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Life of Lieut.-General [i.e. Lieutenant-General] Hugh Mackay; Commander in Chief of the Forces in Scotland, 1689 and 1690
Life of LieutGeneral Hugh Mackay Commander in Chief of the Forces in Scotland 1689 and 1690 - i.e. Lieutenant-General Author:John Mackay General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1836 Original Publisher: Bannatyne Club Subjects: Scotland History / Europe / Great Britain Travel / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the Gener... more »al Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: - ... '' ...' LIEUTENANT GENERAL HUGH MACKAY. 101 pointed by King William to receive their submission, they held a meeting 1690. with them at Achalader in Glenorchy ; where in consideration of certain indemnifying sums being disbursed to them, as a compensation for their resignation of the Argyle, and other estates, they agreed to live as peaceable subjects to the sovereign de facto receiving from him in return the usual protection of the state, and continuing to enjoy all their valued patrimonial privileges. Before the end of January 1692, all the heads of clans had ratified their submission in terms of this treaty." Having thus concluded our narrative of General Mackay's military operations in Scotland, it is impossible to refrain from expressing our surprise, at the very limited support he received from the aristocracy of the kingdom. The south, and south-west, being well affected to the Revolution, his operations were chiefly confined to the Highland shires of Perth, Inverness, Argyle, and part of Stirling; and to the east coast extending from Dundee, to the town of Inverness. In all of these he remarked " an amazing degree of apathy and indifference," to the recent deliverance which God had wrought for them, from the greatest of all evils, temporal and eternal slavery, the least whereof was sufficient to make the heathens venture all, rather than submit to it. But Scotland was at this time sufficiently prepared for the yoke, both by the Popish design, for the introduction wh...« less