142 A Covenanter's Narrative. 



ing- me so earnestly, but I would not go, and that I owned 

 them nae moir. My Lord Drumlanrig- askit if I could prove 

 that, and who were the witnesses thereof? I told him their 

 names. He speerit whose men they were? I told likeways; 

 and I desirt to have their names set down twice or thrice; 

 but they would not. Neither said they it needit seeing I came 

 back and left them. The Commissioner said I should not 

 have gone to them for the Tutor's desire; he was not a justice 

 of the peace. My Lord Annandale said he was one. ^2* They 

 askit if I saw Sunday well shortly? I said I saw him not 

 since he went to Edinr. about 20 days before Sir James was 

 taken. They said that they were sure that he acquaintit me 

 with their rising for he would keep nothing up from me. I 



of stone. This was done on December 4th, and they were examined by 

 Rothesse, who called frequently for the other toutch " (J. Kirkton, 

 The Secret and True History of the Church of Scotland from the 

 liestoration to the Year 1678, ed. by C. K. Sharpe, Edinburgh, 1817, 

 p. 252). Neilson was executed on 14th December, 1666 (Wodrow, 

 History, ut supr. cit., i., p. 258, where an account of his sufferings 

 and those of his family is to be found). Barscobe was condemned in 

 absence to death and forfeiture on 15th August, 1667, for partici- 

 pation in the rising (Wodrow, History, ut supr. cit., i., p. 266, and 

 app. bk. ii.. No. xv.). He fell into the hands of the Government in 

 April, 1682, and was to be executed; but seems to have offered his 

 services in return for a remission (Letter of Claverhouse to Queens- 

 berry — W. Napier, Memorials and Letters Illustrative of the Life 

 and Times of . . Viscount Dundee, Edinburgh, 1859-62, ii., p. 

 274; see Wodrow, History, ut supr. cit., ii., p. 193, and app. No. 

 Ixiii.). The execution of bis sentence was delayed, and he was par- 

 doned (Wodrow, ib., ii., pp. 262-3). He was killed in a brawl with 

 Robert Grierson of Milnmark. William Grierson, Milnmark's 

 brother, and John Hemyson were tried for his "slaughter" and 

 acquitted (see liks. of Ad,]ournal, 13th March, 1684; Sir J. Lauder 

 of Pountainhall, Historical Notices of Scottish Affairs, Edinburgh, 

 1848, ii., p. 508; Id. Decisions, Edinburgh, 1759, i., 280; and cf. 

 Robert Law, Memorials . . . ed. C. K. Sharpe, Edinburgh, 

 1818, p. 258. Law's account is quite inaccurate). As to the bond 

 of peace, see Wodrow, oh. supr. cit., i., app., bk. ii.. No. xxvii. 

 Wodrow gives Maclennan's Christian name once as John (Wodrow, 

 ut supr. cit., i., app., bk. ii.. No. xv.), and once as Robert (Id. ib., 

 ii., p. 262). The Justiciary record gives Robert. 



33* He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1663 (Folio 

 Acts, vii., p. 505; see also Beg. of P.C, 3rd ser., iii., p. 394). 



