And   Elizabeth  Milliken  will  testify.     She  was   Margaret


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Lachlison's  daughter,  and  was  already  a  married  woman  before
the  month  of  May  in  1685.  It  was  in  her  husband's  house  at
Drumjargan  that  her  mother  was  seized  by  the  soldiers ;  from
its  threshold  the  prisoner  was  hurried  to  "Wigtown,  three  miles
distant,  to  be  tried  and  doomed.  She  must  have  known  whether
one  so  dear,  to  whom  she  was  bound  by  the  tenderest  ties,
swore  the  oath  on  which  such  tremendous  issues  hinged,  and
was  released  from  the  dungeon,  and  returned  to  Drumjargan  to
close  her  quiet  days.  But  what  she  did  know  seems  to  have
been  wholly  different.  Long  afterwards,  in  1718,  as  Eobert
Wodrow  recounts,  she  still  met  with  her  martyred  parent  in
visions  of  the  night.  She  told  Mr.  Campbell,  her  minister,
how  she  dreamed  tliat  "  her  mother,  Margaret  Lachlison,  came
to  her  at  the  Cross  of  Wigtown,  with  the  garb,  gesture,  and
countenance  that  she  had  five  minutes  before  she  was  drowned
in  Bladnoch."  A  daughter's  memories  of  a  mother's  home-
going  to  God  are  not  to  be  lightly  gainsaid.
And  Thomas  Wilson  will  testify.  He  was  the  girl  Margarei's
brother,  two  years  younger  than  she.  He  had  shared  some  of
his  sister's  conflicts,  but  was  permitted  to  escape  participation  in
that  "  one  fight  more,  the  best  and  the  last,"  in  which  her  brief
warfare  wasconsummated.  Half  a  century  after  her  death,  he
was  an  elder,  much  consulted  and  revered,  in  Penningham  Kirk.
