also ante, Vol. I., 158, 280). It was proved in 1611, at the well-known trial of the Mures of Auchendrane, that the elder Mure sent to Ireland, by George Black to William Carmichael, younger of Rowantiecroce, instructions to murder James Bannatyne, their accomplice and witness against them (Ibid, III., 139).

Wodrow relates that Mr William Levingston, minister of Lanark, about the year 1623, was, by a dream and a voice, made the instrument of preserving the life of Crossrigs, a gentleman, near Lanark (Hamilton's Description of Lanarkshire, p. 65). This property was, in 1643, in the possession of George Lindsay of Covington (Ibid). It was afterwards acquired by the Lockharts of Lee, who held it in 1693 (Presbytery Records).

Robert Dalyell of Westredmyre was, in 1649, appointed one of the Committee of War for the county (Act Parl., VI., 372). The Presbytery of Lanark reported on the 18th January, 1666, that there were no Catholics in their bounds, except James Maxwell of Redmyre, "twenty years excommunicat."

Public Events.-Edward II. left Biggar on the 10th of October, 1310, passed the night at Carmil, and proceeded the next day to Lanark. There can be little doubt that Carmil is a contraction or a clerical corruption of Carmichael (Collectanea Archæologica, I., 119).

The parishioners of Carmichael joined those of Pettinain in a petition to Parliament against an union with England in terms of the proposed articles; which is the more remarkable, as Lord Hyndford so strongly supported the measure (Act Parl., XI., 354). G. V. I.