24:0 The Kirkos. 



James Kirko was fynt 500 marks by Sir James Turner for 

 not hearing-, and, after his house was sest a long tyme with 

 eght suldiers, he was necessitat to pay to the said Sir James 

 300 marks besyd what cess mouny the suldiers got, and the 

 destructione they mad about his hous. And about 2 munths 

 afterward because he would not complye wt prelacie he was 

 so opprest wt both horse and foot souldiers about his house 

 he was necessitat to skeall his famillie in the month of 

 October, and live then the house and all he had amongst yr 

 feit to dispose on att yr pleasure. And afterward for 

 aledg-ing yt he was att pentland (although it could never be 

 mad out against him) he was necessitat to live not only his 

 house bot allso ye kingdome for three years and some 

 munths ;^ and my Lord Lyon did persheu a proces of forfal- 

 tour agt him to his dicing- day ; the defence qurof was a very 

 great expences to him. This are a pairt of James Kirko 

 sufferings although not near to qt they were." 



In 1668 Sundaywell was included in a proclamation for 

 the arrest of rebels who did not accept the Act of Indemnity.^! 

 He died before 3rd May, 1674, without issue; but his will, 

 recorded on that date,^ is silent as to the date of his death. 

 We may take as his epitaph the saying attributed by 

 Wodrow^ to Gabriel Semple,^ that he was one of the most 

 eminent Christians he had ever known. 



He was succeeded in the lands of Sundaywell by James 

 Maclellan,95 brother of Robert Maclellan of Bafscob.^ 

 James had married Elizabeth, daughter of Lancelot Kirko, 



90 He -went first -to Newcastle (Memoirs of Mr William Veitch 

 and George Brysson, with Notes, etc., by Thomas M'Crie, Edinburgh, 

 1825, p. 49), and afterwards to Ireland (Wodrow, History, ut supr. 

 cit., iii., p. 268). 



91 BPC, 3rd ser., ii., p. 452. 



92 Dumfries Commissariot . 



93 History, ut supr. cit., iii., p. 268. 



94 Second son of Sir Roger Semple of Cathcart, and the 

 " outed " minister of Troqueer. 



95 Wodrow, History, ut supr. cit., ii., 78, gives a full account 

 of his misfortunes. 



96 BSC, Decreta, 637, 21st February, 1684. 



