Volume 1
Domestic annals of Scotland : from the reformation to the revolution / by Robert Chambers.
- Robert Chambers
- Date:
- 1858-1861
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Domestic annals of Scotland : from the reformation to the revolution / by Robert Chambers. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![death against the Marquis of Huntly, and for this serviee they wm. had obtained eertain lands from the Moray family. Now, that the Earl of Moray was reconeiled with Huntly, he did not see any occasion longer to patronise or favour the Macintoshes; so he attempted to remove them from the lands formerly conferred upon them. 'This the Clan Chattan could hardly endure,’ says Sir Robert Gordon: about Whitsuntide, assembling five hundred men under their infant chief’s uncle, Lachlan Macintosh [after- wards, by the by, a stout loyalist in the Ci\Tl War], ' they keepit the fields in their Higldand weed upon foot, with swords, bows, arrows, targets, hagbuts, pistols, and other Highland arms, and first began to rob and spulyie the earl’s tenants (who laboured their' possessions) of their haill goods, geir, insight pleuishing [household furnitnre], horse, nolt, sheep, corns, and cattle, and left them nothing that they could get within their bounds; syne fell in sorning throughout Moray, Stratherrick, Urquhart, Ross, Sutherland, Brae of Mar, and divers other parts, taking their meat and food perforce where they could not get it willingly, frae fnends as well as frae their foes, yet still kept themselves from shedding of innocent blood.’ The Earl of Moray first brought a band of Monteith Highlanders against these marauders; but the expedition seems to have failed. Another enterprise of the same kind was no more successful. It was not tiU he went to London, and procured a power of lieutenancy in the north from the king, that he brought the Macintoshes to subjection. The affair had a very charaeteristic ending. ' Some slight loons [poor fellows], foRowers of the Clan Chattan, were execute; but the principal outbreakers and male- factors were spared and never troubled.’ Further, the 'honest men’ who had disobeyed the order for refusing aU supply to the IMacIntoshes, being put to trial, the odd scene was presented of the criminals standing as witnesses against them; and while these culprits obtained pardon, their humane resetters ' Avere soundly fined in as great sums as their estates might bear, and some above their estates were fined, and every one warded within the Tolbooth of Elgin, till the last mite was paid.’—Spal. ' The fines were granted by his majesty to the Earl of Moray, as the fines for resetting the Clan Gregor were given to the Earl of Argyle; but these fines did not much advantage either of these tivo earls.’ —G. H. S. Dissent from the ' comely order ’ of church matters was still Jdnb lo.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24886658_0001_0559.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
