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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 - And we, with advyce forsaid, requyre and command all judges and ministers of our law, to interpret this indemnity in the most favourable and ample maner, prohibiting and discharging them to call in questione any of the persones forsaids, who shall take the benefite hereof, in manner abovementioned, for any of the crymes above wryten in tyme coming. Our will is, therfore, and we charge yow 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 72 - ... with a stronger party. If I do not come to you at five, you are not to tarry for me, but to 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.
Page 114 - Edinburgh in the said month of January; and that those who advised the not presenting thereof were in the wrong, and...
Page 66 - But in his letter of the 16th of January, of the same date with the additional instructions, though he writes in the first part of the letter, " the king does not at all incline to receive any after the diet, but on mercy," yet he thereafter adds, "but for a just example of vengeance, I entreat the thieving tribe of Glenco may be rooted out to purpose.
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 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.