Land, Faith and the Crofting Community: Christianity and by Allan W. MacColl

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2; 14 May 1845, p. 1; 24 May 1845, p. 2; 4 Jun. 1845, pp. 2–3; Times, 20 May 1845, p. 6; 2 June, 1845, p. 6; MacRae, Life of Aird, 180–1. PDGAFCS, 1845, 76, for James Begg’s speech; see also 48. 24 Land, Faith and the Crofting Community increased confidence to the Highland folks – but in other respects much evil will be done by scurrilous wicked speeches, such as Begg’s – which I consider absolutely heretical and punishable! Indeed Candlish’s was not much better – the lairds and lords will be irritated and incensed much more than ever before – and truly could the Free Church command success in its objects by such a spirit – I would prefer defeat to such success .

14 In 1845 the eviction of eighteen families from their ancestral holdings in Glencalvie, Easter Ross provoked a public backlash in which the local Free Church ministers Gustavus Aird, Hector Allan, and George Kennedy took a prominent role, raising money for the destitute families who had been forced to shelter in the churchyard at Croick. The Times sent a ‘special commissioner’ to investigate the case – which became one of the most infamous incidents in the history of the clearances – and this led to the discussion of the evictions in the House of Commons.

D. thesis (University of Edinburgh, 1953). J. Begg, ‘Notes of a recent journey through part of the Highlands of Scotland’, FCM, ii (1845), 368–73. 26 Land, Faith and the Crofting Community aristocratic monopoly on power, notwithstanding the effects of the 1832 Reform Act. With the Disruption clearly in mind, it was asserted that lairds conspired through Parliament and the judiciary to ‘deprive the people of their rights, whether civil or ecclesiastical . . [and] they crush the . . 24 As a consequence, legislative reform was believed necessary to curtail aristocratic power over the land.

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