From Government papers we are warranted to infer that field-meetings were held for some time regularly nearly every Sabbath during summer and winter on Lilliesleaf and Hassendean moors, Blackriddel hill, and other places in the neighbourhood.

Afterwards Bennet, who was around 35 years old at the time, made a personal covenant with God: "The Lord, who is rich in mercy to all that call on Him, by providence in my portion of Scripture that morning, did not leave me comfortless, but held forth the sweet promise of Isaiah chapter 55 verse 7, 'Let the wicked forsake his ways, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.'

Quhairunto as I could with heart and goodwill, I engaged, with my hands lifted up, to the Most High to forsake all my wicked ways; and, as He would enable, to devote myself to His feare; and solemlie vowes myself to be a Nazarite unto God; and earnestly beggs a heart to call Him my God and Father, and nocht depairt from His wayes, and mak me mindfull of my vowes, and enable me with strenth from above to perform the sam.

[4] In 1676, Robert Bennet of Chesters was declared an outlaw and had all his possessions seized due to the fact he had attended conventicles by John Blackadder and others.

He was heavily fined and repeatedly imprisoned on the island in the Firth of Forth for stating that he would not attend open air church services.

[10] Other counts were preferred against him, such as refusing to wait upon the "preaching of the curates" and to forego the ministrations of one "John Welsh; a declared rebel and traitor".