The Raid at Dumfries on Lammas Even. HI 



Jm vc and xi [sic] zers The Lordis of Counsale continewis the 

 actioune ande mater depending betuix Robert Lord Crechtoune of 

 Sanquhar on the ta pert and tho alderman balliez and commonte 

 of the toune of Drumfreiss on the tother part tuiching the haldin 

 of courts apK)un blude within the said burgh and vyther puncts as 

 is contenit in the acts made therapon of befor on the x day of raaij 

 nixt to cum with continuatioun of days in forme as it is now but 

 preiudice of perty And ordains bay* the saids pertiis to produce sik 

 ryts as thai will vse in the said mater agane the said day And in 

 the mejTityme suspends thame bay* fra ony balding of courts apon 

 blude wtin the said burgh the said lords personally present And the 

 said alderman balliez and commonte compirand be maister waiter 

 layng and John Ramsay thair procuratouris and ar wamit herof 

 apud acta &c Extractum de libris actorum per me magistrum 

 gawinum Dunbar archidiaconum sanctiandre clericum Rotulorum 

 Registri ac consilii supremi domini nostri regis sub meis signo ct 

 subscriptione manualibus. 



Gaw'inus dunbar. 



A Unique Example of the National Covenant of 1638.* 



By G. W. Shirley. 



Historians have directed so much minute research to the 

 Covenanting period, and the details regarding the National 

 League and Covenant of 1638 have been so frequently ex- 

 plicated, that a genuine discovery, which, though not of 

 prime moment, is yet of considerable significance, was hardly 

 to be looked for at this late date. As is well known, there 

 are many examples of the National Covenant of 1638, for, in 

 addition to the Covenant signed in Grey friars' Churchyard 

 on February 28 of that year, about sixty others have been 

 preserved. Some of these specimens were distributed from 

 Edinburgh and bear the signatures of the leaders, others 

 were written by notaries and schoolmasters in places far dis- 

 tant and were signed by local lairds, ministers, and 

 parishioners. All those hitherto recorded have been copies 

 in manuscript on parchment or paper. Some are beautifully 

 written, as, for example, the framed specimen exhibited in 

 the Laigh Parliament House, with its initial letters in gold, 

 while others are in poor and crabbed hands. So familiar 



• The larger portion of this notice appeared in The Glasgow 

 Herald, January 31st, 1914. 



