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Our sovereign lord and estates of this present parliament, remembering how that his sacred majesty being very justly moved with a hatred and detestation of the barbarous murders and insolencies committed by the Clangregor upon his majesty's peaceable and good subjects of the Lennox at Glenfruin in the month of February 1603, and how that the bare and simple name of MacGregor made that whole clan to presume of their power, force and strength and did encourage them without reverence of the law or fear of punishment to go forward in their iniquities; upon the consideration whereof, his majesty, with advice of the lords of secret council, made diverse acts and ordinances against them, especially one act upon 3 April 1603 whereby it was ordained that the name of MacGregor should be altogether abolished and that the whole persons of that clan should renounce their name and take them some other name, and that they nor none of their posterity should call themselves Gregor or MacGregor thereafter under the pain of death; another act of the date 26 January 1613, whereby it was ordained that none of the Clangregor who were at Glenfruin the time foresaid and who were at the fire-raisings, murders, slaughters and depredations committed upon the lairds [Sir Duncan Campbell of] Glenorchy, [Alexander Colquhoun of] Luss and Colin Campbell of Aberuchill should at no time thereafter bear nor wear any kind of armour but a pointless knife to cut their meat under the said pain of death; as also another act of the date 24 June 1613, whereby it was ordained that none of the Clangregor, nor no others who formerly were called MacGregor and have renounced their names, should convene and meet together in any part of this kingdom in greater numbers than four persons under the said pain of death; and his majesty and the said estates, acknowledging the said acts to have been made upon very good respects and considerations for the peace and quietness of the country, and therewithal considering that diverse of that clan who renounced their names and found caution for their good behaviour are departed this life, and that great numbers of their children are now rising up and approaching to the years of majority, who, if they shall take again the name of MacGregor renounced by their parents upon solemn oath, the number of that clan in few years will be as great as at any time heretofore, therefore his majesty, with advice of his said estates, ratifies, allows and approves the acts above-written of the tenor and dates foresaid in all and sundry points, clauses and articles contained therein, and, according thereto, declares, statutes and ordains that if any person or persons of the said clan who have already renounced their names, or hereafter shall renounce and change their names, or if any of their bairns and posterity shall at any time hereafter assume or take to themselves the name of Gregor or MacGregor, or if any of them shall keep trysts, conventions and meetings with any person or persons calling and avowing themselves to be MacGregors, that every such person or persons assuming and taking to themselves the said name and who shall keep the said trysts, conventions and meetings shall incur the pain of death, which pain shall be executed upon them without favour; for which purpose, his majesty, with advice of his said estates, ordains and commands the sheriffs, stewarts, bailies of regalities, justices of peace and their deputes within their several bounds where any of the persons contravening this present act haunts and remains to take and apprehend them and commit them to sure ward, therein to remain upon their own expenses until order and direction be given for their punishment as appropriate.