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182 ADDERSS.
ness, were equally innocent and ignorant,
and from whom he of course could expect
no redress, those who were most active in
the changes of government, being those
who were in possession of what his ances-
tors had been unjustly deprived, and who
were eager for changes to support and
serve their own selfish ends.
As by the clemency and goodness of his
Majesty, who has been the merciful father
of his people, and the legislature, the for-
feited properties were all restored thirty
years ago, my grand uncle's lands of Kep-
poch alone excepted ; may I, in the name
and behalf of my poor aged mother, his repre-
sentative, most humbly prostrate myself at
the footstool of his Majesty's throne, most
humbly imploring his and your most gra^
cious pardon and forgiveness, for the only
act chargeable against the ancient and un-
fortunate family of Keppoch, and for which
the gratuitous service rendered to govern-
ment by my great grandfather Coll Mac-
donald of Keppoch, in 1691, may be said
to be a balance.
1 am aware, that the tenants on the lands
ness, were equally innocent and ignorant,
and from whom he of course could expect
no redress, those who were most active in
the changes of government, being those
who were in possession of what his ances-
tors had been unjustly deprived, and who
were eager for changes to support and
serve their own selfish ends.
As by the clemency and goodness of his
Majesty, who has been the merciful father
of his people, and the legislature, the for-
feited properties were all restored thirty
years ago, my grand uncle's lands of Kep-
poch alone excepted ; may I, in the name
and behalf of my poor aged mother, his repre-
sentative, most humbly prostrate myself at
the footstool of his Majesty's throne, most
humbly imploring his and your most gra^
cious pardon and forgiveness, for the only
act chargeable against the ancient and un-
fortunate family of Keppoch, and for which
the gratuitous service rendered to govern-
ment by my great grandfather Coll Mac-
donald of Keppoch, in 1691, may be said
to be a balance.
1 am aware, that the tenants on the lands
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| Description | A poem in five cantos: being the origin and history of the family, alias Donald, Lord of the Isles, carried down to its extinction, with a continuation of the family of Keppoch; the whole combined with the history of Scotland, with notes and references, and concluding with an analysis of the Scotch acts of Parliament, relative to the Douglas association; and an address to His Royal Highness the prince regent. By John Paul Macdonald. Montrose : Printed for the author by J. Watt, 1815. |
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| Description | A selection of almost 400 printed items relating to the history of Scottish families, mostly dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes memoirs, genealogies and clan histories, with a few produced by emigrant families. The earliest family history goes back to AD 916. |
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