Lu'E 111' Macmillan. 19 



second, Katlueu, was liuiu in 1727 (Uecember 19), at Eastshields 

 in the parish of Caruwath ; iience Macmillan left Bahnag-hie finally 

 between June, 172(5, and December, 1727. This corrects an 

 apparent error in Hutchison's History, p. 158, where the date of 

 his leaving seems to be fixed in 1729. 



Macmillan moved about at first from one house to another in 

 Carnwath. In 1727, as we saw, he was at Eastshields; in 1729 

 at Eastforth ; and in 1731 at Henshelwood. Then between 1731 

 and 1734 he must have removed to Dalserf, since his youngest 

 child, and first deceased, was buried in the churchyard there. His 

 house at Dalserf, from the Societies' minutes, appears to have been 

 called Braehead ; but he died not there, as Hutchison (p. 201) 

 states, but at Broonihill, Bothwell (see the Dalserf monument). 



This fly-leaf also shews that he publicly baptized all his own 

 childi-en, the mother being sponsor. He could not, indeed, do 

 otherwise, as he had no ordained colleague till 1743, when he was 

 associated with Rev. Thomas Nairn in forming the Eeformed 

 Presbytery. 



4. The dispute between Macmillan and his Presbytery occa- 

 sioned a paper warfare. I shew first an anonymous " Xarrative." 

 generally ascribed to Macmillan himself, and dating, probably, in 

 1704. At the close of this long paper, of G2 pp., a note is added, 

 referring to a " Letter to the Parishioners," just published, by 

 Rev. Andrew Cameron, of Kirkcudbright. See Narrative, p. 9. 

 A third print appeared in 1705, containing the Presbytery's 

 •' Answers " to Macmillan's paper of " Grievances," and a fourth 

 came out in the same year, in reply to Macmillan's own 

 '' Narrative," containing also a copy of the Libel. I exhibit copies 

 of these two last prints, and draw attention to two points — (1) 

 the statement in preface to the " Pamphlet intituled," that 

 Macmillan as a boy was a •' Separatist ;" (2) in the special 

 '• Examination," p. 7, that Macmillan himself is the author of the 

 anonymous "Narrative." 



5. I have two further relics of a literary character, and both 

 highly interesting. (1) The "Elegy" on his second wife, also 

 anonymous, but from internal evidence, the work of Macmillan. 

 See especially a passage at page 15 ('• The Sprightly Babe," &c.). 

 The date is 1723. (2) The full report of the " Auchensaugh 

 Renovation" of the Covenants, with notes of Macmillan's addresses 



