Account of the depredations committed on the clan Campbell and their followers, during the years 1685 and 1686, by the troops of the Duke of Gordon, Marquis of Athol, Lord Strathnaver, and others

INTRODUCTION. ix
i ment were universally distrusted ; and the attachment
' of his protestant subjects was dissolved.' *
After the death of Argyle, the troops of the Duke
of Gordon, the Marquis of Athole, and Strathnaver, in-
cluding their plundering attendants, committed cruel ra-
vages on the estates and tenantry of the county of Ar-
gyle, of which the following is a particular enumeration.
The author we are at a loss to name with a degree of cer-
tainty ; however, we may presume to say, (from p. 31.
line 7 from the bottom, and p. 36. line 13. from the top,) it
has been drawn up by a son of Mr William Ewing of Ber-
nice, who probably held some part of the adjoining estate
of Belzie, as well as part of his father's lands in lease.
From the minuteness of its execution, it appears to
have been done with a view to be presented to par-
liament, for a remuneration of the losses sustain-
ed, and most probably about the time the title and es-
tates were restored to the late Earl's son, which was the
1st of August 1689, or at least on that day it received
the royal assent.
* Laing, vol. IV. pages 168, 169.
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