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Ne C 1740 : Letter from Sir Everard Fawkener, Inverness [Scotland], to Henry Pelham; 18 Apr. 1746
or has foundation to do it, any thing more than
the honor of having cheerfully obey'd his orders.
What his Royal Highness has so well begun & so
gloriously carried on, he will I dare say see
carried to such perfection that the Govern
ment will have it in their Power to put things
here upon such a foot as not to be again en
dangered as they have been from hence. We are
in the heart of the McIntoshes who were rum
aged the first day, the men all fled, but the Party
brought in the Heroine of this part of the world
the Laird of McIntosh's wife. About 400 black
Cattle as many Sheep & 60 Horses, they also
killd some straglers who had been in the Rebel
Army, the 17th Mordaunt was sent with nine
hundred men into the Frasiers Country, the
People were mostly fled with their Cattle, but
he had destroyd their instruments of Husband
ry, & to day the good Lord Lovats house was to blaze,
& those of the Chiefs, that ArchVillain has had his hand
