HISTORY OF THE OUTER HEBRIDES. 



the attempt, he was badly beaten, with the loss of sixty 

 men, by Glencairn, under whom were Lord Kenmure, 

 Lord Lome, and John Graham of Deuchrie, the author 

 of Glencairris Expedition in Scotland. This successful 

 skirmish brought fresh accessions to Glencairn's standard, 

 Glengarry, Lochiel, Macgregor, Sir Arthur Forbes, and 

 the Earl of Atholl all bringing contingents. Glencairn 

 now had the men, and when Middleton had secured the 

 money and the arms, the insurrection bade fair to become 

 formidable. But once more misfortune, or the superior 

 generalship of the English, nipped the rising in the bud. 

 Morgan, an active officer of the Commonwealth, marched 

 from Aberdeen to prevent a junction between Glencairn's 

 army, and a force which was being raised at Cromar by 

 Farquharson of Inverey. Glencairn was surprised by 

 Morgan, and was forced to retreat through a glen leading 

 to the forest of Abernethy, where he was pursued by the 

 English and narrowly escaped disaster. This check neces- 

 sitated a supply of additional reinforcements before further 

 active measures could be taken ; and Glencairn, perforce, 

 remained inactive for about five weeks at Cromar and 

 Badenoch, awaiting recruits. 



While these events were transpiring, the young Earl of 

 Seaforth was not idle. In October, or early in November, 

 he and Glengarry set out with 300 men to Lochaber, where 

 they hoped to raise a considerable number of recruits, to 

 fall upon the North and wrest it from the English. Foiled, 

 apparently, in the attempt, Seaforth joined a band of 

 Highlanders who were engaged in the congenial employ- 

 ment of harassing the English. The accession of Seaforth 

 greatly heartened the Highlanders, whose tactics consisted 

 in cutting off detached bodies of the enemy, in pursuance 

 of which system of warfare, they penetrated as far south 

 as Falkirk.* As the result, probably, of Seaforth's con- 

 nexion with these " Highland Tories," his estates were 

 sequestrated, a proceeding which Lilburn had recommended 



* G Wynne's Memoirs, p. 213. 



