Thomas Pennant to George Paton

11 February 1776

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Identifier: NLS ADV. MSS. 29.5.5 (2 vols.) i, 150
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Febr. 11th. 1776.

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The sheet of the magazine that gave offence to the Macgregors.

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Extract of the passage in Sir Robert Douglas abt the massacre of Colquhons & quote the page. vide my tour quarto 1769. p.3853

extract of the preamble of the act or order of council that punishes the Macgregors; with the reasons the said act gives. Dispatch will much oblige T.P. 2.In the Edinburgh Magazine

Editorial notes
1. These may be instructions to Paton requesting materials for a rebuttal of a letter attacking Pennant's treatment of the MacGregors printed in the London Chronicle for 25 January 1776. See Pennant's letter to Paton on 3 February 1776 and Paton's letter of 25 March and notes.
2. The article in question was an extract from Pennant's Tour in Scotland 1769 (Warrington: 1774), pp.243-46, which was published under the title: 'Description of LOCH-LOMOND. From Pennant's Tour.' in The weekly magazine, or, Edinburgh amusement, vol. 30, (Sep 28, 1775): 7-8. In it, Pennant refers to the alleged massacre of the Colquhouns by the MacGregors near Luss, on Loch Lomond.
3. The page reference given is to an appendix entitled 'Of the Massacre of the Colquhouns' in Pennant's Tour in Scotland 1769 (Warrington: 1774), which cites Robert Douglas's Baronage of Scotland. That work did not appear in print until 1798 (long after Douglas's death in 1770), suggesting that Pennant had access to the manuscript, probably through George Paton. See Paton's letter to Pennant on 21st March 1776.