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nosque valuerimus, unicuique, pro suo merito, debitum
rependere præmium, tibi, quicquid favoris, a Principe clemen-
tissimo in fidelem et bene merentem Subditum conferri debet,
expectare fas erit. Itaque, te, et res quascunque ponderosas,
tuæ creditas curæ, bene dicenti Deo commendantes, tibi ex
animo valedicimus. Datum apud Aulam nostram Oxoniensem
Quinto Die Februarii, et Decimo Nono nostri Regni Anno
164¾.

MENSE Augusto, Annoque 1644, omnis Makintoshii Tribus,
cunctique clientes, qui, Badenochenses agros incolebant, sese,
Regiis partibus adjunxere, primique omnium erant, qui, ex
professo, Regiam caussam, adversus fœderatos Scotos asserue-
runt, et Badenochenses, magnaque, residuorum Makintoshii
Cognatorum pars unà cum universis Brelochabriæ colonis,
indubitatâ animi constantiâ, et in concussâ fidelitate, Marchioni
a Montrois (primario Regiorum exercituum Duci), per omnes
angustias et cuncta discrimina, adhæsere, inque omnibus, quæ
gesserit, prœliis, suis præsto fuerat Personis, neque, illum
ullatenus deseruere donec (præcipiente Rege) impositum
exoneravit munus, Regnumque Scotiæ reliquit. Postea verò,
a Marchionis a Montrois tunc temporis decessû, ex Populo

have been settled, and we shall be able to repay to every one a
due reward according to his merit, you may expect for yourself
whatever of favour ought to be conferred by a most clement
prince upon a subject so loyal and well deserving. Therefore,
commending you, and the weighty matters intrusted to your
care, to the blessing of God, we heartily bid you farewell. Given
at our court at Oxford, the fifth day of February, in the nine-
teenth year of our reign, 164¾.'

In August 1644, the whole clan of Mackintosh, and all the
vassals who dwelt on the lands of Badenoch, joined themselves to the
royalists, and were the first of all who avowedly asserted the royal
cause against the Scots Covenanters; and the Badenoch men, and
a large part of the remaining kindred of Mackintosh, together
with the whole tenants of Brae Lochaber did adhere, with un-
doubted steadfastness of mind and unwavering fidelity, to the
Marquis of Montrose (chief commander of the royal troops),
throughout all straits and dangers, and were present in all the
battles which he fought, nor did they ever desert him until, by
command of the king, he resigned the charge laid upon him and
left the kingdom of Scotland. But afterwards, on the departure
at that time of the Marquis of Montrose, some of the Badenoch