236 The Kirkos. 



the act of Levie'''^ wt cerficatioun that iffe ye failzie keipe 

 not the foresd Randivoues that the collenoU and officers 

 appoynted be the parliment for uplyftans of the Levies and 

 to put the said penaltie in executione conforme to the parli- 

 ment ordore. So nocht doubting- your caire herein we rest 



Your freinds 



by command of the Committee. J. Douglas Mousald." 



As an instruction the document appears to be somewhat 

 lacking in clearness. It points out, however, that the ren- 

 dezvous was at Burntscarth, and that a penalty was in- 

 curred by failure to attend with the proper number of men. 



Another undated document'^^ addressed " for James 

 Greirson of Dagonner " may also be of interest, although 

 it is only the postscript to it which concerns Sundaywell 

 directly. It runs as follows : — 



" Assurit freind, 



The Comittee of Warre of the shyre being 

 [instructed] this day by ane order from the Comittee of 

 Estaits for putting of some publict orders to executioune 

 especiallie anent the outreiking- of the proportioun of the 

 horse and foote of the Shereffdome of Drumfreis with ane 

 heivie certificatione in case of deficiencies doo therfore 

 requyre you James Greirson of Dalgoner as captaine of the 

 parische of Dunscoir to bring- to the rendevous at Martone 

 Mure^° upoun thursday the nynt of this instant your pro- 

 portion off horse men and foote men armed sufficientlie 

 according to former custome under ye paine of ffour hun- 

 dreth merks for ilk horsman and ane hundreth punds for ilk 

 footman and that the souldiers be men qualified with cer- 

 tificate under their ministers hands and subscriptioune that 

 they have been frie of the Lait Ingadgement,^i at the least 



78 Fol. Acts, vi., pt. i., p. 125. The date of the Act is 25th 

 June, 1644. 



79 Penes me. Its contents show that the document cannot be 

 earlier than 1648. 



80 See below. 



81 The secret treaty entered into on 27th December, 1647, be- 

 tween the King and three Scottish commissioners, upon which 

 followed Hamilton's disastrous expedition into England (P. Hume 

 Brown, History of Scotland, Cambridge, 1902, ii., pp. 342 ft). 



