Cargill

Cargill, DONALD, one of the heroes of the Covenant, was born about 1619 at Rattray in Perthshire. He studied at Aberdeen and St Andrews, and in 1655 was ordained minister of the Barony parish in Glasgow. Deprived of his benefice for denouncing the Restoration, he became an indefatigable field preacher, fought at Bothwell Bridge, and took part with Richard Cameron in the famous Sanquhar declaration (1680). Alone, in the same year, he solemnly excommunicated the king, the Duke of York, and others at Torwood, Stirlingshire. A large reward was now offered for his capture. He was soon seized, and suffered with triumphant courage at the cross of Edinburgh, July 17, 1681.