A Covenanter's Narrative. 155 



the Provest did that same day and had been very instrumental 

 therein and had subscribed my petition for the same at Edin- 

 burgh, and solicitit the Lords of Council thereanent, and told 

 them my [case], that I was weak and unwell, and not like to 

 recover of my sickness ; and so my good Lord and Master 

 did furnish me friends of strangers and fremit folk when some 

 professing friends that should have been friends 



'* And when I took journey home upon the first day of 

 August, and [sic] my Lord strengthened me so that I came 

 home on the third day upon the Saturday at night, being the 

 third of August, but with great pain and weariness, and so I 

 heartily bless and praise my Lord Jesus Christ, my Redeemer, 

 God and man. ' ' 



The trial of those who were either known or suspected 

 to have been ringleaders of the rising took place in the follow- 

 ing August. That of Dalgoner was continued until 5th 

 November. 51 He had hopes of being included in an Act of 

 Indemnity ; but when — on 8th October — it became law he 

 found that he was excluded from its benefits. ^^ His trial was 

 continued from date to date, the last of which was apparently 

 25th June, i66g;52 and, according to family tradition, further 

 proceedings against him were stayed on payment of a sum 

 equal to eight years' purchase of the estate, advanced by 

 Laurie of Maxwelton. 



In the closing years of his life Dalgoner found himself 

 involved in a lengthy and expensive litigation. Eventually he 

 established his claim to be the heir of John Grierson of Castle- 

 mady ; but his acquisition proved to be a burden rather than 

 a benefit, as he had to settle not only the demands of the 



Grierson in the tolbooth of Air, that he should compear before the 

 Council or Justice-Clerk or other judge competent on fifteen days' 

 warning to answer for the accession to the late rebellion in tlie 

 west, and that meanwhile he should live peaceably and loyally 

 under a penalty of 3000 merks. 



51 Wodrow, History, itt supr. cit., i., p., 267; app., bk. ii.. 

 No. xiv. 



52 Beg. of P. C, Srd ser., ii., pp. 344-5, 348; Wodrow, History, 

 lit su2yr. (it., i., app. bk. ii.. No. xxvi. 



53 See Becords of the Justiciary Court, Edinburgh, 1661-1678, 

 ed. bv W. G. Scott Moncreiflf, Edinburgh, 1905. 



