St. Kildafrom Without. 95 



Kilda, on the 2Oth January, 1738, to a cousin who, 

 though she could scarcely then have known it, was, 

 at the moment, Lord Advocate for Scotland. 



" I lodged in Margaret M'Lean house and a little 

 before twelve at night Mrs M'Lean being on the 

 plot opened the door and there rush'd in to my room 

 some servants of Lovals and his couson Roderick 

 Macleod he is a writter to the Signet they threw 

 me down upon the floor in a Barbarous manner I 

 cri'd murther murther then they stopp'd my mouth 

 I puled out the cloth and told Rod : Macleod I knew 

 him their hard rude hands bleed and abassed my face 

 all below my eyes they dung out some of my teeth 

 and toere the cloth of my head and toere out some 

 of my hair I wrestled and defend'd my self with my 

 hands then Rod : order'd to tye down my hands and 

 cover my face most pityfully there was no skin left 

 on my face with a cloath and stopp'd my mouth again 

 they had wrestl'd so long with me that it was all that 

 I could breath, then they carry'd me down stairs as a 

 corps at the stair-foot they had a Chair and Alexander 

 Foster of Carsboony in the Chair who took me on his 

 knee I made all the struggel I could but he held me 

 fast in his arms My mouth being stopped I could 

 not cry. All the linens about me were covered with 

 blood." 



A " Writer to the Signet " had been one of the party 

 who carried her off, and it was in the house of an 

 Advocate, " a little beyond Lithgow," that Lady 

 Grange was first hidden. Thence a little later, with- 

 out knowing where she was going, or what was to 

 become of her, at one time imprisoned in " a low 

 room all the windows nailed up with thick boards 

 and no light in the room .... left all aloan and 

 two doors locked on me," at another time taken 



