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... said that they did so by secret orders from King James , who having penetrated the designs of Stair , directed the chiefs to comply with the proclamation , rather than incur an attack which they had CHAP . LVIII . ] 3 MASSACRE OF GLENCOE .
... said that they did so by secret orders from King James , who having penetrated the designs of Stair , directed the chiefs to comply with the proclamation , rather than incur an attack which they had CHAP . LVIII . ] 3 MASSACRE OF GLENCOE .
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... directing the mode of executing the King's orders , betray the deep and savage interest which he took personally in their tenor , and his desire that the bloody measure should be as general as possible . He dwelt in these letters upon ...
... directing the mode of executing the King's orders , betray the deep and savage interest which he took personally in their tenor , and his desire that the bloody measure should be as general as possible . He dwelt in these letters upon ...
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... directing him to take four hundred men of a High- land regiment belonging to the Earl of Argyle , and fulfil the royal mandate . Thus , to make what was intended yet worse , if possible , than it was in its whole tenor , the ...
... directing him to take four hundred men of a High- land regiment belonging to the Earl of Argyle , and fulfil the royal mandate . Thus , to make what was intended yet worse , if possible , than it was in its whole tenor , the ...
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... directing that all the MacDonalds , under seventy years of age , were to be cut off , and that the Go- vernment was not to be troubled with prisoners . Duncanson's orders to Glenlyon were as follows : " You are hereby ordered to fall ...
... directing that all the MacDonalds , under seventy years of age , were to be cut off , and that the Go- vernment was not to be troubled with prisoners . Duncanson's orders to Glenlyon were as follows : " You are hereby ordered to fall ...
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... directed not to inform even the firing party , who were warned that the signal to fire would be the waving of a white handkerchief by the commanding officer . When all was prepared , and the clergyman had left the prisoner on his knees ...
... directed not to inform even the firing party , who were warned that the signal to fire would be the waving of a white handkerchief by the commanding officer . When all was prepared , and the clergyman had left the prisoner on his knees ...
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Act of Security advantage Argyle's arms arrived Athole attack betwixt body Britain called castle cause Chevalier de St chiefs Church clans command considerable court crown Darien disposed Duke of Argyle Duke of Hamilton Earl of Mar Edinburgh enemy engaged England English escape estates expected favour force Forster France Fraser friends frith gentlemen Glencoe Government Highlanders honour hopes horse House House of Hanover hundred Huntly insurgents insurrection Jacobite James James II join Kenmure kingdom land Lord Lowland MacIntosh Mar's army massacre of Glencoe Master of Sinclair measure ment military ministers nation occasion Parliament party peers person Perth political possessed Prince prisoners proposed purpose Queen Anne rank rebels received regiment Scotland Scots Scottish members Seaforth secure seemed sent soldiers squadron St George Stair Stewart Stirling succession sword thousand tion took Tories town treason treaty of Union troops Whigs
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Page 7 - I do not come to you at four, you are not to tarry for me, but fall on. This is by the King's special command, for the good and safety of the country, that these miscreants be cut off root and branch. See that this be put...
Page 266 - I'll put it in execution, let my loss be what it will, that it may be an example to others. You are to tell the gentlemen that I expect them in their best accoutrements on horseback, and no excuse to be accepted of.
Page 3 - As for Mac Ian of Glencoe and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished from the other Highlanders, it will be proper, for the vindication of public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves.
Page 78 - For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way : because we had spoken unto the king, saying, " The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him ; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.
Page 248 - To drive the deer with hound and horn Earl Percy took his way ; The child may rue that is unborn The hunting of that day.
Page 12 - The hand that mingled in the meal, At midnight drew the felon steel, And gave the host's kind breast to feel Meed for his hospitality! The friendly hearth which...
Page 12 - ... the evening preceding the slaughter ; and had he reached the eastern passes out of Glencoe by four in the morning, as he calculated, he must have intercepted and destroyed all those who took that only way of escape from Glenlyon and his followers. But as this reinforcement arrived so late as eleven in the forenoon, they found no MacDonald alive in Glencoe, save an old man of eighty, whom they slew ; and after burning such houses as were...
Page iv - Maclan was repeatedly heard to say, he dreaded mischief from no man so much as from the Earl of Breadalbane. Yet this unhappy chief was rash enough to stand out to the last moment, and decline to take advantage of King William's indemnity, till the time appointed by the proclamation was wellnigh expired. The displeasure of the Earl of Breadalbane seems speedily to have communicated itself to the Master of Stair, who, in his correspondence with...
Page 7 - You are to have especial care that the old fox and his cubs do on no account escape your hands ; you are to secure all the avenues, that no man escape. This you are to put in execution at...
Page 3 - Glencoe and his tribe would be sheltered under this mitigation of the intended severities, since he had already come in and tendered his allegiance, without waiting for the menace of military force. A second set of instructions were, therefore, made out on the 16th January. These held out the same indulgence to other clans, who should submit themselves at the very last hour (a hypocritical pretext, for.