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The Collector.
along with the Baron of Roslin , and wished that he , ( William ) being a very stout man , would accompany him . William consented to do so ; aud returned to Berrydale to bid his friends farewell before he would go on so dangerous an expedition Just as he was parting with them at the burial-ground on the Breas , on the east side of the water of Berrydalehe told his friends that he suspected he never
, should return from Orkney ; he then laid himself down on th .: heath near the said burial-ground , and desired his companions to fix two stones in the ground , the one at his head and the other at his feet , in order to shew to posterity his uncommon stature ; which stones remain there still , and the exact distance between them is nine feet , five inches . Tradition also mentions his heiht to have been above nine
g feet . He went with Lord Caithness , & o . to the Orkneys , where he , as well as the Earl and his son , were killed . * . This happened in the year 1530 . The cause of the said rebellion was this : —In the year 1530 , King JamesV . granted the islands of Orkney to his natural brother , James Earl of Murray , and his heirs-male . The inhabitants took umbrage that an over-lord should be interposed , between them
and the sovereign , and rose in arms , under the command of Sir James Sinclair of Sandy . Lord Sinclair , Baron of Roslin , and Sinclair , Earl of Caithness , were -sent with a party of men to quell the rebels ; but the Islanders defeated thern , and the Earl , with his son . and William More Sutherland , who accompanied them , were killed . The Caithness men who survived , carried back the Earl of Caithness ' s head , to be interred in his lordship ' s burial place in Caithness .
ANOTHER ANECDOTE EQUALLY BARBAROUS . PART of the wails of the old castle at Achaistal still remains ^ entire , and human bones are occasionally found in the ruins . It was ' built aud possessed by John Beg , third son to the Earl of Sutherland . Iu those times parties of robbers or freebooters used to infest this county . A party of tlu'se came to John Beg ' s houseand insisted
, that he should pay a certain sum in name of tribute to them , otherwise they would plunder his house , and carry away his cattle . John Beg seemed very passive to them , and entertained , them very sumptuously , until he got them all intoxicated , by strong ale mixed with the juice of nightshade , when he ordered them to be conveyed to the upper apartments of his castle . He then removed his family and
fonf . tnre . and put them on board a vessel at the water mouth of Berrydale ; and having collected a great quantity of straw and brushwood into the lower part of his house , he set fire to it , and soon destroyed the robbers , and consumed all the castle , excepting a part of the walls . John Beg returned , with his family , to Sutherland . Tradition gives no account of the time in which these transactions happened . Achaistal is also in the parish of Latheron .
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The Collector.
along with the Baron of Roslin , and wished that he , ( William ) being a very stout man , would accompany him . William consented to do so ; aud returned to Berrydale to bid his friends farewell before he would go on so dangerous an expedition Just as he was parting with them at the burial-ground on the Breas , on the east side of the water of Berrydalehe told his friends that he suspected he never
, should return from Orkney ; he then laid himself down on th .: heath near the said burial-ground , and desired his companions to fix two stones in the ground , the one at his head and the other at his feet , in order to shew to posterity his uncommon stature ; which stones remain there still , and the exact distance between them is nine feet , five inches . Tradition also mentions his heiht to have been above nine
g feet . He went with Lord Caithness , & o . to the Orkneys , where he , as well as the Earl and his son , were killed . * . This happened in the year 1530 . The cause of the said rebellion was this : —In the year 1530 , King JamesV . granted the islands of Orkney to his natural brother , James Earl of Murray , and his heirs-male . The inhabitants took umbrage that an over-lord should be interposed , between them
and the sovereign , and rose in arms , under the command of Sir James Sinclair of Sandy . Lord Sinclair , Baron of Roslin , and Sinclair , Earl of Caithness , were -sent with a party of men to quell the rebels ; but the Islanders defeated thern , and the Earl , with his son . and William More Sutherland , who accompanied them , were killed . The Caithness men who survived , carried back the Earl of Caithness ' s head , to be interred in his lordship ' s burial place in Caithness .
ANOTHER ANECDOTE EQUALLY BARBAROUS . PART of the wails of the old castle at Achaistal still remains ^ entire , and human bones are occasionally found in the ruins . It was ' built aud possessed by John Beg , third son to the Earl of Sutherland . Iu those times parties of robbers or freebooters used to infest this county . A party of tlu'se came to John Beg ' s houseand insisted
, that he should pay a certain sum in name of tribute to them , otherwise they would plunder his house , and carry away his cattle . John Beg seemed very passive to them , and entertained , them very sumptuously , until he got them all intoxicated , by strong ale mixed with the juice of nightshade , when he ordered them to be conveyed to the upper apartments of his castle . He then removed his family and
fonf . tnre . and put them on board a vessel at the water mouth of Berrydale ; and having collected a great quantity of straw and brushwood into the lower part of his house , he set fire to it , and soon destroyed the robbers , and consumed all the castle , excepting a part of the walls . John Beg returned , with his family , to Sutherland . Tradition gives no account of the time in which these transactions happened . Achaistal is also in the parish of Latheron .