38 Captuef. cf Covenanting Town of Dumfries. 



him to be enlarged forth of the said Tol booth, and to be confined 

 within the town of Edinburgh and two miles about the same, he 

 finding caution for his good behaviour, keeping the bounds of his 

 confinement, and to compeir before the Committee of Estates to 

 answer for anything can be laid to his charge, under the pain of 

 five thousand merks Scots by and attour his fine," etc. This was 

 on the 29th July, 1644. On 21st P'ebruary, 1645, the designated 

 "Mr John Corsane, Provost of Dumfries," was again before 

 Parliament, when his case was remitted to the Committee of Pro- 

 cess. The final judgment does not appear, but other circum- 

 stances prove that he, like others, was set at liberty. In the 

 foregoing instances the delinquents were subjected to preliminary 

 confinement and fines, but no more serious punishment was meted 

 to anv of them, and on payment of their fines they were dismissed 

 and set at liberty. 



One person was, however, judged deserving of the death 

 penalty for his carriage in the southern invasion at Dumfries. It 

 was charged against him " that he concurred with the Earl of 

 Montrose and his associates and complices in the said invasion, 

 and did countenance and fortify and supply him therein, in so far 

 as upon Sunday, the fourteenth of April last, he went with certain 

 noblemen and others to Bankend, stayed there all night, and on 

 Monday, the fifteenth, at ten or eleven hours of the clock, when 

 the Lords of Aboyne and Ogilvie, associates to the Earl of Mon- 

 trose in the foresaid rebellion, did actually invade the country and 

 enter the same with the English forces and came up to the Bank- 

 end, the said person and others joined and went along with them 

 to the hill above Dumfries, and stayed while the town was 

 assaulted by the English forces and surrendered to them." He 

 is also accused of using pistols and whingers in inducing the 

 King's lieges to join the rebellious army. With the assistance of 

 English troopers, he made several honest men deliver to him their 

 arms; he imprisoned the lieges at his own hand, and administered 

 oaths without authority, etc. 



The said person was found guilty, and "the sentence was 

 pronouncit and given furth for doome be the mouth of Johne 

 Mvline, dempstar of Parliament, the said accused being person- 

 allv present sitting upone his knees in presence of the Parliament 

 in the place appointed for delinquents." 



