when he rofe and went out, he perceived about twenty Men coming towards his Houfe, with their Bayonets fix'd to their Mufkets, whereupon he fled to the Hill, and having Auchnaion, a little Village in Glenco, in View, he heard the Shots wherewith Auchintriaten, and four more were killed; and that he heard alfo the Shots at Innerriggen, where Glenlyon had caufed to kill nine more, as fhall be hereafter declared; and this is confirmed by the concurring Depofition of Alexander Macdonald his Brother, whom a Servant waked out of Sleep, faying, it is no Time for you to be fleeping, when they are killing your Brother at the Door; which made Alexander to flee with his Brother to the Hill, where both of them heard the forefaid Shots at Auchanaion and Innerriggin: And the faid John, Alexander, and Archibald Macdonald's do all depone, that the fame Morning there was one Serjeant Barber, and a Party at Auchnaion, and that Auchintriaten being there in his Brother's House, with eight more fitting about the Fire, the Soldiers discharged upon them about eighteen Shot, which killed Auchintriaten and four more; but the other four, whereof fome were wounded, falling down as dead, Serjeant Barber laid hold on Auchintriaten's Brother, one of the four, and afked him if he were alive? He answered, that he was, and that he defired to die without rather than within: Barber faid, that for his Meat that he had eaten, he would do him the Favour to kill him without; but when the Man was brought out, and Soldiers brought up to fhoot him, he having his Plaid loose flung it over their Faces, and fo efcaped; and the other three broke through the back of the House and efcaped; and this Account the Deponents had from the Men that efcaped. And at Innerriggin, where Glenlyon was quartered, the Soldiers took other nine Men and did bind them Hand and Foot, killed them one by one with Shot; and when Glenlyon inclined to fave a young Man of about twenty Years of Age, one Captain Drummond came and asked how he came to be faved, in refpect of the Orders that were given, and fhot him dead; and another young Boy of about thirteen Years ran to Glenlyon to be faved, he was likewife fhot dead, and in the fame Town there was a Woman and a Boy about four of five Years of Age killed; and at Auchnaion there was alfo a Child miffed, and nothing found of him but the Head. There were likewife feveral killed at other Places, whereof one was an old Man about eighty Years of Age: And all this the Deponents fay they affirm, because they heard the Shot, faw the dead Bodies, and had an Account from the Women that were left; and Ronald Macdonald, Indweller in Glenco, farther depones, that he being living with his Father in a little Town of Glenco, fome of Glenlyon's Soldiers came to his Father's House, the said 13th Day of February in the Morning, and dragged his Father out of his Bed and knocked him down for dead at the Door; which the Deponent feeing, made his Escape, and his Father recovering after the Soldiers were gone, got into another Houfe; but this House was shortly burnt, and his Father burnt in it; and the Deponent came there after, and gathered his Father's Bones and burned them. He also declares, that at Auchnaion, where Auchintriaten was killed, he faw the

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Body of Auchintriaten and three more caft out and covered with Dung: And another Witness of the fame declares, that upon the fame 13th of February, Glenlyon and Lieutenant Lindsay, and their Soldiers, did in the Morning before Day fall upon the People of Glenco, when they were fecure in their Beds, and killed them; and he being at Innerriggin fled with the first, but heard Shots, and had two Brothers killed there, with three Men more and a Woman, who were all buried before he came back. And all thefe five Witneffes concur, that the aforefaid Slaughter was made by Glenlyon and his Soldiers, after they had been quartered, and lived peaceably and friendly with the Glenco-Men about thirteen Days, and that the Number of thofe whom they knew to be flain were about twenty-five, and that the Soldiers after the Slaughter did burn the Houses, Barns and Goods, and carried away a great Spoil of Horfe, Nolt and Sheep, above a 1000. And James Campbel, Soldier in the Caftle of Stirling, depones, that in January, 1692, he being then a Soldier in Glenlyon's Company, marched with the Company from Inverlochie to Glenco, where the Company was quartered, and very kindly entertained for the Space of fourteen Days, that he knew nothing of the Defign of killing the Glenco-Men till the Morning that the Slaughter was committed, at which Time Glenlyon and Captain Drummond's Companies were drawn out in feveral Parties, and got Orders from Glenlyon and their other Officers to fhoot and kill all the Countrymen they met with; and that the Deponent being one of the Party which was at the Town where Glenlyon had his Quarters, did fee feveral Men drawn out of their Beds, and parti cularly he did fee Glenlyon's own Landlord fhot by his Order, and a young Boy of about twelve Years of Age, who endeavoured to fave himfelf by taking hold of Glenlyon, offering to go any where with him if he would spare his Life, and was fhot dead by Captain Drummond's Order; and the Deponent did fee about eight Perfons killed, and feveral Houfes burnt, and Women flying to the Hills to fave their Lives. And lastly, Sir Colin Campbel of Aberuchil depones, that after the Slaughter, Glenlyon told him that Macdonald of Innerriggin was killed with the reft of the Glenco-Men, with Col. Hill's Pafs or Protection in his Pocket, which a Soldier brought and fhewed to Glenlyon.

The Teftimonies above fet down being more than fufficient to prove a Deed fo notoriously known, it is only to be remarked, that more Witnesses of the Actors themselves might have been found if Glenlyon and his Soldiers were not at prefent in Flanders with Argyle's Regiment; and it is farther, added, that Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton, who feems by the Orders and Letters that fhall be hereafter fet down to have had the particular Charge of this Execution, did march the Night before the Slaughter, with about 400 Men, but the Weather falling to be very bad and fevere, they were forced to ftay by the Way, and did not get to Glenco against the next Morning, as had been concerted betwixt Major Duncafon, and Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton; fo that the Measures being broke, Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton and his Men came not to Glenco, till about eleven of the Clock after the Slaughter had

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been committed, which proved the Prefervation and Safety of the Tribe of Glenco, fince by this Means the far greater Part of them efcaped, and then the Lieutenant Colonel being come to Cannelochleven appointed feveral Parties for feveral Pofts, with Orders that they fhould take no. Prifoners, but kill all the Men that came in their Way. Thereafter fome of the Lieutenant Colonel's. Men marched forward in the Glen, and met with Major Duncafon's Party, whereof a Part under Glenlyon had been fent by Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton to quarter there fome Days before, and thefe Men told how they had killed Glenco, and about thirty-fix of his Men that Morning, and that there remained nothing to be done by the Lieutenant Colonel and his Men, fave that they burnt fome Houfes, and killed an old Man by the Lieutenant Colonel's Orders, and brought away the Spoil of the Country; and this in its feveral Parts is teftified by John Forbes, Major in Colonel Hill's Regiment, Francis Farqbuar, and Gilbert Kennedy, both Lieutenants in that Regiment, who were all of the Lieutenant Colonel's Party, as their Depofitions more fully bear.

It may be alfo here noticed, that fome Days after the Slaughter of the Glenco-Men was over, there came a Perfon from Campbel of Balcalden, Chamberlain, i. e. Steward to the Earl of Braidalbin, to the deceafed Glenco's Sons, and offered to them, if they would declare under their Hands, that the Earl of Braidalbin was free and clear of the faid Slaughter, they might be affured of the Earl's Kindness for procuring their Remiffion and Reftitution, as was plainly deponed before the Commiffioners.

It remains now to give an Account of the Warrands, either given, or pretended to be given, for the committing of the forefaid Slaughter, for clearing whereof it is to be noticed, that the King having been pleased to offer by Proclamation an Indemnity to all the Highland Rebels, who fhall come in, and except thereof by taking the Oath of Allegiance, before the firft of January, 1692, after the Day was elaps'd, it was very proper to give Inftructions how fuch of the Rebels as had refused his Majefty's Grace fhould be treated, and therefore his Majefty, by his Inftructions of the Date of the 11th of January, 1692, directed to Sir Thomas Levingston, and fuper-figned, and counter-figned by himself, did indeed order and authorize Sir Thomas to march the Troops against the Rebels, who had not taken the Benefit of the Indemnity, and to deftroy them by Fire and Sword, (which is the actual Stile of our Commiffions againft intercommuned Rebels ;) but with this exprefs Mitigation in the fourth Article, viz. that the Rebels may not think themselves defperate, we allow you to give Terms and Quarters, but in this manner only, that Chieftains and Heritors, or Leaders, be Prisoners of War, their Lives only fafe, and all other Things in Mercy, they taking the Oath of Allegiance; and the Community taking the Oath of Allegiance, and rendering their Arms, and fubmitting to the Government, are to have Quarters and Indemnity for their Lives and Fortunes, and to be protected from the Soldiers, as their principal Paper of Inftructions produc'd by Sir Thomas Livingston bears.

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After these Inftructions there were additional ones given by his Majefty to Sir Thomas Livingston, upon the 16th of the faid Month of January, fuper-figned and counter-figned by his Majefty, and the Date marked by Secretary Stair's Hand, which bear Orders for giving of Paffes, and for receiving the Submiffion of certain of the Rebels, wherein all to be noticed to the prefent Purpose is, that herein his Majefty doth judge it much better that those who took not the Benefit of the Indemnity in due Time, fhould be obliged to render upon Mercy, they still taking the Oath of Allegiance; and then it is added, if Mackean of Glenco, and that Tribe can be well feparated from the reft, it will be a proper Vindication of the publick Justice to extirpate that Sect of Thieves; and of these additional Instructions, a Principal Duplicate was fent to Sir Thomas Livingston, and another to Colonel Hill, and were both produced, and these were all the Inftructions given by the King in this Matter.

But Secretary Stair, who fent down thefe Inftructions, as his Letters produced, written with his Hand to Sir Thomas of the fame Date with them, testify, by a previous Letter of the Date of the 7th of the faid Month of January, written and fubfcribed by him to Sir Thomas, fays, " You know "in general that thefe Troops pofted at Inverness and Inverlochie, will be "ordered to take in the House of Innergarie, and to destroy entirely the

Country of Lochaber, Locheal's Lands, Kippoch's, Glengarie's and Glenco;' and then adds, “I affure you your Power fhall be full enough, and I hope "the Soldiers will not trouble the Government with Prisoners." And by another Letter of the 9th of the faid Month of January, which is likewife before the Inftructions, and written to Sir Thomas as the former, he hath this Expreffion: "That thefe, who remain of the Rebels, are not able to oppofe, and their Chieftains being all Papifts, it is well the Venσε geance falls there; for my Part, I could have wifhed the Macdonalds had "not divided, and I am forry that Kippoch, and Mackean of Glenco are fafe:" And then afterwards, "We have an Account that Locheal, "Macnaughton, Appin, and Glenco took the Benefit of the Indemnity at

Inverary, and Kippoch and others at Inverness." But this Letter of the 11th of January fent with the firft Inftructions to Sir Thomas hath this Expreffion: "I have no great Kindness to Kippoch nor Glenco, and it is "well that People are in Mercy, and then juft now my Lord Argyle tells "me, that Glenco hath not taken the Oath; at which I rejoice. It is a great "Work of Charity to be exact in rooting out that damnable Sect, the worst "of the Highlands." But in his Letter of the 16th of January, of the fame Date with the additional Inftructions, tho' he writes in the first Part of the Letter, the King does not at all incline to receive any after the Diet, but on "Mercy" yet he thereafter adds, " but for a juft Example of Vengance, "I intreat the thieving Tribe of Glenco may be rooted out to Purpose." And to confirm his by this Letter of the fame Date, fent with the other principal Duplicate, and additional Inftructions to Colonel Hill, after having written, that fuch as render on Mercy might be faved;" he adds, "I VOL. III. "shall

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shall intreat you that, for a juft Vengeance and publick Example, the "Tribe of Glenco may be rooted out to Purpofe; the Earls of Argyle and "Braidalbin have promised that they fhall have no Retreat in their Bounds, "the Paffes to Ronoch would be fecured, and the Hazard certified to the "Laird of Weems to refet them; in that Cafe Argyle's Detachment, with a Party that may be posted in the Inland Stalker, muft cut them off, and "the People of Appin are none of the best."

This laft Letter, with the Inftructions for Colonel Hill, was received by Major Forbes in his Name at Edinburgh; and the Major depones, that by the Allowance he had from the Colonel, he did unfeal the Packet, and found therein the Letter and Inftructions as above, which he fent forward to Colonel Hill; and that in the Beginning of February, 1692, being in his Way to Fort-William, he met fome Companies of Argyle's Regiment at Bellifheils, and was furprized to understand that they were going to quarter in Glenco: but faid nothing till he came to Fort William, where Colonel Hill told him, that Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton had got Orders about the Affair of Glenco, and that therefore the Colonel had left it to Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton's Management, who, he apprehends, had concerted the Matter with Major Duncafon. And Colonel Hill depones, that he understood that Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton and Major Duncafon got the Orders about the Glenco-Men, which were fent to Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton; that for himself he liked not the Business, but was much grieved at it; that the King's Inftructions of the 16th of January, 1692, with the Master of Stair's Letters of the fame Date, were brought to him by Major Forbes, who had received them, and unfealed the Packet at Edinburgh, as these two Depofitions do bear.

Yet the Execution and Slaughter of the Glenco-Men did not immediately take Effect; and thereafter, on the 30th of the faid Month of January, the Master of Stair doth again write write two Letters, one to Sir Thomas Livingston, which bears, "I am glad that Glenco did not come in within "the Time prefixed; I hope what is done there may be in Earneft, fince the "reft are not in a Condition to draw together to help; I think to harry (that "is to drive) their Cattle, and burn their Houses, is but to render them "desperate lawless Men to rob their Neighbours; but I believe you will be "fatisfied it were a great Advantage to the Nation, that the thieving Tribe were rooted out, and cut off; it must be quietly done, otherwife they "will make shift for both their Men and their Cattle; Argyle's Detachment "lies in Litrickweel to affift the Garrison to do all of a fudden." And the other to Colonel Hill, which bears, "Pray, when the Thing concerning "Glenco is refolved, let it be fecret and fudden, otherwise the Men will shift you, and better not meddle with them, than not to do it to Purpose, to "cut off that Neft of Robbers, who have fallen in the Mercy of the Law, "now when there is Force and Opportunity, whereby the King's Juftice "will be as confpicuous and useful as his Clemency to others. I apprehend "the Storm is fo great, that for fome Time you can do little, but fo foon