Balquhidder in Perthshire — the glen later associated with Rob Roy MacGregor — was one of the principal havens for proscribed MacGregors after Glenfruin. In 1608 government forces conducted operations through Balquhidder to clear MacGregor families who had settled there under assumed names or the protection of sympathetic landlords. MacGregors living in Balquhidder were compelled to move or were arrested. The sweeps through Balquhidder in the 1600s established the pattern of MacGregor dispersal across Perthshire that continued for the rest of the seventeenth century.
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