TLIF PENTLAND RISING AND RULLION GREEN.
The Pentland Rising and Bullion G-teen. By Charles Sanford Terry. (J. Ma.cLehose and Sons, Glasgow.)—Professor Terry gives as lucid an account of the Pentland Rising as circum- stances permit. The facts are fairly well established, for there- is sufficient testimony of eyewitnesses ; it is the localities that are- most doubtful. The rising had its origin in various acts of oppression. A Covenanting gentleman, Barscobe (Maclellan of Barseobe), had been driven away from home by an energetic agent of Government, Sir James Turner. He and his companions happened to come across a party of soldiers who had bound a. defaulter (one who had not paid Church fines), and were pre- paring to put him on a hot gridiron. There was a tumult ; the soldiers were disarmed. Then Tamer was attacked in his own house and taken prisoner. During the next few days the insur- gents gathered strength. At Lanark they numbered some eleven hundred. The end came on the fifteenth day, when the force was attacked by General Dalziel, who, after two unsuccessful attempts, succeeded in breaking it up. Of course severe punishment. followed. Sir James Turner, who was compelled to accompany the rebels, left an informing account of what he saw. One graphic little detail may be quoted. At Dahnellington he received a visit from one John Welch, " outed " minister of Irongray. "I calld for a cup of ale, purposelie that I might hear him say grace. He prayd for the King, the restoration of the Covenant, and downfall of Prelacie. He prayd likewise for me, and honord me with the title of God's servant who was then in 'bonds.'"
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