a witness against any person, and that
he himself should be pardoned." After the Revolution he came back to
Glendevon; in 1691 was translated to Fossoway, and, having outlived all
his troubles, died there in peace in 1715 at the age of eighty. The
policy, with which he had associated himself as a minority of one, had
triumphed.

The Revolution fell upon the Presbytery of Auchterarder like the very
crack of doom. All its members, with two exceptions, were ousted.
These were the Rev. James Roy, minister of Trinity-Gask, and the Rev.
Robert Sharp, M.A., minister of Muckhart. Unfortunately, at this
interesting period the Presbytery records are a blank. The last minute
before the Revolution is that of September 7, 1687; the next is that of
November 9, 1703. When the curtain thus rises again at the beginning
of the eighteenth century the _personnel_ of the Presbytery has
completely changed. Elsewhere the transformation seems to have been
accomplished with little difficulty; but it was different in the
Episcopal stronghold of Muthill. That parish, we find, has not yet
submitted to the authority of the Presbytery, and is still vacant. It
was not till August 3rd, 1704, that Mr William Haly was ordained as
minister of Muthill. On the day of his ordination there was a riot,
"several in the parish keeping the doors of the kirk and kirkyard with
swords and staves"; and not until the following year (March 20, 1705)
were the keys of the church of Muthill finally laid upon the table of
the Presbytery. The new members of the Presbytery were very different
from the old. They were now strongly Presbyterian in feeling, and
ultra-evangelical in theology. In 1711, when threatened with the Queen
Anne Act restoring Patronage, we find them instructing their
commissioners to the Assembly "to take all care that Patronages be not
again restored," and in the following year "to give a testimony against
the encroachments made on this church by the tolleration and
patronages." They were earnest in prayer on behalf of the Protestant
Succession of the House of Hanover. On account of the Jacobite rising
of 1715 there was no meeting of Presbytery from August 30, 1715, till
February 9, 1716. At this meeting reference is made to "the Popish and
Jacobite rebells who had infested the bounds, threatening ministers not
to pray against them and their pretended king, by reason whereof
ministers were forced to flee; and spoiling the goods of the pe