Robert Gillespie (preacher)

His mother was Margaret Murray, who had £1000 sterling voted by Parliament immediately after George's death, for the support of herself and family, but, owing to the distractions of the time, it was never paid.

[1] He was probably licensed by some of the "outed ministers," as a statement in the Records of the Privy Council speaks of him as "preaching upon a pretended unlawful licence."

[2] It is recorded that "Robert Gillespie, an irregular preacher "at the horn", was taken after a conventicle at Falkland, and on 2nd April sent by the Privy Council to the Bass to be immured.

[5] On 6 August 1675, letters of inter-communing were issued against Gillespie and the individuals who along with him had been denounced rebels the preceding year; prohibiting all "to reset, supply, or inter-commune with any of the foresaid persons our rebels, for the causes foresaid, nor furnish them with meat, drink, house, harbour, victual, nor any other thing useful or comfortable to them, nor have intelligence with them by word, writ, or message, or any other manner of way, under pain to be reputed and esteemed art and part with them in the crimes foresaid, and pursued therefor with all rigour to the terror of others and requiring all sheriffs and other officers of the crown, and magistrates, to apprehend any of the persons intercommuned, whom they shall find within their respective jurisdictions, and to commit them to prison.

He continues that it is interesting to know that his son George became minister of the parish of Strathmiglo, in Fife, after the Revolution, and was the friend of the celebrated Ebenezer Erskine.