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illuc pervenisset, procellosis recentium difficultatum et perplexi-
tatum fluctibus agitabatur. Imprimis, per spatium bimestre,
jubente Cancellario, detinetur. Deinceps, seriis efflagitabatur
rogatibus ut, agros suos Lochabrienses vilissimo et despicabili
pretio venderet (cui astipulari nullo modo voluit). Tertio,
denique, illi, omnes Clanchattanos, quietè sese et tranquillè
gesturos, obstringere, mandatum est, quo etiam ponderosis
rationum momentis recusato, tandem, servos suos, inquilinos
et famulos legi obsecuturos, sese obligare efficitur. 4^to, Pacem
nullatenus violare, aut, nullas, saltem, excitare copias sub-
sequente æstate inhibetur, domumque postea regredi per-
mittitur.

MAKINTOSHIUS statim a regressû, suorum cognatorum animos,
inviolabili sinceri amoris vinculo, sibimet agglutinare, vigen-
tesque inter illos animositates, tenebroso perpetuæ oblivionis
sippario involvendas tradere, omnes ingenii nervos intendit,
atque ita, Mensem Maium, Junium, Juliique nonnihil, trans-
egit (quippe, datas sibi, a Cancellario discedenti, injunctiones
in memoriam revocavit). Verùm, penitiori oculo, tristem
rerum suarum statum perpendens, messisque tempora, solito

But, forthwith, when he came there he was tossed on the stormy
waves of fresh difficulties and perplexities. First, by the chancellor's
order, he was detained for the space of two months. Then he
was importuned by urgent request to sell his lands in Lochaber
at the lowest and most despicable price (to which he would on no
account submit). In the third and last place, he was commanded
to oblige all the Clanchattan people to behave themselves quietly
and peaceably; which also, for weighty reasons, he refused; but
at length he was prevailed upon to yield that his servants and
tenants should bind themselves to submit to the law. Fourthly,
he was enjoined not to disturb the peace, or, at least, not to raise
any forces in the following summer. He was then permitted to
return home.

On his return, Mackintosh immediately applied himself with all
his energies to attach the minds of his kinsmen to himself, by the
inviolable bond of sincere affection, and to give up all the ani-
mosities existing among them to be wrapped in the dark veil of
perpetual oblivion, so that during the months of May, June and
July he accomplished somewhat (for he called to mind the injunc-
tions given to him when he was leaving the Chancellor). But on
a deeper and deliberate view of the sad condition of his affairs,
and observing that the harvest would come with tardier pace than