Long & particular narrative of cruelties & barbarities et cetera from said Mr. James Hay

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According to the Promise contain-
ed in the preceedingpreceding Letter I
received by a private Hand (Mr
Patrick Baillie) a large PacquetPacket
ôn Friday May 12th, 1749. from the foresaid RevdReverend Mr
James Hay; which PacquetPacket con-
tained 15 Pages (Quarto) in the
Hand-writing of said Mr Hay,
&and 11 Pages (Folio) in the Hand-
writing of some other Person
whom I know nothing about;
but (perhaps) he may be ^the One
mentioned in the preceding
Letter.

Here follows an exact
Copy of the 15 Pages (4toQuarto)
in Mr Hay’s own Hand-writing.

See Vol: 7. pag: 1425, &cetc.

One of the Dragoons, who came first
into Inverness, after the BatleBattle of Col-
loden, oblidgedobliged a servant maid, to
hold his Horse in a ClossClose,1 and then
He followed two Low Country men
into a House, where he hash’dhashed2 them,
with his Broad sword to Death, the
maid heard their Lamentable CryesCries,
and qnwhen He came out He was all
blood, poor men they had no arms.

At the same time some of these
Dragoons, found a ✝ Gentleman who
was highly distressed with a fever not

✝
This is more circumstantially narrated by Mr Francis
Stewart, Vol: 5. pag: 1091, 1092.

Robert Forbes, A: M:
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not able to sturstir from his Bed, and
there they Cut his Throat, He and
the ~~the~~ other two were sometime
unburied for none durst venture to
do it, TherThere was a poor Beggar kill’dkilled
on the Street.

The Prisoners were in a most misera-
ble Condition being StrippdStripped of their
CloathsClothes qnwhen taken, They were sent to
Prisons and some had not wherewith
to Cover their Nakedness, No regard
had to the CryesCries of the Wounded or
to the Groans of the Dying, No Surge-
on✝ allow’dallowed to apply proper Remedies
for their Ease or Recovery, and where
any of these were in the same Un-
happy Circumstances, their Instru-
ments were taken from them, that
they might give no Relief. It was
reckon’dreckoned highly CrimenalCriminal and Very
Dangerous to give them any thinganything
even X Water. The servant Maids had
more than Common Courage They
did (men &and Boys being allowed to go to
the Prisoners, but the Guards were dis-
chargeddischarged upon their peril to Let any
of them out) all that was possible
for them, thothough they were Sure of Male-
treatmentMaltreatment. And ☂Anna Mckay a poor
woman descended of very honest sub-
stantiallsubstantial People in the Isle of Sky, who had

✝X
Vol: 5. pag: 1093

☂
Vol: 6. pag: 1124, 1125, &c.etc. where
this
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had her House &and Effects of a Consi-
derable value burntburned as was attested
by the best in that Island, Made it
her Chief BussinessBusiness to get for And
carry to the Prisoners every thingeverything
that possibly she could So that she
was Justly called the PrisonersPrisoners' Nurse,
When Mr Nairn Made his Escape
sad and dismalldismal was the treatment
she mettmet with, poor woman what
small Effects she had got (she be-
ing in Town some time before) was
taken from her, and she was carried
to the Guard among a House full of
sogars and the Orders were ytthat she
should not be allowdallowed to sittsit or LyLie
down &and in that Condition she was
keept for three days &and three Nights
the Common Language she was inter-
taindentertained with, she will not nor cannot
Express, she was at five Court Mar-
tialls had many promises &and many
ThreatningsThreatenings such as ScowrgingScourging, to
tell who had a hand in Mr Nairns
Escape she was keept seven weeks
thereafter in Common Prison, and
Contracted a swelling in her Legs
that she’ll never get the better of.

Murdoch Mcraw was taken in or near Fort Augustus

this Story is more minutely told. The Agreement or Same-
ness of Circumstances in the Narrative of Mr Hay &and Mr
Stewart is the more remarkable, as I never allowed Mr Hay
to know ytthat I had got any Thinganything fmfrom Mr Stewart, who went from
Leith
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Fort Augustus,✝ who had no Concern in
the Highland Army, He was nearest Re-
lation to the ChiftainChieftain of that Name 3,
being Sent Prisoner to Inverness, where
He was not above one Hour when He
was hang’dhanged at the Cross on the Apple
Tree. the Only Thing they alledg’dalleged agstagainst
Him, that He was a Spy, qchwhich He posi-
tively denyddenied and qnwhen they put the Rope
about his neck, He believing they did it
for their diversion said, You have gone
far enough if this be Jest: He was
keept hanging there naked, a Night &and
the most of two dayesdays, He appeared
all the time as if he had been sleep-
ing, his mouth and Eyes being shut
clossclose, a very uncommon thing in those
who die such a Death. Sometimes they
coverdcovered at other times they uncoverduncovered
his secret parts And whipdwhipped the Dead
Body for their diversion.

X
Euvan X Mckay was taken in the High-
lands by a Whig Teacher,4 with Letters
in French or Cyphers5 and was Sent
into Town, where He was most barba-
rously and inhumanly treated. Being
asked from whom He had, And to whom
He was going with the ^Letters To qchwhich He giving
no Answer, got five hunderd Lashes
being ty’dtied to a Stake, and then Sent to Prison

Leith to London, &and from London to Carolina 6; so that
Mr Hay &and he had no Opportunity of comparing Notes toge-
ther. An undeniable Proof of yethe Truth of the Facts. I take
yethe same Fact fmfrom ten different Hands if I can have it fmfrom
so many.

✝
In ysthis Vol: 1121.

X
Mackvee says Stewart, pag: 1122.

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Prison again; some dayesdays after He
got five hunderedhundred more and they
Threatn’dThreatened to whip him to Death if
He would not discover what they
wanted, None durst go nigh Him
while in the Pit with any Neces-
sary and when they threw down
a pound of Meal qchwhich was all
the Allowance given to any One
of the Prisoners it was found un-
touchduntouched, He being sickly, full of
sores, and Most barbarously Struck
by one of the Sogars, with the
Butt of his Gun in the Breast of
qchwhich He complain’dcomplained while He lived,
At last He was carryedcarried to the
Tollbooth; One there said to Him
that He was a great Fool not to
discover what He knew, To qchwhich
He gave a noble return, You
are the Fool, It signifies Nothing
what they can do to me (Let them
do the Worst) in respect of what
could be done to those from whom
I had &and to qmwhom I was going with
the Letters, their Deaths would be
great Loss but mine will be none.
His FayrFather &and He had Considerable
Effects and all were taken, &and the poor
Father was begging in the Town that very 1320 (1320)
very time but durst not say that He was
his son; A Charitable Person (qnwhen He dyeddied)
sent word, that if they would allow his
Body one Hour to be unburied, A Coffin
&and Grave CloathsClothes would be got; But
that was refused; Being carryedcarried to the
Grave by two or three ^Beggars a sogar went
and thrust his Bayonet several times
into the Body to try (as He said) if the
RebellRebel was Dead.

X Jo:John Fraser, then present ProvestProvost, was
taken from denner by an Officer and
musquetiersmusketeers to CumberlandsCumberland's stable
where he was orderdordered to Clean it,
He said He never CleandCleaned his own,
He was oblidgedobliged to gettget men to do
it, and there stay, for some Hours,
untilluntil they had done.

ProvestProvost ✝ Hosack with the MajestratesMagistrates
having gone to the Levie to pay their
ComplementsCompliments, Hearing Orders given
to shut the Ports that no RebellRebel
might escape And that the Meeting
House should be burndburned &and the Man
who preachdpreached in it, said He hoped
they would mix mercy with Judgement,
Upon qchwhich They said D—[a]mDamn you Puppie 7
do you pretend to dictate here they
orderdordered Him to be kickdkicked down stairs;
accordingly He was tossdtossed to the stair
head, from One to Another, &and there One of

X ✝
Vol: 2. p: 380. Vol: 7. p: 1378.
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of A Considerable Character gave
Him A toss that He never touchdtouched
the stair untilluntil He was at the
foot of the first flate8 of it; These
two Gentlemen were ill✝ rewarded,
for none could be more Attached to
the Government, than they were;
But they had Compassion on the
DistressdDistressed &and OppressdOppressed qchwhich was then
ane unpardonable Crime of the
deepest dye. When the orders, a-
bout the meeting House, were given,
by Halley, Husk Said, that it should
be taken down &and the Timber given
for the Ovens qchwhich was done.

ItsIt's not possible to find out the Cer-
tainty of the PoysonedPoisoned Bread, I was
told by a Person of CrediteCredit, that a
woman in great want, saw them
burying Bread, qchwhich afterwards,
she took a part of, and she and
her two Children did Eat of it,
and all the Three were dead
within 24 Hours. One of C—[umberland]sCumberland's
sogars said there were some
wagons with poysonedpoisoned Bread And
ane Gentleman belonging to his
Army told the same, for He would
not (He said) midle wtwith theretheir Bread,
this is all I can learn about it.
A

✝
Lucky indeed! for I had it fmfrom one of Inverness ytthat Lists, of yethe
disaffected were made up; but ysthis treatment prevented any
Information of that kind.

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A Gentleman who was long Prisoner
in Inverness told me, that He saw
an Officer, winter 46 qnwhen it was ex-
cessivly Cold, and the fireingfiring so scarce
that the Inhabitants had the great-
est difficulty to get any at the great-
est price qnwhen the Prisoners, many times
were crying, that they would Sterve
with Cold, give half a Crown to the
sogars to go in a very Cold night &and
extinguish the PrisonersPrisoners' fire and Light
qchwhich they did accordingly All the Of-
ficers of BleckneysBlakeney's RegementRegiment ex-
cept three were extremely Cruel,
but none exceeded Captain ✝ Dunlope
who OccasiondOccasioned the Prisoners much mi-
sery He being BleckneysBlakeney's AdvicerAdvisor, who
being a man of aX TimerousTimorous dispositi-
on was affraidafraid to leave undone qtwhat
He Dunlop thought proper to be done.
CollColonel: ⓧ Lightown was like an InfernallInfernal
FiandFiend, qnwhen Mr Nairn made his Escape
and was one of poor Anna Mckayes's,
greatest persecuteorspersecutors, who sometimes
offerdoffered her severallseveral Guineas &and promisdpromised
to do great things for her, if she
would tell who assisted Mr Nairn, and
who were in the knowledge of his e-
scapeingescaping: At other times He threatnedthreatened Her

✝
In this Vol. p: 1296.

X
Not only so, but likewise of
a most peevish, tyrannical Disposition, to my certain Know-
ledge &and Experience, of qchwhich I may come to give some In-
stances, qnwhen I have more Leisure.

ⓧ
Vol: 6. p: 1125
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Her in a terrible Manner with seve-
rallseveral punishments p+arlyparticularly ScourgeingScourging,
But all proved in Vain.

When an Account was given that
there were many wounded in Houses
on the field of BatleBattle, The Orders
given were, that the ✝Houses should
be Xburntburned, and all within ymthem &and if
any offerdoffered to come out that they
should be shot; ItsIt's impossible to
know qtwhat number suffer’dsuffered; there were
three TennantsTenants' Houses and all their
Office Houses, The first that venturdventured
to go near that place Saw most
shocking sights, some of their Bo-
dies boiling, And oyrsothers Lying with
the Marks of their φRuffels, qchwhich
when they touchdtouched they went into ⓧAshes.

Orders were given on the ΠF^rydayFriday
to ane Officer, Hobbie or such a name,
that He should go to the Field of
BatleBattle and cause carry there all
the wounded in the Neighbouring
Houses at a milesmile's distance some
more some less, &and kill them upon
the field, qchwhich Orders were ObeydObeyed ac-
cordingly, qnwhen these Orders were given
at the Levie An Officer who was well pleasd

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Vol: 5. pag: 1090.

φ ⓧ
I well remember, that Mr Fran-
cis Stewart, in conversing with me upon these dismal Mat-
ters, mentioned this Circumstance of the Ruffels, &and their
turning into Ashes, qnwhen touched.

Π
Vol: 5. p:1087. Vol: 7. p: 1376.

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pleasdpleased told it to his Comrades, One of
them replydreplied D—[a]mDamn Him who had taken
that Orders, He could not do ane inhu-
mane thing, thothough no mercy should be
shewnshown to the Rebels.

An Officer was heard more than once
say, that He Saw that day seventy
two killdkilled, or as He termdtermed it knocked
in the Head, He was a young Captain

✝An Officer upon his return from
Seeing the field of BatleBattle, told He saw
a beautifullbeautiful young man quite naked &and
mortally wounded, who beggdbegged of Him
that He might shoot him qchwhich shockdshocked the
Officer who said, God forbid How can you
imagine that, He replyedreplied, that He had
seen seventeen shot by an Officer &and
those who were orderdordered by Him, The Offi-
cer gave him a dram qchwhich He greedily
took &and no wonder, and put like a sack
upon a Horse &and carryedcarried to an House,
qrwhere there were wounded
[
red Coats who
were most disagreeable Neighbours to Him
from that He was carrydcarried to an Hospi-
tallHospital, And therafter to Anna MckaysMacKay's
House qrwhere there were Very poor Intertain-
mentEntertainment but she did all she possibly could
for him by her care he was preservdpreserved
&and is now healthy &and strong.X
When

✝ X
Upon reading this Paragraph I plainly saw, that
MacDonald of Bellfinlay (Vol: 4. p: 707. Vol: 6. p: 1171, 1172
1212, 1234) behovedbehooved to be the Person meant in it; &and
therefore I waited upon Bellfinlay in the Canongate
(he being still confined wtwith the sore Leg) at 12 o’Clock
on Tuesday, May 23d, 1749, when I read in his Hearing the
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When the Red CoatsCoats' Wounds were dressddressed
by Ane Surgeon One of the P—[rince]s’Prince's men
beggdbegged He might dress Him, to qchwhich He reply-ed

the above Paragraph, &and asked him particu-
lar Questions about all the Circumstances
contained in it, to which he gave me plain
&and distinct Answers. Bellfinlay said, that he
himself behovedbehooved certainly to be the wounded Person
meant in the said Paragraph, but that it was not
literally true, that he [Bellfinlay] desired the Offi-
cer [Hamilton] positively to shoot him; for that he
earnestly begged Hamilton to have pity upon him,
or to dispatch him: To which Hamilton answered,
“Be not afraid, I don’t believe, the Sogers will
“shoot you.” To this Bellfinlay replied, “How can I
“expect, that they will spare me more than those
“whom they are no^w dispatching?” But Bellfinlay men-
tioned not Seventeen or any particular Number.
Then it was that Hamilton gave Bellfinlay a
cordial Dram (as Bellfinlay himself termed
it) &and interposed for his PreservaonPreservation. After this
Belfinlay was put upon a Horse (not like a Sack,
but) astraddle, &and was carried to a Tenant’s House
in the Neighbourhood, where there were wounded
Red Coats, &cetc. From this House he was taken next Day
in a Cart, &and in his Way to Inverness he fell in with
RotRobert Nairn in another Cart, &and both of ymthem were thus
driven to the Door of yethe Church in Inverness, where
there were many Prisoners confined; but the Sentry
would not allow them Access, telling, that his Orders
were, “to allow Access to no Person whatsomever.”
Then[] they were driven (being still quite naked)
to the Hospital, where the Nurse received them with
great Tenderness, making a Bed for them, near the
Fire, as she looked upon ymthem to be of Cumberland’s
Army; but next Day qnwhen the Surgeons came yrtheir Round,
&and took a Note of their Names, then the Nurse be-
came very surly &and ill-natured, &and repented of her
Kindness to them. The Surgeons reported them to some
principal Officer, qowho immediately, gave Orders to remove
ymthem out of yethe Hospital (qrewhere they had been only one Night)
&and one CapnCaptain Sinclair of GenlGeneral Ruth’s Regiment, qowho had been
in yethe Hospital before ymthem. All the three were carried to a Cel-
lar below Anne Mackay’s House, &and Orders given to take the
Blankets fmfrom ymthem qchwhich they had gotten in yethe Hospital. In
three Weeks Sinclair was removed to a Room having only
a slight Flesh-wound.

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ed that He would willingly do it but it
was to no purpose, for He would be shottshot
the Morrow, qchwhich made the poor distressddistressed
CrawlX in the night, on his fours, An
incredible distance, by qchwhich means He
EscapdEscaped.

ItsIt's most surprising &and never can be Account-
ed for how the wounded quite naked &and
without any kind of nourishment Lived
so long in the Open Fields the Season
being very Cold. One Instance is most
remarkable of One✝ who was dis-
abled in both Legs, and sadly wounded in
many Other places, parlyparticularly a sogar struck
him on the face with the Butt of his
Gun, qchwhich dung9 out his Eye, When the
GenerallGeneral Massacre was, He Lay as if
dead, &and on the Saturday An Officer View-
ing the field CryedCried, were there any of
ymthem in Life, to qchwhich He answerdanswered, the Offi-
cer gave him half Crown &and orderdordered Him to
be carryedcarried to an House 10, qrwhere the Red Coats
mockdmocked &and ridiculdridiculed Him surprisdsurprised to see
Such a Sad Spectacle, gave Him half
penny at parting but the inhumane,
ungenerous most barbarous CambellsCampbells rob’drobbed
him of all He got, after staying some
dayesdays, there, He was carrydcarried to his Friends
&and is now going on Crutches.
As

X
This I have before heard of by Report, &and that this
particular Instance happened on the Field of Battle, from
qchwhich the poor wounded Man crawled by Favour of yethe dark Night.

✝
Here, no doubt, is meant the singular Instance
of John ÂlexrAlexander Fraser, whose Story is êlsewhere more exactly narrat-
ed than above, in this Vol: pag: 1239, &cetc. Vol: 7. p: 1372.

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X
As it is very wonderfullwonderful that these
men sadly wounded, Lying in the Open
Air without any nourishment for so
long a time, ItsIt's no less wonderfullwonderful,
That when Any of the Bodies were
CoverdCovered some dayesdays after their Death,
for none durst do it, in a proper time,
or carry ymthem away, I say itsit's wonder-
fullwonderful that One was taken up twenty
dayesdays after, and another twenty eight
dayesdayes and were without any Corrupti-
on or smell in the Least as if they
had dyeddied only that day they were
taken up. But one exceeds all very
much. A Country Man at the dis-
tance of two Miles from the field
who had no Concern with the P—[rince]11
was shot standing at his own Door,
qrwhere they were oblidgdobliged to dig the Ground
&and Lay Him, for none durst carry Him
to his Burial place, Many Months
thereafter his wife was disturbed in
her Sleep with a Voice crying take
up my Body and burrybury it, this she
told to her Friends the first &and se-
cond time, for qchwhich they mocked &and
upbraided her, but the 3dthird time she
told ymthem she would do it if she should
carry the CorpsCorpse on her back, And a-
bout ChristmassChristmas He was taken up fresh and 1328 (1328)
and carrydcarried to his Grave, this being
very strange thought it poperproper to ac-
quaint you, she was Never distur-
bed Since.

A young Gentleman of Distinction
mortally wounded Lying on the Ground,
was inquirdinquired at by C—[umberlan]d 12, to who He
belongdbelonged,
?
to qchwhich He
[
replydreplied, to the P—[rince].
then He orderdordered one of his great men
to Shoot Him,
Ⓧ
qchwhich He refused to do,
And then An OtherAnother who said He
would not, nor could not, do it Then
He ApplydApplied to A Common sogar who
obeydobeyed Him.

No Doubt you have heard of a woman
in the Highlands when in Labour of
Child with 9
nine
or 10
ten
women a party Ac-
quainted their Commander of it who
OrderdOrdered that the House should be burntburned
with All who were in it, this qnwhen told
by A CollonelColonel, who was there, but
had not the Command, cryedcried &and shed
Tears, that such a barbarous Action
should be committed by any who were
called Christians.

McGillavry of Delcrombie who was
not ingag'dengaged wtwith the P—[rince] being at two
Miles distance from the Field of Ba-
tle, without Any Arms, was attacked
by Dragoons, who oblidgedobliged Him to Cast
ofoff all his CloathsClothes, And give them to them, 1329 (1329)
them, to prevent their dismounting,
his CloathsClothes being too good for them
to part with, And then they shot
him Dead, If they had had but
Swords, and He One, He would have
given 2 or 3 of them Enough of it.

^Vol: 8. pag: 1679, 1680.

The Men of Glenmoristown &and
Urquhart were advisdadvised to go to Inver-
ness &and deliver up their Arms upon
solemn promises that they should re-
turn Safe with protections qchwhich in-
couragdencouraged also those who were not
ingagdengaged to go, How soon they went
there, they were put into a Church
keept there ClossClose Prisoners for a
few dayesdays, &and then put into ships
for London, the few that livdlived, with
their sad Treatment, were sent to
the Plantations; To qmwhom the Breach
of this Promise is owing, LyesLies a Se-
cret betwixt the MercifullMerciful ✝ GllGeneral &and
and

Beloved X Knight, for the One assert-
ed, He had allowance to do so, and
the other refused,
[
so ytthat every Bodyeverybody
will be in a strait qchwhich of these good
MensMen's words, they can doubt of.

{Vol: 7
{p: 1489, &cetc.

The Horses, CowesCows &and Calfs, Ewes &and
Lambs, Goats &and Kids, were taken out of my

✝
Here, no doubt, Mr Hay means yethe D:Duke of Cumber-
land.

X
Here Mr Hay certainly means the Laird
of Grant, who is highly blamed in this particular
Affair. See Vol: 2. pag: 312, 313.

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my L.Lord LovatsLovat's Country the ✝Aird, &and Glen-
mazerin, &and keept sterving And crying,
qchwhich was not agreeable to hear or see,
The Common treatment they mettmet with,
was a StroakStroke, from the sogars, with
D—[a]mDamn your soul you RebellRebel, these
poor Creatures deservddeserved to suffer, being
highly CriminallCriminal, &and if any of ymthem were
sent with the great Flocks from the
Highlands, They (like the ill gotten penny)
Infected &and consumed all their kind in
England, &and no wonder for many Inno-
cent Persons were deprivddeprived of their All.
X
Six of seven Weeks after the Ba-
tle of Colloden The Party Commanded
by Major Lockart in Glenmoriston shot
two Old and One young man, a son of
one, of the former,13 When they were
harrowing, &and expecting no harm.

Grant ⓧ of Daldrigan who took no Concern
with the Highland Army, was ordered
by Lockart (his House being surrounded by
Sogars) to gather his Own, and all the
CatleCattle in One part of the Country while
Lockart was herryingharrying and burning
the other part qchwhich being impossible
for Him to do agstagainst the time that Lock-
art came back, He orderdordered Him to be
bound in Hand &and foot Erecting a Gal-
lows StriptStripped Him naked &and would not
allow his nakedness to be CoverdCovered, And
Carried Him to the foot of the Gallows, with the

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Vol: 8. pag: 1680, 1681, 1682.
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the three CorpsCorpses of the men they had
killed the day before, Like Sacks a
Cross on three Horses and hung the
three Bodies by the feet, in the
Gallows, And they at the same time
would have killed Daldrigan had
not Captain Grant in LowdensLoudoun’s
RegementRegiment prevented it. They would
hardly allow his wife time to take
her Rings ofoff
f
her fingers, but were
going to CuttCut ofoff her fingers having
StriptStripped her of her CloathsClothes her House
And Effects being burntburned. And in
the Braes of Glenmoriston a Party
there ravishdravished a Gentlewoman big
with Child And TennantsTenants' wives
and left ymthem on the Ground after
they were ravishdravished by all the party.
And Lockart in his way to strath-
glass Shot a Man widing14 a water
with the whig TeachersTeacher's protection in
his hand to shewshow Him, without
Speaking one word. And the whole
party ravishdravished there a woman big with
Child and left her on the Ground al-
most dead, All these are Certain facts
qchwhich may be depended upon, being known
by a Person of good CrediteCredit.

Campbell an Officer of Militia who was
a Chamberlain to seaforth with a party went to 1332 (1332)
to
Vol: 8. pag: 1682.
Fraser of KilborkiesCulbokie's, who was not with
the Highland Army, And burntburned all his
Houses &and Effects, they could not take with
ymthem, &and took 13 Score of CatleCattle with many
Horses of the best Kind his loss was va-
lued at 10,000 merks And his wife being
brought to Bed 14 dayesdays before they
forc’dforced her to fly with a Daughter in
Fever to the Open Fields qrwhere they Lay
that whole night being very Cold. For
SeverallSeveral days They killed man wife &and
Child, many miles from the field of Ba-
tleBattle; At 5 miles distance Ane Honest
poor Woman, On the day of BatleBattle, who
was brought to Bed Sunday before flying
with her Infant, was attackdattacked by 4
Dragoons who gave her Seven Wounds
in the head throthrough one plaid which
was eight fold &and One in the Arm. Then
One of them took the Infant by the
Thigh, threw it about his hand And
at last to the Ground, Her Husband
at the same time was Chas’dChased into
a Moss so far, that One of the Horse
could not come out, where his Rider
shottshot Him, The young Infant who
was so roughly maletreatmaltreat is a fine
Boy, &and the Mother recoverdrecovered, And is
living.

Three dayesdays after the BatleBattle, at 4 miles dis-
stance The sogars most barbarously ✝ cut a Wo-man

✝
This appears to be yethe same Story wtwith that in Vol: 5.
pag: 1089.

1333(1333)
man in many places of her Body
partlyparticularly in the Face. I am promised
some more Facts in few dayesdays, but
I did not incline to lose the Oppor-
tunity of this Bearer.

ThoThough the running ✝ naked be common-
ly reported I have not got an Ac-
count of the Certainty. I beg you
May let me know when this comes
to your hands.

Here end the 15 Pages (4toquarto) in
the Hand-writing of the RevdReverend
Mr James Hay in Inverness.

See ~~Pag:~~^^^Vol: 7. Pag: 1425, &cetc.
[]

✝
This refers to a Story I have heard frequently re-
ported, viz, that the SoldiersSoldiers’ Wives, &and other Women
in the Camp at Fort-Augustus, should (quite naked)
have run Races, Sometimes on foot, &and some-
times mounted astraddle on Highland Shalties,15
for the Entertainment of Cumberland &and his Officers. See Scots Magaz:Magazine for June, 1746, p: 288, 1st Col:Column


Date	12 May 1749
Person	Revd.Reverend Mr. James Hay
Place	Inverness