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EDWARD JOHNSTOUN'S DEATH 151
Johnstone of Gallovvbank for the payment of .£400 Scots as the quarry mail of
the quarry belonging to the complainer in his lands of Gallovvbank, which the
defendant took from the complainer for winning forth thereof the stones of the
Bridge of Annan, with the sum of costs of this our precept to be added thereto
in the manner underwritten." If not paid within fifteen days the defendant
was to be arrested, wherever he might be, and imprisoned, and his goods seized
to pay the money. This is dated Lochmaben, June 18, 1701, six days before
the Earl was made a Marquis.
Galabank also gained a suit against a poacher who had fished two enormous
salmon out of his part of the river, and had to pay him their value. He sold
a small portion of land at Closehead, but George Blair, the son of the late
Provost, was an importunate creditor, and obtained another letter of horning
against Lord Annandale and the Baillies for allowing John Johnstoun to remain
in free possession of his lands and goods when declared an outlaw. All these
troubles, and the death of his youngest daughter, perhaps induced Galabank to
retire to Kirkandrews upon Esk, in the neighbourhood of his mother's relatives.
He was dead in May 1704. His surviving child, Janet, was married, Jan. 1706,
"by the Rev. Edward Willshire, according to the laws of the Church of Eng-
land, in the same Cumberland parish, to Richard Beattie of Milleighs."
The Episcopal Church was finally disestablished in 1696. There was a
movement for restoring James VII., known as the Montgomery Plot, in 1690.
Lord Annandale had mustered some of his clan to support it, and then, finding
himself rather left alone, withdrew to Bath on the plea of illness. It has been
alleged that he had received the patent of a Marquisate from James VII., but
that his cousin, a strong partisan of the Prince of Orange, persuaded him that
he had more to gain by remaining loyal to the new King. In William's
Scottish proclamations he alluded to his "grandfather, Charles I., of blessed
memory," not to his father-in-law, James, who was never popular in the North ;
but his own religious preference lay with Presbyterianism. Several Scottish
incumbents had compromised themselves in the Montgomery Plot and quitted
their parishes, among others Mr Patrick Inglis, priest at Annan, and his suc-
cessor, James Kyneir, while the Presbyterian ministers stood by William, so the
Kirk was turned into a dynastic prop and re-established throughout the country.
From 1692 there was no resident minister in Annan till 1703. Then Mr
Howie, 1 the descendant of a French Protestant refugee, was appointed, and
remained till his death in 1754. Just as, 135 years before, the Scots were
ordered to accept the Reformation, and the priests were driven from the
country, they were now expected to accept Presbyterianism or dispense with
clerical ministrations.
Galabank's brother, Edward, died on Dec. 30, 1697. He was Treasurer to
the burgh of Annan since 1687, and the Baillies' letter to his widow, as well as
that of the Provost, exist, to show how faithfully he had fulfilled his trust. But
both his brother and the Burgh owed him money, and he seems to have felt
rather bitterly about it.
1 The author of Faithful Contendings Displayed, quoted Chapter IX. in Old Mortality.