Wessex Tattoo Massacre of Glencoe
Order for mass execution at Glencoe
Duncanson's Order to Glenlyon
"You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the McDonalds of Glencoe,
and put all to the
sword under seventy. You are to have a special care that
the old fox and his sons do upon no
account escape your hands. You are to secure all the avenues
that no man escape."
This you are to put in execution at five of the clock precisely; and
by that time, or very
shortly after it, I'll strive to be at you with a stronger party.
If I do not come to you at five,
you are not to tarry for me but to fall on.
This is by the King's special command, for the good and safety of the
country that these
miscreants be cut off root and branch. See that this be put in
execution without feud or
favour, else you may expect to be dealt with as one not true to King
nor Government, nor a
man fit to carry Commission in the King's service. Expecting you will
not fail in the fulfilling
hereof, as you love yourself. I subscribe these with my hand at Ballachulish,
February 12th,1692.
Robert Duncanson."
For their Majesties' Service
To Capt.
Robert Campbell
of Glenlyon
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GLENCOE SCRIPT
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