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[page 288.]

MAKINTOSHIUS, datis hisce, a suis amicis, (qui, non acceptâ
mercede, Phylarchum minimè comitari determinant) tam ridi-
culis et nullam rationem redolentibus Responsis, maximâ
incaluit indignatione. Verùm, residuos suos amicos et cognatos
semel rogatos Syngraphum signaturos, et, difficilem rerum
ipsius conditionem, propriore mentis intuitû perpensuros, pro
persuaso habens, nullum ulteriorem, in saxo volvendo, facere
progressum decrevit, nullus dubitans quin tandem aliquando
Deus Opt. Max. suos cognatos, mitigatâ paulatim eorum
asperitate, mitiore donaret Mentis Dispositione, quod postea
etiam ex animi sententiâ evenit. In Conventû enim, inter
Makintoshium nonnullosque ex suis amicis prope Templum
Kincairnense in Strathspeiâ 29 Decembris Die 1664, habito,
factum est ut omnes Nominis Catanei Generosi tunc temporis
præsentes (præmemorato Alexandro a Connage, in propositâ
sibi resolutione firmiter persistente, excepto), in Makintoshii,
adversus Clanchameronos, subsidium, subsequente Vere, assur-
gere strictis sese obligârunt vinculis. Huic Conventui Andreas
Makpherson a Cluny non aderat.

CLANCHAMERONI, Andream Makpherson et Alexandrum Mak-
intosh a Conadg, quantum penes illos erat (ut videbatur),

Mackintosh was greatly incensed by these answers given by his
friends (who were determined not to accompany their chief
without a reward) so ridiculous and void of all reason. But being
persuaded that the residue of his friends and kinsmen would sign
the bond as soon as they were desired to do so, and that they
would in a better state of mind consider the difficult position of
his affairs, he concluded to advance no further in the way of
rolling the stone, not doubting but that, when their asperity was
by degrees mitigated, God would at length give to his kinsmen
a milder frame of mind; which afterwards came to pass according
to his wish. For, in the meeting held near the church of Kin-
cairn in Strathspey, on 29th December 1664, between Mackintosh
and many of his friends, it so happened that all the gentlemen of
the Chattan name then present (excepting the aforementioned
Alexander of Connage, who firmly persisted in his resolution)
bound themselves by the straitest obligations to rise in the follow-
ing spring to the help of Mackintosh against the Clan Cameron.
Andrew Macpherson of Cluny was not present at this meeting.

On discovering that Andrew Macpherson and Alexander Mack-
intosh of Connage were (as it seemed) joined as if in conspiracy,