Account of the depredations committed on the clan Campbell and their followers, during the years 1685 and 1686, by the troops of the Duke of Gordon, Marquis of Athol, Lord Strathnaver, and others

ing the orders of William III, entered, and forced Mr M* Arthur, the Epis-
copal clergyman, from his pulpit, and locked the church door. None of
that persuasion in the Highlands could he prevailed upon to acknowledge
King "William, but as a base and unnatural usurper ; and the massacre of
Glenco, committed by his knowledge and authority, in 1692, has thrown a
stain on his reign and memory in the eyes of posterity. During his reign
of thirteen years, said my old relative, the frost was so intense, that, in the
months of May, the usual period for casting the peats, which they burn as
fuel in those parts, the moss was so frozen that the spade could not pene-
trate ; but on the happy accession of Queen Anne, the heat of the sun
during that summer became so great, as to kindle the moss-covered moun-
tains of Morven.
I am,
SIR,
Your most humble Servant,
(Signed) JOHN BROWN.
Edinburgh, 1
13th March 1816.3