The book Arran; - Cook Clan

ARRAN IN POLITICS 105
thair landing themselffs upon the most convenient places they
pleased, entered imediatly upon the saids inhabitants thair cattell
nolt sheip & bestial! and put them aboard their saids vessells and
transported so many of them therin as they would carie over and
killed and destroyed the rest they could not transport ; and did flay
those whilk they had killed and tooke away thair hyds & skins
amounting in all the killed destroyed & transported bestiall to the
number of two thousand kyne or therabout besides their pillageing
of what other pettie goods moveable the bounds did afford and
rivined the houses & Cottages Lykas the said umquhile (late) Duke
James and this said present Duke & Dutches did also susteane great
skaith and losse throw lyeing of the saids lands of Arran waste be
the space of sex yeers after the said depradition.
Counsel for the defenders produced on behalf of Campbell
of Strawhur, the commander, ' ane order or Commission given
to him be the said James Campbell of Ardkinglas ^ of the date
the eightein day of March 1646 yeers Wherby he gives
warrand to the said James Campbell of Orinsarey to march
with ane comandit partie of souldiers Towards the castle of
Brodick within the said yle of Arren and to take his advantage
of those who beseidged the said house by killing of them and
als ordaines him to take the advice of the Captane of the
Castle wher or how he should get provision to his partie and
to do nothing thereanent without advice forsaid And in
lykmaner ordaines the said James Campbell of Orinsarey to
send him provision for his partie Bot ordaines him to doe
all things legallic and in ane orderlie way and ordaines him
to make the goods within the said yle vseles for his opposites
within the said yle.'
The defenders, though cited and called, did not appear
in person, and the depositions of witnesses being conclusive,
the Parliament found it sufficiently proven
1 Ardkinglas was a relative in a way. His mother was the widow of Sir Humfrey
Colquhoun of Luss, Margaret, an illegitimate daughter of the first Marquis or
Marquess.
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