228 The Kirkos. 



creulie beat and abused the said minister and his spous, they 

 commanded the small keyes of the house, unlocked the whole 

 chistes therein, and robbed the house of all that wes within 

 the same, and left the minister not so much as a pair of 

 sheetes to ly in or ane shirt to putt one save one. After 

 committing of which actes upon the minister and his spous, 

 one of the saids persons came to the minister before his 

 departure, and, shaking a naked dager before his face, spake 

 these words, ' Sir, wee hear ye have bein non of the worst 

 to your paroch, and therfor think not that ye have been 

 roughly handled, bot ye shall hear befor long, that your 

 brethrein shall be handled in another maner. Goe out of 

 this else or twenty dayes passe the house shall be brunt about 

 your eares.' " In consequence of these threatenings the 

 minister transported himself and his family to Dumfries, 

 " to his great prejudice and expensses in this unseasonable 

 tyme of the year. "26 He complained of this outrage 

 to the Privy Council, and the heritors of the parish 

 were summoned to appear by the lairds of Dalgoner, Sundi- 

 wall, and Bogrie.^ The complainer and Kirko of Bogrie and 

 Robert Lowry of Maxweltoune, two of the heritors, obeyed 

 the summons ; and James Grierson of Dalgoner, Maclellan of 

 Sundaywell, and Kirko were ordained to produce the guilty 

 persons by a certain day, or pay a fine of five thousand 

 merks, or, in default, go to prison until the fine was paid. 2° 

 Maxweltoune was relieved of the fine except as to his own 

 proportion, and Kirko of Sundaywell was made liable in his 

 place along with Dalgoner and Bogrie, with recourse against 

 the other heritors for their proportions. ^i Bogrie petitioned 

 for relief on the ground of inability to pay his own pro- 

 portion, far less the whole fine, " being ane aged and infirme 

 person, having the burthen of a numerous family, and (sic) 

 ten motherles children, and little or nothing for his or their 

 subsistence." He also protested his loyalty for which he 



- 28 BPC, 3rd ser., iv., pp. 520 ff. 



29 Ih., p. 609. 



30 lb., pp. 520 ff. 



31 lb., p. 536. 



