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—<br />

HUGHIE GRAHAM.<br />

lace was again made prisoner. He obtained his freedom, however, in the<br />

end <strong>of</strong> that year. From the Restoration in 1660, he seems to have Uved<br />

in retirement, until November, 1666, when he headed the Covenanters at<br />

Pentl<strong>and</strong>. Colonel Wallace possessed the estate <strong>of</strong> Auchans, the mansionhouse<br />

<strong>of</strong> which, now in ruins, is situated in the vicinity <strong>of</strong> Dundonald<br />

Castle. His family were a branch <strong>of</strong> the Wallaces <strong>of</strong> Craigie. He was<br />

the last <strong>of</strong> the name that owned the property, having disposed <strong>of</strong> it, before<br />

engaging in the insurrection, to his relative Sir William Cochrane<br />

<strong>of</strong> Oowdon, the progenitor <strong>of</strong> the Lords Dundonald. <strong>The</strong> parties<br />

against whom the doom <strong>of</strong> forfeiture was pronounced by act <strong>of</strong> Parliament<br />

in 1669, as participators in the outbreak, were— " Collonell James<br />

Wallace, Joseph Lermonth, M'Clellane <strong>of</strong> Barscobe, Mr John<br />

Welsh, master James Smith, Patrick Listoun in Calder, William Listoun<br />

his son,<br />

William Porterfield <strong>of</strong> Quarreltoun, William Mure <strong>of</strong> Caldwell,<br />

Caldwell,<br />

eldest son to the goodman <strong>of</strong> Caldwell, Robert Ker <strong>of</strong><br />

Kersl<strong>and</strong>, Mr John Cuninghame <strong>of</strong> Bedlan, Alex<strong>and</strong>er Porterfield, broi<br />

ther to Quarreltoun, John Maxwell <strong>of</strong> Monreith younger, M'Clellan<br />

I<br />

I<br />

<strong>of</strong> Belmagachan, Mr Gabriell Semple, Mr John Guthrie,<br />

Mr Alex<strong>and</strong>er<br />

Pedan, Mr William Veitch, Mr John Crookshanks, <strong>and</strong> Patrick M'Naught<br />

\ in Cumnock." History <strong>of</strong> <strong>Ayrshire</strong>.<br />

Our lords are to the mountains gane,<br />

A hunting o' the fallow deer.<br />

And they have gripet Hughie Graham,<br />

For stealing o' the bishop's mare.<br />

And they have tied him h<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> foot,<br />

And led him up thro' Stirling town ;<br />

<strong>The</strong> lads <strong>and</strong> lasses met him there.<br />

Cried, Hughie Graham, thou art a loon.<br />

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