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been the deepest
interest to me to read
it though that
interest is mingled
with such a sense
of shame at my
ancestors conduct.
It is a horrid story
of betrayal & ignominy
& from my earliest

youth the fact that
Earl George betrayed
Montrose & Earl [?]
left Charles Edward
before Culloden has
always made me ashamed
of my descent from
them. The old prisons
at Brahan where
Montrose was taken
after Assynt are
still in existence
& are here used as