Keppoch song
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SUPPLEMENT. 23?
from other circumstances, not to have been
a man inhumane and unfeeling; therefore
this second and final depression may be
ascribed to high authority. It is not to be
supposed that the writer brings forward
these inquisitorial and persecuting pro.
ceedings, with a view to defamation and'
aspersion; for it ever has been the prac-
tice of usurpers to secure themselves, by
inflicting death natural as well as political
upon the former possessors, when in their
power, crime begetting crime. To cite
examples is unnecessary. The next and
last trial is in 1760. " The duke of Athol
against the Lord Advocate, claiming part
of the estate of Perth, as superior, in virtue
of the clan act. It was a matter of doubt
whether the clan act extended to forfei-
tures on occasion of 1745. By this act of
1 Geo. I. it was provided that if any sub-
ject of Great Britain, holding lands of
a subject superior in Scotland, shall be
guilty of the treasons therein mentioned,
and shall be thereof duly convicted and
attainted, his lands holding of any subject
superior in Scotland, shall recognosce to
from other circumstances, not to have been
a man inhumane and unfeeling; therefore
this second and final depression may be
ascribed to high authority. It is not to be
supposed that the writer brings forward
these inquisitorial and persecuting pro.
ceedings, with a view to defamation and'
aspersion; for it ever has been the prac-
tice of usurpers to secure themselves, by
inflicting death natural as well as political
upon the former possessors, when in their
power, crime begetting crime. To cite
examples is unnecessary. The next and
last trial is in 1760. " The duke of Athol
against the Lord Advocate, claiming part
of the estate of Perth, as superior, in virtue
of the clan act. It was a matter of doubt
whether the clan act extended to forfei-
tures on occasion of 1745. By this act of
1 Geo. I. it was provided that if any sub-
ject of Great Britain, holding lands of
a subject superior in Scotland, shall be
guilty of the treasons therein mentioned,
and shall be thereof duly convicted and
attainted, his lands holding of any subject
superior in Scotland, shall recognosce to
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| Description | A poem in five cantos: being the origin and history of the family, alias Donald, Lord of the Isles, carried down to its extinction, with a continuation of the family of Keppoch; the whole combined with the history of Scotland, with notes and references, and concluding with an analysis of the Scotch acts of Parliament, relative to the Douglas association; and an address to His Royal Highness the prince regent. By John Paul Macdonald. Montrose : Printed for the author by J. Watt, 1815. |
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| Description | A selection of almost 400 printed items relating to the history of Scottish families, mostly dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes memoirs, genealogies and clan histories, with a few produced by emigrant families. The earliest family history goes back to AD 916. |
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