Reverend Angus McBean

[3] Becoming doubtful as to Episcopacy, he "inveighed against the sins and errors of his time, particularly against Popery, with great judgment, zeal, and boldness," and on 23 October 1687, he preached a memorable sermon (from Job xxxiv.,31, 32)[4] in which he recanted his former opinions and demitted his charge, "some of his hearers being angry, and some surprised, but those who received most good of his ministry were all in tears."

He now actively joined the Presbyterians and conducted services in private houses and in the open air, and, returning to Inverness, gathered round him a large congregation.

[1] Having gone to Edinburgh, he was apprehended, brought before the Privy Council, and after a brief term of imprisonment (from 1 December) was permitted to return home, Duncan Forbes of Culloden giving bail to a large amount that he would answer when called.

Boldly avowing his change of creed and refusing to return to Episcopacy, he was deposed and committed to the Tolbooth, where he lay for most of the year, Forbes of Culloden and Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, Bart., vainly offering 10,000 merks (£555, lis.

[1] In December the prison was broken open by a party of Presbyterian sympathisers and he was set at liberty, but the rigours of imprisonment had so told on his constitution that he died within two months, in February 1689.