46 Earty EccLesiastTicaAL History oF DUNSCORE. 
preliminary to the discussion of the manse question, and the 
heritors promised to set the work of building in hand. But 
in May, 1657, Archibald was still without a manse, and was 
forced to live at a great distance from the parish, to the 
detriment of himself and, no doubt, of his parishioners. The 
matter was settled in the latter part of the year 1657; but 
the minister had little enjoyment of the house built for him, 
for shortly after the Restoration he was extruded from his 
charge.*> We hear of him as one of the field preachers in 
the company of Blackader of Troqueer, Welsh of Irongray, 
and other ‘‘ outed ’’ ministers.54 In the year 1662 he was 
charged, along with others, with frequent keeping of con- 
venticles and baptising children thereat ;34# and about 1672 
he committed the further illegality of celebrating the marriage 
of James Maclellan, afterwards of Sundaywell.%> In the 
latter year he was licensed to preach at Mauchline ;*¢ and it is 
he apparently who is mentioned in 1680 as being complained 
against for preaching at conventicles.44 His wife was 
Elizabeth Key,® to whom he was married at Urr on 4th April, 
1654; and he died in Edinburgh in 1688, survived by four 
daughters—Jean, Elizabeth, Margaret, and Marion—and by 
one son—George,*’ who became a leading physician in Dum- 
fries, and regarding whose ‘‘ Account of the Curiosities of 
Dumfries,’’ Mr J. C. R. Macdonald read an interesting paper 
to the Society in 1gor. 
Archibald was succeeded by Mr William Burnet, whose 
official existence is vouched for by discharges granted to the 
Tutor of Lag for payments of teind from 1664 to 1670,% by 
a reference to him in Dalgoner’s memorandum regarding his 
own imprisonment at Ayr, and by a receipt granted on 3rd 
June, 1673, by his widow, Sarah Coulsoune.*? 
III. 
It may be of interest to note what were the names of the 
owners of lands in the year 1634, these having been pre- 
served to us in a valuation of the teinds of Dunscore, dated 
on the 21st March of that year. We find Maxwells of 
Portract owners of Hill; Herbert Maxwell, elder and younger 
of Friar Carse and Alliesland; and Edward Maxwell of Over 
