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The long life and actions of Strowan the poet have something so singular accompanying them, that I am tempted, though somewhat foreign to my subject, briefly to name some circumstances. His family were all of them stanch friends to the Kings of Scotland for ages. That is not singular; but it is very singular, that the same man should be engaged in the first and last attempts made to preserve on the throne, at the Revolution in 1689, and to restore to it, in 1745, the race of kings under whom he was born, and to whom he had sworn allegiance. When he first fought in 1689, in the battle of Killycrankie, for the house of Stuart, King James the Second, of England, was then acknowledged by all Scotland as lawful sovereign; and although Strowan was then a minor, and did no more than firmly support the loyal cause, and the then lawful and acknowledged king, by his country; the parliament of Scotland passed sentence of forfeiture against him in the year 1690; and that sentence remained in force all his life. This forfeiture bore hard upon that Strowan; but still more so on his heir. Had Strowan the poet taken up arms, in his old age,