CARGILL, DONALD Scottish Covenanter, was educated at Aberdeen and St. Andrews. In 1655 he was appointed to the Barony parish in Glasgow from which he was ejected in 1662. He ventured back to celebrate the Communion, and was arrested. but soon liberated. He was wounded at Both well Bridge, and fled to Holland, where he remained a few months. On his return he joined Richard Cameron in publishing the San quhar declaration, and excommunicated the king and his officials. He was apprehended, and brought to Edinburgh, where he was beheaded on July 27, 1681.