william_macmillan – The Reformation

WILLIAM MACMILLAN

Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, H Scott (1915) Vol 2 p 275. Holywood.

Of Caldow, Balmaclellan, licen. by Presb. Of Down, Ireland, in 1673; at the instance of Robert Moir, min. of Balmaclellan, he was imprisoned for thirty-five months at Dumfries for nonconformity, but was liberated 3rd May 1677; confined to Balmaclellan, and afterwards to Kirkcudbright and Dumfries. He was declared fugitive 5th May 1684. In 1685 he was again arrested, and along with many others imprisoned at Dunnottar Castle. A petition by his wife brought about his release, on a bond of 5000 merks being given. He returned to Balmaclellan; was called to this charge; ord. (in Dumfries meeting-house) 14th Dec. 1687; member of Assembly, 1690,

1692, and first Moderator of Synod after the Revolution; died 25^th

Feb. 1697. He marr. Grizel Cairns, who died 27th May 1702.