Thank you, Frank, for adding to my limited understanding of what was going on in the 1680s The decade starting in 1680 is, I find, difficult to comprehend. At its start, Charles II was king. He was Episcopalian, i.e he believed that allegiance to God should be from the individual, through the bishops and the king to God. Moreover, he insisted that others believe that too. Then James VII became king. He was Roman Catholic, and believed allegiance to God should be through the priests and the Pope to God. It appears to me from what you say that he did not insist that everyone lived according to his beliefs. After the Revolution of 1688, William of Orange was King. He was a protestant, and presumably believed that allegiance to God was direct from the individual, but highly constrained by the ministers and the aristocracy and the king. What still amazes me is the extent to which so much of the action was played out in Kintyre. Those were exciting times in Argyll! Iain McKenzie