History of the Frasers of Lovat. To which is added those of Dunballoch and Phopachy |
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afterwards Alexander Fraser Andrew Anne April army Atholl Balnain barony Beaufort Beauly Belladrum born brother Captain Castle Castle Dounie Charles charter chief Chisholm clan Colonel command Court Culbokie Culduthel Culloden dated daughter death died unmarried died without issue Donald Earl Edinburgh eldest Elizabeth Eskadale Fanellan Farraline father favour Forbes Fraser of Foyers Fraser of Lovat Fraserdale friends gentlemen George Grant Guisachan heir and successor Highlands honour Hugh Fraser Inverallochy James Fraser Janet John Fraser July June King King's Knockie Lady Lovat lands letter London Lord Fraser Lord Lovat Lord Simon Lordship Macdonald Mackenzie Mackintosh Macleod Major March Margaret marriage married Mary Master of Lovat merks Moray Munro person Phopachy Reelick Regiment Robert Ross says Scotland Scots Seaforth September Simon Fraser Simon Lord Lovat Sir James Sir Simon Stewart Stratherrick Strichen Struy succeeded Sutherland Thomas Fraser Tutor wife William Fraser
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Page 184 - Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man. For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my Maker would soon take me away.
Page 701 - Charles, Prince of Wales, and Regent of Scotland, England, France, and Ireland, and the Dominions thereunto belonging...
Page 160 - ... what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me ; I also have heard thee, saith the Lord.
Page 554 - Take your stations in that clump of bushes, and do your duty." Within five minutes Fraser fell, mortally wounded, and was carried to the British camp by two grenadiers. Just previously to his being struck by...
Page 438 - ... you must be hanged by the neck, but not till you are dead ; for you must be cut down alive ; then your bowels must be taken out, and burnt before your faces ; then your heads must be severed from your bodies, and your 'bodies must be divided, each into four quarters, and these must be at the King's disposal. And God Almighty be merciful to your souls...
Page 445 - ... his lady would receive from seeing her. The chief then went to the lonely tower in which Lady Lovat was secluded without decent clothes, and even without sufficient nourishment. He laid a dress before her becoming her rank, commanded her to put it on, to appear, and to receive her friend as if she were the mistress of the house, in which she was, in fact, a naked and half-starved prisoner.
Page 184 - For I am full of matter, The spirit within me constraineth me. Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent ; It is ready to burst like new bottles.
Page 220 - Now, in a letter from his father to the Earl of Argyle, subscribed by himself and other gentlemen of his clan, he says, " Also they'll have my son and his complices guilty of a rape, though his wife was married to him by a minister, and they have always lived since as man and wife.
Page 396 - Loose men that comes from the Highland Army, and to seize them and to send them to Inverness. By this project I hope to contribute to the preservation and peace of the Country as much as any two Independent Companys that are at Inverness.
Page 366 - I defyed them then, as I do now, and do declare to you upon honour, that I do not know what has become of that woman, where she is or who takes care of her ; but if I had contrived, and assisted, and saved my Lord Grange from that devil, who threatened every day to murder him and his children, I would not think shame of it before God or man ; and wherever she is, I wish and hope she may never be seen again, to torment my worthy friend.