The Environs of Craigmillav. igg 



scape and the reverent congregation combine to make 

 up just such a picture as the late Sir George Harvey 

 would have loved to paint. 



Among the most prominent of those who took 

 part in the Pentland Rising was a young clergyman 

 named Hugh M'Kail, son of Matthew M'Kail, the 

 ousted minister of Bothwell. This young man was 

 remarkable for his learning and impressive eloquence. 

 In the last sermon he preached prior to the 8th 

 September 1662, the day fixed by Parliament for 

 the removal of the nonconforming ministers of the 

 city, he referred to the persecution to which the 

 Church was being subjected, remarking that the 

 Church and people of God had been harassed by 

 a Pharaoh upon the throne, a Haman in the State, 

 and a Judas in the Church. For these remarks he 

 was adjudged a traitor, and a party of dragoons was 

 sent out to Moredun, near Liberton, a seat of Sir 

 James Stewart's, to apprehend him ; but he made his 

 escape, and remained for a time in concealment in his 

 father's house at Bothwell. In November 1666, as 

 already said, he took a prominent part in the Pentland 



