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all expedition with his troop from Perth to Dumfries, and to be 

 there on Thursday next, the 18th instant, to attend Colonel 

 Campbell's regiment. 



The committee of war of Lanark and Ayr were required to 

 provide baggage horse for the use of Colonel Campbell's regi- 

 ment going to Dumfries, ac-cording to the information to be given 

 by the said Colonel. 



Muskets, swords, pikes, and other arms were also made 

 forthcoming for the expjedition. 



With such reinforcements the Covenanting army swept down 

 upon Dumfries, and before it Montrose and his troops, without 

 show of fight, precipitately fled. Thus the old town was regained 

 to the Covenant. 



The military operations connected with the recapture of 

 Dumfries being successfully brought to a close, such phrases as 

 "invasion," "rebellion," "treason," were in use to describe the 

 proceedings of Montrose, but it is pleasing to find that his sup- 

 porters were not, in the punishments meted out to them by the 

 Scottish Parliament, treated with the severity such phrases would 

 suggest. 



The following persons of the name of Maxwell and others 

 were implicated in this affair, which was termed " The Rebellion 

 of the South," viz.: John Maxwell of Holm; George Maxwell, 

 brother to John Maxwell of Mylntoun ; John Maxwell, tutor of 

 Carnsalloch; John Hairstens, John Maxwell of Cowhill ; Alex- 

 ander Maxwell of Conheath ; John Maxwell of Castlemilk ; James 

 Gordon of " Kirkl'lbreke ;" John Maxwell of Kirkconnell ; John 

 Lindsay of Wauchope ; James Maxwell of Carswada ; James 

 Maxwell of Breconside ; John Carlil of Locharthur ; William 

 Maxwell of Hills ; James Maxwell of Breconside (yr. ?) ; — 

 Maxwell of Gribton ; Robert Maxwell of Portrack; James Hair- 

 stens, brother to the said John Hairstens; and Robert Maxwell 

 of Carnsalloch. All these persons were in custody. Most of 

 them were imprisoned at Dumfries for about three weeks, when 

 they were carried to Edinburgh and incarcerated in the Castle or 

 the Tolbooth for enquiry or trial. 



The following persons who had not, like those abovenamed, 

 given themselves up to the authorities, were cited to compeir 

 before the Committee of Estates for the South, but failing. 



