[1592/4/62]¹

Regarding the disobedience of persons, possessors of the king's proper lands of the Highlands and Isles

²Forasmuch as Angus MacConnell of Dunyvaig and the Glens and Lauchlan MacLean of Duart, being accused of sundry crimes of high treason and barbarous cruelties committed by them, subject to his highness's will thereof, who, moved of mercy and clemency and willing rather to save than lose his born subjects, spared their lives and just deserved punishment and gave them liberty to pass home, which notwithstanding have improperly broken their promises and falsified their faiths, wherefore his majesty, with advice of the estates of this present parliament, decrees and declares that in case the said Angus and Lauchlan shall not personally give their obedience to his highness and use their remissions if they have any in presence of his highness, his council or justice or his deputes before 1 August next, accept the conditions granted to them by his highness and make sufficient surety for their obedience and thankful payment of his highness's rents in time coming, it shall be lawful to his majesty to cause pronounce his will against the said Angus and Lauchlan, which shall be the forfeiture of their lives, lands and goods, and to execute their pledges to the death, notwithstanding any grace, pardon or favour promised or granted to them, seeing they were granted in respect of their promised obedience and ought not to serve otherwise because of their late avowed contempt and disobedience; and the whole estates present promised to assist his majesty with their bodies, councils and whole force to make his authority obeyed by his subjects and the treasonable and barbarous rebels punished and repressed as they have worthily deserved.