The book Arran; - Cook Clan

128 THE BOOK OF ARRAN
capture ; flight to the large towns of -the mainland, though
even there safety was not assured, or hiding, like Achilles
of old, among the women. And it was then, too, you would
see the lads trailing in from the hills of a morning, where
they had been lying out all night for dread of the press.
But even the cruel methods of the press did not prove
fully effective, and late in the century quotas or proportionate
numbers of men for both services were assessed on the
counties, which meant the expense of bounties for recruits.
A tacksman's rent receipt of February 6, 1797, for South
Thundergay (Ton-ri-gaoith) thus bears the curious addendum
' Received 3s. 3d. as the proportion affecting this farm for
levying nine men from the county for His Majesty's Army
and Navy, being the second quota net.' ^ Men had to be
heavily bribed into service.
The warlike character of the time is illustrated by the
records of service in the local FuUarton family. Of the
family of Dr. Lewis Fvdlarton, who figures as under-factor
in the next chapter, the eldest son and successor, John, was
a lieutenant in the royal navy, and, after retiring, commanded
a revenue cruiser ; James, the youngest son,
entered the line, was present, with other Arran men, at
Corruna and Waterloo, and being created C.B. and K.H.,
died at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in command of the 96th regiment.
His elder brother, Archibald, who in time also succeeded
to the Kilmichael estate, was a major in the army, fought
at Vimiera'and Talavera, and at Salamanca lost a leg. He
was the last of the male line ; only daughters survived him,
of whom the eldest married a Glasgow banker named
Menzies James Bowden. In terms of the deed of entail,
the husband assumed the name and arms of FuUarton.^
In such wise did Arran pay its blood toll of service, mostly
at sea, in the Titanic struggle with the France of Napoleon.
' Cf. correspondence in Glasgow Herald, November 21-26, 1912.
^ Details from Reid's Bute, p. 239.
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