Eight years after the proscription, MacGregor bands were still operating as organised outlaw groups in Perthshire and Argyll, raiding cattle and resisting suppression. A royal commission in 1611 renewed and strengthened the proscription laws and authorised expanded punitive operations. The MacGregors who survived were those who were most adaptable — abandoning the clan name, taking service with Campbell or other magnates, or moving to the deep Highlands where government authority was nominal. The 1611 commission marked the end of the first sustained suppression campaign and the beginning of a long period of intermittent rather than continuous enforcement.
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