James, I doubt if Wigan (which was a small village at the time) had a gaol as such - it's more likely that the prisoners were all locked up in the church (this practice is specifically mentioned in some histories of the rebellion). Unfortunately, the document isn't suitable for photocopying but I'm fairly confident of my reading - I took some trouble to compare the handwriting of this entry with others spelling out names that I knew. The only letter I have a lingering doubt about is the e in the middle. There is (or rather was) a place near Roxburgh called Sinles, but until I do some more research I don't know whether it was a single farm or what. I used the term Christian name because the document does the spelling sirname is also the original. It's not clear from the document whether Dunslapeness goes with the company or regimental name - I guess with the company & means Archibald McDonnell of Dunslapeness - it looks like a place-name, though where precisely I can't find as yet. He was surely anti-Campbell - Glencoe was 1692, so the hatred of the Campbells (who most certainly were blamed for the massacre by the pro-Stuart clans) had had time to develop fully. Religion certainly played its part in determining allegiances, but not always as simple as Catholic v. Presbyterian; often inter-clan rivalry or loyalty/disloyalty to the Stuarts was just as important. The spelling Margerybanks is odd - I havn't come across it before (or not at that early date). It doesn't seem to be the way George would have spelled his name but, as you point out, it's doubtful whether he would have pronounced it like that either, though some Scots do. But of course spelling was pretty arbitrary at that period - even Shakespeare (admittedly a century earlier) spelled his own name in several different ways! One other oddity about the document - the list is given twice in different hands - neither record is signed. There were a dozen servants listed together, from half a dozen different regiments - I don't think there is anything significant about this grouping except that it does show that there were some recognised as non-combatants; it doesn't seem to have done them any good! Unfortunately the documents which appear to record the actual court hearings are completely illegible, to me at any rate, and I very much doubt whether there would be any merit in paying a professional the vast fees it would take to go through the lot in the hope of discovering Geotge's trial. Roger