Keppoch song

SUPPLEMENT. 209
Keppocb, and the wives and children of
his relations, and of those who had surrende-
red with him, and who had been transport-
ed, as slaves, to America, from the lands,
destitute and stript of every thing; and
this they were authorised to do, by the act
1, George the First, called the clan act, by
which the estates^ real and personal, of
those concerned in the rebellion, and hold-
ing of subjects, superiors recognosced or
reverted to them, and which act may be
considered as the auto de fe of the Protes-
tant succession, and of the house of Hano-
ver. It is acknowledged, in the actions at
law, before the Court of Session, after pas-
sing the vesting and annexing acts of 1747
and 8, that the clauses and views of the
clan act were chiefly directed against the
Highland chiefs, a description of subjects
remote from political intelligence, and from
the then paucity of newspapers, in all pro-
bability, might not have known that there
was such an act of proscription levelled
and prepared against them ; and thus their
ignorance might have been sustained as an
excuse, for little knowledge of laws or acts
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