Privy Council of Scotland
The father of the girls, Gilbert Wilson, went to Edinburgh and made a plea to the Privy Council of Scotland for clemency for all three, presenting a petition which claimed that Margaret McLachlan had recanted.
The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland. Third Series. Vol.XI 1685-1686, p.286 no. 8. (James II was crowned on 23rd April in England). "The Parliament met on 23rd and 28th April. "Item 8. Supplication by Margaret Lachlisone, now prisoner in the tolbooth of Wigtoun, as follows:- She is "justlie condemned to die be the Lords Commissioners of his Majesties most honorable Privie Counsell and Justitiarie in ane court holden at Wigtoune the threttein day of Apryle instant for my not dissowning that traiterous Apollogeticall Declaratione laitlie affixed at severall paroch churches within this kingdom and my refuising the oath of abjuratione of the saymein, which wes occasioned by my not peruseing the saymein ; and now I haveing considdered the said Declaratione doe acknowledge the saymein to be traiterows and tends to nothing but rebellione and seditione and to be quyt contrair wnto the wryt in Word of God, and am content to abjure the same with my whol heart and soull." She therefore craves the Council to consider her case, she being about 70 years of age, and recal the sentence and grant warrant to some one to administer the oath of abjuration to her and liberate her, whereupon she shall live as a good and faithful subject and frequent the ordinances and do what else is prescribed to her. Signed by William Moir, notary, on her behalf because she cannot write ; "A. Dunbar, witnes ; Will. Gordoun, witnes. " (Endorsed) "Petitione for Margaret Lachlisone, 1685."
Agnes was granted freedom on a bond of 100 Pounds Scots, and "reprieves were written out for the two Margarets with a date of 30 April 1685".
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