138 A Covenanter's Narrative. 



in opposition to all the malignant clesignes that have been sett 

 on foot since the beginning of the happie reformatione now 

 established in the church and kingdom, and that his sufferings 

 have been verie considerable in opposing the late unlawful 

 Ingadgment, as may be cleired by the particular injuries done 

 to him, qlk are cleirlie proven and instructed by witness, 

 wherefore earnestly requires such as have entres and are 

 concerned therein to administer justice with convenient dili- 

 gence and repair him to his losses qlk sail ever ingadge your 

 faithfull friends and servants the brethreene of the presby- 

 terie subscribing by moderator and clerk in our names. 



" Mr Hew Henrisone, moderator. 



" M. Fareis, clerk." 

 At the date of the Act of Indemnity of 1662, Dalgoner 

 appears to have enjoyed the reputation of being one of those 

 " whose guiltines had rendered them obnoxious to the law 

 and their lives and fortunes at his Majesties disposall," as 

 he was admitted to its benefits only on payment of a fine.^ 

 According to his own statement in the " Memorandum," he 

 had been fined and cessed " for hearing and for not hear- 

 ing. "^^ He was, in short, a marked man; and his associates, 

 such as Kirko^s of Sundaywell, Ferguson^^ of Caitloch, and 



23 Folio Acts, vii., pp. 421, 423. 



24 I.e., for attending at conventicles and for non-attendance at 

 church. The Presbytery records show how malignants had been 

 dealt with for such offences when the party of the Covenant was 

 supreme. " Cess " was the quartering money for soldiers. In an 

 order addressed to Dalgoner by the Committee of War he was 

 informed that " giff ye f ailzie " to obey instructions "ye sail be 

 cessit upon be Trupers ;" and from the Minute Book kept by the War 

 Committee in the Stewartry of Eirkcudbright, 1640 and 1641, Kirk- 

 cudbright, 1855, it appears that the Covenanters were in the way of 

 quartering " pairties in amies" upon those who were " refranures 

 or remise " in paying taxes, or who were neghgent in the discharge 

 of their duties. (See pp. 93, 104, 133). 



25 See note 9 above. After the Restoration, Kirko speedily got 

 into trouble. He joined with certain ministers in drawing up an 

 address to the King congratulating him on his return, and putting 

 him in mind of his own and the nation's covenant; and was, in 

 consequence, imprisoned for three months and a half in the Castle 

 of Edinburgh (R. Wodrow, The History of the Sufferings of the 



