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Page 143 - Those who were their chief commanders, As such who bore the pirnie standarts, Who led the van and drove the rear, Were right well mounted of their gear...
Page 35 - ... anything they shall do in-, our service by killing, wounding, apprehending or imprisoning such as shall make opposition to our authority, or by seizing such as they have reason to suspect, the same being always done by order of our Privy Council their committee or of the superior officer.
Page 143 - ... As such who bore the pirnie standarts, Who led the van, and drove the rear, Were right well mounted of their gear ; With brogues, trues, and pirnie plaides, With good blew bonnets on their heads, Which on the one side had a flipe Adorn'd with a tobacco pipe...
Page 143 - ... nails and hides; With a long two-handed sword, As good's the country can affoord; Had they not need of bulk and bones, Who fight with all these arms at once ? It's marvellous how in such weather, Ov'r hill and hop they came together; How in such...
Page 103 - West, and that it was from persons he cuild trust, that he found all to be false as hell, and that there was nothing done there but what was done by law, and that things were not pushed so farr as the law allowed ; that as he was a Christian he did not see what els...
Page 57 - ... we shall take and apprehend any person or persons guilty thereof, and present them to the judge ordinary, that they may be fined or imprisoned...
Page 131 - Clymore," and made at him ; but he quickly drove them out of the kilne, and chaseing them all four a space from the house, knocked one of them to the ground. The next day about twenty of them came to the house, but he not being at home, they told they were come to take the Fig and his arms. They plundered his house, as they did the house of every other man who was not conform to the then'.laws ; and such was their theevish dispositions, and so well versed were they at the second sight, that, let...
Page 2 - Forget not this ; for if this be neglected, it would be an injurie and a difgrace to a youth, that brings, by his noble carriage, credit to our nation, and help to our caufe.
Page 18 - Stirling, in which it is stated that the Marquis of Atholl and Lords Huntly and Moray and other nobles " are ordered instently to hav all the Hylanders in reddines upon a call to march to Stirling wher they shall receiv arms and amunition for all that went, and itt appears ther ar non invyted hether, militia or Lolanders, bott Hylanders only, McDonalds, MacCleans, McGregors, McEntoshes, MacClouds, McForbesses, McCouls, etc.