 | Trials - 1816 - 750 pages
...have no retreat intHfeir bounds, the passes to Ronoch would be secured. " As for Mac- Jan of Glenco and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished...public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves. " WR" " This was directed to sir Thomas Levingstou and colonel Hill. And the parliament has voted that... | |
 | Elizabeth Isabella Spence - Highlands (Scotland) - 1817 - 744 pages
...Order is thus given in the Memoirs of the Massacre of Glenco: " WILLIAM R. " As for Mackean of Glenco and that tribe, if they can be " well distinguished...public justice, to extirpate '' that set of thieves. " WR" " This was directed to Sir Thomas Levingston and Colo" nel Hill. And the parliament has voted... | |
 | Larkin - Caledonian Canal (Scotland) - 1819 - 372 pages
...of the Masgacre of Glenco: " WILLIAM R. " As for Mackean of Glenco and that tribe, if they can be 11 well distinguished from the rest of the Highlanders,...public justice, to extirpate " that set of thieves. " WR" " This was directed to Sir Thomas Levingston and Colo-. " nelHill. And the parliament has voted... | |
 | William Beattie - 1838 - 336 pages
...; and that, " if the tribe of Glenco could be separated from the rest of the Highlanders, it would be proper for the vindication of public justice to extirpate that set of thieves !"* For the execution of this barbarous edict, care was taken to employ a detachment from the regiment... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English drama - 1846 - 278 pages
...who had already done all that was required of others. The words are remarkable :— " As for Mac Ian of Glencoe, and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished...those who needed it not (for all the other Highlanders hod submitted within the limited time), and deny it to Glencoe, the only man who had not been able... | |
 | Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland - Queens - 1847 - 492 pages
...producing the following warrant : — " WILLIAM R.1 " As for the M'Donalds of Glencoe, if they can well be distinguished from the rest of the Highlanders, it...of public justice to extirpate that set of thieves. WR" This extermination, which was extended in intention to the Frasers, and other clans in the Highlands,... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1847 - 466 pages
...As for the M'Donalds of Glencoe, if they can well be distinguished from the rest of the Higblanders, it will be proper for the vindication of public justice to extirpate that set of thieves. WR" This extermination, which was extended in intention to the Frasers, and other clans in the Highlands,... | |
 | Henry White - 1850 - 168 pages
...obtained to documents, by which the inhabitants of Glencoe were to be sacrificed on the ground that " it will be proper, for the vindication of public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves." In the secretary's letter of instructions it was laid down that the best time for the attack was "... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English drama - 1852 - 392 pages
...who had already done all that was required of others. The words are remarkable:— "As for Mac Ian of Glencoe, and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished...public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves." comply with the proclamation, though, in all fair construction, he had done what it required. Under... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Covenanters - 1852 - 274 pages
...Glencoe, in the following words: — "As for Maclan of Glencoe, and that tribe, if they can well be distinguished from the rest of the highlanders, it...public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves." In order to procure such savage and wholly needless proclamations (for be it observed all the highlanders,... | |
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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. 
