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murdered one Robert Grant, a Strathspey man, 

 whose head they fixed on a tree close to the high road 

 at Blairie, where it stayed until well on in the 

 present century. When Prince Charles Edward 

 escaped from the Western Isles, to commence 

 his wanderings on the mainland, he was forced to 

 seek shelter in Glenmoriston, and had to place 

 himself in the hands of these seven men, who 

 entertained him to the best of their ability, and after 

 binding themselves by a great oath to stand by 

 the Prince until he was out of danger, asked that 

 " their backs might be to God and their faces to 

 the Devil " if they did discover to man, woman or 

 child that the Prince was in their keeping. This 

 oath they observed so well that not until a whole 

 year after the escape of Charles to France was 

 it so much as known he had been amongst them. 



FOREST OF KINVEACHY BY BOAT OF GARTEN. 



This is one of the Countess Dowager of Seafield's 

 properties, at present let to Sir Spencer Maryon 



