1 62 THE SUTHERLAND CLEARANCES. 



demolishing, the dwelling-houses, barns, kilns, mills, and 

 other buildings, lawfully occupied by the said persons, 

 whereby they themselves are turned out, without cover or 

 shelter, as aforesaid, and the greater part of their different 

 crops is lost and destroyed, from the want of the usual and 

 necessary accommodation for securing and manufacturing 

 the same ; and the wantonly setting on fire, burning, and 

 otherwise destroying, or causing and procuring to be set on 

 fire, burnt, and otherwise destroyed, growing corn, timber, 

 furniture, money, and other effects, the property, or in the 

 lawful possession of the said tenants and other poor persons, 

 are crimes of a heinous nature, and severely punishable. 

 YET TRUE IT IS, AND OF VERITY, that you the 

 said Patrick Sellar are guilty of the said crimes, or of one 

 or more of them, actor, or art In part : IN SO FAR as, 

 you the said Patrick Sellar did, on the i5th day of March, 

 1814, or on one or other of the days of that month, or of 

 April and May immediately following, and on many occa- 

 sions during the said months of March, April, and May, 

 wickedly and maliciously set on fire and burn, or cause 

 and procure John Dryden and John M'Kay, both at that 

 time shepherds in your service, to set on fire and burn a 

 great extent of heath and pasture, many miles in length 

 and breadth, situate in the heights of the parishes of Farr 

 and Kildonan, in the county of Sutherland, and in parti- 

 cular in the lands of Ravigill, Rhiphail, Rhiloisk, Rossal, 

 Rhimsdale, Garvault, Truderskaig, and Dalcharrel, where- 

 by many of the tenants and others in the lands aforesaid 

 were deprived of pasturage for their cattle, and in conse- 

 quence thereof reduced to great distress and poverty; and 

 many of them were obliged to feed their cattle with the 

 potatoes intended for the use of their families, and with their 

 seed corn; particularly William Gordon, James M'Kay, Hugh 



