A Covenanter's Narrative. 130 



BIackader,27 the outed minister of Troqueer, had had similar 

 experiences, and were in equal disfavour with the Govern- 

 ment. It is not then matter of surprise that the writer of the 

 " Memorandum " found himself " proclaimit rebell at the 

 Crosse of Dumfries^s amongst that party that tuik Sir James 

 Turner29 out thereof;" and it is at this point that his narrative 

 opens. 



" First I did wryte to me Lord Annandale^o at Glasgow 

 where the secret council sat to seek his Lo/ advice what way 

 to follow for my vindication. His lo/ wryt back to me to 

 come to Air with all diligence and not to fail as I wisht my 

 own weel, and his lo/ would speak the Lord Commissioner's 



Church of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1721, i., p. 7, and App. Bk I., pp. 3 

 and 5 ; Wodrow MSS., Adv. Libr. Fol. xl., 47 ; Beg. of P.C, 2nd ser., 

 viii., p. 465, under date 23rd August, 1660). He was fined by 

 Captain John Patersone (see note 13 above), and by Sir James Turner 

 on several occasions. After the Pentland Rising, he left the country 

 for some years, going first to Newcastle (Memoirs of Mr WiUiani 

 Veitch and George Brysson, with notes, &c., by Thomas M'Crie, 

 Edinburgh, 1825, p. 49), and afterwards to Ireland (Wodrow, 

 History, ut supr. cit., ii., p. 175). Welsh of Irongray, a higli 

 Covenanting authority, declared that he was one of the most emi- 

 nent Christians he had ever known (Wodrow, History, ut supr. cit., 

 ii., p. 175). I am not aware to what family James Kirko, in the 

 parish of Keir, who was shot by Captain Bruce's dragoons on Dum- 

 fries Sands in 1685, belonged (Wodrow, History, ut supr. cit., ii., 

 p. 508). In an undated valuation of Keir the lands of beochen are 

 said to pertain to Kirkco in liferent. The date of the document is 

 before 1660 and after 1640. 



26 See Wodrow, History, ut supr. cit., ii., pp. 159, 286, 596; 

 The Life and Journals of Robert Baillie, 1737-1762, ed. by D. Laing, 

 Edinburgh, 1841, i., p. cxix. ; J. Ferguson and II. M. Fergusson, 

 liecords of the Clan and Name of Fergusson, Ferguson, and Fergus, 

 Edinburgh, 1895, pp. 423 If. 



2T See A. Crichton, Memoirs of the liev. J . Blackader, Edin- 

 burgh, 1823. 



28 See proclamation against reset of rebels, dated 4th December, 

 1666 (Reg. of P.C, 3rd ser., ii., p. 230). 



29 A masterly account of the Pentland Rising is given by C. S. 

 Terry in his book, entitled The Pentland Rising and Rullion Green, 

 Glasgow, 1905. Turner was taken in his lodging at Dumfries on 

 Thursday morning, 15th November, 1666. 



30 See note 10 above. 



