1* ANNALS OF SCOTLAND. 



others were branded with hot irons, and had one 

 of their ears cut off, under which indignities they 

 were tranfported as (laves to Jamaica, and the 

 American plantations. Nor did the women efcape 

 the fury of this religious phrenfy. They were 

 branded, whipt, tied to flakes within the flood- 

 mark, and otherwife punifhed, frequently without 

 the form of a trial. 



Such were the effects of religious intolerance, in 

 Scotland, during the greateft part of the laft cen- 

 tury, and which ought to ferve as a leffon of mode- 

 ration to all thofe factious fpirits, who, infenfiblc 

 of the valuable privileges, civil and religious, 

 which the Britiih conftitution diffufes amongft all 

 denominations of people, are ever meditating in- 

 novations equally unmeaning and unneceflary. 



Thefe privileges were confirmed by king William 



tvho firmly aflerted that he had a preferable claim to, at leaft, one 

 half of that ifland, which had been peopled chiefly by the iubjecls 

 of Scotland, and who unanimouily conlidered him as their natural 

 Jbvereign. 



Numbers of Highland volunteers were at this time blended with 

 the Irim troops, while, on the other hand, a body of Irim archers 

 were at the battle of Pinkie, anno 1 547, in the divifion com- 

 manded by the earl of Argyle. Reciprocal aid, and fupplies of 

 troops, had been cuftomary between both countries, from the 

 earlieft ages down to that melancholy period, when the unhappy 

 Scots were driven in whole bodies into the north of Ireland, much 

 to the prejudice of their native country, but highly beneficial to 

 Ireland, which thereby acquired a new colony of iober, ingenious, 

 and induftrious people, by whom the great ilaple of the linen ma- 

 nufacture was introduced, and by whole descendants it hath been 

 extended to an incredible degree. 



Since, therefore, a connection and friendfhip thus kept up from time 

 immemorial, hath been lately cemented by confanguinity, fimilarity 

 In religion, purfuits, and modes of life, we would gladly hope that 

 the northern Irim and weftern Scots will behave as kindred, coun- 

 trymen, and neighbours, giving and receiving mutual affiftance, 

 particularly ia the fiflieries upon their mores, which feem intended 

 by providence, not merely for the inhabitants of Lock Broom and 

 Lock Swilly, but for the general fupply of all Britifh and Irifh 

 fubje&s, whofe local fituation enables them to avail themfelves 

 of this ineftirnable bounty, 



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