Historical account of the family of Frisel or Fraser, particularly Fraser of Lovat

122 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE
the bed, one man untying her shoes, and the Captain himself holding
burned feathers and acquavitae to her nose, she being in a swoon. The
girl was ordered to take off her ladyship's clothes, but she resisting,
Fraser of Kinmonavie held her up in his arms, and cut off her stays with
his dirk! Robert Munro, minister of Abertarffe, pronounced the marriage
ceremony, and the monsters who perpetrated this outrage, put the wait-
ing woman out of the room. The marriage was then consmnmated by
k Life and Adven- forcB." Her ladyship's cries were heard distinctly all over the court-yard,
tures of Lord Lovat, . i • n n • J '
39. although the bagpipes were playing all the time m the room next to
her's.*
Perhaps not the least remarkable incident in this remarkable case,
was the fact, eUcited on proof, that about Martinmas after the commis-
sion of these crimes, the herald left his charge against the Captain, &c.
in a cloven stick at the river side, opposite to the isle ofEagies ! The in-
dictment set forth, in addition to other acts of barbarity, that gallowses
were erected before the windows at Fanellan, to terrify Lord Saltoun
and his friend, and that they were afterwards carried by force to islands
and mountains,
• Ibid. These unparalleled proceedings excited universal horror and alarm.'
"Carstarcs- State Qn the 5th November 1697, Secretary Ogilvie writes to Mr Carstares i™
" The Frasers do commit great abuses, and Captain Fraser has now arriv-
ed to that pitch of insolence, as to detain my Lady Lovat, and to pretend
he is married to her ; in the meantime, she will neither eat nor drink,
tUl she is at liberty. Now all orders that are proper, are out against
them. This trouble, and some others that have occurred, do keep our
regiments as yet from being disbanded."
Government proceeded with active measures for the punishment of
the guilty. They were directed by Lord Tullibardine, who, concealing
private pique against Simon, and interested views upon the Lovat
p gg • Such was the usage of a woman, whom Lovat in his own " Memoirs,"* calls " a wi-
dow old enough to be his mother, dwarfith in her person, and deformed in her shape.''