GLENDALE CROFTERS IN COURT. 1 17 



Lord Mure There is a Sheriff-Substitute at Skye if there 

 is not a sheriff officer. 



After a consultation the Lord-President stated that their 

 lordships would dispose of the matter in the course of the 

 day. 



When the case again came up in the afternoon, the Lord- 

 President said their lordships did not see their way to grant 

 the request to serve the order by registered letter, and they 

 would just have to serve it in the ordinary way. They would 

 make an order for the respondents to appear personally at 

 the bar, but he thought probably they had better make it so 

 many days after service. He supposed it was a matter of no 

 consequence whether they authorised it to be done by a 

 sheriff officer rather than a messenger-at-arms. 



Mr. Murray said it would be better if they had the option 

 of employing either the one or the other. He would not 

 like to be tied down to a sheriff officer. 



The Court, therefore, in respect of no answer and no 

 appearance for the respondents, made an order for them to 

 appear personally at the bar on the ist day of February next, 

 provided this order was served on them ten days before that 

 date, and authorised either a sheriff officer or messenger-at- 

 arms to serve the order. 



The Sheriff-Officer, in due course, proceeded to Skye, to 

 serve the Order of the Court, but on arriving in Glendale 

 he was met by a large crowd of men, women, and children, 

 who refused to receive the writs. 



The officer is alleged to have been roughly handled by 

 the crowd on his way back, and next day a body of about 

 2000 people followed him all the way to Dunvegan, a dis- 

 tance of 10 miles, to compel him to leave the district. 

 Learning that he had already left for Portree, the people 

 soon dispersed and returned peaceably to their homes. 



