[246] The Bishop of Galloway held this year a High Commission Court in
Galloway, in which, besides fining some gentlemen, and confining the
magistrates of Kirkcudbright to Wigtown, for matters of nonconformity,
he fined Gordon of Earlston for his absence, five hundred merks, and
banished him to Montrose. (Baillie's "Letters and Journals.") This, no
doubt, is the "new trial by the Bishop of Galloway," to which
Rutherford refers. See Letter LIX.