MEMOIR OF SIR J. (i. DALYELL. 



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were under his command he regulated and 'dis^ciplined, and himself led 

 them to battle ; and he did and performed everything fixitlifully as be- 

 coming a noble commander ; and for his trusty services we were pleased to 

 order the said Lieutenant-General to be a General, — and now, having pe- 

 titioned us to give him leave to return to his own country, we, the Great 

 Sovereign and Czarian Majesty, were pleased to order that the said noble 

 General, who is worthy of all honour, Thomas, the son of Thomas Dalyell, 

 should have leave to go into his own country ; and by this patent of our 

 Czarian Majesty we do testify of him, that he is a man of virtue and 

 honour, and of great experience in military affairs ; and in case he should 

 be willing again to serve our Czarian Majesty, he is to let us know of it 

 before hand, and he shall come into the dominions of our Czarian Majesty 

 with our safe passports, &c. Given at our Court, in the Metropolitan City 

 of Muscow, in the year from the creation of the world 7773, January 6." 

 General Dalyell acccordingly returned to Scotland, where he was im- 

 mediately appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Forces, and a Privy 

 Counsellor in 166G ; and was afterwards elected Member of Parliament for 

 the county of Linlithgow. He quelled an insurrection in the west, and 

 defeated the rebels at Pentland Hills. On a stone at Ptullion Green, 

 the scene of the action between General Dalyell and the Covenanters, 

 is this inscription, — •' Here, and near to this place lyes the Keverend Mr 

 John Crookshanks, and iMr Andrew M'Cormook, Mmisters of the Gospel, 

 and about fifty other true Covenanted Presbyterians, who were killed in 

 this place in their own innocent self-defence, and defence of the covenant- 

 ed work of reformation, by Thomas Dalzel of Binns, upon the 28th of No- 

 vember 16CG. Kev. 12, 11. Erected September 28, 1738."— 



" A cloud of witnesses !yes here, 



Who for Christ's interests did appear 

 For to restore true liberty, 

 Overturned then by tyranny. 

 And by proud prelates who did rage. 

 Against the Lord's own heritage ; 

 They sacriticed were for the laws, 

 Of Christ their king, his noble cause ; 

 There hero's fought with great renown, 

 By falling, got the martyrs' crown." 



