That your Petitioner
has always been firmly attached to
your Majesty's Royal Person &and Govern-
ment, and in Testimony thereof,
was the first Man in Britain (for
what he knows) that discovered to
the Ministry, in the End of April
last, that the horrid &and wicked Re-
bellion was intended, and, as a fur-
ther Proof of his Fidelity &and Loyalty,
did, upon the fifth ^of June last, cause
apprehend Sir Hector MacLean
&and George Blaw of Castlehill, by
three o' Clock in the Morning, being
informed they were to set out by
five o’ Clock for the Highlands of
Scotland, in order to raise all yethe Clans they 575 (575)
they could influence to rise in an
open Rebellion against your Ma-
jesty in Favours of a Popish Pre-
tender.

That your Majesty's Petitioner
hath been the Butt of the Malice
of the Jacobites ever since, &and was
obliged to fy his own House for
Fear of his Life, they having sent
a Hundred &and Fifty Men three
different Times to his House, qowho
carried off a great Part of his
fine Armory, Cows &and Cattle,
because they could not apprehend
himself &and Horses, with which
he made his Escape.