364 HISTORY OF THE OUTER HEBRIDES. 



English ; a system of guerilla warfare was now, indeed, 

 the only course open to the Royalists. 



After peace had been made with Holland, General Monck 

 returned to Scotland to resume the chief command of the 

 Commonwealth troops. One of his first acts was to vest 

 in trustees the estates of the leading Royalists, including 

 those of Lord Seaforth; and on the same date (i2th April), 

 to pass an ordinance for the union of Scotland with the 

 Commonwealth. The Town Councillors of Edinburgh vied 

 with one another in showing him every mark of respect. 

 A feast, which took six days to prepare, was given in 

 his honour ; and, with disgusting servility, the Bailies of 

 Edinburgh stood and served at table as amateur waiters.* 

 By feasts and fireworks, the City of Edinburgh rejoiced in 

 a humiliation which, from one standpoint, should more 

 fittingly have been mourned in sackcloth and ashes. The 

 pride in national independence, which from the earliest 

 time had been the birthright of every Scotsman, seemed 

 to have been temporarily forgotten, or was outwardly 

 suppressed, by the civic authorities of the Capital of 

 Scotland. That the Highlanders, at least, regarded their 

 struggle against the Commonwealth in the light of a 

 patriotic duty, is suggested by a notice which, during one 

 of their raids, they posted on the market cross of Dum- 

 barton ; making it clear that their quarrel was with " our 

 ancient old enemy, the Kingdom of England." 



Monck commenced the government of Scotland by 

 plastering the market cross of Edinburgh with proclama- 

 tions. By these, he declared Cromwell to be the Protector 

 of the three kingdoms ; he formally united Scotland to 

 the Commonwealth ; and forfeited the estates of the leaders 

 of the so-called " rebels," among whom figured Kenneth 

 Mor, Lord Seaforth. He endeavoured to end the insurrec- 

 tion in the Highlands by the same method. A proclama- 

 tion was issued, imposing fines upon parents whose sons 

 had joined the insurgents, and upon parishes which had 



* Nicoll's Diary ; p. 125. 



