Papers Illustrative of the Political Condition of the Highlands of Scotland, from the Year M.DC.LXXXIX to M.DC.XCXI.James M'Conechy |
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Page 121 - M'Ean of Glencoe and that tribe can be well separated from the rest, it will be a proper vindication of the public justice to extirpate that set of thieves.
Page 37 - OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We charge you strictly, and command, that incontinent, these Our Letters seen, ye pass to the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh, and...
Page 129 - I have no great kindness to Kippoch nor Glenco, and it is well that people are in mercy, and then just now my Lord Argyle tells me, that Glenco hath not taken the oath, at which I rejoice. It is a great work of charity to be exact in rooting out that damnable sect, the worst of the Highlands.
Page 114 - Edinburgh in the said month of January; and that those who advised the not presenting thereof were in the wrong, and...
Page 117 - The report of the commissioners upon the inquiry, laid before the king and parliament: and the address of the parliament to King William, for justice upon the murderers: Faithfully extracted from the records of parliament, and publish'd for undeceiving those who have been impos'd upon by false accounts.
Page 51 - I have satisfied the king on these points, that his share is 1500 1. sterling; and that he, nor none of them, can get the money if Argyll consent not; for that destroys all that is good in the settlement, which is to take away grounds of hereditary feuds...
Page 107 - Glenlyon to be saved, he was likewise shot " dead: and in the same town there was a " woman and a boy about four or five years of " age killed : and at Auchnaion there was also " a child missed, and nothing found of him but
Page 58 - And in another letter, written only two days afterwards, he says — " It is the only time that they cannot escape you, for human constitution cannot endure to be long out of houses. This is the proper season to maule them in the cold long nights.
Page 50 - God knows whether the 12,0001. sterling had been better employed to settle the Highlands, or to ravage them; but, since we will make them desperate, I think we should root them out before they can get that help they depend upon.
Page 130 - Take notice, that the instructions are countersigned WR at bottom as well as top, which is not usual ; for it is the Secretary's office to countersign the king's orders; and the reason is, that if any thing be amiss, the Secretary must be answerable.