Reid A Cameronian Apostle Index.

INDEX.

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Abjuration Oath, 182.

Absentees from Presbytery, 81.

Ae, Carse of the Water of, 145.

Age at license, Macmillan’s, 15; at death, 207.

Airdsmoss, 23, 159.

Airie, 58.

Alehouses, 57.

Alexander, Helen, 146.

Alison, Adam, outed, 47.

Allegiance, Oath of, 102, 105.

Alter minister, meaning of, 170.

Altrye, “Whig Hole” at, 19.

Animadversions of Presbytery, 130.

Ann paid, 155.

Apostates, what, 85.

Argyll, Earl of, 67.

Arminian texts, 199.

Arndarroch, 17, 185.

Articles of libel, 127, 272.

Assertory Act, 111.

Associate Presbytery, 191.

Assurance of salvation, 199; Bond of, 229.

Atonement, controversy regarding the, 195.

Bairn, the twice-christened, 171.

Balmaclellan, Warner of, 66.

Balmaghie, parish of, in 1700, ch. iii.; Chapman, a “reidar,” 46; vicars of, 47; Kirk, a “curate,” 47; the first Macmillan, 48; Kirk-Session of, 48; poor’s money, 57; scandals, 59; attendance at church, 48; size of church, 49; martyr’s stones, 49; manse and glebe, 49, 50; stipend, 50; site of manse, 51; houses of the poor, 51; their food, dress, and manners, 52, 53; the old plough, 52; shepherds watching sheep, 53; scene on Sundays, 54; character of people, 55; population, 56; “benefit-men,” 56; crofters, 57; tradesmen, 57; paupers, 57; lairds, 58; state of morals, 59; fast-day enforced, 59; chief families, 60, 61; general description, 61-62.

—— M‘Ghie of, 58; “Lady Balmaghie,” 137; M‘Kie, “chaplain” at, 161; “Balmaghie’s curators,” 155.

—— Place, a centre of population, 56; preaching at, 150; Holy Communion at, 75; Macmillan “posed” at, 121.

Baptism, 98.

Barend, 161, note.

Barnboard, John Cunzie, Cunie, or M‘Kine, in, 60, 162.

Barncauchlaw, 11.

Beadle or beddel, 129.

Benefit-men, 56.

Bible, Macmillan’s knowledge of the, 26.

Biographia Presbyteriana, 90.

Bishop, last, of Galloway, 79, 80.

Bishopric, deposition of any one seeking a, 103.

Blednoch, Brownie of, 96.

Boatcroft, 57.

302 Index.

Bond of Assurance, 229.

Bonnets, Kilmarnock, 52.

Books, Macmillan’s stock of, 25.

—— of Reformed Presby. carried off, 198.

Borgue, Monteith of, 71.

Boston, Thomas, of Ettrick, 15, 16, 20, 22, 25, 28, 29, 39.

—— portrait of, 89.

Bothwell, 207.

Boyd of Dairy, 65; Wodrow’s story of, 42.

Braehead, 190.

Brass, mural, to Macmillan, 207.

Brea, Fraser of, 195.

Bribe offered to Macmillan, 154.

Bridge over Water of Dee, 85.

Bridle-paths, 192.

Broughton, Murray of, 28.

Brounhill or Broomhill, 197.

Boyden of Tongland, 77-124.

Burdens carried in creels, 53.

Burns, Rev. Thomas, on tokens, 181.

Buying and selling, 99.

Caldons, 17, 209.

Call, Macmillan’s, 38; M‘Kie’s, 162; by the United Society to Macmillan, 144.

Cally, 28.

Cameron of Kirkcudbright, 67; conduct at the trial, 127; his “Letter,” 38, 271; and “Examination,” 152; goes to Edinburgh in 1715, 167.

Cameron, Richard, 23, 159, 212.

Campbell, Professor of Divinity in 1697, 25.

Campbell, John, before Macmillan’s Session in 1702, 59.

Camsalloch, Johnstone of, 88.

Carnwath, 190.

Carse of the Water of Ae, 145.

Carsphairn, Semple of, 64, 90; Reid of, 63, 115; ordination dinner at, 87.

Cassencary, 167.

Castell, Glenlochar, 103.

Censures, priory, 81.

Chaplains in 1701, 29.

Chapman, “reidar” in 1567, 46.

Charters, Alexander, 61, 161.

Child-murder common in 1701, 100.

Church of Scotland, Macmillan’s reasons for entering the, 24, 44.

Church, Balmaghie, 49.

Clachanpluck, 36, 56, 81, 154, 162.

Claim of Right, 111.

Clark of Twynholm, 77.

Coleshill, sung at Macmillan’s death-bed, 202.

Collain, meaning of, 31.

Colleague, Macmillan’s, 174, 177, 180, 190, note.

Collections in 1701, 48; in 1794, 57.

College life of Macmillan, 22, 25.

Communion cups, 48; “occasions,” 95.

Common heads, 86.

Confession of Faith, Glenhead, 14.

Congregation in 1701, 48, 94.

Conventicles, 18.

Corbelly Hill, 135.

Correspondents, 85.

Cottages in 1701, 51.

Covenanters in churchyard, 49.

Covenant, National, 19, 86, 99, 127.

Cow, heather, 54.

Crawford, John, 176.

Craigencallie, 16, 209.

Creels, 53.

Crofters, 57.

Crops in 1701, 53.

Crossmichael, Murdoch of, 76; Gordon of, 195.

—— deposition at, 132.

Crucifix, 85.

Cullenoch, meaning of, 31.

Cunie or M‘Kine, 60, 162.

Cunningham, Principal, on Macmillan, 10.

Cup, Macmillan’s, 96.

Currie, James, 146.

—— John, 145.

Cuthbertson, John, 195, 197.

Daa, Marion, child-murderess, 100.

Daily prayer, 93.

Index. 303

Dallash, 12.

Dalmellington, 87.

Dalserf, monument at, 208.

—— Braehead of, 190.

Dalziell, William, 47.

Day of humiliation for Ring Croft ghost, 70.

—— at Auchensaugh Hill, 185.

Death of Macmillan, 204.

December, memorable dates in, 36.

Declaration, Richard Cameron’s, at Sanquhar, 18; Renwick’s, 18.

Declinature, Macmillan’s, 129, 277.

Dee, Water of, 51; Bridge over the, 85; Semple’s ride through the, 90.

—— Ploughshares thrown into, 165; “supply” crosses the, 151; Sheriff-officers rowed across, 164; Glebe riot on banks of, 165.

Degree, M.A., in 1700, 22.

Dinner, Presbytery, 87.

Divinity, how taught in 1700, 25.

Drumbeck, 47.

Drumlane, 161, note, 127, 276.

Duchrae, 72, 161, note, 167.

Dundrigh, 156.

Dyke levellers, 72.

Earlston, Sir Alex. Gordon of, 185.

Eastforth, 190.

Eastshields, 190.

Elder, Macmillan a ruling, 36; also elder in Minnigaff, 16; number of elders in Balmaghie in 1701, 48; elders who signed people’s protests, 60, 161.

Election of ministers in 1700, 39.

—— Macmillan’s, 37; M‘Kie’s, 161.

Election and Predestination, Fraser of Brea on, 196.

Elegy on Mistress Mary Gordon, 208, 218.

Enslie, of Anwoth, tr. to Rotterdam, 76.

Epocha, what, 33.

Ettrick, Boston of, 15, 16, 22, 25, 28, 29, 39; people of, 54.

Ewart of Kells, 66.

Examination of Macmillan’s Narrative, 152.

Exegesis, 25.

Fairfoul, John, 47.

Fairley, Rev. John, 206.

Falconer, of Kelton, 77.

Family names in 1703, 61.

Family worship, 84.

Famine in Galloway, 53.

Farms, size of, in 1700, 56.

Facts, 59.

Food of peasantry in 1700, 51.

Fork, of Killallan, 189.

Forms or “beinks” for Communion, 125.

France, Church of, 102.

Fraser of Brea, 195.

Fuel in 1700, 51.

Funds raised for stipend, 50; for manse, 190; for poor, 48.

Funeral, alleged scene at, 164.

Galloway, manners and customs of, in 1700, 51-55.

—— Macmillan a “Galloway man,” 11.

Gartshore, George, 76.

Garvarie, 163.

Gemble, Jean, 160, 164, 185, 208.

Gilchrist, Rev. James, 186.

Girthon, Johnston of, 76; Macmillan an elder in, 36.

Glass, in windows of church, 49; of houses, 51.

Glebe, size of, 50; Glebe riot, 165.

Glenhead, Confession of Faith at, 14.

—— Macmillans of, 15.

Glenkens, ministers in, 63.

Goldie, Mrs. Edward, of Craigmure, 185.

Gordon, Sir Alex., of Earlston, 185; his vindication of his character in Balmaghie Church, 185.

—— Mistress Mary, 185; elegy on, 208; epitaph, 208.

—— Nathaniel, of Carleton, 168.

304 Index.

Gordon, John, last Bishop of Galloway, 79.

—— of Crossmichael, 195.

Gown, Mrs. Macmillan’s silk, 89.

Greek, Macmillan’s knowledge of, 26.

Gregory, Prof. James, 22.

Grennoch, or Woodhall, 163.

Grievances, Macmillan’s, 107, 108.Grieve, John, M.D., 207.

Grizel, Macmillan’s surviving daughter, 206.

Gumm, what, 189, note.

Habit of sackcloth, 82.

Halliday, David, 49.

Hall, James, 195, 197.

Hay, of Anwoth, 76, 124, 150.

Heather cow, 54; heather ale, 52.

Henshelwood, 190.

Hepburn, of Urr, 134; Hepburnites, 235.

Heritors of Balmaghie in 1700, 58.

Heron, Patrick, of that ilk, 58.

Hill Burton, on Auchensaugh Renovation, 183.

Holy Fair, 95.

Holland, students sent to, 20.

Holm, Spaldings of, 76.

Hour-glass with wings, 17.

House of Rinmon, 168.

Hutchison, Rev. Matthew, 18, 21, 194.

Incest common in 1701, 101.

Indulgences, 17, 19.

Innes, Rev. Hugh, 195.

Instruments, taking, 104.

Intercommuning, 18.

Jackson, Janet, 189.

Jacobites, Macmillan suspected of intriguing with, 177.

—— Hepburn’s relations with, 135.

Jedburgh, Lord, rebuked for “banning,” 88.

Jephthah, Reid of Carsphairn on, 118.

John, Macmillan’s surviving son, 206.

John, Church of, at Cullenoch, 31.

Johnston, of Girthon, 76.

Jus divinum of Presbytery, 109.

Kathren, Macmillan’s second child, 205.

Kells, Ewart of, 166.

Kilmarnock bonnets, 52.

Kiln, drying corn at, 59.

Kirk, games, a “curate,” 47.

Kirk above Dee Water, 171, note.

Kirk-Session records of Balmaghie, 48; of Girthon, 36; of Minnigaff, 16.

—— discipline of, compared to Roman confession and absolution, 59.

Kirkcudbright, Presbytery of, in 1701, ch. iv.; number of members, 62; parishes re-annexed, 62; Glenkens Committee, 62; Reid, 63; Boyd, 65.

—— Warner, 66; Ewart, 66; Cameron, 67; Telfair, 68; Monteith, 71; Hay, 76; Tod, 76; Murdoch and Gordon, 76; Johnston, 76; Bryden, 77; Clark, 77; Falconer, 77; list of members, 77-8; “father” of Presbytery, 78.

—— Cameron of, 67.

Knockgray, 87.

Ladles, 48.

Lady Balmaghie, 137.

Lamloch, 87.

Latin, Macmillan’s use of, 25; textbooks in, 25.

Laurieston, formerly Clachanpluck, 31, 56, 81, 154, 162.

Lauriestone, Elizabeth, 47.

Lecture and sermon, 93.

Letter to the parishioners by Cameron, 38, 271.—— Macmillan’s, to an heritor, 154; to a dying friend, appendix.

List of Presbytery in 1701, 77.

Lining, Thomas, 20, 42.

Linktown, 191.

Index. 305

Livingstone, 168.

Lord Justice-Clerk’s advice to the Presbytery, 166.

Mack, John, 139.

Macmichael, James, shoots a “curate,” 65.

Macmillan, John, first of name in Balmaghie, 47; his ill-health, 48; his family receive a year’s stipend, 155; his son James, 167, note.

—— John, alter minister of Balmaghie, 170; reasons for biography of, 10, 11; mentioned in Cunningham’s History, 10; a “man of presence,” 10; why called “Apostle,” 10, 192; a “Galloway man,” 11; his birthplace, 11; boyhood, 17; age at license, 15; “chaplain” at Broughton, 28; of the family of Arndarroch, 17; his early associations, 18; education at school and college, 20; his reasons for entering the Revolution Church, 24; takes M.A. degree, 22; his divinity studies and teachers, 25; his scholarship, 26; his piety, 27, 219; his “trials for license,” 30-33; and for ordination, 38; his call to Balmaghie, 38; elder in Girthon, 36; his ordination, 40; his vows at ordination, 43; his object in entering Church, 44; his first sermon, 48; his care of poor, 48; strictness in discipline, 95; his sermons and pastoral work, 94; at Communion “occasions,” 95; his “Cup,” 96; his popularity in Balmaghie, 97; first rupture with Presbytery, 104; he tables the “Grievances,” 106; accepts an agreement, 118; dealt with by Presbytery, 118; his utterances at Balmaghie Church, 119; is “posed” by a Committee at Balmaghie Place, 122; libelled for “calumniating” the Presbytery, 126; preaches at the Visitation, 122; refuses to sign a second agreement, 126; is accused by Cameron of perjury, 127; his “declinature,” 129; deposition, 132; negotiations with United Societies, 138; with Hepburn of Urr, 134; with the General Assembly, 140; his “submission” to the Assembly, 141; and to the United Societies, 143; his call from the Societies, 144; his first sermon as Pastor, 147; publishes the “True Narrative,” 142; and rejoinder to Cameron’s “Examination,” 152; his indignant letter to a heritor, 154; sends his “declinature” to the Commission, 160; is excommunicated, 160; alleged collision with M‘Kie, 164; goes to Carnwath, 190; to Dalserf, 190; his marriages, 189; work at Auchensaugh, 177; forms a Presbytery, 191; “tables” Fraser of Brea, 197; last days and death, 200; his favourite texts, 202; his children and descendants, 205; his monuments, 207; his character, chap. xiii.

Macmillan, John, junior, of Sandhills, 206.

—— Hall, Newton-Stewart, 12, note.

Macmillans of Glenhead, 15; of Palgown, 12.

Macmillan gravestones in Minnigaff churchyard, 17.

306 Index.

Macneil, John, Macmillan’s colleague, 174, 177, 180, 190, note.

Malignants, 246.

Manual exercise, practised by Societies, 184.

Manse, Macmillan’s, 49.

Marriage, Macmillan’s, with Jean Gemble, 166; with Mistress May Gordon, 185; with Grace Russell, 189; cause of dissension in the General Meeting, 174.

—— M‘Kie’s romantic, 168.

—— of Macmillan’s co-presbyters, 88.

Marshall, Rev. Alex., 191.

Martyrs in Balmaghie churchyard, 49; at the Caldons, 209; in Kells, 19.

Matriculation Register, 1695, 20.

Maxwell, Col. William of Cardoness, 58.

Meetings of Presbytery, when, 80; at Crossmichael, Dec. 29-30, 1703, 129; at Clachanpluck, 81; at Polsack, 81; and at Cullenoch, 81; for privy censures, 81; held in Cameron’s “chamber” at Kirkcudbright, 67; at New Galloway, 106; for visitation of parishes, 84.

Meeting, General, Minutes or “Conclusions” of the, 174; place of Assembly, Crawfordjohn, etc., 190.

Men of the Moss-hags, 14 note, 217.

Minnigaff, 209.

Mitchell, Hugh, 162.

Monteith of Borgue, 71.

Monument at Dalserf, 207.

Mundell, James, 145.

Munn, what, 51.

Murder, child, common in 1701, 100.

Murderess, Macmillan appointed to be with a, at her execution, 100.

Murray’s monument, 209.

M‘Bride, John, 79.

M‘Clacharty, 61.

M‘Ghie, of Balmaghie, 98; of Slogarie, 99; of Airie, 58.

—— Hew, 47.

M‘Guffog, George, in Drumlane, 276.

M‘Kie, William, of Balmaghie, a licentiate of Kirkcudbright Presbytery, 161; “chaplain” at Balmaghie Place, 161; ordained, 163; wounded in the Glebe Riot, 165; his temporary church and manse, 168; his marriage, 168; his son, Nathaniel, 90; his character, 168; his monument, 49; charges against him dismissed, 162.

M‘Kine, or Cunie, or Cunzie, in Barnboard, his stone, 60; brings a charge against M‘Kie, 162.

M‘Quhan, Adam, a martyr, 19.

“Nae dominies for me, laddie!” song, said to be by Nathaniel M‘Kie, 91.

Nairn, Rev. Thomas, joins Macmillan, 191.

National Covenants, 99; sworn at Auchensaugh, 179; at Crawfordjohn, 194; at Borland Hill, 175.

Oath of Allegiance, 102, 105.

—— Abjuration, 182.

Ordination of Macmillan, 41; of M‘Kie, 163; of Cuthbertson, 195; of John Macmillan, junior, 195.

Palgown, 12.

Papists, 85.

Parish of Balmaghie described, 61.

Peirson, Peter, a “curate,” shot, 65.

Piety of Macmillan, 27, 219.

Place of public repentance, 83.

Plough in 1700, 52; ploughs cast into the Dee, 165.

Poet, Macmillan a, 218.

Polsack, 81, 31.

Poor’s money, 48, 57, 125.

Popery, laws against, 85.

Porteous Roll, 166.

Index. 307

Power, intrinsic, of Church Courts, 108.

Preaching-tent, 180, note.

Preaching-matches, 35.

Presbytery, meetings of, 80.

—— Reformed, 191.

Psalm xlii., quoted by Macmillan on his death-bed, 203.

Purleycueing, what, 96.

Quakerism, 217.

Queen Anne “debarred,” 181.

Queries at visitations, 84.Questions for discussion at Presbytery, 86.

Quintinespie, 38, 58.

Razors, not used by peasantry, 54.

Recruiting Cameronians in Dairy, 65.

Reid of Carsphairn, 63.

Remains of old Balmaghie Church, 49.

Rendezvous of United Societies, 184.

Renovation of Covenants, 175, 179, 194.

Rimmon, House of, 168.

Ringcroft ghost, 68.

Riot, Glebe, 165; at Barnboard, 162.

River Dee, 51, 151.

Roman Catholics or Papists dealt with, 85.

Rowatt or Rouet, 206.

Ruffy, 54.

Rule, Professor of Hebrew, 25.

Russell, Grace, 189.

Sabbath-breaking, 100.

Salvation, Fraser of Brea on, 196.

Sandhills, 206.

Sanquhar Declaration, 18.

Saturday described, 54.

Schism, a parish, ch. x.

Schools in 1700, 85.

Scots Magazine, 13.

Semple, John, of Carsphairn, 64, 89.

Shankfoot, 57.

Shirts, scarcity of, in Galloway, in 1700, 52.

Short, George, 49.

Slater, a fraudulent, 125.

Slogarie, 99.

Smith, Robert, 146.

Snood, 52.

Societies, United, 17.

Sondewal, 156.

Sowens, 51.

Spalding, of Parton, 76, 41.

Stipend of Balmaghie in 1700, 50.

Submission, Macmillan’s, 143.

Subscription to Confession of Faith, 86.

—— to Covenants, 86.

Sunday in Balmaghie, 1700, 54.

Swearing, profane, 99.

Table, Communion, 125.

Tablet, brass, to Macmillan, 207.

Teind uplifted by heritors, 155.

Telfair, of Rerrick, 67.

Thorburn, Rev. John, 207.

Thomson, Rev. G. H., 9, 14, note, 29.

—— Dr. Andrew, on “chaplains,” 29.

Tobacco in 1700, 52.

Tod, of Buittle, 76, 103.

Tokens, at Balmaghie, 96; at Auchensaugh, 180.

Tombstones of Macmillan family in Minnigaff, 16.

“Toys,” 52.

Trials for license, 30; for ordination, 38.

“True Narrative,” by Macmillan, 152, appendix.

Tulloch, Principal, age at license, 15.

Turks, captives among the, 84.

Turretin, 25; appendix.

Umpherston, Charles, 146, 198.

Union, protection against the, 173.

United Societies, 17.

Urr, Hepburn of, 135; drilling near manse of, 184.

Vagrants, 55.

Vicars in Balmaghie, 47.

308 Index.

Visitation, 84; of Balmaghie, 120.

Visions seen by Monteith, 73.

Wadsett, 190.

Walker, Patrick, 89.

Warner, of Balmaclellan, 66.

Water of Dee, 85, 90.

Waulk Mill, 52, note.

Whey, 52; Whigs, 157.

Williamson, Catherine, 34.

Wilson, Gabriel, 161; William, 187.

Witchcraft, 99.

“Wolf in a sheepskin,” 198.

THE END.