Genealogical account of the Barclays of Urie

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Upon this they were all liberated : but so
far were their enemies from being discou-
raged in their malice, that he being come
home, and at the meeting in Aberdeen, was,
with Andrew Jaffray, of Kingswells, John
Forbes, of Aquorthes, and several others,
committed upon the old pretence; and not-
withstanding they were in knowledge of his
interest at Court, all the favour he obtained
was to be put with his father into a better
prison than the others : but the Council
afterwards sent them a liberation, upon con-
dition not to travel three miles from their
dwellings, nor to keep meetings. Their
answer was, " that they accepted of their
liberty ; but as to going to meetings, they
would act as their consciences directed them."
Whilst he remained in prison this last time,
understanding that the Archbishop of St.
Andrews was a great instrument of the
Quakers persecution, he wrote to him the
following Letter: —