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Nam Anno 1640 hi cum 120 virorum manû, Bradalbiam in-
gressi, ingentem indidem pecorum gregem abegerunt. Camp-
belli verò, collectâ, quàm ex improviso poterant magnâ, manû
(erant enim eorum Principum circiter 80 præsto, in cele-
brandis cujusdam Generosi Nuptiis, haud procul intensi),
abactores insequuntur. Prœlium in Monte dicto
factum est. Non diu tamen pugnatum cùm Campbelli (etsi
numero plures), variis ex eorum Præcipuis eodem loci crudeliter
cæsis, sunt debellati.

POSTEA Argatheliæ Marchio (quippe, sese, assiduis infestari
molestiis, a Brealochabriensibus, verebatur), habitas cum iis
inimicitias composuit, iisque 3000 Mercas, injuriarum
allatarum compensationem, persolvit, idque, ingenti cæde, et
depopulationibus, ab iis, in Campbellorum Tribum, perpe-
tratis, non obstante.

ANNO 1644, fœderatis Scotis, Angliam, cum exercitû 18,000
Peditum et 2000 Equitum, ingressis, Rex Domino Makintoshio
Epistolam, res, et penè verba subsequentia, comprehendentem,
scripsit.

[page 272.]

CAROLUS R.

Fidelissime et perdilecte, Salve. Quandoquidem omnia

Campbells) to the Lochaber people were not long unavenged,
for in the year 1640 they went, with a band of 120 men, into
Breadalbane, and from thence carried away an immense drove of
cattle. But the Campbells, having collected a company as hastily
as they could (for they were readily increased by about eighty of
their chief men who were celebrating the marriage of a certain
gentleman not far off) pursued the raiders. A battle took place
on a hill called : the fight, however, had not con-
tinued long, when the Campbells, although more in number, were
defeated, and several of their leaders cruelly killed at the same
place. Thereafter the Marquis of Argyll (because he was afraid
of being continually molested by the Brae Lochaber men) settled
the feuds he had with them, and paid them 3000 merks as com-
pensation for the wrongs he had done to them, and that notwith-
standing the great slaughter and pillaging inflicted by them on
the Clan Campbell.

In the year 1644, the Scots Covenanters having entered
England with an army of 18,000 foot and 2,000 horse, the king
wrote a letter to the laird of Mackintosh, containing the matter
and almost the words following:

'CHARLES R.

'Right trusty and well-beloved, we greet you well. Whereas