Report on Lochiel Estate
Rent Deductions
from The Edinburgh Advertiser
January 12, 1819
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A correspondent in the West Highlands
informs us, that during these late years of unequalled loss and suffering
in the concerns of Highland farming, Mr. Cameron of Lochiel was the first
proprietor in that district to give an example of the necessity of
supporting the tenants. At Martinmas 1816 he ordered the tenants
generally on his estates a deduction to the extent of one-fifth of their
respective rents; at Martinmas 1817 he did the same; and at Martinmas
last, although the great prices that had been given during the summer and
autumn for all kinds of Highland produce had done away much of the
remaining effect of previous suffering, which considering the reduced
amount of numbers of which the severity of past years had left the tenants
the power to dispose, and at the same time to keep up their stocks, the
tenants of Lochiel were farther ordered a deduction of ten per cent, and
as this was the more unlooked for, its effect in every way was more
sensibly felt.
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