Scotland/Scots > Life and exploits of Rob Roy MacGregor

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Grabaffl of Killearn, . under cireum-
5 stances of the utmost indignity and bar-
I barity. When M'Gregor returnad, and
beheld his destitute family, his soul was
filled with rage, and he determined to
take revenge on the authors of his mis¬
fortunes. His first act of hostility a-
gainst Montrose was at a term, when fee
knew the tenantry of that nobleman
wer£ to pay their rents. He and his men
called upon them, and obliged them to
give him the money, for which, how¬
ever, he granted them acknowledge¬
ments, ‘ that it wras received on account
of Montrose.’
In this ccmpulsitory manner he levied
the rents from the tenants for several
years ; and Montrose, conscious, per-
I haps, that he had taken undue advan*
; tsge of I^ob Roy, seemed to overlook
the matter until a subsequent occasion,
: when the factor was collecting his rents
at Chappellaroch in Stirlingshire. Rob
Roy had given out some days before by
proclamation at the church door, that he
had gene to Ireland ; and the factor
consequently concluded that he would
meet with no interruption in Ids duty.
Towards evening, however, Rob Roy
placed his men in a wood in the neigh¬
bourhood, anti went himself, with his