Historical and genealogical account of the Clan Maclean

CONTENTS.
for disbanding the royal army. — Montrose retires abroad.
— Commissioners sent to England to treat with the English
Parliament respecting the King. — The commissioners,
Campbell Marquess of Argyle, Campbell Earl of Loudon,
and the Earl of Dunfermline, bargain with the English
Parliament for the disposal of the King's person and other
conditions for ^400,000 ! — The King delivered up to his
English enemies. — Leslie and Argyle march into the
western isles and proceed against Sir Alexander Mac-
donald. — Capture of Colla-Kittoch ; his trial and execution.
— Invasion of Mull by Argyle and Leslie ; their conduct
there. — Argyle raises a process against the chief of Mac-
lean for public dues; obtains a decree against SirLachlan.
— Argyle uses the decree to his own purpose, and ulti-
mately manages to convert it into a debt due to himself. —
The chief of Maclean, on his way to Edinburgh, is inter-
cepted by a warrant from Argyle, and imprisoned in the
castle of Carrick for a debt due to Argyle ! — Death of Sir
Lachlan. - - - p. 118—153
CHAP. VI.
Effects of the disorganized state of the laws upon the high-
land clans. — Depreciations of the Campbells of Lorn and
Ardnamurchan upon the Macleans of Morvern Sir Hec-
tor Rufus, chief of the Macleans, complains to Argyle, but
without success ; he seizes two of the principal depre-
dators, whom he orders to be hanged — From Ardnamur-
chan Sir Hector marches into Lorn to make reprisals upon
the Campbells. — Argyle marches west from Inveraray to
meet the chief of Maclean ; interview between them on
Lochow-side. — Sir Hector acknowledges his father's bond
to Argyle, to account of which he at once pays .£10,000.
— Continuation of the feudal disturbances in the highlands
and isles.— -Sir Hector Maclean, while engaged in the
endeavour to suppress the disturbances around him, is
summoned by the king to join the royal army; he marches to
Stirling, and joins the royalists at the Torwood. — Lambert,