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Iviii THE LOYALL DISSUASIVE
to the Major Genii when he comes to yre countrey upon his march
to Loquhabbor and Let him know yor peaceable inclinations, and
above yt I advised yow soe to doe and Let none of your people be
seen in armes when the army marcheth yt way, also waite on Sr
Thos. Livingston who will be freindly to you. I have written to
Dall-Raddy to ye same effect. The King is gon for Ireland from
whence I have late intelligence yt ye Irish desert King James
apace. I beleeve your neighbours in Lochabbor hang of to see
the Issue of yt war in Ireland wch they will soone find to their
disadvantage. Let me hear from yow as soone as you can, and
aboute the prisoners.—I am Sr your very affeconate servant,
‘ Jo. Hill.’
In Sir John Hill’s succeeding letters he is very peremptory,
but fails to move Cluny to join or even meet Mackay and
Livingstone, so that he begins his letter of 20th August 1690
thus : ‘ I am sorry to find you so young, or so conceited, a man
as to refuse the advice of those who are yer friends and love
you.’ He tells him that his conduct is likely to have results
"against Calder, his daughter’s father-in-law, and he bemoans
such perversity.
Cluny must have made his submission at the end of 1691
with the other chiefs, or he would have suffered in some
measure, though, perhaps, not in the same manner, as did the
Macdonalds of Glencoe. It is strange to find the following
letter, dated Fort William, 27th July 1693, inviting Cluny to
take the oath of allegiance at such a late period :—
' Sir,—Being come hence I desire yow to take the first occation
to come to me and only take the alleagance and signe the assure-
ance as others doe, and then after I have Eaten and Drunken
with yow and reneued old kindnes yow may return home againe
to my good freind yor Lady. This I assure yow is all I have to
doe with yow, and yor appearance here will doe yow much service
and be an obligation upon,—Your old true freind and servt.,
cJo. Hill.’
‘ My service to yor Lady and my thanks for her last kindnes.’