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Legislation, intended to scotch the snake of Jacobitism, began with
religious persecution. The Episcopalian clergy had no reason to love
triumphant Presbyterianism, and actively, or in sympathy, were favourers
of the exiled dynasty. Episcopalian chapels, sometimes mere rooms in
private houses, were burned, or their humble furniture was destroyed. All
Episcopalian ministers were bidden to take the oath and pray for King
George by September 1746, or suffer for the second offence transportation
for life to the American colonies. Later, the orders conferred by
Scottish bishops were made of no avail. Only with great difficulty and
danger could parents obtain the rite of baptism for their children. Very
little is said in our histories about the sufferings of the Episcopalians
when it was their turn to be under the harrow. They were not violent,
they murdered no Moderator of the General Assembly. Other measures were
the Disarming Act, the prohibition to wear the Highland dress, and the
abolition of "hereditable jurisdictions," and the chief's right to call
out his clansmen in arms. Compensation in money was paid, from 21,000
pounds to the Duke of Argyll to 13 pounds, 6s. 8d. to the clerks of the
Registrar of Aberbrothock. The whole sum was 152,237 pounds, 15s. 4d.

In 1754 an Act "annexed the forfeited estates of the Jacobites who had
been out (or many of them) inalienably to the Crown." The estates were
restored in 1784; meanwhile the profits were to be used for the
improvement of the Highlands. If submissive tenants received better
terms and larger leases than of old, Jacobite tenants were evicted for
not being punctual with rent. Therefore, on May 14, 1752, some person
unknown shot Campbell of Glenure, who was about evicting the tenants on
the lands of Lochiel and Stewart of Ardshiel in Appin. Campbell rode
down from Fort William to Ballachulish ferry, and when he had crossed it
said, "I am safe now I am out of my mother's country." But as he drove
along the old road through the wood of Lettermore, perhaps a mile and a
half south of Ballachulish House, the fatal shot was fired. For this
crime James Stewart of the Glens was tried by a Campbell jury at
Inveraray, with the Duke on the bench, and was, of course, convicted, and
hanged on the top of a knoll above Ballachulish ferry. James was
innocent, but Allan Breck Stewart was certainly an accomplice of the man
with the gun, which, by the way, wa