This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...Coast property, was obliged in defence of that possession, and such of his tenants as adhered to him, to take up his residence at Lochcarron, and place a strong garrison in the Castle of Strome. The presence of the Maedonald garrison in their midst only tended, as might have been expected, to exasperate the men of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...Coast property, was obliged in defence of that possession, and such of his tenants as adhered to him, to take up his residence at Lochcarron, and place a strong garrison in the Castle of Strome. The presence of the Maedonald garrison in their midst only tended, as might have been expected, to exasperate the men of Wester Ross and provoke them to commit yet greater outrages on the adherents of Glengarry. Revolting accounts are given in the Mackenzie and other manuscripts of the reprisals on both sides, but as these are decidedly one-sided and greatly exaggerated, little reliance need be put upon them as evidence on either side There need be no doubt, however, that the feud between the Chiefs was carried on in a savage and bloody manner, and that little quarter was given on either side. Matters at length had assumed so alarming an aspect that Glengarry was obliged to invoke the interference of the executive Government. At a meeting, held at Dalkeith on August 10th, 1582, Glengarry appeared personally before the Privy Council with a complaint containing very serious charges against the Mackenzies. On the last day of February of the previous year, he alleges that "great slauchters, heirschippis and skaithis" were committed upon him. his kin, friends, and servants, which he estimated at six score thousand pounds Scots.1 Again, in the beginning of March, he was 1 Privy Council lieixirds. visited by Rory Mackenzie of Redcastle, brother of Kintail, and Dougal, Rory's brother, accompanied by two hundred persons "bod in with twa-handit swordis, bowes, darlochis, hagbuttis. pistolettis prohibite to be worne or usit, and other wappinis invasive." And finally, on the 16th of April, they came upon the complainer at Lochcarron, took him captive, and de...
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