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APPENDIX E Summons to Disarm to the Mackintosh Clan in the Highlands of Scotland, 1725 THE FOLLOWING MATERIAL can be found in Fraser-Mackintosh Collection, Scottish Record Office 128/38.4, Edinburgh. To all of the name of Mackintosh, and their tribes and followers, in the Parishes of Dunleckity, Doors, Moy, Dallaricie, Croy, and Petty, and to all others of them inhabiting the four Parishes of Badenoch—viz., Inch Alvy, Kinghuizie, and Laggan, in the Shire of Inverness, and to those of the Parish of Calder, in the Shire of Nairn:BY George Wade, Esq., Major-General and Commander-in-Chief of all His Majesty's forces, castles, forts, and barracks, in North Britain, &c.: In His Majesty's name, and in pursuance of the power and authority to me given by His Majesty under his royal sign manual, by virtue of an Act of Parliament, intitled An Act for More Effectual Disarming of the Highlands in That Part of Great Britain called Scotland, and For Better Securing the Peace and Quiet of that Part of the Kingdom, I do hereby strictly require and command you and every of you on (or before) Saturday, the i8th day of this instant September, to bring or send to Inverness all your broadswords, targets, poynards, whinzars or durks, side pistol or side pistols, guns, or any other warlike weapons, and then and there to deliver up to me, or the Governor of the said town, as is above mentioned, all and singular your arms and warlike weapons for the use of His Majesty, his heirs and successors, and to be dispossed of in such manner as His Majesty, his heirs and successors, shall appoint; and by doing so you will avoid the pains and penalties by the said Act directed to be inflicted on all such person or persons who shall presume to refuse or neglect to pay a due obedience to the same. Given under my hand and seal at Inverness this 6th day of September, 1725. (signed) George Wade. Executed by (signed) Edmund Burt. ...

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