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tens, Comitem Morraviensem, a Curiis tunc temporis tenendis,
dimovere conatur. In contrarium, tamen, Comes suaderi
noluit. Quapropter, uterque, ad propositas suas expeditiones
peragendas, accingitur, et, decimo, Mensis Augusti Die, Anno
1665, Comes Morraviæ, a Darnowâ, et Makintoshius, a Moy-
ensi, in Strathspeyam procedere aggrediuntur.

OMNES Comitis Morraviensis Vassali cum viro, armis bene
instructo, ab uno quoque agri aratello, Superiorem comitantur.
Reliqui verò omnes Clanchattani Stratherniæ et Strathnairniæ
commorantes unà cum populo Lerchardellensi et Lerbendchar-
ensi, in Phylarchi sui subsidium consurgunt. Comes Morra-
viensis, omnem Badenochæ populum, in suarum Curiarum
observationem accedere mandat, atque, hoc modo, ille cum suis
consuasoribus (callido satis et vulpino more), Makintoshio, in
sui propositi adimpletione, omnes, quas possent, injicere re-
moras, aliosque quoscunque, quibus, in Makintoshii sublevamen,
assurgere animus erat retrahere, toto pectore incumbebant.
Verùm, quibus Divina succurrit Benignitas, frustra sese oppo-
nunt homines. Makintoshius(non obstantibus omnibus istis, quæ
intervenerunt, oppositionibus, et licèt Populus Badenochensis,
Pettiensis et Marrensis) solo Gulielmo Farquharson ab Inverey
cum 25 strenuis viris illum sectantibus exceptis (nullatenus, in

suade the Earl of Moray from holding the courts at that time.
The earl, however, would not be persuaded to the contrary.
Whereupon they both prepared to carry out their proposed expe-
ditions; and on the 10th of August 1665, the Earl of Moray set
out from Darnaway, and Mackintosh from Moy in Strathspey.

All the vassals of the Earl of Moray, with one man well trained
in arms, from each plough of land, accompanied their superior.
But all the rest of the Clanchattan, dwelling in Strathearn and
Strathnairn, together with the people of Lerchardell and Ler-
bendchar, rose to the help of their chief. The Earl of Moray
charged all the people of Badenoch to come to keep the courts;
and in this way he, with advisers (cunningly enough and foxlike),
applied themselves with all their heart to throw in all the delays
they could to hinder Mackintosh from carrying out his purpose,
and to draw back others who were of a mind to rise to his assist-
ance. But men oppose themselves in vain to those whom the
Divine Goodness succours. Notwithstanding all these oppositions
which came between, and although the people of Badenoch, Petty
and Mar (excepting only William Farquharson of Inverey, with
twenty-five active men following him) did not at that time rise