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The Collector.
THE COLLECTOR .
No . IT . MEMOIR RESPECTING WILLIAM SUTHERLAND , GKANDSON TO HECTOR . KOBE , OF I . AN'GWELL . *
A BOUT the end of the fifteenth century , HECTOR StmrfeKiAN-n , " ^ -commonly called HECTOB MOBE , or Meikle Hector , was proprietor of the estate of LA-NGWELL . He was descended of the family of DUFFUS , and resided in a castle on the rock at the water mouth of Bern dale , the ruins of which are still visible . He built a house at Langwell for his eldest son William , who married a beautiful
woman , and resided there . Some little time afterwards , William ' s wife was in childbed of her first child , and Robeit Gun , tacksman of Braemore , came over the hills to Langwell , accompanied by some of his clan , on a hunting party . Robert Gun proposed to his friends that they should pay a visit to Hector More ' s son and his young wifewhich they
according-, ly did . Robert Gun , upon seeimr the woman in bed , fancied her . ' Upon their way home , Gun declared to his companions , that he would have William Sutherland's wife to himself , and that the only means by which he could accomplish his design , was to take away her husband ' s life . His friends , whose consciences were not more strait-laced than his own , having approved of his intention , they
accompanied him the next day over the hills , and lay in ambush in the woods near William Sutherland's house , until they observed him come out to his garden , when Robert Gun shot him ivith an arrow from his bow . They went immediately into his house , took his wife put of bed , and carried her and her infant child , in a large basket they had prepared for that purpose , to Braemore , where Gun resided . No sooner was the mother recovered than she was reconciled to Robert
Gun , notwithstanding of his murdering her husband . She begged of him to call her infant son William , after his deceased father , though she knew , had her husband been alive , he would have named him HECTOK , after his father , Hector More . R . obert Gun held the lands of Braemore of the Earl of Caithness in tack , but he would pay no rent to his lordship . After being much in arrears to the Earl , his lordship sent John Sinclair of Stircock , with a party of nwn under arms , to compel Gun to make payment ; but Gun convened his clan ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Collector.
THE COLLECTOR .
No . IT . MEMOIR RESPECTING WILLIAM SUTHERLAND , GKANDSON TO HECTOR . KOBE , OF I . AN'GWELL . *
A BOUT the end of the fifteenth century , HECTOR StmrfeKiAN-n , " ^ -commonly called HECTOB MOBE , or Meikle Hector , was proprietor of the estate of LA-NGWELL . He was descended of the family of DUFFUS , and resided in a castle on the rock at the water mouth of Bern dale , the ruins of which are still visible . He built a house at Langwell for his eldest son William , who married a beautiful
woman , and resided there . Some little time afterwards , William ' s wife was in childbed of her first child , and Robeit Gun , tacksman of Braemore , came over the hills to Langwell , accompanied by some of his clan , on a hunting party . Robert Gun proposed to his friends that they should pay a visit to Hector More ' s son and his young wifewhich they
according-, ly did . Robert Gun , upon seeimr the woman in bed , fancied her . ' Upon their way home , Gun declared to his companions , that he would have William Sutherland's wife to himself , and that the only means by which he could accomplish his design , was to take away her husband ' s life . His friends , whose consciences were not more strait-laced than his own , having approved of his intention , they
accompanied him the next day over the hills , and lay in ambush in the woods near William Sutherland's house , until they observed him come out to his garden , when Robert Gun shot him ivith an arrow from his bow . They went immediately into his house , took his wife put of bed , and carried her and her infant child , in a large basket they had prepared for that purpose , to Braemore , where Gun resided . No sooner was the mother recovered than she was reconciled to Robert
Gun , notwithstanding of his murdering her husband . She begged of him to call her infant son William , after his deceased father , though she knew , had her husband been alive , he would have named him HECTOK , after his father , Hector More . R . obert Gun held the lands of Braemore of the Earl of Caithness in tack , but he would pay no rent to his lordship . After being much in arrears to the Earl , his lordship sent John Sinclair of Stircock , with a party of nwn under arms , to compel Gun to make payment ; but Gun convened his clan ,