hamesaken

Updated: June 21, 2025

The villains fled, all save two, who were taken, and who, after a desperate resistance, were carried off to the gaol at Inverness; they were afterwards tried, and capitally convicted of housebreaking, or hamesaken, as it is called in Scotland, and eventually hung.

Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745: Volume II.