Trials of James, Duncan, and Robert M'Gregor, three sons of the celebrated Rob Roy

while she was making all the resistance in her
power, and crying out for help and assistance,
and uttering many hitter lamentations ; and after
she was thus dragged to the door, the said
James M'Gregor, or one or other of his ac-
complices, did, with force and violence, most
barbarously and inhumanly lay the said Jean Key
upon a horse, on which the said Robert M'Gregor,
or one or other of his company, was mounted,
placing her body across the horse upon the fore, or
fore part of the saddle, after having tied her arms
with ropes ; and during all the time these horrid
and barbarous outrages were acting, he, the said
James M'Gregor and his accomplices, or one or o-
ther of them, did threaten, with execrable oaths, im-
mediately to murder any person who should offer
to give the said Jean Key the least assistance ;
and after having posted some of their number with
their arms, as guards upon the said Jean Key's
house, to remain for some time to prevent any per-
sons coming out to alarm the neighbourhood, and
procure assistance to rescue the said Jean Key,
the said James M'Gregor and his accomplices, or
some or other of them, did, in a violent, barba-
rous, and cruel manner, carry off the said Jean
Key from her own dwelling house as aforesaid, ly
ing across the fore part of the saddle, with her arms
tied, while she was crying out for help and assist-
ance, and making many bitter lamentations to the
house of John Leckie, malt-man and brewer at
the Kirk of Buchanan, about six miles distant from
Edinbellv, where the said Jean Key continued to
give all the evidences in her power of the deepest
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