The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott...R. Cadell, 1847 |
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... took the oath of allegiance to King William , and by doing so put themselves one by one out of danger , the greater became the anxiety of the Master of Stair to find some legal flaw for excluding some of the Lochaber clans from the ...
... took the oath of allegiance to King William , and by doing so put themselves one by one out of danger , the greater became the anxiety of the Master of Stair to find some legal flaw for excluding some of the Lochaber clans from the ...
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... and charged MacIan with a theft of cattle , committed upon some of his lands by a party from Glencoe . Other causes of offence took place , in which old feuds were called to recollection ; and CHAP . LVIII . ] 5 MASSACRE OF GLENCOE .
... and charged MacIan with a theft of cattle , committed upon some of his lands by a party from Glencoe . Other causes of offence took place , in which old feuds were called to recollection ; and CHAP . LVIII . ] 5 MASSACRE OF GLENCOE .
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... took personally in their tenor , and his desire that the bloody measure should be as general as possible . He dwelt in these letters upon the proper time and season for cutting off the devoted tribe . " The winter , " he said , " is the ...
... took personally in their tenor , and his desire that the bloody measure should be as general as possible . He dwelt in these letters upon the proper time and season for cutting off the devoted tribe . " The winter , " he said , " is the ...
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... took place in winter , when the air was cool and temperate ; but with the summer returned the heat , and with the heat came the diseases of a tropical climate . Those who had reported so favourably of the climate of Darien , had ...
... took place in winter , when the air was cool and temperate ; but with the summer returned the heat , and with the heat came the diseases of a tropical climate . Those who had reported so favourably of the climate of Darien , had ...
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... took possession of the deserted settlement with sad anticipations , and were not long in expe- riencing the same miseries which had destroyed and dispersed their predecessors . Two months after , they were joined by Campbell of Finab ...
... took possession of the deserted settlement with sad anticipations , and were not long in expe- riencing the same miseries which had destroyed and dispersed their predecessors . Two months after , they were joined by Campbell of Finab ...
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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.