Complex sentence: The Glencoe Massacre of 1692 and the subsequent inquiry had "eroded the moral legitimacy of the government", and a series of harvest failures from 1695 onwards led to a period of famine.
Split into simpler sentences: The Glencoe Massacre of 1692 and the subsequent inquiry had "eroded the moral legitimacy of the government". And a series of harvest failures from 1695 onwards led to a period of famine.