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that he was in the year 1677 brought before the committee of publicaffairs, charged with attending the ministrations of the “ indulged non-conformists and upon his admission of the truth of the accusation, andrefusing to engage to hear his parish minister, he was fined £500 sterling,and in default of payment, committed to Edinburgh Tollbooth . Here hewas detained till the month of October, and liberated upon the payment oftwo thousand pounds Scots . In 1678, Anderson was again imprisonedupon a false charge of an intended rebellion of the Presbyterian party, butliberated without trial; and upon the 25th of June, 1683, he was againcommitted to prison, on a charge of meditating rebellion, and other trea-sonable practices. He was a prominent member of the Convention ofEstates held at Edinburgh , when they offered the crown of Scotland toKing William and Queen Mary, and his name appears amongst the signa-tures to the public deeds upon that occasion.* In August, 1689, (being atthe time Provost,) he was commissioned by the Town Council to jn-oceedto London , to procure from the sovereigns the final recognition of theprivilege of the citizens of electing their own magistrates. He wasdetained in London by this business from August, 1689, till January,1690, when he returned to Glasgow , having completely succeeded in hismission, and bearing a letter of King William and Queen Mary, ratifyingand confirming all previous grants and charters of the same tenour ; andas coming in the place of the archbishop, vesting in the said city of Glas gow , and Town Council thereof, full right, power, and liberty, to chooseand elect their provosts, bailies, and magistrates, in all time coming ; andordains the same letter of gift to pass the great seal; and a promise toratify the same upon the meeting of Parliament .
In 1694, an unfortunate occurrence took place, in which Anderson wasimplicated. In the month of October, Major Menzies, of Lord Lindsay’sregiment, then stationed in Glasgow , had an altercation with Mr. RobertPark, town clerk, and in a fit of passion stabbed him with a sword. Parkdied upon the spot, (it is said the magisterial bench,) and the major, whofled, vras followed by Anderson and two other persons ; and having takenrefuge in Renfield garden, upon his refusing to surrender, was there shot,it is said not by Anderson, hut certainly with his concurrence, and in hispresence. Anderson was not prosecuted criminally upon this occasion ;hut the relations and friends of Major Menzies instituted an action, theexpenses of defending which, namely, £295 Os. 9gd. sterling, were defrayedby the town. It is certain that Menzies’ conduct was of such a nature asfully to justify Provost Anderson, otherwise a prima facie view of thecase, might lead to the inference, that his proceedings had savoured too
they now exist in Glasgow , and fcom the numbers of individuals of the same name wlioare mentioned in them, without any distinctive designation. It was also the practice, afterthe establishment of Presbyterianism, for many individuals neither to record births normarriages in the registers. Added to all which, nearly the whole of the papers of theDowhill family were destroyed by an accidental fire, previous to 1754. The writer has, inconsequence, been frequently entirely baffled in his researches, and may have fallen intooccasional inaccuracies.—E d.
* See Wodrow ’s “History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland;” Glasgow ,1814.