APPENDICES. 595 



my humble request is that yo r Hono 1 " 5 wilbee pleased to take it into yo r 

 noble considerac5ns that the journey hath been chargeable and very painefull 

 vnto mee. 



Yo r hono 1 " 3 s'vant in all obedience 



JOHN DYMES. 

 Endorsed. 



Description o y 8 Isle of Leweys by Captaine Dimes. 



APPENDIX G. 



EXTRACT FROM MEMORANDUM RELATING TO THE 

 HEBRIDEAN FISHERIES (1632). 



State Papers. Domestic. Charles I. Vol. 152. No. 71. 



If yo r Ma*/ shall thinke good to setle Collonyes and plant Corportions 

 \sic\ in the said Hands of Hibredes or in all yo r north and west Hands of 

 Scotland and Ireland, it will be necessary that the Planters shall have ^portions 

 of ground appropriated to them on w ch they may build dweling houses, and 

 storehouses, as also Groundes so wel fit for planting as for Tillage and breed- 

 ing of Cattle for theyr maintainance. They will finde the grounde very fertyle 

 according to the climet, w ch hath been an inducement to yo r Predecessors 

 who were well informed of the state of those Hands, to labour to bring them 

 to a Civill obedience of theyr Soveraigne who inhabited those Hands y fc they 

 being brought up in the fear of God might in tyme become both religeous and 

 industryous. And to this end an Act of Parliament was enacted in the Reigne 

 of King James the third of happy memory, for setleing and planteing of three 

 free Townes and Corporations in the Highlands and Isles of Scotland, w ch 

 sayd Act hath been approved by all his successours and more especially 

 ratefyde in the fifteenthe Parlyament of King James the Sixth of blessed 

 memory holden at Edenborrough the ninth of December ano 1597, and that 

 the sayd three towns should bee built in the most convenient parts of the said 

 Islands, viz., one in Kintyre, the second in Lockohaber, the third in the 

 Lewes, and the said Townes to enioy the priveliges of Free Borroughs accord- 

 ing to the meaning of the Statute enacted in the said Parlyament. . 



APPENDIX H. 



PAPERS RELATING TO THE "FORTY-FIVE." 



Declaration of Capt. O'Neille. 



Fort Augustus August 7th, 1746. 

 (Word for word as taken from him.) 



Capt O'Neille declares that after the action at Culloden he was sent by the 

 Pretenders son to Inverness to order what people (belonging to him) who were 

 then in the town to retire, the battle being lost. He directly passed thro' the 

 town and told as many he could meet his orders. He saw Lady Ogilvie 



