238 The Kirkos. 



As the levies were to be sent to the north or to Edinburgh, 

 Dumbarton, or Douglas, one would expect the rendezvous 

 to be somewhere in the upper part of the county — perhaps 

 near Morton Castle. 



Shortly after the Restoration, Kirko made himself 

 obnoxious to the ruling powers. An account of his troubles 

 is given by Wodrow,^^ 5^^ j prefer to rely on the statement 

 of Wodrow's unnamed informant, ^^ as it contains certain 

 details which have not been embodied in his work by the 

 historian. This authority tells us that " after the king was 

 come home in the year 1660 James Kirko of Sundaywale 

 was at Edinburgh in the companie of some ministers who 

 were dravying ane Humble Suplication to the King and 

 therfor both they and he was apprehended and imprisoned 

 in the Castell of Edinburgh wher he was detained prisoner 

 three munths and fifteen days." The fate of the draftsmen 

 of the " Humble Supplication " is made more intelligible by 

 the narrative of the proceedings in the Register of the Privy 

 Council.^'' It states that " the Committee of Estates, now 

 presently conveened by his Majesties special warrand and 

 authority upon information given to them of a conventicle 

 and private meeting of some remonstrator and protesting 

 ministers and others at Edinburgh, for which they had 

 neither warrand from the ordinary court or ecclesiastick 

 courts ; and the said committee, being by his Majesties 

 speciall commission and command intrusted and impowered 

 with the caring, [o]rdering, and providing for what may 

 conduce for the peace of this his Majesties ancient 

 [kinjgdom, and support of his power and au[thor]ity 

 therein, finding such unlawfull [conjventicles, upon what 

 p[retext] soever, with [out • • • J lawful authority expressly 

 de[ro]gatory to his Majesties prerogative a[nd tendjing to 

 the disturbance of the present [pejace of his Majesties 

 dominions, gave orde[r and] command to some of their num- 



85 The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, ed. 

 by Robert Burns, Glasgow, 1829, i., pp. 203 ff. ; ii., p. 78. 



86 Wodroiv MS., Adv. Libr. Fol., xl., 47. 



87 2nd ser., viii., p. 465. Date of the Act, 23rd August, 1660. 



