THE MEMOIRS

OF

WALTER PRINGLE.

ERRATUM.

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OF

WALTER PRINGL E,

OF GREEN KNOW;

OR SOME OF THE FREE MERCIES OF GOD TO HIM, AND
HIS WILL TO HIS CHILDREN, LEFT TO THEM UNDER
HIS OWN HAND.

EDITED BY THE

REV. WALTER WOOD, A.M.

WITH NOTES AND AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING AN

ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILIES OF GORDON AND SETON,
THE MOST ANCIENT POSSESSORS OF GREENKNOW;

AND ALSO OF THE

PRINGLES OF GALASHIELS, OF WHYTEBANK, OF STITCHEL,
OF GREENKNOW, OF TORWOODLEE, AND

HOMES OF BASSENDEAN.

EDINBURGH:

WILLIAM P. KENNEDY;

GLASGOW: D. BRYCE; KELSO: J. RUTHERFURD; JEDBURGH:
W. EASTON; GALASHIELS: BROCKIE & JAMIESON;
LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, & CO.

MDCCCXLVII.

PREFACE BY THE EDITOR.

THE epistle to the reader prefixed to the first edition of this little work, and which is here reprinted, renders it almost unnecessary to say anything farther in its recommendation. It contains the memoir of one who moved amid the trying scenes which Scotland witnessed in the latter half of the seventeenth century, and discloses the hidden life of the worthies who suffered during that age of persecution; showing that it was not mere political fervour, nor even attachment to a particular outward form of religion, but secret communion with God, which nerved their spirits for the conflicts in which they engaged, and enabled them to count the spoiling of their goods, nay, even the laying down of their lives, a little thing, when an opportunity offered of glorifying God by maintaining his truth.

While the editor was minister of the parish immediately adjoining to that in which Greenknow is situated, he was naturally led to take an interest in the history of Walter Pringle; and having met with a