Rob did not pretend, when pressed closely on the subject, to justify all the tenets of Catholicism, and acknowledged that extreme unction always appeared to him a great waste of _ulzie,_ or oil.* * Such an admission is ascribed to the robber Donald Bean Lean in Waverley, chap.

lxii, In the last years of Rob Roy's life, his clan was involved in a dispute with one more powerful than themselves.

Stewart of Appin, a chief of the tribe so named, was proprietor of a hill-farm in the Braes of Balquhidder, called Invernenty.

The MacGregors of Rob Roy's tribe claimed a right to it by ancient occupancy, and declared they would oppose to the uttermost the settlement of any person upon the farm not being of their own name.

The Stewarts came down with two hundred men, well armed, to do themselves justice by main force.