These are two of our black sheep. {3a} Under the Restoration, one
Stevenson was a bailie in Edinburgh, and another the lessee of the
Canonmills. There were at the same period two physicians of the
name in Edinburgh, one of whom, Dr. Archibald, appears to have been
a famous man in his day and generation. The Court had continual
need of him; it was he who reported, for instance, on the state of
Rumbold; and he was for some time in the enjoyment of a pension of
a thousand pounds Scots (about eighty pounds sterling) at a time
when five hundred pounds is described as 'an opulent future.' I do
not know if I should be glad or sorry that he failed to keep
favour; but on 6th January 1682 (rather a cheerless New Year's
present) his pension was expunged. {4a} There need be no doubt, at
least, of my exultation at the fact that he was knighted and
recorded arms. Not quite so genteel, but still in public life,
Hugh was Under-Clerk to the Privy Council, and liked being so
extremely. I gather this from his conduct in September 1681, when,
with all the lords and their servants, he took the woful and soul-
destroying Test, swearing it 'word by word upon his knees.' And,
behold! it was in vain, for Hugh was turned out of his small post
in 1684. {4b} Sir Archibald and Hugh were both plainly inclined to
be trimmers; but there was one witness of the name of Stevenson who
held high the banner of the Covenant--John, 'Land-Labourer, {4c} in
the parish of Daily, in Carrick,' that 'eminently pious man.' He
seems to have been a poor sickly soul, and shows himself disabled
with scrofula, and prostrate and groaning aloud with fever; but the
enthusiasm of the martyr burned high within him.

'I was made to take joyfully the spoiling of my goods, and with
pleasure for His name's sake wandered in deserts and in mountains,
in dens and caves of the earth. I lay four months in the coldest