Historical memoirs of Rob Roy and the Clan Macgregor

*JO HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF
opposite bank, he was so weak with the
wounds he had received, and loss of blood, that
the remaining ruffians easily finished his life.
But not satisfied with this, the villains sent his
horse to his father, in token of his fate, and
afterwards murdered the old man in his hun-
dredth year.
From the coercive measures by which the
knights of Lochawe thus treated the Mac-
gregors, and deprived them of their lands of
Glenurchy, a deadly feud originated; but owing
to the persecution which the latter, at the same
time, suffered, from the malignant and cruel
acts of the legislature, they never afterwards
were in a condition to recover, from the Camp-
bells, any portion of their ancient inheritance,
so unjustly wrested from them. About this
period, James, the chief of the clan Gregor,
was ensnared and taken prisoner by Sir Colin
Campbell. In a manner shamefully inconsist-
ent with the acknowledged laws of clan warfare,
even in more remote and savage times, the
prisoner was put to death in cold blood, at Ken-
more, in presence of " the earle of Athol, the jus-
tice clerk, and sundrie other nobill men ;" and
Sir Colin himself stood over the executioner
who beheaded Macgregor, to see that he did his