A Covenanter's Narrative. 143 



answert that he told me not a word less or more of that 

 business, but they would scarce believe me. They askit where 

 I was that night some of them was quartert at my house of 

 the Anderdale^'' men and what causit me to be frae home. I 

 told him that I had gone away with my naiges because the 

 sogers left none they could get; so they were silent and said 

 no more of that. Then they askit if Mr Gabriel Semple or Mr 

 John Welshes was with the partie. I assured them and 

 affirmed that there was neither of them there. They askit 

 me when I saw them ? I answered not since March, and they 

 then went out of our country. Drumlanrig said that there 

 was an honest man said to him that Mr Gabriel at a con- 

 venticle, as they call them, at Lochquhir^^ stirred up the 

 people all to come out armit and not to come with staves and 

 stikes, whereupon Drumlanrig speared if I was there. I 

 keept silence, whereupon another of them urgit me very 

 hardly to grant or deny. Then I did grant that I was at 

 Lochwhir but that Mr Gabriel spak not one word of that, and 

 that it was misinformation. The Commissioner asked me if 

 I was a heirer? I said not. Then he askit if I would hear 

 in time to come? I said I was not cleir. He said, what is 

 your reason? I said I knew not what sort of men they were 

 . . . but I would not dispute that with [his] grace. Then 

 the Commissioner said the fourt of the rent^^ was to be payit 

 for that. I replyit and told him that for hearing and for not 



34 The form " Ananderdaill " is common in documents of the 

 period, and is found in the Folio Ads, e.g., iii., p. 391. 



35 Gabriel Semple, second son of Sir Roger Semple of Cathcart, 

 was "outed" minister of Kirkpatrick-Durham. John Welsh was 

 "outed" minister of Irongray (see Rev. S. Dunlop, John JVehh. 

 the Irongray Covenanter, in Dumfries and (rolloway Nut. Hist, 

 and Antiq. Soc.N.S., vol. xxiv., p. 190, and p. 65 of this 

 volume. He was the most active of tlie field preachers, and 

 appears frequently in the pages of Wodrow. See also Kirkton, 

 op. cit., p., 218; Hew Scott, Fasti Eccle.sia' Scoticana', pt. ii., pp. 

 590, 593. 



36 Loch Urr, on the borders of the parish of Dunscore and that 

 of Balmaclellan. 



37 In accordance with an Act passed in July, 1663, entitled an 

 " Act against separation and disobedience to Ecclesiastical 

 Authority " (Folio Acts, vii., p. 455). 



