Historical memoirs of Rob Roy and the Clan Macgregor

MEMOIR OF ROB ROY. I 6
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Stewart of Invernahyle. When they had fought
for some time, a parley was demanded, and
terms of accommodation being agreed to, they
separated without bloodshed.
About this time, the government, either
ashamed of their frequent opposition, or despair-
ing of being able to get hold of Rob Roy, with-
drew the horsemen who pursued him, and he
could proceed without restraint in his usual
courses ; but he had still to guard against his
inveterate enemy, Athol, who had so basely
treated him, and whose machinations were even
more alarming than the denunciations of the
law.
Rob Roy, however, considering himself justly
entitled to retaliate on the duke, frequently
ravaged the district of Athol, carried away
cattle, and put every man to the sword who
attempted resistance : yet, for all his caution,
he had again nearly fallen into his hands.
The duke having sent a party of horse, they
unexpectedly came upon and seized him in
his own house of Monuchaltuarach in Bal-
quhidder, and placed him on horseback, to be
conveyed to Stirling Castle ; but on going
down a steep defile, he leaped off, and ran up
a wooded hill, where the horsemen could not