£1400 FOR A DOCUMENT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13487, 30 July 1907, Page 2

£1400 FOR A DOCUMENT.

GLENCOE MASSACRE 6RDER IN THE SALE-ROOM. In the annals of the auction room few items will be found of greater human interest than the piece of paper bearing the fateful order for the massacre of Glencoe, which was sold at Puttick and Simpson's rooms recently. It was se-' cured by Mr Tregaskis for £1400. Th& document reads as follows : — You are hereby ordered to fall upbn the Rebells, the McDonalds of Glencoe, and putt all to the sword under seventy. You are to have a special! care that the old. fox and his sones doe upon nooccount escape your hands you are to secure all the avenues that no man escape. This you are to putt in executione att fyve of the clock precisely ; and by that time or verie shortly after it I'll strive to be att you with a stronger party ; if I doe not come to you att fyve, you are not to taxy for me bflrt* <fco fall on. This is by the Kings Special command, for the good and safty of the country, that these miscreants- be cutt off root and branch. See that this be putt in executione without feud or favour, else you may expect to be dealt with as one rot true to King nor Government, nor, a man fitt to cary Commissionein the Kings Service. Expecting you will not | f aill in the fulfilling hereof, as you love your selfe. I subscribe these with my hand att Balisholis ffeb : 12, 1692. (So) Ro. Duncanson. ffor ther Maties Service To Capt. Robert Campbell of Glenlyon.

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