18 Lire or MACMILLAN. 
not of age. ‘* Why was not I born two months sooner ?” he asks, 
in a note to his fiancée, after he had passed his “ trials” for license, 
but got no license after all. But in the seventeenth century mere 
striplings were licensed freely. I have noted the following cases 
from the ‘“‘ Scots Worthies ” as illustrations :— 
John Welsh, born 1570, minister at Selkirk, Kirkcudbright, and 
lastly at Ayr, in 1590 ; aged 20. 
James Mitchell, born 1621 ; M.A. at eighteen. 
Andrew Gray, born 1654 ; licensed at nineteen. 
Hugh Binning, became Professor of Philosophy in Glasgow Uni- 
versity at eighteen. 
Hugh M‘Kail, born 1640; licensed when about twenty. 
It is quite possible, therefore, that a lad of eighteen might be 
licensed, and even a year after become minister of Balmaghie. 
Macmillan’s youthfulness might explain his mixture of firmness and 
wavering in the conflict with the Presbytery. 
All authorities agree that Macmillan was connected with the 
family of Arndarroch, in the barony of EHarlston. Oddly enough, 
Macmillan, for his second wife, married a daughter of Sir Alex. 
Gordon of Earlston. Brockloch,in Carsphairn, seems to have been 
the chief Macmillan centre. The present proprietor of Lamloch 
in that parish has not, however, any evidence of connection with 
our Macmillan. 
2. The question of heraldry is not unimportant, and I now 
shew JZacmillan’s seal, with the two-handed sword and lion ram- 
pant and motto from Virg. nx. 1. 630 (miserts succurrere disco ). 
The same crest and motto are used by the Palgown branch, omit- 
ting the lion rampant. Another Macmillan family use the lion 
rampant alone, with a different motto—age et perjice. 
3. I have obtained a platinotype of fly-leaf of Macmillan’s 
family Bible, which I exhibit. This throws a faint light on the 
question of his exact branch, favourable to my somewhat daring 
conjecture as to Glenhead. His youngest child was, strangely 
enough, christened A/exander Janeta or Jonita. The writer in 
the Glenhead Confession of Faith is Alexander Macmillan, and, 
according to my guess, would be the grandfather of this little child 
named after him. 
More certain is the information in this fly-leaf on Macmillan’s 
movements after his deposition in 1703. His first child, Jonas, 
was born in 1726 (12th June), at Balmaghie Manse; but the 
