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Robert Bennet of Chesters was a 17th-century gentleman from the Scottish Borders. He 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. The chief reason of his detention in the Bass was his taking part in “armed conventicles.” But 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.” He was fined the sum of four thousand merks Scots, and ordained to be carried to the Bass until he made payment thereof.[1]
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.[2] The conventicles took place on Lilliesleaf moor.[3] He was married to Anna Douglas.
References
- ^ Dickson, John (1899). Emeralds chased in Gold; or, the Islands of the Forth: their story, ancient and modern. [With illustrations.]. Edinburgh and London: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier. pp. 202–203. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ 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: 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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