58 IRONGRAY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 
17th January, I908. 
Chairman—Dr J. W. Martin, Vice-President. 
IRONGRAY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. By the Rev. SAMUEL 
Duntop, B.D., Minister of Kirkpatrick-Irongray. 
On a former occasion I had the honour of reading a paper 
before this Society on Irongray in the last ten years of the 
seventeenth century.* My information was drawn from the 
Session Records (June, 1691, to June, 1700). To-night I again 
turn mainly to the Session Records, though they are not so full 
or so interesting as the earlier ones. I have in my custody 
records from 1714 to 1716, and from 1743 to 1773. I shall 
stop, however, at the close of Mr Guthrie’s ministry in June, 
1756. He was minister of Irongray for sixty-two years, from 
September 14, 1694, to June 8, 1756. 
AN ASSAULT ON TERREGLES. 
In a very interesting little volume, “The Ancient Catholic 
Homes of Scotland,’’ we find the first event of our story. On 
Christmas Eve, 1703, the ministers of Irongray and Torthorwald 
attacked Terregles House, searching for priests and Jesuits. 
The Earl of Nithsdale complained to the Privy Council that they 
invaded his dwelling under cover of night with guns and swords, 
forced open the outer and inner gate with horrid noise and 
battery, entered the house, and searched it while the Countess 
was indisposed. The ministers retorted by accusing the Earl of 
hearing mass and concealing thereof, resetting Jesuits and 
seminary priests, and trafficking with papists. The case was 
heard in Edinburgh on February 4, 1704, and a compromise was 
effected between the litigants. 
THE REBELLIONS. 
Though our records include both the years 1715 and 1745, 
they contain no teference to the two efforts of the Stuarts to 
recover their ancestral throne. Yet both attempts must have 
been felt in the parish. We know from the list of rebels re- 
* Transactions Dumfries and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian 
Society.— Vol. xviii., p. 127. 
