AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF PaAuL JONES. 181 
Esquire of Craigmuie, his lordship’s deputy for the bounds. 
betwixt the south side of the water of Cree in Galloway, and 
the Border of England, and his substitute, offices long since 
fallen into desuetude. 
His lordship or his deputies acted with great promptitude, 
and warrant was granted to Messengers-at-Arms, Officer of the 
Vice-Admiralty, Steward Officers, and Constables of the Stew- 
artry of Kirkcudbright, and all officers of the law to search for 
and apprehend Jones wherever he can be found within the 
bounds of the jurisdiction. On being apprehended it was 
ordained that he should be imprisoned in the Toolbooth of 
Dumfries or Kirkcudbright, whichever of them happened to be 
nearest. The Magistrates of both burghs and the Keepers of 
the Tolbooths were required and warranted to receive and detain 
Jones, and further warrant was granted to summon the whole of 
the sailors and other persons on board the “ John,’’ whenever the 
vessel arrived at Kirkcudbright, before John Kirkpatrick of 
Raebury (afterwards Provost of the Burgh), William Gordon of 
Campbelton (another Provost), and James Laurie of Barnsoul. 
Warrant is also granted to the Magistrates to examine these 
persons on oath in relation to what they knew concerning the 
crime with which Jones was charged; that before he was 
imprisoned, he was to be carried before the three Justices for 
examination, and his declaration set down and signed by him 
and them. The warrant is given at Dumfries, dated 10th 
November, 1770, and signed John Goldie. 
In the next paper Robert Maxwell acknowledges that the 
warrant has been granted and duly executed by James Fowler, 
Admiral Officer. No date is given as to when the apprehension 
took place, but it was at Kirkcudbright, as he had been delivered 
to the Magistrates there, along with the principal application 
and warrant. It being therefore necessary to have the “samen ’’ 
returned to the Admiral Depute along with precognition of 
witnesses taken upon that subject, and the Magistrates affirming 
that the application and warrant was the only authority they had 
for the detaining of Jones, declined delivering the same to him 
without his granting the obligation underwritten. Maxwell 
therefore not only acknowledged the receipt of the principal 
obligation or warrant, but also obliged himself “to make the 
samen or a notorial copie thereof furthcoming to the Magistrates 
