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Re: Anyone got any Wigtown martyrs in there lineage
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 06 October 24 15:16 BST (UK) »
The journal of the honourable John Erskine of Carnock contains an eye witness account of the trial and execution of Thomas Harkness and his two fellow prisoners; see the entry for 15th August 1684 in:-
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mkILAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA74&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false
Sinclair: Lanarkshire & Antrim; McDougall: Bute; Ramsay: Invernesshire; Thomson & Robertson: Perthshire; Brown: Argyll; Scott: Ayrshire: Duff: Fife.