 | John Mansfield (of Brasenose coll.) - 1790 - 184 pages
...WILLIAM R. As for Macjan of Glencoe, and that tribe, if they can be well diftinguifhed from the reft of the Highlanders, it will be proper, for the vindication of public juftice, to extirpate that fet of thieves. WR This was direfted to Sir Thomas Levingfton and Colonel... | |
 | Trials - 1816 - 750 pages
...have no retreat intHfeir bounds, the passes to Ronoch would be secured. " As for Mac- Jan of Glenco and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished...public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves. " WR" " This was directed to sir Thomas Levingstou and colonel Hill. And the parliament has voted that... | |
 | Elizabeth Isabella Spence - Highlands (Scotland) - 1817 - 744 pages
...Order is thus given in the Memoirs of the Massacre of Glenco: " WILLIAM R. " As for Mackean of Glenco and that tribe, if they can be " well distinguished...public justice, to extirpate '' that set of thieves. " WR" " This was directed to Sir Thomas Levingston and Colo" nel Hill. And the parliament has voted... | |
 | Larkin - Highland (Scotland) - 1819 - 372 pages
...of the Masgacre of Glenco: " WILLIAM R. " As for Mackean of Glenco and that tribe, if they can be 11 well distinguished from the rest of the Highlanders,...public justice, to extirpate " that set of thieves. " WR" " This was directed to Sir Thomas Levingston and Colo-. " nelHill. And the parliament has voted... | |
 | Catholics - 1825 - 362 pages
...following warrant was issued under thu sign manual : — • William R. ' As fur MacKean of Glenco, and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished...vindication of public justice, to extirpate that set ol thieves. ' WR' " Accordingly, about the beginning of February 1G92, troops were ordered to perpetrate... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scotland - 1829 - 360 pages
...Glencoe,and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished from the rest of the Highlanders, itwill be proper, for the vindication of public justice,...You will remark the hypocritical clemency and real crueltyof these instructions, which profess a readiness to extend mercy to those who needed it not,... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - Literature - 1835 - 460 pages
...submit themselves at thj ver\ last hour, but they closed the gate of mercy against the devoted MacIan who had already done all that was required of others....for the vindication of public justice, to extirpate ih:.i set of thieves." You will remark the hypocritical clemency and real cruelty of these instructions,... | |
 | William Beattie - 1838 - 336 pages
...; and that, " if the tribe of Glenco could be separated from the rest of the Highlanders, it would be proper for the vindication of public justice to extirpate that set of thieves !"* For the execution of this barbarous edict, care was taken to employ a detachment from the regiment... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English drama - 1846 - 278 pages
...who had already done all that was required of others. The words are remarkable :— " As for Mac Ian of Glencoe, and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished...those who needed it not (for all the other Highlanders hod submitted within the limited time), and deny it to Glencoe, the only man who had not been able... | |
 | Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland - Queens - 1847 - 492 pages
...producing the following warrant : — " WILLIAM R.1 " As for the M'Donalds of Glencoe, if they can well be distinguished from the rest of the Highlanders, it...of public justice to extirpate that set of thieves. WR" This extermination, which was extended in intention to the Frasers, and other clans in the Highlands,... | |
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As for Mac Ian of Glencoe and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished from the other Highlanders, it will be proper, for the vindication of public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves. 
