An Act of Indemnity of 14 August 1679 discharged many
of the prisoners taken at Bothwell Brig. But there
remained a hard core of about 300 dissenters who refused
to give a Bond for their future good behaviour and
loyalty. Some troublemakers, Robert Garnock among them
were executed. The persons considered to be ringleaders at
Bothwell Brig were proclaimed and ordered banished, to be
sent as slaves to the Colonies (in the West Indies and
America ). The 257 prisoners were embarked on the “Crown “
and set out on 27 November 1679. 211 of them drowned
off Deerness, Orkney Isles on 10 December 1679 ; the
survivors are marked *.

NOTE: 49 were known to have
survived in which case 208 perished. But such were records
in those days it is impossible to be certain.

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