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240 SUPPLEMENT.
ged, was such, that he saved the lives of
many soldiers of the army of his royal
highness the duke of Cumberland, who
having, in straggling or foraging parties*
been occasionally taken prisoners, would
have been put to death, in cold blood, by
the Highlanders, exasperated by the op-
pressions of pretending superiors and new
landlords, and whose property was sold,
to exclude restoration to innocent poste-
rity, though his eldest son was serving
as an officer in the army of the duke of
Cumberland, which obliged Mary, coun-
tess of Errol, the last of the name of Hay,
of that ancient and highly respectable fami-
ly, to bequeath to him, as a relation, her
property, and was thereby prevented from
exercising her benevolent intentions to-
wards another reduced famity, and who
vainly hoped, by wearing a Kilmarnock
bonnet, at the coronation of his present
Majesty, to excite compassion and atten-
tion, thereby imitating the partiality and
unequal justice of the iirst George, meanly
stoops to two subjects, undeserving in eve"
ry point of view, and dispenses with the ob
ged, was such, that he saved the lives of
many soldiers of the army of his royal
highness the duke of Cumberland, who
having, in straggling or foraging parties*
been occasionally taken prisoners, would
have been put to death, in cold blood, by
the Highlanders, exasperated by the op-
pressions of pretending superiors and new
landlords, and whose property was sold,
to exclude restoration to innocent poste-
rity, though his eldest son was serving
as an officer in the army of the duke of
Cumberland, which obliged Mary, coun-
tess of Errol, the last of the name of Hay,
of that ancient and highly respectable fami-
ly, to bequeath to him, as a relation, her
property, and was thereby prevented from
exercising her benevolent intentions to-
wards another reduced famity, and who
vainly hoped, by wearing a Kilmarnock
bonnet, at the coronation of his present
Majesty, to excite compassion and atten-
tion, thereby imitating the partiality and
unequal justice of the iirst George, meanly
stoops to two subjects, undeserving in eve"
ry point of view, and dispenses with the ob
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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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