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254 Gaelic Society of Inverness.
settle the said jiarish with a man agreeable to the Presbytery, he
sliould give way without trouble or disturbance." With tliis the
Presbytery was satisfied, and the proceedings came to an end. He
was apparently left unmolested until February 1721, when certain
complaints were made against him, and against the ministers of
Dores and Glen-Urquhart, who were also Episcopalians. Again
the matter was brought up on .'5th September 1721, when it was
resolved to make a Presbytei-ial visitation of Daviot on 3rd October—
Mr James Leslie, minister, of Moy, being appointed to
preach at Daviot on 17tli September, and intimate the visitation ;
and Mr Farcjuhar Beaton, Croy, to perform the same duties at
Dunlichity on 1st October. These gentlemen met with a warm re-
cei)tion. Mr Leslie reports :
—
" Upon the 17th of September 1721, I came to the church of
Daviot prepared to preach there, according to appointment, at the
ordinary time. I began worship, having but a very few hearers,
the body of the congregation sitting at a hill-side near the church.
As I proceeded in worship I was interinxpted, and the heai-ei-s
disturbed, by the throwing of stones in at the door, windows, and
through the open roof of the church. Whereupon, being obliged
for oui safety to remove, I continued the rest of the di\ine worship
in a corner of the church-yard, with no small disturliance and
hazax'd, both to myself and hearers."
"Upon the first day of October," reports Mr Beaton, "I repaired
to the Church of Dunlichity, prepared to preach there
according to appointment ; and considering what maltreatment
Mr Leslie met with at Daviot, and suspecting that few of the
parishioners of Dunlichity would attend worship, some of my own
parishioners followed me to that place. With some ditliculty I
gott access to the church, and had no sooner begun worshipe than
by stones thrown in, the pulpit was broke about me, and some of
my parishioners wounded. Being obliged to remove for our safety,
we were assaulted by a multitude of men and women, with swords,
staves, and stones, some of our number wounded, and others barbarously
beaten."
This was something to daunt the bravest spirit ; but the
members of Presbytery still \ entured within the bounds of the
'^\•^\ October, where
troublesome parish, and met at Da\ iot on
they were met by the heritors, wadsettei's, and otlier j)arishioners,
including the Laird of Mackintosh, William Mackintosh of Aber-
ardei', Farquhar Macgillivray of Dunmagla.ss, Angus Shaw of
Tordarroch, Donald Macbean of Faillie, Angus Macintosh of Culclachie,
the Laird of Flichity (whose name is not given), and