The book Arran; - Cook Clan

106 THE BOOK OF ARRAN
That the said Laird of Ardkinglas Campbell of Strawhur
James Campbell of Orinsarey Captane Broun &
Broun his brother did commit the forsaid depradation and did waste
spulzie kill and destroy of horses mares & kyne (besides other
bestiall & goods perteaneing to the said deceast Duke his tennents
in the said yle) at the tyme lybelled to the value and availl of fourtie
thousand merks Scots money And als finds that the losse Sustained
be the saids Duke and Dutches throw the lyeing of the saids lands
waste be reason of the said devastation for the space of Sex yeers
therafter or therby doth amount to the sume of Twentie thousand
merks money forsaid over and above the losse of the said bestiall &
other goods And which haill losses do extend to the sume of threescore
thousand merks scots money Thairfor our Soverane Lord with
consent of Parliament forsaid Decernes & Ordanis the said James
Campbell of Orinsarie Captane Broun & Broun
his brother to mak payment to William now Duke of Hamiltoun and
to Anna dutches of Hamiltoun and said Ladie (as having licence to
persew in maner forsaid) of the forsaid sum of threescore thousand
merks as for the saids severall losses susteaned be them and thair
saids vassalls in maner respective above-specifit The said Duke and
Dutches of their oune consent upon payment of the said sume or
securitie therfor, obleidgeing themselves to warrand the saids de-
fenders at the hands of the saids vassals and tennents But preiudice
alwayes to his Maties interesse for the saids wrongs & violences in
any tyme heirafter as accords of the law As also reservean action of
releiff at the instance of the said James Campbell of Orinsary or any
other of the said James Campbell of Ardkinglas who gave them order
to goe to the said yle of Arren in maner forsaid as accords of the law.^
There we must leave the matter, in the doubtful hope
that all parties got satisfaction.
Five years after this, in the year of Worcester, Brodick
Castle was one of the four in Scotland still holding out for
Charles ii. But on April 6, 1652, Major-General Deane,,
holding the Scottish command for Cromwell, sent a detachment
from the garrison at Ayr to occupy the place. The
1 Acts of Parliament, vol. vii. pp. 248-50.