Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

THE MASSACRE OF GLENCOE, lOO:?. Ij;
to him by Kiui,' Cliailes the Sucuinl al'Ler tlie llcstoiatiou along witli tlireo
new peerages of Earl of Atmanihih;, Viscount Annan, and Lord Loclnnaben.
These grants have formed tlic siihjcct of litigation in 'he House of Lords
for nearly a ceucury, and are still iu dependence tliere. In the detailed
memoir of this earl, the formal instiunients which he executed in favour of
liis daughters to cnlille them to inlieiit his peerages and landed estates ai'o
stated iu more minute detail than tl:ey have ever been pve\-ioiisly. In
the second volume of this woik a particular )iarrative is given of these
protracted litigations and the difliculties and vuriatimis of opinion v.'hieli
an eminent Lord Chancellor entertained regarding the riglit to tliese peerages
of the late Mr. Hope Johnstone of Annandale.
THE MA?SACh'E OF GLEXCOE AXD THE UAIHEN DISASTEK.
The first Manpiis of Annandale, wlio was the elder sou of the first Earl
of Annandale just mentioned, forms the subject of the last of tlie detailed
ineuioi)-3 in this volume, llis lordship held many important offices of state,
under five siicceisive sovereigns. His connection, as president of th.e Scottish
parlianieut in the 3-ear 1695, with the impiiry coiicerning the massacre
of Glencoe, led to his direct official concern in that unfortunate tragedy.
This could not be overloolced in a full statement of his detailed nienioir,
more especially' as several facts connected v.ith the instructions which were
issued by King William the Third have been misrepresented tc the prejudice
of the King.
Anoihcr public sirbject had to be uoliccd in the memoir of the marquis.
This was the unfortunate scheme of Darien, to v/hicli the i;iar4uis was a
subscriber, along with, so many of !iis countrymen, and which, like Gleneoe, had
disastrous effect for tJie time upon the government of King William. Loth
the subjects of Glencoe and Darien have been dealt with at great lenglli by
Lord Macaulav in his Hisioi-v of Ihigland, and also by .Mr. Lr.rton in his