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Kilkoubrie, or impresoned any body ; but in end there will be need
to make examples of the stuborn that will not complay ; nor will there
be any denger in this after we have gained the great body of the people,
to whom I am becom acceptable anogh having passed all bygons upon
bonds of regular cariadge hereafter. Your deputs wer lyk to have
taken measurs that wer not so secur nor exceptable ; but I have
diverted them, and they ar to take the course I, doe, and I have
prevented all other jurisdictions by attaching first. My Lord, we hear
noyse here of ane Indulgence. I hop no body is so mad as to advyse it
but Lord Tuedell could not goe up but it would be thoght ano Indulgence
would com doun with him. The mor I consider the business of
this contry the mor [I] see hou ill the King has been served. My
Lord, you have nou the occation to put things in the right chanell, and
I am perstvaded you will make use of it. Barscob is very penitent, and
offers if he could gate a remission he would be active and usfull to me
in the business of the Glenkens. A word to the King or Deuk would
doe the business, but in this doe what your Lordship thinks fit. I have
Stenes with me, and we ar about your brother the Colonell business. I
can fynd nothing almost of the movibles, for I am unwilling to devyd in
small pairtys, and, beseids, I prefer the setling of the contry. I shall
not trouble your Lordship with particulars, because I knou you ar
taken up nou with other things. So I am, my Lord, your Lordships
most humble and faithfull servant.
J. Grahame.
Kilkoubri, Apryl the 1, 1682.
Since the wryting of this I have been at church, where there was not
ten men and not above thretty woemen wanting of all the toun ; where
there used to be ten, I sawe six or seven hundred ; and amongst others
there was on Gordon of Barharou, to whom being a rebell heritor I had
given save conduct to com and treat his peace apeared in testimony of
his sincer conversion.
201. Lists of parishioners read after sermon — Queensberry's bailies
had fixed guilt on almost every man in the shire and stewartry. Moffat,
17 April 1682.
My Lord, All things ar here as 1 could wish in parfait peace and
very regular. Barharou has asseurance of his peace from the Counsell.
Bar has given me a declaration under his hand, as full as I could desyr
it. I have spok with a brother of Sir Robert Maxwells, who was out,
and Litle Park and Glenkaird ar in terms with me, and severall others of
less not. I must say I never sawe people goe from on extremity to
another mor cavalierly then this people does. We ar nou com to read
lists evry Sonday after sermon of men and weomen, and we fynd feu
absent. Mr. Allexander does very well at Dumfries, but I have heard
that the shyr does not conform so well, and I have beared the menisters
complean of the baylys of your Lordships regality ; what ground there
is for it I can not tell. I told Stenes and offered troups to bring the
people in awe. I have examined every man in the shyr, and almost all
the Steuartry of Galouy, and fiixt such a guilt upon them, that they ar
absolutly in the Kings reverence, and I shall give them no discharge,
would they give me millions, till I have bond from them for their
regular cariadge, and maintenance for those dragoons, if the King think
fit to rease them ; and if I doe this, I think it is not ill use of tkat
comission. Did the King and the Deuk knou what those rebellious
villans, which they call minesters, put in the heads of the people, they
would think it necessary to keep them out. The poor people about