As a final stroke, they drove away all his cattle to Glasgow and sold them.

{87b} Surely it was time that something were done to alleviate so much sorrow, to overthrow such tyranny.
About this time too there arrived in Galloway a person calling himself Captain Andrew Gray, and advising the people to revolt.

He displayed some documents purporting to be from the northern Covenanters, and stating that they were prepared to join in any enterprise commenced by their southern brethren.

The leader of the persecutors was Sir James Turner, an officer afterwards degraded for his share in the matter.

'He was naturally fierce, but was mad when he was drunk, and that was very often,' said Bishop Burnet.