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306 DUMFRIESSHIRE.
ment troops, and had many signal escapes. On the accession of
James VII., in 1685, he publicly protested against the event in a
document known as the " Sanquhar Declaration." In October,
1687, a reward of £100 was offered for his apprehension; he was
discovered in January, 1688, and was committed to the Tolbooth of
Edinburgh. Tried before the Court of Justiciary for disowning the
royal authority, he was declared guilty ; he was executed at Edin-
burgh on the 17th Eebruary. He was in his twenty-sixth year.
A memoir of his life and a collection of his discourses were pub-
lished at Glasgow in 1777. His monument stands within a hundred
yards of the spot on which he is supposed to have been born ; it is
twenty-five feet in height, and cost £100. It is thus inscribed : —
" In Memory of the late Eev. James Eenwick, the last who
suffered to death for attachment to the Covenanted Cause of Christ
in Scotland: born, near this spot, 15th February, 1662, and executed
at the Grass-Market, Edinburgh, 17th February, 1688. 'The
righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.' Erected by sub-
scription, A.D. MDCCCXXVIIL"
PAEISH OF GRETNA.
In the old churchyard at Redkirk a monumental stone
formerly inscribed thus : —
" Here lyeth lO.lST BELL, who died in ye yhere
MDX and of hys age CXXX yheres.
Here bluidy Bell baith skin and bane,
Lyis quietly styll aneath thys staue.
He was a stark moss-trooper bent.
As ever drew a nout* o'er bent.
He brynt ye Lockwood tower and hall.
And flung ye lady o'er ye wall,
* Black cattle.