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ccxxxviii JAMES, KARL OF ANXANDALE AND HARTFKLL, IG53-1G72.
CHArXEK THIRD.
Engaged in suppressing the rising in Galloway, •whicl) cndecl at Pcntland in ] GGG—Appointed
captain of a troop of horse, 1CC7—Names of the ofticcrs of his troop—I^Ioney raised
for payment of the troop— Engaged as a privy coundllor in the proceedings against
the covenanters— Included in commission of justiciary for the tri;il of the cove-
nanters, December 1G6G, but did not act under it —Disbanding of tlio army, 1GC7
.Present at committee of privy council with reference to conventicles, IGCO—Attends
the privy council meeting on the same matter, 1070 — His circumstances in regard to
money matters—His affectionate relations with his countess— Ilis indifferent health-
He makes his last will and testament—His death, 1G72—His directions for his funeral
—His eleven children, four sous and seven daughters.
A few years after the lie.?toraliou serious trouLles in coimection with
eccle.siastical affairs broke out iu Gallo\va}^ JIany presbyteriaiis in that and
the adjacent districts woiUd not couforin to episcopacy. Fines and other
exactions were imposed on the nou-conforniist.^, such as cess or quartering
money for soldiers sent to districts to collect the fines, etc. Sir James
Turner was the military officer employed by the government to levy the
fines, etc. He was stationed at Dumfries. A party of his soldiers had
occasion to be at Dairy, in Galloway, in the discharge of their duties. A few
persons in Dairy having seen the soldiers driving an aged mair harshly, as
they thought, got into collision with them. The country people organised
a scheme for the purpose of capturing Sir James Turner and making
him a prisoner. In that enterprise they were successful. The people,
encouraged by their success, increased in numbers, and fornally took the
field against the government. This was tlie beginning of the rising in arms
in the yepr 1G66, otherwise commonly called the Pentland insurrection.
The insurgents marched to !Mauchlin, Ayr, Lanark, and other places. They
kept Sir James Turner a prisoner, and carried him with them from place to
place. But their first success did not continue on their march towards
Edinburgh. By the time they reached the Pentland Hills their army was
quite unequal to cope with the army raised by the government, headed by
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