Keppoch song

23C SUPPLEMENT.
as it is termed, lost, and none have been
kept but since from about 1784, though no
person in that parish had been concerned
in the rebellion of 1715 or 1745, but the
patron of that parish is Grant of Grant,
under Gordon influence.
The ejection of Alexander from his farm,
the seizing of all his cattle for a half years
rent by his landlord, which happened
about 1736, after the succession of this
zealous protestant, Duke Cosmo George
the Mamore claimant, is also to be ascrib-
ed to this Duke Cosmo, who visiting the
parishes in his anti-catholic inquisitorial
capacity, and discovering Alexander earn-
ing a livelihood in a decent and somewhat
respectable condition, and that he was the
father of a promising young family, filled
with malevolence and apprehension, may
have insisted on his landlord, Macintosh of
South Borlum, again to plunder and reduce
him to indigence and exile, for the loss of
his horses might have been recovered, and
it is not likely that a half year's rent would
have amounted to the value of all his cattle,
as the South Borlum of that period appears,