Religion & morality > Cloud of witnesses, for the royal prerogatives of Jesus Christ, or, The last speeches and testimonies of those who suffered for the truth in Scotland, in the years 1681-1688, with an appendix, containing the Queensferry paper, Torwood excommunications, &c

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body, by the gravel, and horror and anguish of conscience, insomuch that his
cries were heard at a great distance from the house,—a warning to all such
apostates.
Sir Robert Grierson, of Lagg, having the command of a part of Claver-
house’s troop, and Strachan’s dragoons, surprised John Bell of Whiteside,
David Halliday, portioner of Mayfield, Andrew M'Crabit, James Clement,
and Robert Lennox of Irlintoun, and barbarously killed them after quarter,
without time allowed to pray. When John Bell of Whiteside begged a
little time to pray, Lagg answered, ‘ What the devil have ye been doing 1
Have ye not prayed enough these many years in the hills •’ and so shot him
presently in the parish of Tongland in Galloway, February, 1685. The
said Laird of Lagg, with the Earl of Annandale, having command of some
troops of heritors, pursued another David Halliday, and George Short, and
apprehended and shot them, under cloud of night, in the parish of Twyname
in Galloway, 1680. The Laird of Lagg, who was so wicked an oppressor
and destroyer of the people of God, in Galloway and Nithsdale, was after¬
wards made a justice of the peace, notwithstanding his being excommuni¬
cated for his adultery and impenitent obstinacy.
The Laird op Colzean, for that time captain of a troop of militia and
heritors, killed William M'Kergue at Blairquhan mill, anno 1685. He also,
with the Laird of Ballochmiln, shot Gilbert M'Adam, in the parish of Kirk-
michael, July, 1685.
A party of Highlanders killed Joseph Wilson, David Dun, Simeon Pater¬
son, and other two, near the water of Kyle, in a moss in Kyle, 1685.
The Laird op Ardincaple, commanding a party of Highlandmen, killed
Robert Lockhart and Gabriel Thompson, about that time also. Likewise
William Paterson was shot at Strathaven, by whom is unknown, 1685. Also
John M'Clorgan was killed at Drummelliaii’s house in the night time ; it is
not known by whom.
John Reid, belonging some time to Craigie’s troop, did, under cloud of
night, kill by a shot, one George Wood, about sixteen years old, without
asking one question at him, in Tinkhorn hill, in Kyle, June, 1688. The
number of such murders amounts to seventy-eight.
Besides these cold-blooded murders, there were many killed at several
skirmishes, at Pentland, Bothwell, Airsmoss, &c., while fighting in their own
defence, and the defence of the field-meetings ; the number whereof amounts
to upwards of 400.
A short account of the oppressive Exactions.
Expecting that others, who have the particular informations of matters of
fact by them, will be concerned to publish a more full account of these ille¬
gal fines and robberies, it may suffice at present, to transcribe only the
general account of some of them, out of the forementioned ‘ Memorial of
Grievances.’
For fines, and other exorbitant and illegal exactions of money, the par¬
ticular sums cannot be here enumerated ; but their vastness, when calculat¬
ed together, may be easily collected, by the scraps already gathered off some
poor families of farmers, cottars, servants, &c. (many of these are omitted,
or not known, which would very considerably augment the sum) in some
few shires, viz. Clydesdale, Renfrew, Ayr, Galloway, Nithsdale, and An¬
nandale, since Bothwell-bridge insurrection, amounting to above £288,000