Keppoch song

SUPPLEMENT. 205
employing Macintosh, and is disappointed
by the event. They, therefore, are the true
rebels, are chargeable for the blood shed
on that occasion. By the revolution of
1688, the properties of those in the south
of Scotland, who had been concerned with
Argyle in the Monmouth affair, and which
had been granted, by act of parliament, to
the duke of Gordon, were restored. In
this act, no mention is made of any grant
of Argyle's forfeiture. His grace claimed
Argyle's forfeiture by a grant, under the
great seal ; but it does not appear, by the
acts of his forfeiture and restoration, that
such a grant had been confirmed by parlia-
ment. It is highly probable, that no such
grant existed, or that it was a fabrication,
as it is to be supposed, that it would have
been mentioned and confirmed, in the act
of parliament, of his grants in the south.
At all events, it became null and void, by
the Marquis of Argyle's restoration *, and
* In the act of Argyle's forfeiture, mention is made of the
superiority of the lands held by the heirs of the late Lord
Macdonald. The writer supposes him to have been the ille*