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quarters, and kind entertainment,
living familiarly with the people until the 13th day of Feb.; and
Alexander farther depones, that Glenlyon, being his wife's uncle, came
almost every day, and took his morning drink at his house, and that the
very night before the slaughter, Glenlyon did play at cards, in his own
quarters, with both the brothers; and John depones, that old Glenco, his
father, had invited Glenlyon, Lieutenant Lindsay, and Ensign Lindsay,
to dine with him upon the very day the slaughter happened. But, on the
13th day of February, being Saturday, about four, or five, in the
morning, Lieutenant Lindsay, with a party of the foresaid soldiers,
came to old Glenco's house, where, having call'd, in a friendly manner,
and got in, they shot his father dead, with several shots, as he was
rising out of his bed; and, the mother having got up, and put on her
clothes, the soldiers stripp'd her naked, and drew the rings off her
fingers with their teeth; as likewise they killed one man more, and
wounded another grievously, at the same place.... And the said John,
Alexander, and Archibald MacDonalds, do all depone, that, the same

morning, there was one Sergeant Barber, and a party, at Auchnaion,
and that Auchintriaten being there, in his brother's house, with eight
more, sitting about the fire, the soldiers discharged upon them about 18
shot, which killed Auchintriaten, and four more; ... And, at Innerriggin,
where Glenlyon was quartered, the soldiers took other nine men, and
did bind them, hand and foot, [and] kill'd them, one by one, with shot;
and, when Glenlyon inclin'd to save a young man, of about 20 years of
age, one Captain Drummond came, and ask'd how he came to be sav'd
in respect of the orders that were given, and shot him dead; and another
young boy, of about 13 years, ran to Glenlyon, to be sav'd. He was
likewise shot dead.... And all these five witnesses concur, that the
aforesaid slaughter was made by Glenlyon, and his soldiers, after they
had been quarter'd, and liv'd peaceably, and friendly, with the Glenco
men about 13 days, and that the number of those whom they knew to
be slain were about 25, and that the soldiers, after the slaughter, did
burn the houses, barns, and goods, and carried away a great spoil of
horse, nolt,[8] and sheep, above a 1,000.
... And upon the whole matter, it is the opinion of the Commission,
First, that it was a great wrong that Glenco's case, and diligence as to
his taking the oath of allegiance, with Ardkinlas's certificate of his
taking the oath of allegiance on the 6th of January, 1692, and Col. Hill's
letter to Ardkinlas, and Ardkinlas's letter to Colin Campbell,
Sheriff-Clerk, for clearing Glenco's diligence and innocence, were not
presented to the Lords of his Majesty's Privy Council, when they were
sent into Edinburgh, in the said month of January, and that those who
advis'd the not presenting thereof were in the wrong, and seem to have
had a malicious design against Glenco; ... Secondly, that it appears to
have been known at London, and particularly to the Master of Stair, in
the month of January, 1692, that Glenco had taken the oath of
allegiance, tho' after the day prefix'd; for he saith, in his letter of the
30th of January, to Sir Tho. Livingston, as is above remark'd, "I am
glad that Glenco came not in within the time prescrib'd." Thirdly, that
there was nothing in the King's instructions to warrant the committing
of the foresaid slaughter, even as to the thing it self, and far less as to
the manner of it, seeing all his instructions do plainly import, that the
most obstinate of the rebels might be received into mercy upon taking

the oath of allegiance, tho' the day was long before elaps'd, and that he
ordered nothing concerning Glenco and his tribe, but that "if" they
could "be well separated from the rest, it" would "be a proper
indication of the publick justice to extirpate that sept of thieves"; which
plainly intimates, that it was his Majesty's mind that they could not be
separated from the rest of these rebels, unless they still refused his
mercy by continuing in arms and refusing the allegiance, and that, even
in that case, they were only to be proceeded against in the way of
publick justice, and no other way.
FOOTNOTES:
[4] Of allegiance to King William.
[5] The Master of Stair.
[6] Probably fear.
[7] Ballachulish.
[8] Cattle.

THE BANK OF SCOTLAND (1695).
+Source.+--The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, vol. ix., p. 495.
(London: 1822.)
ACT FOR ERECTING A PUBLICK BANK.
Our Sovereign Lord considering how useful a Publick Bank may be in
this Kingdom according