152 A Covenanter's Narrative. 



two men's airms, which I wondered of I having no pain as I 

 told my fellow prisoners. The Commander and sogers seeing 

 me very unwell the Lord moved them to suffer my Aunt 

 Christian Greir to come and sit up with me nightlie and me 

 [sic] in the prison. All this bygone time, near fifteen weeks, 

 I never longed for my wife, which I wondered at, as formerly 

 I had not wont to be one night from her but I would have 

 longed to have returned again ; and I was sure that my affec- 

 tion was nothing abated whatever it was increased in the 

 Lord to her ; but it pleased my praiseworthy Lord to keep 

 every weight and burdsine of me that he knew would have 

 been troublesome to me. Formerly I had often written to 

 my wife, and had still forbidden her to come to me she being 

 sickly and tender. I was feared she would have lien by the 

 way and to disturb her. I wrote still that tho' she had 

 ability to come she would hardly win in to see me, we were 

 so strait keepit, and gif she got accesse it would be "but a 

 blink,, and she would be soon turned out again, and so it 

 would be more burthensome to me and her both than when 

 we lived at a greater distance. At length she wrote me that 

 it was her burthen and vexation that I would not give her 

 liberty to come to me. Then I gave her liberty to come when 

 I was sick and unwell, and write to her to come to me. 



" She came quickly for my letter came to her hands upon 

 Wednesday at night being the third of April. She came 

 away that same night a little after midnight and came here 

 to me in Air upon the morrow about the sun setting ; and 

 the Lord in his rich and merciful Providence had moved the 

 Lieut. General^ to grant me (he being informed that I was 

 sick as was supposed by all about me neer unto Death) a 

 liberation to come out of prison to a chamber in Air upon 

 bond and caution untill I recovered ; and my redeemer trysted 

 us so that I was but new come out of prison and laid down in 



46 William Drummond, brother of David, third Lord Madderty, 

 whom he succeeded. In 1666, on his return from service with the 

 Czar, he was appointed Lieutenant-General of the Forces in Scot- 

 land, with a seat on the Council. In 1686 he was created Viscount 

 Strathallan and Lord Drummond of Cromlix (see The Scots Peerage. 

 ed. by Sir J. Balfour Paul, Edinburgh, 1911, viii., pp. 219 ff). 



