MCDOWALL, Sir James (d. 1661), of Garthland, Stoneykirk, Wigtownshire.

Local: sheriff, Galloway 1642. 31 Dec. 1655Young, Parliaments of Scot. ii. 451. Commr. assessment, Wigtownshire and Kircudbright, 26 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660.Acts Parl. Scot. vi. pt. 2, p. 841; A. and O.

Religious: elder, presbytery of Stranraer, gen. assembly, 1642.Young, Parliaments of Scot. ii. 451.

Military: col. of horse, Scottish army, 1643, 1648.Young, Parliaments of Scot. ii. 451.

Scottish: commr. Wigtownshire, convention of estates, 1643; loan and tax, 1643. Member, cttee. of war, 1643 – 48, 1651; cttee. of estates, 1644 – 48, 1651. Commr. Wigtownshire, Scottish Parl. 1644 – 47, 1648; plantation of kirks, 1644. Member, cttee. for peace propositions with king, 1644. Negotiator with king, 1646–7. Agent in Ulster, Feb. 1646, May 1648.Young, Parliaments of Scot. ii. 450; Government of Scot. under the Covenanters ed. D. Stevenson (Edinburgh, 1982), 38n, 58, 82. Dep. Wigtownshire, tender of union, Feb. 1652, Oct. 1653.Cromwellian Union ed. Terry, pp. xxxv, xliv, 38; R. Landrum, ‘Recs. Anglo-Scottish Union Negotiations, 1652–3‘, Scot. Hist. Soc. Misc. xv. 197. Commr. claims, ordinance of grace and pardon, 12 Apr. 1654, 16 Apr. 1656;A. and O.; CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 279. excise, customs and sequestrations, Sept. 1655;TSP iv. 48. security of protector, Scotland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Civic: burgess and guildbrother, Edinburgh 31 Oct. 1655.Roll of Edinburgh Burgesses, ed. C.B.B. Watson (Edinburgh, 1929), 325.