Ane compact of villany : the history of Argyll's outlawed gang
Campbell, Lindsay2015
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From the 1680s to the 1700s, a gang of early Jacobites, thieves, housebreakers and highwayman ran a protection racket across the Argyll hills, bringing misery and fear to their own people and dismay to the authorities. In the end, a working-class hero, inspired by a widow's plight and bolstered by his own dogged determination, brought the gang to justice. It sounds like fiction, but it isn't, it's all too true. 'Ane Compact of Villany' is the story of these cowardly thieves, who terrorised their fellow Argyll folk.
Main title:
Ane compact of villany : the history of Argyll's outlawed gang / Lindsay Campbell.
Author:
Campbell, Lindsay, author
Imprint:
Kibworth Beauchamp : Matador, 2015.
Collation:
160 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781784624279 (pbk)
Language:
English
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