Clans episode 2 - The Highland Rogue
Blood of the Clans episode 2 - The Highland Rogue: Neil Oliver turns his attention to a true Scottish legend - a certain Rob Roy MacGregor. For centuries, Rob has been celebrated as a colourful Highland maverick, as a well-intentioned rogue - Scotland’s answer to Robin Hood. But what is the true story? How did a humble cattle trader, born to an impoverished and disgraced clan, come to be despised by the most powerful noblemen in the land? How did Rob Roy become Britain’s most wanted man?
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Transcript
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00:18You are being abducted.
00:20..and slaughter...
00:22They'll cut you into bits!
00:24..in a violent struggle
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00:44will be tested to destruction.
00:48We must make a stand
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01:41..but I'll get out of it somehow.
01:47Och, you know how it is,
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02:15Rob's got right up the
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02:31ALWAYS been dangerous.
02:37Rob is now 62.
02:39He's had to fight all his life.
02:42Ask him, he'll tell you tales of
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03:11We'll come back to that duel.
03:19Meantime, rewind a generation or so.
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03:54ruled by chieftains,
03:56inaccessible mountain passes,
03:58scary.
03:59Or go south, towards new Scotland,
04:03where merchants trade,
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04:30red-haired Robert.
04:34His people are the
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04:53Kenneth MacAlpin.
04:57But the last century
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05:21He demanded that MacGregor heads
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05:51Some clans have huge territories,
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06:44That's an outrage.
06:50Forget what you think you know
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07:19What Rob's suggesting
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08:04They're more likely to write songs
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08:19These days, every penny counts.
08:23Five pounds a year so I stop
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09:01but most of his territory is rented.
09:05His landlord is one of the most
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09:28Things have changed.
09:30This chap has swapped swords
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09:45One is not insensitive to your
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10:08His eye is on the heights of power,
10:14not just in Scotland,
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10:44He's closing a deal with Montrose
10:46in the person of his stony-faced
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11:07Rob's a smooth operator.
11:10His clients trust him to take their
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11:40He's planning to do a runner.
11:50Get this to Mary. £200, my man.
11:53But this is Montrose's money,
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12:18his cattle droving activities have
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12:40from other dealers,
12:43and says that he's going up north
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13:17For His Grace, it's not just
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13:35more than anyone else alive.
13:43Maybe this chap
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14:25but he's a distant relation
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undefined:undefinedin the brutal civil wars,
15:02so, for Argyll, anyone who can put
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15:43He's untouchable.
15:46But down south, his reputation
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16:06Not his treachery.
16:09We were but three days' walk
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16:32with all the currency we had.
16:35I will never return
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17:30"the Elector of Hanover,
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undefined:undefinedHe doesn't speak English...
17:59..but he is the right religion.
18:02The new country of Great Britain
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18:19but rules are rules.
18:21The new king of Great Britain
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18:33that their man has to be usurped
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18:55or choose the Jacobite rebels,
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19:18I mean, most Scots would break
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19:51will reward MacGregor loyalty.
19:56The rising is oor chance, you and I.
19:59Play it right, and there will be
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20:21when this all goes wrong, will you?
20:31Rob and Mary might not know it,
20:33but this already feels like
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undefined:undefinedthe United Kingdom is at stake.
20:59The Highland clans are crucial.
21:03Their support and what they do
21:07is going to determine
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21:29Rob leaves behind the security
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21:52to the new king's deadly
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22:20despite the fact they have not
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22:35at no point does he have a strong,
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23:13All that's stopping their march
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23:36joining a raid on the village
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24:06manages to get into the centre
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24:28of investing or beginning to
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24:50It looks like neither of them
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25:14and maybe submit to what they see
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25:34a network of go-betweens allows Rob
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26:02Somehow, he talks his way out of it,
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26:26The Duke of Argyll's British army
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26:59The news isn't good.
27:01Despite their superior numbers,
27:03the Jacobites are failing
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27:21So, will Rob Roy hunt down
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27:51disappear into the wilderness.
27:54GUNFIRE
27:57Both sides claim victory.
28:01But, whoever has won,
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28:27There had never been
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28:49He is not somebody to be trusted.
28:52He's hunted for every single
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29:15Nowhere is safe.
29:19Rob's Highland refuge, and later
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30:15His protector, the Duke of Argyll,
30:18is accused of going soft
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30:37He knows that his troublesome
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30:52with the Duke of Argyll.
30:53Not a good look
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31:20and safety from the noose,
31:22on the expressed condition
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31:47but it's not enough.
31:48Rob believes that he's being
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32:12I've always found it uncomfortable
32:14sitting with one of these
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32:35and together we shall compose
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32:56has been lifted as if he were a cow.
33:00And the ridiculous terms of release.
33:05Cancel all my debts,
33:07compensate me for the fact
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33:30but it also sent political messages.
33:34It showed that Montrose's claim
33:36to control the territories
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33:54"compensation for the burning
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34:35we could have resolved matters
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34:51as a folk hero.
34:53Not quite Robin Hood, but somebody
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35:31in London and tells him.
35:33The Prince of Wales, of course, is
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36:19The chap pacing nervously on the
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36:42so today he's trying plan B.
36:44Something new - money.
36:492,000 sterling and a pardon for
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37:18Good day to you, sir.
37:24So much for plan B.
37:27But Montrose isn't for quitting.
37:31Onward, then, to plan C.
37:38If money won't work, what's the
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38:04He will do whatever it takes
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38:29well, said taint would be washed
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39:21that this was just to be
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39:44to go into the heart of their power
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40:01and use this as a bargaining counter
40:05to show his loyalty
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40:31The first time in his life
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40:57I must go and have a word
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41:34from where, once again, he tries
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42:02"Honour and conscience urge me
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42:20"of false evidence against
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43:13which will endear him to Argyll
43:16because it completely discredits
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43:49Rob is 47 and he's famous.
43:51He's Britain's most wanted man.
43:54King George offers £200
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undefined:undefinedonly a fraction of the force
44:15they had at Sheriffmuir.
44:19At Glen Shiel, a 1,000-man
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undefined:undefinedto join the Jacobites.
44:45Well, he's not trusted, is he?
44:48His troops are described
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undefined:undefinedand, yes, even at that German king.
45:10And does he take that chance?
45:13Aye, right!
45:16The day doesn't go
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undefined:undefinedat the situation,
45:28decides that everything is lost,
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undefined:undefinedhe plundered the baggage train,
45:57so there's something to be said,
46:00he certainly got some sort
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undefined:undefinedRob's hopes of restoring
46:28the MacGregor clan's fortunes
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undefined:undefinedwere now listed for public sale.
46:50Prospective bidders were told that
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undefined:undefined820 English pounds.
47:12The buyer?
47:14Well, you've probably guessed.
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undefined:undefinedto the top of the pole,
47:43has he wasted on pursuing
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undefined:undefinedwould like.
48:06Rob Roy is a defeated man.
48:11He's had to leave his own lands.
48:15He's basically a refugee.
48:19Nevertheless, something quite
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undefined:undefineda warm and cuddly Rob Roy.
48:55He gives money to poor farmers,
48:57then steals it back
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undefined:undefinedto take charge of the gang
49:26and the family extortion business.
49:29We can take your ear, John,
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undefined:undefinedhe builds new roads,
50:05orders new patrols,
50:07and offers pardons to a number
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undefined:undefinedGeneral, sir.
50:37Your ambitions for this country
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undefined:undefinedmore than to be a loyal soldier
50:57for King George.
50:59It could not be.
51:05Rob comes in, submits,
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undefined:undefinedas the silverback.
51:24This is the power in the land now.
51:27I know you may have heard
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undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedfrom this day forward.
51:47Now, we can be fairly sure as well
51:49that it was not just allegiance
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undefined:undefinedhook, line and sinker.
52:14On December 2nd, 1725,
52:18the King gave his pardon.
52:23More than a decade after
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undefined:undefinedthe 62-year-old Rob
52:58was fighting some epic,
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undefined:undefinedhad once been outlawed.
53:29Now it's celebrated...
53:31..across the land.
53:39The legend of Rob Roy MacGregor,
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undefined:undefinedhe spends at home with Mary...
54:34..where they are continually
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undefined:undefined751
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undefined:undefinedHighland dress when visitors call.
55:15Show them in.
55:21Rob Roy is perhaps the most
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undefined:undefinednext. He almost seemed fearless.
56:01A nasty piece of work
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undefined:undefinedClan Gregor, he fails to do that.
56:20If he wants to leave a legacy
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undefined:undefinedwiliness,
56:50wit, hospitality, generosity,
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undefined:undefinedof pacifying the Highlands
57:28continues for years
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undefined:undefinedand London can settle back
57:44with a modest refreshment,
57:46delighted that the Highland problem
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undefined:undefinedthrone for the House of Stuart.
58:08Forward march!
58:10But the clans are more divided
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