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Fourteenth, not even when he was encamped between Utrecht chap.and Amsterdam, treat the States General with such despotic 16a3 ‘~insolence.* By the intervention of the Privy Council of Scot-land a compromise was effected: but the old animosity wasundiminished.

Common enmities and common apprehensions produced invcmes*

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a good understanding between the town and the clan ofedbyMackintosh. The foe most hated and dreaded by both was naid ofColin Macdonald of Keppoch, an excellent specimen of the Keppoch ’genuine Highland Jacobite. Keppoch’s whole life had beenpassed in insulting and resisting the authority of the Crown.

He had been repeatedly charged on his allegiance to desistfrom his lawless practices, but had treated every admonitionwith contempt. The government, however, was not willingto resort to extremities against him; and he long continued torule undisturbed the stormy peaks of Coryarriek, and thegigantic terraces which still mark the limits of what was oncethe Lake of Glenroy. He was famed for his knowledge of allthe ravines and caverns of that dreary region; and such wasthe skill with which he could track a herd of cattle to the mostsecret hidingplace that he was known by the nickname of Collof the Cows.** At length his outrageous violations of all lawcompelled the Privy Council to take decided steps. He wasproclaimed a rebel: letters of fire and sword were issued againsthim under the seal of James; and, a few weeks before theRevolution, a body of royal troops, supported by the wholestrength of the Mackintoshes, marched into Keppoch’s terri-tories. He gave battle to the invaders, and was victorious.

The King’s forces were put to flight; the King’s captain wasslain; and this by a hero whose loyalty to the King many writers

* I am indebted to Mr. Carrutliers for a copy of the demands of theMacdonalds and of the answer of the Town Council.

** Colt’s Deposition, Appendix, to the Act. Pari, of July 14.1660.

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