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Robert Bennet of Chesters was a 17th-century gentleman originating from the Scottish Borders. He was known as a prisoner from the Bass Rock. He was heavily fined, and repeatedly imprisoned on the island in the Firth of Forth for stating that he would not continue to attend open air church services. The main reason behind his detention in the Bass was his taking part in “armed conventicles.” However, other counts were preferred against him, such as refusing to wait upon the “preaching of the curates” and to forego the ministrations of one “John Welsh; a declared rebel and traitor.” He was fined the sum of four thousand merks Scots, and ordained to be carried to the Bass until he made payment thereof.[1]