Genealogie of the Hayes of Tweeddale

HAYES OF TWEEDDALE. 81
to trouble or injure her or her childring in their persons or goods. This
act was affix'd upon the church and meeting-house doors, and signed by
my Lord Ross, President. Mr. William Hamilton, and some other by-
got Presbyterians, were violent against my mother. Sir Daniel Car-
michael was of the opinion, that she might give in a second petition for
the payment of her wood in a more seasonable time. In the meantime,
I finding ane Ostender goeing for Dunkirke, I withdrew myself to France,
departing from Scotland the 18 of May, according to the Scots accompt,
and landed att Dunkirke the fifth of June, according to the Gregorian
stile. After some few days 1 came to Paris, and the ninth of Novembre
following I was made Sub-Prior of Herivaux, and, upon the eleventh of
August 1692, Sub-Prior of Essomes ; and the 5 of March 1694, I was
sent to Champagyne to be Prior of Bernicourt, and put in possession
thereof the first of August, upon a resignation accepted at Rome the
fourth of June.
Provisions were given me att Rheims the 9 of July. That year
was a miserable and hard year, and [I] remember to have seen one
day comeing out of my Church, a poor woman striveing against a
doge, for a peace of dead horse flesh. The following year, 1695, I was
transferd to Saint Pierremont, in Argon, and took possession the said
year, 1695, upon the 21 of Januarie, and in 1699, victuals being att a
great rate, 1 procurM from my friends, for the subsistence of my pa-
rishioners, three hundred livers. Here having more leizure to consider
with maturity what had passed amongst us, I found that the English
pretended, that, notwithstanding of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy,
a King might be legally depos'd for insufficiency of government, which
they justifie by the practice of former times, wherin Sigebert, King of
the West Saxons, was depos'd, as King John, Edward the Second, and
Richard the Second. As for the Scots, I find that they were deluded by
the fears of popery, arbitrary power, and the loss of their liberties. Now,
God knows what ground for all what was alledged : I sie no reall design e