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Thread #47963   Message #717742
Posted By: toadfrog
26-May-02 - 08:39 PM
Thread Name: Background to Burning of Auchindoun
Subject: RE: Background to Burning of Auchindoun
McColl has it:

Following the murder of the Earl of Murray, the MacIntoshes of the Clan Chattan pillaged a castle and killed four men on an estate belonging to the Earl of Huntley [who had killed him, in 1592, after he was accused of conspiring with Bothwell against the king]. In retaliation, Huntley laid waste the lands of the Clan Chattan. Returning home from this engagement he surprised the MacIntoshes spoiling his lands at Cabrach and, in the ensuint fight, killed sixty of them.