Agnews of Lochnaw

414 TRIVIALITY OF CHARGES. [1684.
" John M'Haffie in Gargerie being examined anent his being
at the late rebellion at Bothwell for which he stands unrelaxed
in the fugitive roll for the same as yet, declares he was not at
Bothwell, but that he had a son called John M'Haffie who was
there, and who (was) killed upon the field, and that his name
was taken for his son's, and that thereupon he was declared fugi-
tive. Befuses the test.
" Committed to prison. (Signed) Queensberry."
We have given nineteen cases out of fifty-five which the
Commissioners disposed of ; many were so precisely similar that
the above are a fair specimen of the whole. It is to be remarked
that fourteen of the cases were for converse with one man, Wil-
liam Kennedy ; that twelve persons were arrested for having held
communication with George Stroyan ; eleven for seeing or speak-
ing to Gilbert M'Ghee ; and seven (among others, their own
mother) were arraigned for harbour or knowledge of John and
William Hay.
The following day a Court was held in due form —
Sederunt — " William, Marques of Queensberry, Lord
High Thesaurer, preses.
James, Lord Drumlanrig.
Colonel John Graham of Claverhouse."
And the following judgments were solemnly pronounced and
entered in the record, with the signature of the preses, of which
the subjoined sentences within the inverted commas following
are a literal copy : —
First there were summoned : —
John Stewart in Glenluchok,
William M'Camon in Culbrattoun,
William Sprot in Clontarf,
John M'Haffie in Gargerie,
and were thus disposed of : —
u The Lords having considered the declarations and confes-