and clans, under the command, first of the Viscount of Dundee, and
then of Major-Gen. Buchan, in the years 1689 and 1690. This is
acknowledg'd by all. But when the Earl of Breadalbane called the heads
of the clans, and met with them at Auchallader, in July 1691, in order
to a cessation, the deceas'd Alexander Macdonald of Glenco was there,
with Glengary, Sir John Maclene, and others, and agreed to the
cessation; as it is also acknowledg'd.... And here the Commissioners
cannot but take notice of what hath occurr'd to them in two letters from
Secretary Stair, to Lieutenant-Colonel Hamilton, one of the 1st, and
another of the 3d of December, 1691, wherein he expresses his
resentment from the marring of the bargain that should have been betwixt
the Earl of Breadalbane and the Highlanders, to a very great height; ...
--And, in effect, seems, even at that time, which was almost a month
before the expiring of the King's indemnity, to project, with
Lieutenant-Colonel Hamilton, that some of them should be rooted out and
destroyed. His Majesty's proclamation of indemnity was publish'd in Aug.
1691, offering a free indemnity and pardon to all the Highlanders who
had been in arms, upon their coming in, and taking the oath of
allegiance, betwixt then and the first of January thereafter: And, in
compliance with the proclamation, the deceas'd Glenco goes, about the
end of Decemb. 1691, to Col. Hill, Governor of Fort William at
Inverlochie, and desir'd the Colonel to minister to him the oath of
allegiance, that he might have the King's indemnity: But Col. Hill, in
his deposition, doth further depone, that he hasten'd him away all he
could, and gave him a letter to Ardkinlas to receive him as a lost
sheep; ... Sir Colin Campbell of Ardkinlas, Sherif-Deput of Argyle,
depones, that the deceas'd Glenco came to Inverary about the beginning
of January, 1692, with a letter from Colonel Hill, to the effect above
mentioned, and was three days there before Ardkinlas could get thither,
because of bad weather; and that Glenco said to him, that he had not
come sooner because he was hinder'd by the storm; and Ardkinlas farther
depones, that when he declin'd to give the oath of allegiance to Glenco,
because the last of December, the time appointed for the taking of it,
was past, Glenco begg'd, with tears, that he might be admitted to take
it, and promis'd to bring in all his people within a short time to do
the like, and, if any of them refused, they s