page_title: Patrick Anderson of Walston
section_title: Legal troubles
hierarchical_section_title: Patrick Anderson of Walston / Legal troubles
caption_attribution_description: English: Act against conventicles 8th May 1685. The Scottish Parliament on 8th May, 1685, have recorded the following&#160;: Our sovereign Lord, considering the obstinacy of the fanatical party who, notwithstanding all the laws formerly made against them, still keep their house and field conventicles, which are the nurseries and rendezvouses of rebellion&#160;; therefore His Majesty, with consent of Parliament, ordains that all such persons who shall hereafter preach at such house or field conventicles, also those who shall be present as hearers, shall be punished by death and confiscation of their goods.
context_page_description: Patrick Anderson of Walston was a 17th-century minister and Covenanter.
context_section_description: He was subsequently deprived of his post by Act of Parliament 11 June, and of Privy Council 1 October 1662. He was granted indulgence in Dreghorn or at Kilbirnie prior to 22 October 1674. 
  He was ejected for non-conformity in 1663. In September 1672, he was ordered by the council, under the Act of Indulgence, to repair to the parish of Kilbirnie, and there to remain confined, with permission to preach and to exercise the other parts of his ministerial function, — which order he did not obey. In 1673, he was called before the council, and ordered to his confinement. He stayed in Edinburgh at Potterrow for some years but was called before the Privy Council, on 3 April 1678, on a charge of having held conventicles at Boghall, Biggar, and in his house during the years 1674–1648, and of corresponding with John Welsh, Gabriel Semple, and other intercommuned persons such as Williamson and Johnston. He appeared and denied the charge. He was pronounced guilty and sentenced to imprisonment on the Bass, unless he found caution to the amount of 2000 merks, and agreed to remove from Edinburgh and not come within five and a half miles of the city, or converse with any persons but the members of his own family. He was sent to the Bass Rock on the Firth of Forth in Haddingtonshire in April 1678. He found the necessary security, and retired to Dalkeith, where he set up a meeting-house. He was released in July 1679.
  At the request of the Duchess of Buccleuch and Monmouth he was forbidden, and threatened with imprisonment. He returned to Walston before 6 July 1689. Anderson survived the Revolution, and on the ejection of Mr. John Kinked, an Episcopalian incumbent, he became minister of his old parish of Walston, where he laboured with great acceptance until he died. He was restored in 1689. He returned previous to 6 July 1689. He was restored by Act of Parliament 25 April 1690, and died 22 July following, aged about 63.
caption: The Scottish Parliament on 8th May, 1685, have recorded the following :  Our sovereign Lord, considering the obstinacy of the fanatical party who, notwithstanding all the laws formerly made against them, still keep their house and field conventicles, which are the nurseries and rendezvouses of rebellion; therefore His Majesty, with consent of Parliament, ordains that all such persons who shall  hereafter preach at such house or field conventicles, also those who shall be present as hearers, shall be  punished by death and confiscation of their goods.[4]
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