Genealogie of the Hayes of Tweeddale

GENEALOGIE OF THE HAYES. 125
Since I could not get paper to write so full an account as this, I thought
it no sin to deceive her, and I burnt two papers before her, and bade her
tell the minister now to be easy. I am not sure who of my kin and
friends is dead, or who is alive ; but I beg whosoever hands this comes
first to, to cause write it over in a fair hand, and to shew it to all my
friends.' 1
The following notices are written at the end of the narrative : —
" Grant had his felows.
" Scoto's wife, aunt to Roderick Macleod, his fathers sister.
" There sprang a leek in the sloop ; we were in great danger.
" One of Lord Lovat's lyes which he said to John Macleod the young
man of Dynwick, that I was going to kill my husband — you know that
a lye.
" Sir Alexander Macdonald, at any time he wrote about me, the
name he gave me was the Carop.
" I hear that Alexander Macdonald in the Hesker is dead. His wife
is since married Logan Macdonald her tenant to Clanranald. She knows
it was Lord Lovat and Roderick Macleod that stole me.
" The Minister's dauer saw me taken out of Mrs. Margaret Maclean's
house by Roderick Macleod — and he told Lady Macleod he said."
This Roderick Macleod was Macleod of Muiravonside, who, it was
well known, acted the principal part in the barbarous scene described by
the sufferer.
From the above cm*ious document, it appears that Lady Grange was
at St. Kilda nine years after she was taken from Edinburgh. When the
author of the notice which precedes the narrative was at St. Kilda, in the
year 1800, he was informed by an old man, who remembered having
seen Lady Grange, that she had been seven or eight years on that island.
On making enquiry respecting what happened afterwards to this ill-fated