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Covenanter
Prisoners on the “Crown”
Cited in A Cloud of
Witnesses, Ed. J H Thomson (1871)
An Act of Indemnity of 14 August 1679 discharged many of the prisoners taken at Bothwell Brig. But there remained a hard core of about 300 dissenters who refused to give a Bond for their future good behaviour and loyalty. Some troublemakers, Robert Garnock among them were executed. The persons considered to be ringleaders at Bothwell Brig were proclaimed and ordered banished, to be sent as slaves to the Colonies (in the West Indies and America ). The 257 prisoners were embarked on the “Crown “ and set out on 27 November 1679. 211 of them drowned off Deerness, Orkney Isles on 10 December 1679 ; the
survivors are marked *.
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