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 with a charge of malevolence. But Rob suffered severely for this noble act, for Montrose, in revenge, procured an adjudication of his estate, and it was evicted for a sum very inadequate to its value.

During this transaction, Rob Roy was in England on business, and the expulsion of his family was conducted by Graham of Killearn, under circumstances of the utmost indignity and barbarity. When M‘Gregor returned, and beheld his destitute family, his soul was filled with rage, and he determined to take revenge on the

addressed him:—‘Lamont, now you are safe:—no longer can I, or will I protect you: keep out of the way of my clan.—May God forgive and bless you.’

This happened some time before the act of proscription against the clan Gregor, in 1633, when, to the discredit of justice, a weak government sacrificed a whole people for the enormities of a few, M‘Gregor lost his property, and was hunted for his life, in consequence of this iniquitous act. He took shelter in the house of this very Lamont—noted for his urbanity, and his deep contrition for the misfortune of his younger years; and who, by every act of kindness to his venerable guest and some branches of his family, revered the providence which put it in his power to repay to the family of his benefactor in some measure, the loss he had occasioned them in the death of a son.