about nine o'clock
_ `` Sr , _ Glasgow , _ 21 _ Nov. _ 1716 . `` Haveing had so many dispatches to make this night , I hope ye ' l excuse me that I make use of another hand to give yow a short account of the occasion of this express , by which I have written to my Ld . Duke of Roxburgh , and my Lord Townshend , which I hope ye ' l gett carefully deleivered . `` Mr. Graham , younger of Killearn , being on Munday last in Menteith att a country house , collecting my rents , was about nine o'clock that same night surprised by Rob Roy with a party of his men in arms , who haveing surrounded the house and secured the avenues , presented their guns in at the windows , while he himself entered the room with some others with cokt pistolls , and seased Killearn with all his money , books , papers , and bonds , and carryed all away with him to the hills , at the same time ordering Killearn to write a letter to me -LRB- of which ye have the copy inclosed -RRB- , proposeing a very honourable treaty to me . I must say this story was as surprising to me as it was insolent ; and it must bring a very great concern upon me , that this gentleman , my near relation , should be brought to suffer all the barbaritys and crueltys , which revenge and mallice may suggest to these miscreants , for his haveing acted a faithfull part in the service of the Government , and his affection to me in my concerns . `` I need not be more particular to you , since I know that my Letter to my Lord Townshend will come into your hands , so shall only now give you the assurances of my being , with great sincerity , `` Sr , yr most humble servant , -LRB- Signed -RRB- `` Montrose . '' `` I long exceedingly for a return of my former dispatches to the Secretary 's about Methven and Colll Urquhart , and my wife 's cousins , Balnamoon and Phinaven .