The story takes place immediately after the capture of Marion Linton and her family. In the story, Walter Laidlaw is said to have rented Chapelhope from the laird of Drummelzier. John Hay worked for the Linton or Laidlaws of Chapelhope. Hogg says the shepherd lived at Muchra (see above).Ī little background. However, its historical setting is before mid June, 1685, as it mentions the Argyll and Monmouth Risings in the middle of that year. However, the background to Hogg’s story was probably derived from interviews before the Privy Council in Edinburgh found in Cloud of Witnesses and field interviews found in Wodrow’s History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland. Shepherds were interviewed by army officers for the information they held about fugitive Society people/Covenanters. It is about John Graham of Claverhouse interviewing Old John Hay, a shepherd in Muchra, about a field preaching by James Renwick and who had killed some soldiers near the Yarrow Valley. Muchra © Anthony Parkes and licensed for reuse.
James Hogg’s The Brownie of Bodsbeck (1818) contains one of my favourite stories based on the Killing Times of 1685.
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