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[252 S. No17., Aprin 26, *56. 
and to require no stent taxations. [Drakies is an estate 
about two miles from the town, which would have been 
exceedingly convenient for the Macdonalds. ] 
“4to. The Council to swear upon oath what persons did 
draw the Macdonalds’ blood, to be delivered up to their 
mercy. 
*5to, What arms, money, clothes, goods, cattle, &c. were 
lost should be repaid to the Macdonalds, as they should 
depone upon the worth. 
**6to. When any Inverness man shall meet Lord Mac- 
donald’s friends and followers, or any one of them, that 
the Inverness men shall immediately lay down their arms 
on the ground, in token of obedience. 
“Tmo. The town to pay what sums the Macdonalds and 
their people shall have spent from the time they became 
a body until they be disbanded.” 
The consternation of the burghers, on receiving 
these demands, may be readily conceived. They 
replied cautiously to the sweeping “articles of 
peace :” 
“That upon the clan Donald disbanding, they were 
willing to give hearing to indifferent [neutral] friends, 
being conscientious and indifferent men, to speak of such 
overtures as they found necessary and expedient to be 
made use of, for removing hostilities and making a right 
understanding betwixt them.” 
The affair was submitted to the Scottish Privy 
Council, and the Macdonralds seem to have had 
the stronger influence with that body, for the 
Council decerned that the town should pay the 
clan 4,8007, Scots of damages, together with the | 
fees due to the surgeon who attended the wounded 
Macdonalds. The commissioners sent by the town 
to plead their cause before the Privy Council com. 
plained that they were — 
“greatly prejudiced, hindered, and crossed by some ill- 
affected and malicious neighbours, whereby they pretended 
and protested to be free of all personal and pecuniary fines 
to be imposed upon the burgh for that unhappy tumult 
raised in August last with the Macdonalds.” 
Some of these “malicious neighbours” who 
would not pay were declared ineligible, in all 
time coming, to serve as councillors. The affair 
was patched up; but a feud of this kind lasted 
long, and twenty-four years afterwards the Mac- 
donalds had their day of reckoning. The Jaco- 
bite standard was raised.— Dundee was in the 
field. On May 1, 1689, Dundee arrived with a 
body of horse at Inverness. He found the town 
invested by Macdonald of Keppoch, at the head 
of 800 or 900 men. Here again we take up Mr. 
Macaulay : 
“The savages went round and round the small colony 
of Saxons like a troop of famished wolves round a slieep- 
fold. Keppoch threatened and blustered. He would 
come in with all his men. He would sack the place. 
The burghers meanwhile mustered in arms round the 
market cross, to listen to the oratory of their ministers.” 
The whole passage is exceedingly graphic and 
picturesque. ‘The historian’s authority was the 
following entry, extracted for him from the In- 
verness Kirk Session Records for 1689 : 
“28th April. That day sermon. was preached be Mr, 
Gilbert Marshall, in the forenoone, at the Cross, and that 
by reason Coll Macdonald was about the town, boasting 
to come in with his whole force, consisting of 8 or 900 
men, to plunder the town. Afternoone, Mr. Mackenzie 
preached as aforesaid, all the citizens being necessitated 
to stand in a posture of defence. No collection.” [The 
usual collection of pence for the poor. | 
Dundee remonstrated with Keppoch, who stated 
in his defence that he was only demanding what 
was due to the Macdonalds by the town, and that 
he could only recover it by force of arms. The 
military leader agreed to act as mediator between 
“Coll of the Cows” (Keppoch’s nickname) and 
the municipal authorities, and the matter was 
finally compromised by Keppoch receiving a 
thousand crowns, collected for him among the 
inhabitants. Keppoch then withdrew his High- 
land host, that had caused such alarm and loss to 
the town; and there would, no doubt, be a pecu- 
liar unction in the sermon thus noticed in the Kirk 
register : 
“19 May. Ane thanksgiving sermon preached be Mr. 
Gilbert Marshall, and that be virtue of ane Act ishewed 
furth be the Convention of Estates for our safe delyverie 
from the power and tirranie of the Papists. Text, 124th 
Psalm, 14th verse.” : 
The Town Council no less rejoiced; but they 
petitioned the Privy Council to relieve their suf- 
ferings, having, they said, besides “the thousand 
dollars of ransom that it stood them to redeem 
the town of Inverness from being burnt by the 
Macdonalds and barbarous Highlanders,” spent 
large sums in fortifying the town by order of 
General Mackay. Mackay soon followed Dundee 
into the central Highlands, and the rival forces 
| joined battle, July 27, in the magnificent Pass of 
Killiecrankie, where Dundee met his déath while 
waving on his men to victory. RK. CarruTuers. 
Inverness. 
NOTES ON THE FLEUR-DE-LIS, 
* 
(Continued from p. 310.) 
We commence, then, with the record which 
Heylin has supplied. It is not, indeed, clear 
upon what authority these charges are assigned to 
some of their earliest possessors, but, taking them 
as represented, we find in the crown of Uffa, first 
King of the East Angles (a.p. 575), true Fs.-d.-L. 
Allusion has already been made to the double 
tress. F. C., which was adopted in Scotland so 
early as 792. In relation to this general subject, 
Montfaucon (Disc. Prelim., i. xxx. xxxiv.) says, 
“Dans l’Histoire d’Angleterre de M. Toiras, on voit 
quelques Rois des plus anciens qui ont a leur couronne, 
ou quelque fois au bout de leur sceptre, des I’s.-d.~L. bien 
formées, et le Roi Edouard est representé avec ces mémes 
fleurs a sa couronne tres bien formées.” 
He here alludes to the Confessor (1042—1066), 
whose crown, according to Clarke (Jnir. to He- 
