The Waverley novels, by Sir Walter Scott, complete in 12 vol., printed from the latest English ed., embracing the author's last corrections, prefaces & notes.

10 WAVERLEY NOVELS.
legislature, who apparently lost all the calmness of conscious dignity and
security, and could not even name the outlawed clan without vituperation,
showed no inclination to be blotted out of the roll of clanship. They submitted to the law, indeed, so far as to take the names of the neighbouring
families amongst whom they happened to live, nominally becoming, as the
case might render it most convenient, Drummonds, Campbells, Grahams,
Buchanans, Stewarts, and the like; but to all-intents and purposes of combination and mutual attachment, they remained the clan Gregor,. united
together for right or wrong, and menacing with the general vengeance of
their race, all who committed aggressions against any individual of their
number.
They continued to take and give offence with as little hesitation as before
the legislative dispersion which' had been attempted, as appears from the
preamble to statute 1633, chapter 30, setting forth, that the clan Gregor,
which had been suppressed and reduced to quietness by the great care of
the late King James of eternal memory, had nevertheless broken out again,
in the counties of Perth, Stirling, Clackmannan, Monteith, Lennox, Angus,
and Mearns; for which reason the statute re-establishes the disabilities
attached to the clan, and grants a new commission for enforcing the laws
against that wicked and rebellious race.
Notwithstanding the extreme severities of King James I. and Charles I.
against this unfortunate people, who were rendered furious by proscription,
and then punished for yielding to the passions which had been wilfully irritated, the MacGregors to a man attached themselves during the civil war to
the. cause of the latter monarch. Their bards have ascribed this to the
native respect of the MacGregors for the Crown of Scotland, which their
ancestors once wore, and have appealed to their armorial bearings, which
display a pine-tree crossed saltire wise with a naked sword, the point of
which supports a royal crown. But, without denying that such motives may
have had their weight, we are disposed to think, that a war which opened
the low country to the raids of the clan Gregor would have more charms
for them than any inducement to espouse the cause of the Covenanters,
which would have brought them into contact with Highlanders as fierce as
themselves, and having as little to lose. Patrick MacGregor, their leader,
was the son of a distinguished chief, named Duncan Abbarrach, to whom
Montrose wrote letters as to his trusty and special friend, expressing his
reliance on his devoted loyalty, with an assurance, that when once his
Majesty's affairs were placed upon a permanent footing, the grievances of
the clan MacGregor should be redressed.
At a subsequent period of these melancholy times, we find the clan
Gregor claiming the immunities of other tribes, when summoned by the
Scottish Parliament to resist the invasion of the Commonwealth's army, in
1651. On: the last day of March in that year, a supplication to4,he King
and Parliament, from Calum MacCondachie Vich Euen, and Eden MacCondachie Euen, in their own name, and that of the whole' nanue of MacGregor, set forth, that while, in obedience to the orders of: Parliament,
enjoining all clans to come out in the present service under theii chieftains,
for the defence of religion, king, and kingdoms, the petitioners were drawing their men to guard the- passes at the head of the river Forth, they were
interfered with by the Earl of Athole and the Laird of Buchanan, who had
required the attendance of many of the clan Gregor upon their arrays.
This interference was, doubtless, owing to the change of name, which seems
to have given rise to the claim of the Earl of Athole'and the Laird of
Buchanan to muster the MacGregors under their banners, as Murrays or
Buchanans. It does not appear that the petition of the:MacGregors, to be
permitted to come out in a body, as other clans, received any answer. But
upon the Restoration, King Charles, in the first Scottish Parliament of his
reign (statute 1661, chap. 195), annulled the various acts against the clan