M R S D A W S O N R O W L E Y F H ALL O MORCOTT , RUTLAND Whi z H a lu mz I S D ED I C A T ED B Y TH E AUTHOR P R E F A C E . TH E substance o f this volume a ppea red first o f which o r in booklets, the contents were igi na lly popular lectures delivered in connec f tion with my congregation . I have requently been requested to gather the matter of those te booklets into one volume . It may be a s w for garded some hat venturesome, one who is blind, to undertake such a task . That would have been so in some circumstances ; but with the effective aid which I have te f r i d f M F. c e ve . M rom my riend W elvin , it has been in my case a light and easy task . fo r In preparing the volume the press, and te in passing it through the press, I have ceived such able help as only a large ex peri ence in similar matters would have enabled f him to con er. Duplicate passages have been removed , and new matter is added . The original lectures be ing in connection with the congregation, it was deemed unadvisable, and it might have been invidious, to introduce into the narrative such a history of the Free Church as will be looked fo r in what pur ports to be a parochial history. Much o f the information given I had acquired myself fo r during my stay in the parish, but a large of F e part, especially the early days the re M Church, I have been indebted to iss J . A . o f M f o f Scott ontrose, ormerly Dysart, and to I desire express my thanks to her here . Of course it will be understood that for the comments made on the information so re ived ce that lady is not at all responsible . f f fi There are many other riends who, rom rst a to last, have aided me, and I desire to o knowledge my indebtedness to them all . Notwithstanding the important assistance which I have received, I am aware there will be found defects to tax the equanimity of the critic and the forbearance o f the general f l reader. I trust those de ects wil be neither a l rge nor many, and that they will be such o n ly as must be regarded a s unavoidable in s u . fi ch a work I con dently believe, however, that there is no imperfection such as will m a r the pleasure of any reader who is inter e st If d ed in the subject . the volume succee s to any extent in exciting that kind of in terest in any mind where it does not exist a f lready, I shall deem mysel amply repaid . W IL A FR ER . LIAM R . S C O N T E N T S . CH APTER I. H I S T O R I C S U M M A R Y. va c : — — — Introductory Modem di visions Tra di tions Ancient — — divisions Old Montrose a nd Ana nie Bonniton — — a nd Fullerton Ma ryton a nd Ma ryton La w Powis — — a n d Pow Bridge Dysa rt Even ts in the Civil W a r — Incidents in the Rebellion of 1 7 I s Episodes in — the Rebellion of 1 745 The troubles of the eigh teenth centu ry C H APTER II . LANDED PROP RIETORS. — Division of Scotla nd into pa rishes Extinct na mes — — — Fullerton Bonniton The Middletons The Ha ys — — of Ba lhousie The Stra tous The Mills a nd Stir — — lings Ov er a nd Nether Dysa rt Mona stery of — Aberbrothoc Agricultura l holdings of the eigh teenth century AP III C H TER . H F E I S T O R I C A M I L I S. — Introductory Woods of Bonniton An excommuni — — ca ted Pa pist The brothers Da Il An interesting Contents . — — letter Crea tion of baronetcy W isha rts of Dru m — — Ca uses of the Reforma tion Visits of John Kno x — Melvilles of Dysa rt Melvill es of Ba ldovi e Andrew Melville Fa mily of Richa rd Melville — — Ja mes Melville Fa mily of Da vid Mel ville Ea rly — history of the Gra ha ms The first a nd second ea rls — The third a nd fourth ea rls A tu lz ie in Edin — — bu rgh The Ma rqu is Estima te of his cha ra cter — — Summa ry of his life H is execution Incidents con — nected with Old Montrose Interesting episodes in — a nd a bout Montrose The sisters a nd wife of the — Ma rquis The second Ma rquis a nd his descenda nts AP R IV C H TE . E C C E S I S T I L A C A L . — — — Churchya rd The chu rch Chu rch centena ry Pa rish ministers Free Church min isters Schools a n d — schoolma sters Prea ching of eighteenth century A clerica l humorist A P C H T E R V. K K- IR SESSION . — A ca s e of su perstition in the seventeenth century The — — — elders Collections Pews A domestic sca ndal 222 C H A P T E R VI. O C NC LUSION . Two most distinguished na tives a contra st INDEX ST MARY’S OF OLD M NTR O OSE. C H APTER I . C Y HISTORI SUMMAR . I N TRODUCTORY MODERN DIVISIONS TRADITIONS — ANCIENT DIVISIONS OLD MONTROSE AND ANAN IE — BON N ITON AND FULLERTON MARYTON AND MARYTON — — — LAW POWIS AND POW BRIDG E DYSART EVENTS IN — THE CIVIL WAR INCIDENTS IN THE REBELLION OF — — l 7 l s EPISODES IN THE REBELLION OF I 74S THE O OF TR UBLES THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. TH E o f purpose this volume is to give, as shortly and as completely as circumstances o f o f will allow, a history the parish Maryton from the earliest records that are extant o f down to the close the last century. It would not only be inconvenient, but it would ' n be u necessary, to encroach in personal matters upon anything within the memory A ’ rose 2 S t M a ry s of Old M on t . “ o f that proverbial personage the oldest inhabitant — the researches must be carried much farther back than his legitimate do n — mai , and the likelihood is they will stop short in most things a considerable distance o f the time when his faculties came i nto play . S uch being the case, it will be understood , o f course, that the only responsibility incurred is that of a faithful recorder o f information gathered from whatever source is open ; and it may be stated now that the chief o f those ‘ ’ H o f sources are the istory the Carnegies , which does credit to the judgment alike of n o f the lear ed compiler, and the noble Earl e under whose supervision it was carri d out, o f erv ise e and the various works Mr J , whos unwearied industry has done so much fo r F f a nd or arshire and other counties besides , o f whose authority is the highest order . There has also been much information de ’ ‘ ’ rived from Dr Scott s Fasti Ecclesiae o f the kind of which it possesses such an abun dant store . Other works have been con s lt d a n d t u e , occasionally it may be hat records yet unwritten may be pressed into service . Care shall be taken to remind the of f reader the act , whenever anything is r H is toric S u mma y . 3 a dvanced upon the mere strength o f hear a s y. A due regard to ancient history requires s ome allusion to a fact o f modern geography . M aryton is a small parish , and not a very p opulous one ; but it has this mark of dis tinction over most other parishes, that it is made up of n o less than four detached por f tions and starting rom any point, it would be impossible to visit all its families without having traversed less or more four different ma i n n of parishes . The divisio it needs not second o f be particularised . The in point size is Dysart , the only direct road to which is through the parish o f Craig. Its detached f r b - - position will be accounted o y and by. ' tlzzrd a The division is Drum , which is p p roa cha ble by land only through a portion o f Dun . It is to be presumed that , either with or without its own connivance, Drum parted company with the parish, because rivers , like people, are prone to change their S for courses . ometimes the change is the better ; but in this case all parties will agree ‘ fo r that it has been rather the worse . The f on rt/t and remaining fragment of the parish ’ 4 S t M a ry s of Old M on trose. is s a till more remote, and can be got at, in direct course, only through the neighbouring parishes of Farnell and Ki nnell . The con n ectio n of Gra ha msfi rth with Maryton is for ff accounted in two di erent ways , one r with a little romance about it, but not ve y probable the other entirely prosaic, but extremely likely.