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Following the Rising at St John's Town of Dalry in Galloway on 13 November 1666, the Covenanters decided to march to Edinburgh. They arrived in Lanark on Sunday 25 November, around one thousand in number. On Monday 26 November the Covenanters filled the town centre. The Solemn League and Covenant was renewed. Rev John Guthrie, who had been evicted from Tarbolton Church in Ayrshire, stood on the Tolbooth steps and addressed the infantry. At the Townhead Rev Gabriel Semple preached to the horsemen. Those assembled raised their hands and swore their allegiance. The Covenanters then marched towards Edinburgh, where they were defeated in battle at Rullion Green, on 29 November 1666.
On 12 January 1682 the Covenanters marched into Lanark where they published the Lanark Declaration. The leader was Rev James Renwick, and he and sixty men read the declaration from the Cross, which they had defaced with hammers. The Declaration was entitled 'The Act and Apologetic Declaration of the true Presbyterians of the Church of Scotland'. In it they adhered to the declarations of Rutherglen and Sanquhar and 'repudiated the unconstitutional acts of Charles II.
The magistrates of the council were fined 6,000 merks for their slackness in apprehending the 'desperate villains'.
In Lanark's St Kentigern's churchyard is a large obelisk that commemorates the Covenanters in the town who were either martyred, fined or banished for their adherence to the cause.
THIS M O N U M E N T HAS BEEN ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION TO THE MEMORY OF THE AFTERNAMED PERSONS, IN THE TOWN AND PARISH
OF LANARK, WHO SUFFERED FOR THEIR ADHERENCE TO THE COVENANT, DURING THE 17TH CENTURY.
E X E C U T E D: R O B E R T B A I L L I E, O F J E R V I S W O OD W I L L I A M H E R V I E. T H O M A S L A C H L A N. J O H N W I L S O N.
PERSONS WHO FORFEITED THEIR LANDS AND OTHER POSSESSIONS, BUT WHOSE LIVES WERE SPARED:
W I L L I A M T W E E D A L E , B A I L I E O F L A N A R K. H U G H W E I R , M E R C H A N T, L A N A R K.
"THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL BE IN EVERLASTING
REMEMBRANCE." PSALM CXII.V.6.
FUGITIVES AND OUTLAWS:
TOWN: THOMAS HENSHILWOOD. ROBERT ALSTON. JOHN ALSTON. JAMES HOWISON. JOHN HOWISON. * JOHN SEMPLE. JOHN MORRISON. * GIDEON WEIR. JAMES CHALMERS. * ARCHIBALD SIMPSON. JAMES PARK. * THOMAS PILLANS. ROBERT LOGAN. * THOMAS INGLIS. RICHARD MARTIN. * JOHN PUMPHRY. MICHEAL LAMB. + WILIAM FERGUSON. PARISH: ANDREW LOCKHART, NEMPHLAR JAMES LOCKHART. " . ROBERT BRUCE. " . WILLIAM SCOTT, HOLMHEAD.
THE * INDICATES THAT THE MARTYR OPPOSITE WHOSE NAME IT IS PLACED IS IN MORE LISTS THAN ONE OF THESE TABLES . + WILLIAM FERGUSON WAS ULTIMATELY APPREHENDED AND BANISHED TO VIRGINIA
CONDEMNED AS TRAITORS
AND HAD THEIR LIVES AND POSSESSIONS FORFEITED, BUT FLED AND ESCAPED TOWN: DAVID WHITE, SMITH IN LANARK, * GIDEON WEIR, GUNSMITH " DAVID GIBSON * THOMAS PILLANS = JAMES LAWRIE, WRITER * ARCHIBALD SIMPSON + WILLIAM FERGUSON * JOHN SEMPLE, MASON * THOMAS INGLIS ALEXANDER ANDERSON * JOHN PUMPHREY WILIAM PADZEAN, MASON . PARISH: JOHN JACK, NEMPHLAR ROBERT LOCKHART, OF BIRKHILL
F I N E D W I T H O U T T R I A L TOWN:
MICHAEL SOMERVILLE, BAILIE OF LANARK L600 ELLON, 360 ALEXANDER TENNENT, " 360 GABRIEL HAMILTON, " 360 ALEXANDER WILSON, " 360 GIDEON JACK, " 1000 JOHN PILLANS, " 240 * ARCHIBALD SIMPSON, " 240
JOHN FISHER, " 240. PARISH: JAMES CUNNINGHAM OF BONNINGTON, 360 JAMES GRAY, IN JERVISWOOD, 600. IMPRISONED AND OUTLAWED AS REBELS: JOHN BANNATYNE, OF COREHOUSE AFTERWARDS MINISTER OF LANARK WILLIAM THOMSON, PROCURATOR, SHERIFF COURT LANARK JAMES MUIRHEAD JUNR. LANARK. ALEXANDER BROWN, MERCHANT. LANARK. = JAMES LAWRIE, WRITER LANARK WAS IN 1681.(IN ABSENCE) SENTENCED TO BE EXECUTED TO DEATH. BUT IN 1684 SENTENCE REMITTED.
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