Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey].

  • John Aubrey
Date:
1784
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    Leans, and feveral other ftraglers, had ftayed behind, commanded Major Aineas Mac Kay, with two troops of horfe after them; who finding the faid Mac Leans at Kinchardie, in the parifh of Luthel, chafed them up the Morfkaith: in which chafe Glencoe happened to be, and was hard put to it, as was foretold. What came of Archibald himfelf, I am not fure; I have not feen him fince, nor can I get a true account of him, only I know he is yet alive, and at that time one of my father’s men whom the red-coats meeting, compelled to guide them, within fight of the Mac Leans, found the faid Archibald’s horie within a mile of the place where I left him. Iam alfo in- formed, this Archibald faid to Glencoe, that he would be murdered in the night time in his own houfe three months before it hap- pened. Touching your third query, the objects of this knowledge, are not only fad and difmal, but alfo joyful and profperous: thus they foretell of happy marriages, good children, what kind of life men fhall live, and in “what condition they fhall die: and ‘riches, | honour,
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