Early records of an old Glasgow family

ioo THE EARLY RECORDS OF
Sermons, after-mentioned, all indicate that he had a very distinct
leaning or bent. His name also appears — the signature being
clear, distinct, and recognisable — in the copy, also belonging to the
University, presented by Miss Brown of Lanfine and preserved in
the Hunterian Library, signed about the year 1648. 1
The Solemn League and Covenant of 1643 was that which
was adopted in the negotiations between the Scots and the
English Parliamentary Party which culminated in the dethrone-
ment and execution of King Charles I.
Fined and Imprisoned for attending Conventicles.
Holding the opinions of strict Presbyterianism on religious as
well as possibly on civil and political grounds, to which last he
may have been influenced by relatives of his second wife, Jean
Caldwell, who were then under ban of the Government, it is
not surprising to find that on 6th April, 1676, Mr. Ninian Hill
of Lambhill was cited to attend the Privy Council's Committee
sitting in Glasgow for "putting to execution the laws against
Conventicles " and Nonconformity, and after having been marched
to Edinburgh, under guard, along with James Hamilton of Aiken-
head, Gilbert Hamilton of Westburn, Patrick Hamilton of
Neilsland, Alexander Wardrop of Dalmarnock, Hugh Corbet of
Hardgray, and Matthew Cuming in Glasgow, was fined, on 20th
July, 1676, in the sum of 1000 merks for attending Conventicles,
and hearing "Outed" ministers, and suffered imprisonment for
upwards of three months. 2
His Book of Sermons.
Among the interesting relics of Mr. Ninian Hill is the volume of
Sermons, in manuscript, in 1672, above referred to, a photograph of
1 Transactions of the Archaeological Society, tit supra, p. 127.
2 Crookshank's History of the State and Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, vol. H., pp. 389-393,
and Rev. Robert Wodrow's History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, vol. II., p. 321.