140 A Covenanter's Narrative. 



grace in my business, which I did and came there 20th Dec. 

 1666, and came to his lo/ when he directit me to wait on the 

 council that day at four hours in the afternoon. I was cald 

 comperit. The Commissioner's grace^^ askit if I had com- 

 pliance with the rebells? I said none. I came to vindicat 

 myself of that aspersion was cast upon me. The Commis- 

 sioner then askit if I saw them? I said Mr William Burnet 

 the minister's wife came to my house that morning and said 

 that there was mony men riding to Dumfries that yet dawn- 

 ing, and some of them had taken away her husband's meir 

 and his sword, but she knew them not who they were or what 

 they were going about. Whereupon I geyd to the Tutor of 

 Lagg32 to see if he had gotin any intelligence who they were 



31 On 6th December a commission was granted to the Duke of 

 Hamilton, the Marquis of Montrose, the Earls of Argyle, Linlith- 

 gow, Kelly, Galloway, Wigton, Nithsdale, Dumfries, Callender, 

 Aidie, and Annandale, Lord Montgomery, Lord Drumlanrig. the 

 Master of Cochrane, General Dalziel, Lieutenant-General Drum- 

 mond, James Crichton, brother of the Earl of Dumfries, Colonel 

 James Montgomery, Charles Maitland of Halton, Mungo Murray, 

 or any three of them, authorising them to go to any shire, burgh, or 

 place where there was any rising, and there to hold courts, cite 

 parties and witnesses, &c., and try all persons acting or abetting in 

 the said rebellion, with power to imprison till trial, and to do justice 

 on the guilty (Ue(j. of P.C, 3rd ser., ii., p. 232). With some of the 

 persons above-named Rothes travelled through the west country. 

 He left Edinburgh on 7th December, and came to Glasgow, where 

 he remained until the 18th ; and on that day he went to Ayr (The 

 Lauderdale Papers, ed. by Osmund Airy (Camden Society), London, 

 1884, i., pp. 253, 260, 264). 



32 The tutor, James Grierson of Larglanlie, was the third son of 

 Sir Robert Grierson of Lag by his wife Margaret, eldest daughter 

 and co-heiress of James Murray of Cockpool (see note 55 below). 

 Sir Robert was succeeded in 1653 by his son John, who, on his death 

 in 1658, was succeeded by his son Robert, a minor. Robert was 

 under the guardianship, firstly, of his uncle, William Grierson of 

 Barquhar, and, secondly, of his uncle, James Grierson of Larglanlie. 

 The ward died at Bath, on 10th April, 1667, and was succeeded by 

 his cousin Robert, son of Barquhar, to whom Larglanlie acted 

 as guardian (see note 42 below). Dalgoner's house, now forming 

 part of the stables of the present mansion-house, was situated about 

 three hundred yards from the road by which Turner's captors 

 marched to Glencairn Kirk. Lag Castle lies a good mile further off. 



