Keppoch song

SUPPLEMENT. 207
The respected, honoured; and honour-
able Coll of Keppoch died in peace, at a
very advanced age, and saw not the evil
days of his children, lamented and regret-
ted by all around him. He was carried to
the grave of his fathers by his people, ho-
noured by the sighs of the worthy, and the
tears of the indigent. It may be further
observed here, of the acts passed against
popery, a papist could not succeed to the
property of a protestant, and the crown, a
protestant heir, having come in the place
of the Lord of the Isles, the heir at law
could not be restored, without abjuring
popery, and thus the property lay dor-
mant in the crown, by a passive title, until
that happy event, the union of Scotland
and England; when, it seems, the people
of Scotland were considered as a flock of
sheep, and sold by the family of Argyle,
the master shepherd, the price being the
grant of the dormant property of the family
of the Isles, with the title of the earl of Hay,
which is, and was the principal residence:
the writer says dormant, for it cannot be
considered as a fair forfeiture, and there