Robert Bennet of Chesters
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Robert Bennet of Chesters is best known as a prisoner on the Bass Rock. He was repeatedly fined heavily and imprisoned on the island in the Firth of Forth for refusing to say that he would not continue to attend open air church services.
Chesters or Grange lies on the banks of the Teviot and is close to the town of Ancrum in Roxburghshire.
In 1676 he was declared an outlaw and had all his goods confiscated because he had attended conventicles by John Blackadder and others.[1] The conventicles took place on Lilliesleaf moor.[2] He was married to Anna Douglas.
References
- ^ Jeffrey, Alexander (1855). The history and antiquities of Roxburghshire and adjacent districts, from the most remote period to the present time (Vol 2 ed.). Jedburgh [Scotland]: W. Easton. pp. 366–368. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- ^ M'Crie, Thomas, D.D. the younger (1847). The Bass rock: Its civil and ecclesiastic history. Edinburgh: J. Greig & Son. pp. 203–216. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
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