Series 1 > Letters and papers illustrating the relations between Charles the Second and Scotland in 1650

162 CHARLES II. AND SCOTLAND IN 1650
conceaved a deadlie hatred, malice, and evill will ag* the person
of Cap4 John Keir, in the moneths of September and October
1669, did come to the Loch of Lochinver, wher the sd Cap4
Keir wes for the tyme, he being about his laull. affaires in a
peaceable maner, expecting no harme, injurie, or invasion to
have bein offered or done him, but to have lived under God’s
peace and his Majestie’s, and threatened the said Captain Keir
with present death, unlesse he hade yealdit to ther outragious
will and pleasure, wherupon the sd Neill and his complices most
treasonablie patt violent hands in the person of the said John
Keir, and made him his captive and prisoner, and transported
him with them as captive and prisoner from the sd Loch of
Inver to the remott montains and caves of Assint, wher
violentlie he wes keeped and detained be them tanquam in
privato carcere for the space of three dayes, untill the said
Captain John Keir redeemed both his lyff and libertie with a
soume of money. As also upon the first day of June M. vi [c]
and seventie years, the said Neill McLeod did garison and stuff
his house of Ardbrack with the number of tuentie Neilsons alias
Cleichcanabricks and others, his Majestie’s declaired rebells,
and ordered John Mcean vie crockell alias Mcleod in Auchmoir,
and Angus Mckye in Oldein, commanders and governors of the
sd garrison, and furnished and provydit the sd garrison with
swords, durks, pistolls, muskets, guns, hagbutts, bowes, and
dorlacks, and other munition bellicall, and the Sheriff of
Sutherland having, in obedience to a chairge given him in our
name, he virtue of letters of ejection raised at the instance of
Sir George M°Kenzie of Tarbet and John M°Kenzie, son to the
Earle of Seaforth, gone to the house of Ardbrack to eject the
said Neill his bairnes and servants, the said Neill did most
proudlie, contemptuouslie, and treasonablie fortifie and man-
taine the said house with his Majestie’s rebells above ment.
And being upon the 27 of December 1671 requyred be the sd
Sherriff to render and delyver up the sd garrison, the said
Sherriff having showen the letters of ejection bearing his
Matie’s. signet, be which he wes commandit to eject the sd
Neill, his servants and familie, thir proud and treasonable
expressions were returned, viz., that they cared not for the
King, nor would they regaird any seall but the seall of the sd