Clan Gillean

Sir Lachlan. 189
May he sent a letter to Montrose, ordering him to
disband his forces and retire to France. The Scots
surrendered King Charles to the English Parlia-
ment on January 28th, 1647. On January 30th,
1649, he was executed in front of Whitehall. He
was an arbitrary and untrustworthy man.
General David Leslie arrived at Inverary on
May 21st, 1647, with a strong force, to expel Sir
Alister Mac Coll, who had been in possession of
Kintyre since the end of September, 1645. He
attacked the latter on the 25th, and easily defeated
his small army. He then besieged Dunaverty,
which was defended by 300 men, partly Irishmen,
and partly Macdougalls and other Highlanders.
After losing about forty men, the besieged surren-
dered. With the exception of one or two, they
were all put to death. Leslie went from Kintyre
to Islay, and laid siege to Dunnyveg, which was
defended bv Colla Ciotach Macdonald with 200
men. Coll, who was in his seventy-seventh year,
went out of the garrison to have a talk with
Campbell of Dunstaffnage, and was treacherously
captured. The garrison surrendered on condition
of having their lives spared. Colla Ciotach was
hanged by the Campbells at Dunstaffnage. Sir
Alister, his son, made his escape to Ireland. From
Islay, Leslie went to Jura and thence to Mull. Sir
Lachlan Maclean surrendered the castles of Duart
and Aros to him, and along with the castles
fourteen Irishmen who were with him. He also
gave Leslie his son, Hector Roy, as a pledge of