih, were all put to him. (Wodrow, ii. 289.) The English oath of allegiance was much less exceptionable than the Scot- tish, having been drawn up by James I. to meet, if possible, the views of the Roman Catholics, whom he was very desirous of attaching to his government. The Scottish oath consisted of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy blended together. Those who wish to be acquainted with the reasons on account of which Pres- byterians scrupled to take it, both in relation to the civil part, (as involving a renunciation of what the parliament had done in be- half of its privileges and the liberties of the nation between 1640 and 16S0,) and in relation to the ecclesiastical part of the oath, may see them stated at large by Brown, in his Apol(^etical Rela« tion, sections 10th, 11th, and 14th. Complicated and ensnaring as it was, the rulers pressed this oath with the utmost rigour. It was imposed on all who were in any public employment, civil, military, or religious. At every meeting of the circuit, the mem- bers of the court of justiciary, down to the macers, were made anew to swear it, or the test, and sometimes both. On such oc- casions great crowds of people, accused of absenting themselves from church, attending conventicles, harbouring rebels, &c. and whose names had been taken down by the local magistrates, or the ministers of parishes, were summoned : if they agreed to take the test, they were dismissed as persons who had transgressed the law in ignorance ; and if they refused it, though willing to swear the allegiance, they were fined, imprisoned, put in the juggs, or banished to the plantations. (Minutes of the Circuit Court in Dumfries-shire, &c. in the Register House.) — In the year 1 674 the privy council ordered a rendezvous of the militia 300 MEMOIRS OF OEORGE BRYSSON. My master, seeing me liberated, came to me, and said, « Woe is me, r3}eorge, ye was almost a prisoner to-day ; however, let us go to the coffee- house, and let me know your mind." So when we came to the coffee-house, he said, « I hear ye refuse to take the oaths. I have so much kind- ness for you, that if you had told me ye had not freedom to take them, I would not have brought you alongst with me this day." That which is most remarkable, we were not well come from the court, when the other justice came, and asked, what he was sent for. The other told him, that there was a man, whom regiment in the shire of Stirling, that the officers and soldiers raight take the oath of allegiance before receiving their arms. Ihis having produced a mutiny, the council ordered £60, " out of the fines," to be paid to the troop for their service, and a gratuity of £100 to the laird of Alva, the lieutenant-colonel, -in consider- ation of his wound received," in suppressing the mutiny. Cor- poral Rae and others were imprisoned; and four individuals, tenants and "sojors of the militia regiment," were banished "for refusing the oath of allegiance." (Record of Privy Council, for July 21, Sept. 2 and 29, and Dec. 17, 1674.)~So zealous were the clergy for the ecclesiastical part of the oath, that they em- braced every opportunity of recognising the king as head of the church, a title which never had been given to the sovereign in the Scottish oath of supremacy, nor in that of England since the ac- cession of Elizabeth. " Oct. 10, 1683. The Synod of Edinburgh sat down, and not having much else to do, enacted. Into That ministers should not sit in the pulpit, but stand all the time they are m it. 2do, That they shaU,^.r expressum, pray for thearch- bishops and bishops. 3tw, Shall, in praying for the king, men- tion his being ,yjn-eme head of the church, in all causes and over all persons," &c. (Fountainhdll's Decis. i. 423.) MEMOIRS OF GEORGE BRYSSON. 301 he judged to be a Scotsman, who had refused to take the oaths ; and ". I sent tor your concurrence to send him to prison." He asked, where I was. He told, I was gone. He asked, if he knew my name ; for " I fear he is one of the Scots rebels." He said, " The clerk has his name." When he knew it, he took out the Porteous roll, (which he had,) wherein he found my name, and said, " He is one of them." Whereupon,' an order was pre- sently issued out for apprehending me. The order was give^ to the constables to go next morning and apprehend me. There was a gen- tleman in the court, who had formerly been a servant to the colonel, and heard the orders given out against me, who came immediately to my master's house. We not being come home, he asked my lady, if the colonel had a servant that had refused the oaths. She said, ** I fear it may be so." Then he told her, there was a war- rant out to apprehend me. So when we came home, my lady took me apart, and asked how matters went, and I told her what had happened, and how my master took my part ; for he said to me in the coffee-house, (after I had written my mind to him,) that he was afraid they would come and apprehend me, which would be great trouble to him, to have me apprehended in his house. When my lady heard this, she was much troubled, and said, " Indeed there is a war- rant out to apprehend you !" This was in the 302 MEMOIRS OF GEORGE BRYSSON. evening. She said, « I am much afraid ye may be surprised, for the warrant is given out against to-morrow ; therefore, I desire ye would rise early in the morning, and make your escape." Which, accordingly, I did. My lady was up in the morn- ing betimes, and was pleased to bestow a compli- ment upon me, besides what I had received from her husband : so we parted with grief on both sides ; and so I was in my old condition again. All this time I bad longings to be at home in poor Scotland, where I thought there was most of the life and power of the gospel ordinances. Sometime after that, major Henderson * came to me, and told me he had a letter from a friend in Holland, that Monmouth was coming over to England, with a body of men and arms, and that Argyle was going for Scotland, and hoped the Lord would make use of them as instruments for delivering his poor oppressed people ; and that * The name of James Henderson appears in a list of persons chosen for general officers at Shawhead-muir, June 17, before the battle of Bothwell. (Wilson's Bothwell, in Collection of Lives, &c. p. 93.) James Henryson, son to Thomas Henryson, in Westertown of Inglistown, Edinburghshire, is in the fugitive- roll after that engagement. A person of the same name was a m^or in Argyle's expedition, (Wod. ii. 532,) and was tried for treason in absence, along with Sir Duncan Campbell of Auchen- breck, &c. and sentenced to be executed. (Ibid. p. 587.) M^or Henderson is included in the act rescinding forfeitures, and was killed at the battle of Killicrankie. (Act. Pari. Scot. ix. 166. App. 61.) MEMOIRS OF GEORGE BRYSSON. 303 he resolved to go for Holland, and join the Earl of Argyle. So I took the opportunity, with other five, to go alongst with him. We had great dif- ficulty in getting over ; all persons being chal- lenged at all sea-ports that went either out or in. The major being acquainted with a Dutch skipper, who trysted him, and those that were to go alongst with him, to be at Gravesend upon the day before king James was crowned, that so we might set sail on the coronation day, * on which we would be least taken notice of, most part of people go- ing to London to see the Coronation. He was resolved to put us aboard in the night time. And so, accordingly, we came down by water. The major went to the place appointed by the skipper, and ordered us to stay in the boat till he came again ; but behold, the ship was detained at Lon- don, upon the account of her cocket ! Then we knew not what to do. However, we resolved to brisk it out the best way we could ; and inquir- ed for the best tavern in the town, and caused carry our cloakbags there, resolving to stay till to-morrow, to see if the ship came down the river. So we called for a bottle of wine, and drank with the landlord, and told him, we were to stay all night, having some business to do. He said, we should be very welcome. * James was crowned on St. George's day, the 23d of April, 1685. 304 MEMOIRS OF GEORGE BRYSSON. We desired him to cause make ready dinner for us. He asked, what we would have. We de- sired him to make ready a good dinner, for we were hungry. And, in the mean time, we spared not the wine, on purpose to keep ourselves from being suspected. In the evening the major stept out, to see if the ship were come ; but no appearance of her. He heard of another ship to sail for Amsterdam on the morrow; so he went to the skipper, and de- sired to know, what time he would sail. He said, " To-morrow at ten o'clock." The major earnest- ly desired him to stay till four in the afternoon, and there were seven passengers that would go alongst with him. He said, he would not stay so long for any man ; but if we would make ourselves ready by one o'clock he should stay that long ; and if we were not ready peremptorily by that time he would leave us. This we did, that we might not be detained on board after we came to the ship, but that the ship might sail immediate- ly, lest we should be challenged. On the mor- row we caused our landlord make ready dinner sooner than ordinary, and then called for a reckon- ing ; and after dinner drank heartily with the landlord. He saw us so hearty, he would needs give us his bottle. By which time the skipper came, and said, " Gentlemen, if ye ben't ready, I will stay no longer for you." So we caused carry our cloakbags on board, and desired MEMOIRS OF GEORGE BRYS80N. 305 the skipper to loose anchor, and cause the boat Wait for us, for we would come immediately; which accordingly- he did. We stayed till we were sent for again. The boy told us the ship was now under sail, and if we came not present- ly we would be disappointed. Whereupon we ventured out, and went into the boat, and no man ever questioned us, and were safely put on board, and sailed to Amsterdam with a very fair wind, and were kindly received. [On receiving intelligence of the death of Charles II., several Scottish gentlemen who had been ba- nished, or forced to withdraw to Holland, by the severities of the time, met in Rotterdam to con- sult concerning the state of their native country, and their own duty in that critical juncture of aifairs. After a free communication of sentiments, they were unanimously of opinion that, consider- ing the natural temper and past conduct of the Duke of York, and the principles of the religion to which he was devoted, his succession to the im- perial crown of the three kingdoms threatened their religion and liberties with the most immi- nent danger ; and that the behaviour of the par- liaments for a course of years, with the means used to pack and manage them, and the ease with which he could raise a numerous army among the barbarous and bigoted natives of Irdand, would render it easy for him to " carry on his terrible work of settling and rivetting popery and slavery S06 MEMOIRS or GEOUGE BUYSSON. in, and eradicating Christianity and liberty, (the chief blessings of a society) out of these nations ; at least, would make the means of preventing these great and imminent dangers more narrow and scarce, and the practice more difficult and danger- ous." Being also agreed and satisfied is to the obligation that lay upon them, as Christians and as natives of Scotland, " to endeavour the rescue, defence, and relief of their religion, rights, and liberties, and the many distressed sufferers on their behalf, against the Duke of York and others, and of the probability and convenience of the pre- sent opportunity," they did " resolve and deter- mine to try how far they could reasonably under- take and pursue their clear duty in the matter." As « the wicked designs against the true reli^un/' and for establishing " tyrannical monarchy," were not confined to Scotland, they deemed it proper, both in point of justice and prudence, to solicit the concurrence of the cordial friends of the com- mon cause in the three kingdoms ; " especially con- sidering that by want thereof, those two worthy appearances of our countrymen, the honourable assertors of our religion and liberties, at Pentland hills and Bothwell bridge, were so soon deserted and frustrated." As the first step to the accomplishment of this objert, they resolved to sound the duke of Mon- mouth and the earl of Argyle, who were then in the Low Countries. The duke having come to MEMOIRS OF GEORGE BRVSSON. SOT Rotterdam to consult with them, entered fully into their views. The earl not only approved of their design, but urged them to accompany him with- out delay in an expedition to Scotland which he had already planned. Before pledging themselves, they requested to be made acquainted with his preparations, plans, and grounds of hoping for co-operation at home. He told them that, by the liberality of certain individuals favourable to the cause, with whom he had become acquainted in England, * he had been enabled to lay out ten thousand pounds in the purchase of arms and am- munition, a ship and provisions ; that he had ex- tensive correspondence with Scotland, could raise five thousand men among his own vassals, and had assurances of support from other quarters of the kingdom ; and that, being intimately acquaint- ed with the different parts of the country, he knew where to land, march, and encamp to the best ad- vantage ; but that it behoved them to place confi- dence in him, as he could not impart particulars to them without breach of confidence, and hazard to the whole undertaking. The gentlemen were satisfied with the manner in which he had expend- ed the money intrusted to him, but thought they were entitled to more explicit information on the other points on which they had conversed. See before p. 1S8, 147, and Wodrow, ii. 541. 808 MEMOIRB OF OEORQE BRYSSON. Argyle having testified an aversion to co-oper- ate with Monmouth, and some of their own num- ber being jealous that the duke aimed at gratify- ing his own personal ambition, the gentlemen procured another interview with his grace. On that occasion, Sir Patrick Hume (created earl of Marchmont at the Revolution) asked him, if he considered himself as the lawful son of the late king, and if he intended to lay claim to the crown. To the first question the duke replied in the affir- mative ; and in answer to the last, he said that he had no intention of claiming the crown, " unless it were advised to be done by those who should concern themselves and join for delivery of the na- tions ;" and that, if he should be advised to assume the title of king, he would, in the event of success, " give it up in the hands of the people or their representatives, accept of what station in the com- monwealth they should bestow on him, and think himself fully rewarded by being instrumental of so much good to the nations." Sir Patrick having told him, that they found many of their best friends in England " jealous of his aspiring to the royal dignity, (yf which ^ hy reasrni of the great abuses qfity and the miserable consequences so habitual as now become its second nature, they were extreme- ly disgusted;* and so somewhat averse from * Mr. Rose has made no remark on these words of the ancestor of his noble friend. It would be wrong to infer from them, that those MKMOIRS 01 GEORGE BRYSSON. 309 Yneddling with him," Monmouth repeated what he had formerly stated, with such deep and solemn asseverations as removed the suspicions of the most jealous. Greater difficulty was felt in coming to an ar- rangement with Argyle. He thought himself en- titled to manage every thing relating to the ex- pedition as he judged best, because he had pro- cured the funds necessary for fitting it out. The gentlemen pleaded, that these funds were put into his hands for advancing the common cause, and that, by taking part in this, they had a right to be consulted as to the disposal of them. In con- versing on the expedition, he talked of himself as general. They had never thought of any other for that post, but considered that he should owe who planned this expedition were of repuhlican principles; but it is difficult to give such an interpretation of them as does not im- ply, that they wished to avoid pledging themselves in support of monarchy, out of deference to such of their friends as had con- ceived a disgust at it. As they speak elsewhere of their opposing « tyrannical monarchy/' it is not improbable that they contemplat- ed the retaining of monarchy, in the way of imposing on the per- son invested with it greater restraints than any monarch had hitherto been laid under in Britain. In then: Declaration, after- wards published, they state their object to be " the removing of all oppression, and establishing such righteous laws and mtthoda of government, as may be most for securing of liberty and property, with the greatest ease and equality." And this was to be " settled and perfected by a free, full, just, and sovereign representative of all the present undertakers, and such as shall hereafter sincerely concur and take part with us ; and that in such forms and ways as God, by his good provider.<'e, can only most happily direct and conduct us unto." 310 MEMOIKS OF GEORGE BRYS80N. it to their previous choice. He was willing to consult a council of the officers as to military ope- rations ; but they pleaded that, besides this, a su- perior authority was required to manage corre- spondence, to declare the war, to appoint officers, and generally to act as a council of state ; a pro- position to which the earl testified great antipa- thy. With the view of accommodating a material point of difference between them, it was agreed that Argyle should make those communications to one of the gentlemen, (" his own great friend, long acquaintance, and confidant,") which he thought it dangerous to make to the whole ; but when that individual gave in a favourable report to his brethren it was unsatisfactory to them, be- cause it turned out that he did not himself intend to go along with the expedition,* and that he had formed his opinion, not on evidence laid before him, but on the general assurances which he received from the earl, that he had the strongest ground to expect support on his landing, and that his plans were the best calculated for insuring suc- cess. Matters were on the eve of a rupture be- tween the two parties, when the earl was pre- vailed on by some of his friends to jdeld to the demands of the gentlemen. But this was not * Was this Lord Stair? He was an intimate friend of Argyle, (Sup. Diet. Decis. ii. 515, 640, comp. Douglas, Peer. ii. 521,) and was a contributor to the expedition, but did not accompany it. (See before, p. H7.) MEMOmS OF GEORGE BRYSSON. 511 done until Sir Patrick Hume, in answer to a question proposed by one of Argyle's friends, had declared that he thought it their duty « to break any design ill-laid or not founded on solid grounds; and that it was in their power to frustrate and stop it, and serve their nation in preventing its harm that way ;" or, in other words, that they would write home to their friends, and dissuade 4hem from taking part with Argyle, or giving counte- nance to a rash attempt, which was calculated to do more harm than good to the nation. This did not promise well for mutual confidence and cordial co-operation in the undertaking, the failure of which may be ascribed in no small degree to the jealousies and dissensions which broke out in Hol- land. ?««/. In consequence of this private agreement, a meeting was held at Amsterdam, (to which they had removed,) on the 17th of April, 1685. The persons present were the Earl of Argyle, Mr. Charles Campbell, his son. Sir John Cochrane of Ochiltree, Sir Patrick Hume of Polwart, George Pringle of Torwoodlee, William Denholm of West- shiels, George Hume of Bassindeen, John Coch- rane of Waterside, Mr. George Wisheart, William Cleland, James Stuart, advocate, and Mr. Gilbert Elliot. Sir John Cochrane was chosen president for that time.* *' Then, (says Sir Patrick Hume) • " They elected and nominated Mr. William Spence their derk," say the Minutes, as aiveii hy Wndrow. ii, 580, S12 MEMOIRS OF GEORGE BRVSSON. after several discourses by the Erie and others, we resolved on the following points, and made acts upon them : 1st, To declare and undertake a war against the Duke of York and his assisters, for restoring and settling of the true religion, and the native rights and liberties of the three king- doms.* 2d, That wee took upon us, and other gentlemen of our country in these pairts who should joine and goe along with us, the power and character of a counsell for managing the said undertaking, and all that related thereunto ; so as when wee came into Scotland, others, such as wee, joining to our assistance, should also have access to, and be joined in, the said counsell for the said management. 3d, We nominated and choosed the erle of Argyle to be general of our army, with as full power as was usually given to gene- rails by the free states of Europe. 4th, Wee appointed a person to draw up the declaration of war,f to be given in to our next meeting." The * The Minutes of the meeting do not mention " the three king- doms," but describe the undertaking as " in the defence and for the recovery of the religion, rights, and liberties of the kingdom of S^Kttland.'" (Wodrow, ut supra.) t The Declaration agreed on and published is inserted in Wod- row, ii. Appenu. No. cxii. As he has not given its title, it may be proper to add it here, from a collection of Pamphlets in the Advo- cates Library. (No. ccc. 2, 33, art. 15.) " The Declaration and Apology of the Protestant people, that is, of the Noblemen, Bar- rons. Gentlemen, Burgesses, and Commons of all sorts now in armes within the Kingdome of Scotland, with the concurrence of their true and faithfull Pastors, and of several Gentlemen of the MEMOIRS OF GEORGE BRYSSON. 313 council gave a commission to some of their num- ber to call together the Scottish ministers at Rot- terdam, and ask their advice and concurrence. Accordingly, having met to the number of thir- teen, " they, after advising together, declared their good liking and approbation of our undertaking as a great duty, and offered to join us as we judged necessary. We pitched on some of their number to go alon^, who condescended and after did accompany us." * No time was now lost in setting forward the expedition. Matters were arranged with Mon- mouth, who communicated to the Scottish confe- derates the encouraging intelligence which he had i*eceived from England, and promised to sail on the sixth day after their departure. On the 28th of April the earl of Argyle and all his company went on board the fleet, consisting of the Anna, Sophia, and David, which were off the Vlie on the English Nation joined with them in the same cause, for defence and relief of their lives. Rights, and Liberties, and recovery and re-establishment of the true Protestant Religion, in behalf of them- selves and all that shall join with and adhere to them. *' Printed at Campbell-Town, in Kintyre, in the Shire of Argyle. Anno 1685." ' ♦ " It is resolved that Mr. William Veitch, Mr. George Barclay, and William Clellan, be dispatched to Scotland, and instructed for that effect." (Minutes, ut supra.) The first two of these were ministers. It does not appear whether any of the ministers, besides Mr. Thomas Archer, accompanied the expedition. 314 MEMOIRS OF G£OUG£ BRYSSON. Ist of May, and sailed next morning for Scot- land with a fair wind.] * Within three days after, we set sail for Scot- laud. We were not above 300 men in all, but had three ships, loaded with good arras, ammuni^'^ tion, and all other necessaries for war. We had a very quick passage ; but, alas ! we came to the wrong place of the kingdom. We came to the isles of Orkney, where we put two men ashore to give [get?] intelligence, who were presently ap- prehended.f After this we went about to Argyle's land, where we put through the fire-cross, so that a number of Highlanders resorted to us. After this we got information that there was an English man-of-war pursuing us. Whereupon we went down a little creek to an old castle, belonging to one AUengreg, :j: where we lodged all our arms * What is enclosed in brackets from p. 305 has been in- serted to supply a defect in Brysson's account of the expedition. It is abridged chiefly from Sir Patrick Hume's Narrative, pub- lished at the end of Mr. Rose's remarks on Mr. Fox's History, t These were William Spence and Dr. William Bkckader, son to the Rev. John Blackader. On the 14th of May the council received information from the bishop of Orkney, that Argyle had touched there with three ships. (Fount. Decis. i. 302.) X " January 18, Ciese.]] Duncan Campbel of AUangreg, younger, confesseth his accession to the late Earl of Argyle's re- bellion, casts himself on the king's mercy. He, with his father, Colin Campbell of AUangreg, are sentenced to be executed July 9, at the cross of Edinburgh ; but remissions were got by that time." (Wodrow, ii. S87.) Though under process themselves, they were employed as witnesses against others, according to a practic of that time. (Fountainhall's Decis. i. 389, 390.) So early as MEMOIRS} OF GEORGE BRYSSON. 315 aud other provisious, and built a fort ou the west side of the castle, and planted some cannon there- on, in case the man-of-war should come down the river, which we thought she could hardly do by reason of tlie shallowness of the water. In the mean time the duke of Athol * had raised a con- siderable body of men, who came and assaulted us, so that we were drawn away from the castle, and left only 150 men to defend the same, in case it should be attacked. By this time we had a considerable number of Highlanders and men from the Isle of Cantyre, so that we went in pursuit of Athol's men, who constantly fled from us. We were pursuing them several days, and were still looking for more supplies from the low country, but none came to us. In the mean time, when we were thus taken up, the man-of-war, beyond our expectation, came down the river, which, whenever our men that we had left saw, they were necessitated to leave the castle and come a-shore in boats, and set a train to blow up the magazine, for they saw all was lost. But the train did misgive, so that the enemy got all. When we heard this, Argyle and all that were September 18, 1685, the council wrote to court, " that by a mis- take AUangreg had been recommended for a remission as to life and fortune, whereas they never recommended any for a remission hut as to life." (Wodrow, ii. 556.) This was also the uniform practice of the Spanish Inquisition. The principle is older : Plures computant quam oderunt, says Seneca. * Athol was only a marquis at this time. 316 MEMOIRS OF OEOB.6E BRYSSON. with him were extremely discouraged, and so we left pursuing Athol's men. After that we march- ed to the Lowlands, thinking to increase our number.* [Argyle marched with his army to Glende- rule, where he remained three days, in the ex- pectation of obtaining recruits. From that he proceeded to Loch Streen Head, where he was obliged to send out a party to seize the cattle for the support of his troops. The earl now be- came discouraged. His vassals had not flocked, as he expected, to his standard, and more desert- ed than joined him at every station on his way to the low country. The number of Highlanders who remained did not exceed five hundred, and the whole army scarcely amounted to nine hun- dred. But as these appeared to be hearty in the cause, his leading associates encouraged him to advance and quit the Highlands without farther delay. Accordingly, they "crossed Loch Long troublesomely in boats, and lay on the rocky side of it all night." Thence they marched to Loch Gaire. At that place they received intelligence that Huntly was advancing with a considerable body of men to join Athole, and that Dumbarton, with the standing forces and militia, was in the neighbourhood of Glasgow. The earl proposed * A fuller account of what took place in the Highlands is given hy Sir Patrick Hume, (Narrative, 42—55,) and by Wodrow. (History, ii. 531—535.) But the facts are not interesting. MEMOIRS OF GEORGE BRYSSON. 317 immediately to cross the water of Leven, and give battle to the king's troops wherever they might meet them on their way to Glasgow. This was opposed by Sir Patrick Hume, who urged that, having lost their arms and ammunition in the fort, by which their men were exceedingly dis- couraged, they could not fight the royal forces in a body with any hopes of success. He proposed that the earl should march back with his High- landers by the head of Loch Long to Argyleshire, where, having fortified the pass at the head of the Loch, he could easily maintain himself, and levy soldiers among his vassals ; and that the rest of the troops, consisting of the volunteers who had come from Holland, and the Lowlanders who had joined them since their arrival, should be di- vided, that the one half should be sent down Loch Long, and the other half down Loch Gaire, to land at places where there were no forces at pre- sent, and that they should then retire to strong grounds, in which they could maintain themselves until their friends in different parts of the country should join them. To this proposal the earl positively refused to accede. " Any that would not go with him (he said) might do as they pleas- ed ; his intention was not to fight the enemy if he could shift them, but to march straight to Glas- gow, and there do the next best." Those who had the most slender hopes of success were still unwilling to leave the earl; "and I (says Sir 918 M£MOIH8 OF GEORGE BRYSUON. Patrick) again persuaded the most unwilling, that wee did not separate." On Tuesday, the l6th of June, they marched from Loch Gaire and crossed the water of Leven at night, three miles above Dumbarton, after they had spent five weeks in the Highlands. Next morning early they marched, " weary and hungry enough." About seven o'clock they discovered a large party of horse, which they considered to be the advance of the army, but which turned out to be a company of militia sent to observe them. After the men had stood to their arms for about an hour, the earl ordered them to proceed on their march, not by the hill-way to Glasgow, but by the village of Kilmaronock, to which they were conducted by Sir John Cochrane,* with the view of procuring them refreshment.]! But on our weary march as night came on us, and we began to set our watches, and to take some rest, behold, a party of the king's forces appeared in our view ! Whereupon the drums were beat, and all were called to arms immediately; and so we were deprived of any rest, which would have been very refreshing to us. We began to conclude that these troops we had seen were only some of the militia gentlemen, and that it could not be • William Cochrane of Kilmaronock was Sir John's nephew. (Douglas, Peerage, i. 472.) t These two paragraphs are abridged from Sir Patrick Hume's Narrative. MEMOIRS OF UEOHGE BRYSSON. S19 the king*s forces ; so we marched all that night toivards Glasgow. Being hungry and faint, we appointed some men out of every company to go to several parts of the country about to bring us provision^ and we were to rest in the moor till they returned ; but before ever they went away, the enemy began to appear in our sight ; so that we were frustrated of that design, and were for- ced to keep our weems,* till we got meat for them. And then we drew up upon a moor-side ; there boing a water betwixt us and the enemy. We were firmly resolved to fight them, come of it what would, if they attacked us, though we were far inferior to them. However, we lay there all that day ; but they never approached towards us. So when it began to grow dark, there was a council of war holden, and it was resolved that we should march away in the night time ; and to make the enemy believe that we were still keep- ing our ground, every company were commanded to put on great bales of fire, there being abund- ance of peats, and icurfs, and heather in the place ; and when we had done this, we took our march. I do not mind what regiment took the leading, but, however, they led us all wrong, for they brought us into a moss, which broke us all from one another ; and although we were a v?ry good army at night, we were so dispersed that there * stomachs. 320 MEM0IH8 OF GEORGE BRY8SON. was not above 500 of us together on the morrow. All people being wonderfully discouraged, took the opportunity to leave us in the night; but those that came together on the morrow came to Kirkpatrick. For, indeed, we lost many brave men by reason of the darkness of the night, who would have been loath to have left us ; especially one Rumbold,* an Englishman, who came from Holland with us. [« Next morning, (says Sir Patrick Hume,) being Thursday, June 18, wee came back to Kil- • While colonel Richard Rumbold was bravely defending him- self against a large party, a countryman came behind him with a pitch- tbrk and turned his steel cap off his head ; upon which he said, " O cruel countryman I to use me thus, when my face is to mine enemy." (Scots Worthies, App. p. 48.) As there was ha- zard of his dying of his wounds, his trial was hastened, and he was executed at Edinburgh on the afternoon of the day on which he was condemned, June 26, 1685. " He was cerUinly a man of much natural courage," says Lord Fountainhall j " his rooted, ingrained opinion was for a republic against monarchy, to pull which down he thought a duty and no sin. And on the scaffold he began to pray for that party which he had been owning, and to keep the three metropolitan cities of the three kingdoms right; and that if every hair of his head was a man, he would venture them all in that cause. But the drums were then commanded to beat ; otherwise he carried discreetly enough, and heard the minis- ters, but took none of them to the scaffold with him." (Decisions, 366.) That he died piously appears from Wodrow's ac- 1. count, which contains no avowal of republican principles. He solemnly denied that there was any design to kill the king in the Rye-house plot ; and the credibility of his testimony has been sup- ported by Mr. Fox with his usual clearness and force of argument. (History, pp. 220—223.) MEMOIRS OF OEORGE nRYSSON.' tm Patrick, not above 500 men in all, sadly wearied ; soone as I got downe the hill very faint audi weary, I tooke the first ale house and quickly ate a bit of *'read, and took a drink, and immediateljFi went to search out the erle ; but I met Sir John,, with others accompanieing hira ; who, taking mee by the hand, turned mee, saying, « My heart, goft you with mee." "Whither goe you?" said li " Over Glide by boate," said he. I, "Where ia^ Argyle? I must see hun." He, "He Is gone away to his owne coimtrey : you cannot seehim.IV I, " How comes this change of resolution, and that wee went not together to Glasgow"?" He, " It is no time to answer questions ; but I shalL satisfy you afterward."] ♦ s. * ; ^ i a ,. ; u b ji r a We resblved then to cross Clyde. But feehold< there was a troop of horse lying on the other side, of the water, which made our passage most difficult. However, Sir John Cochrane said, « Gentlemen, it is not time for us to delay, for whenever the' enemy does miss us in the momiiig, they will, pursue; therefore, let us force our passage over the water." There were two boats; Sir John entered the one with about ten or twelve men, Polwart got into the other with as many men.; The troop sent down four or five of their men on foot to the side of an old boat that lay at the side. • Sir Patrick Hume's Narrative, p. 6Ji. Y 4 ti'^I 11 SSS- MEMOIR! OF OEOBUB BaVSSON. of'tlie river. Otir men would have fired at them, but Sir John would not suffer them, because they had tb^jol^ boat to be a defence to them ; but de- sired them Aoi^iBoirbear till they were neai«r the side <»f the water. And tlien said, « I think our Hhot will! now reach the body of their troop, so fiw til:, them ;" which was accordingly done. And I one of their horses being shot dead, and some woiinded, the five men that lay at the side of the old^boat, firing at us, made haste to get to their liowesj and so tho whole troop fled ; and we got^hore its fast as we could, and pursued them. They rod© more than a mile before they stinted, andiso drew up upon, the top of a hill. So we sent the boats to and agaip, till we had brought over abo*rt 150 men. TheEarlof Argyle,andthe rtstf reiiised to come over. ^l[/« Aa honest gentleman (says Sir Patrick Hume) who was present, told mee the manner of hJ8.(Sir John Cochrane's) parting with the erle. Arijyte bfeingin the room with Sir John, tha gentleRiaii, coming in. found confusion in the. erle's coiintenance and speech ; in end he saiil, "Sir John,. I pray advise me, what shall I doe? shalll goe over CKde with you, or shall I goe to my owne countrey ?" Sir John answeredy i* My lord, I have told you my opinion : you ha^ej^ome Highlanders here about you ; it is best you goe to your owne countrey with tjhem, for it is to no MEMOIRS OF GEORGE BRYSSON. 39S purpose for you to goe over Cllde. My lord, faire you well."] * * Sir Patrick Hume's Narrative, p. 64. Wodrow drew up hii narrative of the expedition flrom statements made by Argyle him- sdf, and from an account printed at the time, by one who vindi- cates the earl's conduct, and ascribes his failure to his having been thwarted in all his measures by some of those who accompanied him, particularly by Sir John Cochrane and the " famous orator/' by whom he probably meant Sir Patriclc Hume. Wodrow has been fdlowed by Mr. Laing and Mr. Fox, neither of whom oter saw Sir Patrick's Narrative, w^ch the public owes to the reflections on his conduct contained in Mr. Fox's History. Where dissensions hate taken place, it is scarcely possible to form a perfectly correct opinion from the statements of only one of the parties. Mr. Fox had too much penetration not to perceive, and too much impartiality not to confess, the impetuosity and opinionau'veness of Argyle, although he considered these fatilts as redeemed by gr]- lantry of spirit, candour of mind, and kindnpw of heart. On. the other hand, he acquits Sir Patrick Hu ^ud bxt Jphn Co.;hrana of treachery, and allows that the ont , as well as the other, show- ed himself " tmiformly sincere and zealous in the cause" "of his country;" but then he has too basUly adopted tbe stater -nt of Argyle, who (evidently referring to these two gentlemen) says, they were " the greatest can of our rout, and of my being taken ; though not designedly, I ackaowledge, yet by ignorance, coward- ice, and faction." (History, p. 197, 199, 2lS.) As applied to «r John Cochrane, and vento Sir Patrick Hume, the dmtge of f'cowaidice" mttW certainly be abandoned; nor do I think that thofee who impartially read the statements on both sidn, will be prepared t© aubscribe to the charges of "ignorance a^ &ctlort.^' Sii^ Patrick Hume is d scribed by One of fcs c6ntemp,^iii)rlade^ and stand to i^ and tbMmgh Qu±lsi gnuie liwiU briiigyoiLoff.V Thtnightiiereiirasai^eappeaiftnoe theraof^ yet we ilook :i:4mrage« ilai«\<^iBg Uie worisl c^ritrv And aftler we /iMdrteteltirad 1 their: fi^^^ diichatged upfi«:^emtagfim meiy ^vigorouslyjia^ then betoelpjti8>ilo §mr Mberts» (for^teryii9^i(»f UftibadiS hatt)e«|, ImiidlNs special firel0eks)aothat lKeaQadertheiii,]!^4oe. 1 WkiMtwm nQ.kima. done on.eilJberfSi^y; t^^^fiistifiije ; wOyMr. TihoHam Ardler, i a ;|N»i«ig>^|pentitoia]i o&sQur.side, xec^Fed a idangjBvouitjWomid tin Ahi ilmt^ihy whichxhe was diaablcdgfA^. left lyjbog/cnilthsgiiQitnd^ ; ? v/iOThenduy loiid Ross * ient one to tareat Hdtfa us, who toldius, Ws iwece-pretty Men : why would we th»iw.Awayj<^ttrx]ATea>!' wmild weji&t tafae^iquar« ^m^fr ^m-n -U: . fr'^f .ot/:- . ,1:') v.f?(Qeoige, Lord ,9«w, who, ^l^^Clf^v^ tepv^ Bot>^ fluniltop and his friends at Glasgow in 1679, died pn the 4th of Miff 166«, and was attended by Preith^terfan ministen on his dWth-bfld. (Laiw^a Mem. ^. 9sic) 1^ ptfrion i«fetted toihi ^ fe«t if^ h|# flon Will^m, ^^o, ^^ Sffif^,<)f Rosi^^p^muut^ the paitjT by wh|eh Brysspn. anjl his frirnds were defeated at BeWly. tSee before, p. S8S, aid WodroW, iTk.) His moibe^ i^as lady QOtA Coehran*, iMf daugUter of < WSIliiM, Earl vtJhm- ^pn^» (D««hui, Pew. ii- 489^ md acMcdii^ he wasofeliey* to Sir John Cochrane. Helen, daughter of William Lord Codi- rane. Sir John's elder brother, was married to Chiyerhouse. (Crawford's Historjr of Renfrew, by ^|^)bfrt8on, 85.) MBMOBU OSXUIDBOB aKKMON. ma Mte ?to(iTa; {wfaidL 1 Sfe r Joliiiv0a|«t'i"^Wie difldaihi y«|m^inarteMi!fiiBrrJii«, anct adtoK rtfae i aiga Jto fire hiriskfy, and theB>tatfliketliehxfaalbert&iii tiieir hands, in Ksbse tjieeiivmy idioidd litt^npt to xoiiie over the- >l|ttle «tone>4lyke; ^dttdi - and we xecd^ifa^ tbor fire^ bilt fired inbneiagBuntiU they )daiiier(reojhnetffi ahdl then :Sir > John' gave i the i ^sigiB to^ tfaoaeiioii;ted "to come *evebntii^ djtke^i a^ bvtok ;in amongst Us, but tike -lade ohlhe fri^t tMandnde^ fended bravely/ ThenSir John tgave tke 8%n to ..#*" MS MBMOIftfi 01»).6E0E0B B&YSSON. tliofec ion i% left; ^wh«liofi^ed furioiwly ) upon ibe «iteinj^, 80^iiaK«ttv«i!ail of tlieirsaddlfls y^esre enpti- edi wMiamkoiigBt theretecaptaim eidimd^w^ «iotf dead? at! tthe vwfy dyke^ide, so that they were forced towherfagafc. <]>BeofcrarJttds8teptover ^e dyto and puUed €lelaiid's8carlet txiat offWm, and put it apM tte^^tdpitfi&halbert, and waved it faBgaiast the caiemy; They staid ax^nsiderabfe tiiBe before they made ano^r assault ; and we pot ourselves hi a posture of defence, and loaded oiur pieces, aAd made ourselves ready^ to recdve them. ; Wew^^e ordered: to behave ourselves as *9i the form^onaeL Sir John said, •♦They have now lost some Uood; therefore they idU make a vigorous assault ; and, therefore^ kds, take cou- rage, and stand itotit^ for our cause is good/' So iat len^ they approached again, and we received them as forn»r)y ; and beat thran from the dyke with the; loss of moire of their men. And if my loud Boss >had not had on harness, he would hafre gbx^e^the same way Cleland wcait ; for the ball broke upon his harness, and hurt him on the neck. >They were so affrighted that they durst not give us the fourth onset. The dyie did uslgood service and defended us mudi from their ^; for wo tvere below them. We had none killed in all thib, action, except one man, who was shot thffOi^h the ihead, and two more wounded ; besides Mr. Archer; who was wounded at the first fire, before we came into the fold. After this, MeMOIltS OF 6EOB&E BRYSEON. ^B Ibe^ went to an old stone-dyke, and the din^^d<^ 'lighted from their horses, and stood behind the dyke, wheiK they continued plnffing and shoot^ ing without any harm to us, except that Sir loho had two shot which lighted upon his buff- coat, which smarted very much, but did mt pierce his coat After they were weary wilb shooting they gave, over * Then Sir John said, :'*It becomes us to bless God for our wonderful preservationw" He desired we would be all in a watchful poiBture; and, in the mean time, to go about the worship of God, And so he took a book and sang the fortynsixth Psalm throughout, and aftor that prayed pertinently. By this time our enemies had guarded us round as a ring, but without reach of our shot. It was ah exceeding cold day as ever I saw at that time of the year. 2 had thrown off my big coat when we first en- gaged; and being cold, I went to seek it, where I £outd Mr. Archer groaning in his wotiiids. VHien J knew it was he, I was- exceedingly trou- bibed; he being an eminent Christian, and my in- timate. He was almost dead, what for want of blood and. for cold. He desired me to lift him to theibeild-f of a dyke, and cast something over him. * This sldrmish wan fought at Muhdyke, (Wodrow, ii. 536,) whiqh, in Blaev's map in Crawfoird's History •fRenfirewv p. ISO, is marked on the east of LocbTvinnoch, to the southward of Castle Cochran. t shelter. II Ii9 .Mmi(fim OV^iOBOROE BftYSSOM. wUebi did; tandgota^chiBkbeg and piit?uiiddi hk li«id^«iidtoidia dqiikkihiiufeJdin. I t6Uil|iin I.fioulddft Mftiimffe ferrl]iiiEkAt/prf8ait^*an44hat WiB mwe 9U xftt still lA^hiimrd ofourlHtBs ; for Wfl (jwrMtsunrouBded hjrllie eiitmy. ! Wh«n I ««liini«d, X to^d Sin John that Mr. Avcher Was ^»g ^*i» wouBds^ who ordered sevw^ ta g9 «toig«fc «iwl. carry him to « herd^B hoiiae iWhidi mm JMrd rhy^> and give the people of tiieihoiise mfaejT^deBiniigithem totake eare df him. lO^sy f«ceiyediiiim very kindly; from wh«* |>liM»e 4ie vaaxanied^afteFwardB byth© enemy toEdiabiii^, wlwr^ihewail executed in theGrassmaiOcet; wfaow Vaeefaiandtastimonyareiin record amongit Ihercst «fith^ frdrthiesiwho suffered ibr^ owningthe truth.^ < lAltor this, when it hegan to grow datfc, (Sir John said, "What (ihink ye of these cowardty BqgiWBr! Theyjdare not .fight tus, fiirras.striall a BWdber as we are, kiat hav« a mind to guard ^us in itill ^to^onow, Ahatithe-uo^ of the King's fe»CfiB^:6me«ndcut,iisioff; therefore, rictus «lffll behave QUBiehMB like mi«;" (for.indeed char^ qm psees mell, and let us go off the ^eid hia '» Ur.Wmma ^Arebw, flmiierly meiitioiied, (p.90&) was « jmag mnOiter of toulderable kainifeg, aad much esteemed. An account of his execution and his dying declaration raaylte «im in Wodrow, ii. 552—556. . ' i .. = MXMOI1I8 OF OEOEOE BEYMOK. S8I close body togetliei^, ^^tfa as liHfejnoise as ira era* if weesospe^hflin in the daek^ it ie wtUU if* netytlet ^ifight! our .way* througb. tlMm/*' f^< «f --k * v^'We^buried^our dead m^ and sb! made reidy tatikmta^ ondiso w^nt off 4he fieidlinva 'dose bedy^jbut^^wnr none of onr eneniies, for tbe^vWem more afraid of us : than we were )of "them; fov whenever it was dark, they had left their ground and fled into Kilmarnock, as if -there bod lie«ti an boet'ipufsuingthem^ asithe country folk told us aftopwar^lt .So when weuh&d niarcfa^ i.^wvy hard for about ^ miletiSir John said, -** Iamong8tua that kuciw it except himself> it being ^bis father's g^wwld lOiat we were thai on; so he took the guidibg H'^ himself. And so we marched exceeding Suird ail lhatnight,t&at so we might be a good wayoffiirom (the enemy ; but when day began to appear, that * ** We bad no men killed in the adion but £otx( : ^em more wounded ; but it wss^mied with tbafereadincia efiootftoge^ : that were I to cfaooae 75 men upon my life'shiaard, ll immld not-jre- ject one of that 75 (and noimoie ^r was) that: csnue bff that night." (Sir Patrick Hume's Narrative, p. 67.) *<8 ,^t# *?i"»>tit* 188 MKMOmS OF 0£0R0£ BBY8SON. I I we saw about us, behold we had gone the rounds and were come back within two miles of the place where we engaged the enemy! Sir John said, *^ Woe in me ! I have led you into a snare. I know not now what to do for it ; for if we keep the field the whole body of the forces will be upon us : so come of us what will, we must Jndg^ in some house.'! 'i«,iiii,iii/. ■ . ■ v0 n Hiei^ was a stead hard by, where tWo of his father's tenants lived. He caused us all sit down upon the ground, till he sent mi^or Hen- derson to acquaint the people that Sir John was there, and a company of men with him, and desir- ed they might give us quarters ; and to tell them, that, if they were quarrelled for it, we were a stronger party than they, and would take it by force ; but they most willingly received us. . And tluKre was a wonderful providence in our being so near the placeof engagement, for when they rang^ ed all the country about, they came never, near that place.* The m^jor had travelled all that night with a bullet shot in his left shoulder, and sticking like a plum within the skin, none knowing of it but himself, which was cut out when we came to the house. We knew not • " In the puiah of Lochwinoch, in the shire of the Baronthrow [[Renfrew]] ther was a partie that was potewing of Sir John Cochereu, and they cam upon two lads laying sleeping in a dike Bid, and shot them and not awaked them." (Wodrow MSS. vol. xxxvil. 4to. art. 140.) MEMOIRS OF 6EOBOE BBY8SON. 3Sd iHiether meat or sleep was most desirable, for that was the fourth night we had been without sletp, and with very* little meat. There wm one c£ our (iompany dropt asleep on the ground where we had been sitting. When we came to the house we did not miss him, his halbert and his gun be- ing with him. After we were all lodged in the house he slept on, till some people, passing by, could not awaken him, but carried him sleeping to the first house they came to, and set down his halbert and gun in the house beside him, there being some lambs in the house for speaning.* He slept there till it was well afternoon, and then he awakened, but knew not how he came there. He< thought we Were either all taken prisoners, or . then killed. So he lay down to take the other nap, till there came a man to take out the lambs, who said, ** Friend, you lie not well here, you would lie better amongst your neighbours!'* He said, " Where are they ?" So the man brought him to us. But he never knew who had carried him to the house, his sleep was so great. Then Polwart f said, after we had got some meat, " I know ye have all need of sleep, but of necessity four of you must watch, two at each barn-door, in case we be surprised by the enemy, to give warning to the rest. And the honest men will watch without, and give you notice if they see weaning. f Sir Patrick Hume of Polwart. ••*£ MCMOIB8 OF OEORGE BRYSSOff: •Biy hatttf^*' I offered myself for onerand other tiure^ did theflike/ And he desired tfJat witfcte two hoiir» we would awaken him, aad he wouia- cause relieve - us, which accoidinglj was done; We lay these all that ^ay very safelyv and ! saw* regimentflipaiising by within tw<> nrilts, but none caliie near us/ So at night we took our march agtin, having sent before to pfovide qtiart^rv foi» usj So we got aguide, who conducted us safe to thfl place where we tarried uextday, and sent somfe friends to inquire if th^ could get anyttei count of the earl of Aigyle, who would mot come alongtt^ with us over Clyde. In the evenii% thejr brought us word that he was takeii prisonert* Then Sir Jehnt called us all together, and told WM talcMi OB the aame day. (FountainhaU, Deei». i. S«4. Wod- irow,ii.,437. Sir Patrick Hume's Narrative, pw 68. Laing, u, 153.) Tie earl was executed at Edinburgh on the SQth of June, OB th^'oM'senMMe pionoitoeed agtioa4>hlin for b«iririg an ex- ylaiaiipn of the test, (FoantainhiiUi Mt. WBdrow, 638w« gi^«° to bi* eldest son, William, who had married Lady Mary Bruce, daughter to the deoeaaed Alexander, Earl of Kineardin. (Act. Pari. Scot, viii. 484, 64A.) * The Duke of Monmouth was tak^ on the 8th, and executei on the 15th of July, 1584. « I remember (says Dr. WeUwood) tOihave heard Rumbdd say openly at his execution in StodiM}, upon^ficcount ,qf Axgyle's invasioB^ That Jfonnumth fiad^ifvkf hit word with them, in declaring hinuelfking." It was Wellwood's opinion, that he was forced to take thla step by the importunity of his friends. (Memoirs, p. 17% 173.) 386 MEMOIRS OF OEOROE BRY880N. to consult what to do ; as for our arms, we would in no case part with them, thinking to defend our. Kv^ves as long as we could. So one gave one ad- vice, and some. another: our conclusion at length was, that we would march towards Annandale, fbr some of us had acquaintance there, and there we could inform ourselves what was become of Monmouth ; and if he were prospering, we re- solved (if possible) to go to him, for we knew that we were always unsafe in our own country. So we resolved to travel aU night, and to dem* all day ; and buy victuals as we went alongst, for aa yet we wanted not money. So we went on, and marched through a weary long moor, and then came to the plain ground, and had travelled a good way in the plain before it came to be very light. This was on the sab- bath morning. TVhen we began to see about us, we could not perceive either wood or moss to shelter in all day. Then we wist not what to do, the whole country being full of the king's forces, so that we were afraid of being apprehend- ii.„' We resolved to venture on some house. We sent one of our number to a house hard by, to see if they would give us quarters, and desired him to tell them plainly what n^en we were, and that we were in hazard of our lives. We hap- pened upon a very honest widow-woman's house. lie concealed. M£MOia8 OF .0£OJIOE BUYCUiaH. aa: who yeft, upon no accoui^ would give us quar- ters, taking us for disHeioblers ; for she had some, of Mr. Kenny's ^ men hiding in her house, who wore in as great hazard as we were in. But 8h« let us see a house a little way off, who, she said, would shelter us, if we were such men as we gave ourselves out to be. So we came to that house, and sent one to call at the door u^hb mipon the goodman came out. Our case vsa ma> ^ known t«» him. He said, " Gentlemen, 71 aftel .ot think to deceive me, for ye are not su^^l tmii as ye say ye are."f I stept near and said, " Friend, we truly came alongst with Argyle, and our lives are in hazard, and if ye refuse to shelter us, ye cannot be free of our blood, if we should fall into the enemy's hands." Whereupon the honest man condescends. So we went in, and though it was early in the morning, there was a brave fire burn- ing on the hearth. We sat down and warmed ourselves. He presently caused his daughter * Mr. Kenwick was aometiines called Mr. Renny : See Fountain- hall's Dedsions, i. 473, 495. f He had good reason to be suapiciouB. Comet Feter Inglit, with tome soldiers, came to the house of Thomas Richards, a re- spectable man, nearly eighty years o¥ , and pretending that they were part of the remains of Argyle's troops, the old man told them that he had lately entertained some of their friends, and was still ready to do it. Inglis carried him off to colonel Douglas, then at Cumnock, " who, precisely upon this allied confession, without jury or trial, next day executed him there." (Wodrow, ii. 509, 570.) Sergeant Nisbet gives %n account of a device employed, in 988 MEMOias OF GEOKOE BEYSfiON. bring ptentjr of meat to us. After we had break- fasted) he said, " Now, g^tlemen, wbat shall I do with you next, for your enemies will be abroad presentiy, and will range up our house for provi- sion?'' He said, *♦ I have an old torn house, wiiere our sheep lie, I think they will not go near it, being ruinous; there are two steads lying on the balks of the house, I will cause my daughter carry up straw^ and ye may lie there till night." Vl^kh, accordingly, we did, and slept there as sound as ever we did upon a feather bed. And at night one of those men that were hiding in the widow'^i house, came to the honest man, and ask* €d, if there came four armed men there in the morning. He toid him, there did. He asked, what men we were. He told him, we were very ho^ nest men. He desired to see us. He brought lem, todMcoyer h*^ father's family when under conceahneot. ** The enemy swore that if we were out of hell they shoold have some of us, and for that end they disguised one of themselves, a fdr well-favoured young man, in women's clothes, like a gentle- wMoaa ;«iarfngxmt«hat,4xe was w cousin of our owo, o(*me from Ireland to invite us over there to our frifjt^s, becanae tb^ iMA hefird of Qur troublM in Socruand. This gained credit anoegst oar friends, viho knew where we were." Having by this aHiflfie fjat exact infoanatioa of the hidkg pUwc^, 9 party «n horseback oime ten milep *o apprehend the family, faut Mrs. Nishet havjog discovered their approach, bad sufficient tiine «o remove homelf and obildren into an inaccesi&ble part «f an a4}aoent mmuaa, ndioe her husband hj concealed. (MS. Mcanoir, pp. 81^88.) The employment of spies is jmoitioned in W<«drow, re vas a great deal of straw, and take us rest, aod he and his brother would wck-h; which accordingly we did, but kept always three sentilea to oversee them, that none went to give warning to the enemy. At length our landlord caused make breakfast ready for us of very good victuals, and caused set them down in our sight that we might take them, that, if he were chal- lenged, he could say, he gave us neither meat nor drink. We continued safe till night, and so parted. When we had staid very long we began to think the country somewhat more quiet. We thought of venturing home to see our friends, whom we had not seen for two years and a half! Two of us went away first, and after that the other two ventured. My comrade and I k-;.i our arms allalonf-"^ tiU we came to Calder M;>4 und there left thri> with a friend that H*i were MEMOIRS OF GEORGE BR YCdON. 345 recommended to ; and so we came home; but were in as bad circumstances as we were in when we went off the country. For half-a-year we durst never trav^ safely but in the night; we thought we would be but a burden to our friends ; we re- solved to go for England again, where we were not so well known. So my friend, who had been with me in the most part of all my travels, who is living at the wnting hereof, (and was the per- son I spoke of formerly, who was carried off the field into the house sleeping,) went away be- fore me to Northumberland, and promised to write me if he got any settlement, which he did, accordingly, within a short time ; he being set- tled in an honest family. He desired me to take my venture, for I knew not what providence might carve out for me. So. I went directly to him, and staid with him eight or ten days, till Mr. Jamea Welch,* a min- ister of the gospel, my intimate friend, came there, who much bemoaned my wandering condi- tion. He desired me to go alongst with him, for he was going the length of Alnwick, and was to stay some time up and down that country ; for he was, as all our faithful ministers were, wander- ing up and down, preaching the gospel on peril of their lives. I went alongst with him, and he • Mr. James Welsh, preacher in Kirkcudbrightshire, is in the Fugitive Roll of 1684. (Wodrow, ii. Appeii. 115.) |i ! 346 MEMOIRS OF GEORGE BRYSSON. made me acquainted with many godly families up and down that country. Upon a time he went to Berwick, and left me behind him till he returned; and being in company with justice Grieve'8 wife, she asked him, if he could wish her husband to an honest man to oversee his af- fairs, that he could put trust into. Hri said, "Madam, I am glad ye have made thfe proposal' for I know of a very trusty friend whom I can confidently recommend to you." So he sent for me to meet him at Tweedmouth, which I dirf. The justice and I agreed immediately, and I promised to enter home against Martinmas. I went to Edinburgh, and staid a little with my friends, and then entered home at the time ap. pomted. I think that the Lord had wonderfully carved out that service for me, for I pleased my master very well, and he pleased me. My wages were not great, but only five pounds per year and my diet ; but, indeed, I thought it a great matter at such a time. I gtii!d with him very comfortably for the space of five years ; and then came on the happy Revolution, so that such as were in my circumstances were at more liberty than formerly. Then I tiiought it time for me to enter into a married life, being forty-two years old,* andde* .1. * JiT'"' ' o»lcul*tion, founded on dates mentioned in the course of this Memoir, but which itisunnecessary to specify here, it results. MEMOIRS OF OEOROE BRYSSON. 347 tained so long unmarried only on account of the trouUes of the times. I told my master I resolved to leave him in order to marry. He was much concerned therewith, and requested me not to leave him ; his wife also was very press- ing with me to stay ; but I could not» having en- gaged with a young woman in Scotland where we were to live. And as the Lord was pleased to guide me in every step of my life, so he was won- derfully kind to me in my marriage ; for he trysted me with a godly wife, who was a true yoke-fellow indeed; and the most part of the time we lived together she made it her work to be making sure " the one thing needful." When we had lived one-and-twenty years comfortably together, her Master was pleased to call her home to himself ; where, I hope, she is enjoying that which she much longed for. She bare me nine pleasant children, four where- of I hope are in glory, and left five behind her, who (I bless the Lord !) are, as yet, very com- fortable to me; and those of them that are come that Brysson entered to his service in Northumberland, at Martin- mas 16R6. He left it in 1691, ''being forty-two years old." Ac- cordingly, he must have been bom in or about the year 1649. His wife died in 1718. He was about 65 years of age in October 1714, when he subscribed his Memoirs ; and about 78 in the year 1781, when he joined with some others in attesting an account of the behaviour of one George Lapsley before the Privy Council. (Wodrow MSS. in Advocates Library, No. 13. xxxiii. art. 69.) How long he lived after that time it does not appear. 348 MEMOIKS OF GEORGE BRYSSON. to the years of dis^rtt^on are beginning to look heavenward. And 1 dare promise them, in my dear Lord a . Master's name, that if they keep hia way, an*' have a tender respect to his glory, he shall take care of them, - ' ^.m le them in every step of their life. And I hope, when they read ovor what wonderful care the Lord has taken of n.f , in all the various steps of his providence towards me in my pilgrimage, this will encourage th' m (or any of the Lord's people who shall have occasion to read these lines) to cleave unto so good a master. For within a little I must lay down this frail tabernacle, and I hope, ere it be long, I shall be ^here the weary a re at rest. And O ! that I may be made meet for that glorious in- heritance, which my Lord hath provided for tli saints in light. yy As I have had some srtfall fightings witr ut, so I have not wanted my fe.-rs ^nthin; but (glory for ever be to him !) « there remai ^ a rest for the people of God." ^ ho r sweet ill it ] e to the poor tossed believer, when t e remainders of cor- ruption shall for ev^^i- '>e taken away, and > . shall have all tears wiped from his eyes ! I am per- suaded there is not a complaint amongst all the redeemed company that ar abov . There are rivers of pleasures and joy rraore, abo e in ouri Father's house, where we siwll be made y> drink of the pure river of life, that proceeds from beneath the throne of God, and we shall for ever MEMOIRS OF GEORGE BRYS80N. 349 follow the Lamb, and shall have that new song begun which shall never end. If we knew aright what a place heaven is, we would be longing to be there. But, al^ ! we are so blinded with the fogs and mists of a present world, that we forget our Father's kingdom. Should we not remember with joy, that « Eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard, neither hath it ent( red into the heart of man to conceive, what God h; aid up ia store for them that love him, and wait for his glorious appearance?" There needb none of Christ's sol- diers feu. or faint by the way ; for he is the Cap- tain of Salvation, and is *' able to save to the utter- most all that come to God by him " Now, I hope, that he w^ '> ^ is been with me, and has helped me in some m re to keep his way, will be with me tr .e end, and will enable me to finish my cou' ' with >y. For he has made that promise of hi8 ^ou me, ^rhich is in the 42d chapter of Isaiah and l6iii 'erse, " I will bring the blind b) a way tuey knew not ; I will lead them in paths that they have not Vnown : I will make darkness light before them, id crooked things straight. These things will lo unto them, and n forsake them." And tl t m Isaiah, 35th chapter and 8th verse, ' And a Highway shall be there, and a way, and it httii be calleu he way of holiness the unclean shall not p.iss over it ; but it shall be . *r those : tht way- f rinff men, though tools, s' all not 'rr th ein." wo MEMOIUS OF GEORGE BKYSaON. For, indeed, if I had not had one to lead me in aU the steps of my life, I would surely have mis, . carried ; for I hav been both blind and foolish. But blessed for ever be my guide, who hath fol- lowed me with mercy and loving-kindness all the days of my life ! and I hope he will be with me to the ei I of my journey. He has helped me in 8ome measure to give myself freely and fiilly to him. to be his for ever, and to take him to be my God and portion both in time and through eter- nity. And I hope that he will keep that which I have committed to him as unto a faithful Creator, against Uie day of his glorious appear- ance. *^ J desire, with the cloud of witnesses that have gone before me, to set to my seal that God is true. Alas ! that I have been so little taken up m the study of the knowledge of this great Jeho- vah ; for the more knowledge that any of his peo- pie have of him, they will love him the more. Alas! the blinded world knows him not, and Iherrfore, they see no beauty in him. though he be the admiration of angels, and of all the glorious company that are above. O that I could commend hun to aU the world, for he is far above the com- mendation of men and angels ! I desire to bless him. He has been good to me ! his yoke is easy and his burden light ! 1 would advise ray children, aM all the Lord's people, to love him, and to appear for him, and 1 MKMUIBB QV GEOHGJ!: BHY88UN. S51 \)e always upou his tiiile ; for he sends none a war- fare upon hJB own charges. And be careful to eye his provideBoe, for there is great advantage in observing it. His providences have been wonderful in my day, for the bush has been burn- ing all that time, and yet is not consumed. Won- derful was that cast of providence, when God sent that great instrument. King William, when his people's neck was upon the block, and the enemy ready to give the fatal blow ! Our un- thankfulness for such a mercy, and unfruitful- ness under the gospel, did provoke the eyes of an infinitely holy God, to let loose our malicious enemies again. And they were contriving the utter overthrow of the people of God, both at home and abroad ; and had brought their mis- chievous designs a very great length, so that theh- hopes were never greater. And it is known to the whole land what the fears of his people were. And in an instant our great Jehovah' broke their designs, and made his people eF-^ape as a bird out of the fowler's snare. And we must say, that the Lord wrought for his >wn name's sake, for we deserved no such mercy at his hands. Therefore, it becomes all his people to observe this wonderful providence, and to exalt and praise his name for ever, for it is hi own right hand that has brought us salvation, without making use of any instruments, and instead of a popish pretender has set a protestant king upon the 85a MEMOIRS OF GEORGE BRYSSON. throne. We ought to tremble for fear of abusing such mercies. And it ought to be the prayer of all the godly in these lands, that our king may be made a blessed instrument in the Lord's hand for good to the churches of God, at home and abroad. ^IHi • I have given as true an account of several pas- sages of my life as my frail memory could con- tain ; the which I give under my hand, at Edinburgh, the fourth day of October, one thou- sand seven hundred and fourteen years. George Brysson. NARRATIVE OF THE RISING SUPPRESSED AT PENTLAND ; WRITTEN BY COLONEL JAMES WALLACE : WITH NOTICES OF THE WRITER. 2 A Cc of tri th( in po is m( ne va st{ th( NOTICES OF COLONEL JAMES WALLACE. Colonel Wallace is called " James Wallace of Achens," or " Auchanes," in the record of his trial after the battle of Pentland.* Auchans, the family seat of his ancestors, is situated with- in the parish of Dundonald, in Ayrshire. " Op- posite to the village and castle, (of Dundonald) is a very beautiful bank of wood, upwards, in most places, of 100 feet in height, and extending near a mile to the north-west. In a grand cur- vature of this bank, and on a gentle em'jience, stands the house of Auchans, for a long period the residence of the Wallaces (f Dundonald. * Wodrow, i. app. pp. 91, 93, 109. I 356 NOTICES OF COLONEL WALLACE. Il, ■ 1 I About 1640 this estate came into the possession of Sir William Cochrane of Lowdou (Cowdon) knight, who was afterwards created earl of Dundonald. At the Auchans are the remains of a small orchard which was once in high repu- tation. The pear, known in Scotland by the name of Auchans, derived that name from this place.*" The Wallaces of Dundonald were a branch of the ancient family of Craigie. William Wallace, second son of Hugh Wallace of Craigie, was, in 1525, tutor of Craigie ; and in 1526, had a char- ter under the great seal of the lands of Dundo- nald. His oldest son, William, having succeeded to the estate of Craigie, his second son John, styled also of Inchgotry, got a charter of the lands of Dundonald in 1543, and married Lady Margaret Kennedy, relict of William, Lord Her- ries. John Wallace, grandson of William Wal- lace, tutor of Craig 'e, is the first who was styled oi Auchans and Dundonald ; and, as appear? from charters granted in 1573 and 1574, he married Ja- net Stuart, daugb^ 1 of Sir John Stuart of Minto. In 1599 John Wc;;i«ce of Craigie obtained a charter of the lands of Dundonald.f Yet subsequently to that period we find John Wallace of Dundonald " Statistical Account of Scotland, (Parish of Dundonald,) vol. vii. p. 620. t Notes communicated by John Kiddeli, Esq. NOTICES OF COLONEL WALLACE. 357 mentioned in the records.* Whether the fa- mily retained their former style after the loss of their estate, or whether a part of the estate still remained in their possession, does not ap- pear. James Wallace, the writer of the following nar- rative, appears to have early adopted the military profession, and having distinguished himself in the parliamentary army during the civil war, was raised to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.f He belonged to the Marquis of Argyle's regiment, which was sent to Ireland in l642, and was re- called in 1645, to oppose the victorious progress of Montrose. :|: He was taken prisoner at the battle of Kilsyth. § When Charles II. came to Scotland in 1650, the Parliament ordered two re- giments of Life Guards to be embodied, one of horse and the other of foot, to be composed of " the choicest of the army, and fittest for that * " May 5, 1601. — Joannes Wallace, senior, de Dundonald haeres masculus tallie et provisionis Robert! Wallace de Collane." (Inq. Retorn. Perth, 73.) In 1640 the lands of Dundonald be- came the property of Sir William Cochrane of Cowdon. (Act. Pari. Scot. V. 656 : comp. v. 28.) The lands of Auchans and Dundo- nald were acquired from the Earl of Dundonald in 1724, by Ro- bert Wallace of Holmston, y<''- ^ vho sold them in 1726 to the Earl of Eglinton. t Burnet's Own Tim<'- A. '> 4 ^ Edin. 1753. % Carte's Osmond, i. 3i ;, Baillie's Letters, ii. 274. § " Lieutenant-Colonel lV"allace" is mentioned among the prisoners. (Monteitb's Hist, of the Troubles, 218.) He is called " Colonel Wallace" in the Memoirs of J^ortrose, p. 171. Edin. 1R1&. Mt 358 NOTICES OF COLONEL WALLACE. trust." Lord Lorn was appointed Colonel, and Wallace Lieutenant-Colonel, of the foot regi- ment of guards.* WaUace was present at the battle of Dunbar, so disastrous to the Scots, and was taken prisoner on that occasion, f In a petition read in Parliament on the 30th of December that year. Lord Lorn says, * In re- spect my Lieutenant-Colonel has, in God's good providence, returned to his charge, whose fide- lity in this cause is well known both in Ire- land and in this kingdom, and that his losses are very many and great, I do humbly desire that your Majesty, and this high Court of Parliament, may be pleased in a particular manner to take notice of him, that he may not only have a com- pany ^pointed him, but likewise something may • Sir James Balfour's Annals, iv. 84, 85. Act. Pari. Scot. yi. 568.—" At his Miyesty's command. Sir James Balfour, Lord Lyon King at Arms, set down the devices upon the ensigns and colours of his Majesty's foot regiment of Life Guards. Those of the Lieutenant-Colonel were azure, an unicorn, arg. ; and on the other side « in grate gold letters," these words, « Covenant for Religione, King, and Kingdomes."— (Balfour's Annals, vol. iv. p. 85.)^When Wallace afterwards appeared at Pentland, it could scarcely be aaid that he deserted his standard, or changed his device. t Among the prisoner? ntioned in CromweU's despatch are, " Lieutenant-General Sir Jaw^s Lomsden— Lieutenant-Colonel Wallis-Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Forbis," &c.-(Letter from the Lord General CromweU to thf; Parliament of England, con- oermng his proceedings with their army in Scotland, and the late victory God hath given them over the Scottish army there. Print- ed at Corcke, in the yeare of our Lord God 1 660.) NOTICES OF COLONEL WALLACE. 369 be done for his satisfaction of his former losses." Upon this petition the committee of bills r^)oii:^ ed " that Lieutenant-Colonel Wallace may be re- ferred to the Committee of Estates, that he may- be assigned to some part of the excisie, or main- tenance, forth of the shire of Ayr, or any other of the shires in the south ;" and the house referred the petition, and the several members thereof, to the consideration of the Committee of Estates, ** that such course may be taken thereanent as they shall think fitting."* It is probable that he lived retired after the Restoration, until the year 1666, when his at- tachment to the Presbyterian religion, and the liberties of his coukit? y. iaduced him to take part with those who had recourse to arms in defence of that cause. On joining them he was unani- mously chosen as the person best qualify d to take the command; although hs u'odest/ bas made him pass over this circumstan< c m Lis nar- rative.f In the appearance which he made at this time, and in accepting the dangerous post to which he was chosen, Wallace could be actuated only by * Act. Pari. Scot. vi. £68. On the 10th of June 1651, the comtnittee recommend that certain sums be given " from the con- tributions through the country," to Colonel William Lumsden, and some other officers taken at Dunbar, " on account of their sufferings and deservings." But Wallace is not among them. — (MS. Register of the Committee of Estates, January — March, 1651, p. 54.) t Kirkton, «36. Wodrow, i. «4r; app. p. 107. 360 NOTICES OF COLONEL WALLACE. the most disinterested motives. He had no pri- vate quarrel to revenge ; he had given no perso- nal offence to the government ; and, as he was not involved in the circumstances which led to the first rising, he had no cause to be alarmed for his own safety. The prospects, when he first en- gaged in the design, were far from being flatter- ing, especially to one of his knowledge and expe- rience in military affairs, and he had it in his power to retire, as others did, after he reached the west, and saw the real state of those who were in arms. Nor was his conduct, during the short time that he commanded, discreditable to his military talents; especially when we take into consideration the small number of men which he had under him, the miserable manner in which the most of them were equipped, and the want of inferior officers to conduct them. "Wallace himself was a gentleman godly and resolute ; but such an undertaking was for a man of miracles."* By the line of march which he chose, he gave an op- portunity to the friends of the cause, in the most populous counties, if they had been disposed, to join its standard. He prevented General Dal- ziel from obtaining that advantage which he sought, for attacking him during his march.f If the government had been disposed to suppress • Kirkton, 245. t Council's letter, apud Wodrow, i. 247. '*ms^ NOTICES OF COLON''!. WALLACE. 861 the insurrection without bloodshed, he gave them an opportunity of accomplishing this by the mo- derate letter which he sent to the General of the royal forces. The ground which he chose on Rullion Green, and the disposition which he made of his men, was the very best, when he had to oppose an enemy three times the number of his own troops. By fighting at the time he did, instead of delaying, as he knew he could easily do, he provided for the better escape of his men, in the event of their being worsted ; and, indeed, the loss actually sustained was less than it would in all probability have been, if, without engaging, he had disbanded his army during the night. The battle of Pentland-hills was a well-fought field, not a disgraceful rout, like that which after- wards happened, under a very different leader, at Bothwell-bridge. On the loss of the battle, Colonel Wallace left the field in company with Mr. John Welsh, and taking a north-westerly direction along the hills, escaped the pursuit of the enemy. After riding to a sufficient distance, they turned their horses adrift, and slept during the remainder of the night in a barn. Having concealed himself for some time, Wallace at last got safely out of the kingdom.* The battle of Pentland was fought on the 28th of November, and on the 4th of De- cember, the Privy Council issued a proclamation ...... , J .. , -I _u — mi NOTICES OF COLONEL WALLACE. fit prohibitir\g all persons from harbouring or cor- responding with Colonel Wallace, or any of th ^e who had been in arms with him, under the pain "of being treated as accessory to the late rebellion. And, on the 15th of Auguat, Wallace, and six others who had absconded, were found guilty rnd condemned to tie executed as traitors, when they shall be apprehended, and all their lands and gjoods to be forfeited to his Majesty's use. • This sentence was ratified by Parliament in I669.t and was rescinded at the Revolution, f For several yearns Colonel Wallace was obliged to wander from one part of the continent to an- other for the sake of security. For the same reason he t.^&ixmed the name of Forbes.§ In the year 1670 i-c was on the borders of Germany. (| When he theii^ht the search after him had relax- ed, he took up his residence at Rotterdam ; but he was not allowed to remain there undisturbed On the 27th of June 1676, Charles II. wrote to * Wodrow, i. app. book ii. Nos. 8 and 15. t Act. Pari. Scot. vii. 562. See before, p. 97. J Act. Pari. Scot. ix. 165. § Wodrow, i. 434. Mr. John Carstairs, in a letter to Mr Macwwrd, Auguat 16, 1675, says " I salute worthie Mr. Forbese." I kindly salute-Mr. Forbese." (Wodrow MSS. in Adv. Uh. No. hx, art 36 and 47.) *u 'L "7^"^ ^ ' ^^ "^ '^"'^^ ^*"*'* ^"t ?" ^«'- " Towards the borders of Germany some years ago." (Examination of Mr. James Mitchel before the Commissioner and Council, February 1674, in Naphtali, p. 374. Edin- 1761.) NOTICES Ol COLOT^EL WALLACE. 363 the States General, n ^airing them, agreeably to im article in a treaty between the two countries, to cause Wallace, with Mr. Robert Mat tra and Mr. John Brown, ministers, to remove from tl ir territories, as persons guilty of les^^-r against the King of Great Britain.* Mr. in a paper of infortnation which he gave i) .be States Geuenl, after referring to the refusu the States to comply with a similar demand in l670,f mentions that - e present application had been in« stigated by on iry Wilkie, whom the king had placed at the heau of the Scottish factory at Camp- vere, who was displeased because many of his countrymen, with the viewof enjoyingthe ministry of Messrs. Macward and Brown, had repaired to Rotterdam, and brought their shipping there in preference to Campvere, by which means his sala- ry was impaired. Mr. Brown denies, that either he or his colleague was ever convicted of treason, and begges the States to require, from Sir William Temple, the English ambassador, a copy of the sentence pronounced against them *. s this would show that the article in the treaty did not apply to them, and might be the means also of freeing Wallace from a prosecution, which had commenc- ed principally on their account. " But (continues * Macward M8S. in Advocates Library : Jac. V. i. 10, no. 72. t This demand related to Messrs. Robert Trail, elder, John Neave, and Robert Macward. (Ibid. no. 70 : comp. Sir William Temple's Letters, ii. 226, 235, 237.) IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) #/, 1.0 I.I UiM2^ 12.5 ■u Uii 12.2 £ 1^ 1 20 1-25 i 1.4 III 1.6 '/ Photographic Sciences Corporation 2'^ WEST MAIN STREiT WEBSTEX.N.Y. MSSO (716) 873-4503 h'^ 364 NOTICES OF COLONEL WALLACE. he) it may be hinted to Sir William Temple that James Forbes, alias WaUace, is a brave and skilful soldier, and may create more trouble to the King at home in Scotland, if he be forced to re- move hence, than he can do by remaining here in the Netherlands, and discharging the office of an elder in the Scottish church at Rotterdam."* The States General were satisfied that they were not bound by the treaty to remove the ministers; and they instructed Lord Beuningen, their ambas- sador at the court of England, to represent to his Majesty, that they hoped he would not require them to put away persons who had complied with the sentence of banishment pronounced against them; and to wave, in the best and discreetest manner, the forementioned matter, as being in the highest degree prejudicial to their country, f But instead of the affair being dropped, other letters were sent from England repeating the de- mand in stronger language, and Sir WilUam Temple left Nimeguen, where he was employed in the negociations for a peace then going on, and came to the Hague, for the express purpose of urging a categorical and speedy answer.^ Upon • Informatio de statu et conditione Joannis Brown : MSS. ut supra, no. 64. t Extract from the Register of States General, apud Wodrow, !• 434, 435. t MSS. «f *Mpra, nos. 75 and 77. Besides the aUve-mentioned affair, it was one object of the ambassador's visit to the Hague to have a private interview with the Prince of Orange, and to obtain a NOTICES OF COLONEL WALLACE. 365 this the States General, to prevent a quarrel with Great Britain, judged it prudent to yield; but they failed not to represent their sense of the in- justice of the claim made upon them. lu their letter of the 22d of January 1677, they say :•— " We are willing to testify how sensible we are of the honour of your friendship and good will, and that we prefer it to all. other considerations, assuring your Majesty that we will not fail to cause the said Macward, Brown, and Wallis, to depart, within the time mentioned in the treaties, from the bounds of this country. We find our- selves, however, obliged to represent to your Ma- jesty, that we believe you will agree with us that the obligation of the treaties is reciprocal ; and that, according to the laws of this country, we cannot by our letters declare any person fugitive or a rebel, unless he has been recognised as such by a sentence or judgment of the ordinary crimi- nal court of justice, and that your Majesty could not pay any regard to any letters of ours making a similar declaration, unless accompanied by such sentence or judgment. And as thus we cannot require of your Majesty to remove any one from yoiu* kingdoms as a rebel or fugitive on a simple declaration made by our letters, so we assure our- pledge from him thathe\«as friendly to a general peace, and averse to the Dutch concluding «» separate treaty with France. (Sir Wil- liam Temple's Letters, vol. iii. pp. 258, 278.) 866 NOTICES OF COLONEL WALLACE. sdves, Sur, that your Majesty will not in future require us by simple letters to remove any person from our territories, before he be declared a ftigi. tive or rebel, according to the ordinary forms (rf the laws and customs of your Majesty.** The following is the resolution to which the States General came, as translated from an au- thenticated copy of the original in Dutch. « By the resumpt delivered on the report of M.M. van Heuckelom and others, their High Misti- nesses* commissioners for foreign affairs, having, in compliance with, and for giving effect to that Resolution Commissorial of the 16th instant, examined and discussed the memorial of Sir Temple, baronet, envoy extraordinary of his Majesty the king of Great Britain, requesting their High M. would be pleased to ordain their said commissioners to enter into a conference with him; as also a missive of the king of Great Britain, dated at Whitehall the 29th of I>ecember last, stilo AngHae, respecting his Ma- jesty's former letters of the 37th June and IJth of November before, concerning three Scotsmen^ James Walles, Robert Macward, and John Brown ; and having conferred with the said Amb. Ext., Temple, regardisg the contents of it, and having also seen the retroacta, and exhibited and heard read a draught of a missive, drawn out * Au Roy tie la Grande Bretagng. MSS. ut supra, no. 78. NOTICES OF COLONEL WALLACE. S67 and committed to paper by the commissioners of their H. M. for an answer to the missives i privately into Galloway or the borders of it, to be informed of their case and what they designed to do, and to report at Edinburgh. I went accordingly, and met with several of their leading men, who were longing for an opportunity of appearing together for their defence. I told them, it was not rashly to be done, but well advised with others in other places. So we sent to the west and elsewhere for counsel in the matter, and to come back with- in ten days. In the mean time excellent Mon- rieff, a laird in Galloway, the greatest Chris- tian that I knew in his station, going to Edin- burgh, came to me where I was privately. I desired him to tarry for the next meeting, and told him when and where it was, which he did. So we, going to the place of meeting at the time appointed, and being met together, they told us, that Barscobe and some others of the people were fallen foul with some of the soldiers quartered in the country, and had hurt some and secured se- 2 382 NOTICES OF COLONEL WALLACE. vend of them ; the report of which going to other places of the country, the people did the like with their soldiers. The first occasion of this outfaU as I learned was, that they were offer- ing to torture at the fire some honest men that did not comply with them ; and Barscobe said soberly to them, « Why do you use the honest man se ?' and looked about a little. Whereupon some of the soldiers offered to them violence. Upon which a woman cried to Barscobe, * Turn, what «re you doing?' And when he looked and saw what they were doing against them, he drew a pistol, wherein there was only tobacco-stapples, and ehot at one of them ; at which the soldier fell, but I do not remember that he was killed. So It began, and they secured the rest there and elsewhere. Monrieff and I were grieved with this accident, and knew not what advice to give ^em m the case. Some knew not what to say, but the most forward said, there had been talk- ing enough upon that affair, that it was fit to take that opportunity to appear, which if they did not. Sir /ames Turner, that was at Dumfries, would come vlth all his men and destroy the country ; and that it was best to prevent that by marching to Dumfries and securing of him. I was truly Laban in the case } but I told, if they were so resolved, I should go straight to the west to acquaint friends there; which I did, riding all mght to get soon there. So they went for Dum- NOTICES OF COLONEL WALLACE. BBS fries, and chused one Mr. Gray for their head, and they came and took Sir James Turner pri- soner, and Bet him on a low beast, without his best raiment, and carried him through the town in a despicable manner, where the providence of God was to be seen of that sudden change. There he had been reigning like a king, and lift- ed up in pride, with insolency and cruelty over the poor people, and so they carried him alongst with them to the west. He told them, if that rising was general they would carry it; if it werfe but in that comer, they could not do it. The old Register, Primrose, (I heard,) said, that the party that had been so favourable to spare Sir James Turner, would not do the business: they had not a spirit. And a worthy knowing minister spoke to the same purpose to me after the ddeat. I replied to him, they had a spirit for that for which they were raised up, to give an innocent testimony for the Lord and his op- pressed work and people, which had not been given before ; neither did the king and the court know the case of the country, and the temper of the people. For they were made to believe, that if a few gentlemen were kept in security, and a few ministers, he would have perfect peace. So that appearance, with the meetings that followed, occasioned the relaxation and liberty which was given by the Indulgence. This was observable of that rising, that several of those who did en- 384 NOTICES OF COLONEL WALLACE. courage it in discoursing, and seemed to be frank for it, yet drew back when* it came to be made effectual. And if those gentlemen and ministers in the west had risen, when they were there that came from Galloway, it might have done the business ; for to speak humanitua, after the man- ner of men, five hundred more men might have obtained a victory ;« there was such a general dissatisfaction with the alteration of the church- government, and the persecution it occasioned. They had many thousand well-wishers at Pent- land, that, if they had thought they could have carried with their assistance, would have been there ; and so the Commissioner then observed, that, if they had prevailed but a little, they would have got many thousands to join with them. Yea, a great man (I heard) said to that purpose, who proved a great adversary afterward when he became greater."* • Life of Gabriel Sempil, written by himself, MS. pp. 38—43. Mr. Gabriel Sempil was the seomid soncf Bryce Sempil of Cath- cart, and brother of Sir William Sempil. (Doi^las, Bar. p^ 468.) Both his father and brother were great loyalists, and the latter was with Montrose at Philiphaugh. *' Within a short time after, he fell in a great consumption, whereof he died ; but before his death he todc a great remorse for his maUgnancy and following that way, and testified the same to all his acquaintances that came to visit him in his sickness." Mr. Gabriel Sempil was minister at Kirkpatrick-Durham in Galloway at the Restoration^ and after the Revolution at Jedbui^h. He married, 1st, Alison, daughter of Sir Walter RiddeU of that Uk ; and, Sdly, Margaret, daughter NOTICES OF COLONEL WALLACE. 385 One reason why the insurgents were not more numerous was, that the government had pre- viously imprisoned on suspicion the principal gentlemen, especially in the western shires, who were known to be warm friends to presby- tery, and even some individuals of a different description, who happened to be dissatisfied with the measures of the administration. Among these were Major-General Montgomery, brother to the Earl of Eglinton; Sir Hew Campbell of Cesnock ; Major-Oeneral Holbom of Menstrie ; Colonel Robert Halket, brother to Sir James Halkei of Pitferran ; Sir John Cheisly of Cars- well ; Sir James Stewart, late Provost of Edin- burgh ; James Dunlop of that ilk ; William Ral- ston of that ilk ; and Sir George Monro, ** who had taken both the oath of supremacy and decla- ration."* To these may be added the persons mentioned in the following extract, from a paper of Sir Robert Car of Etai, in Northvmberland. His death hap- pened on the 8th of August 1706^ in the 75th year of his age.-r- (Life of Mr. Gabriel Sempil^ MS.)— Sir Robert Carr of Etal is the gentleman mentioned by Mr. Veitch, nnder the name of " IttalL"->(See before, p. 130.)— The Earl of Errol is now the representative of that family.— (Douglas, Peerage, i. 554, 556.) * Account of Affairs in Scotland, from 1659 to 1675. l/ts. in the Library of the College of Edinburgh, p. 185. Wodrow, i. 2^i. 2 C 886 NOTICES OF COLONEL WALLACE. which appears to have been drawn up by Sir Wil- liam Cunningham of Cunninghamhead. " In the foresaid year 1666 no less was the iUegal procedure against several honourable gen- tlemen, taken up at their own houses, where they were living peaceably, by parties of soldiers haling them to prisons as malefactors: such as were the late Sir William Cunninghame of Cun- mghame-head, father to the present Sir William ; the late Mr. George Maxwell, father to the pre' sent Sir John Maxwell of Pollock, and one of the Senators of the College of Justice ; and the late Sir WiUiam Muire of Rowallane, grand- father to the present Countess of Glasgow, and severalother8.--Though never any accusation was brought against them, yet Cunninghamehead, Pollock, and Rowallane, were three years and some odd months detained prisoners in the castle of Stirling, to the prejudice both of their health and estates. Yet could they never learn, even when they were dismissed, the reason why they were imprisoned, neither can it be alledged that they had access to the insurrection that unhapt)i- ly fell out that year, they being imprisoned some months before there was any such appearance ; and it is to be observed, that many, if not all, of these gentlemen were so loyally and zealously affected for the royal family, that during the time of the usurpation, their estates were seques- NOTICES OP COLONEL WALLACE. 387 trated, and they obliged to retire for the safety of their persons."* • Account of the «uffi>flrq5« of thfe Li^y Caldwell, of the Highland Host, &c. by Sir W. C. of C. M88. in Adyocatea Library, No. xxxiii. Jac. V. i. 96, art. 67. .'5 'AAs^i'i / jPf '} > " M J H ENn OF THR NOTICES OF COLONEL WALLACE. { HA-r 1g:' indt ■ A. foifsf " fiH n 1V,.I I r^r#f^^»».i^ NARRATIVE OF THK ♦••©H'Wil' trail 1 RISING AT PENTLAND, BY COLONEL WALLACE. [Colonel Wallace's Narrative is introduced by the following sentence in the manuscript in which it has been preserved. "Immediately after the action (of seizing Sir James Turner) they sent two gentlemen to Edinburgh, to give friends account thereof, who met with some honest men, and gave them the foresaid account of the business; and, what followed, see by this account written by him that commanded in chief, Wallace, who was at this meeting and vert frcm Edinburgh to the west, where he met the r • After several iren's minds were inquired what ,^ ^ttjjifr to be done, it was resolved, (because tt-,. B^^iii was far spent) that to-morrow morn- is^g Ti- should i.'l meet at Mr. Robertson's cham- THE BI8INO AT 1' ''.NTLA*!l4 HP ber at Bevwfi o'clock. In the mean time it wai seri* ouriy recommended to every man to be serious with Ood about this particular, that Ood might direct and determine us herein. Being met to« (uorrow, without any farther, every man*s judg- ment was asked what should be our ioarriage in this case, and what every man in particular was clear to do for himself. All was clear that it was our duty to own our brethren in CWlowayi yea, and to go to them, and take share with them in what should be their lot, according to their c»» pacity : and this every man spoke freely, to the great encouragement of one another; only KmU k)ch*, he spoke so low, that few heard what he said ; but it is said, that what he said was some* thing of his unclearness to join, as the matter was stated. After prayer again, we parted, presently to make off the town. That day, being Friday, Mr. Robison and I went towards Libberton, where he assured me there were forty well-mount- ed good fellows, upon some few hours warning, ready to go alongst. But when we had stayed till to-morrow at night, our party came but to seven or eight. Always, that night, being Sa- turday, or rather Sabbath morning, (being to act something by the way, if some men's promises held) we went away straight to Linton Bridges.. » William Ferguson of Kaitloch, or Caitloch, printed by mis- take, Kaittoch, in \>. ^3. '■' m ^90 WALI^ACE'S NARRATIVE OP ^parted Aat day, he went away toward Xesma- IWgoir and these parts, and one or two with hun. and I went in by Dnnsire • and the mt with ^.. We rested a while at Dnnsire. and prayed, and after a while we got a guide and made towards the place where Mr. Robertson had appointed to meet me; but we found him in his sister's, where we Stayed that night; only Mr. Robertson left us that night, and went to try Che business above mentioned, desiring us to stay untU he either ™n.e or sent to us. That same night being Sab. ,h«?w? w''!.*'«'i*°''='"*' "^ «»« intelUgence that Wttketshaw f was marched away that same night, with a considerable number of Carluke pa- rish, towards the GaUoway people, and that se- veral other particular persons were gone with them There we waited till Monday morning at day hght, and then getting a guide, we make away straight toMauchline, and by the way sent the guide to Robert LockharfshouscJ to inquire of Mr. Robertson where he was, wheoe we got * See before, p. 23. t ''^^'^ember^m ICes—WiUielmus Lockhart de Wicket- schaw, haeres Wilielmi Lockhart de WickeUchaw, patris." (rI^ Inq. Gen. 4752 ; comp. Kirkton, 234.) ^ 234^ ^^nt" rf l^ " ^"P*"'" ^'^'' ^"^''hart." (Hist. p. 234.) Robert Lockhart of Birkhill, and Robert Lockhart rf Bankhead, we., forfeited for being in arms at Bothwel. The latt« begged mercy, and offering to take the test, appears to have obtained a remission for life. (Wodrow, ii. 159 323 30. Act. Pari. Scot. ix. 165. Inq. Retorn. Lanark, m ' THE RISING AT PENTLAND. 391 notice where he was, but that he was going away to the party. We thought strange he shoiild have left us in such a condition. While we were coming towards the place, we met one who told us he feared they were gone ; and when we came to the house they were gone: but about that house I saw two men, one whereof I perceived was Andrew Gray. He was in so uncouth a posture, with such a beggar like habit, and look- ing with such an abashed countenance, I was as- tonished and could not speak for a long time. Always he forbids me to be afraid ; he tells me the Lord had favoured them with good success in that attempt upon Dumfries, and that, howbeit, after the business was done, many came and own- ed it, that never appeared before, when it was but to be hazarded upon; yet all or most of these gentlemen and countrymen had left it, and gone to their houses, as if there had been no more ado ; whereupon he had left them to look to his own safety, being in a very insecure condition then, having been the chief actor in the busi- ness.* Upon this first account he gave us, we * Kirkton, in his account of the seizing of Sir James Turner, says, " He who was chief in the party that took him was one Andrew Gray, ane Edinburgh merchant, who immediately desert- ed them, as did many more." (Hist. p. 232.) We have already met with him at Newcastle, where he was " in straits, " and in- debted to Veitch for relief. (See before, p. 49.) This is not very consistent with the story of his having retired with the 39SI WALLACE'S NARRATIVE OF were uncouthly commoved. But when I began to gather my thoughts, I persuaded myself that Andrew had taken the pett ; and that when go- mg to their houses after the service, was that they might settle their affairs before they should go forth again. Upon this I concluded Andrew had taken his leave, or come away very briskly ; but that they would not appear again was not rational, especially severals having been gone and gomg to them whose standing we were no less concerned in than theirs. Upon this a grieved and discontented man, I parted with Andrew Gray, fearing what ill he might and would do. Away we came to a town within two miles of Evandale, where we stayed that night. To-mor- row morning after several children being baptized, and after meeting with Andrew Rob of Wailslie * whom we found not clear enough to join, though rS *f ,^«" V^''^ ^' ^"^ **''^" '™"» Sir James Turner, as told by Andrew Symson of Kirkinner. (Description of Gall I ^ i . T^ *'""^^ "were much emptied, having sen !s lT7 . /^ ^'"'"^ '" ''PP'^^^^^" *» «^^g- before, p 1390 '' '" '*""' ^"''''*" (Crichtcn's Bkckader! • Mr. John Dickson, urging Mr. Macward to use bis influence m favour of f.]d meetings, and pointing out the proper person to v^om he should write, mentions « for Clidsdale, Andrew Robe in Waledy, very streight." (Wodrow MSS. lix. Jac. V i gfi art 108.) <' Mr. John Rob, son to Andrew Rob in Walslev ' in the parish of Evandale, was imprisoned in 1683, and h s name .s m the fugitive roll of 1684. (Wodrow, ii. 307, app. no THE RISING AT PENTLAND. 393 his health would, which he pretended, but slen- derly, to be the lett. He told us likewise that Blackwood would not be sudden, and that he would expect to hear from us ere he moved. Here came likewise one Mr. Archibald Young, from his brother the chamberlain, * offering by commission from his brother, that if we would certify where he might meet us, and satisfy him in this point, who commanded in chief, he would come himself and bring the whole parish of Evandale ; but we knew well enough what we might expect from him. After this we go straight towards Mauchline, overtaking by the way severals from Clydesdale, and captain Ar- not, whom we had been necessitated to part with the day before, by occasion of his horse * « December 4, 1684. James Young of Linbank, Duke Ha- milton's bailie in Strathaven," being brought before the privy council, from Edinburgh prison, was " examined on bis libel for reset, contributing money, &c. ; and it being restricted to an ar- bitrary punishment, he adjected sundry alleviating qualities to his confession ; but the clerk not having minuted them as frivolous, he refused to sign his oath and deposition." On the 10th of De- cember, he and eight other Clydesdale gentlemen petitioned for license " to transport themselves and their families to the plantations of East New Jersey." This the Lords thought reasonable ; " but the High-treasurer stopt it, in regard his Majesty might get L.10,000 sterling by their fines, for their bygone dehnquencies, and then would dispose of their bodies by sending them to the plantations thereafter." (lountainhall's Decisions, i. 317, 319.) He was afterwards fined in 10,000 merks.-— (Wodrow, ii. 4'28: conip. 306. Inq. Retor. Lanark, 216.) S94, WALLACE'S NARRATIVE OF running away, after he had fallen off him Bv the way we got notice of the party's being at Ayr. That night being Tuesday, we stayed at Mauchline, where our dear friend John Ross (who is now in glory) gave us notice that there was so much hazard from Drumlanrick and others in and about Cumnock, as might cause us not to be secure. That same day had colonel Montgo- mery* and Gadgirth gone towards Eglinton where they expected Dayell should have been! This was the countenance we were to expect from them. As we marched through the country to- wards Ayr upon the Wednesday, the ministers were living securely in their own houses, no more moved than if they had not been concerned. Now when It was so with these, what could be sup- posed would be the carriage of the country ? When we came to Ayr the party was at a ren- Kiir^' m- ^'^"°'' ?'"''*^ ^"^"^ Montgomery, according to I^aTv • ;'*• ^'';^ "' '''' «'* «°" *° Alexander, I^ Earl of Eghnton and fought in the parliamentary army during he avUwar (Douglas, Peer. i. 508. Act. Pari. Scot. 'vi. 2 J, ^ ; rtl "" TT P""''"*"^ *° *^« P"^y Council, JanuarC IZiZ •' ;w , 'T" ^'"' """l ^«" •"O'^ths, in the Castle of Stirhng. (Wodrow,i.280.) It is possible that he might be ou ofconfinement when Wallace went to the west country But i IS more probable that the person referred to in the text wfsle rfGad^hin?^^'^^ ^"T''' -«»"-riedtoJohn Chalmer of Gadgurth .n Ayrshire. (Crawfurd's Renfrew, by Robertson,) THE RISING AT PENTLAND. 395 dezvous beyond the Bridge of Doon. In our going out to the party, there was a desire had come from some friends in Cunninghame, that a party might be presently sent to them, for bring- ing up of some that were ready to come, yet durst not adventure to meet without this party. Captain Amot was presently sent away with a matter of 80 or 40 horse, and to meet us the mor- row at Ochiltree, or where else we should leave him word. After this we go straight to the par- ty, and after saluting them, the party marched off towards Ochiltree ; but because it was far in the day, we were necessitated to quarter between Gad- girth and Ochiltree. By this time we got sure intelligence that the General's forces were come to Glasgow, and so found ourselves concerned to look to our guards. To-morrow morning, being Thursday, we marched away to the rendez- vous place, on the road to Ochiltree, where Mr. Sempel preached while the party convened. After that we marched in towards Ochiltree, having left the great part of the horse in the country to the west hand of Ochiltree, and nearest the bridge of Barskimen, the only passage of the water at the time : the rest of the horse we sent to the east of Ochiltree, to guard on that hand: the foot we kept in the town. The officers were quartered in the laird's house, where we had but very cold welcome ; but I hope whatever incivi- lity we had from the lady, she had none from us. S96 Wallace's nahrative of She saw us at our first entry, and said, we have a good cause, and she loved our cause and our persons, but she did not see our call* That night we were alarmed from our guard at Barskimin, that the enemy was come with a party to Mauchline. We sent away and strengthened the guard both by foot and horse at the bridge and caused them send off this same John Ross towards Mauchline, to see what certainty there was therein. John Ross returns us word that It was only Mr. John Guthrief with some Tarbol- 'liu W ' ' ■■■■ ■ . • .. , , . * Sir John Cochrane of OchUtree's lady was Margaret, second (Kennet'8 Chronicle, p. 899.) Walter Strickland, (Lady Cochran"s uncle) who had been agent of the Parliament ^f En/land af the Hague, was no friend of the Presbyterians, as appef« from th following extract of a letter of his, dated June 6th 1650 "One piece of the cure(viz. of the dangers that threaten your New Stotet must be phlebotomy, but then you must begin before decumbencv and then It wdl be facile to prevent danger, &c. They are h"^ niost of all afraid of your High Court of Justice, which they doubt may much discourage their party. But whosoever that court condemns, let them be asah-eady dead, &c. But let them be most free in cutting the Vena Cephalica (that is, the Presbyterian party) for the Basilica (or Royal party) will be latent. The Me. Ir^Z I "'"^ """"■'^ ^' 'P'^'^ «« ""''h ^ «n»ybe, that the body be not too much emaciated. Besides, the blood is most corrupt m the Cephalicks (or Presbyterians) and is the verv causa continens of our disease. You need not fear to take freely of this vein, &c."~(Presbyterian Loyalty, 306, 307.) t He was brother to Mr. William Guthrie, minister of Fen- THE RISING AT PENTLAND. 39T ton folks, and a brother of Gadgirth's with them, one Robert Chalmers.* For intelligence they could only give us, that there was a strong re- port the Duke's troop was come to Kilmarnock ; but they hoped that night we should get the cer- tainty of it, because they had caused John Ross, with three more, to go towards Kilmar- nock, to get certain intelligence. That night, after prayer to God for direction what to do next, it was concluded that we should march eastward. For there was no staying where we were, and there was no expectation of any farther help from the south and southwest hand ; Carrick having sent none, for ought I know, except some odd one or other; as for Cunninghame and Renfrew, we had ground to expect any they would send would come to us, with captain Arnot and others we had sent to advertise them and bring them up. Besides this, there was an earnest invitation sent us from Clydesdale, in particular from Black- wick. Having been seized with a violent fit of the gravel, through cold and fatigue, he was obliged to be carried off from the army at Bathgate, and was not present at Pentland. Notwith- standing this, he was tried and forfeited, August 16, 1667. (Wodrow, i. 348; app. 110, 111.) It appears that he was dead before November 1, 1676 ; for on that day the privy council send " Mary Haldane, relict of Mr. John Guthrie, minister at Tarbol- ton," and another minister's Widow, to prison, " until they shall find caution, under a thousand merks each, to remove from the town of Edinburgh, and six miles round it." (lb. p. 427.) * He was forfeited, but obtained a remission. (Wodrow, i. 268; app. 113.) 398 Wallace's narrative of wood, to come thither ; promising us, besides what we might expect in the country, himself and one hundred men with him. Now, we knew the enemy would bestir themselves to meet with us before our friends should come at us, and la- bour to take us at the weakest, for they wanted not intelligence that same night we came to Ochiltree, by the laird of Barskimen, who had gone towards them from Ochiltree, as we were certainly informed.* Upon the morrow, being Friday, we marched towards Cumnock, but before we came that length, John Millar in Glasgow, who had been one of those sent off for intelligence, came and told us that John Ross f and the rest of that party were taken prisoners by the Duke's troop, and that he himself had hardly escaped, having lost his horse and arms. This day the enemy's whole body came to Kilmarnock. Prom Cum- S'nce I wrote this, I have information that the Council of ScoUand have sent 2000 foot and 500 horse to queU the rebels- expecting a conjunction of more forces from the Duke of Hamil- ton, my Lords Anandil, Dumlarick, CDrumlanrickT and others assuring us they would be able to master them presently."— (Lord Arlington to the Duke of Ormond, Whitehall, November 26 leee; in Brown's Miscell. Aulica, p. 429.) t John Ross was executed at Edinburgh, December 7, 1666. He 18 one of seven who sign a declaration and testimony, preserveil mtheWodrowMSS.No.lx. art. 43, which differs in the ar- rangement from that which is published in Naphtali, though the tenour of the two papers is the same. 2 THE RISING AT PRNTLAND. .'^99 nock we marched the same night to the Moor- kirk, in a most violent rainy night, and a piece of miserable way, two hours within night, and what accommodation in that condition we could have there, is known to any who knows that place. The poor foot were forced all night, as wet as if they had been drenched in water, to lie in the kirk, without victuals or much fire. That night came the goodman {alias Mr. An- drew M*Cormack) to me, about 10 o'clock at night, from his quarters, two miles, to acquaint me that Mr. Robertson and Robert Lockhart had come to that place, and had been earnestly dealing with him and Mr. Brysone, {alias Mr. Gabriel Semple) to follow the business no farther, for there was no ground to expect any help either from Clidesdale or any where else, that might give us any ground to follow it farther; and therefore their advice was, that we Mrould, the fairest way and the handsomest we could, dis- miss the people, and let every one see to himself, while (until) the Lord gave some better oppor- tunity. This was so pressed by them, that the goodman was constrained to come away to me, and these with me, the same night. This was the comfort we had from him and Robert Lock- hart, under that sad condition of a foul night and ill quarter we were in. Always that same 400 WALLACE'S NARRATIVE OP inght, I sent away Murreif * and the goodrnan to Mr. John Guthrie, who was at Mr. John Raid's house, a rnile off, to acquaint him there- with. To-morrow morning when we met, hear- ing that captain Arnot v as coming up with two hundred men out of Cuninghame, and that there were a hundred more coming out of Gallo- John Maxwell, younger of Murreif (Monreith) wa.; for- felted for being in arms at Pentland. (Wodrow, i. app. lOS, lin His father, WiUiam Maxwell of Monreith, was appointed a Com- m«.ioner of Supply for Wigton, January 23, 1667, a short time after the suppression of the rising. (Act. Pari. Scot. vii. 544.) It IS doubtful whether Wodrow had the father or the son in his eye, when he gives an account of a narrow escape which "Max- well of Monmef " made in 1668, by conceal: .,, himself in a meal- tub, on which one of the soldiers rapped with his hand as he pass- edit, swearing in jest, that the Whig might be there. (Wod- row, i. 292.) Mr. Sempil informs us that he went to Ireland some time after the batUe of Pentland, with the lairds of Mon.l reif and Sundewal. whom he styles « two as serious, tender, and pubhc-spu-ited Christians," as he ever knew. At Dublin Monreith contracted a tympany, of which he died at Benbarb or Armagh (Sempil's Life, MS. p. 49.) Mrs. GoodaU mentions an escape which he made in her house at Armagh. " The officers are sent for mv husband, and coming in to our house to the fire-side (where my husband was sitting with Mr. Maxwell, the laird of Moncrief [;Monereif 3 in Galloway, who was but newly come to visit us) say to him, ' Mr. GoodaU, you are the King's prisoner.' My husband went hastUy with them, and whispered into my ear, ' My dear, dispatch Mr. Maxwell out of our house, lest he be sent for next.' So my husband was imprisoned, and Mr. Maxwell got safely escaped into the country." (MS. Memoir, ut svpra, p. 10.) John Maxwell of Monreith, ^/onn^srer, is the person referred to, both by Mr. Sempil and Mrs. GoodaU. (Comp. Inq. Retor. Wigton, 164, 165.) THE BI8INO AT PENTLAND. 401 way, after prayer, it was concluded to march to- wards Douglas, and, by the way or there, spend some considerable time together upon Mr. Ro- bertson and Robert Lockhart's proposal. So we marched towards Douglas, having sent back a party for intelligence, and to wait upon Captain Amot's upcoming, who came up ; but his two hundred was not forty more nor he carried with him. We came to Douglas on Saturday at night, (Nov. 24) and ordered the whole troops to come in, after they had suppered themselves and their horses, to the town, and bring some forage with them; and the troops to lie together, at such a place appointed for rendezvous, while (until) day; — ^the whole foot being in the kirk. We were advertised by friends that we would be alarmed that night, 80 therefore we strengthened ourselves beyond our ordinary guards. i. J J. When these things were done, we met all toge- ther, and after most serious incalling of the name of God, the matter as spoken by Mr. Ro- bertson and Robert Lockhart, both the thing it- self and all the arguments they did urge it by, were held forth ; and, after a long time's speak- ing to the full upon the business, first the minis- ters' own voices were desired, and after tb^n every particular gentleman's own mind was ask- ed. Without one contrary voice all resolved on this, that the coming forth to own that people in Galloway, they were clear, was of the Lord, 2 D 402 Wallace's narrative of and in that they had done nothing but followed his call. Second, many friends had promised, yea not only solemnly promised, but most effectually laboured with others, to come forth. « If these now shall leave us. betwixt them and their mas- ter be it ; but as for me (saidevery one) while the Lord himself that bade me come, bid me like- wise go, I will not go. Our master whom we serve (we know well, if ever there was a hand- ful about whom he exercised a providence, it is about us) he needs no men, or if he will make use of men, we will not want ; and who knows but the service he will have is but of so many whom he has particularly designed ? And before we should now so shamefully and cowardly turn our back on him. and steal away from his cause," (they knew that it was but death, if not worse, any life they could have else.) "we should follow on tiU he should do his service by us, and though we should all die at the end of it. we think the giving of a testimony enough for all." So there Was no more of that. Only there was two things proposed : The one was, the renewing of the cove- nant, which was to have been to-morrow, being Ae Lord»s dajP^ at some kirk by the way towards Lanark; but > hearing that the general's forces were come to Straven, we thought it not safe nor convenient : The other was, what course should be taken with Sir James Turner. Though there was no quarters given him, yet because of some (I THE RISING AT PENTLAND. 400 words by the geuileruen that took him, and be- cause of his being now, after so long a time, ftpat<- ed; — for these reasons, this motion of pintoling him was slighted, alas ! it is to be feared too much. u I Mi\ As we marched the morrow morning towards Lesmahago, being the Sabbath day, (Sdth) Knock*, breck's two sons* came to us, with sorae few others. These were the hundred men we had heard were coming from Galloway, for we saw no other. We marched close by Robert Lockhart's house, where Mr. Robertson was with Mr. Robert Lockhart. None of them came out (though it was but three or four paces from the house) to countenance us so much ; yet some of our company, iu the by- coming, spoke with them, such as Mr. Brysson, Sundaywell, and old worthy Robert Bruce of Skellietoun ;f who most freely and faithfully ac- * John and Robert Gordon, bods of Alexander Gordon of Knockbreckj were executed at Edinburgh. (Wodrow, i. 961.) Their namea are subscribed to the testimony formerly mentioned. (Bee before^ p. 398.) The sufferings of their father, both before and after they took up arms, are noticed by Wodrow. (L 9&7, S6J>,4S5.) t Skellietoun is perhaps in Lesmahago parish, where there is a Skelliehill. (Fug. Roll. Wodrow, ii. 107.) In 1663, William Bruce of BkeUietoun, elder and younger, were fined between them in L.600. (Act. Pari. Scot vii. 4f33.), " Robert Bruce in Hamil- tone, one shaken with indulged counsels, though a serious Christ- ian," is mentimed in a letter of Dickson to MacwMd. (Wodrow MSS. No. Ux. Jac. V. 1. 86, art. 106.) 404 WALLACE'S NARRATIVE OF :) ,1 III quitted themselves to them, in particular to Mr Robertson. That day we perfected the modelling o£ our forces, wherein we found great want erf officers, there not being, to the few number we had, half of the officers requisite, not above four or five that ever had been soldiers before * Af ter this we marched towards Lanark, crossing the water hard by the town. After our settling the guards, quartering the rest, havmg given intimation that to-morrow mormng (God willing) we intended to renew the covenant,and desiring thatevery one of them would seriously mind that, work that night, and come hither again about day-light for that end, we dis- tL\ n iTi' '"^r ^"'^*^^^ ^"^ «-^^i post.. That nigh the officers and ministers met, and after mcalhng on the Lord, hearing there were some arms and ammunition to be found inthe town, son's Riddle 37 3« ?!.- v V, T' '-"PP" ®®' *<^»' 8am- M'CuUoTti. ^^ " highly probable that Mw'op John aPI^. 92,) was also one of the officers. He was RnTl * Kjf ""Ti/r ^^«"" ^""^ Kiricc«dbH;h:L iS:.*" ^ct £ 800 bv III- ,rf-^ " '"^''' ^'^""'^ «^ B^holme/' was £neS J..800, by Middleton's act, in 1 668. fib. vii 42« ^ Th^ 1 lng»ofhisfa,niiyarenot,cedbyWodrow fVo i ull ^!'''^" Inq. Retor. Kirkcudbright, all.) ^"^' "' ^' ^''' *"''' «»"'?• THE RISING AT PENTJLAND. 405 we cau8€d make search, but found few or none. The morrow morning (a6th) we drew together in the rendezvous-place at the head of the town. While we are together, news comes that the enemy are within two miles. Some were against meddling with the renewing of th^ covenant, the e»emy being so near; but the devil prevailed not herein, though gladly would he, that that had not been done. Having sent' one with a matter of ten or twelve horse over the water to discover the enemy, and haying a settled guard upon the water-side, and upon the boat, we wen* about it* The foot were drawn up about, the tolbooth stairs, where Mr. Guthrie did stand: the horse at the head of the town, where Mr. Brysson and Mr. Crookshanks were actors. It was done with as much joy and cheerfulness as may be supposed in such a condition. They prefaced with speak-* iug on some place of Scripture.* . . . ./ . • .-'i»*4Hf«=»''n^«i'*^. )wi"j> n, nay, no cover from an extraortr aryriun. We went into a house. .ncha^T^^' and^ator prayer did consider what we should 2 next : bade we might not go. the ene»y Ct our rear. After much debate, it was thoughf fit that we should march to-morrow, early !nZ w»y towa«is Edinburgh; being confident tC b^re we could come that length, we would he» f^"" w*""^"' Edinburgh ; as likewise our friends m West Calder and Shotts, or thereabouts, would «,me tons that way. and meet us to-moN row. But within a very little after the meeting tt Assolved, we get an alarm from some of o.^ ^ardsrand though it was a dreadfully dark (U»ough but a litUe past the height of the moon.) March that day before, we were necessitated to draw forth and calling i„ the guards, to march « twelve o'clock at night, in one of the darkest nights, (I am persuaded) that ever any in that company saw. Except we had been tied togeaier It was impossible to keep together; and ever^ Me burn was a river. We came near thenew, bndge* about fau: day light; (27th) but O. what a sad sight was it to see the condition we were in. 80 scattered and utterly imdqw, what with one him r/^l?"!/"^"^ *^^ ^**^*«' ^' through Brox- (WeafAl«MBderRdd,p.i6,i7.) «ua ^ouington. THE RISING AT PENTLAND. 409 thing, arid what with another ! Yet within an hour or two, far beyond our expectation, mpat part were gathered, together; howbeit, many got never up. All this time we never heard less or more from our friends in Edinburgh, whichi we thought more than wonderful:; neither came thcare any further help to us from tlie west, whtaace w© expected it. When we drew up on the east side of the new bridge, except some of the chief of- ficers, there was not a captain present with the. horse, save one; and, in the mean time cometh an alarm that the enemy was hard at hand, mai^h-. ingiunto the same bridge.. Judge any man of the posture we wierein,:having:no officers t*? Cjom- mand the few we had together* Always, a party is sent off presently to make good the bridgei; and the body is marched off to take up some fi| ground or other ta fight on» us, tiiat it was,but a false alann, and that the gener ral was not nearer than Calder, if there. After, tlj^ paribywab sent away to Colington, for to J4#n«^ burgh (not hearing any thing from there>.w^ thought it not safe, especially hearing that severals in the country were in arms against us; for they had caused the word to go that there were JkO ships from Holland come tol)unbar, and that w^ were upon our march thither to join with them. We heard likewise in the country, that Eduft-' «]0 WALLACE'S NAllIUTIVE OP bnrgh Birf Leith Ircre all in arms.' Now. hav- ing no intelligence from our friends, we nsolved to nnrch towards Colington bridge. The party being gone, Blackwood then desires to speak with the commanders and others. All thaVhe had to say was, in short, to see if he could per- suade n, to 1^ down arms upon an act of Jnd»,. mtr, which the dnke (said he) would labour to I»ocure.^ He had no written commission irom any : what he spoke to this puiipose he .poke it not only as sent from the duke, but it was hi, own juogment we should a«ept of the offisr, and that it would be ««T best . for, in aU probability n»« "f.^ """'" "'"■* '^'^ *»>■ i^ n »e.pect of the number of their men, tad of itrl'^^"'- "*",' ^"""^ ""'■ He spoke some. fl..ng_hkewi8e of our sending on to deal for a ^^^v. ^' "^^ '*■ ^^ «°y ««* *o. tf«^fi«a, d.e«. to uar he answered, not. After sota* freedom used to himself, to take good heed l^r"!T'l" *"* "'^^ " ^^e no «maU c»Mhm>ent ttf'hun so to do. being looked upon ^^UB as a real frisnd and servant ttthat interest ^/O rfl, (J>%mber^l666;, the town council of EdinlJl^h m.^ down to the baihes thereof.'' (Record of town Council.) THB RISING AT PENTLAND. 411 we were here, for, to.' see well that he walked straightl^ in his dealings both with ns and themsf^ after this, without any thing at. all dond, we parted with him^ seeing no , ground wh6reupon« we ooiild do any thing. iy-tu'if '^4 We sent away some few horsemen to bring iti^ some victuals, in case the quarters at night had' not been Well provided^ Now, haviiig had such a weary journey from Lanark, and from Bathgate, having gotten so little rest and refreshment^or these reasons we resolved, Colington being the most secure place, to let the horse go out » tnile with bilgets, and rrfresh themselves and'horfedd ; and return before night fallvbringing some forage wilJi them. Accordingly we did, having provided the best Way we could for the foot' within the) town, and furnished such as wanted with' wihati we sent for from the^country. Guards being eet^ ' the officers went to their ^||iiB^ters.i')W^«fweni-noi' well there when Blackwood* erane^ ngiaiii; dnd Ci :j^aiuo'xu;j • William Lawrie mai^ied Mariot Weir, heifess of BlackwpocL . and was tutor of Blackwood during the minority of his son ana, grandson. (Douglaii, Bar. i66. Inq. de TuteUi, ibie.) He ^A^ imprisoned iimiaediately after dut Imttle of Pesttiland,- prdbably on account of the intercourse he had held ,irith theinmngeats;, , fip^, after a gradual relaxation^ was liberated fi-om confinement oh the'' 9th of October, 1667, on enacting himself to keep the peace under pain of 5000 merks. (Decreta Seer. Cone. March 7 and 21, Aug. 1> and Oct. 9, 1661.) He ^as one of the witness^ a^nist i Colonel Wallace. (Wod. i. app. 107.) In 16^3 he W9s brougt^i' to trial for intercourse witii the rebels at Both well Bridge, and 1 r •*1S WALLACE'S NABBATIVE OP the laird of Barskiming with him. It was thought very strange how he or any „,sn had passed fhe guards, but p,en not Icnowing discipUne are not to be looked upon as othera. Besides the ^ewing the same things he spoke of before a«dcwood added that, in reference to whatTj h^been speakmg of our seeking a cessation for UMt, till his coming back to-morrow mornins ^\ ^1 ^ "*"* ^""^ ""^ ''■«'^«' the gen- »d should not 22 WALLACE'S NARRATIVE OP he was imprisoned a while, and thereafter set at liberty. Caldwell, Kersland,* and Bedland, were sought for, and their houses barbarously rifled and plundered by the soldiers, themselves fled off standing his turning informer against his associates, he did not escape trovbie. On the 85th of March, 1667, he was/ after several months* imprisonment, removed, on his peUtion, from tl e tolbooth to the castle of Edinburgh, «if the Lord Lyon can ao- commodate him." (Deer. Sec. Condi.) And on the Slst of November that year, he was ordered to be set at liberty en his giving bond to keep the peace under ^looo Scots. (Wodrow, i. abii ^* "* ^^^ *** ^^^ ^^ *' ^* °" ^" ^^^ *° Carolina. * Captain Thomas Crawfurd of Jordanhill (who surprised the ^tle of Dumbarton in 1571) married Janet, heiress of Robert Ker of Kersland, the representative of a very ancient famUy in Ayrshire. (Crawfurd's Renfrew, 71.) His eldest son, Daniel, succeeded to the tide and estate of Kersland, and waa succeeded by his son Httgh. (Inq. Retor. Renfrew, 68, 809 j Ayr, 179, SS8.) Hugh was alive in 1644, (Act. Pari. Scot. vi. 133,) and was either the father, or (which is more probable) the grandfather of "Robert Kerof Kersland, younger," who was at the batUe of PenUand. In a list of the rents of certain forfeited estates made in 1669, Ktrsland is valued— « Victual 119 boUs, deducing to Old Kersland 60 bolls." (MSS. m Adv. Lib. folio. No. xxxii. M. 6 14, art. 78.) Robert Ker of Kersland, younger, was a commission- er of supply in 1661. (Ibid. vii. 92.) His estate was given to Lieutenant.<3cneral Drummond, after his forfeiture, which was ratified by Parliamentin 1669, and rescinded by it in 1690. (Wod- row, i. 268; app. No. xvi. Samson's Riddle, 139, 144. Act. ParL Scot. vii. 562; ix. 199.) His escape to Holland, his appre. henaion on his return to Scotland, his second escape after a long imprisonment, and his death at Utrecht, Nov. 14, 1680, are re- corded by Wodrow. (i. 423—425.) There is preserved a draught of a petition to the Privy Council, in which the petitioner, after mentioning that he had been confined for five years in different THB RISING AT PENTLAND. 423 the kingdom, and were forfeited of life and estate at Lammas next. Their rents were uplifted by two ruffians appointed by Dalziel and Drummond, who trusted his Majesty would not deny them their estates for their good service ; but they were prisons, says, " in the very coldest of this season., and in such a time when Some of them were wrestling under heavy and sad sick- ness, others enduring pains of the stone-gravel so excessive as can- not be expressed, were my thus pained children extruded out of the castle with all the rest, except one daughter, who, with my- self and tender wife, and one servant, were thrust up to another room, that is known to be intolerable for smoke and cold." The petition condudes with a request for " a change of imprisonment to Edinburgh castle," with the view of having an operation per- formed ou the child afflicted with the stone. The name of the petitioner has been carefully deleted, bul on a narrow inspection appears to be *' Robert Ker of Kersland," prisoner in the " castle of Stirling." The date, which has been altered, was originally ] 67S. In a note on the back of the petition, in a different hand- writing, and apparently Kersland's, the petitioner signifies that, after the draught was made, he hesitated as to its being his duty to present it, <* being diffident of treating or tampering with these so dreadfully-given-up men." (MSS. in Adv. Lib. Jac. V. 8, 26, art. 30.) A letter, which appears to be written by the same per- son to M acward, is dated, " From my closs prison at Stirling castle, the SlstDec. 1673." The writer says, " though I know not if Forbes (Colonel Wallace) be there, yet about a week ago I wrote to him, which was my second. I wrote also to the good old provost." He mentions that he had been visited by Mr. Thomas Forrester, curate of Alva, " to whose recantation my Rob. Jea. and Meg, with a great gathering of honest people, were auditors." (MSS. utsiqyra, Jac. V. i. 26, art. S8.) Robert Ker left a widow, Barbara Montgomery, a son, Daniel, and tlirce daughters. Daniel being killed, in 1692, at the battle of Steinkirk, John Crawfurd of Fergushill, a cadet of the family of Crawfurdland, who married m-i.. 424 Wallace's NARRATIVE OF both disappointed ; and these, their chamberlains were forced to make their accounts to the Exl chequer, who appointed the laird of Housle* to uplift these rents, and make account to the said lords of Exchequer. fr. ' f r r*"" "^^"°^'* ^"' ''^'^'"^ '^^ "^"""e, title, and IT i I ^"""^ °^ ^*'^''°^- H^ '' *« ««*or oi the iook sh^t atl!) **" "**'' ^'"''*"* ^^''"'"'^ Ay'- • The person here referred to is James Dunlop of HousehiU whose father, Thomas, (fourth son of James Dunlop of that ilk) purch^ AelandsofHousehillin 164«. (CrawfuJd's Renfrew 45, 328. He was a Justice of the Peace for Renfrew, and a com- ^LTn'J^J"^ " .^' ^^ "°* "*^"P" *« »«^«"«^« of that time !^«L ? foj "^g^ge*"* in suppressing conventicles in 1676, obliged to^thdraw for refusing to take the bond in 1678, and What IS stated m the text respecting the forfeited estates committed tLflZ'Tr.*n '"'^ "'"■''=' '" ^''- "" commission to U^at purpose, dated Oct. : . 1667, is inserted in Wodrow, i. app m ^,^;. /V! P'"^''"^ *** the rents of these estates had been f^lTl ''''^' T,"'^ '' ''''''"' ^«'^^^^> *«• -d that the lords of the treasury obliged them to account for their intromis- sions to the laird of HousehUl; but these estates were, in the (Samsons Riddle. Wodrow, i. app. No. xviii. Crawfurd^ Renfrew SOI, S02.) During the time that they were under WousehUl s management, an attempt was made to secure them to the respective families, by compounding with the government. There « a letter, dated May 27, 1669, from Sir George Maxwell of Nether PoUock, (then a prisoner in Stirling castle) to MrV Thomas Hay, one of the clerks of Privy Council, proposinfi a composition for the lands of Caldwell, Kerseland, QuareUton, THE IIISING AT PENTLAND. 425 As there were not many come to help this honest party from other shires, so the several rendezvous in the shires for helping to suppress the rebels were but very slack, and these that met (according to the public order) came so ac- coutred, as testified they minded not to do the rebels much harm. Only the three Lothians were very active in and about the time of the skirmish, and after, in the flight, took many more than Dalzell's men did, and killed severals also in their escaping ; for which they may look for a scourge in due time for their savage cruelty, from him in whose sight the blood of the saints is precious. * Baidland, and of Alexander Porterfield, Quarellton's brother, for vrhich Sir George promises to be cautioner for a limited time. In another letter to Hay, not intended for ''public use," Sir George tells him, " this I understand, that, besides the 80,000 merks in it (the public letter) expressed, you shall have, for your pains to get it done, 6000 merks." (MSS. Adv. Lib. No. xxxii. M. 6, 14, art 79.) * On this occasion, the influence of some of their clergy was not wanting to inflame the minds of the people. Mr. Andrew Cant, minister at Libberton, it appears, had been very violent in his declarations from the pulpit, particularly by applying to the insurgents the following words of the prophet: " They shall pass through it hardly bestead and hungry, and it shall come to pass, that, when they shall be hungry, they fhall fret themselves, and curst their king and their God, and look upward." Cant, in a re- ply to Mr. John Nevay, who had remonstrated with him on his conduct, says : — " That place of Isa. viii. '21. I did indeed ac- commodat to the west countrie men the Sabbath immediately pre- ceding theire defeat, and though Naphtalis blood ferment all, 4i6 WALLACE'S NARRATIVE OF The country barbarians of Lothian had good example of their chief city, Edinburgh, whose provost. Sir Andrew Ramsay, with all the citi. zens, showed themselves very active against these poor people, that were coming eastward with no ill wiU against them, but to present their desires to the council, for freedom from intolerable op- pression of the prelates; but these furious towns- men mind nothing of the quarrel, but in their madness and folly (to show their loyalty) puts all m arms to resist the rebels, if they should offer to enter the town; and for more security, the provost devises a new oath, causing the several captains, and their companies, to swear it to this piu'pose. f " The Lord provost presented ahe act of privie counsell for securing the toun, conforrae whereto the whoU capitanes, except Capitan Bell, who is not in ye cuntrie, took ye oath that they should be trew and faithfuU to ye king, and that they should defend his authority, and maintain even to the bringing his rayling accusation against me for this, and yow ar pleased to refer me to the Dutch annotations for the nght meaning of the text, I find no reason to repent what I epoke, the hand of God without aU peradventure being in it, for before I went up I made accompt of saying nothing like." (A. Cant to John Nevay, Libberton, October -68, and Edinburgh, November 18, -68; Wodrow M8S. No. lix. Jac. V. 1, 26, art. 7.) THE RISING AT PENTLAND. 427 the same against this Insurrectione and rebellion, and any other that shall happen with the haiseard of their lives and fortuns, and the counsell appoynt- ed the respective capitans to take the oathes of the rest of the officers and wholl souldiers, as lykwayes conforrae to the said order, the counsell appo3nits sex companies to keep watdi night and day by turns."*] But with all this preparation, they had no more to do but receive the prisoners of that honest, though broken, party, who were brought in that night after the defeat by Dalyell's men, having their hearts broken with the reproaches and blas- phemies which these jeering atheists spued out * In the MS. a blank ia left for taking in the oath. What is incloeed in brackets is extracted from the Records of Town Coun- cil, November 21, 1666. In the month of May following, when a Dutch squadron appear- ed in the firth of Forth and fired into Leith, the writer of the His- tory in which Wallace's Narrative is embodied, says, " The men of Edinburgh went downe in companies to defend Leith, but they loved not General Dayell his command, who yet, for as wicked as he was, could cast up to them their naughtiness. < When your countrey folks (sayes hee to them) the Whigs were up, ye were busie then who might run fastest; but now when the common enemie appeirs, yee cannot be gotten out of your houses.' Thus he; and that not without cause, for the alarm cam at ten o'clock at night, but for all the drums beating and common bell ringing, it was the morrow at 4 o'clock in the morning ere any of them came to Leith. Indeed, in the other case, when those honest people came to Colintoune, they raged like mad men ; but beer they wer tame eneuch."— (MS. ut supra, p. 371.) 428 Wallace's narrative of against God, godliness, religion, ^nd all fear of God, by the way as they came in, raked, and many bleeding in their wounds. The dead were spoiled of their clothes, and laid naked before the moon by night and the sun by day, by tie mU diers and the barbarinns of Lothian, as if the victory had been gotten over Turks ; but the - godly women of Edinburgh came out the mor- row with winding sheets, and buried them. Yet worthy Mr. Crookshank's body was not found among them, nor yet M«Cormick's. Report went for a year after, that Mr. Crookshanks was yet alive ; but thereafter it was concluded, that there was no truth in it. The town received the prisoners, which the godly people of the town esteemed the saddest sight that evev Edinburgh had seen, which drew tears in abundance from the eyes of all that feared God, considering what vast difference there was between the persons and the cause on the one side and the other ; and surely a most ^stomshing dispensation it was, to see a company of holy men (for such were the greatest part, yea but few otherwise) and that in a good cause,' given up into the hands of a most desperate crew of scoffing, prophane atheists. But God had called them together (it seems) to have a testi- mony at their hands ; and that he missed not, for he helped them to glorify him in their suf- terings, v/hich made their cause more lovely THE RISING AT PENTLAND. 429 throughout all parts of the land, even in the eyes of enemies and neutrals, than their victory would have done. The provost caused imprison them all together in an old kirk called Haddow's Hole, where the charity of the godly people of the town appeared in furnishing them with all necessaries, both for maintenance and the healing of their wounds. There were about fifty prisoners ; but by acces- sion of these whom the Lothian barbarians hud taken, there were within two or three days after about eighty prisoners. The chief whereof were captain Andrew Arnot, * brother to the laird of Lochridge inStewarton of Cunninghame, taken by some wicked men of Tranent; Mr. Alexander Ro- bison, treacherously betrayed by the laird of Morton after he had delivered his arms upon treaty, to let him go freely where he pleased ;f Mr. * The Parliament in 1649 appointed '^ Captain Andro Arnet to be Root-master" to the troop of horse in the sheriiiUom of Fife and Kinross, commanded by Lord Elcho. — (Act. Pari. Scot. vi. 389, 392.) He subscribed the protestation against the meetings of the General Assembly, in 1651 and 1652, which approved of the Public Resolutions.— (Representation— and Protestation, p. 18.) In 1661, " Captaine Arnot in Lochrig" was fined along with others, to repair the injuries sustained by the Earl of Queensberry and his son in 1650. (Act. Pari. Scot. vii. 96.) t The person who apprehended Robison was Sir John Gib- son of Pentland, (second son of President Durie) who " possessed all and sundrie the lands of Mortoim and Mortoun-hall." (Act. 480 Wallace's narrative op of Bothwell, taken alio by the countrypeople about P«l. Scot, .ill 973.) He w«, one of the clerk, of Sewion • and that he wu. alive at the time here referred to aoDeaTftln ♦? foUowin .e, of sederunt rcpecUng his son. iuXh ,6 " Z Lord. -nominated Mr. Alexander Gib«,n to continue in th^ Uoned m th.. narrative. The one accompanied Colonel w'l^e7X Bdinburgh, left him on the way to the weat, and never E 2 p. SS34, 836.) The other was taken by the laird of Morton anrl executed at Edinburgh. That he was. different ^ni^rthe fomer JPPears from hia trial. « The am^e unanLTsly, ^0! voice-flnd»-Mr. Alexander Robert«,ne to be guilty of'ryZ and joymngm arms with the rebells, and that he was one oTthoJ that went to Dumfries and seized on Sir Jame. Turnerrand haT he went alongst with the rebeUs to Aire, and that he Cat La' nark, and took the covenante with the rest of that party there andtlTh ^'''* "'*^ ^^'"^ "" CoUingtoune and PenUand h^'; and that he was in armes at the conflict with Captoine Amote agiunst his M^esties forces, and that he had a drawen sword^ere «.d disdiarg«i hi, pistols in the fight."-(8.mson's RiddrsT 870 He «ldre««d the following letter to Captain Arnot^i^ bably on the morning of the hitter's execuUon : « Dbah P^iend now in tears, bot ere long in joy, I drink this cup to you : but the Z r f ''*"" :'" "^ ''"" """^^^ "^ ^-«- I have h dmuch 1 berue for you this night. Run the race with courage : make Stepping stone, of your wife and children; it is an excellent change and niffer you are to make: Insteed of the wife of your bosome, handsome and heartsome, enjoyment of Christ without intermission; instead of peace with the world, peace with i^od, and peace of conscience which wiU give you the true e^oyment of just peace with God. You are credited with that which hath been the desire of precious godly men, and THE niSlNO AT PENTLAND. 481 Braidm^iaigR. All these throe ^vere put up in the tolbooth. Thomas Paterson, merchant of Glas- gow, died in Haddow's Hole of his wounds, within four or five days after ; and the provost having caused instruments be taken that he was dead, some honest men in the town caused warn their neighbours to the burial privately ; lest if Burnet, bishop of Glasgow, hdi! got notice, he should have impeded his burial, >r done some violence to his corpse. Ihi ^ wa*^^ his body bu- ried honestly in the Greyfr ^^s:, vf'hich was no sooner interred, than the said bishop sent to the grave, and thereupon protested, that the said Thomas Paterson, rebel, his dying unforfaulted yet the Lord wolil not make use of them as vessels to pour such liquor into; and he hath chosen you. O give him thanks! O praise, O hlesse, blessc, blesse him ! Ye have the forestart of me ; O if I were counted worthie ! Noe more, being in hast, but leaves you to him who will wype away all tears from your eyes with the napkin of pardoning mercie. I rest, Your's in Christ, Alex. Robertsok, with you in prison." The letter is addressed " For Ms dear friend, in the same bonds with me, (though I be not credited with the same work) Captain /mot." (MSS. ill Adv. Lib. No. xxxii. M. 6, 14, art. 63.) — Cap- tain Arnot was executed on the 7th of December, 1666. Mr. Al- exander Robertson was tried on the 10th, and executed on the 1-lth of the same month. 2 432 WALLACE'S NARRATIVE, &c. of life and estate, might not prejudge his Ma jesty of the escheat of his goods, moveables, and all that appertained unto him * A J/"?^^ ^'T '°*^'""'^ "'"^'> I '"° of opinion that Colonel Wallace 8 Narrative ends with the description of the batUe bu 1 haveUiought it proper to continue the account to the place 4 Je the first distinct break in the manuscript occurs. M END OF Wallace's narrative. NARRATIVE OF THE RISING SUPPRESSED AT BOTHWELL BRIDGE ; WRITTEN BY JAMES URE OF SHARGARTON WITH NOTICES OF THE WRITER. 2 F Th Kip] lingi Inl « Ei shirt and Rob( inU the ! The chan, thef 1644 *Ci + F( NOTICES OF JAMES URE OF SHAIIGARTON. The lands of Shargarton lie in the parish of Kippen, and are described sometimes as in Stir- lingshire, and at other times as in Perthshire. In 1485, king James III. granted the lands of " Easter Leckie and Shargarton" in Stirling-: shire, to Andrew, Lord Evandale, in liferent, and to Alexander Stewart, his nephew, in fee.* Robert, master of Mar, obtained from James V., in 1541, a charter to "the lands of Shirgarton," in the stewartry of ^Monteith, and shire of Perth. The Earl of Mar disponed them in 1597, to Bu- chanan of Amprior, from whom they came into the family of Ure sometime between 1619 and 1644. f In the last-mentioned year, and in * Crawfurd's Renfrew, 228. t Fountainliall's Dccis. ii. 262, 2«3. IiKjuis. Retor. Perth. Nos •W, 316, 412. Inq. Valor, ii. DeTiitcla, 458. N-, 436 NOTICES OF JAMES URE. ■•♦i 1647, James Ure of Shargarton was one of the committee of war for the sheriffdom of Perth * It is probable that this gentleman was the father of the writer of the subsequent narrative. His mother must have been twice married, as Mr. Peter RoUo (or RoUock) is mentioned, in a docu- ment to be quoted, as her son, and brother to James Ure of Shargarton. The latter married Elizabeth, daughter of William Montgomery of Macbeth-hill, a descendant of Lord Montgomery.! An account of lire's sufferings has been pre- served in manuscript, which I shall give entire. La the way of adding to it other particulars which I have met with.f It is introduced with a de- scription of the state of the parish of Kippen and its neighbourhood before the rising at Bothwell. " From the year of our Lord 1670, (says the wri- ter of that paper) constant troubles and sufferings attended the preaching of the gospel by the presby- terian ministers about Kippen, Gaigunnock, and Monteith, where Mr. John Law, Mr. Thomas • Act Pari. Scot. vi. 134, 278, 301. * t Douglas, Baronage, 524. William Montgomery (the father- in-law of Ure) was served heir to his grandfather, Adam Montgo- mery of Macbiehill, within the parish of Stewarton, and baiUiary of Cunninghame, July 27, 1655. (Inq. Retor. Ayr, 478 : comp. No. 658, and Gen. 3982.) } This MS. was in the possession of Wodrow, who has extract- ed the principal facts in it; (Hist. ii. 260, 261;) but the whole deserves publication. NOTICES OF JAMES URE. 4S7 Forrester, (having now left the episcopal com- munion,) and several other ministers did preach to the people, and Mr. John King (who was ex- ecuted) was clandestinely ordained minister at Port, Mr. Archibald Riddell at Kippen, and Mr. George Barclay at Gargunnock. A meeting was frequently kept at Arnmanwell in Kippen, where one John Knox (a man of the same family with the great reformer) did zealously manage and help forward the work of the Lord ; but a party of soldiers are sent cut to impede the conventicles (as they were then called) thereabouts, and the meetings in that country are by them frequently scattered, the people taken and harassed. A small party of soldiers are sent from Stirling disguised, to take Mr. King, then at Cardross, and bring him in, and having apprehended him, the alarm is raised through Monteith and Kippen ; the people rise to rescue him ; the soldiers find it unsafe for them to carry him through either of these straths,'*' therefore they take him east the mosses ; the peo- ple see them, gather from the east side of Forth^ and take him from the soldiers in the moss be — south Boquhaple, in which action one Norrie is killed by the soldiers. The people, for attending these meetings, were apprehended, some sent to Stirling, Glasgow, &c. and thence sent abroad ; among whom one Donald Connell in Buchlivie is * Valleys. m NOTTCFS OF JAMES llRTi. ■e taken, with sevoral others, at a preachisj*^ !,/ Riddell, at Locbleggan, carried to Stirling, Wu^,-^ they lay some time in prison, and thence to Edin- burgh, and shipped at Leith to be carried abroad, but providentiallyre^cued at London. Others were fined; their horse, fows, and other goods poind- ed and carried to Doime, by Dr^iminond of Denstone, v^ho was then judge in that place. Th« petrnk in that country being thus daily oppressed, and hcwi-i 1- of tht rising of the people in the west on tha^ ?nije account, in the year 1679, many of theia rlioose rather to join them, thim live still under diese pressures ; which accordingly they did to the number of fourteen score and above. " Among whom was James Ure of Shargarton. Having left the Episcopal communion and joined the persecuted ministers, and baptized his children with them, he was also exposed to the rage of the government; and soldiers are frequently sent to his house. The curate, Mr. Robert Young, at Kippen is much blamed as an intelligencer against him aad others. And the said James Ure being thus driven from his house and family, he chooses to Sfo find join the west country men, rather than be still m these sad circumstances. Coming to them some time before Bothwell Bridge, all his country- men join themselves to him as their captain ; and he and they are set to keep the bridge-e7 «L where he stayed, maintaining the place courage usly, till the army tlwl. Several of his met -re killed. of NOTICES OF JAMES UEE. 439 (who lie there burled,) and cannons are discharg- ed, and then he narrowly escaped by the care of a faithful servant who kept his horse. Of his company some are killed, others escape, many are taken prisoners and carried to the Gre3^riar's yard, Edinburgh. Witnesses are cited to prove the said James Ure his being in arms there, and this being deponed before the council, he is for- feited as to lands and moveables." He was tried in the beginning of the year 16891. In November preceding, the privy council grant- ed warrant to Sir George Mackenzie, his Majes- ty's advocate, to proceed judicially against forty- six persons in the shires of Linlithgow, Stirling, and Ayr, for being in the rebellion at fiothwell. The trial took place on the 9th of January, when the advocate insisted only against twenty-two, of whom Ure was the first-named. The tenor of the indictment (which has not been published) deserves notice, as a specimen of that odious sys- tem of exaggeration and aggravation, which Sir George Mackenzie introduced into criminal pro- ceedings. The pannels are charged with the murder of two soldiers, although none of them was ever suspected of that crime ; and no attempt was made to bring forward evidence on that head ; nor are the names of the soldiers, or of the com- panies to which they belonged, given. With the same view the assassination of the Archbishop of St. Andrews is introduced. They are also t 440 NOTICES 0¥ JAMES URE» charged as accessory to the conduct of Mr. Rich- ard Cameron at Sanquhar and Aird's Moss, and to the excommunication pronounced by Mr Don aid CargiU at Torwood ; although it was notorl- ous, that Ure and those tried along with him were decidedly opposed to the proceedings of these two ministers. But let the indictment speak for itself "Itisofveritiethatthe saids James Ure of Shergartoun-and the other persons above nam- ed, shaking off all fear of God, conscience, and sense of duty, aUeg^ance, and loyaltie to the king's Majesty, their soveraigne and native prince, most perfidiGUslie and treasonablie presumed, in cold blood, and in the night tyme, upon the day of Apryl, 1679, to murder and kiU ' a souldier in Captain company, and left another of ihe saids souldiers for dead. And John Balfour of Kinloch, David Hackstoun of RathiUet, and others, having, upon the third day of May the said year, kiUeu and murdered his Grace, James late Archbishc^ of St. Andrews, they, to escape justice, and involve others m their guilt, went unto the westerne shyres, and most treasonablie joyned in armes with the persons above named and others, their dissolut and flagitious accomplices, under the com- mand of Robert Hamiltoun, brother to the laird of Prestoun ; and upon the twentie nynth day of the same raoneth of May, a day appoynted for a solemn thanskgiving for his Majestie's restaura- NOTICES OF JAMES URE. 441 tion to the royall government of this kingdome, did goeto the burghe of Rutherglene, and thete moef proudly and treasonablie joyned in armes with the persons above named and others, their dissolut and flagitious accomplices, under the com- mand of Robert Hamiltoun, brother to the laird of Prestoun ; and having with them read acts of their own cojming, they most treasonablie and wickedlie burnt several acts of parliament, assert- ing his Majestie's prerogatives, and establishing the government of the church, drowned out bone- fyres sett on in commemoration of that day. And thereafter they and their rebellious associats, to the number fy ve or sex hundreth, did way-lay a fewe and small number of men, under the com- mand of the laird of Claverhouse, and did most treasonablie and cruellie kill and murder some of his Majestie's souldiers under his command. Lyke as upon the day of June therafter, they did most treasonablie attack and assault & small partie of his Majestie's forces within the toun of Glasgow, under the command of the Lord Rosse and laird of Claverhouse, by whose pru- dence and government these nottor, oppen, and manifest rebells wer repulsed ; and yet being en-^ couraged with promises of men, horse, money, and armes firom others of their treasonable accomplices, they did swell and growe to the number of ten or twelve thousand, and they and the persons above named, marched up and downe the coun- U2 NOTICES or JAMES URE. trey, thiv - tip. uayrea of Lanerk, Aire, Ren- frewe, ta!?:j, liumbartoun, and others, in ware- like a, 1 military powster, robbing and pillageing bis Majestie's good subjects, searching for horse, annes, powder, ball,and other '"istruments of ware, quartering upon, aiiu oppressing iiis Majestie's leidges and people : And they and their accom- plices did mantaine, supplje, comfort, and defend Mr. John Welsh, Mr. Samuel Arnot, and others, forfaulted and declaired rebells for the rebelJion 1666 ; did supplie, shelter, and protect the impi- ous, horrid, and sacralegious murderers of the late Archbishop of St. Andrews. And they and their accomplices, to the nun- aer of nyn or ten th<)U- sand, marched towards Bothwel Bridge and ila- miltoun Muir, wher they did take the boldness to issue proclamations and prent declarations, bearing the treasonable grounds of fher rebellion; and n( t content theifiwith, they and their rebel- lious accompUces presumed to niodell themselves, and take ':e name of le armv, formeir.g and frameing taemselvef m troups, eompanys, and. regiments, nameing colonells of regiments, cap- tains of eompanys, comaianders oi troups, and other officers under the command of the said Kobert Hamiltoun, John Balfour of Kinlocii the 4eceast David Hackh m Rathillet,? d others, the impious and bh i urderers of the late Archbishop of St. Andrews , and they a. ' their accomplices, did incamp themselves at Hamiluun NO riCES OF JAMES UIIE. 44.1 Muir for several dayes together, in June 1679, and ohstinatlie continued in armes, inakeing de- tachments for rifleingand plundering of the coun- trey, to make provision for ther rebellious camp. And notwithstanding of ane proclamation issued forth by his Majestie's privie councill, declairing the said insurrection to be ane boiTed and mani- fest rebellion and bye treason, and commanding these rebells to desist undlp^ doun ther rebellious armes, yet they did most trcc^^onablie continue and iibyd in armes, did beat parlies be drum, and did take the boidnes and presumption to send their commissioners to the royal camp, and treasona- blie did requyre the hubversion and overturning of the gov'-rnment o^ the chu/ch, proudlie and in- Bolenti I casting of ther treasonable and (as ther coivimissioners wer pleased to call them) formida- ble anne^, in which they most treasonablie conti- nued ui ' thi tventie second day of the said monethotJ- 1679; that his Majestie's forces di' attaek and assault them at Bothwelbridge, wher by God*s blessing upon his Majestie's armes, and be the valour and ( duct of James, Dukt Buccleugh and Monmout his Majestie's gene- rail, and officers and sou ers under him, their numerous and rebelli* us arm ^^^as dissipat, rout- ed, and vanquished. To tht ailk rebe^ on the said John Ga'-^ner iriouiiicd and sent o t two horsemen, well appoynt^^d, viz. John . orrest and And lue pen ms ab e nnmed m ^^bp 444 NOTICES OF JAMES UA£. having fled and made their escape, they and the bloodie and sacralegious murderers of the late ArchbishoT jf St. Andrews marched in parties, and in warelike powster, up and down the coun- trey, in the shyree of Dumfries, Wigtoun, Aire, and stewartrie of Kirkcudbright quartering upon and oppressing his Majestie's good subjects, rob- bing and rifleing their goods and houses. And up- on the twentie second day of June 1680, they and the deceast Mr. Richard Cameron hade the bold- nes and confidence to come to the burghe of San- quhar, and at llie marcat croce of the same, after singing of psalmes, did declaire the Kings Majes- tie ane tyrran and usurper ; did proclaime and denunce ware against him, and all who serve un- der or yeald any obedience to him. And accord- inglie, upon the day of July theref or, the deceast Mr. Richard Cameron, David Hack- stoun of Rathilet, and the haill persons above named, and their accomplices, did assault and at- tack a small partie of his Majestie's forces at Ayres Mosse, under the command of the laird of Earleshall, did feight, resist, and oppose them, killed and wounded several of them,untill at length they wer dissipat and defate, the said Mr. Ritch- ard Cameron being killed upon the place, and David Hackstoun of Rathilet and others taken prisoners. Lykeas the persons above named wer present at the treasonable excommunication used by Mr. Donald Cargill against the King's Majes- f.. NOTICES OF .TAMES URR. 445 tie at Tore wood, upon the day of In doeing wherof, or aue or other of the saids deeds, the said James Ure of Shir- gartouu, and the other persons above named, have committed and incurred the crymes and paines of treason above mentioned, and are actors art and part therof, which being found by ane assyse, they ought to be punished with forfaulture of lyff, land, and goods, to the terror of others to com- mitt the like hereafter, as in the saids criminal letters and dittay above specified, insert therintill at more lenth is contained." The sum of the proof led against Ure is con- tained in the following deposition : — " William Millar, boatman at Frewe — about a fourth night or ten dayes befor the defeat at Bothwelbridge, in June, 1" vi*' and seventie nyn, he saw James Ure of Shirgartoun, whom he knewe verie well, ryding in to Glasgowe on a whitt horse, armed with sword and pistolls, and a partie of the re- bells, consisting of the number of tuentie or there- by at his back on foot, and some of them hade swords and guns and some not.** The assize having " found all sufficiently proven" against the pannels, " as being in rebellion with the rest of the rebels at Bothwell bridge, and other places, in June 1679 years," the Lords, on the 17th of January, "adjudge them .o be executed to the death as traitors, when they shall be apprehend- ed — their names, memory, and honours to be ex- 446 NOTICES OF JAMES UllE. tinct—that their posterity may never have p)«ee nor be able hereafter to bruik or joyse any hon- our, office, &c. and to have forfaulted— all and sundry their lands, heritages, tenements, &c. to our sovereign Lord, to remain perpetually with Jiis highness."* The account of Ure, in the manuscript former- ly quoted, proceeds as follows : «« A lion-herald is sent to his house to charge him to appear; ar- rests laid on his rents and goods ; he is inter- communed, and never got his bed kept three nights for nine years, for parties of soldiers are sent to his house v> »r. hirty times ; dragoons lie some- times whc;^. ! ' cs about his house ; his corns, and those c ' f s, tenants, and their other goods, are waf . ^ by them. His tenants provide the rents, beiny .^stly victual, but dare not pay them to his iudy because of the arrest, but secretly told her they were ready, and she sent some persons and took them, as it had been at their own hand, and brought them to her to help to main- tain her family. . " About this time there is a preaching ai a place there called the Gribloch, for being at whicii many were apprehended, among whom were the old lady Shargarteii, a gentlewoman of seventy years, a son of hers called Mr. Peter RoUo, Margaret Mack- lum, wife to c .e Arthur Dougall, miller at New^ miln there, a very godly man, and many others. ■* kecords of the Court of Judiciary, for January 9th and l7th 1682; i;i iliu Register iioust. NOTICES OF JAMES URE. 447 They are carried to Glasgow tolbooth, above six- teen miles, and there thronged together in the prison. The said old gentlewoman falls ill> peti-' tions for liberty, or leave at least to win to the prison doors for air : it could not be granted, and 80 she died there in the crowd. The rest of the prisoners are carried to Dunnotter castle, where they coiitinued some time in misery not to be men- tioned, and afterwards several of them are ship- ped to be sent abroad, among whom Margaret Philip, wife to the said Donald Connell, was one, who was set On land at Leith by the skipper for money. RJiii . ** The mean time a proclamation is issu- ed out, offering L.lOO sterling to any that will bring in the said James Ure dead or alive, upon which he flies for Ireland. Notice is gotten of it, and an order sent to the soldiers at Greenock or Longdyke to search the ships for him there. One Methven that knew him, is sent from Kippen,by Mr. Robert Young curate there, as was alleged and the said Methven afterwards owned. Meth- ven gets a soldier's coat on him, goes with the soldiers in the search to let them know Shargar- ten ; but it was so ordered in providence that he was not in the ships, but in a house near by, when the search was made, and so he escaped to Ireland where he stayed half a year, and then turning anxious to see his lady and children, he adventures home again. But in the mean time 448 NOTICES OF JAMES URE. agreed on in law. Coming home in the night, his lady keeps him so quiet in a room, that for many weeks none knew of it. At lastsheproves with child, and thentherumourgoesthatheis athome,andnow parties are sent to apprehend him. So he and she lie several weeks in the wood of Boquhan all night that year that king Charles died. The cold was so great that the clothes would been frozen together about them when they awoke ; and at day-break he retired to a tenant's house called Duncan Chris- tall, at the moor-end, and was hid in a place made beyond a com mow, and she came to her house. But after this a party is sent to apprehend the lady, for going to conventicles and conversing with her husband, now intercommuned. They carry her with a child on her breast to Stirling, (where she is kept fourteen days,) and then to the Canon- gate tolbooth, Edinburgh, where she lies prisoner fourteen days. Her friends bring her out on bail, to present her before the Lords when called, and give bond to do it under pain of 2000 merks. She is called to attend the council, which she did with her child in her arms ; but by the interposition of Blairdrummond, chamberlain to the Earl of Perth, she is dismissed and not brought into the coun- cil. Her husband proves anxious about her, and ad- ventures in disguise into Edinburgh, where to his great joy he found she was dismissed, and so he returned, keeping himself under hiding till king James's Indulgence. He used frequently to dream NOTICES OF JAMES URE. 449 6f the soldiers coming on him in the night, and whenever he awoke he would get up and fly ; and, accordingly, in a little the soldiers would have come, and finding the clothes warm, would have raged exceedingly, and carried the master of the house prisoner with them. At the Revolution he went in to Edinburgh, with severals with him, to guard the convention of estates, where his forfei- ture is declared null, and his name stands there among others who had been unjustly forfeited; yet he behoved in gratitude to pay his friends the sum they had in kindness to his family advanced in buying his forfeiture before. He goes with a company to Argyle's, regiment then listed, and being made his captain-lieutenant, he continued therein till the national troubles wei 3 all over ; for which Cannon and Buchan, with a party, coming down on Kippen, and burning several pieces of my Lord Cardross' lands in Garden, they also attacked his [Ure's] house, which his lady did manfully keep out against them ; but his goods and those of his tenants are carried off by them. He was active in the time of the Toleration,* in conjunction with fioquhau and Glentirran, for building the meeting- house at Glentirran, with a good manse, to Mr. George Barclay who preached ; and the whole peo- ple went to that place, none staying with the curates but some few Jacobite lairds and their adherents. * This refers to the Toleration granted by Janiei II. in 168T. SI 6 4^0 NOTICES OF JAMES URE. He outlived the late rebellion, [in 17X5,] and saw t^ providence of God, in making some drops pf the cup his persecutors had meted out to him pass- ing over to themselves. One thing was remarkable about him in his hiding : the curate, Mr. Young, had gotten a piece of his ground, called the Half- acre, annexed to his glebe, and he had no access to appear to defend his right ; but one morning in harvest he gathers his tenants, shears the ground, and leads home the victual to his own house. But the government made him pay well for it. He continued zealous to his principles against the .Ja- cobite lairds and the curates to the last, with whom he had many encounters. He was kind to the sick ; and after all his trouWes died in peace in his own house, being much lamented by all the goo4 people that had been acquaint with him."* I have little to add to the facts contained in the above paper. In the year 1689, Ure was a cap- tain of militia, and in the following year was ap- pointed a c« mmissioner of supply, for the shire of Pcrth.t He had a son of the same name with himself, who was a writer to the signet, and alive in 1710.t T^ 1748 the property was held by Jotm **MS. in Advocates Library: No. X3»vii. Bob. III. 3, 12, art. 14T. t Act. Pari. Boot. ix. 27, 141. X Fouptainhall's Decis. ii. 6Q8. This refer* to a process against h'xn by Mr. Michael Potter, who was admitted minister of Kippen in 1700. (lb. 424.) The presbytevy of Dunblane had designed as part of a glebe, Iwlf an acre of Siuiifarton'B lands. He pleads NOTICES OF JAMES URE. 451 Vre, brother and repreeentative of James Ure de- ceased.* On the 17th 6i July 1756, James Ure re- ceived a disposition of the lands of Shirgartoun, in which a certain line of substitutes was settled ; and he granted, of the same date, a separate obli- gation, whereby he bound himself ** not to sell nor contract debt, nor do any other deed where- by the lands of Bhirgartoun may be any ways af- fected/' Nevertheless he afterwards disponed them gratuitously to the Earl of Crawfurd and Hugh Crawfurd ; but on the suit of Mary Ure, " his heir after his death,** the Lords of Session reduced the disposition.! The subsequent narrative was probaUy drawn up by Ure when he was under concealment, not with any view to publication, but to give infor- mation to friends, and to correct certain false statements which were then circulated. As he took a very active part in the unhappy disputes which he details, and wroie from memory and in circumstances which prevented him from consult- ing with others who were at Bothwel, it is natural to suppose that he would fall into some mistakes. A copy of his narrative came into the hands of Robert Hamilton, who Wrote remarks on it. These are preserved, and such of them as relate to mat- that hiB ground " via-: r.ct kv /k-lands, but held few of the Fores- ters of Kilmore." (lb ) »- — Forrester of Kilmore was tried along with Ure in 1682. (Record of .fusticiary, nt supra. J • Wot. of Decisions, p. 13,064. t Ibid. p. tSl6. 45S NOTICES OF JAMES URE. ters of fact, and contain corrections of any im- portance, will be found in the notes subjoin- ed to the narrative. Mr. Robert Hamilton was a gentleman of good femily, being brother to Sir William Hamilton of Preston, to whose title and estates he would have succeeded, on his death, at the Revolution, if he had not refused to own, or rather had not open- ly disowned, the authority of William and Mary. He appears to have been a pious man and of good intentions, but of narrow views, severe in his temper, and altogether unqualified, by want of military talents and experience, for the command which he assumed, or which was conferred on him by the small body which proved successful in the skirmish at Drumclog. He is charged, and apparently not without reason, with having been active in pushing Cargill, Cameron, and some other ministers, to those extremes which produc- ed a breach between them and their brethren, with Whom they had until of late acted in con- cert. This dissension was a main cause of the failure of the present attempt to redress national grievances. Hamilton and his party acted on the principle, that it was unlawful to associate, for vindicating their civil and religious rights, with any but those with whom they could join in church-communion; or, which amounts to the same thing, that it behoved them to introduce in- to the state of their quarrel, as appearing in arms. ■.•VA,' NOTICES OF JAMES URE. 453 \ condemnation of every thing in relation to the public interests of religion which was sinfia or unscriptural ; a principle which, while it involved them in that very confounding of civil and eccle- siastical matters against which they inveighed so loudly under the name of Erastianism, tended to rivet the chains of servitude on themselves ofiii the nation. Into this error they appear to have been betrayed partly by mistaken notions of the. controversy which had formerly arisen respecting the Public Resolutions. What the more honest party at that period opposed was, the admitting to places of power and trust of such as had shown by their previous conduct that they, were enemies to the reformation introduced into church Mid state, «ind woulr^ vj? the power intrusted to them to overturn it. iViis could not be said of those who had accepted of or acquiesced in the Indul- gence, and still less of tbos^: v/hom Hamilton's friends wrangled with so fie*^ei> who protested solemnly that they disapproved o ' the Indulgence, and whose former conduct vouched for the since- rity of their protestations. Another remark is sug- gested by the facts here referred to. If ministers of the gospel would preserve their usefulness and respectability, they must guard their independence on the side of the people as well as of civil rulers. Provided they become « the servants of men," it matters not much whether their masters wear a crown or a bonnet ; and if, instead of going before 454 NOTICES OF JAMES URE. the people to poiiit out to them the path of duty, and chedcing them when they are ready to run into extremes, they wait to receive directions from them, and suffer themselves to be borne along by the popular stream, the consequences cannot fail to be fatal to both. Firm and tenacious of his purpose, the servant of the Lord, while gentle to all, ought to hold on the even tenor of his way, unmoved equally by the frown of the tyrant, the cry of the multitude, and the dictates of for- ward individuals, good and well-meaning men it may be, but who « cannot see afar off," and just need the more to be led that they think themselves capable of being leaders. An opposite conduct on the part of two or three ministers tended to foster those extravagant opinions and practices adopt- ed by some presbyterians at tfiis period, which discredited the cause for which they appeared, and whidi their best friends, though they may ex- cuse, witi not be able to defend, and should. not seek to vindicate. . , r ,^ ^f^i'in; END OP THl NOTICU OF JAMBS Uas. ' > .t NARRATIVE AUm ^n' OF THE mod ■ ■ AlJii RISING AT BOTHWEL BRIDGE, By JAMES URE OF SHAHGARTON * I WENT to Rugland [Ruiherglen] upon the Lord's day, [June 8, 1679)] about the first preacfa!» ing going to, which was the Sabbath after LoU^ don hill,f and when I came there, one Mr. Kem^ was preaching, and one Mr. Douglas preached afternoon. They spoke much against the IndttU gence and the defection of the time. The rest of • In the MS. it has the following title : — " A true relation t£ tbe late a£[kini in the west, given by a person of very good credit^ who was eare and eye witnesse and actor in the westland forces. This is Shergetcmn's accovmt." (MSS. Adv. Lib. No. Ix. Jaci V. 1, 10, art. 110.) t The skinniBh at Loudon Hill (Nr Drumclog happened on Sal;|- bath, the 1st of June, 1679. 456 UllE'S NARRATIVE OF the ministers were preaching too ; for there was a very great convention of people there froifi the country and Glasgow. Our forces ab( it this time were about two thousand foot and seven troops >i horse.* They were commanded by Robert Hamil- ton, as general, and by one Henderson, Fiton.f Ross,t Cleland,} and Weir; || the horse by iial-^ • " We were betwixt 6000 and 6000 horse and foot, »1rawn up on the moor besouth Glasgow the Saturday night before, (June , ) all as on man and of on inynd, to own the Rugland testimony against all its opposers." (Robert Hjynilton's Notes on Ure'sNar- rative.) Hamilton's notes are afterwards marked R. H. t Henderson and Paton are mentioned before, p. 40, 302. % Alexander Rom, major in the rebels' army/ was, on the 19th oi July, 1680, convicted, on his own confession, of having been at Bothwell, and condemned to be exenited, but reprieved on his agre? ng 1.n take the oaths and bond. (Wodrow, ii. 116.) f .'• .;ii;.7i Cleland has been mentioned already, p. 108. In N. Ux. Jac. V. 1, 26. art. 138.) James Nimmo, who had been under concealment since the battle of Bothwell, came from Berwick in 1685 to take a passage, along with his family, to Holknd. "The ship (says he) was lyirg at Bruntisland,' and we went first night to Leith and took a passage boat next day, some friends accompanying us ; and when we came over there were four of Argyle's captains in the house whereto we went that were in the same circumstances, viz. William Cleiland John Fuller ton, James Bruce, and John Campbell, who were ringing and making merry as they could, that they might not be discovered; and so passing that day, the 23d of November, about 11 at night, we went aboard. Upon the 4th of December we landed at Amsterdam in health and safety." (Life of James Nim- mo, written by himself for his own satisfaction, MS. p. 127, 128.) II Thomas Weir.—" August 3, 1682. There was sent in from the Duke of Hamiltoune some petitions addressed to him by rebels, via. T» omas Weir in Greerig," &c. (Act. Seer. Condi.) From a THE If INa AT BOTHWEL BRIDGE. i57 four, HaHv Htoun, Mr. Walter Smith, and Mr. Kemp, as 1 suppose, ha,, also a troop of horse. There went with me first about fifty-two men well armed. Af* »• seniion Mr. Barclay tool rae in where Robei Hamilton and the rest of the liniflters were gtnng to supper. They mad ' ' wIbI* come, and in our discourse they wer ling if there were any more to come out of country. I toiu ^eiu, that we heard that Came was here, and that was the stay ; and if he had been, I would h presently returned ; but if we had known « Ir. Welsh and Mr. Barclay* had been here, we w juld have been upward of two hundred men. Robert Hamilton spake nothing against me ; but he and his faction kept an eye still upon me, and afterwards they told me, that Cameron was in Holland ; and I prayed God, that all his faction were with him. I went back to Glasgow preceding part of that hiinute it appears that lenity was to be shown to such only as were " content to take the test." Greenrigg is in the Duke of Hamilton's retour; (Lanark, 149, 239;) and Weir was probably a feuar. • See before, p. 313, 819. Mr. Georp"^ Barclay preached for some time in the fields both in the ^''^ >t and west of Scotland. (Wodrow, i. 436. Walker's Pedeu, /9, 91, 95. Rem. Passages, p. 1 50.) In the beginning of 1 679 he was taken at a search in Edin- burgh, but escaped. (Wodrow, ii. 14.) On the toleration in 1687 he preaclied at Glentirran, in a meeting-house erected for the ac- commodation of the parishes of Kippen and Gargunnock, and after the Revolution became minister of Uphall, where he continued upwards of twenty years, greatly respected. (Statist. Account of Scotland, (Kippen,) vol. xviii. p. 331. Life of Alexander Reid, p. 86, 66.) i ii; 4, •I , ^"Z* ^, 0^ ^- ^^ IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I Li §23. |Z5 lU Uii 12.2 lit liK » -^ -20 1.25 i u IJil III 1.6 0> <^ / HiotDgraphic Sdences Corporation 33 vxiST MAIN STRUT WHSTM.N.Y. 145SO (716) 873-4903 ^J^ ^ '4^ 'a 458 )fTt#?l7BE'8 NABHATIVE OP tut iflgfit, and so did a regimeiit of foot and fouf tWK^ of hwrse. Upon the mdrrov, [Monday, awftttiiflfthejr came ^ ftrtu the to#ii^ and so w» stiqrBd tin the ^ Tx^a; da^at irf^. Tkey imhSied two^nkfle^ t© » park towards Bkffiflton; ii^w we abode. I ahode that night ftn^e town mysdf; for that day ^m they fliai^lftd, there cm^m BMrfrorii our country npwitfd* of seven flflotfe, fbr the most part wdl amed: these that wanted Igot thempilws, so that our company was ^i^ffd of two httBMfiped Well aj^pohitec^ tm paaro with/guag; and the l&ird part with pikes. Thewrwas aiflrst several that wanted armin (near to thirty.) to they were stift 6lip|)ing iiway home, 80 as we had arms^iough ere^l was done Thiy kept a vety strict guard that night i^ ttle ttfw»; and theffe was a knaVe iu the town, ft finer of wdol, who came to the Captain of the guard, and told him, he knew of one who had sevOTai arms hid in his house. He gave him mt persdbs to g» wfflk hfin^ ^d se^ imL ihey <»ioe, he caused ttem^ ^tand at the^^^^ H» wient into one. WalkingiibaWPs house, and ^^ll^M *#!?t^^ ^:hfe wmlmlgm hmv two iolilafa, the wti'ci ie gaiFtt hiiifc;; and; Wh^ he retmiie^ he wk^i he moCTOw, he knowing whose men they ww-ccame t^lsettid told me aU^; and if he had seiighi 100 dollirs he behoved to have given them. I tfiotiglft THE RISING AT BOTliWfit BRIDGE. 489 vety much shaine^ because they wer« my men, and because of my relation to his wifft I intreated him to find him out,e th« trhi«sh he did ; and when I gothim, I got but one dolkr with himj fbr he haddnmk the other. I delivered it 1m^ and earned him bound iivith me' to HaAiit<«i. The day that ihe butcherwag shot, his lugg wa* nai&d tothegallows* Weweiit all to^Hianilt^, and ^SpeiKngofthisgdlow., SwMk^inhis Memoirs ^CaM Vmgkio^ Mys, « The rebels hadmH up in Ha adiMle ^ iSuai cawp.-iijwdertoh.BgupthekJiigVioHteM.'' Tl||.gr«tui«Mii "'^^P^^* „pp„,rit«)o hu been aince repeatedly brooghfefor* w«a by writer, of . oertdn de«:ription, as tfit wei foS on undoubted evidenee. AU the contemporary writers who mention ttagiUof^speakofitasaraattarofcoursa, ill the saiba was .ji they would do of toy other post or mmammt which mwkk 4 reticular spot. Kackader says the ^nisoners, after flie ^m ^ wwaU gathered together about a gaOau^B that Hot^iherti* (Monoirs^p.849.) Another account says» "Amongst the wst of Aepri«»e« at Ae foot of Aegallow^ where we were gathert^ together in Hamltone moere, afh» tnatter waa giveii, oHe aftte wgup in great estremitie^ calling ftt * diJnk of water, wtt nnmodlttely shot dead by one of thessidftn,'? (M88.iii Ad^I lab. No, Ix. 4ac V. l, lo, art. lOT.) Tho eoVeWmtew di* Jlbi even make ui« of Jt ia an inatnmiem ti dnidi ; ibr tlie ^^mut wjpMt hwig, but ahov fiar th^muidteaf wiB«f ihiirm^ Thore ia no reaaon to doubt,. thafethis was theordhiary ^im»mm ^BiMa were oceeuled by order of the BlMrifr.oourt of^EcW WardofLaaark^ Willia« HiarfHorl of Wisbaw, having itfct^ tfmtAa shire m mpipw, [Thursday, the lath,] we kept a PQumsU of var,, ma ther© the imtcher was brought and ifas condfemiied; for the witnesses de- poi^th^ysawihim foUaw theman inat the dose- head with a iQKkin bis hand, which he lifted off thecauseway, stiU qying, ^*-py^ hold the dog," and when hecamebaiOc.theraaji was dmd. When his 8entenc5e wpe read to him* he caUed for a minister to whom he confessed bestiality several times, but nothing as to the kiUing pf the man, which we ?an all declare. ?Ir. ^bli,aod all the ministers, J^d many more of us, would have had witnesses brought and his confession subscribed by him, came hv »{.> ^flrT r »"*'°®<**®'* »«»» I^rd Kamillon, be- ^ff «.f f '^ their depute, ay iy«y„e are in lue W hild their 4fi«^F^t8herrffe^ depute, are Johtt HamUton of Westoun ^ (»««nfo»i of Sheriiaom of Lanark, J^SibbaH'. C^I Returns; Scot. Shir*.: MSi Adv. Lib. M. «, iV) M»y^ ,^9 ^^,»is of H^aton, i.,«,t*„ri^ ^.elr ofL^^Z' Eul^Aftan, ,n « offido Videcomitis VioeoomitatM de J^TS' JJ^--*«^W-^de.M«d»^ (I^^ ReVLanwk, w^edtiMj^rtBoemftvoitt of the king, d«oe wWeh tfane th; 'im,^ king. (Description of Lanark, ut tupra.) ..».. THE ntSING At BOTHWEL BRIDGE. 161 $Ad-iWttrt1llitt' t^ GfttegoW ; but thi^ 1#biild not, and 86 iibomtwh d^rboon he wHs shdt, Und ^6d most dbdur^ely.* > '• ' ; u At 0111* couneil tlief nMe an act, that whiit officers could iiot discharge duty idhould continue pro tefup&re.^ This they did when they firand us dividing from them ; for there wete with Robert Hamilton; of his faction, one Balfour, Hackston, PatOD, Henderson, Cleland,Ross^ Carmichael,who lives at Winsbruch, t Mr. Walter Smith, f and one Fowler,|| whom Robert Hamilton made a capt^n, who was once his man ; of ministers, Mr; Douglas, * ^' One WatMli, a flesb? r in Glasgow, was ordained to be shot for ibnnlering toe of their biwthren/' (Rvwsell'a Account, ap- pended to KJrktoa'a Hist. p.,457.> t " The reason of this act w&>— that if better should come and own the Lord's cause, there might be a door open for their due profenqentto places in the army." (R. H.) X 1^0iam Carmichael appears to have been one of six persons duMen^to be offic^^, on the 17th of June, at Shawfield moor,, and is called ** old Mi^or Carmichael," and «^ a ruliiig elder." (Wil- son's Botbwell, p. 87, 93. Life of Alex. Reid, p. 38.) § Mr' Wdlier Smith, whose parentage and character axe giviixi by Wodrow, (Hist. ii. }80,) fought at Xhumdog, and was at present cleb^ to the council of war. (Rtlssell's Acco. p. 443. WfisMi'i Bothwell, p. 77.) After the break, having fled to HoUand, («e« befcare, p. 9,) he returned and was with Cargill at the T<»rw«od exoraamunication, and finally sufl^ered with him, 97th July, I68I. (Wodhm, vt Mupra.) He was the esteemed friend of Alexander Reid in Broxburn. (Rdd's Life, p. 4% 48.) II ff wjio 0wiied Mt. Wf lib, ghat they might haT« gotten their businetB theiii,and8o lliKyl^t stiU the ewito«n4liU.tbeGfiUi>wftyfowe«iwnft All the WSl^Ihe plniiters were Wii& nt, and several o^VB» imm?:i H bti9g not needlW to name Vm^AMlf^ Mr, King, he wa» etai for peace- mf^m&md ym» not so bent for na ai h& dyonld, wU^ I Um hm $ennl times ; but bo stiUkept company ^th us. 5.>^The morrow we met again In l^e moor, about putting out a declaration. W« divided «ibpu| it, for they would have had the st^ ofde^ fsotion of the church in it, expressly the Indul- gence and sins of the fend, king, and others. As for the king, wie told them. If we owned the co- venant we were bound to tiefend him, and that we were iiot his judge; and as for the indulgeneej It W^flt to come in by way of grievance^ and not declaration; neither were th^ the Indiilg^ miaisi teni^tobe oondemnedimtilthey wevte heard; ndtiier ^9^\i:0p^ia^^nt norgener?aassem% Then ♦h«r wpuld Uve h«a * day o^ humiliation ap, pointed, and th< reasons. We told tiiem that ^i^ieritorati^^^^^^ oftw^vwy hot on boO^ sides tbatw Hamilton sent out for me to sup with hiif|. When! THE RIMNG Age MQTU^^U »E1DGE. 4M iwne. there wm QQ^« Mth Im bttt Mr< JJouigli^ aAdOrea4«ttjc«»eitfjtft^rwiirtl; He|i^«rt«H orOinaiykfwitft me; Im ij^ttifed toany tW^ at me, bnt the drift jtfamirw te fee il he dOdii&i have gotten m» brought over. H&Uttd mtt hoi$ unanimous they iwre before the xnuilst^ cavm to them, and that they irould do no godd utotU they Wffl-e remoFed, and that they wej» fojr not owning of the king, who had di^Ted u« oC tile gfospel and wap seeking our destpretioB boi& of SQ12I and body. Lgoife him ngi answar M afl, but heanl all, aadiifterwaid retitniedto mymfm, who were lying in theckae, where ware Mr. Welsh and thereat Df the brethren for penxung of Ote deda^ ration. I went to him and tpld him all that had past* and I desired him to p^t forth a^ dddorai- tion that tliould give satisfaction to tjbe multitude; foo if we meddled with tl;e king or with the indult gence^ iiwould hinder many ta come who wlinld be as wUliiig as we and were waiting 1^1 thi^ saw 1$, ^ would ma|ffl friends to becorae enei- lilies $ and no fear what Robert Hamilton and bis parity eould doi that if be was ^aear therein as in the sight Jof God, I sl^ouldstand by him as Ipag 'ima -•{Qili .b(jivki&iyi y . .^. . ■,. . ^- .;-,,, • THE RlglNO AT 8QTHWBI.J »B1DGE. H^ cwoe^ tew WW ^^o^t ji^tht Im Hi Mr< JHoi^gii^K aiidGred4eaf jcanieMrjft^rwiWl; H^i^wm^ ordinery kiwi M m©; lui i^uiwd :siait7 tlOi^ at me, bitf thadrfikijf jdBt Uroi tofw if he jediiid ham gotten nw brought 6jr€!Pi HfeJoId me ho^ unanimoua they \wre before the jx^ust^m ca^M to them, and that they wouW do no godd iiiitil they were removed, and that they wer« fop not owning irf the king, who had deprited us o£ tiif gospel and wafi seddng our desjti^etien boi& of sold and body. Lgave him no answear. at all« bnt heaid oil, andii&erward returned to my men, who were lying in theckMo, where ware Mr* Welsh and the^rest 6f the biBthoren for penning of Oi* deda* ratlMi. I went to him and tpld him all that had paatj. and I deswed him to p^t forth a dfidonh- tion that itoould gpve satisfaction to i^ multitude ; foD if we meddled with tl^e king or with the indult geuf ^ it would hinder many to come who wlmld m U&£'S NAKBATl V£ OF M my fife was in me, and bo would Inott part of the wmf .; and if he yielded to tHan, I would leave them all and go home. He told me, my advice was very refreshing to them at that nick of tune. With that they were resolved * to do so^K— they desired me to come to them to*morrow and I should see what they had done ; and ao I cam^ and it gave me and the army all satiafoe- tiofei,: except Robert Hamilton and his f»ctU»L The niorrbw, [Friday the 13th J when we Di«t at tU» moor, and when it was read to them, thuy were offended that Mr. Douglas and the rest were hot with them, and [asked] how they could ^ake it upon them to do it without their consent* They woidd not hear of it, but atill d<»ired a day of hu* miliation to be appointed and ilhe reasons conde- scended upon, which were, the steps' of defection of the church since the year 1648, and sins of the land till this day. We told them, it was very Qeedful the declaration should iirst be put out, be- cause many would not stay still till they saw it» who were as willing to hazard life and la n ds as we. After long debating, we offered present^ to dqiart from them, if they would not condescend to it. When thev saw we was resolved they con- ^descended, but would have in it acknowledgment of sins and engagement of dutj% which abode a long debate before we condescended to it, because it could not be brought in handsomely. The rea- * When they were resolved, &c. THE BI81NO AT BOTHWfiL BRIDGE. ■on to hate it in, as we thought, was to kdep out gentlemen of quality till they would give aa- tit£u;tion, if they had heard indulged men, or taken the bond, or paid the cess, or were hearers of curates, that they might not have been leaders In the army. Also we told them, they were more taken up with other men's sins than they were with their own, and that it were our duty first;t6 b^n with ourselves. They spake likewise of put- ting off of officers, and did put off him who was eaptain to the men who came from the east «nd of Stirlingshire.* But he who was made captain was alio with us, for he was my comrade former- ly, alth09gh he was very near related to Robert Hamilton. If he had not been very stout, (he re- tilted and told, who made them officers more as we, and that our men would follow none other,) they would have put us all off. We removed back again to the west end of the Monklands, to a park within four miles of Glasgow, where we abode all night. Mr. Welsh with his troop and the rest of the brethren slipped off to and caused print the dedaration.f m itmui at'H't-t'fO TUtt wu not a deed of the council of war but of 4b« id- nel, but It was rowned f to Learmonth a lieutenant general. fPhey repented afterwards, for he sided with Welah. Upon the JBaMwth, [the 15th] when we were convened in lube Aiuir to hear eermen, they called a cpuneil of war and called the whole mi- nisters, and told them, if they did not preach, name and simame, agi^st the indnlgenoe, they should preach none, lliey [the ministers] thought it very hard to be kept within guard, and to be oommand- «f him, diey'^.ooiitrary te promise, caused Mr. David Home and Mr* WcMi do iiu whA diipleaiiBd Boberl il^iltm and tiie resi, ^t l)l4 opndafMeqd^ to thraa, vhich ever pfter tl^ rqpretted." (B. H.) The drOaratiop is printed in Wodirnw, ii. No. S«. * lu Old or West Moddaad is " the Haggs, kteljr pertidnlBg to Sir Alexander Hamilton, banmet, descended of the family of Orbistone." (Hamilton of Wishaw's description of Lanark, MS. vt mqmB.) t Rounded, «'. e. whispered. T^e locuing appoMn to be, liMt Hamikon's Mends hinted pshateiy to Leamont that he woidd b» Ucntenant Qanenl, but that diey were Mnyfa^ hatw tag ^Um this, iriiflh ^Smj fooid that ha tttk iho opposite aids.*^ t^MigorlMrnMiith^aineiiot iatouaiia dwSabbadi afternoi»in ttatoafflcanioii.'' (R.8.) THE RISING JIT BOTHWEL BRIDGE. «07 ed what (opreadi. Thfjr toU tktm, tht^ ivite to PMdvte their commlsiioii from Jamu Ouict what to ]ire«ch, and not iram them* WJwn we lieafd o( it, we came^for the/ aerer otBed us if we came not of oursel vet. W« told the^ that it wai the height of svpremacf to give instmcUone to miniiteiv what to fUreach; we Wnald liear m> sudi^ioetHiie. With thna oonftiiiMLithis dar was wen apeat, and when thef saw us own them, ] we nut again on tiie imoer, and beoauie of the vain mi "tmtt to a bam.* We h«ld«mr ^^xracii Wewett liiigely confused ;]forli»ywmoor« 4sbd beeatiie <^ the vain mi ^JFWnt to a bam.* We h^ kftut «%>BBcii Wewett hiigelycoufiified;]fortfcaywer ^^i^gry that the dft. danition was printed tiU ti^y had gotlali aoHtfe added to It, especially the ^dulgaaea «iid^ie siai * The ooundl met in Shawhead muir on Monday, but wca ad- joHmimmitmy, vM-aetetaiit « dte|ii«4iifeikai«b»iliafoce of ilw BtdhiiJteni and tiklittif «f liit&i|AteM. (mgMlk Aamtm, 400, %b\, ITflMli, i».) »iMft«(Mli iiM0B«iIAl^li4mttit^titlk nnd&g lArihift Mttttdl tMaAi MMdnglmt whiltafriHMd alNMy {■« a«M<&>u MmI xtrom^i^ 408 URE'8 NAEAATIVE OF of tbe timet. Thera was one Captain Carmichtiel, (not hd before named,) a very forward gentleman,* and Leanhont, and I, , that stood and told them iphat sort of judicatory they would be ; for ought that we saw, we were come here to fight among our- selves; and if they would get their wills, we would be a reproach as long as the world stands ; for we weK reproached already as to what w^e done to king Chaides the first ; and for ought we saw, they intend^, to make the whole world our ene- mies. So weidesired them to do what they pleas- ed^ but we would not join with them. They de^ sired us to begone :then, so we arose and would have gone out ; but this guard at the door would not let us, so we went to/ the: other end of the barn and sat down, and the rest of our company camo ta us. So when we were going to part, Mr. Welsh came and told them, the brethren refu8e4 to come with him, for they were .of greater fear of thcmi who M^ere their friends than they were <^ their avt>wed enemies ; but fqr him he had a little more .courage : they might do with him, w^at they leased, he should be satisfied whether to be their prisoner or not. We told him» theie should no body harm him, -or else we should die j.jf!* This wu Junes Cynnidiael, son of John Carmichad, cham« berlain to tb» Snrl of Wigtoo, and portipner of Little Blackburn. He was tried along with Uie, but obtained a remisaion, because his firths "had fiuthftUIy served tib« king in his army at Stirling, and the battle at Worcester." (Records of Justiciary Court, January 17,1688.) THE RISING AT BOTUWEL BBIDOE. 400 foi^lf; fin^ ^Ired him 6> speak his mind tnAy as in the sight of God ; the ^hich he did very freely, and so we left other in a great confusion. We all requested thera to go leave Uiem, ami to go to Glasgow : the brethren told us they were loath to do it, for it would encourage the enemies and discourage friends, and would wholly break us, but desired us to have patience till the Gal- loway forces came ; for we wera eiipeating them every day. We marched after that about a k«g mile north from the moor towards Cuinbemaukl ; and when they came there, they called a cooneil of war, and we marched immediately back again the way we came to the moor, and over to Ha- milton town. When they* marched the same way a long time, I admired what they, meant ; for I was not at the council.* , In this confunkm five hundred horse might have broken us all, few when they marched in the night time, they were as if they had been fleeing. Our train was ly* ing at the place of the Haggs. There went the most part of our army alongst Bothwel Bridge, and I and captain Learmonth^s company, followed tim itwad so darki that we knew not;where tdga; so we abode on the other side of the water for- (.il.il) ' .U-:.jinl'.y^'H' tpj',7 ,;iii !.' ■• ei to Mtdile iKilihout oti^ ^ek to l^amiii' ton milbr, to thie pUce fonh'erly condescended on for Iceepin^ the ^ fast day." (R. H.) u ..; .nTRt^ si.M. THE RISING AT BOTHWEL BRIDGE. 400 for it," Aifd desired him to speak his mind firaely as in the sight of God ; the ^hich he did ver^i freely, and so we left other in a great conAisloii. We all requested them to go leave them, ami to go to Glasgow : the brethren told us they were loath to do it, for it would encourage the enemies and discourage friends, and would wholly In'eak us, but desired us to have patience till the Gal* loway forces came ; for we were expecting them every day. We marched afker that about a kmg mile north from the moor towards Cuti^beniauUl ; and when they came there, they called a cooneil of war, and we marched immediately back again the, way wie came to the moor, and over to Ha- milton town. When they* marched the same way a long time, I admired what theyr meant ; tot I was not at the council.* , In this confiiaioB five hundred horse might have broken us all, for when they marched in the night time, they were as if they had been fleeing. Our train was ly-. ing at the place of the Haggs. There went the most part of o*ur army alongst Bothwel Bridge, and I and captain Learmonth^s company foUowed till, it . wai^ so dark; that we knew notwhere td ga; so we abode on the other side of the water for- • '. it^J" T\ U.J a ed to i)^fe wiiihbat orddrs^'die^ to j^amil-, ton niHilr/ig thie pUce formerly coiidescen^ett on for keepuiff khe fast day." (R. H.) ' ' '^ ' vt^ URB*8 MtAIKSATIVE OF gamst ths Hafgft aft aJgliA. Oiur ilisorder this night was utapeakaUjB; fijr I do really think we were tf 00 Wer out the morrow^ partfy through our dinrisioa and our , dfeorder^ and the false Ob the Tuesday* we met all again in the evening at Hamilton moor, and on tiie morrow \7e held another council where we. were as ill as before, and a little before night we were fully re- qolv/ were in Hamilton park, on a week day in his ser- mon spake very bitterly ajg^^inst the king ; and it coming in my mind, I told them I had one word to speak to the ministers. I desired them to for- bear their reflecting language against t^e king: I repeated what he said, which is not need to set down. He denied it before Mr. Welsh, and then I would have been to have proved it ; but th^y de- sired me to forbear, lest it woulid have raised new debates^ I told tiiem, I woUid hear none such doc- -'•^(rthlrl KtneiUber notof ; bat I am stttfe they oU denied afteh^Krdb iHtX thef cottdeDc^di^' to such a thiiig." (R. H.) 4jr$2i u«e's narrative of :jT trifle, and that it gaVe ofienoe to many: so he was Tery much ashamed. ! i it being so late, we eould not get it subscribed that nights bo the morrow they shifted us lilce- V ays, and on Friday, [the 20thJ about ten hours, the Galloway forces came in. They would have been near 1000 horse and^ foot, wh^ they were: settled a little, and met all in the town; and they (Hamilton's party) met into the park.. So we told the Galloway gentlemen all our debates ; and when they engaged to subscribe with their hands, we did write it down, and desired them tD. stand tto the printed declaration, and let all de- bates be till a parliament and general assembly, MTien we had done it, there was none had will to go to them with it. I desired some to go with me and I should deliver it. At length Craichly,* a Galloway gentleman, and Bankhead,t went with ij;>v ,\} • See before p. 69, 216. James Gordon of Craichlaw,' yoiitoji£ WM forfeited, Feb. 18, 1680. (Wodrow, ii. US.) His naihe ii' ID the act of parliamem, July 4, 1690, rescinding foriWtuwj: (Act. Pari. Scot ix. 164;) but he appeal^ to have been dead in Jpjy 7, 1691, when WiUiam Gordoun of Craichlaw (probably his son) is m-ntei heir to William Gordoun o^-Craichlaw, his grandfather. (Inq. Ret. Kirkcudbright, p. S73.) .< a'llH . , t It is uncertain whether this was Forrester of Bankhead, i whose name is in the prodamation against the rebek, June 86, 1679; (Wodrow, ii. app. 27;) or Robert Lockhart of Bankhead, who was indicted at the circuit court of Ayr, June, 22, 1683, con- fess^ his rebellion, offered to take the teat, and waa sentenced to be beheaded, but probably obtained a pardon. (lb. ii. 323, 3*4.) THE RISING AT BOTHWEL BRIDGE. 478 me to the park, where they were all together with their council, and I delivered it. Robert HamiU ton read it and gave it to Mr. Douglas, who did write on it, and declared to me that they desired to know wherein the differences were between iio, as if he had not known them; so I returned. They were all satisfied with the answer ; for they gave me no answer what either they would stand to, or what they had promised the day before. The; morrow we met all together in the moor, it being Saturday, [the 21st J where we had d great council ; for, of ministers and othe^-s that day, we would have been near to fifty. The ministers sat not with us but when we called them. The firet thing we did was to choose a preses, for Robert Hamilton was still preses there before this. When we were voting it, Robert Hamilton started up and said, " Gentlemen, we who are not of your judgment will remove, and he that will go with me let him go." So there followed him about twelve men.* Of our number there was one John Spreul, apothecary in Glasgow,! who owned Robert Hamilton strongly, but we com- manded him to be silent ; so we sat still about The name «t the latter is in the act rescinding forfeitures. (Act Pari. Soot. ix. 166.) *" There went from them eighteen officers." (R. H.) t An account of Spreul's pzncestf, torture, and liboation from the Bass, is given by Wodrow, ii. 163, &c. 61S. i 474 ure's wvrbative of sending a petition to the duke ; sa we drew up a dntu^t and desired thera to look at it and tell us their opinion of it. They said it vna not right, lor the enemy might see by it that we Were afraid fon them, it was so humbly drawn. After long debating to and fro, they and we condescended to refer it to four gentlemen and four ministers ; and so they agreed at length, and it was to have been drawn up that nightand sent totheduke timeously en Monday. For aught as I know, they were alto- gether against the sending of any ; for they did not desire us to agree: what they meant by it the Lord knbws. Our men, with our divisions, sBpped away still from us ; for it was our ccnamon dis- course that we could do no good. So after this we went all in^. > the park and town of Hamilton, i^'^ We were not well settled when there came a post to Mr. Welsh, showing that the enemy was marching towards us.* We were not concerned « The depositions in Lord Melville's trial, in the year 168/$, throw l^t on this message. From these it appeftrd, that on Saiurday the 91«t of JaiM> (the day before the batde of Bothwdl bridge,) his Lordshqt, who wa& in the king's; army, sent John Miller in tTatersauch, with letters and a message to Mr. John Welsh and Mr. David Hume, informing them that the royal army was at hand and in great strength, and imploring them to send a petition to the Dubs/ttf lfenioMl«b,^e ewttttMddeiV iMitt whom they ifaight expect good terms. Miller " behoved to creep updn hia hands and teet near a quarter of amile fimtf the kingftr &f in&md accom- panied tiueeitiilcsoa hig< way by WaiinaHlkmiltott of Wiihaw. Having come to Didlwlli'fbrd^.whieh was giurded' by a party of the THE RISINO AT BOTHWK^L BRIDGE. 475 witkr an ^nomy, aa if there had not beea one with«- in 1000 milea of usv There were none went thfuufli the army to »te if we wanted powder or ha^ I do reaUy think there wore few or none that htA both powder and beU in all the airmy to shoot twice. My men were? weU pnmded,: for we brought ii|>wardfl of two- stonej of pwwrder from home with n8»,aiwU put to hand when. we went from hpme first. I did taker the lead and cast ball when we lay m the Monkland ; so that we were best provided of them alL And we went presently tfii'ther moor and stood to our arms all night, and, a little b^ore day we saw the enemy kindling their matches a great way eff. Theie were two complies at the hridge> and they came an4 desired me to^ go down and assist them ; so I, went, and tl]» either company of Stirlingshire «|en and GksgOW company., i drew up hard upon the waler-wdeagfcinst the west end of the reltU, Robert Fleming of AuoMhitae, who oommsnded them, sent John Lod^hut of Bar, and Alexander Lochait, along wUh him to Hamilton, where he met with Mr. John King» who conve^ hun to \f elsh and Hume, by whom he was conducted to a meeting of «ffi08ta in the moor. Lookhart of Mar deponed, that* "» had it not been for the in(eUigenoe>roi)£^t by the wid Milfe^, the king's army had surprized the rebels, uid got all of them as it were in a hose net** Lord MelvUle told the messenger, that " if he were at Mr. John Welsh, he would sit down on his knees and b^ them to lay down their arms ;" for, « if they will not foUo# advice, and dM8« peo]^ be brokeii> Ji wiU ruin the ptetbyteriin inte- Mrt." (Art. PWL Scot, irtii. ap^. fi7— «9. Seeilso abow, p. lid, note.) . -^"uiiiv ij.^ q:j 476 URE'S NARRATIVE OF bi-idge. Glasgow, when they came down, drew up on my nght hand, and Lennox on my left ; there came also down about 200 Galloway fdot: they had no other arms but pikes and halberts, with four pair of colours, and took ground on our right hand farthest from our enemy. There came one troop of their horse and drew up behind us, and then our cannon wais drawn down, being a field jpiece and two muskets of found unmount- ed :♦ so these were not made tiso of. About three hours in the morning [Sabbath, June 22d,] there advanced from the wrat side of Bothwei Tdrk four companies of dragoons, and the king's troop of the guard, and the duke William's troop; and so they advanced close to the bridge. The rest of their army was near a mile off, but marching north-west, for they came about because of their cannon which was with them. They sent down near to the bridge six men, whd fired lipdn our men at the bridge, and we gave them a return. We received no hurt but one man woimded on the foot; and I believe some of them were wouiidfed; if not killed; for they My down where they fired, but I never saw them rise again. Robert Hamilton and Mr. Hume came to us, and several others. They s^fat oyera drUmilaer wiUi A petitibn ; so there ftTorfi )J"' '■'f''' ■• .'■■J "hf '('« T?/f«'' ''" ' 'i-o-r/ ;!• ;' ' ."(f ah'.A, .\if. hi ;linH?.(« •• !'.)U '■td'&t * These, iqiq^ew to have been a kind of Jtfge mudceta too un- tidy for the ann> sad usually •uppwted by j^ifnwe,.whichin the present instance was wanting. . r^.,^;; THE RISING AT BOTHWEL BRIDGE. 477 was a cessation for near one hour. The meail while the enemy came hard to the bridge-end and spoke to us and we to them. They desired us to come over and they would not harm us, and called for Mr. Hamilton to speak with him; so Mr. David Hume* went over, and another gentle^ man with him, and spoke with the duke, and de- sired his Grace if he would prevent the effusion of blood. He told them, their petition shoul^ have been more humbly worded, and said, lay down our arms and come in his mercy, and we should be favourably dealt with : so he returned and told us. When Robert Hamilton heard it, he laughed at it,. and said, "and hang next." So we sent over word, we would not lay down our arms. He bade us likewise advise us, but would not grant a ces- sation ; so they fired over a cannon amongst our men, and killed two horses but no men. Weir- ed our cannon, and muskets played on both sides. Whien. our cannon shot they left their cannon, fled both horse and foot, near five pairof butts^ If we hadhad any person to have commanded ufi^ we might have gained, their cannon ; but if I should have gone without command, if they should have turned on me, there would none have relieved me. * Mr. David Hume, ninister at Coldingham, was interc<»n- mvned, in 1676, for preaching in the fields. (Wod. i. 480.. App. 7S. Reid's Life, S6.) July 9, 1664, he was retoured heir to Alexander, his iranaediately younger brother. (Inq. Ret.^Gen. 4804.) 478 VBE'S NABAATIVK OF ■tr So ikej came back and maimed thdr guat again* and riwt other tiiree camwiit amoogat 11% but did Boliarm. M7 Lord Lithgow^ mod cam* dowa l» tlie bridge with about 500 of red coeti too, and we stiil fired on both sides.* They charged again their cannon (and diot them down at the bridge: dMn tfaejr fled and left it. The two companies that was o«t (not) of Glasgow fhey left us ; also Glas- gow company followed them, and one of oar eom- panics £rom my left hand also. Hiey ind their eanncm again : I do not know what harm It did. I^tfa^vw's son came advancing to me, and they firing still upon me from the other side. I was necessitated to.retire; so I returned back ov«r ike iea of the br eafBhout four pair of butts, and farted and charged again. Lithgiyw's son was the fint that came over the bridge, wi<2i 800 fbot and a troop of horse jipon his rear. Bo &ey adranced towards us, upon idiich I desired our men to iae$ about and let th^m see that w« wiere not flying ; and so 1 went back, and there followed me at fiint but about thkty.four of my men, and theiMt ad* vanoed afterthem. The enemy fitedaboatl'M '.miiwhi^ }y««r'3 vu 2 I .■''" 4D« lull's NARRATIVE OP was witness tb thig, we migiit have set it more filUy down* An for Mr. Kid,* although I had 9H him down to be of ti^n faction, I never taw inu> open his mouth ; and >r Mr. Kemp, he went from us at Glasgow. What they stirred up the nest to do I know not, but it was Douglas f and Gorgill that we were still crossed with. Although this be not so set down in order as 8ome have it^ I have set it down as it was acted ; and I hope ye wlU give credit to it. I say, be who they will that will say this or that in it is a lie, I declare '■\ii 'Ui, ».u iJJ * Mr. Jimii Kid tind Mr. John Ring were executed at Edin- biugh, on the I4th of Augmt, 1679, the day on which the in- demnity wu publiihed. (Wod. ii. 88—67.) The fomer it re- presented by Wallier as having i[>rf>ce«1ed Cftmeron in preaching separation from the indulged ministem. (JHem. Passages, 147.) Both of them, in their dying testhnoniea, profess their loyalty and thair tfersioii to ' diviaire oounwsi , (Naj^tiii^ ' 4M7, 4m, 4lS7, t Mr. Thomas Dougjbs was at the burning of the acts of patUament at Ruthei^lin, on the ^8»tti of May preceding; and preacher at Loudon-hUI, when Clayerhouse was repulsed. (Rus- sell's Acco. p. 489, 441.) Having escaped to HoUand, (see before, p. 9,) he retmiied and, after preaching fiM* some time in the fields in Seotland^ retired to England. (Reid's Life, p. 47. Wal- her'aRemi Pias. 100, 101, 108.) On the 11th (Mf Augu n , the United Societies agreed to imiii; him home, that K«'n»ijv4it preadh to them, " if no exoeptions be found against hi a thiere be any, his charges to be paid, and himself dismissed." H^ wiioteback from Enc^and "giving soine reasons of hia not coming; Mrhitrh were not altogether satisfying." (Acta and Conclusions of lI United Societies: MS. Adv. Lib. No. xvii. Rob. IIL 4, 18. n. n ^,j> uw THE RISING AT BOTBWEL IBTDOE. 488 lie is a liar ; for there Is no adva ♦age to me to lie, since the world knows it We continued at the bridge from three nours to six hours, and, when we fled all, it would have been eight hours. A better dispute than we had was not readiljr heard of: there was none saw it ihdt thought but there had been 1000 men killed : h hen we fled there was not ten men kill- ed of us all. There were not three times so many in the whole army of firemen as were in our three com- panies : there were not better like men, and better armed men, than our company were. 1N|> or UIB S NAKRATIVI. H8* .3£msm .mmifm t£ mimsi .1IIT !(.;}i { ?. "nrryj f«i'««)-«r ■•■:? fmif ii»tri >ifi ^7/ nv.ni '>?ii qRib '/i'>r I) :''n M, env^ ■■»;.■• • i iJi ti>ri 03 if >7oi{r t)-;!i '■ h' n'id'ri : bull. n-tii •.I'fo li ■j.i, ■;■:!• '->TiVf vttfqtW'K* ujp nzi'U -u-'i-. tod y.h mh . t-r -as ' Ai of IM sie c in tl withi Jon the 1 prov( raU : and I ordei office hand auUu toUu H64 DC y>i -Jifi 'k> TjilHi :'" .'ifefiffjf 'Vfirii>,ifi •;i iiL'} jii '.n!::"rr':flfri,} :^ - ' ■ . ■ ; itKi-r '• sti- if*:!'. APPENDIX. w No. I. U 'ii, [iZMaorf/ q^ Committee (^ Privy CouhcU, at GkuffoWf Air, Sfc. 1618; in JReffiiter-Houte.! Indu^ient o/Jobn Mum, late Provost ofAyri /a aj:;.;t<: •WSK; 9id FArmry, 16T8. ii< ^ir. Ante Mer. Sederunt, the Mabquis OF Athole, &c. haAvMNT our Soyeraigne Lords lettera* raised at the ivstance of Mr Roderick M'Kenzie, Advocat^l^ut.to Sir George M'Ken- sie of Roshauch, his Mqesties Advocat, for his Hienes interes, in the matter underwrytten, makaild mention. That where not- withstanding by the Uwes, &c. Nevertheles it is of verity, that Jon Muir, late provest of the burgh of Air, did take upon him the boldnes to usurp his Majesties authority, and the office of provest, baylie, and oounceUor, within the bui^h of Air, for seve- ral! years, and particularly the years of God 1673, 1074, 1675, and ay and while he wes discha^ed and turned doune staires, by order from the Lords of Councill, and taking advantadge of the office and government which he had usurped and screwed in his handes, he did abuse the same, to the contempt of bis Miyesties authority, and lawes and acts of parliament of this kingdom, and to the dislyk of the government established therby, and upon the first, second, third, and remnant dayes of the n\onethe8 of Janua- 488 APPENDIX. ry« February, March, and remanent monethes of the year 1677 and 1678, or upon one or uther of ^e saids dayes, monethes, and yeares, did not only withdraw himself, his wife, children, and ser- vants, from the pubUck ordinances and worship of God within his owne paroch kirk, for three, hot many Sabbathes together, bot also went to and wes present at Krcrall house and field conventi- cles, holden at the tymea 4iid id the places after spedflet, viz. the said Jon Muir wes present at two feild conventicles, the one holden at Prestick, and the other within the dtedale of Air, upon one or uther of the dayrt of the monethes &'yeare8 forsaids ; and lykwayes at diverse and sundry house conventicles, and particularly at four conventicles holden at his own house, and at conventicle holden within Helen Leslies house, in Air, upon ane or uther of the dayes of the monethes of the years foiBoids, where Mr Jon Welsh, Mr Walwood, Mr Muur, Mr George Jonstoun, Mr Atidro Mortouki, Mr Donatd Cargill, Mr Jon Rad, Mr £dward Jameson, or one or othtf of theni^ or mudM of Ihb vi^ant preach- ers, dedared rebells, traitors, and^Aigitives, being invited and in- stigat by him, did take upon them the holdnos to prea^, pray, and exercise the uther functions of the ministery, and did vent and ex- presse seditious and schismatioall doctrin, and uttered many scan- dalous, calumnious, and reproachfull speeches against his Majes- tie's person, estate, and government ; at the whilk house & feild convi^flctea there were pfMent hl» iiryfe, ichildreii, & liervaAts, and ndatty Uther peiikins whotn hti MA cdtt veeat and invified to Ihit saidfi mddcigs, who did communicat and reoeate the MMirfttnent of the IiOrd'i$ supper from the said Mr Joh Welsh, ane decked and fotu fkulttd tebell and traitor, at Sauehill, or at dne 6r uth6r of the tAaoeif fotioidB ; and dclyk thie said Jbtt Muir he* these tfevM^fi yeares, atid particularly since the mon6th of January 1677, keeped close con- verse, intdligence, and correspondence, with the said Mr Jon Welsh, and the uther petsons forsaids, declared tr^tors, rebelhr, and fugitives, frae our htwes, and hes contryved, plotted, hatdied, and promoted their sedittdua and factious design^ against his Ma-^ jesties person, estate, atid government, fat disturbing the peace & quyet of the kingdotnes; and, particulwly, did rnsinuat upon Mr Williatt Adafar, ane indulged minister in the bui^h of Air, and prdeured and attyed ft letter frbttl hiltt to several! indulged ministers who had mett at Machlitie, desyteifig them to plant a - 1 APPENDIX. 489 miiiiktaf at Air, to out the preaeiit regnlar miniitcr there ; and^ in ptoeedoAon therof, did prOcoM and pfetale with the Mdds ioAvH. ^ mifiiBtert t<^itteit at Air, ift themoneth of bstbypait, in the «aid Mr WiUiaiii Adaires hoOBe, with Mr J AJk6n, Aleumder Sl». veMon, iTiBiam FuUartouiij Fefjgdi M'Aloauder, and uthen, wlttre he aatt ai in preibyterie and oeariMi with theni> and after mvuSx debate lAient the outing ef the said regolar mlnhfer, he and th^y cettdtaded not to plant a ininiater in Air at that tyue/beb eaase m th« report ^t oontmitty of the Lorda and in the mean ^m appointed each of thehr ntanber to prea^ at Air, without consent of the tegabu faicnnibent^ on after another, tMi per i/iawi taA aeeOrdiUj^y Mr Stevoiaott and Mr Hutcheson did pMwih tiieteat very sehiffnatfeall and dialoyall doettin, and die leat were only fliopt by the oevtaili notieo Of the OMoing of the Lords of the Com. ftitty ; and in lyk manoor he did cotiamon wiA, rec^, nipply, ftynm, and nmintain the said Mr Jon Wehh, and the uther peiw sons fon^des, declared traitors and rebdisy and did tiollect OMiti sideraMosownes of money fior them from the hdiafaiti^tit of the tottbe of ^, and diverse uther persons Were ineonraged and per- suaded therto by his example, and at his desyre : And althcni^ the said Jon Muir did frequently hear many disloyeall, false, slanderous, calnmniona persona foresaids, and uthers of that cha- racter and stamp, to the disdain, reproach, and contempt of his Mi^ty, hiti coundll, and proceedinges, yet he wes so fkrr from apprehending the persons guilty therof, or revealing the same to the coundll or magistratts, as in duety he wes oblidged, and as by law he wes bound to doe, that by the cootrar he did spread and make use of the same to deprave and corrupt his Mtyesties good subjects, and to bring them to a dislyk of the government, and to oppen rebellion agaiost the same, wherby the said Jon Muir is guilty of, and hes coutraveened the lawes and acts of parliament above wrytten, or ane or uther of them, and therby hes incurred the paynes and penalties therin conteaned, for which he ought not only to be punished in his person and goods with all severity, bot also ought and should be ordained to inact himself, and give band that he, his wife, children, and servants, and uthers bdonging to him, shall live ordarly and obedient to the lawes in tym comeing. fflRU APPENDIX. under such pecuniaU Mmmet, and other oertificatioiu, «• the Lords 4if Couodll, or Lords of the CqnuniUy appointed by them, shall .think fitt to appoint : And anent thechaige given to the said Jon 3fuir, to have oompeared personally before the Lords of the Com. 4naitty of CoundU thia present day, to have answered to the pre- .misses, and to have given his oath upon the verity of the lybell ; and the same being verified and proven, to have hewd and seen hunsdf decerned to make payment of the penalties oontainit in .the saida acts of parliament, and utherwayes prof .r;;:.r.-'- -li'j.' .,J{lfOnT,H0N0VB4«|.B, AND XT TSKY NOBLK LOBD, It qify b«,c(mttra(^ Tery great praiunpptioa in me, Mmemadd ifuxmifUflniUfl a ptvioii) to writ to your noble lordship, the pryme mu^t^r of atate intheldngdom, but neoeanty* that doth noteaaily a^itt of any Uw of otherwise requiaite djatanee, hath omiBtrain- ed to make apiflieation to your lordahip by thia lyne> wherof to take aome notice, tho' your lordahip may, yet I hope your lord* ahip will not, be unwilling to dimitt yoraelf. I did, my lord, acnne few dityea agoe, reodve a dtation to ^n>eare before the Commia- non (deaigneing no particnlare phuse where, aa it should have done, by qipoinUnent of the Commiaaion,) to anaer to some mJa- demeanora oharged upon me therein, aa keeping of conyentides and diatnrbing the publiok peace, with which I waa aomewhat lurpxiaed, not being consdoua to my self (tf any thing lyable to juat ofl^noe that way. Aa for keq^ing of conventicles, I auppoae it will be very difficult, if not impoadUe, to my aoeuaera to prove me guilty of, any contravention of the law, aooordii^ to their own sense of conventidea ; and, for disturbing of the publick peace, I hope there are non that know me, that will look on roe as any way so disposed, whereof this may be some evidence, that since I was ottted of my ministry at Ghuigow, which is now two full yeires, I have had so little pleasure to see any person, or be seen, let be to meddle toward disturhii^ the publick peace, (from which sort of meddling especially I have, to say no more, even anaturall aversa- tion and abhorrency,} that I have been sometimes three, sometimes ei?(. weeks, sometimes two full monethes, that I have never come 9Ut of doorea. Natber have I been these 1 8 moneths past, to my '' Copy in Mr Carstairs*! haiid-wiiting. It has no date, . but must have b4en written between March 2, and April 29, 1664. (Wodrow, \. 808. 'tQi^y%U.^ T|<« writer wfw? Ujefcther of Principal Carstttus^ 49S APPENDIX. best remembrance, in any nobleman'i or genUeman't dwdlinc iu Scotland, save one, and thai very 4)ocaaionaUy, though I have bad uiuall civilities and kynd invitations offisred to me. And so dislraet have I been fiiom uedleiBg, that fiutooiuMr Woad^ my bftidtar-io. law, who is now at rest, was sick 10 or IS weekes before I did somudi as certainly know how it was with him, as your loidahip may pw. ceate by the IndoMed ihMh him to tiM ; is IdtdiriM ho«r i^tmtnu lie he did imptHrtune me to come and visite hhn, whidi so urgent desire, considaring his case, the neirtM of otir tdaiiob, iud ny tepdrt to the conthuv should hif6 gitaeot him; i&dwhdvead.it ialikeitwifl be^byMtt^Aatitfsfor. gBry> and Mt hi» «wtt c(e^> oi ktbett extorted ftxnn him whin IM knew Biot what he did or said, I Am, for myne dwne, bnt more for the worthy dead ni8nlBjuMvindieatidn> begleicveiosaylkf^thfngii^ And flnl, thd' I be not shn^ 6fc3eedg«d Wit, I doe teHonily and solemtieiy ptr6fn Wffthy to be tnuted, layi after imyer, no ooeaaion at all being glTen be that person, I tah« ym vi»m» hOan the Lord, that I did not dfamtly, nor indireetly, apeak any thing to the ^udioe 6f P^«abyt«ri«n govecnmentj but to the oontrare, I judge it to be a tmath of Ood. for which a Cbriatian^ a» he ia oalled to it, •honld «tfft»» 6. He did desire the young man that had writtm to him all the while of his aielcnea, that roonMiqg, when ho was going a UtUa of towa to doe somewhat rehiteti)« to the security tf his dliUnnf iroitiiiai^ to oome in to him againe about twelve » one ef 4)oqk, fm ho had somevhat to writi that would take tyme ; and mtm tbf yepnig man inquired if he woiUd doe it presendy, he said, not, Av I WW» think on it. «, Whw he came in, he pet him to WfUtp Vti IrePVWDg W staHe^^and knmrfng nomare what he was t^M^ tha^l y«^- noWo I^ordship, did find him. moot composedly, and withottt intamiption, dictatii« to the writter hli tmtimony, vhidi waa neir ^ close ere I came in, and siting dotme in the roome, I keeped silence aU the while. 7. When it waa written orer ag|in in mnndot, without variation of one sentence or word from the first scroll, it was read to him distinctly before the wit- nme$f (one of thepe, Mr William T^lJidaflS havuig oome in very oeeaafonally, not ki^pwing any thing of audi a business at idl,) he dldrabacrih hi* oune name, and thereafter diaooursed to Mr Tul< lidafij and in his hearing, a coi^derable space, most pertinently andeompoaedly. 8, He did, that nig^t, and fieverall of the thirteen or ibniitieeo dayes, that interveened betwixt and his death, utta aMnygradoua words about hia spules estate, wiUi much gravity •nd oomposednes of mynd. All which put tofgBiber, and compared with the knowen fixednes of his judgment in that mater, and but a very fewe dayga, before expressed^ in the inclMed to me, by his deslw to live a little, that he might give a more complete testimoay to the tmeth, will put it beyond all readi of debate, that he not only knew what he did, and was notior^ to it cross his owne in- ^1 494 APPENDIX. dilution, but that he did it moit fVeely and deliberaUy, and that it waa bafbre, and at the time of dodng of it, mneh upon hit heart to doe it ; so that, were it otherwise convenient for me to appear before the oommiiaion, I auppeae it would be no gitat diiflculty humbly to jiutify my carriage, all the while I waa at St Audrewea. Nather doth my neeeaaare not oompearittg proceed trom any the least contempt of hie Mi^estiea'authoritie, which i dosire highly to reve- renoe, and wish his sacred person to be erery (* ) moat eminently blessed of God ; heartily, withall, allowing to Ihb Mi^estie all the power that any prince on earth hath i^om God: nor out of any disrespeoi to your Lordahip, the Lord High Chanoelor of the Idngh dome, nor to the great Lord Treaaurer, nor to any of the meanest under his Majestic, called to rule over me, nor to any of hit Courtb of Judicature, to which, notwithatanding of the greatest apparent haiard, I hare allwayca, on the first call, aa it wdU became me^ come, and on which I have patiently and aubiniwiTely waiied,d8yea; weeka, and monethes, as your Liwdship well knoweth. But it is fbr other reaaona, Which I hope will not ofibnd your Lordahip. I shall only preaume to adde, aa to these reverend brethren, of the brethren cited with me, that Mr Henry Rymer waa not at St Andre#ea with Mr Wood, all the while that I waa there. Nather did ! ^1* Mr Alex^t ander Wedderbume with him : nather did any of tho rest, to my beat knowledge, deaire him to writt that teatimony. Now, hopdng that your Lordahip will pavdone thia trouble, i- am, my noblest L<»d, your Lordahip'a very humble servant in the Lord, Mb Johnb CAasTAiRES. '^ .<-■■■. ,a The letter that Mr Wood wrote to Mr Carstaires, ten or twelve dayes before he went to siehim, mentioned in the preoeeding letter, and which (the very prindpall) was incloaed to the Chancelor, had something in it to this ptupose, if not in the same words :^— Brother, there is one thing I must add, though it were beat of all for me to be dissolved and to be with Christ, considering the snares and tentations that are comeing : the complyancc that will be, the hard lottea they will be put to, that will keep at distance ; and the sore judgments and plagues that are like to come on this adulterous and perverse generation ; yet, if it were the good plea- sure of God, I would desire to live a while, that I might give a -norg complete testimony to the trueth. But I must check myself : he has many polished shafts with him, &c. APPENDIX. No. III. 4d5 lOriff. MS. in BiU. Jurid. Edtn. NcLIX, Jac. V. I. «6, art. 62.] ,^ Letter /rom Mr Jouv Cjmtaim to Mr Robert Macwabd* ■; •*' ^^ ' JVoi^r. 30, 1676. My Rbtebino and Dearest Brothca> 1 CAW now but salute you very kindly, and tell you that I longe nrneh to hear how you are now ; I wold fain hope some better, for we can not Well want you : «' Ceasae, Lord ; by whom shall Jacob arise ? for he is small." I beseech you, remitt of your screrity to that poor weakened and wasted body. There cometh along in this veasell, directed to Mr Russell, some papers sent from John Caimes : they are a rare and rich jewel, especially fct the poor Church of Scotland, both shaming and allarming ui,~Mr Caldekwoos'Ii History, which with some difficulty and importunity two-*hl^ of us have ot Uust obtained. The copy is taken from his own ma- nusolpt*, being the third and last cura, and faithfully coUa- tioned with it : it k very fairly wreateii, which 4 of us have payed for. You will, I am sure, read it with much both satisfaction and tonrow, and it will be acceptable beyond much gold. Mr Weily bad dealt earnestly for it with the person in whose custody it was ; and I did put Mr Wyly to ride again to him, with ray assurance that it should be both secretly aud faithfully disposed of; and wrote after, but then obtained nothinge ; but have since, in good " This MS., containing corrections on the margin in Mr Caldetwood's hand>writiog, is still preserved, and is in tlie possession of James Donglas, Esq. of Cavers. From that family, distinguished by its adherence to Fres* bytery, Mr Carstairs most probably obtained the use of it at that time. Mr Thomas Wyllle, (the person referred to in this letter,) was minister first at Borg, and afterwards at Mauchlin, from vrhich he was removed to Kirkcud- bright, some time before the Restoration. On the 29th of October, 1667, he was permitted to return, from his confinement, to the south of the Forth, Edinburgh excepted. (Wodrow, i. pattim.) He afterwards accepted of an indulgence to the parish of Fenwick, on a call from the people, and died the " twentie day of .July, 1676." (Deer, Sec Concil. 16 Jan. 1677.) His son, Mr Robert Wyllie, who was tutor to tlie fwnily of Cavers, and became minister of Hamilton after the Revolution, was much esteemed for his ta- lents and learning. it ni _ ' ''V' m ml 'i I*' ^'li i' 1 p lB 1 i 496 APPENDIX. prorldence, to my gre»t uUifMUon, obutned it. I know Ita much longed for in both klngdoma, and pvoUbly will sell well if not ftured. It m«kM • lad diMovery of the dreadAil opposition of our Croyii;] houae, etpecitUy to the kingdom of Chri»t, whi«h will bring it belike u a nuurtyr to the Are. On many accounto It wold bo keeped severely clone and aeeret : the danger of discovery wold be great to many, wUoh will be obvioiu to yonraelf. I have given the copy to John Camw, to make of it what he can ; and if it come through, it may, throughe God's Uessiag, make him somewhat up. Let it even be hastened with all eonvenient diligence, for this is the very leasoun for such a hooks coming out. Respect to the author, who speaks moat Mvouiily all alon0e of our honest and faithfull great men, to the golden work;, and to the Church of Scotland, will, I hope, persuade yourseUe and Mr Browa to oorrect the proof, sheets and I think worthy WaUMse may herein be belpfull ; for it is of no particttlai roan's oooMm, but a treaMire of the church. Title and preface may be thought of thne eneugh; and its a good provideooe, I just now think, that it hath no title, since none cf the printers will ever hear of the author's name till it be finished. It wold be done in such a letter as may sate the wwrk, and yet not everchai^s poor John with vast expenoe. I have no new thing to acquaint you with. You have heard, its like, of Mrs Dunlop's and youqg Mrs Guthrie's banishment fVom Edinburgh, fw hearing pr)aching and pnycr against the law. There is no abatement of our severity. Its lik^ this day there will be a great ckmour in the eouncell, on occaaion of a south country conveotiUe this lost Sab^ bath, or Sabbath was eight dayes, by which a party of horae, sent to dissolve them, was darred and menasaed away, being surrounded, and assured, if they offbred violence to any there, none of them should goe off the place ; and so they left them. I dearly remem- ber your fUend and John— let me know how she is. I very kindly salute Mr Russell, his mother-in-kw, and his wife, CoU. Wallace, sweet Mrs Hoshepiod, of whose recovery I longe to hear, Mr Hogge, and great Mr Broun ; thank him kindly, in my name, for his book. John Games waits, and I must stop here. Grace, grace be with you, and your bow abide in strength. I am, my dearest brother, your etc*. I remember our own Margaret. For Mr Macqmrd, Minitter of the Gospel, note at Hotterdame, Otue. AVPENnrx. 497 >H>. No. IV. lOriff, MS. in Bibl, Jurid. Edin. No. LIX. Jac. V. 1. 26. art. 57.] From the Same to the Samb. Ed', March 8<\ 1677. My OEABBax Bbothsb, My goutiflh distemper still somewhat continouing, I cbti only kindly salute you, and tell you, that I have, since my lait to you, (which, I hear, is by the east winde driven, in providence, hither again,) received Mr Wallace his return to yours and mine, both which I herewith transmitt to you. Its like it will not doe. I wish, as he seems to resolve, he may hasten over at least : Pray, hasten him word of your friend's dyet. I thought it not fit, on the account you gave me of the establishing that salary for a sue- cesaor, to wreat to him again, judging the motive somewhat mer- cenary, as it's like he wold ; but I judge that condescension a very signall signification of respect to you, and the procurement of it worthy a man's life : The fruit, the fhiit of it may speak and blesae the Lord on your behalfe when you are dead. Your croase is so richly inambled and indented vrith memorable mercies, that scarce one bltt of that crabbed tree appears. Let your heart tremble and be enlarged because of all this goodnesse of God. I sent you, a quarter of a year agoe, in James Cassell's ship, what I judged a Jewell, as you will also think, thoughe I understand he is but very lately gone, being detained by the fVost. It is now more than ever a Jewell, even as a brand snatched out of the burning of the monu- ments of the poor Church of Scotland. Our church registers being all token out of a house here in Edinburgh this last week, by some one or other unhappy person's information, who had seen Vlr Ro« bert Car his papers after his death.* I fear the work shall not be * A document, which will be inserted as No. XIV. in Uiis Appendix, throws light on the way in which the Registers here referred to probably came into the possessioH of Mr Robert Car, or Ker. There cnn be no doubt that these Registers contained the Minutes of 2k ►; w 498 APPENDIX. gotedone now, you both being absent ; which made me doutfull whether I should called for it again, when I heard of your remo- vall thence, and that the vessel] was not then gone. It will be much if it be not discovered when it it a doing, which wold make sad vork. O, what wold they give now especially for it ! The Lord Pi-eserve it, as a faithfiUI wittness to his interests against the usur- pations of prince and prelats, and for this poor church. I salut all friends dearly, and am, my dearest, your own, J. K. No. V. [Orii/. MS. in Bibl. Jurid. Edin. No. LIX. Jac. V. 1. 26, art. lOy.] From the Same to the Same. Feb. ir, 1679. My dearest, and of Atr. men, most obmdgino FftlEND AXD fisOTHSR, I TAKE this occasion to salute you much in the Lord, to whom you are dear, and in whoso heart you have much roum, and to tell you, that reraembring your premptory assertion, that you wold doe no thinge that way, poor insignificant and very ignorant I the un- fittcst, you know of many, have constrained my selfe to scrible an the Qenend Assembly from the Reformation down, at least, to the year 1S90 ; and what is here stated m&y serve to correct the account of their seizure given by Bbhop Keith. (Hist. p. 497, Note.) They were seized in consequence of information, and not by accident ; and Bishop Paterson was not admitted a member of the Privy Council until September 27, 1078, nor translated to the See of Edinburgh until March 29, 1679. (Fount. Dec. i. 17. Keith's Cat 16a) The Registers were carried oft" after the Revolution, by Dr Archibald Campbell, a cadet of the family of Argyle, and non.jurant bishop, who gave them to the cltrgy of the province of London, with whom, it is underotood, they still remain. Though they are the only record of the acts and laws of the Church of Scotland during one of the most important periods of her history, yet, to this day, the Ge- neral Assembly either has not demanded, or has been unable to obtain, her most undoubted property ! APPENDIX. 499 epistle to that book, which is now I suppose printed, being unwill- ing it should stick there for want of one ; either of you two there ar a thousand times fitter for such a work. If thwe be any thinge unsound or unsutable in it, I know you will, and earnestly desire you may, for the workes sake, and for poor my sake, helpe it; if it be not fitt and apposite, lay it aside, and deny your selfe that far as to write an othftF, which I know the Lord beth many wayes in- abled you to doe to much better purpose. If you think that this may passe without disgrace or prejudice to the book (for it heth my sabitan and raw thoughts and reasonings, without reading any thinge on the subject for such an end, from some glimering of light and reminiscence of what I think I have some time read or heard.) You will see to the exact revising and printing of it your selfe, and the punctation of it ; if it be otherwise than as I say in the elose, as to not one line or sentence added to it, taken from it, or altered to the perverting of the author's sense, (as there was none by me,) you will alter what I have so peremptorily said, and put it in some safe generall, that no wntruth be so confidently asserted, which may also be contradicted. Wse your freedome with it, for the work and cause sake. I dare not trouble you with any account of our matters ; but great and growing are our confusions, distempers, and distractions. We are made by them exceedingly contemptible, and for any thinge I know, presbyterian government gote never such a blow in Brittain as it is like to receave by them ; and it's more than probable, that sewrall that ar weary of prelacy, and might indine to favour our persons, ar frighted and scarred from us because of our dividing and contentious practises, as if tJie very principles of our govern- ment and party had a genuin and native tendency to them, since we thus so readily fall by the ears on every occasion. Ah ! He, the jeal- ous and much provoked God, heth divyded us in his anger, and there is litle hope of healing ! My dearest, and even as wombe-born brother, suffer me to tell you, that it is wondred at by many, and even by some that ar your reall friends and myn, and I confesse I somewhat wond^ at it my selfe, that whatever is or may be your just dissatisfaction with the indulgence, that you should not only run this great and unexpected leinth in incouraging andperauading to withdraw and separat, and to allow and patronise tbeae poor pe- tulant young men, who, thoughe no plene ambassadours of Jesus Christ, roam up and down the country, and in places whew they have 500 APPENDIX. no calLng, and very magisteri&Uycharge under highestpain., to with- Urawfrom the indulged brethrens ministry, and load aU with the im- putations of fainting and unfaithfulness who run not at that same rate but also state your selves, being knowing and godly, eminently godly men, in an open and to the world decUred opposition to all (a very few, if any, excepted) the honest suffering mimsters of the Church of ScoUand, so as to write against opinions, practises, pro- ceedings, forbearings, and all thinges abut these differences here in men, many of whom you knou, and so much in favoure and com- mendation of some novices whom you knou not, some of whose in- solent extravagancies, I persuade my selfe, the sober and humble soul of the tender, godly, knowing, and judicious Mr Mackquard wolde as much abhore, if knowen to him, as they ar incapable of a just apology. Is there no forbearance in these thinges to be expect- ed which we jusUy dissallow ? and shall our differences be screwed to such a hight, and so keenly and eageriy pursued, so as all fears of Popery and a forraigne sword (which ar like only to putt a pe- riod to them) ar swallowed up and fgrgotten ? Is there, my deariy beloved brother, and man greatly beloved, no phce for intreaties and beseechings, to consider and endevour to prevent, before thinges be quite past remedy, (for I will dispute none,) is there,Isay,no place to consider whither it wer better to supercede our contendings then to have our Church ruined? I scarcely see a midle way for any thinge. I hea. the sober and judicious godly in Scotland will not holde up with these late methods, and indirect wayes ar taken to blast evry mans repute that finds not in his heart to goe all the leinth that some goe ; but its a small thinge to be judged of men. As for poor me, O, if I knou of a cottage in the wildemesse while I live, and were sure thence to goe to the king^ome ! I hear there ar animadvenrions on Mr Brown's letters to Mr Dickson about the bre- threns meeting at Edinburgh, and to Mr Cameron, as if none such had been reased up in the Church of Scotland for many years before ; where I suppose they will and can hardly but have great advan- tage of him, neither will after replyes, I fear, well helpe errours in the first concoction. I hear also, there is an answer to his 24 ar- guments against hearing, which I find even sober persons not lay much weight upon ; but I have seen none of them, nor have I great pleasure to be entangled in that, alace ! not so greatly edifieingand much stumbling contraversy. I told you longe since what this wold come to. O, if wee were all more humbled before Him, more one APPENDIX. 501 with Him, and more one in Him amongst our selves ! I dearly salute your worthy wife, worthy Mr Gordoun, my kind and obUdging friend choice Mrs Levingstoun, a mother indeed in Israfel, worthy Mr Russell and his wife, blest Mrs Hoshipied and her husband. Forget not to salute kindly in my name Mr Brown and Mr Coleman. My wife is now very w«ak, broken in her health, and is seldome welL Grace, grace, grace be with you.— I am, my dearest and most desirable Brother, Your own poor afflicted and uselesse, but much, very much oblidged and afffectionatt J. C. '^^ease to inquyre at Mr HusseU if he knew how worthy, now glorified, CoUonell Wallace disposed on his litle afl^rs. and whether he left any thinge for William's wife, a sober, grave, godly gentle- woman, pleaing now here at law, for she heth heard no thinge of It. Send word by the first occasion by post about that matter. De- sire your wife to remember me dearly to James Dunlop, to sweet John, and our own Margaret. No. VI. lOriff. MS. in Bibl Jurid. Edin. N0.LVIIL Jac. F 1. 11. aif. 90.] Letttrfirom Mr Macward to Mr John Brown, tcttn tne Answer.* Dkahe B. I HBEEwiTH send you, first, a seled letter to your self; secondly, woods History, wherewith I am pleased, for I have run it over. You may also read it j onely I think, if you judge fit, such a word ^67?" SiT" '"If"* ^^^alderwood', HUtory. &. So i^ .o^ed:' Feb 17, I679" " """'"'" ' " ^*"'^'*^ '^"«^> *" ^^^ i' «fc». is dated 502 APPENDIX. might be insertwl towards the. close, that it will be unworthy of any serious person, much more of a minister of the Gospel, not to provide himself with a copy of one of these and peruse. Next, for I writ things as they come in my head, if you think good it may be, it were not amisse, towards the beginning of that part of the preface where the History itself is particularly spoken too, for preventing the reader's neglect and contempt of the whole, if he finde not somewhat tickling and takeing in the beginning, to drop such a word as this — However things are more briefly hinted in the beginning of the History, and onely a cleare deduction of the series of Assemblies heU forth, which was the author's design, yet the following part is full, sweet, and satisfactory ; wherein things are handled, etc. This is all I have to say of it, except that I judge it must be transcribed, for I doubt if this hand can be read. As for the rest that relats to it, viz. Mr Fleming's rare overture for paying Air Russell, etc., I know Mr Russell will acquaint you with it. However, you will finde what he sais in this short letter to me, which I also send you, because of some newes in it. As for the larger with the Preface, you see he answers none of my arguments ; onely you will perceive by Mons's to me, according to my coiyecture that is put upon him, so that it is him we have now mainly to deale with. I have run Mons's over, and I perceive these two :— Ist, That he would have us falling off from the pursute ; 2dly, I perceive, and I wonder he strikes so oft on that string, that he is strangely picqued at our writing about the time he went hence, and that his being here did not prevent it. I suspect that person Mrs Sims, hints at in yours be Rob. Ham., though I have not heard whether he be come or not; onley I heare the Lady Kersland is come. Let me know how you are, and if you have read these sheets you took with you. Let me have your thoughts about them ; butdoo not straiten yourself. You may read what I now send you at your own conveniency. Its like we must have a day together next week. I know you vnll not scruple to see Mr Hamilton, if he be come. I was just upon our uiuon and di- visions when I received Mons's. I am weary. Be not discouraged : He wUl hold your hand, and make your bow abide in its strength. Vale. APPENDIX. .50S Mr Brown's Answer. I HAVE read those letters and also the three treatises which are cdme over for an answer ; oil which are more than answered in the History : but it seems the Lord will not suflfer that to come to their sight, for all that was sent home is destroyed, can tell you, as I hear. Whereupon I think we are colled to silence^ for the Lord will do his work another way. This Preface must be helped in some things. Our greatest trou- bles about church government with K. J. did not commence with the tulchan bishops, but began, you know, an. 1596, before which time these tukhans were gone and evanished. Mention must be made in it of the Lord's honouring our Church with suffering on that account b«;fore all the Churches of Christ. Some words in the end must be changed. Vale. You mention Mr Fleming's letter, but 1 have not Geen it.* # • We learn from Wodrow, that his fathfc in-law, Mr Patrick Warner, (see before, p. 256,) was active in promoting the printing of Calderwood'i History. " Towards the end of February this year, [1682,] when living peaceably in the house of his snother-in-law, [Mr William Guthrie's widow, J at Edinburgh, — a party of the Guards, — commanded by Major Johnstoun, — took him out of his bed, ransacked tlie whole house, and took away up- wards of twenty copies of Calderwood's History, lately printed, mostly upon his charges, with some hundreds of the Second Book of Discipline, lately printed, and several other valuable books, out of his closet, with a consi- derable number of more valuable manuscripts, some of them his, but mostly belonging to his mother-in-law, Mrs Guthrie, which had been her liusband's. — The books and manuscripts were taken to the Council-house to be looked over, but were never restored.— Having engaged in the print, ing of that useful book, Calderwood's History, and lent a great deal of mo. ney to help it on, he was obliged to take for bis payment some hundreds of the books in quires ; and, besides his loss of the bound copies at Edinburgh, those which were unbound, by his frequent removes, were many of them put in disorder and confusion, and so on the matter lost to him, and many of diem seized, which, after he had redeemed, were sometimes taken a se- cond time. At a very moderate computation, his loss was upwards of an hundred pounds sterling. Meanwhile, there is neitlier act of Peiliament or Council agunst that book, neither did the committee before whom he ap> peared blame him for having so many of them as were seized ; and yet they would not order them back to him when desired."— (Wouaow, ii. 26ft, £04 APPENDIX. No.va IMS. in Bibl. Jurid, Edin. XLIII. Bob. III. 3. 16.] LeUerfrom the King to the Council, liberating Mr William Veitcu.* Chaeles, B. Rigbt tnwty, &c. we greet you well. Mr William Veitch ha- ving been forfaulted by a sentence of our Justice Court, as be- ing acoeaK>ry to the rebellion in the year 1666, was lately taken m Northumberland, and was by our order, sent prisoner to Edinburgh, there to be pursued by our advocat for that his ac- cession; and whereas it is now humbly represented unto us that the said Mr William Veitch was not actuaUy present at the fight on Pentland-hills, and that having retired tymously from the • The other documents respecting Mr Veitch's trial are printed in Wad. row. The foltoiring notice concerning his father was omitted in iu proper place :—« There is an old man, Mr John Veitch, minuter of Roberton ; they [the committee of the Bemonitrant or Pioteating Synod of Glasgow] sent two or three ministers of their number to hear him preach. On their rsport, they pronounced a sentence of depoution on hun, as usuffident. Our Synod appomted some to Join with the true Presbytery of Lanark, which met the week thereafter-with the unanunous consent of the people of Roberton, strengthened the mutster, and appointed a helper to be setded there hi an orderiy way." (Baiffie to Spang, July 19, 1664 1 Baillie's Letters, ii. 374.) This explains what has been stated respecting Mr Blackie in a former note. (See before, p. 54.) In an Act of Parliament, anno 1698, for paymg the Kuig's debts, among the sums owing by Thomas Fowllls, goldsmith, and Robert Jowsie, bur- gess in Edtaburgh, (hu Majesty's bankers or furnishers,) the first item is, " To James Veitch, in Dalkey^ 66rj. 13«. 4d." Mr Veitch, in his Me- moirs, (p. 4,) mentiong that the csUte of his ancestors was m the neigh, bourhood of Dalkeith, so that the pmon here referred to was perhaps his grandfather. Ai'PJiNDlX. 505 rebells, he did, ever since, live peaceably in this our kingdom of England. And we being graciously desirous to encourage those that repent for their accessions to such rebellious courses, have therefore ordained, and do hereby authorize and require you, to sett the said Mr William Vdtch at liberty, he al^vays enacting himself to remove forth of that our ancient kingdom of Scotland, and not to return into the same. This our letter being his security untill he shall again return into that our kingdom, in which case this our warrant is hereby decUred ineffectual And so we bid you heartily farewell. Given at our court of Windsor Castle, the 17th day of July, 1679, and of our reigne the 31 year. By his Majesties command, (Subscribitur) Laudekdale No. VIII. IRecord of the Diocesan Synod of St Andrews."} Bqtretenk^on of the Archbishop and Clergy of St Andrews to the Privy Council. ' St Andrews, April 29, 1674. Thb Lord Archbishop and brethren of the Privy Conference, considering the increase of the many disorders under which the Church, particularly in this diocess, does sadly Kbour, judged that a representation of the evill of these disorders to the Lords of his Miyesty's Privy CouncU, by the mediation of Lord Archbishop, would be the most efficient mean for the cure of them.— Of late* some persons of in-placable enmity ag»nst the order and peace of this church, (the roughness and rancour of whose spirit does con- temn all the lenities that are used for the smoothing and sweeting of it,) have presumed to abuse the mercy and indulgence of our so- vereign, unto the actmg of als high insolences against the worship and public service of God, his ministers who serve at his altar, and *he discipline he has instituted, as ever have been suffered by any who have lived under the direction of good and wholesome laws 506 APPENDIX, and the bounty and mercy of m gracious a prince. We humUy hu treat your grace to present this our complaint unto the Lords of his Miyesty's Privy CouncU, that they way move for the redress of these eviU which press us so sore. These iniquities and abuses are speciaUy these foUowing :—l. The growth ond increase of Ftopery, by the diligence and boldness of trafflquing papists, to the sedul cing ignorant and unstable people unto idolatry and superstition together with the defection of some into quakerism. 9. The open and almost avowed contempt that is cast upon the publie and so* lemn worship of God, by deserting the public assemblies ot the church established by law for the service of God, not only through a simple and negative secession from the communion of thischurelt, but also by a frequent and open assembling by multitudes in tb« fields and private houses, in a direct and stated opposition unto the lawftil assemblies of this church. It is also aggravated by serial difiorderly clandestine marriages, like as by the impudent and wiU ful refusal of delinquents to submit unto the juot censures of this church, for scandalous miscarriages, condemned by the word of God and laws of this kingdom, by the licentiousness of persons openly profane, which may be, and are, encouraged by this ex* ample, by the uiiheard-of intrusion into, and invading the pulpits of the godly and orderly ministers of this church, and by the btr- barous profanation of places dedicate to the service of God. 3. The open and ordinary profanation of the Lord's day by persons who, pretending necessary dispatch of business, do cause great disturb, ance in the several parishes through which the common road lietb, by threating and forcing hirers of horse, boatmen, and other people, to serve their worldly lusts and designs. As also by the travelling of mulUtudes of pAple on the Lord's day, to conventicles at a great distance. .^ This being the sad posture and state of af&ris that this church is in, we could lo longer forbear craving the assistance which th$ law of God does allow us, and the benevolence and fatherly care of our gracious Sovereign does invite and command us to call tor, §» often as we stand in need ; and do hereby, and by your Graee'f mediation and earnest intercession, b^ that the Lords of his M»« jesty's Privy Council would be pleaaed to examine the truth of tb« particulars above-mentioned, and proceed accordingly against th« course and torrent of these abuses, as they in wisdom judge most convenient, to remove the danger that the Protestant religion u in ArPENUlX. 507 of being, aa it wore, a deluge of error, Bchiara, profanity, and athe- iMn, and to vindicate the authority and honour of our ministry from the fury and harbarity of those whose actings declare them implacable toward our persons, and irreconcileable unto the peace and order of Ibis church, that we may be succoured in our sUtions M to behave in all the conduct of our affauu as it may never repent his Mijettty *^' **^ Lordships of the favour and protection they have graciously granted unto us and the aflBicted church whereof we are raini&ters and members. St Andrews, Sept. 2. 1«80, The Archbishop and Synod being deeply sensible of the great diacontentment the orderly and orthodox ministers labour under by reason of the many vagrant conventicle preachers and others that in certain places of this diocese, espedallie in Fife, doe keep week- lie preachings in their houses, to the great disturbance of the peace and unity of the congregations where they reside, and the next ad- .iacent ; therefore its thought fit that the moderators of the several Presbyteries should give in to the clerk of the Synod a list of the names of all such, whether iterant or settled, that his Grace may make use thereof as he shall find expedient. It being complained that in several places so many withdraw iVom the church and refuse to be examined, so that the ministers of these parishes are doubtful whether they shall administei the sacrament of the Eucharist; its appointed that it shall be given to those who are desirous of the same, though they be but a few.* • Great cwnplaints are made at this period by the dergy in aU parts of the country, that religious ordinances are ill attended, and that the public collections have faUen off, « many persons giving but one copper doyt at their offering." For two or three years before the Restoration, the collec- tion at the communion in the parish of St Andrews, amounted to £200 annually. In 1661, it was £147, !»• 6d. ; and in 1663, it feU to £83, Is. 6d. The following exhibits a state of the collections at the communion (in- eluding Saturday, Sabbath, and Monday,) in the neighbouring parish of Dennino, before the Restoration, after it, and after the Revolution :— In 1666, ! . . .£'M 4 In 16fi2, .... £18 4 in 165S, .... 26 17 In 1666, .... 10 17 In 1069, .... «3 4 4 In 1673, .... 11 4 In 1688, £16 1 6 In 1600, 46 2 In 1691, 75 19 4 508 APPENDIX. No. IX. C^^. in Bibl. Jurid. Edin. No. XXXII. M. 6. U. art, 45 . «irf Ab. 12: Jac. V. 1. 21. art. 64.] Decoration of Colonel Blood and his Accomplices in Ireland. Haveino long expected the Kcureing unto ug of our lives li- berUe., and eitotes, as hot ane reawnable reconipence of that in- dustne and diligence exerdsed by the Protestantis of this kinadome m restoreing of his Mi^jesrie to the exercise of his royal authoritie f "J"ngdomes ; ,n steid thereof, we find ourselves, our wyfes and child^n without mercie delyvered «. a prey u«to these bar! barous and bloodie murderers, whose inhumane crueltie is registrar ted m the blood of 150,000 poor ProtestanUs at the beginnL of Ld I^ •" fivK,' "^.'^°"'' ' •" ""^^^ ^""^ •PP^'' ^y *«•« '"-^'ing sad and mfalhble simptomes :— i^.«<. That notwithstanding of aU the obhgation of oathes and covenantis lyemg on his MiyesUe for the extirpating of Poperie. ftelacie, and such grand maUgnaade, he hath suffered himcelf ^ be so far seduced by evil counsellors, that even the aforesaid blodie Papists, that were deluders of the people unto that barbarous ma. saker, were now the first that tasted of his royal clemende, in setle- mg them m their justUe forfalted estates at his first comeing in by paper ordores, taken from the Protestantis illegaUie, and confim- ea on them, and they that had them not had sallaries out of the Exchequer untill they wer restored, alUiough the poor suffering 1^^"*'" P**^^'^ ^y ^"^ "'''"^ ^'^ »»y recompence for thair Secondlie, That these vast soumes of money givine by the Pro- tMtantis for relief of that armie, which, under God, is the meanes of our Prcsemt'one from thair blodie attempts, is disposed of to gratifie the aforesaid inhumane butchers of the poor ProtestanUs, wtalst the said armie parish for want of pay. APPKNllIX. 509 Thirdlit, Tluit the Lord Lieutenant, to whose protectione we ar coramittit, doeth not onlie execute and practise, hot hath owned hia Iceeping a correspondence with several of the said murderers dureing tlieir hoatilitie, as appeareth by his certificates in their be- half to the Court of Clamea, to which may be added the Hous of Com- mones of this kingdoine's apprehensione, declared in the Speak«>r'a speech to he Duk ; by all which circumstances, we may undoubt- edlie, as David did, conclude that evill is determined against us ; and before it be execute, which wold be to late, stand upon our Just and necessar defence, and use all our endeavors for our self prcaer- vatione, and, like the people with Saull, when he intended to re> quyte the incomparable desertis of Jonathan with death, to stand up without the sanctuarie and say. As the Lord liveth, Jonathan sail not die ! And to the end no weill mynded Protcstantis in the three kingdomes may be afraid to stand be us in this our just quar- rell, we doe declar we will stand for that libertie of conscience proper to everie one as a Christian, for establischeing the Protestant religione in puretie, Recording to the tenor of the Solcmne League and Covenant ; the restoreing each persone to his landis, as they held them in the year 1659 ; the dischargeing the armies arreires; and the repaireing of the breaches maid upon the hberties and pri- veledges of the corporationes in the thrie kingdomes. In all which, we doubt not hot the Lord of Hosts, the mightie God of Jacob, will strengthen our weik handis. 1 1 , [ The following paragraph is added to one of the Copies of t/te above Paper."} Dublin, 26th May, 1663. Last Wednesday a great plot wes H^ covered, headed by the English. The designers, it is reported, wes to surprise his Majestie':* Castell of Dublin, with his Grace the Lord Duk, with several of the English nobilitie, which, had it takine effect, might ha^e bred a great confusione. Many of the chief actors ar in custodie, as Levetenant Collonell Scotis, M^jor Jonstones, Captain Chalmers, Mr ministers, Mr Thomas Boord, merchant, Mr Jepson, Cuxton, (Buxton ?) members, Levetenant U 510 APPENDIX. CoUonell Warren, ,)Ame» Janner, fraitleman, and Captain Loiid- ftird, (Sandfurd ?) with many uthera. ScvcrallH have maid their eocape, as Collonell Abot, Mi^or Abel Warren, Captain Thoinaa Blood, Andrew Maccormae (Macconnac?) and Hobcrt Chalmeri, roiniatem, Collonell GibbieCarr, Mi^ Alexander Sugles, (Staples? ) Levetenant CoUonel Mor, with many uthert, for which proclama- tion is publisched, commanding oflSeen, and uthert whataomevAr, to apprehend them. It'a belicTed many of them will suffer. ITiey had this declaration fixt on aeverall pairtcs, as is within written. No. X. ZMS. in BibL Jurid. Edin. Caledonia Papers, Jac. V. 2. 12. ' • Ser. a. art. 37.] Rules and Orhikances by the Parliament of New Caledonia, for the good Government of the Colony. The Council and Deputies assembled in Parliament, pursuant to the trust reposed, and the powers and immunities granted, by his Miyesty of Great Britain, our Soverayn Lord, communicated and transmitted unto them by the Indian and African Company of Scotland, have, for the good order and government of tliis Colony, after mature deliberation, agreed and concluded upon the follow- ing Rules and Ordinances, as appearing most rea^^onable, equal and sutable, to be from tliis time forward binding and obliging; and for that effect, that aa ordinary Judicatur, or Court of Justice, be appointed, to consist of such and such number of persons as the Council shall think convenient ; the which shall have power to choose their President, and to name and appoint clerks, servants, and all other officers needfull, and to proceed upon, judge, and de- termin all causes, crimes, and punishments, by and according to the following Rules and Ordinances, which wee do hereby appoint and ordain to have the full force ami effect of lawes, within this Colony and its Dependences, by land and sea ;— APPENDIX. Ml 1. In the firat place, it ia hereby provided and declared, that the precepta, inatnictions, exatnplea, commanda, and prohibitiona ex- preat and contain'd in the Holy Scripturea, as of right they ought, ahall not only be binding and obliging, and have the full force and effect of laweK, within this Colony, but are, were, and of right tnight to be, the atandard, rule, and meaaure to all the further and •ther conalitutiona, rulea, and ordinancea thereof. 9. He who shall blaspheme or prophane the name of Almighty God, or any of his Difine Attributcn, or uae any curse or impreca- tion, after publick acknowledgement, shall auffer three daya impri- aonment, and confinement to bread, water, and hard labour, for the first offbnce, and, for the second offence, shall suffl>r the said pu- nishment for thirty dayes, and, for erery other offence, shall be pu- nished at the discretion of the Justiciary Court. 3. Whosoever ahall behave hiraselfe disrespectAiTly towards the Council, or any of the Councilloura, or towards his own or any other officer of this Colony, or shall speak words tending to their or any of their hyrt or dishonour, or shall know of such behaviour, or words spoken, and shall not reveal the same with all convenient speed, shall be punished according to the nature of their offenc-e, and quality and circumstances thereof, in the judgement of the Justiciary Court. 4. No man shall, upon pain of '^'>"'^li, ii ' 1 correspoiitJence, give advice, or keep intelligence witl ..wyrebell or eneiny, as also he who shall know of any such intelligence, and shall not, with all convenient speed, discover the same, and the party or parties there- in concerned, to the Council, or some one of the Coiuicillonrs, or to his superior officer, shall likewayes be lyable to the same pu- nishment. 5. He who shall entice or persuade another, or others, to any re- bellious act agai st the Council and Government of this Colony, shall incurr the pain of death ; and whosoever shall know of surl- offence, and shall not discover the same to the Council, or to some one of the Councillours, or to his superior officer, shall incurr the same punishment. 6. No man shall presume to contrive, endeavour, or cause any mutiny or sedition within this Colony, upon pain of death, or such other punighment as the Justiciary Court shall think fit. 5U APPENDIX. 7. Whosoever shall disobey his superiour Officer, or tesrst him in the execution of his office, or shall oppose or resist any of the Ma- gistrates or Officers of this Colony, in the execution of their duty and tnist, shall suffer the pains of death, or such other punishment as the Justiciary Court shall think fit. 8. He who shall violat any protection, or safe conduct, granted by the Council, and knowing the same, shall suflfer death, or such other punishment as the Justiciary Court shall think just. 9. He who shall use any provocking or upbraiding words or ges- tures, or shall give the ly, or any manner of reproachful, scanda- lous, or injurious names, to another of equal quality and degree with himselfe, whither present or absent, or shall strike, or threaten to strike, such a one with his hand, stick, sword in the scabard, whip, stone, or any thing of like nature, shall, besides giving honourable satisfaction to the party injured upon his knees, be therfore condemned to hard labour at the publick works for the space of six mopeths ; from which labour he shall not desist, with- draw, nor desert, upon pain of death, or such other punishment as the JuBticiary Court shall think meet: and if such affronts or in- juries shall be given or offered to a superiour, the party oflfending shall be lyable to double the said punishment at least ; and if to an inferiour, the same shall be proportioned sutable to the nature of the CMC, and the circumstances of the parties concerned. 10. No man shall presume to fight a duel with, or send a chal- lenge to, another ; nor shall any one presume to accept of such a challenge or appointment to fight, upon pain of the severest death a.:d highest infamy: And all seconds in duels and appointments to fight, and such as shall know thereof, and shall not reveal the same, and the persons concerned, with all convenient speed, shall be. equally lyable to the same punishment. 1 1. He who shall wilfully hurt or maim any other, shall, sutable to the loss and value of his time, and the grieffe and pain thereby^ occasioned, as also the expenoe of curing, and disability of body therby happening, be lyable to make full satisfaction; and if the offender have not to pay, he shall become a servant, and shall so uontinow, untill full reparation be made to the party injured ; and, generaly, the like full reparation shall not only he made for alk manner of hurts, violences, wrongs, and damages done, or caused APPENDIX. SW or offbred to be done, but the offender may be fiirther punished, if the nature of the one aball require the ume. 12. It ahall be death for any man preaoaaptuoualy and wiUftiUy to anatilt another by luch means and weapons aa shall put him in evident hasard or dioiger of his lifb. IS. AU murder, or wilfUl killing of any person, shall be punished with death. 14. He who shall force a woman to abuse h«r, whether she be- long to an enemy or not, shall suffer death for it. 15. It shall be death to steal, or fordbly to oary or convoy away fVom this colony, or its dependencies, any man, woman, or child. ir. House-lvealdng, and all sorts of robing, or foroible thifts, shall be punished with loss of life, or of liberty, at the will of the Justiciary Court. 17. A thieffe shall be oblidged to restore fourfold of the speciee or value of the thing stollm and damnage done, the one«halfe to the fttrty injured, and the other to be equally divided between the govemmeht of this colony and the discoverer of the theft. And if the thiefe have not to pay, he shall be condemned to hard service and labour at the publiek or other works, untill fliU restitution of the value of the thing stolen and damnage done be made, and diall be afterwards obliged to serve the government of this colony, and the discovarer of the theft, fat the spaoe of a whole year. 18. All robing of Indian plantations or hotuea, stealing or U- king of providons, or other things bdbnging to them, without their ftee consent, Aall be (nmished as theft. 19. Cuting ot biealdng down, or otherwayes spoiling of pUntan- walks, orange, leamon, or Ume trees, or other trees or fruits of use and for suport of life, and all other willfUl wute and spofl, shall be punished as theft. 90. Whosoever diall presume to sell, imbede, or willfUly spoile, break, or oonvoy away any arms, ammunition, axes, hatchets, spades, shovels, pickaxes, or other neoessara or storea of wanr, or wttf kikigi*tool6, belonging to the colory, whether CMnmitted to thdr trust or othenvise, shall be punishud as thieves. «1. All willftill and apparent breech of tinst, and dedgned fraud and cheating, shall be punished aa theft. «e. AU giving and taking of bribes, in order to delay, deny, or pervert justice, e)iall be punished as theft. 2l 5U APPENDIX. S3. Things that are found may not be concealed, but shall be restored to the owner, if known, with aU convenient speed • and where the owner is not known, pubUck intimation thereof shall be given, otherwise the finder shall become lyable to sufl^ as a thiefe 24. Benefits received, and good services done, shall always be generously and thankftUy compensated, whether a prior agreement or bargain hath been made or not ; and if it shall hapen to be other- wisiB, and the benefactor be obliged justly to complain of the in- gratitude, the ungrateful shall, in such case, be obliged to dve thredbld satisfaction at least. 25. Whosoever shaU absent himselfe, go away from, or desert the service of this Colony, or that of any parUcuhr person to whom they are bound, besides due chastisement of whipmg, shaU be obli- ged to serve a week for every day of such their absence or deser, tlOD. 26. No man shaU be confined or detained prisoner for above the space of three moneths, without being brought to a lawful tijd. 27. AU knds, goods, debts, and other effects whatsoever and where- soever, (except the needful and proper working tools of a mecha- nick, the proper books of a student or man of reading, and the proper and absolutely necessar wearing cloaths of any person,) shaU in the most ready, easy, and absolute manner, be subject to the just and equal satisfaction of debts ; but the person of a free mim shaU not in any sort be lyable to arreasts, imprisonment, or other restramts whatsoever, for or by reason of debt, unless there shall U fraud, or the design thereof, or willful or aparent breach of trust, missapplication or conceahnent first proved upon him. 28. In all cases. Criminal and Capital, no judgement or determi- nation shall pass against any man in the Justiciary Court, without the consent and concurrence of a Jury, consisting of fifteen fit per- sons, to be nominat and chosen by the said Court, in the ordinary and usual manner, out of such a number as they shall think fit. 29. Upon trials of persons or causes, the Justiciary Court shall proceed to examine the witnesses upon oath, and after having heard the prisoner, the party accused or the party concerned, whether for or against the witnesses. The Judges shaU afterwards give their opinions one by one, beginning at the youngest in years, and pro- ceeding to the eldest, and shall conclude by majority of votes • but if the votes be equal, the President shall have a casting voice '; APPBiNDlX. 515 and when Judgement or sentence is to be given, the President shaU pronance u. SO. No naan shaU presume to sit in court/ much less to act as a Judge, or be of the Jury in the case, and during the time that any owse wherein he is party, or any way interested or concerned, shall be under examination or triaL 31. The Justiciary Court shaU keep a clerk or clerks, who sliall ^swom to make true and faithful records of aU the proceedings of 32. No man shaU presume to use any braving words, signs, or ^turs, in any pkce of Council or Judicatur, whUst the Council or court IS sittmg, upon pain of such punishment as shaU be inflicted by the Court. 33. AU things relating to trade and navigation, and not compre- hended m or understood by these ordinances, shall be determined by the most krr^ and practised bwes and customs of merchants, and of the s 34. And I* , iSvry Judge or Member of the Justiciary Court. and evry one of the Jury shaU take a solemn oath, duly to admi- niater justice according to these rules, ordinances, and probation ta- ken, to the best of their understanding. Port St Andrew, Aprill 24, 1699. AU the saids Rules and Ordinances were read and aproven of. Article by Article, and afterwards past altogether. CoLUN Campbell, j. p. p. No. XI. IMS, in Bibl Jurid. Edin. No. LVIIL Jcus. V. I. 11. - art. 95."] Extract of a Letter from Mr Macward to Mr Bleketer, Colonel Wallace's Death. on Becer. ~ 78. —I DOUBT not but you have heard of the removeaU of worthy and great Wallace, of whom I have no doubt it may be said, he 516 APPENDIX. hath left no man behind him in that ohurch, minlaler, nor profes- sor, quho hath gone thorow such a varietie of tentationa, without turnine wde to the right hand or to the left He died in great lerenitlft of aoul. He had Uved abroad such an ornament to his profeaaion, as he was not more lamented by ua than byall the aeri 0U8 EngUsh and Dutch of his acquaintance (who were manr) m haveing lost the man, who as a mean was mad use of by the Lord to keep life amongst them ; yea, the poor ignorant people of the con- gregation cf Rotterdam (besids the more serious and knowing amongst them) bemoan his death, and their lose as of father. And Aey have good retnn ; for I must say, he was the most faithlWl feckfuU, compassionat, dUigent, and indeifatigable elder in the work of the Lord, that ever I knew at home or abroad ; and as for his care,solicitude,and concemednesse, in the work and people of God I may say, the care of all the churches lay more upon him than up^n hundreds of us, so that the Church of God hath lost more in the removeaU of that man than most wiU suffer themselves to beliere. Onely we who know it, hare this to comfort ourselves, that the re- «Idue of the spirit is with him quho made him such, and that the Great feterccssour lives io plead his own caus«, and the causes of his peopls soul. I forgot to tdl you, that when the cause for which he had suffered was mentioned, when it was scarce beUeved he understood or could speake, there was a sunshine of serene joy looked out of his countenance, and a lifting up of hands on high, as to receive the confessor's crown, toglther with a Hfting up of the the voice with an aha, as to smg the conquerour's song of victorie. And to dose, I must teU you also, he lived and died in a deep de- testation of that wretched indulgence, and of all tiie wayes of sup- porting it ; and this abrupt account of his death you may give to our friends. In a word, as a compound of nU, he feU asleep in the fiirnace, walking wi& the Son of God, and now his bones win rise up with the bones of the other great witnesses hurried in a strange hind, as a testimony against the wrong done to Christ, and tiie vio- hjnce used against his followers by this wicked generation, whom the righteous Lord in hts time, from him who sitteth upon the throne t»thanMDest instrument that hath put the mischeifs he framed iijto a law in execution, wiU make a generation of his wratii, of spccibll wrath, which must answer and keep proportion unto the wrtngs done to the Mediator.— wi APPENDIX. 517 MdcWAHh to Mr CiRaiLit {lUd, eai, 04.) — Gbisat Wallace is gone to g^ry. I ibut his eyes whik be went out of my sight, and was oanled to st» God, ei^oy him, «nd be made t>erfectly like bhn in order to both. Forget not to give me a pcrtitiular account whether there be ahy such agreement amongst these young men lately licensed with yoU.» No. XII. \_MS. inpotaemon ojf the Severend John WiLiisoif, Minister of Forgandemhy.l Extracts JTom the Diary of Sergeant James Nisbst.\ I WAS born in the month 6f Feberuary, IQir, of parents botli of them realy and eminently religious ; but the titiaes were eaitreauly * it appean from the foUowing extiaot, that Widlace escapad flrom oon- iinemcnt after the battk of Dunbaz. ** Leiutauut CoUondi Wallace is eteaped, and come to us Una daye.'* (Letter from W> RowaUane, ynunger, to die Laird of Bowallane,— Dumfireis, Octob. 13, 1G50.) Robert RiddeU, Esq. has just &Teured me with tfae foUowing notice, which brings the line of the family of Achanes nearer the Colonel than anything I have yet met with. " It Matthew Wallace of Auchands, grant me to be justlie adebt^ to Mr John Anderson of Stobcors, the sum of 65 pounds, Scots money," &c. Dated 21st June, 1634^ and registered 5th Bee 1637> (Vtdnme Of Bonds, &C. from October 1636, to December 1639 : Records of the Com- missariot of 01aFf;ow.) t He was son to John Nisbet of HordliOl, who, after escaping fbr niaBy years the pursuit of the government, was taken and exeeated at Sdinbur^ in 1685. (Soots Worthies.) The sergmnt died, about the year 1726, m Edinburgh Castle. (Walker's Life of Peden, 73.) His Diaiy is chiefly religious, and conttuns a collection of letters written by hi:in to his Ctnristian acquaintances. 518 APPENDIX unhappy, because of ane Uegal, tyrannical, prelatlcal pewecuUon begun and carried on by Charlei the Second, Middleton and Laul derdale, in the state, and treacherous, perfiduous Sharp, and some others, in the church. Because of which, though my parents were persons of considerable worldly substance, yet they could not get the benefit of school education for their children, and so I got UtUe or none but what I acquired at mine own hand when under my hideing. For before I was bom, my father, with others, being set on by the enemy at Pentland-hiUs, 166«, when they were standing up in defence of the gospeF, and was by the enemy routed, and many of them slain, and my father received wounds, but, lyinc close among the dead tiU night, got of with life. The enemy i»tol .«d, « He i. a Whig J I «iw him on hi. kneee." 'fhoy ^k*! my name, and I told them my new name. They «i!d U^L an. other they had none in tli^ir li.t of that name. They «iked me, who learned me to pray. I told them, my Bible. He that ow,: manded them, I think he mT.. a .cnjeant, «id, " since we Im. none of that name, let him alone." The flr.t man that came unto me, swore again, that he would have me .hot, but two of the». would not let him. There wa. about twelve of them in ail but none of them qwke to mo but three, and two of thew were for sp.. ring my life, and ao they went off and left me -1684, April 26.— In the morning the Mrvanto went to work in the fields, and I was with them. A little before nhw of Uie doe) m the forenoon, wc saw a troop of dragoon, coming at the gallop Mr Pedcn and these that was with him in the houM fled, wbid we at work knew nothing of, but wc ran every one a. Provklenr directed; and the watchful providence of God, which was cvei Al'l'KNDIX. A21 hind to me, kd ID* u by th« band to a tnotM n«ar two milat from wboro wo woro working, to wbtoh mots Mr Pedon, and thoM that woro with him, wero iicd for ihelter, which I know nothing of. Tbo wax *o 't WM ^"y >t««p and awending ground. Two of tho dragoona punuad roo very hard, but spying another man in thoir panmit of mt, him they punuad off at the right hand of my way : they flred at him, but it pleated tlie I^rd ho escaped at tlwt time. Thon other two of them came In ehaie of me. I waa tore put to ht my life. Tho day waa very hot, the lun bright in my fitoe, nd the way mountalnoua, yet the Lord waa very kind to me, and enaMed rae to run. I had roa'ny thoughts of turning to thia or that way, and often I hod thought! of diving In moi*.waterpita, and saving my head In the rush bushes; and yet I was overpowered, beyond my inclination, to keep on In my way to the moaa where Mr Peden and the rest were, at the edge of which there was a bogg or morass, about seveti or eight yards broad, to which my good guttdlan kind Provldenoe brought mo at last; and here the T.ord waa a preaent help in the time of need to me, for Just as I was drawing myself out of the bogg by tlie heather of the muss, tho two dragoona came to tho other side of the bogg, and seeing they could not get through with their horses to mo, they called on me, " Stend, dog, and be shot" By this time I waa got out of the bog to my knees on the heather, lliey fired upon me, but God directed the ball by my left ear, so close that it carried off some of my hair. I, finding that I had escaped the ihott, ran farther into the mots, kind Providence leading me where Mr Peden, with about twenty more of the persecuted people, were, in meeting with whom I was gladly surprised ; but I was so outrun, that it was sometime before I could speak any. We stayed there about three hours, till there came another troop of tho enemy to join the first troop, and seeing them dismount their horses, to take the mens on their foot to search ua out, after some firing on both sides, where was no execution done, we drew off, and travelled the midst of the moss. They see- ing thia, horsed again, and pursued us by the edges of the moss ; but we allways kept ourselves on such ground where horses could not pass. We ran that day about thirty miles, the enemy still pur- suing us. We got no manner of refreshment all that day but moss- water, till night, that each of us got a drink of milk. Mr Peden left these that were with him, and went one way, and I left them I! 522 APPENDIX. and went another way. I lay aU night far from any houac, amonwt heather J to-morrow, when I awaked, after the sun arose, I 8«w about 800 horse and foot searching aU the country far and near • but I seeing no way of escape unobaerred by the enemy, cknt doss amongst the heather ; and so kind and condescending w«« the Lord to me, that not one of the enemy did touch at the place where I lay>^ -Withm three or four days, Graham of Claverhouse, a violent persecutor, came for a general search with 100 horse and 300 Hixh- land men. They got sight of sev. ,. of us about the middle of the day. They pursued us aU that day for thirty-two mUes, tiU mid- n^t, but the Lord preserved us from these blood-thirsty men. We got no refreshment aU that day, except a few mouthfuls of br«d and cheese and moss-water; but the horse getting before us, and the foot being behmd us, and we very much fatigued, we were brought to a straight what to resolve upon. But at last finding my comrades resolving stiU to run, I told them, that the Lord had pre- served me these days past by running, but now, if he hid me not some other way, I must faU a sacrifia- to the enemy; bo, after prayer, my friends and I parted in the fields before the sun rose. Then I went to as obscure a pkce as I could think on, and dapt as ck)S8 as I could.— The enemy pushed by me on both sides of the pkce where I lay, like sons of Lucifer, their father; but He who made them held their eyes, that they saw me not, although they were three times within pistol-shot of me.— —After this I hnguished some days, and then was seized with a high and violent fever. I got in to a poor man's house, and his wife made me a bed in the byre, beside the cows, that her husband might not see me, that so he might be free to give his oath that he harboured no whiggs. The very next day, one Colonel Buchan came with two troops of dragoons to search that country a second time. He. with five more, dishorsed, and came into the poor cot- tage where I was lying, and asked the poor woman, what men was in this den. She answered, she had no men, but a young lad of her own lying sick, at the point of death. Then they came where I was, aud he lifted up my head by the hair, and a bended pistol in his right hand. He looked me broad in the face, and said to these that were with him, " There is nothmg here bnt a young creature dying;" and so let my head faU out of his hand and went away; APPENDIX. 5Sd but I was then no lick, that I was not capable of fear at the dan- ger nor of joy at the escape. The poor woman concdfed such fear, lest she came to trouble on my account, would not, for any per- suasion, let me stay, and so I was carried a great way to another poor man's house.— No. XIII. iP(^ Offioei—Coi^comnmnuxUedbyJoas Bjddmll, Btq.'] The Kino's Ldter to the Privy Council, concerning Mr Archibald Riddell, and James SrsivAitT ofFreswick, WiLtiAM Rex, Right trusty and entirely beloved cousin and counccllor, right trusty and right well beloved cousins and councellors, right trusty and well beloved councellors, and trusty and well beloved coun- cellors, we greet you well. Wliereas we are informed that Mr Ar- chibald Riddell,* Minister of the Gospel, and Tames Sinclair of Freswick, are prisoners in France, and are very hardly used, whom • • Mr Riddell was libetated from the Bass in 1685> on condition of his transporting himself to New Jersey, in America, to which he went in a ship freighted by Scot of Pitlochy. On his passage home, in 1689, his wife and three of her relations died, and he was carried prisoner into France, and treated with great harshness. The MS. from which Wodrow drew his in- formation respecting tliis, (ii. 566— S69.) is preserved in tlie / ivocates' Library. (No. XXXIII. Jac. V. I. 25. Art. 117.) In the same library are letters from Mr Riddell to Lady Carlops, (No. XXXVII. Jac. V. I. 1?. art. 26.) After his return to Scotland he becatne minister of Kircaldy. Law mentions " Mr Riddell, a new admitted minister," as at " Minui- boll" (Maybole) communion in 1678. (Meinor. 140.) Bu^ as early as May 3, 1674, he had held a conventicle, in the house of Mr Patrick Glass, in Cors jrphin. (Deer. Sec. Concil. May 6, 1674.) Mr Riddell's Exa- mination before a committee of Privy Council in 1680, wliich places his character in a highly favourable light, is given at large by Wodrow. (ii. 128..132.) 5S4 APPENDIX. w» rewlv* to have rel«MMd. by exdunge with two priwti n«w pri. •onm In Scotland; th«r«foi« wiU requiio yoa to aiU Ibr the Wend, Md newert reUUoni of the Mdd Mr Arehibdd RiddaU and June* SlncWr, and aignify our royal pleasure to them, in exchange of these two priwners w th the two priests that ihaU be condescended upon, and authorise thera not only to speak with the two priests, but also to write to France anent negocUting their friends' Uberty ; and thst you cause these two priests to be condescended upon be sole- ly keeped, and make intimation to them, that they shall be used in the same way and manner as theFrendi king uses the said Scots prisoners, which they may be ordered to acquaint their friends in France with, that the exchange may be the more easily eflfected For doing of which these presents shall be your warrant. And so wejjid you heartily fereweU. Given at our court at Kasington 16-, and of our rdgne the first year. By his M^estie's command. Meltill. Directed on the back, " To the Duke of HamUton, President, and the rest of the Privy Council of Scotbnd." No. XIV. IRegister of Deedsy 'Sfc. in Begitter-IIbuse, recorded 6th of March, 1701.] Letter and Receipt to George Ogilvy ofBarras, concerning the Registers of the Church of Scotland. In presense, &c. compeared Mr Thomas Veitch, Advocat, as Procurator^ &c. Si A, There being here, by the Lord's providence, a considerable ArPENDIX. 5t5 number of the CommiMion of the Kirk, and takeing to coiiiidtni> tion the condition of the Rrgtsten ut' the Kirk tliat are with you in the houie ol Dunnoatre, have thought it flt they be delivered to my Lord Ballcarraa, to be dispoaed on aa the Committee of Eatatea hea ordaind the honora of the kingdom to be dispoaed of, whereof theae preaenta ahall be a warrant to you ; and in doeing hereof yow ahall obleige ui to continue your affectionat Areinda in the Lord. Sio mbtr. Mr Ja. Wood, M. O. Colt, Jamib RoBEKTaoNi, Mr William DoiroLAas, Mr E. Milvill, Ro. Kzaa,* Mr Robekt YouNo, M. F. Cabmiciiabll, Mr W". Strachan. Dated from Aberdein thia Itt of Sept'. — Followa the recent on the end of the aaid miaaive letter: I Alex'. Lord Ballc- :if, u <«nt me, conform to the above written warrand, to have r: ceavt^d fro i George OgU- vle of Barrows, Liv'. Govemour of I> nv Mire, ♦'( • Registera of the Kirk above specifiet by thir preien^:' .vrit'.'r; by Mr Alex'. Patton, wryter in Edinburgh. Subscribit i i tuy hand att Stone- hyve, the 9d day of September, one thousand six hundred & fiftie« * The person here referred to was Mr Robert Ker, (son to Mr John Ker, mhiister of Prestonpans,) who wh admitted minister of Prestonpans in 1638, Mid translated to Haddington in 1646. (Rcc. of Presbytery of Hadding- ton.) He was a non-conformist at the Restoration, (Wodrow, I. A pp. 73,) and died, aged 68, on the 4th of February 1677* (Monteith's Theatre of Mortality, II.— 1S6.) This agrees exactlv with the account, given above, (p. 497)) of the person among whose papers the registers were found in 1677. To this may be added, that his brother, Mr Andrew Ker, was, in 1649, Clerk to the General Assembly, as well as Town-clerk of Edinburgh, and was afterwards one of Cromwell's judges. " Penult. July 1633. This day Mr Andrew Kerr, sone to Mr Jon. Kerr, niinister at Prestoun, wes ad- mitted Advocat" (Abridgement of the Sederunt Books of Session, vol. I. Adv. Lib. Jac. V. 32.) " Maister Andro Ker, Common Clerk of Edin- burgh, eldest lauchfull sone to umquliile Mr Johne Ker, minister of Salt- preston^made Surges and Guildbruther — be right of his said umquhile father, Burges of the samen." (Record ot Admission of Burgesses in Edin- burgh, 14th Feb. 1649. Comp. Acts o Assembly ; Act. Pari. Scot. Vl- 569 ; and Lord Hailes, Catal. p. 16. no. 60.) 526 one APPENDIX. Kan ^T^tl '^'" "'''''"^' "*"""" ^'^'' ""^ Walter Lc m. Stcubtr.BAtLCAKnAB. Thomas Stkachax,«,7»« Wm. END OF APPENDIX. INDEX. Adair, Mr. William, Minister at Air, 1 O^U, 488, 489 AMy, Earl of, 90, 281 AliiOtt, Mr. 489 AUangregy Allergreg. See Campbell, Colin, and Duncan AUmgUm, Lord, 156—161 Ahtoun, Mt. James, Preacher, i66 Amndiiy Lord, 398 Anderion of Dowhill, 91 .1 . 1 Mr. John, of Stobcors, ^17 Anguiy Earl of, 221 Anher, Mr. Thomas, 205, 313, 326, 328-.S30 Argyk, Duke of, 153, 154. Earl of, 126, 127, 131^154, 167, 194, 275, S02.-324, 334, 335, 337, 339, 358, 449, 456 — — . Earl of, son of the preceding, 142, 143, 187, 215, 240 Marquis of, 21 6, 357 AmA, Captain Andrew, 31, 393, 395, 397, 401, 404, 406, 429-431 — — Mr. Samuel, 442 Arran, James, Earl of, 460 Aihdt, Duke (Marquis) of, 315, 316, 487 AuldiUAn, Austane, Austown, Laird of. See Hamilton, John, of Udaton BMi^tou, Colonel, 61 BaiUie, Robert, of Jerviswood, 93, 125. 142, 152 Bakarrtu, Earl of, 6, 133 Ballcarrat, Lord, 525, 526 Baljbur, John, of Eulzie, 202 of Kinloch, 104, 440, 442, 457, 461, 481 Baltmgachan, See jBarmagachaa 4 11; 528 INDEX. BoHkhead, Forrester of, 472 —— See Lockhart, Robert, of Bankhead Barcby, Mr. Oeoige, 313, 339, 437, 4*9, 457 Barmagachan, Robert M'LeUan of, 41, 42, 49, 404 Barscobe, M«Clellan, John, of, 381, 382, 404 Bankimin/f, Laird of, 398, 412, 413 Beak, Mr. I70, 171, 176, 178 Bedlandf John Cunninghame of, 4i2l, 420, 425 BeU, Mr. Thomas, 66, 68, 86—89 Bimigf Mr. Robert, 2S8 Blackwood, Laurie Tutor of, 395, 398, 406, 409, 410—414 Bkckader, Mr. John, S3, 43, 49, 108, 269, 314 Dr. William, 314 *fcc«*r?.-,vsl\ Gadgirth, John Chalmers of, 394 Gibson, Captain James, 833, 840, 848 Sir John, of Pentland, 489, 430 Gilgour, Major, 406, 413, 415 Gilpin, Richard, M.D. 170 Glasgow, Archbishop of, 7 Glencttim, Earl of. Chancellor, 13, 140, 144, 491— 494< Glendoick, Lord Clerk Register, HI, 118 Go0dal, Mr. and Mrs. 881, 400 Gordon of Knockbreck, 403, 404 of Earlston, 49, 69, 142, 146, 815 > , of Craighlaw, 69, 215, 816, 478 at* vHam GroAam, John. See Claverhouse —— John, Provost of Glasgow, 48 Grana, Marquis de, 166 Grattard, Earl of, 142, 143>.145, 358 Gray, Andrew, 84, 49, 383, 391, 398 Lord, 148 Green, Mr. 75 Greenhead, — -- Ker of, 18, 19, 109 Grey, Richard, 64 Grierson, James, Moderator, 819 Grieve, Justice, 346 Griffith, Lieutenant, 73, 79, 92 Guthrie, Mrs. (younger) 496 ■:.'ftV4*\l ;)4wv\ ;ii«Bl> :!Hi M\l ,fn;sHfe2l ^s INOBX; GirtAffe, Mr. John, 396, ^^97, 405 - Mr. William, S9fl, 608 Hadatotm, David, of Rathiliet, 104, 440, 442, 444, 457, 401 HaOut, Colond Robert, brother of Pitfermn, 384 RiiSl, Charles, 59 AaAoN, Lord, 92, 286 Z"^l' HamlUom, Duke of, 15, 24, -Jg, ^lU, 82, 88, ill, 144, 207, 220, 898, m, 407,466,457,460,52* — — John, of ITdflton, 45, 41^ «- Sir Robert, 9, 826, 440-442, 451-453, 4M, i&7, 461-436, 470, 4"% 478, 474 479, 481, 602 — — .. Will'rm, 0f Wiahaw, 474, 480 Way, Anils^r-", ^t? tfe.tsimthan, 49 — «. 5f/, it,\\- im, 30>,> — — Mr. lloniaa, ClerV of Privy €k>unc!l, 424, 425 iyti»r , J, 190, 488 INDBX. m JeruUwood. See Baillie IngUiy Lieutenant Aiciiibold, 288 JahHtom of Kippletworth, 51, 52 JokmtoHt Elicabetb, 3 m. Mr. Oeotge, 468 lilalL SeeKero'Etal /oory, Captain, 8.. JToMwA. See Ferguson, William, of Kaitlooh Kemp, Mr. 455. 457, 468. 482 JTmnomiy, ThomaB, S88 Ker, Mr. Andrew, 525 C!oIonel Gilbert, 48, 510 of Kersland, 15, 97, 539, 420—424, 502 — Sir Robert, of Etal. 130, 385 Mr. Bobert, 497, 525 ■ Thomas, of Haj^ope, 463 — Sir William, son of tbe Marquis of Ijothian, 376 Kid, Mr. John, 462, 462 King, Mr. John, 437, 462, 465, 475, 482, 519 EUigtUmi Lord, 32—34 Kirko, James. See Sundaywell KirkUm, Mr. James, 16,' 41, 208, 269 Knoekbreek. See Gordon JTfiar, John, 437 Mr. Robert, 199— 202 «< Lauderdale, Duke of, 69, 83, 92-94, 98, 102, 110—116, 180—124, 133,155,261,875,278,286,415,505,518 Laiirlff, Mr. Robert, 34 Ldw, Mr. John, 208, 486 Learmmt, Major Joseph, 26, 42, 43, 45, 52, 404, 466, 468, 469, 479, 480 Lee, Lord, 23 ^ Levingttoun, Mrs. 501 Lindsay, UiijOT,2i/0 Lady Sophia, 133 Linn, Mr. Patricic, 216, 217 LWigow, Lord, 96, 108, 109, 478 Livingiton, Mr. John, 19, 75, 253, 416 Livingttoun, Mr. William, 259 Loekhart, Alexander, 475 m 5U INDBX. .M9*fi IN ,iiii Lockhart, Sir Oeurge, 138 — John, of Bar, (by mistake, Max,) M6 Robert, of Bankhead, 300, 472 —• — — — . of Birkhill, 390 — -— — Mr. Robert, 403 — Captain Robert, 23, 390, 399, ^Ol, 403 — of Wicketsliaw, 390 Lockyer, Captain, 136 Lomtden, Sir James, Lieut-Qen. 358, aS9 Lorrain^ Sir Thomas, 63, 64 lathian, Earl of, 148, 376 , Lucke^ Mr. John, Mayor of Berwick, 126-^128 Lundie, Earl of Melford, 96 ^'Alexander, Mr. Fergus, 489 M^CkUan. See Barmagachan Maccormick, Mr. Andrew, 23, 31, 42, 399, 419, "ifiS, HiO Maccullocft, David, of Aidirall, 820, 261 M'LeUaHy John. See Barscobe M*Ksm^^ . . Johc, a, Seijeant James, 337, 517—523 — — Sir John, 24, 97 John, of Haid-hill, 338, 341, 517 JiorrU, 437 Inim.»in, HibW Ormtmd, Duke w, IS"*, ^.iJiAGS OAurn, John Hn •— Mr. J«>\ , 133, «61 Patertom, Bislwp, 95, 98, 110, 116, 408 Thomas, Merchant, Ohwgou'. '. j ) — "^iUiBm, 888, 823, 889, 83jJ, H*, 847 Pattrton, Sir William, 98, 116 Pakm, Captain, 40, 404, 456,461 — — Mr. Robert, 811,217 P€ik.i, Mr. Alexander, 690, 581 P«f»j;'4W*, Capt 838 Pirtlty Earl of. Chancellor, 4, 5, 108, 448 IHnkertvnj Captain, 246 Pinknle, Mr. , 253 PorterfleU, Alexander, 485 ■I Provost, 48 Pre$ton, Sir Robert, Lord Preston, 877, .'78, 285 Primrote, Sir Archibald, 11, 383 Pringle, George. See Torwoodlee ■ Mr. John, 74 ' ' Walter, of Oreenknow. 74, 130 ■ I of Stit«hell. See Stichell v*» iei'.,.ib-'»BM Qui^rdltOH, Poi erfield, Laird of, i'di QueenOerry^ Duke of, 187, 189, 199—20.% 206, 80! , iU, i29 Roe, Mr. John, 4i' ' Ranuay, Sir Andrew, Jt'rovost of £< nburgh, 426 —^ Mr. James, 10, 42, 43 flaWray, Dr. SilvcHter ' <; .'9 Renwick, Renny, Mr. Jcmes, 387, 339 Betrat, Mr. James, 9 Ahn, Minister of Hawick, 133, 406, miiprintcd Thomas, 4il5 Scurr, Mr. Leonard, 57, 58 ''mpk, Mr. Gabriel, 84, 29, 50, *#t>, 119, 130, 190, 384, 395, 399, 400, 403, 405—407 AVt/tfU, Sir WiUir , 384 Slu^ybury, 98—108,110,111,140,151,158 Shargat'^n. ^ < Sharp . James, Archbishop, 13, 31, 35—37, 94, 96, 103, 104, 439, *^J, 44? 444, 605—507, 517 — - Mr. T' «, 5f , , SirWiii, 'W, !(W ShorpieUf Justice, 68. Shaw, Mr. Antony, 6, 9. & kldi, Mr. Alexttnder, 54, 806, 836, 840, 847—851 SOMd, Dr. Sir Robert, 5 Sivipton, Robert, 49 - Sinclair, James, of Freswick, 583 Skene of Halyards, 887 . — Mr. Thomas, 886—288, 891 , tith, Mr. and Mrs. 138, 1S9, 14 145, 147 94 Aaron, 149 Mr. Widter, 9, 457, 461 Smieuon, Mr. 18^ Som'-miOe, Mr. John, iM, S68 Spemx, William, 5, 140, 311, 314 'fpreul, Mr. John, town-clerk of Olasg- , 4B, 4S 598 INOKX. Spreuly John, apotliecary, 473 Stain, Lord, Sir James Dolryniple, 8, 1 1 1^1 11, 147, Js7, aio Steel, Mr. Thomas, 14U, 150 Steventon, Mr. Alexanf^ , 489 ■ ■ Andrew, %&y Hngli, 95 Stewatt, Alexander, 435 Stirling, Mr. at KUbarchan, 10 Mr. John, at Irvine, 11 StitcheU lAdy Pringle of, 184 Stobo, Mr. Caledonia, 251 Strachan, Mr. William, 525 Stricklamd of Boynton, 58, 396 Strotheri, Colonel, 70—7?, 74, 77, 79, 93, 148, 4«a Stuart, Sir John, of Minto. S58 Subercau, Mons. de, 9.5% StmdajfwtU, Kiiko of, 4<>^ 6m, 109 7\if6«f, Lord Justtcu.tteneral, 108, (11 Tarroiy Earl of, 9.S r«wipfe, Mr 185—188 Sir William, 363, 364i, 366, 367, 3(i9 Thornton, Sir. Edward, 108 — — — Mr. Jolm, 810 Thonuoue, Mr. James, 810 Thomtom, Esquire, 60 Torwodlee, Pringle of, 69, 131, 133, 147, 148, 161, 148, 311 Trail, Mr. Robert, 205, 363 TitUidqf, Mr. William, 493 rum&tttf. Lieutenant, —• 83T, 848 ■ Walter, of Bewly, 883 Turner, Sir James, 83—86, 41, 50, 388, 383, 388, S»l> 398; 408, Tweedaky Earl of, 83 Vre of Shaigarton, 433—483 VeUch, Mr. David, mimstertof Goran, 14, 17, 18' Mr. David, schoolmaster at Salton, 3 Ebenezer, 853— 857, 861 George, writer in Edinburgh, 6 Mr. James, Minister at Mauchlin, 6— lOi 14*,' 864 James, Dalkeith, 504 Mr. John, Minister at Rotwrton, 3, 1«,' 54, 504' 430 • H't"''' 1NB£3L. M9 Veilch, Mr. John, Minister at WetUuther, 3—7, », «, 89, 90, 10«, 114, 190, tA9, t61— 803, A04 Mr. John, Minister oJ Whltaom, tl« ' i ' Robert, Dalkeith, 4 Hwifi v. SMnuel, 59, Ml-t»3, 829, «38, SAl-JAS, M9. FeUcA, Thomai), Advocate, 524 William, junior, 47, 59, 221, 223, «Sa~.IM, 289-.2«, 250, i6» Venabkt, General, 51—54 « ■-'' ■«''. KeffMwr, Patrick. See Warner. Vincent, Mr. ThomM, 50 KTaifcer, Sir Hovcnden, 252 <>. ' ' ITattflw, Mr. a Minister, 497 Mr. (John) Minister at Largs, 10 ■ Matthew, of Auchands, 517 _— _ Sir Thomas, of Craigie, 98, 111, 112 Walm, Colonel, 252 Walxtood, Mr 488 Ward, Ric. 64 Warner, Mr. Patrick, 205, 256, 503 Warritton, Archibald Johnston liord, 21 WatMngton, Mr.— — 165, 168 Watton, a flesher, 401 — Mr. Robert, 126, 127 Web»ter, Mr. Ja. 208 WedderbtirM, Mr. Ale:Mnder, 494 Weir, Thomas, in Greenrlg, 456, 481 Wdch, Welsh, Mr. Jaines, 345 WeUh, Mr. John, 23, 24, 29, 50, 110, 281, 361, 406, 442, 4o7, 460, 462, 463, 465, ICO, '168, 471, 474, 476, 488, 489 Wertthkl, Laird of. See Denholm Whartmi, Sir Ralph, 171, 174, 176 Whjft, John, 294 Wicketthaw. See Lockiiart of WicHf, Mr. Ralph, 260 Widdrington, Lord, 60 WUliam, 76 WUkie, Henry, 363 Wilkuon, Caleb, Notting'iam, 169 WiUu, Mr 136 Winton, Earl of, 286 Wishcart, Mr. George, 3U i 540 INDEX. Wi4r(m, Mr. Robert, 26T ITood, Mr. James, 13, 492—494, 5i& WffUie, Mr. Robert, Minister of Hamilton, 495 — — - Mr. Thomas, father of the preceding, 16, 495 rork, Duke of, 15, 64, 112, 115, 131, 133, 156-168, 295, 305 306. 312 VouHg, James, of Ghiifiehill, 220 — — — — ^— of Linbahk, 393 ■■ Mr. Robert, 525 — Mr. Robert, Curate at Kippen, 438, 44T, 450 ZeaHle, WiUiam, 260, 261 306^