Historical memoirs of Rob Roy and the Clan Macgregor

THE CLAN MACGREGOR. 99
said, were instantly for putting him to death ;
but from this they were dissuaded. He was,
however, ordered to take the dead deer on his
back, and accompany them along with it. He
remonstrated against this, being, as he said, a
gentleman ; but it was in vain, the sight of an
unsheathed dirk made him comply. They took
the road towards Balquhidder, and having
travelled several miles, during which Edinample
frequently fell under his burden, from the rough-
ness of the road, deeply covered with snow, they
halted in the middle of a desolate heath. There
they took from him his load, and stripping him of
his clothes, left him in a state of complete
nudity, to the mercy of the cold, and to get
home as he best could.
The first Earl of Braidalbane, denominated
John Glass, had a respectable tenant, Duncan
Macgregor, of the family of Ardchoille (an-
ciently the rallying rock and war-word of the
clan Gregor), who was the son of Duncan Aba-
rach Macgregor, who fell in the conflict of Ben
Duaig with the Campbells, as formerly noticed ;
he held in lease several possessions in Glenlyon,
with that of Coircharmaig in Glenlochy. Being
an enterprising and valiant man, he was in-
duced by the persuasion of Braidalbane, who