Books and other items printed in Gaelic from 1871 to 1900 > Beatha agus iompachadh Dhùghaill Bochannain

DHCGHAILL BOCHANNAIN.
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faighinn an ath thrath bithe. Cha d’fhuair gu
ceann da bhliadhna.
Anns a’ bhliadhna 1745, (Bliadhna Thear-
laich) dh’6irich a’ chuid mhor de mo chairdean
leis a’ Phrionns’ ann an ar-a-mach an aghaidh
an righ, thuit cuid diu sa’ chath, agus chaidh
cuid eile chur gu bas ann an Carlisle* ach
ged’ bha ’n t-aobhar mu’n dh’fhuiling iad ole
bha mis’ anabarrach brbnach air an son, agus
cha b’urrainn mi mathanas a thoirt do’n mhuinn-
tir a bha le’n cumhachd agus le’m fianaisean
br6ige 'nam meadhonan bais daibh; agus thois-
ich mi air altrum gkmhlais daibh air son sin.
Air do’n diabhol mis fhaicinn ag araeh diogh-
altais do na daoine ud chuir e fein tuilleadh
connaidh ris an lasair, le nochdadh dhomh cho
taitneach sa bhiodh e dioghaltas a dheanamh
orra, agus bha bhi smaointeach air an ni sin
gle thaitneach learn ged nach b’urrainn mi
ruigheachd orra. Air uairean dh’ feireadh mo
chogais’na’m aghaidh le leithid so deSgriobtur.
—“ A chdirdean grkdhaeh na deanaibh diogh¬
altas air bhur son fein ach thugaibh kite do’n
fh4irg, oira ta e sgriobhte, is leamsa dioghaltas,
* One of the individuals here alluded to was Francis
Buchannan of Arnprior; he had not been concerned
in the enterprise of 1745 in any way. He was taken
prisoner at his own house of Leny, Perthshire, and
carried to Carlisle, and condemned hy false witnesses,
and hung on the 28th of October 1746, not at Carlisle
as our author supposed, but at Penrith.