218 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I
IN hujus parricidiæ
vindictam Donaldus Makintosh (aliàs
glas), Makintoshii ex fratre Gulielmo nepos, et Donaldus
Makintosh (aliàs mak william vic allan ejus consanguineus
ope Domini mak Gregor, qui, trucidati sororem duxerat, post
tempus trimestre, Johannem Malcolmsonam, prope ANAKELT,
apprehendunt, et, in insulâ Rothemurchusiâ catenis vinctum
ponunt, ubi detinetur donec Comes Morraviensis Scotiæ Regens
(et trucidati Levir) in Septentrionem venit, in cujus
præsentiâ
obtruncatus est 1 Maii Anno 1531. Verùm reliqui Makin-
toshiorum tàm infestis animis percussorem persecuti sunt, ut,
illum, aliosque sui sceleris socios, extremo supplicio paulo
post
merito mulctaverint. Lesleus Lib. 9 de Gestis Scotorum.
Itidem Milmorus, cum fratre residuisque sceleris sociis,
capti
sunt, et meritas pœnas luunt, et eorum manus conto affixæ
sunt
ubi suum Dominum trucidaverunt.
[page 236.]
QUOD verò Makintoshii
filius (ut scribit Lesleus) propter
tenellam ætatem, ad subditos paulo ferociores, metû pœnâque
continendos, ineptior videretur, ejus consanguineum, cui
nomen
Hectori Makintoshio communi consentione delegerunt Ducem
quoad tenellus, ejus consanguineus, per ætatis
maturitatem,
In revenge of this
parricide, Donald Mackintosh (alias Glas),
nephew of Mackintosh by his brother William, and Donald
Mackintosh (alias MacWilliam vic Allan), his kinsman, with
the
help of the laird of MacGregor, who had married the sister of
the murdered man, about three months after, apprehended John
Malcolmson, near Anakelt, and put him bound in chains on the
island of Rothemurchus, where he should be detained until the
Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland (and brother-in-law of the
slain
man) came to the north, in whose presence he was beheaded on
1st May 1531. But the rest of the Mackintoshes so fiercely
pur-
sued the murderer, that they soon after punished him and the
other associates of his wickedness by death as they deserved.
Leslie, book 9, De Gestis Scotorum. In like manner, Milmor,
with
his brother and the residue of their companions in crime,
were
taken, and suffered merited punishments, and their hands were
stuck upon a pole where they had murdered their chief.
Because, as Leslie
writes, the son of Mackintosh seemed unfit,
by reason of his tender age, to govern by fear and punishment
subjects somewhat unruly, his kinsman, Hector Mackintosh, was
by common consent elected chief, until the youth, his
kinsman,
should by maturity of age be able to hold the government of
his
clan. So Leslie.