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29*2 HISTORY OF THE HIGHLAKDS.
get payment of great sums of money awarded to him against Gordon by
the lords, in satisfaction for the wrong done his brother.
Disappointed in his endeavours to bring about a reconciliation, Sir
Robert applied himself, witli all the diligence in his power, to get the
fine imposed upon Gordon mitigated, and finally succeeded, by the as-
sistance of the earl of Enzie, who was then at Edinburgh, in getting the
prosecution against the earl of Sutherland's friends quashed, in obtaining
the liberation of John Gordon, and in getting his fine mitigated to one
hundred pounds Scots, payable to the king only ; reserving, however,
civil action to John Sutherland of Clyne against Gordon, before the
lords of session.*
Sir Donald Mackay, always restless, and desirous of gratifying his
enmity at the house of Sutherland, endeavoured to embroil it with the
laird of Dufl'us in the following way. Having formed a resolution to leave
the kingdom. Sir Donald applied for, and obtained, a license from the
king to raise a regiment in the north, to assist Count Mansfield in his
campaign in Germany. He, accordingly, collected, in a few months, about
three thousand men from different parts of Scotland, the greater part of
whom he embarked at Cromarty in the montli of October sixteen hundred
and twenty-six ; but, on account of bad health, he was obliged to delay
his own departure till the following year, when he joined the king of
Sweden with his regiment, in consequence of a peace having been con-
cluded between the king of Denmark and the emperor of Gerraany.-j-
Among others whom Mackay had engaged to accompany him to Germany,
was a person named Angus Roy Gun, against whbra, a short time
previously to his enlistment, Mackay and his brother, John Mackay of
Dirlet, had obtained a commission from the lords of the privy council
for the purpose of apprehending him and bringing him before the coun-
cil for some supposed crimes. Mackay could have easily apprehended
Angus Roy Gun on different occasions, but having become one of his
regiment, he allowed the commission, as far as he was concerned, to re-
main a dead letter.
Sometime after Ids enlistment, Angus Roy Gun made a journey into
Sutherland, a circumstance which afforded Mackay an opportunity of
putting into execution the scheme he had foi'med, and which shoB^ed that
• Sir R. Gordon, p. 397, et seq.
f A considerable number of gentlemen, cliietiy from Ross, Sutherland, and Caithness,
joined 3iac!iay, some of whom rose to high rank in the army of Gustavus Adolphus.
.\mong these were Robert Monroe of Foulis, and his brother, Hector: Thomas Mackenzie,
brother of ihe earl of Seiiforth; John Monroe of Otiisdell, and his broilier Ro-
hert; John Monroe of Assynt, and others of that surname; Hugh Ross of Priesthill;
David Russ and Nicolas Ross, sons of Alexander Ross of Invereharron ; Hui^h Gordon,
snn of Adam Gordon of Culkour; Ji'hn Gordon, son of John Gordon of Garty; Adam
Gordon and John Gordon, sons of Adam Gordon George-son ; Ive Mackay, William,
son of Donald Mackay of Skowry ; William Gun, son of John Gun Rob-son'; John Sin-
clair, bastard son of the earl of Caithness; Fiancis Sinclair, son of James Sinclair o(
Murkle ; John Iniies, son of William Innes of Sanset : John Gun, son of William Gun
In Golspie-KirkU)wn; and Georsu f>