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1594, 22 April, Edinburgh, Parliament
Parliamentary Register
8 June 1594

For punishment of theft, robbery, oppression and sorning

Our sovereign lord and his estates in this present parliament, considering that notwithstanding the sundry acts made by his highness and his more noble progenitors for punishment of the authors of theft, robbery, oppression and sorning and masters and sustainers of thieves, yet such has been and presently is the barbarous cruelties and daily harrying of the wicked thieves and rogues of the clans and surnames following inhabiting the highlands and isles, they are to say Clangregor, Clanfarlane, Clanmaclaren, Clandowal, Clandonnachie, Clanchattan, Clanchewill, Clancameron, Clanronald in Lochaber, Clanranald in Knoydart, Moidart and Glengarry, Clanmacleod of the Lewis, Clanmacleod of Harris, Clandonald south and north, Clangilliane, Claneoin, Clankinnon, Clanneill, Clankenzie, Clanandries, Clanmorgan, Clangun, Cheilphale and also many broken men of the surnames of Stewarts in Atholl, Lorne and Balquhidder, Campbells, Grahams in Menteith, Buchanans, MacCalls, Galbraiths, MacNabbs, MacNabrichis, Menzies, Fergusons, Spaldings, MacIntoshes in Atholl, MacThomas in Glenshee, Farquharsons in Brae of Mar, MacPhersons, Grants, Rosses, Frasers, Montroses, Neilsons and others inhabiting the sheriffdoms of Argyll, Bute, Dunbarton, Stirling, Perth, Forfar, Aberdeen, Banff, Elgin, Forres, Nairn, Inverness and Cromarty, stewartries of Strathearn and Menteith and likewise a great number of wicked thieves, oppressors and peace-breakers and harbourers of thieves of the surnames of Armstrong, Elliott, Nicolsons, Crosars, Grahams, Irvings, Bells, Carlisles, Beatsons, Littles, Thomsons, Glendinnings, Carruthers, Johnstons, Jardines, Moffatts, Latimers and others inhabiting the borders opposite England in the sheriffdoms of Roxburgh, Selkirk, Peebles, Dumfries and stewartry of Annandale, in the murder, harrying and daily oppression of his highness's peaceable and good subjects in the whole countries adjacent to the highlands and borders, to the displeasure of God, contempt and dishonour of his highness's person and authority and to the wasting and desolation of a good part of the plentiful ground of the country, if speedy remedy be not provided. And understanding that this mischief and shameful disorder increases and is nourished by the oversight, incitement, sheltering, maintenance and non-punishment of the thieves, rogues and vagabonds partly by the landlords, masters and bailies of the lands and bounds where they dwell and resorts, and partly through the counsels, directions, assistance and partaking of the chieftains, principals of the branches, and householders of the said surnames and clans which bears quarrel and seeks revenge for the least hurting or slaughter of any one of their unhappy races, although it were by order of justice or in rescue and following of