Historical memoirs of Rob Roy and the Clan Macgregor

NOTICES OF LADY GRANGE. 319
scandalous and unfeeling in a clergyman. Such,
indeed, was the enmity and deadly hate of some
of his brethren of the Long Island and other
places, to the poor minister, or rather catechist,
of St Kilda, on account of his Christian kind-
ness to lady Grange, that he had reason to con-
sider his own life in danger, and even that of
his uncle.
About this time he left the island, intending
to visit Edinburgh on business of his own, and
while there, he promised to inform lady Grange's
friends of her deplorable case, she having given
him memoranda to that effect. She wished him
to take the sketch of her misfortunes he had
drawn up, to show them how much she stood in
need of their aid ; but he would not venture to
carry it, and his life being again threatened if
he attempted to make any representation
regarding her, he destroyed her memoranda.
Ultimately, the unworthy clergyman, under
whose control he acted in St Kilda, placed
such obstructions in his way as prevented
his journey, lest he might disclose the shameful
combination entered into for her destruction : —
An unmanly combination, disgraceful to those
concerned in it, from the cruelty and savage
treatment they sanctioned towards a helpless