with her winding-sheet; ay, saith the gentleman, I
see her as well as you; but do you not see her linen
all wet, which is her sweat ? she being presently
cooling of the fever. This story Mr. Hector himself
will testify. The most remarkable of this sort,
that I hear of now, is one Archibald Mackeanyers,
alias Macdonald, living in Ardinmurch, within ten
or twenty miles, or thereby, of Glencoe, and I was
present myself, where he foretold something which
accordingly fell out in 1683; this man being in Straths-pey,
in John Macdonald of Glencoe his company, told in
Balachastell, before the Lord of Grant, his Lady, and
several others, and also in my father’s house;
that Argyle, of whom few or none knew then where he
was, at least there was no word of him then here;
should within two twelve months thereafter, come to
the West-Highlands, and raise a rebellious faction,
which would be divided among themselves, and disperse,
and he unfortunately be taken and beheaded at Edinburgh,
and his head set upon the Talbooth, where his father’s
head was before him; which proved as true, as he fore-told
it, in 1685, thereafter. Likewise in the beginning
of May next after the late revolution, as my Lord
Dundee returned up Spey-side, after he had followed
General Major Mac Kay in his reer down the length of
Edinglassie, at the Milatown of Gartinbeg, the Macleans
joined him, and after he had received them, he marched
forward, but they remained behind, and fell a plundering:
upon which Glencoe and some others, among whom was
this Archibald, being in my father’s house, and
hearing that Mac Leans and others were pillaging some
of his lands, went to restrain them, and commanded
them to march after the army; after he had cleared
the first town, next my father’s house of them,
and was come to the second, there standing on a hill,
this Archibald said, Glencoe, if you take my advice,
then make off with your self with all possible haste,
ere an hour come and go you’ll be put to it
as hard as ever you was: some of the company began
to droll and say, what shall become of me ? whether
Glencoe believed him, or no, I cannot tell; but this
I am sure of, that whereas before he was of intention
to return to my father’s house and stay all night,
now we took leave, and immediately parted. And
indeed, within an hour thereafter, Mac Kay, and his
whole forces, appeared at Culnakyle in Abernethie,
two miles below the place where we parted, and hearing
that Cleaverhouse had marched up the water-side a little
before, but that Mac Leans and several other straglers,
had stayed behind, commanded Major AEneas Mac Kay,
with two troops of horse after them; who finding the
said Mac Leans at Kinchardie, in the parish of Luthel,
chased them up the Morskaith: in which chase Glencoe
happened to be, and was hard put to it, as was foretold.
What came of Archibald himself, I am not sure; I have
not seen him since, nor can I get a true account of
him, only I know he is yet alive, and at that time
one of my father’s men whom the red-coats meeting,
compelled to guide them, within sight of the Mac Leans,
found the said Archibald’s horse within a mile
of the place where I left him. I am also informed,
this Archibald said to Glencoe, that he would be murdered
in the night time in his own house three months before
it happened.