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PUBLICATIONS 



OF THE 



SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY 



VOLUME XXXIII 



MACFARLANE'S 
GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS 



VOL. I 



June 1900 



This Volume is presented to the members of the 
Scottish History Society of the year 1898-99 by the 
Trustees of the late Sir William Fra^er^ K.C.B., LL.D.^ 
in exercise of the authority which he cotiferred upon 
them to publish or print, far private circulation or 
otherwise, such documents as they might think proper^ 
with the special object of illustrating the History arul 
Antiquities of Scotland. 

June 1900. 



GENEALOGICAL 
COLLECTIONS 

CONCERNING FAMILIES IN 

SCOTLAND, MADE BY 

WALTER M^ACFARLANE 

1750-1751 

Edited from the Original Manuscripts 

in the Advocates' Library, by 

JAMES TOSHACH CLARK 

KEEPER OF THE LIBRARY 



IN TWO VOLUMES 




EDINBURGH 

Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable 

for the Scottish History Society 

1900 



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PREFACE 

The Collection of Manuscripts formed by Walter Macfarlane 
was purchased by the Faculty of Advocates in 1785 from his 
niece Miss Janet Macfarlane, for the sum of twenty-one pounds. 
Among those manuscripts, in addition to the two volumes of 
Genealogical Collections — now by the permission of the Faculty 
published for the first time — were The Geographical Collec- 
tions^ ^ vols., the publication of which is shortly to be under- 
taken by the Society ; Collections relative to several Scottish 
Families^ 2 vols. ; Index to the Register of the Great Seal to 
1762, 5 vols. ; Diplomatum regiorum qiuje in publicis archivis 
extant abbreviationes^ 10 vols. ; several volumes of transcripts 
of charters, including the charters of Melrose, Balmerinoch, 
and other religious houses ; and various other transcripts. 

The following biographical notice of Walter Macfarlane is 
taken from The Chiefs of* Colquhoun and their Country^ by the 
late Sir William Fraser, vol. ii. pp. 99, 100 : 

'Walter Macfarlane, one of the most laborious and accurate 
antiquaries of his age, was the son and successor of this John by 
his wife, Helen, daughter of Robert, second Viscount of Arbuthnot. 
He transcribed with his own hand many old cartularies and muni- 
ments defK)sited in private charter-chests. He was very liberal 
in allowing access to his valuable collections and transcripts, 
which are still consulted and often quoted by authors, being 
regarded as of high authority. To his industry we owe the 
existence of a copy of the Levenax Cartulary, the original 
of which is now lost. He married Lady Elizabeth Erskine, 
daughter of Alexander, sixth Earl of Kellie. Little is known 
of his history, which appears to have been chiefly that of a 



vi GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS 

student, without any remarkable incidents to record. In 
Anderson's Diplomata Scotice, published at Edinburgh in the 
year 1739, the learned editors, Mr. Anderson and Mr. Thomas 
Ruddiman, in an acknowledgment of their obligations to those 
who contributed the original charters engraved in that great 
work^ notice in favourable terms the assistance given them 
by the Laird of Macfarlane : ''In this list of most noble and 
most eminent men deserves in particular to be inscribed by us a 
most accomplished young man^ Walter Macfarlane of that Ilk, 
Esq., Chief of the Macfarlanes, one of the most ancient of the 
clans, who, as he is conspicuous for the utmost urbanity, and for 
his acquaintance with all the more elegant, and^ especially, the 
antiquarian departments of literature^ most readily devoted much 
labour and industry in explaining to us the names of men and 
places." The eulogium pronounced upon him by Smollett is after- 
wards ^ quoted. He died^ without issue, at his town-house in the 
Canongate of Edinburgh^ on 5th June 1767. After his death his 
valuable collections were purchased by the Faculty of Advocates, 
Edinburgh. His pK)rtrait, an excellent original painting, which 
exhibits a remarkably intelligent^ manly, and open countenance, 
occupies a place on the walls of the Museum of the Society of 
Antiquaries of Scotland^ to whom it was gifted in 1786 by his 
nephew, Walter Macfarlane. This portrait was engraved for the 
late Mr. W. B. D. D. Turn bull, for the purpose of being intro- 
duced into his '' Monasticon of Scotland,'* a work which was 
never completed.' 

The Cash Book of the late William Macfarlane of Ports- 
burgh, W.S., who died on 13th July 1831, contains, under 
date 1785, the following notice: 

' Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane (20th), of Arrochar, was the 
second but eldest surviving son of John Macfarlane (19th) of 
Arrochar and Lady Helen, daughter of the 2nd Viscount 
Arbuthnot. He succeeded his father 13th May 1705. He 
married, 21st April 1760, Lady Elizabeth Erskine, daughter of 



* Should probably be 'previously,* instead of 'afterwards/ as the passage 
referred to occurs on p. 8o, vol. ii. of TAc Chiefs of Colquhoun, The eulogium 
is in Humphry Clinker ^ where Macfarlane is spoken of as * the greatest genea- 
logist I ever knew in any country, and perfectly acquainted with all the antiqui- 
ties of Scotland. ' 



PREFACE vii 

Alexander^ Earl of Kelly^ by whom he had no issue. He died in 
his house in the Canongate, Edinburgh^ on the 5th, and was 
buried in the Grayfriars^ Edinburgh^ betwixt the two west pillars 
of the New Kirk, on the 8th of June 1767. He was succeeded by 
his brother. Dr. William Macfarlane, as 21st of Arrochar, who 
sold the estate in March 1784, after having been five hundred 
and fifty-nine years in the family.' 

The original sources from which Macfarlane''s transcripts 
have been derived are occasionally indicated by him, and some 
account of these may be here given. 

Martine of Clermont, from whose manuscripts the history 
of the Balfours, Leslies, Maules, and others has been taken, 
was George Martine, the elder, bom 1635, died 1712. He was 
secretary to Archbishop Sharp, and author of the Reliquice 
divi Andrece^ or The State of the Venerable See of St. Andrews^ 
written in 1683, but not published till 1797. Nothing is 
now known regarding these manuscripts. The history of the 
Martines will be found in vol. ii., pp. 183-197, of this work. 

The * Person of Quality ' who wrote the genealogy of the 
M ackenzies (vol. i. p. 54) is said by Sir William Eraser in his 
Earls of Cromartie, vol. i. p. xii, to have been Sir George 
Mackenzie of Tarbat, afterwards first Earl of Cromartie, 
and he states that the original history in manuscript is at 
Tarbat House. Other authorities — among them the British 
Museum Catalogue (the Genealogy was published in Ding- 
wall in 1843) — ^give as the ' Person of Quality ' John 
Mackenzie, second of Applecross, known as ^lan MoUach,^ 
or hairy John, son of Patrick Mackenzie, and grandnephew 
of Kenneth, first Lord Mackenzie, of Kintail. Several 
copies of the manuscript are known to exist in Mackenzie 
collections. Sir Alexander Muir Mackenzie of Delvine has 
one in his possession, and in all probability it is the one 
from which Macfarlane made his transcript. Stonyhurst 
College possesses another copy, and the editor is indebted 
to the courtesy of the Rev. Father Coupe, S.J., the present 



viii GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS 

librarian at Stonyhurst, for a description of that manuscript. 
The archives, he says, give no information as *to where the 
manuscript came from, but he suggests that Kenneth Francis 
Xavier Mackenzie, who entered the Society in 17S9, may have 
gifted it to the library. 

Mr. James Chapman, who is said to have written The 
Genealogy of the Grants (vol. i. p. lOS), was the son of an 
Inverness merchant. He graduated M.A. at Aberdeen 
University in 1695, was ordained to the parish of Cawdor in 
1699, translated to Cromdale in 1702, and died there in 1737, 
aged sixty-three. 

Matthew Lumsden of Tillycaim, who composed The Genea- 
logie of the Name of Forbes (vol. ii. p. 207), was the second 
son of Robert Lumsden of Balnakelly and Medlar. He 
married Anapel, a natural daughter of Lord Forbes. From 
accounts given of him by the family historian, he does 
not seem to have possessed a very good character. He 
died S7th June 1580. The genealogy was published in 
Inverness in 1819. Mr. William Forbes, by whom Lumsden^s 
narrative was * improved' (vol. ii. p. 471), belonged to the 
Corsindae branch of the Forbeses, and was a member of the 
Faculty of Advocates, having been admitted to that body on 
8th February 1696. He received the appointment of Pro- 
fessor of Law in the University of Glasgow in 1714, and held 
the office till his death on 23rd October 1745. His father. 
Dr. Thomas Forbes, who, according to the Lyon Register, 
was descended from the second son of the second Lord Forbes, 
graduated M.D. at Padua, and was at one time a professor in 
the University of Pisa. 

The account of the House of Kanfurlie (vol. ii. p. 284) was 
written by David Crawford of Drumsoy (1665-1726), Historio- 
grapher Royal for Scotland, author of Memoirs of the Affairs 
of Scotland^ and other works. 

Dr. Miln^s 'Lives of the Bishops of Dmikeld"* (vol. ii. 
pp. 802 and 804, note), referred to as then in manuscript. 



PREFACE ix 

has since been published in Transactions of the Literary 
and Antiquarian Society qfPerthy 1827. 

The Life of Sir Simon Eraser, who, in 1S07, three times 
defeated the English in one day, was written by Dr. Aber- 
cromby (vol. ii. p. S16, and note), and will be found in 
Abercromby^s Martial Atchievemenis of t/ie Scots Nattouj 
pp. 662-7. 

In editing these volumes, the editor has endeavoured to 
reproduce as faithfully as possible the manuscript as it stands. 
No attempt has been made to fill up the numerous blanks in 
the narratives, to correct errors, or to rectify the spelling. 
The only departure from this rule has been the insertion, 
under the sanction of the Council of the Society, of a trans- 
lation, by the Rev. Walter Macleod, of the genealogy of the 
Mackintosh family. The few notes of the editor relate merely 
to the external condition of the text, as, for example, marking 
interlineations or additions by others than the transcriber. 
The notes to which an ^ M Ms appended have been added to 
the transcript by Macfarlane, and those between extended 
lines are in the handwriting of Macfarlane'^s transcriber, and 
were, in all probability, in the original manuscripts. 

The importance of these collections as sources of genea- 
logical information is evidenced by the fact that they are 
being constantly used by those making inquiries into family 
history, and it must be a satisfaction to the Society that, 
through the appropriate and acceptable action on the part of 
Sir William Fraser''s trustees, and the courtesy of the Faculty 
of Advocates, they have been enabled to make the collections, 
hitherto confined to a single manuscript, so much more widely 
accessible. 

Advocates' Library, 
/une 1900, 



CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 

PACE 

Preface, ....... v 

Account of the Family of Balfour Bethune 3 

Some Notes concerning the Family of Bethun of Balfour, 18 

The Marriages of the Lairds of Balfour, .25 

The Family of Creich Bethun, .25 

The Marriages of the Lairds of Creich, .35 

MuNRo (Monro) of Fowlis, . .... 36 

The Genealogy of Moncrief of that Ilk, . 40 

Morton of Cambo his old Writs, . .46 

Some Charters to the Lairds of Kinnaird of that Ilk and 

of the Lands of Incheture, .52 

The Genealogy of the Mackenzies preceding the Year l66l , 54 
The Genealogy of the most considerable Families de- 
scended by Males of the House of Mackenzie before 

1667, 69 

The Genealogy of the Successors of Hector Roy Mackenzie, 69 
The Genealogy of the Succession of Alexander, Second Son 

of Kenneth, the Eighth Laird, by his Second Lady, . 78 
The Genealogy of the Succession of Rorie Moir, Third Son 

of Kenneth the Eighth Laird, by his Second Lady, . 82 
The Genealogy of the Succession of Master Kenneth Mac- 
kenzie, the Fourth Son of Kenneth the Eighth Laird, 
by his Second Lady, ..... 89 

The Genealogy of the Succession of Rorie Mackenzie of 
Redcastle, Second Son of Kenneth the Eleventh 
Laird, . . . . . . 9^ 

The Genealogy of Sir Rorie Mackenzie of Tarbet, Second 

Son of Colin the Twelfth Laird, .94 



CONTENTS xi 

PAGE 

The Genealogy of the Succession of Mr. Colin Mackenzie 

of Kinnock, Third Son of Colin the Twelfth Laird, . 96 
The Genealogy of the Succession of Mr. Alexander Mac- 
kenzie of Kilcoye, Fourth Son of Colin the Twelfth Laird, 97 
The Genealogy of the Succession of Alexander Mackenzie 

of Cowl, ...... 98 

The Genealogy of the Succession of John Mackenzie of 

Lochslin, Second Son of Kenneth, Lord Kintail, 100 

The Genealogy of the Succession of Thomas Mackenzie, 
Second Sou of the Second Marriage by Powrie 
Ogilvie's Daughter, . .101 

The Genealogy of the Succession of Simon Mackenzie of 

Lochslin, ...... 102 

103 
118 
142 
143 
144 
146 



The Genealogy of the Grants, 1729, 

A Brief Genealogical Account of the Family of Maclean, 

The Maclean's Arms, .... 

Genealogy of the Macleans, 

Epitome of the Origin and Increase of the Mackintoshes, 

Preface to the Reader, 

Fife Duff, whence the Family of Mackintosh derives 
its origin, .... 

Shaw, the First of the Mackintoshes, . 

Shmw Mackintosh, Second of his Name, 

Ferquhard, Third Laird of Mackintosh, 

Shaw, Fourth 



Ferquhard, Fifth 
Maeas, Sixth 
William, Seventh 
Lauchlan, Eighth 
Ferquhard, Ninth 
Malcolm, Tenth 
Duncan, Eleventh 
Ferquhard, Twelfth 
William, Thirteenth 
Lauchlan, Fourteenth 
William, Fifteenth 



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Lauchlan, Sixteenth Laird of Mackintosh^ 

i^neas^ Seventeenth 

Lauchlan, Eighteenth 

William, Nineteenth 

Lauchlan, Twentieth 

Memorial relating to the Ancient and Honourable 

Family of Mackintosh, .... 

Note of Differences betwixt the Accompts given by 

the MS. of Mackintosh's Genealogy and by Sir R. 

Sibbald in his History of Fife, 



PAGE 

268 
275 
287 
326 

405 



406 



Index to vol. i., 



409 



GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS 

CONCERNING 

FAMILIES IN SCOTLAND 

Extracted 

From the MS. Accounts 

Inventaries of Writs, etc. 

of 
Several Families in that Kingdom 

VOL. I 



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EXCERPTS FROM y^y 

THE GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS OF - V - 

MR. MARTIN OF CLERMONT. 

Account of The Family of Balfour vol i p. 99 
Bethune as I got it from The present 
Laird of Balfour. 

Balfour. The Origin and Etymon of The name Balfour See p. 27, at 
is Bal, ane Irish Word which signifies a Tower or House, and 
Oar from The Water of Oar, near which Water The House 
stands. So The word signifies a Tower on (or at) Oar. 

The Coat Armour of Balfour is a Cheveron charged with 
an Otter's Head erased. It is matriculate so in The Lyon's 
Books. But it should be a Selch's Head : For Tradition bears 
That One Balfour of The House of Balfour being at the Be- 
seiging or Beleagering of a Castle in Ireland the house was 
laddered, and this Balfour undertook first to advance up The 
Ladder ; For The King had promised That whoever went first 
up and returned to witness and declare The State and Con- 
dition The House was in, whatever he brought to testify his 
being in The House, he should have The same for his 
Cognizance or Arms. So this Balfour brought with him at 
his Return from The House a Selch's Head erased, and this is 
The Arms of The antient Family of Balfour to this Day. 

Tlie House of Balfour is chief of The Surname carrying 
The Arms of Balfour quartered w* The Arms of Bethune; lA'i'**]' 
For, failing Heirs Male, The Fortune fell to a Daughter who 
married Monsieur Bethune a French Gentleman who was de- 
scended of The House of The Count of Swillie, whose Surname 



^ The marginal reference here is to Mr. Martin's collection. 
* This is Macfarlane's reference to his own manuscript. 

' The notations within square brackets are inserted by the editor to mark 
the pagination of the manuscript. 






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/•.'js'Bethune. This Gentleman should have changed his Sur- 

/.//•name and Arms from Bethune to Balfour. But, it not being 

*••• ordinary in these Times, he only quartered his Paternal Coat 

***-.^ of Armour with The Coat of Armour of Balfour as it is yet 

,/..•' quartered, and Quartering of Coats was not much known then, 

\V and there were few Coats quartered before. 

King Malcolme Canmore (Malcolme The Third) began his 
Reign in Scotland Anno 1057, & about Nine Years after, 
to wit, 1066, William Duke of Normandy conquered England. 
At which Time there came out of England and Hungary 
sundry Surnames, and out of France came diverse others as 
Bruce, Balliol, Bethune, &c. See Bishop Leslie and Mone- 
pennie their Histories. 

In the Year 1292 King Edward of England, sumamed 

Langshanks, being elected Judge in The Controversy betwixt 

The Bruce and Balliol upon The Failing of Heirs of King 

Alexander 3d. of Scotland, Robert Bethune was one of The 

Barons of Scotland named by King Edward who conveened 

at Berwick for Hearing The Claims of The Bruce and Balliol 

to The Crown of Scotland. Sir George Mackenzie. 

p. 27, at 2. The old Evidents of The House of Balfour are not yet well 

perused & considered. Also there is a Precept of Seasine 

granted by Duke Murdake (Grand Child to K. Robert, 

^^eS.] 2d. Duke of Albany and Governour of Scotland) in Favours 

of Archibald Bethune of Balfour, son to John Bethune of 

Balfour, of The Lands of Holkettle in Fife, dated at Dundee 

i. p. loo. The Day of March 1421, of this Tenor : 

Double of a Peecept of Seasine granted by 
Duke Muedake to The Laird of Balfour. 

MuRDACUs Dux Albanise Comes de FyfF et Menteath ac 
Regni Scotise Gubemator Senascallo nostros et Ballivis suis 
de FyfFe Salutem. Sciatis quod concessimus dilecto Con- 
sanguineo nostro Archibaldo Bethun filio et heredi Johannis 
Bethun de Balfour omnes et singulas Terras de Newtoun de 
Kettill cum Pertinent, jacen. infra Vicecomitatum nostrum 
de Fyffe, Quae quidem Terrae cum Pertinent, fuerunt dicti 
Johannis Patris dicti Archibaldi hereditaria, et quas idem 
Johannes non vi aut metu ductus oec errore lapsus sed ex 



pp. 2-4] FAMILY OF BALFOUR BETHUNE 6 

sua mera et spontanea voluntate nobis per suos Procuratores ac 
per suas Literas patentes sub suo Sigillo confectas per fustim 
et baculum sursum reddidit, pure et simpliciter resignavit ac 
totum Jus ac Clameum quod in dictis Terris cum Pertinen, 
de Newtoun de Kettill habuit aut habere potuit pro se aut 
heredibus suis omnino quyl clamavit in perpetuum. Quare 
mandamus Vobis et praecipimus quatenus statum et Sasinam . 
hereditariam diet. Terrarum de Newtoun de Kettill cum Per- 
tinent, praedicto Archibaldo secundum tenorem Cartae meae 
quam inde habet habere faciatis instanter et sine dilatione 
salvo jure cujuslibet, et hoc nullo modo omittatis. Datum sub 
Sigillo nostro apud Dundie Die Martii Anno Dom. 

1421. 

John Bethun of Balfour who was three or four Generations 
after this Archibald (mentioned in The Precept) married Jean l^^^^ ^-1 
Stewart Daughter to Lord Innermay. 

John Bethun his son married Margaret Stirling Daughter 
to The Laird of Keir with whom he got The Lands of 
Kennoway in Tocher. 

John Bethun his son married Marjory Bos wall Daughter 
to the Laird of Balmowto in The Days of King James 
4th. She bare to him these Six Sons John, David, Robert, 
Archibald, Andrew and Mr. James Bethuns and Five Daughters 
Janet, Margaret, Grissel, Isobel, and Elizabeth Bethuns. 
(Nota. — This Marjory Boswall Lady Balfour being Bal- 
mowto''s Daughter had these Sisters 

married to Lundie of that Ilk, 
married to of Auchenleck, 

married to Ramsay of Balmunth, 
married to 

married to Douglas of Lochlevin, 
married to of Kippo, 

married to Inglis of Englishtarvet, 

married to Auchimowtie of that Ilk.) 

John Bethun this John'^s eldest Son succeeded to his Father. 

David Bethun his Second Son was The First Laird of 
Creich Bethun. See of him in The Title The Lairds of Creich. 
He was Thesaurer of Scotland, &c. 



6 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

Robert Bethun his Third son was First Abbot of Coupar 
in Angus, and after Abbot of Melros, Glenluss and Coupar. 

7, at 3. Archibald Bethun Fourth Son to The Laird of Balfour 
was Laird of Pitlochie and Kapeldrae. 

Andrew Bethun Fifth Son to The Laird of Balfour was 

re 5.] Prior of St. Andrews. Other Notes call this Man Henry. 

p. lox, Mr. James Bethun Sixth Son to John Bethun of Balfour 
was made Arch-Bishop of St. Andrews, Chancellor of Scotland, 
Abbot of Dumfermline, Abbot of Ardbroth, and had been 
Arch-Bishop of Glasgow, from which he was translated to St. 
Andrews upon The Death of Arch-Bishop Andrew Foreman 
in Anno 1524. He was a good, wise, godly and charitable 
Man, and promoted all his Brethren to Honourable Estates, 
Places and Offices in The Kingdom, and so great an Interest 
he had then in The Court that at his Death Anno 1539 he 
got his Nephew David Bethun (afterwards The Cardinal) 
secured to succeed him in The Abbacy of Ardbroth and Arch- 
Bishoprick of St. Andrews and Robert Pitcairn his N 
to succeed to him in The Abbacy of Dumfermline. He builded 
many Bridges to The Number of Fourteen, viz.. The Bridge 
of Dairsie, The Over and Nether Bridges of Oar, The Bridge 
of Lochtie, The Bridge of Camron, The Bridge of Kembark, 
The inner Bridge of Lewchars, The Two Bow Bridges of 
St. Andrews, and compleated The Guard Bridge. His Arms 
are upon them all and Six Times on The Guard Bridge. He 
built also The House of Monymeal (a Mensalkirk of The See 
of St. Andrews), The Wall about The Yard thereof, and 
planted The most Part of The Yard with Fruit Trees brought 
from France, and, when he had compleated it, he gave The 
same freely to King James 5th in his Minority for his more 

'*^-] commodious Hunting in Edinsmoore. He also built The 
whole Fore- Work of The Castle of St. Andrews and several 
other Works there. He built The Church of Saint Serfe called 
Newbume. This Arch-Bishop his great Enemies were Archi- 
bald Earl of Angus (called Cheeping Archibald who married 
King James 4th his Queen Margaret after The Battle of 
Flowdoun) and Sir George Douglas of Pittendreich his 
Brother whose Malice to him was great. But he after served 
them same shrewd Turns and cryed Quutts with them to 



pp. 4-7] FAMILY OF BALFOUR BETHUNE 7 

Purpose at The Longran. See The Memoirs of The Arch- 
Bishops of St. Andrews. G. M[artin'8 * Divii Andrea," 4to]. ^ 

Elizabeth Bethun The First Daughter was married to 
Alexander Kid Provost of Inverness. 

Janet Bethun The Second Daughter was married to The 
Laird of Durrie of that Ilk and bore Durrie 

The Laird and Andrew Durrie. Sec p. 28, at 

Margaret BeTHUN The Third Daughter was married to 
Andrew Subbald of Lethelme or Lethem. 

Grissel Bethun The Fourth Daughter was married to 
James Hay of Foodie, She had a Daughter married to The 
Laird of Kynneir. 

IsoBEL Bethun The Fifth Daughter was married to John 
Ferret of that Ilk. She bore a Son who was Laird of 

John Bethun of Balfour Eldest Son to John Bethun of 
Balfour with Marjory Boswall his Lady succeeded to his 
Father and married Elizabeth Monepennie Daughter to 

Monepennie Laird of Kinkell. She bore these 
Seven Sons John, James, David, Walter, Thomas, Mr. 
Greorge and James Bethuns and these Daughters Five Beatrix, [page 7.] 
Elizabeth, Catharine, Margaret and Janet Bethuns. John 
Bethun his Eldest Son succeeded him. 

James Bethun Second Son to this John Bethun Laird of 
Balfour was Laird of Balfarge. He married Helen Melvill 
Heretrix of a Part of Drummaird and had 5 Sons and 3 
Daughters. See p. 28, at 

James Bethun Son to James Bethun of Balfarge was 
Arch-Bishop of Glasgow at The Time of The Reformation 
and then or some Time thereafter he fled to France, and 
carried with him all The Writs and Evidents of The See of 
Glasgow with The Vessels and Ornaments of The Cathedral of 
Glasgow, The Image of our Saviour in beaten Gold and The 
Pictures of The Twelve Apostles in Silver, all which he con- 
signed in The Hands of The Carthusian Monks at Paris, 
appointing The same to be redelivered how soon The See of 
Glasgow should become Catholick again. Under The Govern- 
ment of The Regents in King James 6th his Minority he was 



^ The bracketed words have been added in a later hand. 



8 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

forefaulted and deprived of his Living. But after that Queen 
Mary established him her Resident Ambassador in these Parts, 
for her Affairs, which Office he enjoyed and faithfully dis- 
charged during her Life, and King James 6th at his Majority 
restored him to his Dignity, Honour and Living employing 
him likewise for his Ambassador in France. He was a Man 
Honourably disposed, faithful! to The Queen and to The King 
her Son, a Lover of his Countrey, and liberal according to his 
Means to all his Countrey-Men. In his Last Will he be- 
queathed all his Means to pious Uses, leaving 10,000 Crowns 
for The Education of poor Scholars being Scotch Men bom, 
by founding a College at Paris. He died Anno 1603, being 
aged 66 years. He is justly termed that Hospital Bishop. 
David Bethun Third Son to John Bethun of Balfour and 

S,] Elizabeth Monepennie was Arch-Bishop of St Andrews, Bishop 
of Mirepoise in France and Cardinal de Monte Cselio, Legatus 
natus and Legatus a latere to The Pope, as was his Unce 
Mr. James. (Also see more of him in The Memoirs of The 
B.B. and Arch-Bishops of St. Andrews. G. M.^) He feued 
out The Lands of Kilrinnie to his Nephew John Bethun of 
Balfour and repaired The Hall of Balfour where his Name 
and Coat of Armour is, and is different from his Paternal Coat 
only in The Crest and Motto, The Crest being a Crosier and 
The Motto Intentio, whereas his Uncle Mr. James The Arch- 
Bishop his Motto is Misericordia. He was a great Man, 
did great Things, was Ambassador to King James 5th in 
France concerning his Marriages First and Last, as Histories 
do abundantly witness. He was serious and violent for his 

I03- Religion knowning no better. For his Death it was never 
justified by any Rational Christian. In short fuit homo 
superbo ingenio natus, also there was never a good Account 
of any who was accessory to his Murder. He married by Dis- 
pensation, or, at Least, accompanied with Mareon alias Marjory 
Ogilvie Daughter to The Lord Ogilvie as his Concubine who 
bare to him Four Sons David, Mr. Archibald, Mr. James, 
and John Bethuns and these Three Daughters Margaret, 



^ i,e. ' Martin.' Marginal note added later. 



pp. 7-10] FAMILY OF BALFOUR BETHUNE 9 

He was murdered in St. Andrews 
Castie S9th May 1545. 

David Bethun Son to David Bethun The Cardinal was 
Laird of Melgun. He got a Charter from The Cardinal of 
the Edrklands of Aberlemno for £5 yearly. The Charter 
is dated 15th March 154f5. He married First Margaret 
Lindesay Daughter to John Lord Lindesay who bore him 

Bethun of Melgun and these Daughters 
Bethun married to Ogilvie of 

Poole (or Peele) and afterwards to Campbell of Croonon. 
2d. Bethun was married to Shipsyde, Burgess 

of Montrose. 3d. Bethun married to IP^'^,] 

Trail Clerk in Forfar. 4th. Bethun married to 

Petree Burgess of Montrose. Thereafter this 
David Bethun of Melgun married Bethun Daughter 

Robert Bethun The Fourth Laird of Creich who bare to 
him Bethun who was Physician to King Charles 1st, 

whose Son Theodore Bethun was well known in The Shire 
of Fife, a discreet Man. He died at Tangier, and these 4 
Daughters Jean Bethun married to Wisheart of 
2d. Elizabeth married to of Eirkinloch. 3d. 

Christian married to Keith of Craige of Garvock. 4th. Anna 
Bethun married to 

Mr. Archibald Bethun Second Son to David Bethun The 
Cardinal married who bare to him Mr. 

James Bethun Doctor of Medicine who acquired The Lands 
of Little Tarvet whose Father The Doctor was Grand-Child 
to this Mr. Archibald Bethun The Cardinal's Second Son. 

Mr. James Bethun Third Son to Cardinal David Bethun 
and Mareon Ogilvie. 

John Bethun The Cardinal his Fourth Son. 

Margaret Bethun The Cardinal's Eldest Daughter was 
married to David Earl of Crawfoord whose Daughter Helen 
was married to David Lindesay of Edzell, and that Edzell's 
Daughter was married to David Earl of Southesk. 

Mary Bethun Second Daughter to The Cardinal was 
married to Ouchterlonie of Kellie and bore p. 4i- 

Sons and these Daughters. 1™^ Margaret was married to 

Gordon of Gight. 2^* to Guthrie of [P^^^-] 



10 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

Kilbleckmond, and after Kellie'^s Death this Daughter of The 
Cardinal married again Gordon of Gight Elder, and bare to 
him a Daughter Catharine married to Sir George Hume 
afterwards Earl of Dumbar who bare to him Two Daughters. 
The one Anne married to Sir James Hum of Coldingknows, 
The other Elizabeth to Theophilus Eari of Suffolk in 
England.^ 
i. p. 104. Bethun The CardinaFs Third Daughter 

>. 41- married Lindesay of Vaine, and had 3 Sons and 

these Daughters Lindesay married to 

of Fettercairne. Lindesay The Second married 

Fotheringhame Brother to Powrie Fotheringhame. 
The Third Lindesay was married to 

Durhame Brother to Durhame Laird of Grange 

in Angus. 

To conclude all that may be said of David Bethun The 
Cardinal his Posterity, which was great and numerous, it is 
to be remembered That The Great Duke of Lauderdail said 
of The same That there was more of his Blood running in the 
Veins of the Nobility of Scotland than of any One single Man 
since his Time. Which being true proves this Account of 
him but lame. See The Memoirs of The B.B. and Arch- 
Bishops of St. Andrews, G.M. See also. The Posterity of 
David Earl of Southesk. 

Walter Bethun Fourth Son to John Bethun Laird of 
Balfour was Parson of 

Thomas Bethun his Fifth Son. 

Mr. George Bethun his Sixth Son was Parson of Govan. 

James Bethun his Seventh Son was Laird of Melgun. 
Higeli.] Beatrix Bethun Eldest Daughter to this John Bethun 
Laird of Balfour married Moncur of Ballumbie. 

Elizabeth Bethun his Second Daughter married Sir John 
3. 28, at 3. Wardlaw of Torrie. She bare 12 Sons and 4 Daughters. 

Catharine Bethun his Third Daughter married Sir William 
Grahame of Fintrie and bare some Sons and these Daughters. 
1™* married to Andrew Moncur of that Ilk. 2*^* to Crightoun 



^ This sentence has been altered by interlining from 'The one married 
to The other to Lord Waldon in England.' 



pp. 10-12] FAMILY OF BALFOUR BETHUNE 11 

of Innemytie. 3*^ to Ogilvie of Clova. 4^ to Tyrie of 
Drumkilbo. 6*** to Doctor Thomson Doctor of Medicine 
in Dundie. 

Makgabet Brthun his Fourth Daughter married John 
Grachame of Claverhouse and bare Sons and Two 

Daughters. 1™* married to of 

2^ to Gibert Primerose Chirurgeon in Edinburgh whose 
Daughter First married Gourlay Burgess of Edin- 

burgh and bare to him Gilbert, Mr. Robert and David 
Gourlays. Next She married Alexander Clerk Provost of 
Edinburgh. 

Janet Betuun his Fifth Daughter married John Cockbume 
of Treaton. 

This John Bethun of Balfour and Elizabeth Monepennie 
his Lady their Pictures are to be seen to The Length in 

within The Church of Markinsh with this In- 
scription, Hie jacet Honorabilis Vir Joannes Bethun de Balfour 
et Elizabeth Monepennie Sponsa; quondam dicti Joannis qui 
obiit Anno Dom. 1504. 

There is likewise in The same Church his Brother David 
The First Laird of Creich and his Lady in 

with this Inscription, Hie jacet David Bethun de Creich IP^^^^^*] 
Filius Joannis Bethun de Balfour qui obiit Anno Dom. 1500. 
Orate pro anima ejus. 

John Bethun of Balfour Eldest Son to John Bethun of ^^i. i. p. io« 
Balfour and Elizabeth Monepennie succeeded to his Father. 
He married Christian Stewart Daughter to Stewart 

Laird of Rossyth. She bare to him Two Sons John and 
Andrew Bethuns and Two Daughters Catharine and Janet 
Bethutis. 

John Bethun his Eldest Son succeeded to him. 

Andrew Bethun his Second Son was Parson of Essie. 

Catharine Bethun his Eldest Daughter married John 
Borthwick of Balhousie or Gordonshall. 

Janet Bethun his Second Daughter married James Gaimes 
of Leyes and bare Two Sons. 
The Eldest was Laird of Leyes. See p. 29, at 

John Bethun of Balfour Eldest Son to John Bethun of 
Balfour and Christian Stewart succeeded to his Father. 



12 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

He married Agnes Anstruther Daughter to 
Anstruther of that Ilk. She bare to him these 3 Sons and 
4 Daughters John, Robert and Mr. James Bethuns and 
Christian, Margaret, Agnes and Catharine Bethuns. 

John Bethun his Eldest Son succeeded to him ut infra. 

Robert Bethun his Second Son succeeded his Brother John. 

Mr. James Bethun his Third Son was Parson of Rox- 
burgh by Disposition from Mr. James Bethun Parson thereof 
when he became Laird of Creich. 

Christian Bethun his Eldest Daughter married John Mel- 
vill of Cambie and bare Sir John Melvill The Laird and 
»9. at 2. James Melvill. 

e 1$,'\ Margaret Bethun his Second Daughter married Mr. John 
Row Minister at St Johnstoune. 

Agnes Bethun his Third Daughter married Robert Strang 
Portioner of Eilrinnie and bore John Strang and Agnes 
»9. at 3. Strang married to Sympsone Burgess 

of Anstruther. 

Catharine Bethun his Fourth Daughter married William 
19. at 4. Tweedie of Drumelziare and bare to him William and Walter 
Tweedies. 

John Bethun Eldest Son to John Bethun of Balfour and 
Agnes Anstruther succeeded to his Father. He married Eliza- 
beth [or Isobella] ^ Pitcaime Daughter to 
Pitcaime Laird of Forthar or of that Ilk. He died without 
Issue.— [Ch. 351. Lib. 29. 22d Maii 1546.] ^ 

Robert Bethun Second Son to John Bethun and Agnes 
Anstruther succeeded to his Brother John who died sans 
Issue. He married Agnes Trail Daughter to Trail 

of Blebo who bore these Sons, David, James, Mr. Andrew, 
and Alexander Bethuns and these Daughters Agnes, Lucretia, 
Jean, and Elizabeth Bethuns. David his Eldest Son suc- 
ceeded to him. 

James and Mr. Andrew Bethuns Second and Third Sons 
to this Robert Bethun of Balfour were but Gentlemen in The 
King of France his Guard, 
p. jo6. \ Alexander Bethun his Fourth Son was a Skipper in 



Interlined. ' Later addition to MS. 



pp. 12-15] FAMILY OF BALFOUR BETHUNE 18 

Anstruther. This Alexander Bethun married Grissel Whippo 
Sister to Greorge Whippo of Treaton Writer to The Signet 
and did purchase from of Kilbrakmonth The 

Lands of Langharmiestoun and Currie in Lothian as also [A»^*-^] 
from Whippo The Lands of Treaton in Fife. 

This Alexander Bethun Writer to The Signet married 
Marjory Kennedie Daughter to John Kennedie Burgess of 
Edinburgh. She bore several Children who all died except 
One Daughter Grissel Bethun who was married to William 
Macdougal Son to Sir James Macdougal of Garthland, and 
this William fell thereafter to be Laird of Garthland and got 
Alexander Bethun his whole Fortune of Langharmiestoun and 
Currie in Lothian and The Lands of Treaton in Fife with 
several Lodgings in Edinburgh. 

Agnes Bethun this Laird of Balfour his Eldest Daughter 
married James Hamiltone of Kilbrakmonth. She bore Two 
Sons George Hamiltone The Laird. ^*^ P* ^' ^* 

LucRETiA Bethun his Second Daughter married James 
Balfour of Tarrie. 

Jean Bethun his Third Daughter married George Whippo 
of Treaton or Innerteile. 

Elizabeth Bethun his Fourth Daughter married David 
Lindesay of Kirkforthar. 

David Bethun of Balfour Eldest Son to Robert Bethun 
and Agnes Trail succeeded to his Father. He married Mar- 
garet Wardlaw Daughter to Wardlaw of Torrie. 
She bare to him these Five Sons John, Robert, Mr. Henry, 
Andrew and David Bethuns and these Three Daughters Janet, 
Margaret, and Agnes Bethuns. 

John his Eldest Son succeeded to him. Nota. — His Lady 
Margaret Wardlaw had other 3 Sisters 
Wardlaw married to the Laird of 

Wardlaw married to Bruce of 

Clakmannan and Wardlaw married to Mr. (A*/^ -^^1 

Alexander Colvill of Blaire Justice Depute. 

Robert Bethun this Laird of Balfour his Second Son 
married Mareon Inglis Daughter to Thomas Inglis of 
Burgess of Edinburgh and bought The Lands of Banden in 
Anno 163S and had these Seven Sons David, The Eldest 



14 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

who succeeded to him and married Wardlaw. 

2d. Mr. William Bethun Advocate at present Laird of Craig- 
foolzie Easter who married Mary Bethun Daughter to Andrew 
Bethun of Blebo his own Cousin German who hath bom to 
him many Children. 3d. John died young. 4th. James 
who yet lives. 5th. Robert. He died sans Issue. Also The 
6tL John ; and The 7th. Andrew and these Two Daughters 
Catharine married to Patrick Lindesay of Wormiestoun 
Commissary of St. Andrews to whom she bare many Children 
both Sons and Daughters. The Eldest Son is Mr. John 
Lindesay of Wormiestoun now Commissary of St. Andrews 
married to Margaret Halyburton only Daughter to George 
Bishop of Aberdeen. Robert Bethun of Banden his other 
Daughter was Janet who died unmarried. 

Mr. Henry Bbthun this Laird of Balfour his Third Son 
died unmarried. 

Andrew Bethun his Fourth Son was long a Factor abroad 

and came Home and in Anno 1649 purchased The Lands of 

Blebo and Myretoun. He married Margaret Broun Daughter 

to Mr. Nicol Brown Burgess of Edinburgh who bare to him 

'• I07- 8 Sons Andrew, John and David Bethuns and 2 Daughters 

Margaret And Mary Bethuns. Andrew The Eldest and David 

The youngest died both unmarried. His Second Son John at 

Present possesses The Fortune. He married First Catharine 

»^^«] Hume Daughter to The Laird of 'Wedderbume who bare 

to him Two Sons James and John Bethuns. Next he married 

Cheap Daughter to Mr. James Cheap of Rossie who 

is a virtuous Lady and hath bom to him 

Margaret Bethun Eldest Daughter to Andrew Bethun of 
Blebo married Mr. James Lundie of Clatto and hath Children 
to him Mr. John, James, Mary and 

Mary Bethun his youngest Daughter married Mr. William 
Bethun Advocate Son to Robert Bethun of Banden his Cousin 
German and hath bom many Children to him ut supra. 

David Bethun Fifth Son to David Bethun of Balfour and 
Margaret Wardlaw died at Sea without Issue. 

Janet Bethun Eldest Daughter to this Laird of Balfour 
married Gilbert Campbell of Eethick whose Daughter Agnes 
Campbell is at Present Lady Dowager of Pitcur and Spouse 



pp. IS-17] FAMILY OF BALFOUR BETHUNE 16 

to Greorge Halyburton Lord Bishop of Aberdeen her Second 
Husband. Her First Husband was David Halyburton of 
Pitcur to whom she bare Two Sons James who died sans 
Issue and David The late Laird of Pitcur married to 
Wedderbume Daughter to [Sir]^ Peter Wedderburne of 
[Gosfoord] ^ Lord of Session. He died Honourably with John 
Viscount of Dundee at The Battle of Gillie Chrankie 27th 
July 1689. Also his Lady Dowager of Pitcur bare a Daughter 
Margaret to her First Husband who is at Present married to 
Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh The Eing^s Advocate. 

Margaret Bethun Second Daughter to David Bethun of 
Balfour married Mr. Henry Wardlaw of Pitravie and bore to t^^^' ^'1 
him Wardlaw Heretrix of Pitravie married to Sir 

Henry Wardlaw tp whom she bore The present Sir Henry 
Wardlaw of Pitravie who is married to Skeen 

Eldest Daughter to Skeen of 

Agnes Bethun this Laird of Balfour his Third Daughter 
married David Colvill Brother to The Lord Colvill of Cleish 
afterwards Lord Colvill whose Eldest Son Robert fell to be 
Lord Colvill after The Death of his Uncle. 

John Bethun of Balfour Eldest Son to David Bethun of 
Balfour and Margaret Wardlaw succeeded to his Father. 
He married Catharine Halyburton Daughter to Sir James 
Halyburton of Pitcur who bore Six Sons James, Mr. 
David, Robert, William, Mr. Andrew and George Bethuns 
and Three Daughters Margaret, Agnes and Elizabeth 
Bethuns. This Catharine Halyburton had divers Sisters, 
married to Bruce of Clakniannan. 

married to John Earl of 
married to Grahame of Fintrie. 

married to of Mithie or Nevoy. 

married to James Lord Coupar in Angus. 

married to Drummond of 

Machanie. But these Last Two had no Children. James 
The Eldest Son succeeded to him. 

Mr. David Bethun Second Son to John Bethun of Balfour vol. i. p. ic 
married Elizabeth Aytoun Daughter to Mr. James Aytoun of 



JjaitT additions. 



16 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

Grange or Hilsyde who bore to him a Daughter Catharine 
who came to age and was married to Sir David Kinloeh of that 
Ilk Knight Baronet and bore him a Son called 
18.'\ But The Mother and Son are both dead now. 

Robert Bethun Third Son to this Laird of Balfour 
married Margaret Elliot Daughter to Elliot of 

Stobbs sans Issue. 

William Bethun his Fourth Son was a Captain & died 
at Stirling Anno 1651. 

Mb. Andrew Bethun his Fifth Son was an Advocate 
sans Issue. 

George Bethun The Sixth Son was a Lieutenant in The 
Blue Regiment commanded by Colonel Lockhart, and as yet 
he has no Issue. 

Margaret Bethun his Eldest Daughter died unmarried. 

Agnes Bethun his Second Daughter married John Seaton 
of Lathrisk and bore to him Patrick Seaton of Lathrisk, 
Mr. James Seaton Minister at Creich and a Daughter called 

Seaton. 

EuzABETH Bethun The Laird of Balfour his youngest 
Daughter married Doctor Andrew Bruce then Professor of 
Theology in The New College of St. Andrews thereafter 
Arch-Deacon of St. Andrews and Lord Bishop of Dunkeld 
and after of Orknay. Sans Issue. 

James Bethun Eldest Son to John Bethun of Balfour and 
Catharine Halyburton succeeded to his Father and married 
twice. First, Anna Moncrief Daughter to Sir John Moncrief 
of that Ilk who bore to him Five Sons, but Two of them only 
came to any Age, to wit, John The Eldest who died without 
Issue unmarried and David Bethun The present Laird of 
Balfour. Next this Laird of Balfour married Catharine 
Moriesone Relict of Hume of Wedderbume 

Daughter to Sir Alexander Moriesone of Prestongrange. 
Nota. David Bethun Last Laird of Creich having no Children 
^9.] of his own Body and having only One Brother Mr. William 
Bethun who had but One Daughter who was married to The 
Laird of Bolspindie did in Anno 1666 or thereby dispone to 
this James Bethun of Balfour his whole Estate about 80 
Chalders Victual with The Burthen of 80,000 or 90,000 Merks 



pp. 17-20] FAMILY OF BALFOUR BETHUNE 17 

or thereby reserving to himself The Liferent of The most Part 
thereof and his Lady's Liferent of 32 Chalders Victual. He 
died in Anno 1661, and his Lady married The Laird of 
Cromlix and died Anno 1670. The Reason why Creich dis- 
poned his Estate to this Laird of Balfour was because Balfour'^s . 
Second Son then David who is now Laird of Balfour and 
Creich also was Heir of Tailzie their beingl no Heirs Male 
except his Brother Mr. William who had but One Daughter 
which would have put The Fortune out of The Name against 
The Purpose & Intent of all The former Lairds because of 
which Creich's Right to Balfour was redeemable by The said 
David his then Second Son from his Father for Payment of a 
certain Sum, & Creich judged his Brother Mr. William not 
so dutifull and kindly to him as he desired. But further The 
said David Bethun then Second Son to James Bethun of Balfour ^o^* *• P- *° 
is nearest Heir to The Last Laird of Creich. For Creich'^s 
Eldest Sister Anna Bethun was married to Sir John Moncrief 
of that Ilk, and did bear to him only Two Daughters. The 
Eldest Anna Moncrief married to James Bethun of Balfour 
and was Mother to The said David Bethun who is now Laird 
and Elizabeth Moncrief who died unmarried. This James 
Bethun of Balfour died 27th February 1690. 

David Bethun only Son and Child to James Bethun of 
Balfour and Anna Moncrief succeeded to his Father. He 
married Rachel Hope Daughter to Sir James Hope of Hope- 
toun and Keith Daughter to 

Earl of Marshall his Second Lady now Lady Blackbaronie. 
She hath born to him Three Sons James, David and Charles 
Bethuns and these Five Daughters Catharine, Anna, Mar- 
garet, Elizabeth and Helen Bethuns all as yet but young. 

In St. Jean d. Lateran is The Tomb of Jacob Bethun IP^^^^- 
sacratus Roma 1552. Obiit 24 Aprile 1603 aetatis suse 86. 
Above The Tomb is Tuli et Vici and below these verses. 

Prsesul et Orator fuerat qui maximus Orbis 

iEtate hoc parvo Marmore contegitur. 
Quinquaginta unum Prsesul transegerat annos 

Quadraginta duos Regia jussa obiit 

B 



18 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

Sex vidit Reges Gallorum quumque secutus 

Orator PatrisB prsBfuit usque susb 
Est voto fruitus Scotus Anglosque sub uno 

[Unius Scoti Viderat Imperio,] ^ 

Illud restabat voluit quod utrosque sub uno 
DivinsB Legis mittier Imperium 
Quodque suum voluit Regem venerarier et Mors 

Fertur in hoc uno prsecipitasse senem. 
lUe Oratorum quos Scotia sola superbos 

Misit ad Heroas ultimus extiterat. 
Ultimus illorum quos Magna Britannia fovens 

Secta exturbavit devia Preesul erat. 



!^iti.] Some Notes concerning The Family of 

Bethun of Balfour. 

Our Historians and Genealogists all agree That The Bethuns 
of Scotland were not of The antient Scottish Hace, but came 
Originally from beyond Seas in some of The later Ages, but 
when or upon what Account has not been yet determined with 
any Certainty. 

Mr. Peter Cayer Author of The Funeral Panegyrick on 
James Arch-Bishop of Glasgow A. 1603 tells us That 
amongst other considerable Gentlemen of Quality who came 
to Scotland Anno 1449 in The Retinue of Mary Princess of 
Gueldres then married to King James 2 was one Mr. Bethun 
for whom The King conceived a singular Fondness, and there- 
fore to engage him to live in Scotland he married him to 
The Daughter and sole Heiress of The Baron of Balfour in 
Fife which gave Rise to The Family of Balfour Bethun and 
The Bethuns in Scotland. 

This indefinite and uncircumstantiated Account Mr. Du 
Chesne Author of The Great Genealogy of The House of 
Bethun illustrates by endeavouring to determine The Name 
and Person of this Mr. Bethun who had The Happiness to 
please The King and enjoy The Heiress. From a great 
many Probabilities and Conjectures he concludes That it was 



^ This line is added in pencil in the margin of the MS., with the reference 
' Hay*8 Scotia Sacra,' p. 436. 



pp. 20-22] FAMILY OF BALFOUR BETHUNE 19 

James (Jacotin) de Bethim Fourth Son to John Bethun 
Lord of Baie &c. and Isabell D'^Estoutteville his Wife and 
younger Brother of Robert Bethun Lord of Baie &c. after 
his Father & Predecessor of The present Duke de Sully in 
France. 

All this fine Scheme is indeed plausible enough, but not a 
Word of it true or founded upon any solid Proof. We know 
not The least Ground Mr. Cayer could have for what he 
affirms. None of our antient Historians mention any of The 
Name of Bethun in The Princess of Gueldres Retinue, and, 
as to Mr. Du Chesne^s Improvements and Conjectures though 
Jacotin de Bethun lived at that Time, there is not The least [A^<f^^. 
Evidence of his ever being in Scotland. Enquerran de Mon- 
strelct a Contemporary Historian, who speaks at Large of him 
and others of his Kindred, mentions no such Thing no so much 
as of his ever leaving The Low Countries. 

But, really, Mr. Cayer The Orator and Mr. Du Chesne The 
Genealogist, however willing they were to do Justice to The 
House of Balfour Bethun being at such a Distance and having 
no Correspondence with this Countrey were not sufficiently 
acquainted either with The Beginning or antient History of 
that Family. The Bethuns were of considerable Note in Scot- 
land many Generations before they fell in to The Estate of 
Balfour, and yet that happened long before The Princess of 
Gueldres or Jacotin de Bethun were bom. 

Lesly and some other of our Historians tell us That The 
Bethuns came from France into Scotland in The Reign of 
Malcolm 3d., who began to reign 1057, and who died 1093. 
We know not now upon what Grounds they said so. How- 
ever, The Thing though not absolutely certain is not at all 
unlikely ; For we are sure That not long after this they made 
a good Figure in this Kingdom being Lairds of Westhall in 
Angus. 

In The Reign of King William who succeeded to The Crown 
A. 1165 but 72 years after The Death of King Malcohn 3d. 
Robert de Betun is Witness to a Charter of Rogerus de Quincy 
Earl of Winton to Seyerus de Seaton of an Annuity of The 
Mill Lands of Tranent. 

David de Betun and Joannes de Betun are Witnesses to a 



20 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

Charter by King Alexander 2d. (who began to reign A. 1214 
and died A. 1249) to The Abbacy of Aberbrothick de Terris 
in Territorio Eermuir. 

BtJT a stronger Evidence of The High Station of that Family 
^ets,] in these early Times is That both Mr. Prynne and Mr. R3mier 
mentions Robert de Betim present with King Edward at The 
Discussing of The Plea for The Crown of Scotland betwixt 
John Balliol and Robert Bruce. This is confirmed beyond all 
Doubt by some of The Seals yet preserved that are appended 
to King Edward'^s Decision A. 1292 among which is that of 
Robert de Betunc de Scotia. It is The Arms of The Bethun 
Family in Artois at that Time with a File of Three Pendants 
in Chief as a Mark of Cadency. 

This Robert de Betune de Countie de Farfar and several 
others of that Name are mentioned by Prynne as swearing 
Allegiance to King Edward A. 

David de Betuxe Miles and Alexander de Betune were at 
The Parliament of Cambuskenneth Anno 1314 and One of 
their Seals is appended to The Act of Forfaulture past in that 
Parliament, which is The same very Coat of Arms that is upon 
The forementioned Seal of Robert de Betune. 

This Alexander continuing Loyal to The Royal Family of 
Bruce is particularly named by Hector Boyse as One of The 
Leading Men killed on that Side in The Great Battle of 
Duplin Anno 1332. 

The Family of Bethun of Westhall in Angus continued to 
subsist for several Generations. But Robert a younger Son 
of this Alexander married Janet Bafour Daughter of Michael 
de Balfour of that Ilk and Sister to John Balfour. This 
Family was likewise Brucean, and, accordingly, when King 
David Bruce was restored Anno 1342 this John being then 
after his Father'^s Death Laird of Balfour was made Vicecomes 
de Fyffe. 
rf^.] He dying in a few years about A. 1346 without Children, 
his Estate fell to John Bethun his Nephew The Son of Robert 
Bethun and Janet Balfour. This John First of The Bethuns 
of Balfour acquired from Duncan Earl of FyflTe The Lands 
of Holkettle. The King^s Charter of Confirmation of Earl 
Duncan'^s Disposition is still extant, and some little Time after 



pp. 22-25] FAMILY OF BALFOUR BETHUNE 21 

that EarPs Death which happened Anno 1363 by a Charter 
from his Daughter Isobell Countess of Fyffe he got The Lands 
of Tollybrecks pro bono et fideli Servitio. 

He married Catharine Stewart a Daughter of The Laird 
of Innermay. Her Original Seasine of Liferent is still extant 
Anno 1386. 

His Son and Heir was John Bethun Second Laird of The 
Balfour Bethuns who married Stewart Daughter 

to The Lord Rosaith. There is extant a Service relating to 
him, and it was he that built The East Part of The House of 
Balfour which stands to this Day. 

He was succeeded by his Son Archibald Bethun Third 
Laird of this Family, whose Charter from Duke Murdoch The 
Govemour Anno 1421 is still extant wherein he is designed 
dilecto nostro Consanguineo Archibaldo Betoun ; For he was 
related to The Royal Family both by his Mother Rosaith'^s 
Daughter and Grand -Mother Innermay''s Daughter. 

Archibald Bethun was succeeded by his Son John The Fourth 
Laird. He married Catharine Stirling Daughter to The Laird 
of Keir and got in Tocher with her The Eighth Part of The 
Lands of Kennoway, which was The Beginning of their Interest 
there. The Papers relating to him are lost, but he is men- 
tioned as Witness in several Writs of The Neighbourhood 
that are still preserved. 

He was succeeded by his Son John The Fifth Laird who [pa^ets.] 
marrying Marjory Boswall Daughter to The Laird of Balmuto 
had by her 6 Sons and 5 Daughters. 

To him succeeded John Bethun his Eldest Son The Sixth 
Laird. He married Elizabeth Daughter to The Lord Moni- 
penny of Einkell. Of which Marriage were 7 Sons and 5 
Daughters. He died Anno 1614. 

His Eldest Son John Bethun 7th Laird succeeded him. He 
married Christian Stewart Daughter to The Laird of Rosaith 
by whom he had 2 Sons and 2 Daughters. 

John Bethun his Eldest Son The 8th Laird succeeded 
him, and was married to Agnes Anstruther Daughter to The 
Laird of Anstruther. Of which Marriage were 8 Sons and 4 
Daughters. 

To him succeeded his Eldest Son John 9th Laird who 



22 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

married Elizabeth Pitcairn Daughter to The Laird of Pitcaim 
and Forthar, but dying without Issue was succeeded by 

His next Brother Robert Bethun 10th Laird married to 
Agnes Trail Daughter to The I^ird of Blebo. They had 
4 Sons and 4 Daughters. 

David The Eldest Son 11th Laird succeeded & married 
Margaret Wardlaw Daughter to The Laird of Torry who 
bore to him 5 Sons and 3 Daughters. 

John Bethun 12th Laird. 

James Bethun 13th Laird. 

David 2d Son of James 14th Laird. 

James Bethun 15th Laird died at Rheims Anno 1719. 
reie.] From An. 1346 to An. 1719. From Father to Son 14 
Generations. Which is about 26| years to a Generation. 

^efr.] 1. Bethun bears Azure a Fesse betwixt Three Lozenges Or. 

Bethun of Balfour The same quartered w* The Coat of 
Balfour Argent on a Cheveron Sable an Otter"*s Head erazed 
of The 

2. There is a Charter of ToUybrek'^s granted by Isobella 
Comitissa de Fyfie to John Beton which has been about or 
before The Year 1360. It seems this John Beton married 
Catharine Stewart a Daughter of Innermey Because there is 
also One Seasine of Liferent or Dowrie (as it is called) 

given by Ay Johnson Stewart of Fyffe as Procurator to John 
Beton of Balfour to Catharine Stewart Lady Balfour Sister to 
Sir John Stewart Laird of Innermey of The Lands of Balfour, 
Newtoun of The Eettil and a of Land lying within 

The Earldom of Fyfe. The Seasine (not by of Instru- 

ment) is dated 28th February 1386 At Falkland, 
p, X17. 8. This Archibald Bethun Fourth Son to John Bethun of 
Balfour and Marjory Boswall married She 

bare to him One Son Archibald and a Daughter 
Bethuns. 

Archibald Bethun Son to Archibald Bethun of IMtlochie 

and Eapeldrae married Janet Duddingstoun Daughter to 

Duddingstoun of Sandford who bare to him One Son 

John Bethun and these Seven Daughters. 1*"* Janet Bethun 

married to James Hay of Mountainhall. 2^^ Margaret Bethun 



pp. 25-29] FAMILY OF BALFOUR BETHUNE 23 

married to John Forrester of Strahendrie. 8*** Jean Bethun 
married to Robert Clerk Burgess of Dysert. 4** Geils Bethun 
married to John Eyninmonth of Cawsall. 6** 
Bethun married to Syrapsone Burgess of Dysert. 6** 

Bethun married to Mr. Henry Balfour Advocate, 
7™* Bethun married to John Amot Burgess of 

Edinburgh. [pagets.] 

1. This Janet Bethun (besides The Two Sons bom to The 
Laird of Durie her Husband, to wit, Durie The Laird 
and Mr. Andrew Durie) bore also these Three Daughters. 
1°^ Durie married to Ogilvie of Balfour in 
Angus. 2*** Durie married to Pitcairne 
of Forther Ramsay who had a Daughter married to Ineh- 
daimie whose Son was Mr. James Aytone of Balgolhrie. 
3^^ Durie married to Monteith of Carse. 
Memorandum. That this Janet Bethun her Eldest Son The 
Laird of Durie had a Daughter Durie whom King 
James 5th. forced to marry Henry Kemp his Majesty^s 

2. This Helen Melvill bore to her Husband James Bethun 

of Balfarge Five Sons and Three Daughters, viz. James P* ^' 
Bethun Arch-Bishop of Glasgow, de quo supra, also David, 
John, Andrew and Robert Bethuns. But they all died with- 
out Succession, also these Daughters Catharine Bethun who 
was a Nun, Margaret Bethun married to Strachan of 

Carmyllie who bore to him only One Daughter Jean Strachan 
who was married to of Rossie, and bore to him 

a Daughter who was married to David Balfour Brother to 
Balfour of Tarrie Burgess of Ardbroth. Balfarge^s 
Third Daughter was Janet Bethun married to Robert Lundie 
of Condland. She bore to him a Daughter Lundie 

married to James Weyms of Balfarge. 

3. Her Eldest Son Wardlaw Laird of Tarrie married 
First Hume Daughter to Lord Hume who bore 

Wardlaw The Laird and a Daughter married 

to The Laird of Bonytoun in Angus. Thereafter Elizabeth 
Bethun's Son The Laird of Tarrie married Lundie 

Daughter to Lundie of Balgony who bore some Sons 

and these Daughters. 1"* married to Scrymgeour [pa^ets.] 

Constable of Dundee. 2^* married to Cunyng- 



24 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

hame of Bams who bore a Daughter Cunynghame 

married to Captain Wemys. 

1. !. p. ii8. 1. Her Second Son James Gairnes was Laird of Dum- 
barrow. He married Lauder Daughter to 

Lauder of Omachie Brother to The Laird of Boss who 
bore Sons and Daughters. 

2. And James Melvill who married and had 
a Daughter married to William Melvill in Leith who had a 
Daughter called Mathilda Melvill Lady Carribie who had 
these Daughters Christian married to David of Whyte- 
hill and Catharine married to Mr. John Johnstoun Professor 

/>^ in The New College of St. Andrews and Mathilda married to 
James Trail. 

3. John Strang married Margaret Barclay Daughter to 

Barclay of or Innergellie who bore George 

Strang The Heir, Mr. William Strang One of The Clerks of 
Exchequer and Two Daughters. 

4. This William Tweedie was only her Second Husband, 
her First being of Drumelliare to whom she 
bore James The Laird, John of Robert of 
Walter and a Daughter married to 

5. George Hamilton of Eilbrakmonth who married 
Neaper Daughter to Neaper of Merchonystoun. He 
died sans Issue and John Hamilton of Clatto who married 
Grissel A3rtoun Daughter to Mr. James Aytoun of Hilsyde ^ 
Advocate who bore to him Robert Hamilton now of Eilbrak- 
month (He succeeded to his Uncle George) who married 

[A»^« ^1 Margaret Carstairs Daughter to Sir John Carstairs of 
and a Daughter Elizabeth Hamilton married to 
Dundas of Manner and another Hamilton married to 

James Robertson of Newbigging. 

Robert Hamilton of Eilbrakmonth has Sons and 

Philip The Eldest married in October 1696 

Helen Gedde Eldest Daughter to John Gcdde of St. Nicolas 

of St. Andrews then Relict of Mr. James Lentron, 

and in August 1697 she bore a Daughter Margaret Hamilton. 



1 ( 



Hilsyde ' altered in a later hand to * Grange.' 



pp. 29.3s] FAMILY OF BALFOUR BETHUNE 



85 



The Marriages of The Lairds of Balfouil 

John Bethun married Catharine Stewart Sister to John 
Stewart Laird of Innermay. 

Archibald Bethun. 

John Bethun . . Jean Stewart Daughter to The 
Innermay. 

John Bethun . . 
Laird of Keir. 

John Bethun . . 
Laird of Balmowto. 

John Bethun . . 
The Laird of Kinkell. 

John Bethun . . 
Laird of Rosy the. 

John Bethun . . 
Laird of Anstruther. 

John Bethun . . 
Laird of Pitcaim. 

Robert Bethun . 
of Blebo. 

David Bethun . . 
Laird of Torrie. 

John Bethun . . 
The Laird of Pitcur. 

James Bethun . 
Laird of Moncreife. 

David Bethun . 



[page SI] 



Margaret Stirling Daughter to The 

Marjory Bos wall Daughter to The 

Elizabeth Monepenny Daughter to 

Christian Stewart Daughter to The 

Agnes Anstruther Daughter to The 

Elizabeth Pitcairn Daughter to The 

Agnes Trail Daughter to The Laird 

Margaret Wardlaw Daughter to The 

Catharine Halyburton Daughter to 

Anna Moncreife Daughter to The 

Rachel Hope Daughter to The Lord 



Hopton. 

The Family of Creich Bethun. 

John Bethun Laird of Balfour in Fyffe in The Days of King 
James 4th married Marjory Boswall Daughter to The Laird of 
Balmowto. She bore to him these Six Sons John, David, 
Robert, Archibald, Andrew and Mr. James Bethuns and Five 
Daughters Janet, Margaret, Grissel, Isobell and Elizabeth 
Bethuns of all whom see before in The Account of The Family 
of Balfour. 

David Bethun. Except of this David The Second Son of 

^ Pages 32-34 of MS. inclusive are blank. 



[fa^eSS.] 

vol. I. p. II 



26 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

whom it is fit to enlarge in this Place in Respect he was The 
First Laird of Creich of The Surname of Bethun. Also he was 
Thesaurer of Scotland and Captain of Falkland which remained 
with The Sons of Creich till Sir David Murray of Scoone (after 
Viscount of Stormont) Creich'^s own Son in Law for The Time 
obtained The Same by Moyen of Court This David Bethun 
conquest and acquired The Lands of Creich from The Littles, 
Lithills or Liddells in The year 1502. He married Janet 
(Some Notes call her Jean, others Isobell) Duddingstoun 
Daughter to The Laird of Sandforde Duddingstoun in Fife. 
She bore to him a Son John Bethun who succeeded him and 
Two Daughters Janet & Bethuns. This Laird of 

Creich being Thesaurer of Scotland and having other good 
Offices in The Publick resided almost constantly in Edinburgh 
waiting upon The King, The Session and his Charge, and 
ordered his Son The Young Laird to stay at Home and look 
after The Fortune ut infra when we come to him. 

Janet Bethun Eldest Daughter to David Bethun First 

Laird of Creich and Janet Duddingstoun was married First 

to Sir Robert Levingstoun of Easter Weyms, & thereafter to 

James Earl of Arran (Hamilton). She bore to her First Hus- 

fagt «?.] Ijj^ J rp^^ Daughters both Heretrices and 

Livingstouns. The Eldest was married to Sir James 

Hamilton of Finnard Author of The House of Evandale. See 
The written Notes on Buchanan ad Fol. 124. Lin. 19. He 
was Bastard Son to The Earl of Arran Hamilton, and bore to 
him (as The Notes say) James Lord Evandale, Galvine and 
Greorge Hamiltons and a Daughter Elisabeth Hamilton who 
was married to Archibald Earl of Argyle called by The By- 
Name Archibald Roy to whom she bore Archibald Earl of 
Argyle whom Buchanan calls Gillespicus (which is all One 
with Archibald) and he married Lady Jean Stewart Natural 
Daughter to King James 5th begotten upon Elizabeth Bethun 
Daughter to John Bethun Second Laird of Creich ut infra. 
)l. i. p. III. Levingsix)un The other Heiress of Weyms married 

First Ramsay of Balmaine in The Meams and 

after his Death she married [NicoU]^ Ramsay of Dalhoussie 
and heired both The Estates. 

^ Added later. 



PP- 35-37] FAMILY OF BALFOUR BETHUNE 27 

Janet Bethun after The Death of Sir Robert Levingstoun 
married (says The Notes) James Earl of Arran himself (after 
he had divorced his First Lady Elizabeth Hume Daughter to 
Alexander Lord Hume The Great Chamberlain because of her 
Barrenness). Nota. That he was The Son of Lady Margaret 
Stewart Sister to King James Sd. and The First Earl of Arran 
of The Hamiltons ; For his Father who married Ejng James 2d. 
his Daughter was never Earl of Arran because he did not 
outlive James Boyde who was that Lady'^s Son of her First 
Marriage with Thomas Boyde Earl of Arran. She bore to 
liim for certain (Albert. The Notes say otherwise) James Earl 
of Arran who also was Duke of Chastleherault Prorex and 
Govemour of The Kingdom in The Minority of Queen Mary 
Daughter to King James 5th. and Sir John Hamilton of 
Samuelston called John of Clidisdale whose Daughter 

Elizabeth Hamilton was tlirice married, First, to The Laird of [fageS?.] 
Johnstoun, Then, to David Earl of Angus, and. Lastly, to The 
Laird of Whytclaw, and she also bore Two Daughters, Helena 
and Margaret Hamiltons although Balfour^s Notes by a great 
Mistake bear That her Children to The Earl of Arran were 
Three Sons, John The Lord Hamilton, James Earl of Arran 
who died sans Issue and The Lord Claud Abbot of Paisley 
after Earl of Abercome who married Seton 

Daughter to The Lord Seton and these Three Daughters 
Elizabeth (or Barbara according to Bishop Leslie) married to 
James Lord Flyming, Jean married to Jame s- Lord Mount- 
gomery and Anna or Agnes married to George Lord Gordon 
after Earl of Huntlie, where I obser\'e this double Mistake in 
The Notes, First, That James Earl of Arran The Govemour 
was for Certain not Janet Bcthun"*s Grand Child by 
Livingstoun her Daughter, but he was her Son by her Second 
Husband The Earl of Arran Lady Mary Stewart's Son, For 
Sir James Hamilton who married this Livingstoun 

Heiress of Easter Weyms (Janet Bethun''s Daughter) was The 
Lord Hamilton'^s Bastard Son, and is always so stiled by 
Buchanan, and so his Son could never be Earl of Arran. The 
next Mistake is That her Grand Children (to wit) James Earl 
of Arran Captain of The Scotch Company in France who never 
married & turned frantick, John Lord Hamilton Commendator 



28 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

of Ardbroth and after Marquis of Hamilton, Lord Claud 
Hamilton after Earl of Abercome and Lord David Hamilton 
who married Kennedy Daughter to The Earl of 

Cassils, and The Three Ladies above named were all Children 
to the Govemour Duke Hamilton by Douglas The 

Earl of Morton'^s Daughter, albeit by Balfour'*s Notes and 
Accompt they are made by this Janet Bethun Countess of 

feS8.] Arran her Children, at Least, her Grand Children by her 
Daughter Livingstoun, which is a great Mistake both Ways ; 
For these being The Govemour"*s Children were Janet Bethun"*s 
Grand Children, The Govemour being her Son, and I rectified 
Balfour^s Notes. 

Mary Bethun Second Daughter to David Bethun First 
Laird of Creich and Janet Duddingston his Lady was married 
to John Lyle of whom Montgomery of Lainshaw is The 
Lineal Heir (1712), in whose Time The Fortune and Honours 
perished. She bore to him a Son Lyle and a 

daughter Jean Lyle married to Sir Neil Mountgomerie Brother 
to The Earl of Eglintoun or Lord Mountgomerie. But this 
Family perished about this Time. 

p. 1X2. John Bethun Second Laird of Creich Son to David Bethun 
The First Laird and Janet Duddingston was ordered by his 
Father to attend The Fortune at Home while his Father as 
Thesaurer of Scotland waited on The King, The Session and 
his other Offices at Edinburgh. This young Laird of Creich 
had often Occasion to be at Dundee selling Victual &c. where 
he contracted Intimacy and Friendship with The Young Con- 
stable of Dundee who both resorted much to and haunted 
The House of John Hay Provost of Dundee and Brother to 
The Laird of Nauchton who kept a Change. He was of good 
Birth, rich and had a fair Daughter called Janet Hay whom 
both these Youths courted. But The Young Laird of Creich 
by The Tavemer'^s Means insinuate with The Young Gentle- 
woman who had The Credit of her Father^s House and kept 
her Father^s Money and Jewels amongst which was a Cabinet 
with 6000 Merks of Gold in it (a good Sum in these Days). 
At Length Creich under Promise of Marriage got her with 

s^^l Child, and on a Morning before Day with her own Consent 
and The Assistance of The Young Constable (who seeing The 



pp. 37-40] FAMILY OF BALFOUR BETHUNE 29 

Matter go so condescended hereto) with some other Associates 
carried her away with The Cabinet by Broughtie to St. 
Andrews where placing her with The Constable and his Friends 
in The best Inn he himself went quietly to The Castle where 
The Arch-Bishop James Bethun his Uncle resided to whom he 
declared The whole Business and Purpose. The Arch-Bishop 
hearing The Relation would needs see The Gentlewoman and 
The Gold and finding all right as The Young Laird of Creich 
his Nephew told him he sent for a Priest and married them, 
and then wrote an Accompt of all to The old Laird of Creich 
The Thesaurer his Brother, and gave a good Testimony of 
The Grentlewoman^s Birth, Breeding, Desert and Means &c. 
who was well pleased with The Marriage. Nota. That it is 
observed & reported for a Truth That The Race and People 
of Balfour and their Descendents were always black and not 
beautifuU and fair, but That ever after this Laird of Creich 
married this Janet Hay The Bethuns of Creich have ever 
been yellow haired for The most Part and of beautifull 
Countenances. 

This Janet Hay bore to The Laird of Creich Four Sons 
David and Robert Bethuns both Lairds of Creich successive 
and Mr. Archibald and Mr. Galvin Bethuns and these Seven 
Daughters Janet, Grissel, Christian, Elizabeth, 

Bethuns. 

David Bethun his Eldest Son succeeded to him. 

Robert Bethun his Second Son succeeded to his Brother. 

Mr. Archibald Bethun his Third Son was Dean of Aberdeen 
and Commissary of Glasgow. [page j^o: 

Mr. Galvtne Beihun his Fourth Son was Parson of Govean. 

Janet Bethun his Eldest Daughter married First 
Laird of Cranstoun. Next she married 
Laird of Craigmiller and bore a Daughter to him 
called Elizabeth. She parted with him and married Sir 
Walter Scot of Bucclewgh Elder and bore to him Four 
Daughters, Grissel Scot married to The Lord Borthwick, 
Dorothea married to The Laird of Cranstoun Crichtoun, 
Margaret and Jean. 

Grissel Bethun The Laird of Creich his Second Daughter vol i. p. n 
married Sir Walter Scot of Bucclewgh Younger and bore to 



80 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

him Sir Walter Scot of Bucclewgh Janet Scot Lady Farnherst 
(Mother to Sir Robert Ker The Earl of Somerset), Margaret 
Scot Lady Johnstoun, Mary Lady Blackbaronie, Anna Lady 
Balmerinoch and Eupham Scot married to 
Captain of Crawfoord. This Grissel Bethun after The Death 
of Sir Walter Scot her Husband married Murray of 

Blackbaronie to whom she bore Murray of Black - 

baronie, Sir Gideon Murray Treasurer Depute of Scotland 
Father to Sir Patrick Murray of Eliebank, William Murray 
of Knokdiffie & a Daughter called Elizabeth Murray who 
married First James Borthwick of Newbyres to whom she 
bore a Daughter called Borthwick married to Mr. 

Thomas Hamilton after Earl of Haddingtoun and bore to 
him these Three Daughters Christian Hamilton married to 
Robert Lord Lindesay, Hamilton married to David 

Lord Camegy and Hamilton married to James 

v^i^'] (Lord Ogilvie after) Earl of Airlie. Thereafter this Lady 
Haddingtoun married Thomas Hamilton of Priestfield and 
bore to him Two Daughters Hamilton Lady Grange 

Kirkaldie and Hamilton Lady Innerweik also Five 

Sons Sir John Hamilton of Magdalens Clerk Register, Sir 
Andrew Hamilton of Reidhous, Sir Patrick Hamilton of Little 
Preston, Mr. Alexander Hamilton General of The Artillery 
(commonly called Deaf Sandie) and Mr. James Hamilton. 

Christian Bethun Third Daughter to John Bethun Laird 
of Creich married Sir Michael Balfour of Burghlie and bore to 
him only a Daughter Dame Margaret Balfour who was Here- 
trix of Burghlie and married Sir James Balfour Clerk Register 
and bore to him Michael Lord Burghlie. 

Elizabeth Bethun Creich his Fourth Daughter bore a 
Daughter to King James 5th. called Lady Jean Stewart who 
married Archibald Earl of Argyle. But she bore to him no 
Children, and after this Elizabeth Bethun married 
Stewart Lord of Innermay and heired his Estate bearing to 
him Two Sons and Five Daughters, to wit, James Lord Inner- 
may (who married Helen Ogilvie Daughter to The Lord 
Ogilvie) and Stewart his Brother, also Catharine 

Stewart married to William Ruthven of Banden, Marjory 
'^ Stewart married to Lindesay of Vain, Elizabeth 



pp. 40-43] FAMILY OF BALFOUR BETHUNE 81 

Stewart married to Ochterlonie of Kellie and Jean 

Stewart married to The Laird of Leyes. Nota. That this 
Elizabeth Bethun was Lady Innermay and Mother to all these 
his Children, albeit The Notes say That King James 5th's 
Daughter was their Mother which is false; For Lady Jean 
Stewart The Bang's Daughter and Countess of Argyle was 
never married but once and was barren and died before her 
Husband who after her death married Jean Cunynghame 
Daughter to Alexander Earl of Glencaime who bore only [/"^'-^l 
Daughters, and therefore Colin his Brother succeeded to him. 

Bethun The Laird of Creich his Fifth Daughter 
married Forbes Laird of Hires. 

Isabella Bethun The Sixth Daughter married Gilbert ^^^ *• P- "^ 
Ogilvie of Powrie.^ 

Bethun the Seventh Daughter married Chisholme 
of Cromlix. 

David Bethun Eldest Son to John Bethun Laird of Creich 
and Janet Hay succeeded to his Father and died unmarried 
in Anno 1539. He was The Third Laird of Creich. 

Robert Bethun Second Son to John Bethun of Creich and 
next Brother to The said David Bethun The Third Laird of 
Creich succeeded to his Brother. He went to France as Page 
of Honour to Queen Mary when she went there to be married 
to Francis The Dolphin of France after King of France, who 
did not long outlive The Marriage. The Queen having no 
Children to him returned Home to Scotland Anno 1561 and 
with her this Robert Bethun of Creich and was made The 
Queen'^s Master Household, Heretable Stewart of Fyffe and 
Keeper of Falkland. He married Dame Joanna Ren wall alias 
Grysoner One of The Queen'*s chief Dames of Honour who 
came out of France with her. She bore to him David and 
Mr. James Bethuns both Lairds of Creich successive, (Mr. 
James was First Parson of Roxburgh) also these Eight 
Daughters 

Mary Bethun Eldest Daughter to Robert Bethun of Creich CA*^* 43- 
was One of The Queen's Dames of Honour, an excellent 
Lady, as appears by The Four Epigrams made by Buchanan 

^ This sentence stood originally * Bethun The Sixth Daughter married 
Powrie Ogilvie.* 



82 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

on her to her great Praise and Commendation on The Occa- 
sion of her being a Queen by Lot. The First begins thus : 

Regno animus tibi dignus erat^ tibi Regia virtus^ 
Et Poterunt forniam sceptra decere tuam. 

Fortuna erubuit sua munera sola deesse 
Quae tibi nunc plena dat cumulata manu. 

She married First The Laird of Boyne Ogilvie and then The 
Laird of Finlatter. 

EuzABETH Bethun (fortc Second) Daughter to this Laird 
of Creich married Sandilands of St. Monance. 

Bethun another Daughter was married to The 
Laird of Dun Areskine in Angus. 

Bethun another Daughter was married to David 
Bethun of Melgum Son to Cardinal David Bethun being his 
Second Wife. 

Bethun another Daughter was married to 
Forbes Laird of Rires in Fyffe. 

Bethun another Daughter was married to Claud 
Hamilton of Cochnay. 

Bethun another Daughter to this Robert Bethun 
Laird of Creich married Mr. Henry Kinneir Abbot of Bal- 
merinoch. 

Also I find That One of The Daughters was married to a 
Burgess of Dundee. 
[pagiU.] David Bethun Eldest Son to Robert Bethun of Creich and 
Dame Janet Renvall succeeded to his Father. He married 
Eupham potius Beatrix Leslie Daughter to George Earl of 
Rothes who bore to him Anna Bethun his only Daughter 
shortlie after whose Birth he became jealous of [his] ^ Lady 
being come of The House of Flisk and finding her Carriage not 
good he intented Process of Divorce from her, but not having 
nor finding sufficient Probation against her he took another 
Course and lay with her Gentle Woman and begot on her a 
Son called Bethun who became a Doctor of Medicine. 

So he took The Fact upon himself and parted from his Lady 
vol. i. p. lis. & paid her her Dowry. This Lady Creich after The Divorce 
married John Auchmowtie of that ilk with whom she was 



^ Interlined. 



pp. 43-45] FAMILY OF BALFOUR BETHUNE 83 

suspected before. But she had no Children to Auchmowtie. 
The Laird of Creich having but One Daughter and being 
unwilling That The Fortune should go out of The Name of 
Bethun agreed with his Brother Mr. James The Parson of 
Roxburgh to make him Laird of Creich upon Condition That 
he should marrie his Daughter upon a sufficient Baron of as 
good an Estate as himself which he did ut infra. At this Time 
was The Fortune of Creich tailzied to The Second Son of The 
House of Balfour, failing Heirs Male of Mr. James his Body 
which was One of The Reasons for which The Estate of Creich 
was disponed to The Laird of Balfour James Bethun under 
Redemption from him by his Second Son then David who is 
now Laird both of Creich and Balfour. So then this David 
Bethun Laird of Creich upon The Bargain with his Brother 
Mr. James disponed to him The Lands, Fortune, Rents and 
Charter Chest of Creich. 

Anna Bethun only LawfuU Child to David Bethun Laird 
of Creich was by her Uncle Mr. James Bethun married to Sir 
James Chisholme of Cromblix, and of that marriage are 
descended The Chisholmes of Cromblix. The Notes say that 
there was another Daughter married to Weyms of 

Rumgay. 

Mr. Jamer Bethun Second Son to Robert Bethun of Creich l>»i^4^-] 
and Younger Brother to David Bethun of Creich succeeded to 
his Elder Brother David and was Laird of Creich by Disposi- 
tion from him. He married twice. First he married Helen 
Leslie Heretrix of Kinnaird beside Dunbug and she bore to 
him Two Daughters, The Mother dying in The Birth of The 
Second, and shortlie after both The Daughters died. Next he 
married Margaret Weyms Eldest Daughter to David Weyms 
of that Ilk (called David with The Birken Flower). She bore 
to him these Sons David, Mr. John, Mr. Robert and Mr. 
Archibald Bethuns and these Four Daughters Margaret, 
Elizabeth, Catharine and Helen Bethuns. Nota. When he 
came to be Laird of Creich he disponed his Parsonage of 
Roxburgh to Mr. James Bethun Brother to The Laird of Bal- 
four. David Bethun his Eldest Son succeeded to him. 

Mr. John Bethun Second Son to Mr. James Bethun Laird 
of Creich. 



84 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

Mb. Robert Bethun his Third Son. 

Mb, Archibald Bethun his Fourth Son. 

Mabgabet Bethun his Eldest Daughter married 
Ferny Laird of Wester Ferny of that Ilk. 

EuzABETH Bethun his Second Daughter married Sir David 
Murray Viscount of Stormont, Lord Scoone. But She had no 
Children. 

Cathabine Bethun his Third Daughter married James 
Forbes Portioner of Kilmany Brother German to Robert 
Forbes of Rires. 

Helen Bethun Youngest Daughter to Mr. James Bethun 
Laird of Creich never married. 
[paie46.] David Bethun Eldest Son to Mr. James Bethun of Creich 
succeeded to his Father. He married Eupham Forbes 
Daughter to Arthur Forbes of Rires. She bore Three Sons 
Robert, David and Mr. William Bethuns and Two Daughters, 
Anna and Bethuns. Robert The Eldest was a Youth 

of great Expectation. He died about The Age of Twenty 
years. 

David Bethun his Eldest Son after Robert succeeded to 
him. 

Mb. Wiluam Bethun Youngest Son to David Bethun of 
Creich. He married Jean Allardice Daughter to 
Allardice of that Ilk in The East End of Angus betwixt 
Ardbroth and Montrose. She bore to him One Daughter 
Margaret Bethun who married Lindesay of Kilspindie. 

Anna Bethun Eldest Daughter to this Laird of Creich was 
married to Sir John Moncreif of that Ilk and bore to him One 
Son William sans Issue and Two Daughters Anna and Eliza- 
beth Moncreifs. This Anna Moncreif his Eldest Daughter 
married James Bethun of Balfour and bore to him John 
Bethun who died about The Age of 20 years and David 
Bethun The present Laird of Balfour. 

Bethun Youngest Daughter to David Bethun of 
Creich married Laird of Fullertoun in Angus 

her First Husband, and after his Death she married 
Areskine of Dun and heired both The Estates. 

David Bethun Eldest Son to David Bethun Laird of Creich 
succeeded to his Father. He married First Eupham Grahame 



pp. 45-48] FAMILY OF BALFOUR BETHUNE 86 

Daughter to The Laird of Morphie. She bore to him Two 

Sons and Two Daughters. But they all died young without [/age 4^-] 

Issue shortly after their Mother. Next he married Lady 

Margaret Cunynghame Daughter to Earl of Glen- 

cairne. But she bore to him no Children and after his Death 

which was Anno 1661 she married Chisolme of Cromlix 

and died herself Anno 1678. 

This Laird of Creich having no Children of his own Body 
and having only One Brother Mr. William who married Jean 
Allardice, etc.,^ ut supra by whom he had only One Daughter 
in Anno 1655 or thereby did dispone The whole Estate of 
Creich (being about 80 Chalders of Victual) to James Bethun 
then Fiar of Balfour under The Burthen of 80000 or 90000 
Merks reserving to himself The Liferent of The most Part of 
it and to his Lady her Liferent of 32 Chalders Victual, Vide 
supra in James Bethun Laird of Balfour and in The Third 
David Laird of Creich anent this Disposition and The Reasons 
& Motives thereof. 

The Marriages of The Lairds of Creich. [^^^48.] 

David Bethun Isobel Duddingston Daughter to 

The Laird of Sandfoord. 

John Bethun Janet Hay Daughter to John Hay 

Provost of Dundee. 

David Bethun never married. 

Robert Bethun Joanna Renwall alias Grysoner a 

French Lady. 

David Bethun Eupham Leslie Daughter to George 

Earl of Rothes 

(Helen Leslie Heretrix of Kinnaird 
Margaret Weyms Daughter to The 
Laird of Weyms of that Ilk. 
David Bethun Eupham Forbes Daughter to The Laird 

of Rires. 

Eupham Grahame Daughter to David 
David Bethun The Laird of Morphie. 

Lady Margaret Cunynghame Daughter 
to The Earl of Glencairne. 

* So in MS. 



86 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

Monro (Munro) of Fowlis. 

votTp^is-i Bears Or an Eagle pearching on an Helmet Gules. 

Nota. I find That at an Insurrection of The Hill People of 
Ross against Tlie Earl of Ross in The Year 1299 they having 
taken The Earl his Second Son at Balnagowan The Earl of 
Ross assisted by The Monros and Dingwalls pursued The 
Highlanders and fought them at Beal-by-na-broig where The 
Clan-Iber, Clan-Talivach and Clan-Leave were almost utterly 
extinguished and 140 of The Dingwalls and 11 of The House 
of Fowlis who were to succeed one another and The Succession 
fell to a Child in The Cradle for which The Earl of Ross gave 
Lands to The Monros and Dingwalls. 

George Monro of Fowlis was Chief and Representative of 
The Family of Monros in The Reign of King Robert Bruce 
and was Lineally and Lawfully descended of Donald LawfuU 
Son to The Chief of O Caan in Ireland called The Prince of 
Fermonaugh. This Donald came to Scotland with his Sister 
Aine married to Angus MacDonald of Ylla Lord of The Isles. 
The People then being much addicted to call Men Patronim- 
cally or from The Places from whence they came always ccdled 
Donald OCaan'^s Son Donald Abunro and his Successors 
Abunro in Irish as Irish Writs yet extant do testify and were 
called in English and Latin Munro and that because O Caan'^s 
Residence and Castle was on The Ro Water, and it is informed 
That this Donald called where he got his Residence in Scotland 
Fowlis after a Land so called near Loch Feoil in Ireland. 

This George Monro with his Friends and Followers having 
owned The Right and Interest of King David Bruce did 
march under The Command of Archibald Douglas Third Son 
to William Douglas called The Hardy Brother to good Lord 
James then General of The Scotch Forces into Northumber- 
land where they fought The English at Halidonhill, and this 
George was with The General killed and The Scotch routed 22d 
July 1333. His Son was Robert of whom next. This George 
had a Brother John Monro aliis Bac-lawigh who was Tutor to 
[pagtBt.] his Brother's Son in his Minority. From this John came The 
Family of Miltoun. 

Robert Monro of Fowlis succeeded to his Father George. 

^ Pages 49 and 50 of MS. are blank. 



pp. 51-53] MONRO OF FOWLIS 8T 

He married Forrester a Daughter to The Laird of 

Corstorphine. She bore to him Three Sons Hugh, Thomas 
and John. Thomas married Heretrix 

of Duncrub. This Robert Monro was killed in Defence of 
William Earl of Ross in Anno 1369. He succeeded being 
Minor and his Tutor was John Monro called John Bac-lawigh 
because he was mutilate of a Hand in a Conflict with The 
M^Intoshes at Clagh-re-herey beside Kepack where The Chief 
of The Macintoshes was killed about 1341, and John Monro 
Tutor of Fowlis was carried out of The Field half dead by 
The Lord Lovat having lost One of his Hands in ITie Fight. 
From this John are descended The Monros of Miltoun. 

Hugh Monro of Fowlis succeeded to his Father Robert and 
married Isobell KeithJiaugliter^to Keith Marshall of 

Spnflflm]^ T j^/^y Mareon C heyne being her Mother. She bore 
to him George and John Monros. John was The First of 
Miltoun. This Hugh died Anno 14gfi. 

G£ORG£ Monro of Fowlis succeeded to his Father Hugh 
and married daughter to 

of Belnagowan. She bore to him a Son and 

after her Decease he married a Daughter of The Laird of 
M^CuUoch of Plaids &c. She bore to him John and Hugh 
Monros. This Hugh was The First of Cowll. This George 
and his Eldest Son of his First Marriage was killed at The 
Conflict of Bellachnabrog 1452. 

John Monro of Fowlis succeeded to his Father George and vol. i. p. 185 
married Calder Daughter to Sir Calder 

The Knight of Calder of that Ilk who bore to him a Son 
William. This John died Anno 1490. 

William Monro of Fowlis succeeded to his Father John who 
for several good Services done in The Reign of King James 4th 
was Knighted and had a Commission of Justiciary within The 
Shire of Innerness. He married Anna McLean Daughter to [page 63,] 
The Chief of The McLeans. She bore to him Hector and 
William Monros. Sir William was killed at Auchnashelach 
in Anno 1505. 

Hector Monro of Fowlis succeeded to his Father Sir 
William and man:ied Catharine M^Kenzie Daughter to 
Kenneth M^Kenzie of Kintail One of The Earl of Seaforth's 



88 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

Predecessors, and The Lord Lovat's Daughter was this 
Catharine's Mother. She bore to him Two Sons Robert and 
Hugh Monros, and after her Death he married Catharine 
M^Leod Daughter to The Laird of M^^Leod of Lewis. This 
Hector died in Carbisdail Anno 1541. 

Robert Monro of Fowlis succeeded to his Father Hector 
and married Margaret Dumbar Daughter to Sir Alexander 
Dumbar Sherrif of Murray and Falconer Daughter 

to The Laird of Halkertoun. She bore to him Robert, 
Hector and George Monros. Hector was Laird of Coatulich 
Fyrish'^s Predecessor. George was Predecessor to George 
Monro of Catwall. Robert with his Friends and Followers 
having gone to resist The English who invaded Scotland was 
killed at The Battle of Pinkie September 1547. 

Robert MoreMonro of Fowlis succeeded to his Father Robert, 

and married Margaret Ogilvie Daughter to Ogilvie of 

Finlater. She bore to Him Robert and Mr. Hector Monros, 

and after her Death he married Catharine Ross Eldest 

Daughter to Alexander Ross of Balnagowan, her Mother being 

The Earl of Caithness'^s Daughter, and she bore to him George 

of Obsdaile, John Monro of Daan and Andrew Monro 

Predecessor to Lemlair. This Robert with his Friends and 

Followers waited upon Queen Mary at her being at Innemcss. 

Buchanan Lib. 17 says, * Audito Principis periculo, magna 

priscorum Scotorum multitudo, partira excita, partim sua 

sponte affuit, imprimis Fraserii et Monroi hominum fortissi- 

morum in illis gentibus Familise.'' And Arch-Bishop Spotis- 

9age54.] wood says, * The Queen being at Innerness upon The Rumour 

that went of The Danger The Queen stood in there flocked 

out of all Quarters to her Numbers of Highlandmen, The 

Erasers and Monros chiefly with their Followers and Friend- 

, i. p. i86. ship.^ This Robert Monro of Fowlis was Principal Baillie to 

The King James 6th in The Earldom of Ross and Lordship 

of Ardmannoch as may be seen and proven by The 111th Act 

of The 7th Parliament of King James 6th holden at Edinburgh 

24th October 1581. Tiiis Robert died in November 1588. 

Robert Monro Younger Fiar of Fowlis notwithstanding of 
his being married several Times died without any Male 
Succession Three Moneths before The Death of his Father. 



PP 53-55] MONRO OF FOWLIS 89 

This Robert Monro Fiar of Fowlis First married Marjory 
Mackenzie Daughter to Kenneth Mackenzie of Kintail and 
Sister to Colin Mackenzie of Kintail. After her Decease he 
married Helenor Gordon Daughter to John Earl of Suther- 
land, and after her Death he married Janet Sinclair Daughter 
to George Earl of Caithness, and after her Decease he 
married Elizabeth Ross Daughter to Ross Baron of 

Kilravack. 

Mk. Hector Monro Second Son to Robert Monro Laird of 
Fowlis and of his First Marriage succeeded to his Father and 
also as Heir Male succeeded to his Brother Robert Monro 
Younger of Fowlis and Fiar thereof. He married Anna 
Eraser Daughter to Hugh Lord Eraser of Lovat and 
Murray Daughter to Earl of Athol being her 

Mother. She bore to him Robert and Hector Monros. This 
Mr. Hector died 15th November 1603. In his Time was The 
Tumult in Ross betwixt The Monros and Mackenzies where 
Three Gentlemen of the Monros were killed. This in Anno 
1527. But The Parties were reconciled. 

Robert Monro (agnamed The Black) of Fowlis succeeded 
to his Father Mr. Hector Monro. He married Margaret 
Sutherland Daughter to Sutherland Laird of Duffus. 

But she dying and leaving no Male Issue he went to France [Mr? ^.1 
and having returned to England he married at London an 
English Gentlewoman called Mary Haynes. This Robert 
being a Colonel in The King of Sweden'*s Service in Germany 
over Two Regiments One of Horse and Another of Foot having 
at Mondarkine charged The Enemy (being then under The 
Command of Felt Marshall Gustavus Home) after The Death 
of The King of Sweden was shot through The right foot with 
a Musket Bullet. He retired to Ulme to be cured. But 
Through The Smartness of his Wound he fell into a Lan- 
guishing Fever and died at Ulme in March 1633 without 
Succession. 

Hector Monro Brother German to The said Colonel Robert 
Monro succeeded to his Brother and married Mary Mackay 
Daughter to Hugh Mackay of Strathnaver and Sister to 
Donald Lord Reay. Her Mother was The Earl of Suther- 
land's Daughter. She bore to him a Son called Hector. This 



40 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

Hector Monro of Fowlis being likewise a Colonel of a Regi- 
ment of Foot in Germany under The Crown of Swedetfs 
Command he was made Knight Baronet by King Charles 1st. 
He died at Hamburgh in Aprile 1635. 

SiE Hector Moneo Younger of Fowlis succeeded to his 
Father Colonel Sir Hector and being married he died in his 
Uncle's Son's House John Lord Reay at Durinash in Strath- 
naver in December 1651. 

87. Robert Monro Son and Heir to Colonel John Monro of 
Obsdail (who was Colonel to a Regiment of Foot in Germany 
under The Command of The King of Sweden) being The nearest 
and LawfuU Heir Male to The said Sir Hector Monro Younger 
succeeded to him as Laird of Fowlis and married Jean Monro 
Daughter to Colonel Sir Hector Monro. She bore to him 

?.] several Sons John, Hector, Andrew and Monros. 

This Sir Robert died 14th January 1668. 

Sir John Monro of Fowlis succeeded to his Father Sir 
Robert. He married Anne M^'Kenzie Daughter to Sir 
Kenneth M^Kenzie of Cowl Knight Baronet. 



.]* The Genealogy of Moncrief of 

that Ilk. 

Bears Argent, a Lyon rampant supported by Two Men 
armed at all Points bearing Picks on their Shoulders. 

Raymerus Moncreif was The First we hear of of that Name 
and Family. He was Wardrober or Keeper of The Royal Robes 
to King Alexander 1st who began to reign Anno 1107 and 
died Anno 1124. This King gave Raymerus for his Arms The 
Rampant Lyon with The Royal Ermine which are white 
Sabble Furrings spotted with Black which is a Princely 
Bearing. 

Gasperus Moncreif was Son to Raymerus. 

Gerardus Moncreif was Son to Gasperus. 

RoGERUS Moncreif was Son to Gerardus. 

Sir Matthew Moncreif of that Ilk was Son to Rogerus. 

Sir Malcolme Moncreif of that Ilk was Son to Sir Matthew 



^ Pages 57 and 58 of MS. are blank. 



pp. 55^1] MONCRIEF OF THAT ILK 41 

Moncreif of that Ilk. He married Catharine Murray Heiress 
of Tullibardine. She bore to him a Son John who succeeded 
him and was Knighted. 

Sib John Moxcreif married Daughter 

to Laird of Dundas. She bore to him 

Three Sons John, George and Matthew Moncreifs. John his 
Eldest Son succeeded to him. 

George Moncreif Second Son to Sir John Moncreif of that 
Ilk. He married Frennet a Dutch Woman. She [^g>f^'l 

bore to him a Son Robert Moncreif who married Janet Lundie 
Daughter to Lundie of that Ilk. She bore to 

him a Son William. 

William Moncrief Son to Robert Moncreif and Janet 
Lundie married Janet Grahame Daughter to 
of Montrose. Of this William Moncreif is descended The 
Family of Tippermalloch. His Wife bore to him a Son 
William. 

William Moncreif Son to William Moncreif and Janet 
Grahame married Janet Moncreif a Daughter of Westerrind, 
and she bore to him Two Sons David and William Moncreifs. 
David married Christian Ramsay Daughter to The Laird of 
Balmowto (as I read it on The Tree. But I judge it an 
Error; For Balmowto was Boswall long before and after. 
Therefore I judge it should be of Balmouly.) The other Son 
William married Elizabeth Morton Daughter to The Laird of 
Cambo. But it is blank on The Tree. 

Matthew Moncreif Third Son to Sir John Moncreif of 
that Ilk married Christian Mauld Heretrix of Easter Moncreif 
Anno 1497, and of this Man came The Family of Easter 
Moncreif. She bore to him Andrew Moncreif. 

Andrew Moncreif Son to Matthew Moncreif married 
Christian Moncreif. She bore to him a Son called John 
Moncreif. This John Moncreif succeeded to his Father in The 
Lands of Easter Moncreif. He married 
who bore to him a Son Archibald Moncreif. This John died 
Anno 1514. 

Archibald Moncreif Son to John Moncreif of Easter Mon- 
creif succeeded to his Father and married who 
bore to him a Son Robert Moncreif who sold The Lands of [pViSl.] 
Easter Moncreif to Sir John Moncreif and died without Issue. 



42 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

Sir John Moncreif Eldest Son to Sir John Moncreif. He 
married Margaret Levingstoune Daughter to 
Levingstoune of Easter Weyms. She bore to him Two Sons 
Sir William & Mr. John Moncreifs and One Daughter 
Margaret. Sir William The Eldest succeeded to him. 

Mr. John Moncreif Second Son to Sir John Moncreif of 
that Ilk married Margaret Tyrie Daughter to Tyrie 

Laird of Drumskilbo. Of this Man is descended The Family 
of Wester Rind. This Lady bore to him Three Sons Edmond, 
David and John Moncreifs (of whose Posterity The Tree gives 
no Account). 

Margaret Moncreif Daughter to Sir John Moncreif married 
John Campbell First Laird of Lowers Eldest Son to Sir Colin 
Campbell First Laird of Glenurquhy and bore to him a 
Daughter called who was married to 

Murray of TuUiebardine. 

Nota. The Tree bears Tliat this Mr. John The Son married 
to his Second Wife a Daughter of The House of Athol, and it 
is not very clear which of The Wives bore to him his Three 
Sons Edmond, David and John. Videtur to be The First. 

Sir William Moncreif Eldest Son to Sir John Moncreif 
succeeded to his Father, and married Beatrix Grahame 

, She bore to him Sir William, John and 
Alexander Moncreifs and Three Daughters Margaret, Elizabeth 
and Jean Moncreifs. Sir William his Eldest Son succeeded to 
him. Himself was killed at The Battle of Flowdoun. 

John Moncreif his Second Son married 
[pageGi.] She bore to him Mr. Gilbert Moncreif of Myrcside Advocate, 
vol. i. p. 191. Alexander Moncreif Third Son to Sir William Moncreif. 

MARGARtrr MoNCRiEF Eldest Daughter to this Sir William 
Moncreif married of Abbotshall. 

Elizabeth Moncreif his Second Daughter married 
Boswall of Balmowto, and bore to him Ten Sons and Ten 
Daughters. 

Jean Moncreif his Third Daughter married of Craige 
Kossie and bore Three Sons and Two Daughters. 

Sir William Moncreif succeeded to his Father and married 
Margaret Murray Daughter to Murray of Balvaird. 

She bore to him these Four Sons and these Five Daughters 



pp.6i^3] MONCRIEF OF THAT ILK 43 

Sir William, James, Mr. John and Alexander Moncriefs and 
Jean, Elizabeth, Isobell, Helen cind Margaret Moncreifs. Sir 
William his Eldest Son succeeded to him. 

James Moncreif his Second Son. 

Mu. John Moncreif his Third Son. 

Alexander Moncreif his Fourth Son was Laird of Kin- 
tullo. He married who bore to him 

Matthew Moncreif who succeeded to him in KintuUo. This 
Matthew Moncreif married and bore 

to him William Moncreif who succeeded to his Father in The 
Lands of Kintullo. 

Jean Moncreif Eldest Daughter to Sir William Moncreif 
of that Ilk married John Leslie Second Son to William Earl 
of Rothes, and bore to him Two Daughters, 

Elizabeth Moncreif his Second Daughter married Alex- [page 63.] 
ander Ruthven of Frieland. 

Isobell Mokcreif his Daughter was married to 

RoUo of Duncurb. 

Helen Moncreif his Daughter married Robert 

Ramsay of Balmouly says The Tree. 

Margaret Moncreif his Fifth Daughter married 

Sir William Moncreif Eldest Son to Sir William Moncreif 
of that Ilk succeeded to his Father. He married Jean 
Olyphant Daughter to Lord Olyphant. She bore 

to him these Seven Sons and Three Daughters Sir William, 
John, Mr. Andrew, Hugh, Mr. Archibald, Henry and George 
Moncreifs and Margaret, Jean and Agnes Moncreifs. Sir 
William his Eldest Son succeeded to him. 

Sir John Moncreif his Second Son was Laird of Kilmonth. 
He married Jean Spense. 

Mr. Andrew Moncreif his Third Son was Minister of 
Crail and married Moncreif Daughter to 

of Tippermalloch. 

Hugh Moncreif his Fourth Son married Helen Dundas 
Daughter to The Laird of Fingask. 

Mr. Archibald Moncreif his Fifth Son was Minister at 
Abernethy. He married Auchinleck Daughter to 

Sir William Auchinleck of Balmanno. He had The Lands of 



44 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

Balgony in that Parish, and his Wife bore to him Two Sons 
fi64.] Mr. Archibald Moncreif who succeeded to him in The Ministery 
at Abernethy and Mr. George Moncreif who was Minister at 
Amgosk. Also he had a Daughter Elizabeth Moncreif married 
to Robert Demperstoun Portioner of Auchtermuchtie. Both 
The Brethren had Children. But The Sister was sans Issue. 

Hexry Moncreif his Sixth Son died without Issue. 

George Moncreif his Seventh Son died without Issue. 

Margaret Moncreif Eldest Daughter to Sir William 
Moncreif of that Ilk married of Balhoussie. 

Jean Moncreif his Second Daughter married William 
Ramsay (ut puto) of Corstan. 

Agnes Moncreif his Youngest Daughter was married to 
David Murray Master of Bin. 

Sir William Moncreif of that Ilk succeeded to Sir William 
Moncreif his Father. He married Annas Murray Daughter 
to Murray of Abercaimie. She bore to him these 

Six Sons and Five Daughters Sir John, William, Mr. Hugh, 
Mr. David, Robert and James]^Moncreifs and Christian, Annas, 
Catharine, Jean, Nicholas and Bethsheba Moncreifs. His 
Eldest Son succeeded to him. He lived about The Year 
1600. 

William Moncreif his Second Son died of 22 Years of Age 
sans Issue. 

Mr, Hugh Moncreif The Third Son married Isobell Hay 
Daughter to Hay of Megginsh or Pitfour. 

^e65.] Mr. David Moncreif The Fourth Son (says The Tree) 
married Margaret Beatoun Daughter to Beatoun of 

Creich. Nota. I suppose this is wrong; For he married 
Margaret Moncreif Daughter to Moncreif of Balcaskie 

being Heiress, and so he became Laird of Balcaskie. 

James Moncreif The Fifth Son. 

Robert Moncreif The Sixth Son. 

Christian Moncreif Sir William Moncreif his Eldest 
Daughter married Robert Forbes of Rires. 

Annas Moncreif The Second Daughter married James 
Ramsay of Corstan. 

Catharine Moncreif The Third Daughter was Lady Logie- 
wishart. 



pp. 63-66] MONCRIEF OF THAT ILK 45 

Jean Moncreif The Fourth Daughter married 
Hay of Leys. 

Nicolas Moncreif The Fifth Daughter married John 

Dundas of Fingask. 

Bethsheba Moncreif The Sixth Daughter married Sir David 
Barclay of CuUemy. 

Sir John Moncreif of that Ilk succeeded to his Father Sir [vol. i. p. 19: 
William Moncreif. He married twice, First, Anna Beaton 
Daughter to David Beaton of Creich. She bore to him a Son 
William and Two Daughters Annas and Elizabeth Moncreifs. 
Thereafter he married Mary Murray Daughter to William or 
John Earl of Athol. She bore to him Five Sons Sir John 
Moncreif The Eldest and David, Henry, James and William 
Moncreifs and a Daughter Margaret. 

Sir John Moncreif The Eldest of The Second Marriage [fa^e66.] 
succeeded to his Father. 

William Moncreif The only Son of The First Marriage 
died without Issue. 

Ananas Moncreif Eldest Daughter of The First Marriage 
was married to James Beaton of Balfour. She bore to him 
Two Sons John who died young and David now Laird of 
Balfour and Creich. 

Margaret Moncreif Daughter of Sir John Moncreif 

his Second Marriage married (ut puto) George Murray now of 
Pittencreif Brother to Lord Eliebank. 

Elizabeth Moncreif was never married being The Second 
Daughter of The First Marriage. 

David, Henry, James and William Moncreifs all Sons to 
Sir John Moncreif of his Second Marriage had no Issue. 
David had The Title of Knight Baronet, and now after him 
Sir James brooks it. 

Sir John Mon(;iieif succeeded to his Father Sir John 
Moncreif of that Ilk being his Eldest Son of his Second 
Marriage who came to The Estate under great Burthens 
(through The Profuseness of his Mother which he could not 
overcome). He sold The Estate to Thomas Moncreif One 
of The Clerks of Exchecquer by Birth an Orknay Man now 
Knight Baronet. Sir John is now dead without Issue, and so 
that antient and honourable Family is now quite extinguished 



46 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

as are also these other Cadets of it, to wit, Easter Moncreif, 
Colfargie, Wester-Rind and Kintullo. Only Tippermallo 
stands and is well. 

This Last Sir John was an accomplished Gentleman discreet 
and prudent. He never married, and so has no Posterity. 
pag€e7.'\ The Fortune is acquired by Thomas Moncreif who came 
from Orknay about The Year 1648. He married Bethia 
Hamilton Daughter to Mr. Alexander Hamilton Writer to 
The Signet. He has been long Clerk to The Exchecquer and 
Thesaury of Scotland; As yet he has no Issue, but is The 
richest and has The most opulent Fortune that ever any of 
The Name had in The Kingdom, and is a Knight Baronet 
having risen to Riches and Honour by The Favour and Means 
of John Earl of Crawford Thesaurer of Scotland and by his 
own Industry and Parsimony. 



^^7Ly Morton of Cambo his old Writs. 

. i. p. 323. 

1. King William The Lyon's 3d Charter to Robert of 
Newham of The Lands of Cambo. But The Charter wants a 
Date. Tenend. a Comitissa Matre Regis et Haeredibus suis 
sicut Carta dictae Comitissae (i.e. Adamae) testatur et coniirmat 
per Servitium unius Hominis in Exercitu meo &c. Testibus 
Willielmo de Blakole Camerario, Alexandro de Sainto Martino 
apud Strivelin. Nota. This Adama was Daughter to William 
Earl of Warren and was married to Prince Henry commonly 
called Earl Henry Son to King David 1st called St. David, 
Youngest Son to King Malcolme Canmore. She bore to Earl 
Henry King Malcolme the 4th (surnamed The Maiden) King 
William and David Earl of Huntington and Three Daughters 
Adama, Margaret and Maude, and after The Prince's Death she 
was married to M^Duff 2d of The Name Earl of Fyffe. 

2. Duncan Earl of FyfFe gives a Charter of The Lands of 
Thamastoun cum superiori Dominio omnium Liberetenentium 
ejusdem Terrae et cum ipsius Terrae Hominibus nativis. Teste 
Willielmo Priore Sancti Andreae, lo. Michael de Weyms, 
Michael Scot, David de Weyms, Andrew de Valouns et lo. 

^ Pages 68, 69, and 70 of MS. are blank. 



pp. 66 72] MORTON OF CAMBO 47 

Castel Militibus to Sir Roger de Mortuo Man (conceived to be 
The Etymology of Morton) and to Elizabeth (Macduff) his 
Wife Daughter to this Earl Duncan. The Charter has no 
Date. But, he being a Witness in King William''s Charter of 
Confirmation of all prior Gifts and Grants to The See of St. 
Andrews it must have been given (says Mr. Charles Gedde) 
near The Year 1200 to be holden of The Granter for Payment 
of a Pair of Gilt Spurs or Two Shillings Scots therefore in 
The Fairs or Mercats of Dundee. 

3. Peter of Balfour his Licence to John Monepenny (who 
was interdicted to Peter) to wodset The Lands of Mirton to 
Nichol of Milton Clerk of The Chamber to King Alexander 3d. 
The Licence is dated in The 14th Year of King Alexander 3d 

his Reign, i.e. Anno Domini 1263. [A*^' ^^•- 

4. John Monepennie of Blachbolg (i.e. ut conjicio, Blebo) 
gives a Wodset of Mirton to The said Nichol Clerk of The 
King's Chamber. The Date is a.d. 1263. 

5. Richard of Strekelaw or Stickelaw Dominus de Blachbolg 
sets in Feu Farm to The foresaid Nichol Upper and 
Nether Reskes &c. Dated at Blachbolg upon Pasch Thurs- 
day The 15th Year of King Alexander The Third his Reign, 
i.e. A. 1264. 

6. Gamel (Gamelinus) Bishop of St. Andrews gives a 
Charter confirming John Monepennie his Deed in Favours 
of Nichol dated at Cambuskenneth 18th May Anno Regni 
Alexandri 3tii 15, that is a.d. 1264. 

7. John Monepennie of Blabolg grants a Charter to Thomas 
de Lydel of a Piece (unum Bovatum Terrae, i.e. an Ox-Gate of 
Land) of Land in Blabolg The Charter wants a Date. But 
this Thomas de Lydel is a Witness in The 5th Evident with 
this John Monepennie which is dated 1264, and John is also 
a Witness in The Third Evident. So this Charter is in The 
Reign of King Alexander 3d who died 1285. 

8. King Robert Bruce gives a Charter of Gresmanstoun and vol. i. p. 32. 
of The Kirk and Duties of Crail to William of Cambo 
Knight. The Words of The Charter are 'In Extentum 
Centum Mercatarum et Decem Solidatarum Terrae una cum 
Septem Marcis cum Dimidia Sterlingorum annuatim per- 
cipiendis per Manus Camerarii nostri et Balivorum nostrorum 



48 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

Burgi de Caraill de Firmis Burgi praedicti quousquc sibi de 
Decern Libratis Terrae in Loco competenti (citra) Monies 
Scotiae in Regno nostro Scotise heredetarie per nos aut Heredes 
nostros fuerit provisum libere et quiete ab omni Servitio &c. 
Apud Aberbrothock 7® Martii. Anno Regni 19°. i.e. a.d. 13S5. 
t^e7S,] Testibus Wmo, Joanne, Gilberto, S** Andraeae, Glasguensis et 
(So)dorensis. Ecclesiarum Episcopis, Bernardo 

Abbate de Ardbroth Cancellario, Thoma Ranulph, Comitc 
Moraviae, Domino Vallis Annandiae et Manniae Nepote nostro 
carissimo, Waltero Senescallo Scotiae, Jacobo Domino de 
Douglas et David Barclay Militibus. 

9. King David The Second grants a Charter confirming 
Duncan E. of Fyffe his Charter to Rogerus de Mortuo Mari of 
The Lands of Thamastoun to be holden of The said Earl and 
his Successors, salvo Servitio nostro. Dated at Dumfermline 
Last December Anno Regni 15 et a.d. 1344. Testibus 
Roberto Senescallo Scotiae Nepote nostro, Joanne Ranulph, 
Comite Moraviae, Dno Vallis Annandiae et Manniae Consan- 
guineo nostro, Patricio de Dunbar Comite Marciae, Mauricio de 
Moravia, Malcolmo Flyming et Thoma de Carnots Militibus. 

10. King Robert The First his Charter to William of Cambo 
Son to Sir John of Cambo (Militis de FyfF. The Charter has 
it so) in these Words * Quod ipse et Heredes sui liberi sint et 
quieti in perpetuum a Prestatione Multure de Terra sua de 
Cambow cum Pertinen. ita quod licite possint molere ubicun- 
que voluerint et viderint expedire,^ with a Prohibition not to 
vex him nor his Heirs thereanent super nostram plenariam 
Forisfacturam, Dated at Berwick upon Tweed 26th March 
An. Reg. 14° i.e. a.d. 1320. Nota. They take The Granter 
of this Charter to be King Robert 2d. But he behoved to 
be King Robert 1st because Bernard Abbot of Ardbroth, 
Chancellour and Walter The Great Steward and others who 
were Contemporaries with King Robert Bruce are The 

ge74,] m Witnesses, viz. John de Menteith, Robert de Keith Mariscallo 
Scotiae et Alexro de Seton. 

11. Andrew d. Valens Senescallus de FyfF his Receipt from 
William de Myretoun Domino ejusdem of Five Merks Sterline 
pro Parte Solutionis Relevii sui debit. Domino de Fyff for 
Fawfields Dated Octavo Die post Festum Andreae Apostoli 1361. 



pp. 74-75] MORTON OF CAMBO 49 

IS. Malcolme de Myretoun Dominus ejusdem his Receipt 
from John of Weyms Domino de Kincardin ^ of Ten libs 
Sterline super Terras de Ballas et Fawfield superiori et inferiori, 
and so he wodsetts these Lands to John Weyms ay and while 
he were paid of The said Sum and all other Sums received from 
him by The said William. Dated at Rires. 20 Junii 1S84. 

13. John Drybukgh Notary Publick his Instrument taken 
by John of Rires and Malcolme of Myrtoun for keeping of 
these Conditions &c. Dated at Craill in Haly Croce Kirk 
21 Junii 1384 The next Day after The Wodsett. 

14. King Robert 2d his Charter disponing dilecto Filio voi.i. p. 331 
nostro David de Lindsay Knight The Superiority of The 

Lands of Cambow with The Pertinents to be holden of The 
King and his Successors Faciendo inde Servitia debita et 
consueta. Dated at Linlithgow 1 Julii An. Regni 14^ i.e. 
1383. The Witnesses are William and John The Bishops of 
St. Andrews and Dunkeld (The Second John being then 
Chancellor) John E. of Carrik-primogenito nostro Senescallo 
Scotise, Robert E. of Fyffe and Menteith Filio nostro dilecto 
et Jacobo de Douglas Consanguineo 

nostro Comitibus Archibaldo de Douglas et Roberto de 
Ereskine Consanguineis nostris. 

David Myutoun of Cambo in The Days of King James 6th tA^* ^^'^ 



William Morton (or Myrtoun) of Cambo Son to David 
Morton of Cambo and Father to Thomas Morton in The 
Reign of Queen Mary was twice married, First, He married 
Melvill Daughter to Melvill of Cambie 

and she bore to him One Son Thomas Morton and these 
Thirteen Daughters 



Mortons. Next he married Elizabeth Spens Daughter to 

Spens of Wormistoun (who was called The Little 



^ * Oildrum ^ interlined in later hand for * Cardin ' in Kincardin. 



60 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

Lady) who bore to him Four Daughters, to wit, 

Marjory and Catharine Mortons. 
Thomas Moeton his Son of The First Marriage succeeded to 
him, and his Daughters were married as follows — 
First Marriage. 



[^age76.] 



1. 


Morton married 


Meldrum of Newhall. 


2. 


Morton married 


Spens of Wormistoun. 


3. 


Morton married 


Morton of Runclerstoun. 


4. 


Morton married 


Kay of Stra-Airlie. 


5. 


Morton married 


Lundy of 


6. 


Morton married 


Amot of Scotlandwell. 


7. 


Morton married 


Shaw of Lathangy. 



8. Helen Morton married Colonel Andrew Trail, and bore 
to him Mr. Robert Trail Minister at Edinburgh. After She 
married Sir Robert Danielstoune [of Camone Laris F. et 
H., Roberti D. Burg»^ de Linlithgow. Ap'. 9. 1586. ch. 141, 
Lib. 86] ^ Lord Conservator. 

9. IsABELL Morton married Andrew Fermor [or rather Fery 
Portioner of Craigtoun — Ch. 496. Lib. 37. arch public] ^ 

10. Morton married Mr. John Buttcl or Buthell in 
Crail. 

11. Morton married John Murray. 

12. Morton married Mr. Robert Airth. 

13. Morton turned a Nun, went abroad and died 
beyond Sea. 

a. i. p. 326. The Daughters of the Second Marriage. 

1. Morton married Weyms of Pittencreife. 

2. Morton married Andrew Melvil in Anstruther. 

3. Marjory Morton married Walter Gedde in St. Andrews 
Son to Charles Gedde and Lawmount his Wife 
and bore to him Mr. Charles (sans Issue) and William G^dde. 

[pa£€ 7?,] William married Margaret Wilson who bore John and Alex- 
ander Geddes and Two Daughters Catharine and Janet. John 
Gedde married Elisabeth Lentron who bore to him Two Sons 
Mr. Charles who died of The Age of 22 and James who died 
a Child and Two Daughters Helen and Elizabeth. Helen 
married Mr. James Lentron in November 1690 and bore to 



^ Later additions. 



pp. 75-78] MORTON OF CAMBO 61 

him Three Daughters at Two Births who are all dead with 
their Father who died Aprile 1692. 

4. Catharine Morton youngest Daughter to William 
Morton of Cambo and of his Second Marriage was married 
to Mr. Robert Maule Uncle to Patrick The First Earl of 
Panmoor. 



Thomas Morton Son to William Morton of Cambo 

and Melvill his said First Lady succeeded to his 

Father in The Estate. He married Mrs. Catharine Lindsay 
Daughter to John Lord Lindsay who bore to him William 
Morton who succeeded to him and a Daughter Helen Morton 
married to Alexander Cunynghame of Barnes and bore to him 
John Cunyngham of Barnes and Morton. 

Helen MoR'roN Daughter to this Sir Thomas married 
Alexander Cunynhame of Barnes and bore John Cunynghame 
of Barnes. 

William Morton Eldest Son to Thomas Morton of Cambo 
and Mrs. Catharine Lindesay his Lady succeeded to his Father. 
He married Margaret Murray Daughter to Murray 

who bore to him Sir Thomas Morton. Nota. I find a Laird 
of Cambo married to Jean Lundy Third Daughter to 
Lundy of that Ilk by his Lady Christian Ruthven First 
Daughter to William The Third Lord Ruthven. 

Sir Thomas Morton Eldest Son to William Morton of Ipo^^^s.] 
Cambo and Margaret Murray his Lady succeeded to his Father 
Anno 1628. He married Jfos. Catharine Lindoay who bore to 
him a Son Patrick who succeeded to him and Two Daughters 
Eupham and Anna Mortons. 

Sir Patrick Morton Son to Sir Thomas Morton 

of Cambo and his Lady succeeded to his Father 

Anno 1646. He married Elizabeth Prestoun Daughter to Sir 
John Prestoun of Airdrie and Dame Agnes Lundie his Second 
Lady. This Sir Patrick and his Lady have ruined and undone 
this antient and honourable Fortune and Family and sold 
The Estate to Sir Charles Ereskine Lord Lyon Son to 

Earl of Kellie in Anno 16 years. This 



5« GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

Sir Patrick Morton his Lady bore a Son Robert and Two 
Daughters who are all now in a very poor and mean Condition 
through their Parents Profuseness and ill Managery. 



[^e8L]^ Some Charters to The Lairds of Kin- 

rol. 1. p. 175 

NAiRD of that Ilk and of The Lands 
of Incheture. 

Willielmus Rex Scotorum Episcopis, Abbatibus, Comitibus, 
Baronibus, Justitiariis, Ministris et omnibus probis hoi bus 
[totius]^ etc. dedisse Radulpho Ruffo Kinnaird per rectas 
divisas suas, excepta Pitmeodhell. Ricardi Clerici mei 
Tenendas sibi et Heredibus suis de me et Heredibus meis 
in Feudo et Hereditate, in Boscho et Piano, in Terris et Aquis, 
in Pratis et Pascuis et omnibus justis pertinentiis suis cum 
Sacco et Socca, cum Thole et Thame et In fang theefe libere, 
quiete etc. per Servitium unius Militis. Testibus M. Episcopo 
de Aberdeen, Andreo Episcopo de Caithnes, Waltero de 
(Bidun) Cancellario, Comite Duncano Justitiario, Waltero 
de Berchley Camerario , Philippo de 

Colvill, Thoma de Musecamp. Henrico filio [Jordaiii Ricardo 
Mallivin]2 Apud Perth. 

[Ed" 12 Oct*' 1758 coUat et correct, ea Autographo.y 

Richardus de Kinnarrd Omnibus amicis suis tam Ecclesi- 
asticis Clericis quam Laicis salutem. Sciant omnes tam pntes 
quam futuri me dedisse etc. Joanni filio Richardi de Invertul 
totam terram de Dunore cum rectis divisis suis in moris et 
omnibus aliis pertinentiis in liberum Maritagium cum sorore 
mea Isobella adeo libere etc. sicut aliud Maritagium datur ab 
aliquo Barone vel Milite in toto Regno Scotiae. Tenendas 
sibi et Heredibus suis quos habuerit de sorore mea Isobella 
de me et Heredibus meis in Feodo et Hereditate. Inde 
Faciendo forinsecum Servitium Domini Regis quantum per- 
tinet ad Medietatem unius Davanch. Et Reddendo mihi et 



^ Pages 79 and 80 of MS. are blank. 
' Later additions. 



pp. 78-82] THE LAIRDS OF KINNAIKD 58 

Heredibus meis annuatim unam Libram Cymini (Cumini debet 
esse) ad Festum S** Martini. Testibus Roger de Mortuo Mari, 
David de Haya, Reginaldo de Abemeth, Michaele de Inche- 
thor, Hugone de Cambus, Duncano de Ralenda, Roberto de 
Haya, Malcolmo fratre ejus. 

Radalphus de Kjmnaird Omnibus amicis suis tarn Clericis [page 82, 
qukm Laicis Salutem. Sciant omnes tarn pntes quam futuri 
me concessisse etc. Richardo filio Joannis de Invertuyl totam 
terram de Dunore cum rectis divisis suis etc. quam Richardus vol. i. p. 17 
pater mens dedit Joanni filio Richardi de Invertuil in liberum 
Maritagium cum Isobella sorore su^ adeo libere &c. sicut 
Charta Richardi patris mei inde confecta testatur. Tenendam 
sibi et Heredibus suis de me & Heredibus meis in Feodo. 
Reliqua ut in precedenti Carta. His testibus Galfrido Dei 
Gratia Epo Dunkeld, Alexro Abbate de Cupro, Philippe 
Abbate de Scona, Dnis David, Roberto Malcolmo Joanne de 
Haya [ — Andrea Persono de Inchethor Henrico de Abemith — 
Patricio Vicario de Pert — W^°*** de Blase Malcolmo de Kynd- 
pindy et multis aliis — CoUat cum autographo. Oct' 12 — 
1758.]! 

RoBEKTUs (3) Dei Gratia Rex Scotorum etc. Salutem. Sciatis 
nos dedisse etc. dilecto et fideli novo Reginaldo de Kynnaird 
filio quondam Richardi de Kynnaird Militis et Marjorise de 
Eyrcaldi iilise et Heredi quondam Joannis de Eyrcaldy quam 
idem Reginaldus ducere proponit in Uxorem Omnes et singulas 
terras quas dicta Marjoria de nobis tenuit in Capite in Baronia 
de Inchesture infra Vicecoitum de Perth et quas dicta Marjoria 
in manibus noris apud Perth in piitia plurium Regni nostri 
Procerum, Baronum, Militum et Nobilium tum ibidem existen- 
tium non vi aut metu ducta, nee errore lapsa sed mera et 
spontanea voluntate sua per fustim et baculum resignavit etc. 
Tenendas et Habendas omnes et singulas predictas terras 
eisdem Reginaldo et Marioriae ac eorum alteri diutius viventi 
ac Heredibus inter ipsos letime procreandis. Quibus de- 
ficientibus, veris, legitimis et propinquioribus Heredibus dicti 
Reginaldi quibuscunque de nobis et Heredibus noris in Feodo 
et Hereditate in perpetuum per omnes rectas metas etc. adeo 



Later addition. 



54 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

libere etc. sicut dicta Marioria aut Predicessores sui dictas 
terras de nobis et Predicessoribus noris tenuit seu tenuerunt. 
Faciendo nobis et Heredibus noris de eisdem terris Servitia 
debita et consueta. In cujus rei etc. Testibus Venerabilibus 
in Christo Patribus Walter© Epo S^ Andrese, Gilberto Epo 
Abirdonen. Cancellaria nostro, charissimo, primogenito nostro 
David Duce Rothesaie Comite de Carrick et Atholiae Senes- 
[^e8S.] callo, Roberto Duce Albanian Comite de Fyff et Monteith 
fratre nostro germano, Archibald© Comite de Douglas Domino 
Galavidia}, Jacobo de Douglas Domino de Dalkeith et Thoma 
de Erskine consanguineis nostris dilcctis Militibus. Apud Perth 
28 Janr. Anno Gratiae 1399 et Regni nostri Anno Decimo. 



[A'if'Ss.]! The Genealogy of The Mackenzies 

preceeding The Year IGGl written in 
The Year 16G9 by a Person of Quality 
transcribed from a Manuscript in The 
Hands of Mr. John Mackenzie of 
Delvin Writer to The Signet 

The Family of The Geraldines were transplanted from 
Florence (as Cambden relates) to Bretaigne in Two Brethren 
of The Name who accompanying William The Conqueror from 
France to The Conquest of England Anno 1066 were by him 
rewarded among other Chiefs by a Share in The Purchase. 
They settled in The West of England where they lived in 
The Duty of Peaceable Obedience till Glory called them 
with Strangbow to Ireland in Assistance of Dcrmond King 
of Leinster, in which War they attained to such Repute by 
The Valour of Maurice FitzGerald, who was The next in 
Power to Pembrock, that he and others of his Relations were 
Eyed by The King as fit to attempt a sufficient, at Least, to 
begin a Conquest for him of that Isle. Nor did they fail his 
Expectation, that Family and that only at First acquiring and 
ever retaining what they conquered there. 



^ Page 84 of MS. blank. 



pp. 82-86] THE MACKENZIES 66 

This Family confident of their own Merits, or, perhaps, by 
an innate Generosity, as they were never at Ease when their 
Prince had War, so in The Time of Peace they were never 
amongst those Court Drons that fed on The Honey of other 
Mens Labours, but being ever notable in War, so they were 
ever private in Peace, and, because it was below their Humour 
to truckle under Court Parasits, they therefore frequently 
smarted under Favourits Odiums. The Records of England 
and Ireland are stuffed with The Geraldines Actions for their 
Prince and Countrey and their Sufferings unjustly by Courtiers 
Malice as often noted. How oft does Ophaly retain, as at 
First his Predecessors gained, Ireland? And as oft do The 
State Ministers, who were but Hearers of their Glorious Act- 
ings, triumph over them by Pretences of Legal Power. Yet 
The Fate of The Geraldines was too strong for their Enemy'^s 
Malice, and never were cast down so by them but that their 
Rise was in greater Glory. \.page8e.\ 

The greatest Stroke that ever reached them was that given 
by Sir Richard Bothell alibis Capell, as Holinshed notes ; He 
slew John Fitz Thomas then Chief of The Geraldines and in 
The Irish Chronicle called Lord John together with Maurice 
his Eldest Son Anno 1S61. John his Son called also by 
Holinshed Lord John fled to England whence he was restored 
to his Barony of Ophaly and afterwards created Earl of 
Kildare by King of England Anno 1290. 

His other Two Sons Colin and Galen fled to Scotland where 
they were graciously received by King Alexander, and The 
next Year 1262 they valourously assisted at The notable 
Defeat given to The Dains at Largs. This is brought down 
to us not only by unquestioned and constant Tradition but 
in a Fragment of The Records of lycolumkiel that is preserved 
by Sir George Mackenzie of Tarbet, where Mention is made 
of The most eminent Actors in that Battle. They name with 
The Steuart & The Cummin Walter Steuart Earl of Carrick 
and March The Thayn of Argyle, Robert de Loudon, James 
de Striveling, Walter Cummin, Thomas Maltiver, Perigrinus 
et Hibernus, Nobilis ex Familia Geraldinorum, qui proximo 
Anno ab Hibemia pulsus, apud Regem benigne acceptus 
hucusque in Curta permansit, et in prsefato Prselio strenue 
pugnavit. 



66 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. i 

From this Battle of Largs Walter Steuart was sent with 
Forces to reduce The Isles then associate with The Norwegian. 
To retain them in Obedience he built a Fort in Kintail which 
took it^s Name from it^s intended Use, and was called The 
Danting Isle fitly situate to attack any who stirred in a great 
Part of The Isles, and in it they placed Colin Fitz Gerald 
with a Garrison. This, as it is transferred by Tradition, so 
The said Fragment asserts The same with The Account of 
that Expedition made to The Isles speaking of these who 
encouraged Walter Steuart among other Names this Gerald 
with this Note de quo supra in Pnelio ad Larges, qui postea 
se fortiter contra Insulanos gessit, et ibi inter eos in praesi- 
dium relictus, being left in Kintail. Tradition says He 
married The Daughter of M*^Mahon Heritor of The Half of 
P*^ ^-1 Kintail. This M^Mahon, which ineptly is Englished Matthison 
is descended of The antient Fitzursuli or Ursini of Ireland and 
are of The Roman Lineage. The other Half of Kintail at 
this Time belonged to O Beolan, whose Chief called Ferquhar 
was created Earl of Ross, and his Lands in Kintail were given 
by The King to Colin Fitz Gerald. This Tradition carrys 
enough of Probability to found Historical Credit. But I find 
no Charter of these Lands proporting any such Grounds ; For 
that First Charter of Kintail is given by this King Alexander 
to this Colin Anno 1266. It being The First, I shall relate ifs 
full Tenor. Alexander Dei Gratia Rex Scotorum Omnibus 
probis Hominibus totius Terras suae Clericis et Laicis Salutem. 
Sciatis praesentes et futuri me pro fideli servitio mihi navato 
per Colinum Hibemum t^m in Bello quiim in Pace ideo dedisse 
et hac praesenti Carta mea conccssisse dicto Colino et ejus Sue- 
cessoribus totas Terras de Kintail Tenendas de nobis et suc- 
cessoribus nostris in liberum Baroniam cum Guardia Redden. 

Servitium forinsecum et Fidelitatcm. Testibus Archibaldo 
Episcopo Moraviensi, Waltero Steuart, Henrico de Baleoch 
Camerar, Amald. de Campan. Tho. Hostiar. Vicecomite de 
Innemess. Apud Kincardine IX Die Jan. Anno Regni 
Domini Regis XVI. This Kincardine may be that, probably, 
on Dee ; For about this Time it is reported That, The King 
hunting in The Forrest of Mar, a Hart pursued him and with 
Probability to have hurt him if Colin Gerald had not killed 



pp. 86-88] THE MACKENZIES 67 

him in his Approach with an Arrow. For which Cause The 
King allowed a Harf's Head pussant blooding from a Wound 
in The Fore Head to be his Coat Armorial supported by Two 
Gray Hounds, The Head in a Field Azure, which all descend- 
ing of him have ever since carried. 

This Colin had a Son by M^Mahon's Daughter whom he 
Named Kenneth after Kenneth Matthison his Father in 
Law Colin was killed at Glackchaillen in Lochailsh by The 
M^^Mahons envying his Succession to Their old Heritage. 
But The Garrison consisting mostly of Mac Raes and Mac 
Lennans did so valiantly defend their Young Master's Right 
that maugre his Opposers they retain his Possessions to him. 
To Colin succeeded this Kenneth. It seems The Government [pa^eSS.] 
of The Fort was Heritably conferred on this Family ; For, as 
there is no Mention of any Change, so we find those Isles kept 
Peaceably, and, when any Stirs were raised, assoon did this 
Garrison dissipat them. Buchanan insinuates anent these Isle- 
landers as if they were retained in Peace by The King'^s 
Ministers, but tells not who these were, these remoter Actors 
and Actions being little noticed by Historians whose Informa- 
tion as well as Knowledge did not oft exceed The adjacent 
Provinces. 

All that descended of this Kenneth were by The High- 
landers called Mac Chainichs taking The Patronymick from 
The Mac Mahon rather than from Colin whom they esteemed 
a Stranger. He married Morba Daughter to Mac Dougal 
of Lome. 

To Kenneth succeeded Kenneth his Son by Mac DougaPs 
Daughter and Sister Daughter to Cummin Earl of Athol. 
Yet, albeit Mac Dougal sided with The Baliol against The 
Bruce, Kenneth did own The other Partie, and was One of 
those who sheltered The Bruce in his Retreat and assisted him 
in his Recovery. I shall not say He was The only. But this 
stands for that Assertion That all who were considerable in 
The Hills and Isles were Enemies to The Bruce, and so cannot 
be presumed his Friends. The Earl of Ross William did most 
unhandsomely and inhumanely apprehend his Lady at Tayne 
and delivered her to The English Anno 1305: Donald of 
The Isles on Rothell or rather Ranald with all The Hebrides 



68 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

Armed against The Bruce, and were beat by Edward Bruce at 
Deir in Buchan Anno 1808. 

Alexander Earl of Argyle parted The Baliol. His Countrey 
therefore was wasted by Bruce Anno 1304 and himself taken 
Prisoner by him Anno 1309. 

Mac Dougal of Lome fought against The Bruce and took 
him Prisoner. From whence he notably escaped. So That 
there is none in The District left so considerable as this Chief 
who had an immediate Dependence on The Royal Family, and 
had this strong Fort, which was never commanded by The 
Bruce^s Enemies either English or Scotch, and That his 
Shelter and Assistance was from a remote Place and Friend 
is evident in all our Stories. 
[^gi89.] But all The Neighbours being stated on a different Side 
from The Mackenzies ingendered a Feud betwixt him and 
them, especially. The Earl of Ross and Donald of The Isles, 
which never ended but with The End of The Earl of Ross and 
Lowering of The Lord of The Isles. 

To Kenneth The Second of The Name succeeded Kenneth 
The Third of that Name. He married Finguala Daughter to 
MacLeod of Lewis. Before his Marriage he had Three Bastard 
Sons, viz. Hector Birrach. He married Helen Loban or Logan 
of Drumnamargne but forced from his Right by The Oppres- 
sions of The Earl of Ross Superior of Drumnamargne he 
turned Outlaw and died at Edderachilish having a Son called 
Henry of whom are descended The Sleight Henrick there. 
The Second Bastard was called Fewald Deirgaldach. Of him 
are descended John Mackenzie Commissary Depute of Ross 
thereafter in Cromarty and Mr. Rorie Mackenzie Minister at 
Croy with several others. The Third Bastard was called 
Alexander of whom are descended many of The Commanes of 
Brae Ross. 

This Kenneth was called Kenneth Nistroin from his Great 
Nose. He was surprized by his Enemy The Earl of Ross and 
executed at Inverness. He had by MacLeod's Daughter 
Murdoch Dow and by another Wife Murdoch Riach. Kenneth 
murthered thus by The Earl of Ross, his Estate was possessed 
by The Oppressor's Followers. But Isleandounnan kept still 
out maintaining themselves on The Spoil of The Enemy. All 



pp. 88-90] THE MACKENZIES 59 

being trod under by Insolence and Oppression, Right had no 
Place. This was during David Bruce his Imprisonment in 
England. One MacCaula, who commanded Isleandounnan, 
when he knew That The Earl of Ross had murthered his 
Master, conveyed his Son for Safety to MacCoule of Lome. 
He married Daughter to MacCaula of Lochbroom. 

This MacCaula was killed by Leod MacGillandris. So The 
First Rights of The Lands of Lochbroom and Cogach fell 
unto Murdoch in Right of his Wife. But The Earl of Ross 
Superior of them assumed to himself by Force. Yet Murdoch 
assisted by his Cousin MacLeod of Lewis revenged his Brother 
in Law'^s Death on Leod; For Leod having appointed a 
Rendezvouz at Keam-Loch-Ew in Order to have spoiled Mac- 
kenzie's Lands, Murdoch prevented him by keeping The [^^i90.] 
Rendezvouz and seizing on all Leod's People as they came he 
killed himself and made Paul his Son Prisoner. This Paul 
was released, and turned a common Depredator. Having 
drawn Murdoch Riach Brother to Mackenzie in Association 
with him they oft spoiled Caithness, where at Last Murdoch 
Riach was killed by Budge of Toftinga, and Paul obtained 
Peace from The Earl of Ross by giving his only Daughter to 
Ross of Balnagowen in Right of which Wife he enjoys The 
most of Stracharron and Strahockell. 

During this turbulent Age Securities and Writs as well as 
Laws were little regarded. Each Man's Protection lay in his 
Strength till David Bruce's Return Anno 1367. The King- 
dom being more Peaceable, and Law was more regarded. 
There is a Charter granted by David King of Scotland to this 
Murdo filio Kennethi de Kintail &c. Dated at Edinburgh 
1362 et Regni Domini Regis 31. Testibus Waltero Senescallo 

Ramsay et Aliis. 

To Murdoch Dow succeeded Murdoch Nidroit his Son so 
called because his Mother being with Child of him had been 
saved after a Fearfull Fall from The Bridge of ScattoU into 
The Water of Connan. He married Fingala Daughter to 
MacLeod of Herries. King Robert gave him a Charter at 
Edinburgh Anno 1380. Testibus Gulielmo de Douglas, 
Archibaldo de Alloway et Joanne Cancellario Scot. 

This Murdoch was The only Chief in The North Highlands 



60 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

that refused Assistance to MacDonald when he fought against 
The Govemour^s Forces at Harlaw. This Family esteeming 
The Authority of The Magistrate as an inviolable Obligation, 
he was Prisoner by The Earl of Ross at Dingwall l^ut was 
released in Exchange for Balnagowne who was taken for that 
End by some of Mackenzie'*s faithfull Servants. To Murdoch 
succeeded Alexander for his Righteousness called Inrick. He 
was The chief Instrument that settled The Earldom of Ross 
to The King after The Resignation thereof Anno 1477. 

For which good Office he had some Part of it, viz. Stra- 
chonnan, Stragarrive and others disponed to him by a Charter 
dated at Edinburgh in September that Year. He married 
pa^eSJ.] First Anna Daughter of MacDougal of I^rne by whom he 
had Kenneth and Duncan of whom is descended The Families 
of Logic and Hiltown, and by his Second Wife Margaret 
Daughter to MacDougal of Morir he had Hector The First of 
The House of Gairloch. 

Kenneth his Eldest Son was in his Father'^s Lifetime married 
to Margaret Sister to Donald Lord of The Isles (and Daughter 
to John of Isla) who is accounted Earl of Ross but wrongfully; 
For this was long after The Resignation of The Earldom to 
the King. By her he had One Son called Kenneth Oig, that 
is Younger. But on a Discord with her Brother Donald of 
The Isles he sent her Home, the Grief whereof shortly killed 
her. This renewed The old Feud to a fatal Height which 
shortly ended in The Ruin of McDonald and in The Period of 
all his Pretences to Ross; For McDonald convocate a great 
Power to extirpate Mackenzie. On The other Side Kenneth 
had but few yet all Men of tried Valour, w* whom at Blairni- 
park he overthrew Donald, killed most of his Men and all his 
Commanders and took himself Prisoner, whom he released 
some Moneths thereafter on Oath never to pretend to Ross 
or any Part thereof thereafter. At this Battle was killed 
Gillespick, a Bastard Brother of John of Isla, a valiant Man, 
and Father to Alexander MacGillespick, of whom by a 
Daughter is descended The House of Glengarrie, and on 
which Pretence they ridiculously found a Claim to The 
Succession of The Earldom of Ross, whilst not only Gillespick 
was a Bastard, as several Writs in Ross, especially, in Fowl's 



pp. 90-92] THE MACKENZIES 61 

Evidents carry expressly, but also John The LawfuU Son and 
Brother to this Gillespick invaded The Earldom long after 
his Father had resigned it to The King. This Kenneth called 
Kenneth iVlaire from that Victory married to his Second Wife 
Anne Daughter to The Lord Lovitt by whom he had John, 
Alexander, Rorie and Mr. Kenneth. Of Alexander are 
descended Davachmaluoch, which is numerous. Of Rorie The 
Family of Achilty, Fairburne and Tollie and of Mr. Kenneth 
The Family of Suddy, Ord and Inverlael. Kenneth i\laire 
lived all his Lifetime a good and Peaceable Subject to his 
Prince and Friend to his Neighbours. He is buried at Beau- 
liew at Mackenzie's Isle on The Right Side of The Altar. 
Kenneth died leaving his Children young under The Tutory 
of Hector his Brother ; For Duncan had more Courage than 
Prudence. [M?» ^-l 

Kenneth Oig The Son of The First Marriage died Young ; 
For being amongst those that King James The Fourth secured 
at Edinburgh as Hostages for keeping The Highlands in Peace 
and escaping thence was killed by The Laird of Buchannan 
near The Torwood (Buchanan being at this Time an Outlaw) 
and thereby Buchanan was reconciled to The King. For 
having killed Young Mackenzie, he took Macintosh who had 
escaped with him. Of a Natural Son of this Kenneth Oig are 
descended The Mackenzies in The Braes of Mar. 

During Hector^s Tutory Sir William Monro of Fouls, Baillie 
to The Duke of Ross, a Man of a high Spirit, but insolent, 
oppressed The Mackenzies. At Last his Actings incited 
Hector to such Resentments that. Sir William having con- 
vocate a great Number and with them pillaged such Places of 
Brae-Ross as belonged to Mackenzie, Hector in his Return fell 
upon him with a few but resolute Number, recovered The 
Spoil and chaced all Sir William*'s Forces and killed many, 
especially, of The Names of MacCuUoch and Dingwall at a 
Place called Knock-Ferrell or Mount Ferrell in StrapefTer. 
Some Animosities arose after Kenneth Oig'^s Death betwixt 
Hector and his Pupill John (who succeeded his Brother) anent 
The Tutory which continued a long Time but was totally 
removed in The Time of Colin Earl of Seaforth. This Hector 
was a Man of great Valour and Prudence, and in his own 



62 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

Time purchased a Part of Gairloch, which afterwards was 
wholly acquired by his Successores and now enjoyed by them. 

To Kenneth iVlaire John Eldest Son to Lovitt's Daughter 
succeeded. He married [Elisabeth Grant] ^ Daughter to The 
Laird of Grant, and was a Man of extraordinary Prudence 
whereby he had The Esteem of an eminent Person. He was 
Privy Counsellor to King James The Fifth and to Queen Mary. 
In his Time he purchased much of The Brae-I^nds of Ross 
and secured both what he had acquired and what his Prede- 
cessores had by well ordered and Legal Security. So That it 
is doubtfuU whether his Predecessores Courage or his Prudence 
contributed most to The Rising of his Family. He was of a 
great Age, died at Inverchonran 1561, and is buried with his 
Father in Beauliew. He had only One Sister who was married 
to Rorie M^Leod of Lewis. 

[page 95,^ To John succeeded Kenneth The Fifth of that Name. He 
was served Heir to his Father Anno 1561. He married Eliza- 
beth Steuart Daughter to the Earl of Athol, and by her had 
Colin and Rorie. Of Rorie are descended The Families of 
Readcastle and Kincraig. This Kenneth was a Man of good 
Qualifications. He carried so prudently that he had The good 
Liking of his Prince and Peace from his Neighbours. He had 
many Daughters. One of them married Glengairrie and after 
Glengairrie'^s Death To The Chisholme of Comer. Another 
married to Belnagowen, One to Macintosh, One to Cromartie, 
One to Fowles, and One to Innes of Innerbreackie. He sent 
his Eldest Son to join with Huntley for The Queen after her 
Escape from Loch Leven. Huntly sent Colin as One whose 
Prudence he confided to advise The Queen*'s Retreat to 
Stirling, where she might stay in Security till all her Friends 
were convocated. But by unhappy Counsel she refused this 
Advice & fought at Longside, where Colin was present, and when 
by The Regent's Insolence after that Victory, all The Loyal 
Subjects were forced to take Remissions for their Duty, as if it 
were a Crime, amongst The rest Mackenzie takes One, The 
only One that ever any of his Family had, and this is rather a 

^ Later addition. Ch. 93. Lib. 30 Arch. pub. 20junii 1543 — footnote in later 
hand. 



pp. 92-94] THE MACKENZIES 63 

Mark of his Fidelity than Evidence of Failzure and an 
Honour, not a Taah, to his Posterity. Ere he returned his 
Father Kenneth died at Killin The 6th June 1568, and was 
buried with his Father in Beawliew. 

CouN succeeded his Father Kenneth. He was called Colin 
Caume because he wanted an Eye. During The Civil Wars 
and Debates after Langside he meddled with no Party. But 
when King James The Sixth took The Government, there was 
none in The North for whom he had greater Esteem than for 
this Colin. He made him One of The Privy Coimsellors and 
oft Times invited him to be Nobilitate. But Colin always 
declined it aiming rather to have his Family remarkable for 
Power as it were above their Quality than for Titles that 
equalled their Power, albeit his Predecessores were active both 
in War and Peace and prudent in acquiring their Estate, yet 
this Man acquired more than all that went before him, and 
made such a solid Progress in it that what he acquired was 
with The Good Will of all and by clear unquarrelable Titles. 
In his Time The seed of War was sown betwixt Glengairrie and IP^S^ ^^1 
him, and grew by The Outragious Somings of Glengairrie'*s 
Followers and The sharp Resentments of llorie of Keadcastle 
against them. But Colin did prudently dissemble some 
Inquiries rather than fall into Hostility which he well knew 
would not be so easily accorded if noticed. He bought several 
Lands from Glengairrie, and wodset others. He acquired 
Right from Bishop Lesly to several Lands of The Bishoprick 
which The Regent had sacrilegiously forced from him and 
detained by The Monros of Miltoun. But Mackenzie follow- 
ing The juster Side attained to The former Title, and at Last 
secured by Law he owned his Right by Force and expelled 
The Monros from their unjust Pretensions, in which there were 
some Skirmishes but always with Advantage on The Mac- 
kenzies Side. He protected his Cousin Torkill MacLeod of 
Lewis when he was oppressed by his unnatural Relations and 
natural Uncles, and from this he acquired a Right to The 
Lands of Assint, albeit The Possessores being always Outlaws 
keeped him long from The Possession of that Purchase. He 
married Barbara Grant Daughter to The Laird of Grant, and 
by her had many Daughters whom he married thus. One to 



64 GENEALOGICAL COLLECnONS [vol. i 

Simon Lord Lovitt, One to MacLean, and One to MacDonald 
of Slait. His Sons were Kenneth, Rorie, Alexander and 
Colin, and by Margaret Mackenzie Daughter to Davachma- 
luach he had another called Alexander. Of Rorie are 
descended The Families of Tarbet, Scatwall and Tarvie and 
Bolton. Of Alexander Kilcoy, Muir and Findone. Of Colin 
Kinnock and Pitlundie. Of The other Alexander Applecross, 
Cowl and Assint. 

This Colin lived beloved of Prince and People, and died 
Regreted by all The 14th of June 1594 at Readcastle, and 
was buried at Beauliew. 

Kenneth his Eldest Son The Sixth of that Name succeeded 
to him. He is served in all his Father's Lands holden of The 
King in November 1694. He married Ross 

Daughter to Belnagowen by whom he had Colin and John, 
Barbara who was married to The Lord Rae and Janet who was 
married to Sir Donald MacDonald of Slait Nephew and Heir 
to The former MacDonald of Slait. After her Death he 
married Isobell Ogilvie Daughter to Powrie Ogilvie, and by 
lpa^e96.] her had George, Thomas and Simon and Sibilla who was 
married to MacLeod of Herries. 

This Kenneth was truely of an Heroick Temper, but of a 
Spirit too great for his Estate, perhaps, for his Countrey, yet 
bounded by his Station so as he resolved to seek fit Employ- 
ment for him abroad. But no sooner had he gone to France 
but Glengairrie most outragiously without any Cause and 
against all Equity and Law convocates Multitudes of People 
and invades his Estate sacking, burning and destroying all. 
Kenneth'*s Friends sent Mr. John Mackenzie of Tollie to inform 
him of these Wrongs ; Whereupon he made a speedy Return 
to an Affair so Urgent and so suitable to his Genius ; For, as 
he never offered Wrong, so he never suffered any. His Heat 
did not overwhelm his Wit ; For he took a Legal Procedure, 
obtained Commission of Fire and Sword against Glengairrie 
and his Accomplices, which he prosecute so bravely as in a 
short Time by himself and his Brethren he soon forced them 
to retreat from his Lands, and following them to their own 
Hills he so dissipate and destroyed them that Young Glen- 
gairrie and many others of their boldest Men and most 



pp. 94-96] THE MACKENZIES 66 

outragious were killed and The rest forced to shelter them- 
selves amongst The other MacDonalds in The Islands and 
remote Highlands leaving all their Estates to Kenneth's Dis- 
posal. In which Condition they remained all his Lifetime. 
This was esteemed so good Fortune by King James that he 
Nobilitate Kenneth making him by Patent Lord Kintail Anno 
He reduced Assint, to which his Father had acquired 
Hight and niade them Peaceable. On their Submission he 
gave a few of Assint to Donald MacNeil alias MacLeod for 
Service. The Lewis at this Time was possessed by a Rebellious 
Crew, Seven or Eight Bastard Sons of Rorie MacLeod of 
Lewis, who turned Turkic, The Righteous Heir out of Posses- 
sion and became so Rebellious that on their Default The 
Lewis and iVs Inhabitants are proscribed, and their Isle with 
others adjacent disposed to Balmerinoch, Balcornie, Wor- 
mistoune and others as a Place to be planted, which they 
attempted, but with bad Success ; For they were thrice forced 
from it by those Bastards ; The Righteous Heir Turkic being 
all The While sheltered by his Cousin Mackenzie kept only 
The Coigach of all his just Possessions and The Evidents of 
The rest. These he gave in Custody to Mackenzie. At Last, 
his only Son John being murthered by these Rebells, he dis- 
poned his Estate to his Daughter Margaret, whom he married 
to Rorie Mackenzie Brother to Kenneth. But both of them [page 96.] 
were unable to reduce these Rebells, and by Turkle'*s Sloath 
and Necessities The Fife Adventures had acquired Legal 
Titles. But The Bastards kept Possession against both The 
Fife Men and Turkle's Right till, at Last, Turkic and Rorie 
making over The Title of The Lewis for certain other Lands 
disponed to Rorie & Sums of Money advanced to Turkle's 
other Daughter. The Fife Men also wearied with frequent 
Defeats, their Title also was disponed to Kenneth, and he 
Armed with a Commission against The Rebells invaded them, 
forced them to retreat, and resolving to attack them shortly 
with a greater Force he returned to Ross where he died at 
Brahan Anno 1611 and was buried at Beauliew with his Pre- 
decessors. By Reason of his great Business and Troubles he 
was forced into great Expences whereby he left his Estate in 
great Burthen to The Management of his Brother Rorie on 



66 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. 1 

whose Judgement in all his Affairs he had ever great Con- 
fidence. 

RoRiE finding his Brother'^s Fortune under much Debt and 
The Family necessarily involved in Feuds and Wars with 
Glengairrie and The Rebells in The Lewis, fearing That he 
should not overcome those Difficulties was loath to engage in 
The Tutory. But, when all others refused to undergo The 
Charge, he set resolutely to The Work. The First he did was to 
assault The Rebells in The Lewis, which he did so suddenly 
after his Brother^s Death and so unexpectedly to them that 
what The Fife Adventures had spent many Years and much 
Treasure in without Success he in a few Moneths accomplished; 
For having by his Youngest Brother Alexander chased Neil 
The Chief Commander of all The rest from The Isle pursued 
him to Glasgow, where apprehending him he delivered him to 
The Council, who executed him immediately. He returned to 
The Lewis, banished those whose Deportment he most doubted, 
and settled The rest as Peaceable Tenants to his Nephew. 
Which Success he had with The more Facility, because he had 
The only Title of Succession to it by his Wife, and they looked 
on him as The just Master. From thence he invaded Glen- 
gairrie who was again recollecting his Forces. But at his 
Coming they dissipate and fled. He pursued Glengairrie to 
Blairy in Morray, where he took him, but willing to have his 
Nephew^s Estate settled with Conventional Rights rather than 
Legal he took Low-Countrey Men Sureties for Glengairrie's 
Peaceable Deportment, and then contracted with him for The 
[^e97.] Reversion of The former Wodsets which Colin of Eintail had 
acquired of him, and for a Ratification and new Disposition 
of all his Lands formerly sold to Colin, and paid him 30,000 
Merks in Money for this, and gave him a Title to Laggan 
Achindrom, which till then he possessed by Force. So That 
Glengairrie did ever acknowledge it as a Favour to be over- 
come by such Enemies who over Disobligements did deal both 
justly and generously. 

RoRiR employed himself thereafter in settling his PupilPs 
Estate, which he did to that Advantage that ere his Minority 
past he freed his Estate leaving him Master of an opulent 
Fortune and of great Superiorities; For he acquired The 



pp. 96.98] THE MACKENZIES 67 

Superiority of Fronterness with The Heritable Stewartry of 
The Isle of Sky to his Pupill, The Superiority of Uassay and 
some other Isles. At this Time MacLeod, pari;ly by Law, 
partly by Force had possessed himself of Slait and Fronterness 
a great Part of MacDonald^s Estate. Rorie now Knighted 
by King James owned MacDonald^s Cause as an injured 
Neighbour, and by The same Methods that MacLeod possessed 
Slait and Fronterness he recovered both from him marrying 
The Heir thereof Sir Donald MacDonald to his Neice Sister 
to Lord Colin, and caused him take The Lands of Fronter- 
ness holden of his Pupill. Shortly after that he took The 
Management of MacLean'^s Estate, and recovered it from 
The Earl of Argyle who had fixed a Number of Debts and 
Pretences on it. So by his Means all The Isles were composed 
and accorded in their Debates & settled in their Estates, from 
whence a full Peace ensued amongst The Isleanders, MacNeil 
of Barray excepted, who had been an Hereditary Out-law. 
Him by Commission Sir Rorie reduced, took in his Fort of 
Kisemull, and carried him Prisoner to Edinburgh, where he 
procured his Remission. The King gifted his Estate to Sir 
Rorie, who restored it to MacNeil for a Sum not exceeding 
his Expences and holding it of himself in Feu. 

This Sir Rorie, as he was beneficial to all his Relations, 
establishing them in free and secure Fortunes, he purchased 
considerable Lands to himself in Ross and Morray besides 
The Patrimony Jeft him by his Father The Lands of Coigach 
and others which in Lieu of The Lewis were given him by 
his Brother. His Death was regreted as a Public Calamity, 
which fell out in September 1626 in The 4f8*^ year of his 
Age. 

To this Sir Rorie succeeded Sir John Mackenzie of Tarbet, 
and to him Sir Greorge Mackenzie. Of whom to write might 
be more Honour to him than Safety to The Writer as Matters 
now stand. 

To Kenneth Lord Kintail succeeded Colin. His Minority iMi^^-] 
past with Advantage to his Afiairs imder his Uncle^s Tutory^ 
He married Margaret Daughter to The Earl of Dumfermling 
Chancellor of Scotland, by whom he had several Children. 
But all of them died before him, except Two Daughters. 



68 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

Jean married to The Master of Berridale Heir to The Earl 
of Caithness and thereafter to The Lord Duffus and Anne 
married to Alexander Earl of Balcarras and afterward to 
Archibald Earl of Argyle. 

This Colin was a Noble Person of virtuous Endowments 
beloved by all good Men, especially, his Prince. He made 
him Earl of Seaforth Anno 1623. He fell into Legal Debates 
with The Earl of Argyle which necessitate him oft to Court, 
and thereby to Expence and Debt, and, albeit he retired from 
Court in Order to recover his Fortune from Burthen, yet his 
short Life allowed him not Success. He acquired and settled 
The Right of The Superiority of Mudiart and Arosaig The 
Captain of Clan Ranald's Lands which his Father Lord Kenneth 
formerly claimed Right to but lived not to accomplish it. Thus 
all The Highlands and Isles from Ardnamurachan to Strath- 
naver were either The Mackenzies Property or under their 
Vassalage, some very few excepted, and all about him were 
tied to his Family by very strict Bonds of Friendship or 
Vassalage, which, as it did beget Respect from many, it begot 
Envy in others, especially, his Equals. He died at Chanonrie 
Anno 1632, and was buried there in a Place destinate for that 
by himself. His Brother John died before him without Heirs 
Male. So The Estate fell to George The Eldest Son of 
Kenneth Lord Kintail by his Second Marriage with Isobell 
Ogilvie. Thomas The Second Son had The Estate of Plus- 
carden transferred to him, and Simon The Third had The 
Estate of Lochslin. Of this Simon is descended Sir George 
Mackenzie of Rose-haugh. 

George Earl of Seaforth succeeded his Brother Colin. He 
married in his Brother's Lifetime Barbara Daughter to The 
Lord Forbes, and by her had Kenneth, George, Colin and 
Rorie & Three Daughters. Jean married to The Earl of 
Mar and afterwards to The Lord Eraser, Margaret to Sir 
William Sinclair of May and Barbara to Sir John Urquhart 
of Cromertie. 

This George being a Nobleman of excellent Qualifications 

[^^e99.] shared in The Fortunes of his Prince King Charles the First, 

for whom he suffered all The Calamity in his Estate that 

envious or malicious Enemies could inflict. He was made 



pp. 98-103] THE MACKENZIES 69 

Secretary by King Charles The Second in Holland, but died 
in that Banishment before he saw an End of his King and 
Countrey^s Calamities or of his own Injuries. He died at 
Schidam, and is buried there 1651. 

Kenneth Earl of Seaforth succeeded to his Father George 
both in his Fortune and in his Fate at First ; For The Rebells 
possessing The Authority oppressed all The Loyal Subjects 
and him with The First. His Estate was overburthened to 
it^s Destruction. But Nothing could deter him so as to bring 
him to forsake his King and his Duty. Where-ever any was 
in The Field for him he was One seconding that falling Cause 
with all his Power, and, when he was not in The Field against 
The Enemy, he was in The Prison by them untill The King's 
Restauration, whereby he attained to his Wishes in his Prince 
and to The Geraldine Fate in himself, which, as was re- 
marked by many, so more narrowly by that famous Writer 
Gerald us Cambrensis. 



The Genealogy of The most consider- Ca*^'^^] 
able Families descended by Males of 
The House of Mackenzie preceed- 
ing The Year 1667 collected by John 
Mackenzie of Aplecross. 

The Genealogy of The Successors of 
Hector Roy Mackenzie The only 
Son of The Second Marriage of The 
Seventh Laird of Kintail. 

Hector Roy Mackenzie after The Death of his Eldest 
Brother^s Son Kenneth Alick did all he could to keep his 
Eldest Brother'^s Children gotten with The Lord LovitVs 
Daughter from The Estate. But after some Wrangling 
John The Eldest of them, though very young, dispossessed 
him thereof, and made him acknowledge him as his Chief, 
and yet was content to give him The Administration of his 



^ Pages 100 to 102 of MS. inclusive are blank. 



70 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. 1 

Estate as Tutor for Six Years, during which Time he attended 
The Court for his Education. Hector mean while managed 
his Affairs against all The Malice of his Adversaries. For 
Sir William Minro of Fowles having The Place of Lieutenant 
of The Earldom of Ross, he came to hold Courts to The 
Town of Einnellan, which was then One of The Places of 
Mackenzie's Residence, where there were Two fair and large 
Bams after The Manner of those Times and Sir William to 
put an Indignity on Hector The Tutor would needs have One 
of The Barns carried away to Fowles, which was done without 
Opposition. The Tutor residing else where at that Time. 
But, how soon he was told of it he sent a Gentleman to 
acquaint Sir William That The other Bam he left was as 
good as that he took away, but That he doubted it might be 
worse to carry, seeing he resolved to wait upon him in The 
Place. Sir William by his Answer discovered his Intentions 
of accepting The Challenge, and accordingly took his Oppor- 
tunity of Carrying away The other Barn. But being over- 
taken by Hector with Seven Score of his best Men at a Place 
called Drumchat on The Side of Lochoussie above Dingwall 
notwithstanding of The great Inequality of their Numbers, 
The Lieutenant having several Hundreds of his own & others 
of The People convocate on Purpose, Hector fell upon him, 
rooted him, and committed a great Slaughter upon his Men 
pursuing himself to The Burn of Lemlair. 

HECix)a after he gave his Nephew The Management of his 
Estate had several Debates with The Shiellilichallum having 
purchased Legal Titles to such Parts of The Lands of Gair- 
[fafel04,] loch as were at that Time in their Possession. Upon which 
there followed some Skirmishes with The Advantage always on 
Hector'^s Side whereof The most notable happened at a Place 
called Beallach Glaisteid, where his Nephew assisted him with 
The Kintail Men. 

This Hector had taken to his First Wife 
Daughter to The Laird of Grant. But she died before The 
Solemnizing of their Marriage; Yet she bare him a Son 
called Hector afterwards nicknamed Hector Caume, who was 
Possessor of Ochtemeid and Cultaleod, and was married with 
Daughter to MacKye of Far, by whom he had Alister 



pp. 103-105] THE MACKENZIES 71 

Roy MacHeachin and Murdoch MacHeachin. This Alister 
was married with a Daughter of John Nattuoy Macilichallum. 
She was Mother to Hector Mac Alister vie Heachin, who lived 
in Einnellan, and was nicknamed The Bishop. He was married 
with The Laird of Kasay his Daughter with whom he had 
no Succession but One Daughter that is married with Hugh 
Mackenzie He left Two Natural Sons, Duncan Mackenzie 
that lived in Tarbet and was married with a Daughter of Mr. 
John Mackenzie Minister of Dingwall and Captain Hector 
Mackenzie who is married with a Daughter of Little Findones 
Murdoh Hector Caume his Second Son was married with a 
Daughter of Murdoh Buy MacVahon. She was Mother to 
Lauchlan MacVorchie vie Heachin that was married with a 
Daughter of Murdoh Mackenzie of Achiltie. She was Mother 
to Murdoh MacLauchlan that is married with Alexander Ross 
of Cuiluch his Daughter and to Alister MacLauchlan that is 
married with a Daughter of Mr. William MacCulloch of Parks. 
Hector Roy had after Grant's Daughter's Death Ronald 
MacRanald ali^ Ranald Bayne Laird of Muidiart his 
Daughter. She was Mother to John Glassich MacHeachin, 
to Kenneth MacHeachin, to John Tuach MacHeachin, to 
Dougall Roy MacHeachin, and Hector had another Son called 
John beg MacHeachin, of whom hath descended The Clan ean 
vig vie Heachin. He had One Daughter married with The 
Good Man of Tulloch. John Glassich married Agnes Fraser 
Daughter to James Fraser Brother to The Lord Lovitt. With 
her he got The Lands of Einkell and Ardnancraisk. She 
bare him Three Sons. The Two Eldest died without Succes- 
sion, and 'The Youngest who was called John, became Heir. 
John Glassich left Two Natural Sons Alister Roy and Hector 
Caoil. John Glassich''s Enemies misinformed his Chief against [page 106,] 
him in making his Chief believe That he intended to follow 
his Father's Intention. For which his Chief sent for him to 
Brahan, where he came with One single Man called John Keir. 
His Chief not believing his Vindication caused apprehend 
him. His Man John Keir seeing him apprehended did not 
look to those that apprehended his Master. But where he saw 
Mackenzie sitting at The Head of The Table he drew his Two 
Handed Sword, and let such a Stroke at Mackenzie that had 



78 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

he not bowed his Head beneath The Table, he had killed him. 
Mackenzie's Guards immediately seized The Man, and offered 
to have rent him in Pieces. But their Master strictly com- 
manded they should not touch, and, when he was asked Why 
he struck at Mackenzie and not at those who had laid Hands 
on his Master, his Answer was, He saw none there whose Life 
was a worthy Exchange for his Master's save Mackenzie only. 

John Glassach was sent to be kept Prisoner in The Danton 
Island, where he died afterwards, and was buried in Beauliew. 

John, who was his Third Son, falling to be his Heir married 
to his First Wife Daughter to The Laird of Glengairrie 

with whom he had Six Sons and Five Daughters. He married 
to his Second Wife Daughter to Murdoh Mackenzie 

of Fairbum with whom he had Three Sons and Two Daughters. 
He had also a Natural Son and Two Natural Daughters, and 
died at Tealhadail The Year 1628, and is buried at Gairloch. 

His Eldest Son, who was called John, married Alexander 
Mackenzie of Fairburn his Daughter with whom he had no 
Succession but One Daughter. He died a Young Man at 
Kinkell and is buried at Beauliew. 

Alexander, that was The Second Son and after his Brother"'s 
Death was Heir, took to his First Wife a Daughter of Rorie 
Moir Mackenzie of Reidcastle with whom he had Four Sons 
and Three Daughters. He married to his Second Wife a 
Daughter of Alexander Mackenzie of Cowl with whom he 
had Three Sons and Two Daughters. He left One Natural 
Daughter. He was a worthy Gentleman. It was he that 
made an End of all The Troubles his Predecessors were in in 
The conqueshing of Gairloch from The Shiell vie gilichallum. 
He died at The Island Suhan in The Year 1638, and is buried 
l^^eioe.] with his Father in The Kirk Town of Gairloch. 

Murdoh The Third Son gotten with Glengairrie his Daughter 
was killed in a Ship over against Rasay unmarried in The Year 
1611. 

Kenneth Mackenzie of Dockaim The Fourth Son with 
Glengairrie^s Daughter married to his First Wife Alexander 
Cuthbert of Draikie's Daughter with whom he had Two Sons 
and Four Daughters. He married to his Second Wife Hector 
Mackenzie of Fairburn his Daughter with whom he begot Two 



pp. 105-107] THE MAC3CEXZID? ** 

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Year 1643. mad k bcnec si Beubfv. 

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married Hi^^ Fraser cc Beiliazrznr JL^ Tbair^r^ S^ kc^ 
Two Sons and HirK Duciits:^ Bf »£ «^ Saii£ it ^rici 
in Hie Year lfiS5: aaii is >xrisc ai GasriACL 

gairrie's Dtoghter marned Mr MarSat iCn-xcfir rtf XJD^ail 
his Daughter with vium ke ixLii Sprfi fci^ an£ Se^gr 
Daughters. He hiih a X«n:rxl >ar jT-crit vm a Wnmar 
of The Name of Trmaa^. 0» of Tht Dtarits^ ir^cra ^±x 
Glengairrie*s Daughter 'p-es marnec ^rzL Z'lt^ Garcr-iiiar tc 
Fojers, another to CoTrlbocoe. auraier 7-" >mD£, tiiiciiff* 
married. First, G«wre CrtiiSer: x CjssrieiiL. Afrs-r in? 
Death she married Xeii Monro cc TzuDztx, Tiis F:fir A'ryCf^ 
Moir of Chisobne. Bone TV TliXsz Sea: ^-- TV GA.>£~-]Diir cc 
Fairbum his Daughter oec izi ids TraTcils ir H:ila.ii2 zr Trn 
Year 1624 Hectca- The Sexiad rf Tut Ser.cii Mijraart tr 
his First Wife married The &&3r: of Mr. Jarx MarifT.nf 
Minister of LochbrooPL He mirrisc t^ ris S«::«Di Wist a 
Daughter of Acfailtie vith vboQ be Uhzh Frr« >nz:<i. ^nm: 
The Youngest Son c^ Tbe S e ct o c Sfarriafre mizr-kec Oae or 
SjIcoj^s Xatnial Daughters v* whooL be bad Txz^ Saz2s i:zi£ 
Two Daughteis. Tbk John cSed a: Bzzd&j m Tut Year 
1666, and is buried at Beaoliew. Tut FLops: D^-iirrter cc 
The Second I^Iarriage married TV Gooc-mu: of 'BtLihzrzm^ 
The Youngest married to her Firs:t Hissbanc Sir Dankj£ 
MacDonald his Kotber caljed Alister Qir. Sbe inkrrytd 
Hugh MacDonald of Skeriniib. John hit Nar 
called Koineth Buv. He is married wrih a 
AchiltieV His Natural Daughter vas mairkc 
Bajme Cbamberlaine of The Levis who ckd in TV Butlk cc 
Auldem in The Year 16*5. 

The Eldest Son of Alexander Mackexuie of Gairjx^ i» 
Kenneth Mackenzie now of Gairioch who msrried :o Li^ FzTri 
Wife Sir Donald MacDonald his Daughter who oec viibort 
Succession. He married next a Daughter of Tbe Liirc of l?=r^ 
Grant with whom he hath Three Sons and Thre* DaiLshter?^- 
To his TTurd Wife he hath now John Cutbbert of "Castlr 



k*. 



74 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

HilFs Daughter with whom he hath hopefull Children. 
Alexander'^s Second Son is called Murdoh. He is married 
with a Daughter of John Mackenzie of Fairbum. Alexander's 
Third Son is called Hector. He is married with a Daughter 
of Donald MacCivir. His Fourth Son is called Alexander. 
He is married with a daughter of John Mackenzie of Ords. 
Alexander Mackenzie of Gairloch'^s Eldest Daughter of his 
First Marriage married, First, John Mackenzie of Lochslin. 
She married next Colin Mackenzie of Tarvie and now she 
hath to her Third Husband Murdoh Mackenzie of Achiltie. 
Alexander's Second Daughter was married to Alexander Ross 
of Culnlich, his Third Daughter to Robert Gray. Alexander's 
Eldest Son of his Second Marriage was William Mackenzie of 
Balmaduthie. He was married on Mary Daughter to James 
Cuthbert of Draickies who was Mother to Alexander Mackenzie 
now of Balmaduthie. This William and his Wife died at 
Balmaduthie in One Week in The Year 1658, and are buried 
at Chanonrie. 

Alexander his Second Son of The Second Marriage is called 
Rorie. He is married with a Daughter of Suddies. His Third 
Son is called Angus. He is married with Hector Mackenzie 
of Fairburn's Daughter. His Eldest Daughter of The Second 
Marriage was married to Donald Mackenzie of Logic. His 
Second Daughter of The Second Marriage married Alexander 
Mackenzie of Pitglassie. His Natural Daughter married The 
Good-man of Ord's Son. Kenneth Mackenzie of Davochkaime 
his Eldest Son of his First Marriage is John Mackenzie now 
of Davochkaime. He had to his First Wife John Bayne of 
Tulloch's Daughter. To his Second Wife he had James 
Cuthbert of Draickie's Daughter, Kenneth of Davochkairne's 
Second Son of The First Marriage was called Hector. He 
married John Bayne of TuUoch's Daughter and Relict of 
Alexander Corbet. He was drowned in The Water of Alnos 
in The Year 16 . One of Davochkaime's Daughters of 
his First Marriage married Kenneth Mackenzie of Kinnock, 
another married Mr. John Monro of Swordail, another John 
Mackenzie Achiltie's Brother, another Murdoh MacLeod 
Son to Rorie MacLeod in The Cogich. Kenneth of Davoch- 
kaime's Eldest Son with Fairburn's Daughter is called Rorie. 



pp. 107-108] THE MACEENZIES 75 

He is married with Kenneth Mac ean vie Heachin'*s Daughter. 
His Second is called Alexander. He is as yet unmarried. 
Davochkaime'^s Daughter of The Second Marriage is married 
with Mr. Colin Mackenzie of Kinnock'^s Second Son called 
Alexander. 

Duncan Mackenzie GairlocVs Fifth Son of his First Marriage fJ^^^] 
was married with Belladrum'*s Daughter. His Eldest Son Alex- 
ander was married with Murdoh Mackenzie of Camesary'^s 
Daughter, who left Two Sons and Two Daughters, who are 
as yet but Children. Duncan'^s Second Son is called John. 
He is married with Mr. Greorge Monro Minister of Urquhart^s 
Daughter. His Eldest Daughter married to her First Husband 
Allan MacRanald'^s Eldest Son in Hiltown of Beauliew. To 
her Second Husband she hath William Eraser of Boblaenie. 
Another of his Daughters married Thomas Mackenzie Achiltie'^s 
Brother. Another married Duncan Mac ean vie Heachin 
chaoile. William Mackenzie in Scheildog The Sixth Son of 
John Mackenzie of Gairloch'^s First Marriage his Eldest Son 
is called Murdoh. He is married with Horie Mackenzie of 
Applecross'*s Daughter. His Second Son Duncan is married 
with Hector Mackenzie of Fairbum's Daughter. His Third 
Son John is married with a Daughter of Murdoh Mackenzie 
in Sand. His Fourth Son Kenneth is married with a Daughter 
of Hector Mac ean vie Heachin. His Three Youngest Sons 
Hector, Rorie and Alexander are as yet unmarried. His 
Natural Son John moir Mac William is married with a 
Natural Daughter of Murdoh Mackenzie of Hedcastle. His 
Eldest Daughter is married to Alexander Eraser of Rielict, 
his Second Daughter to John Matthewson in Applecross. 
Another of them was married to Hector Mac ean vie Alister 
Roy, another to Murdoh MacLean vie Heachin chaoile, 
another to Hector Mackenzie Chamberlain in Lochcarrine, 
another to Mr. Donald MacRha Minister of Lochailsh, and 
The Youngest is as yet unmarried. Hector Mackenzie in 
Meallan The Second Son of The Second Marriage of John 
Mackenzie of Gairloch his Eldest Son Alexander is married 
to Daughter to Murdoh MacCowil vie ean 

oig. His Second Son Murdoh is married on 
Daughter to Murdoh Mackenzie of Sand. His Three Youngest 
Sons are as yet unmarried. 



76 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

John The Third Son of John Mackenzie of Gairloch was 
married with a Natural Daughter of Mr. Alexander Mac- 
kenzie of Kilcoyie. His Eldest Son Rorie is married with 

Daughter to John Mackenzie of Fair- 
bume. His Three Youngest Sons Alexander John and Hector 
are as yet unmarried. His Eldest Daughter is married with 
Donald Mac Worchie vie Chainich, his Second Daughter with 
Duncan Bayne of Tarradeal. 

Hectou Hoy Mackenzie his Son called Kenneth was Possessor 
of Meikle Allan. He married Daughter 

to Dumbar of Eilbuyack and Relict of Allan Mackenzie, by 
whom Kenneth had Sons Hector and Angus Mackenzies. 
Kenneth had another Natural Son called John. Hector his 
Eldest Son was married with an Assint Woman with whom 
he had One Son and Three Daughters. His Son Hector Oig 
was killed in The Ship with Murdoh Gairloch'^s Son in The 
Year 1611. One of The Daughters was married with John 
Oig Mac ean vie Vorchie vie William that was killed by 
[^j^el09,] Gillichallum Mac Rorie in The Lewis. She was married next 
to John Mac Alister Roy and thereafter to John Maceiver in 
Lochbroom. The Second of them was married to Tormod 
Mac ean Lheahe, The Third to Duncan Mac ean vie Alister. 
Angus Mac Chainich left One Son called Kennetli Mac Angus, 
who left no Succession but One Daughter that is married with 
Hector Mac ean vie Heachin Chaoile. John The Natural Son 
of Kenneth Mac Heachin was married to a Daughter of Alister 
Mac Heachin vie Alister. She is Mother to Kenneth Mac ean 
vie Chainich and to Alister Mac ean vie Chainich with several 
Daughters. John Tuoach Mac Heachin Roy was Possessor 
of Davochpollan. He had One Son called Kenneth Mac ean 
Tuoach who died without Succession, excepting One Natural 
Son called John. The Lands of Davochpollan fell to The 
Family of Gairloch. John Mac Chainich vie ean Tuoach his 
Son was called Huistan Mac ean vie Chainich. Dougall Mac 
Heachin Roy died without Succession, and John beg Mac 
Heachin left no Succession but The Clan ean veg vie Heachin. 
John Glassich his Natural Son called Alister Roy was married 
with John Roy Mac Rorie's Daughter. His Eldest Son John 
Mac Alister Roy was First married on Murdoh Mac Heachin 



pp. 108-110] TOE MACKENZIES 77 

Chaime his Daughter. She was Mother to Duncan Mac can 
vie Alister that is married with Helen Nian Heachin vie 
Chainich to Mr. Murdoh Mac ean vie Alister now Bishop 
of Murray who hath very hopeful! Children with The only 
Daughter of Donald MacLey sometime Baillie of The 
Chanonry of Ross. Alister Mac ean vie Alister lived con- 
stantly in The Lord Reay his Countrey, and was there married 
and left several Children. Rorie Mac ean vie Alister lived 
in Lochbroom, and was married with John MacEiver his 
Daughter, and left no Succession but One Son. Donald moir 
mac ean vie Alister died without Succession. John Gueair 
Mac ean vie Alister is as yet unmarried. John Mac Alister 
Roy had to his Second Wife The Relict of John Oig Mac 
Vorchie vie William. She was Mother to Hector Mac ean vie 
Alister that married to his Wife Hector Mackenzie of Meallan 
his Daughter with whom he had no Succession but One 
Son. He married next a Daughter of William Mackenzie 
of Scheildag. Donald Oig Mac ean vie Alister was killed 
in The Scotch Army in England in the Year 1645. Donald 
Naoiglaicke Mac Alister Roy was a very pretty Man much 
given to The Killing of Deer both with Gun and Arrow, 
which much incensed his Chief against him. He was killed 
by MacNeil of Bcurra his Men leaving no Succession but One 
Daughter that was married with John Oig Mac Vorchie vie 
Conachie and a Natural Son that liveth in Strachonan. Hector 
Mac Alister Roy left a Son called Alister Mac Heachin. 
Another Son of his called John Mae Heachin was killed at 
Inverness in The Year 1649, and left no Succession but One 
Natural Son. Alister Roy had another Son called Donald that 
left but One Son called John Bayne Mac Conil vie Alister. 
John Bayne left One Son called Donald Roy Mac ean 

. He liveth now in Lochbroom. Alister Oig 
Mac Alister Roy left no Succession but Two Sons One called 
Duncan Mac Alister Oig, and The other called Murdoh Mac 
Alister Oig. Hector Caoile The other Natural Son of John 
Glassich was married with a Daughter of John Lhiaohe. She 
was Mother to John Mac Heachin caoile who left Four pretty 
Men to his Sons Hector, Kenneth, Duncan and Murdoh. Their 
Marriage I have shown already. There are Two Daughters [pa^eUO, 



78 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

that came of Hector Hoy that I forgot to write in their own 
Place. One of them married with a Son of John Abbraich 
Mac Cayes, and The other married with a Natural Son of 
The Lord Lovitf's called to a Nickname Houtcheon Bain. 
He is The Predecessor of The Family of Rielig. 



[pagtiis.]i The Genealogy of The Succession of 

Alexander who was Second Son of 
Kenneth The Eighth Laird of Kin- 
tail by his Second Lady, who was 
Daughter to The Lord Lovitt. 

This Alexander was The First of The Family of Davach- 
maluach, and was married with Daughter 

to Sir William Monro of Fowles by whom he had Two Sons 
and Two Daughters. His Eldest Son that succeeded him was 
called Rorie Mac Alister, His Second Son was called Hector 
Mac Alister. Alexander had Two Natural Sons, One called 
Kenneth and another called William. One of his Daughters 
was married to James Fraser of Belladrum, of whom hath de- 
scended all The Family of Belladrum, excepting little Struie, 
who hath descended of James Fraser of Belladrum'^s Second 
Brother. Alexander'*s other Daughter was married with 
William Ross of Innercharron, of whom hath descended all 
The Family of Innercharron. Rorie Mac Alister was married 
with MacDonald his Daughter with whom he had Two Sons 
& several Daughters. His Eldest Son was called Kenneth 
Mac Rorie, his Second Son John Dou Mac Rorie. One of his 
Daughters was Mother to Alexander Mackenzie of Cowl. She 
married James Mac ean voir Grant, of whom have descended 
several Gentlemen. After his Death she married The Laird 
of Glaneamvess. Another of Rorie Mac Alister his Daughters 
was married with The Laird of Kilduin, another to Murdoh 
Mackenzie of Achiltie, another to Iver MacEiver in Loch- 
broom, another to Donald Mac Chainich vie Vorchie. Kenneth 



^ Pages III and 112 of MS. are blank. 



pp. 110-114] THE MACKENZIES 79 

Mac Rorie vie Alister was married with The Laird of Behia- 
gowen his Daughter. She was Mother to Alexander Mac- 
kenzie, to Mr. John Mackenzie and to Kenneth Mackenzie. 
Kenneth Mac Rorie had a Natural Son called Murdoh. Alex- 
ander Mackenzie of Davochmaluack Kenneth Mac Rorie'*s 
Eldest Son was married with Daughter to 

The Laird of Fowles, who was Mother to Rorie Mackenzie 
now of Davochmaluach, who is married upon Janet Daughter 
to Eraser of Belladrum and to Colin, who is married upon 

Daughter to The Parson of Slait. One of 
this Alexander's Daughters married a Gentleman in Suther- 
land called Robert Gray. Another married Alexander M^Rha 
of Inverraoinad, and a Third married Murdoh Matthison in 
Balmackarra. 

Hector Mac Alister had to his First Wife John Mac vie 
ean eir his Daughter. She was Mother to John Mackenzie 
of Whytrives. After her Death he married The Sheriff of 
Cromertie'^s Daughter, with whom he had Three Sons Duncan, 
Rorie and Alexander. After Hector did divorce with Crom- 
ertie'^s Daughter he took Dougall Mackenzie'^s Relict, a 
Daughter of MacLeod'*s. She was Mother to Mr. William 
Mackenzie, to Kenneth and to Murdoh. Hector had several 
Daughters. One married John Bayne MacCulloch, another 
married Neil Monro, another had to her First Husband Mr. 
John Mackenzie Minister of Lochbroom, and after his Death iP^^^^U-] 
she married Hector Mackenzie in Meallan. Another was 
married with Duncan MacCulloch of Pearks. Hector had 
Two Natural Sons both of them called John Moirs. John 
Mackenzie Whytrives Hector"'s Eldest Son was married with 
a Daughter of Inchbrock'*s. She was Mother to Kenneth 
Mackenzie now of Whitrives that was married to a Gentle- 
woman called Greick to her Simame. Duncan Mackenzie 
Hector^s Eldest Son with Cromertie^s Daughter married 
Dougall Mackenzie his Daughter with whom he had Three 
Sons and Two Daughters. His Eldest Son Alexander married 
to his First Wife a Daughter of Murdoh Mac Chainich vie 
Vorchie, with whom he had no Succession but One Son who 
is called John Mac Alister vie Conachie and Five Daughters^ 
He hath now to his Second Wife Murdoh Mackenzie in 



80 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

Arynachtaig'^s Sister. Duncan'^s Second Son was called Kenneth. 
He was married with Rorie Clark his Daughter, with whom he 
had One Son and One Daughter. He died at Lochcarran in 
The Year 1645. Duncan'^s Third Son was called Hector. He 
died after he was married in The Year 1641. Duncan's Eldest 
Daughter was married First to Alister Mac Conil vie Farquhar, 
next to Donald Mac ean vain vie Culloch, and to her last 
Husband she had Donald Mac Hearlach in Strathirdel. 

Duncan his other Daughter was married with Allan Bayne 
Mac Conachie vie Rorie. This Duncan died in The Year 
1648. Alister Mac Hcachin was married with Donald Mac 
ean vie ean his Daughter with whom he had One Son and 
several Daughters. His Son, who was called Hector, died at 
Ferrintoshich in The Year 1657, and is buried at Dingwall. 
Rorie Mac Heachin was married with Rorie Mac ean vie 
Conil his Daughter with whom he had Two Sons, John, that is 
married with a Brother'^s Daughter of Gairloch and Kenneth 
that is married with Donald Oig Mac Conil voir his Daughter, 
Mr, William Mackenzie The Eldest of Hector with DougaFs 
Relict was Minister of Tarbet. He married a Daughter of 
Murdoh Mackenzie of Redcastle, with whom he had Two Sons 
and Two Daughters. His Eldest Son Alexander was married 
w* a Gentlewoman called Janet Ker, with whom he had Three 
Sons and One Daughter. He died at The Isle of Sky in 
October in The Year 1664. 

Mr. William's Second Son is called Mr. John Mackenzie. 
He is now Minister of Fodertie and Arch-Dean of Ross, as 
yet unmarried. Mr. William's Eldest Daughter was married 
with Patrick Grant John Grant of Coriemonie his Son. Mr. 
Williams's Second Daughter was married with Mr. Hector 
Monro of Eddertown. His Son Mr, William died at Tarbet 
in November in The Year 1642, and is there buried. 

Kenneth Mackenzie Hector"*s Second Son with DougalKs 
Relict was married with Murdoh Mac Conil vie Ferquhar's 
Daughter, with whom he hath Two Sons and Four Daughters. 
The Eldest of them is called Hector. He is married with a 
Daughter of William Mackenzie in Schieldog. His Second 
[^^115.] Son was called Rorie. He was married with a Daughter of 
Mr. William MacCuUoch. He died at Kenlochow in The 



pp. 1 14- 1 1 5] THE MACKENZIES 81 

Year I66S9 and is buried at Lochcarran. He left no Succes- 
sion but One Son. One of Kenneth's Daughters is married 
with Murdoh Clerk in Lochbroom, another to Duncan Mac 
Alister vie ean oig, another to Maurice MacRha, and The 
Youngest to Alexander MacCulloch Duncan MacCulloch of 
Peark'^s Son. This Kenneth died at Lochcarran in The Year 
1643. He left One Natural Son called Alister that is married 
with William Murchieson his Daughter. Murdoh Hector'*s 
Youngest Son left no Succession but Two Sons. They went 
both to Worcester Fight. What became of them is uncertain. 
Of Hector's Two Natural Sons I know no Succession worth 
The Remembering but Kenneth Mac ean vie Heachin in 
Fairbume. Kenneth Mac Alister One of The Natural Sons of 
Alister Mackenzie had Three Sons Donald Mac Chainich vie 
Alister that was killed by The Clan Ranald in Kissern. Which 
Sailing was partly The Occasion and Mean of Their Ruins. 
Murdoh Mac Chainich vie Alister left no Succession but One 
Son called Rorie Mac Vorchie and several Daughters that are 
married with several Tenants in Kissern. Alister moir Mac 
Chainich vie Alister left no Succession but Two Daughters 
that are married in Kissern. William Mac Alister The other 
Natural Son of Alister Mackenzie had but One Son called 
John Mac William. That John left Two Sons One called 
Hugh Mac ean vie William, and another called John Mac 
ean vie William. John Dow Mac Rorie The Second Son of 
Rorie Mac Alister was married with MacCulloch of Peark 
his Daughter. His Eldest Son called John went away with 
Thomas Mackenzie of Pliiscarden in The Lord Rae his Regi- 
ment. His Second Son Alexander is married with a Daughter 
of Alister Anviridach MacLeod Kenneth Mac Rorie his Second 
Son. Mr. John Mackenzie Minister of Loch broom was 
married with Hector Mac Alister his Daughter. He left no 
Succession but One Son called William that is married with 
Mr. Ferquhar MacRha his Daughter. The Third Son of 
Kenneth Mac Rorie called Kenneth died unmarried in The 
Year 1630. Murdoh The Natural Son of Hector Mac Rorie 
was Chamberlain of The Lewis, and married with George 
Monro of Kaitwall his Daughter. His Eldest Son John went 
to France where he died in The Year 1650. Other Two 

F 



82 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

Young Men of his Sons called Kenneth and Rorie died at 
Chanonric in The Year 1642. His Eldest Son now alive is 
called George. He is married with a Daughter of Mr. Donald 
Morison. His Second Son Colin is married with a Daughter 
of John Clark in Lewis. His Natural Son who was called 
Hector, was married with a Daughter of Donald MacEiver. 
He died at Inchrorie in The Year Murdoh his Eldest 

Daughter was married with Mr. William Lauder Minister at 
Avach. His Second Daughter was married with a Gentleman 
in Murray called Captain Innes. This Murdoh died at The 
Lewis Anno 1643. 



[^^219.]^ The Genealogy of The Succession of 

Rorie Moir, who was Third Son of 
Kenneth The Eighth Laird of Kintail 
by his Second Lady. 

This Rorie from his robust Body and rough Manners called 
Moir was in his Youth debauched by The MacLeyes his Con- 
valds, among whom he had been fostered being then somewhat 
loose and a broken People to committ several Extortions upon 
The King's Commons in Brae Ross and other Riots for which 
and his unjust Killing of The Laird of Kildin King James 
The Fifth caused apprehend him and committ him Prisoner to 
The Isle of Bass, where he remained for some Time untill that, 
a Stranger happening to come to Court, who boasted and 
vaunted himself exceedingly of The Strength of his Body and 
Skill in Wrestling wherein he excelled all such as he had 
Occasion to rencounter with at The several Courts he had seen 
in his Travels, and boldly challenged The Court to furnish an 
Advantage of making Proof thereof among them. Whereat 
The King having taken some Concern advised with some of 
The Nobility about him If there might be any found out who 
would adventure to take Trial of this Wrestler. At which 
Time The Laird of Bass overhearing told his Majesty That 



^ Pages ii6, 117, and 118 of MS. are blank. 



pp. 1 15-120] THE MACKENZIES 88 

there was a Gentleman Prisoner in The Bass who seemed to be 
a very strong Man and confident enough to undertake any such 
Trial upon Promise of his Liberty. The King being pleased 
with The Overture commanded The Laird of Bass to bring 
Rorie Moir to Court and upon The Success of his Wrestling 
to promise him both his Liberty and Remission. 

Rorie very glad of The Occasion undertook it readily, and 
at The Time and Place appointed grappled with The Wrestler 
with so much Vigour and Agility that to his great Reputation 
he overthrew him at The Second or Third Turn in The 
Streets before his Majesty, which with his more prudent 
Behaviour there after got him so much of The King"'s Favour 
that within a short Time he sent him Home to his Countrey 
commanding him to live more Peaceably in Time coming, and 
was pleased to allow him The Lands of Achiltie and Kinna- 
haird being of The annexed Property of The Crown for his 
Liferent Use desiring him to send One of his Sons to serve 
about Court. 

Rorie Moir had taken to his First Wife 

Daughter to Ferquhar Mac Heachin of The Family 
of MacLean with whom, nevertheless he was not solemnly 
married. She was Mother to Alister Roy Mac Rorie, to 
Alister Dow Mac Rorie and to John Roy Mac Rorie. He had [paoe^iw.] 
next William Dow MacLeod his Daughter, who was Mother to 
Murdoh Mac Rorie. In his later Days he married The Lady 
Balnagowen Grant's Daughter that was Mother to Rorie 
beig Mac Rorie. One of his Daughters was married with 
John Riach MacLeod, of whom hath descended The Family of 
Uldinie in Assint. Another of his Daughters was married 
with a Gentleman of The Name of Grant in Urquhart. 

This Rorie Moir died at Contan The 17*** March 

Anno 1633, and is buried at Beawliew. Alister Roy Mac 
Rorie was married with The Chisolme of Straglaish his 
Daughter. She was Mother to Murdoh Mac Alister Roy, to 
Rorie Mac Alister Roy and to John Mac Alister Roy. 

When The Laird of Macintosh was beheaded by The Marquis 
of Huntley, his Lady was left with Child. The Child bemg 
bom and being a Son was sent privately to Alister Roy his 
House whom he kept with great Secrecy till he was Eight or 



84 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

Nine Years of Age. Then Mackenzie getting Notice That he 
was there fostering brought him to his own House, and kept 
him till he sent him Home married with his own Daughter. 

This Alister Roy Mac Rorie died at Lochbroom in The Year 
1568. 

MuRDOH Mac Alister Roy was married with Rorie Mac- 
kenzie of Davachmaluach his Daughter. She was Mother to 
Alexander Mackenzie of Achiltie, to Mr. Murdoh Mackenzie 
of Pitglassie, to Kenneth Mac Vorchie vie Alister, to Rorie 
Mac Vorchie vie Alister. He had another Natural Son called 
Kenneth. One of his Daughters was married to Allan Mac- 
kenzie of Logie, another to Dougall Mac ean oig, another to 
Rorie Clerk, another to Lauchlan Mac Vorchie vie Heachin. 
This Murdoh Mac Alister Roy died at Lochbroom The 14*** 
March Anno 1609, and is there buried with his Father. 
Alexander Mackenzie of Achiltie was married with Mr. David 
Chamber^s Daughter. She was Mother to Murdoh Mackenzie 
now of Achiltie that had to his First Wife Hector Mackenzie 
of Fairbum his Daughter being Davochkaim'^s Relict. He 
hath now married Colin Mackenzie of Tarvie his Relict. 
Alexander Mackenzie of Achiltie his Second Son is called 
John Mackenzie that is married with One of Davochkairn^s 
Daughters. Achiltie his Youngest Son is called Thomas. He 
is married with a Daughter of Duncan Mackenzie of Gairloch 
his Uncle. One of Achiltie his Daughters was married with 
Mr. James MacLeod in Assint, another to Ranald Mac 
Gilespeck, another to Angus Mac Conil, another to Hector 
Mackenzie in Meallan, another to Kenneth buy Gairloch'^s 
Uncle, and The Youngest to Duncan Mac Chainich vie ean. 
[pag^ltl] Alexander Mackenzie of Achiltie died at Kildin in The Year 
1642 and is buried at Dingwall. 

AusTER Dow Mac Rori£ Voir died without Succession, and 
left his Chief his Heir. John Roy Mac Rorie had One Son 
called Kenneth Mac ean roy and One Daughter married with 
John Glassich his Natural Son Alister Roy. Rorie Mac 
Alister that lived in Sligo left no Succession but One 
Daughter that was married with Duncan Fraser in Mimlochie 
and One Natural Son called Murdoh that lived in Orkney. 
John Mac Alister Roy was married with The Good-Man of 



pp. 1 20- 1 2 1 ] 1:HE M ACKEK2IE9 85 

Tullich-gorme his Daughter. He left One Son called Alister 
Mac ean vie Alister that was married with Donald Moir Mac 
ean his Daughter. She is Mother to Rorie Mac Alister vie 
ean vie Alister that liveth now in Struie. Mr. Murdoh Mac 
Vorchie vie Alister was married with Mr. John Mackenzie of 
Touie his Daughter. His Eldest Son Alexander Mackenzie 
now of Pitglassie is married with Gairloch's Daughter. His 
Second Son John went to his Travels from The College in The 
Year 1642, and it is reported That he died at The River 
Rhine in The yeai 1650. . Colin his Third Son is as yet un- 
married. His Youngest Son Mr. William Mackenzie Minister 
of Roskine is married with a Daughter of Belladrum. One of 
Mr. Murdoh his Daughters is married with Master Allan 
Clerk Minister of Glenelg, his Second Daughter to Mr. 
Duncan MacCulIoch Minister of Urquhart. His Youngest 
Daughter is married with Andrew Eraser Chamberlain of 
Eerrintoshich. Mr. Murdoh died at Oussie in The Year 
1655, and is buried at Dingwall. 

RoBiE Mac Vorchie Vic Alistee was Eirst married to Alister 
Mac Allan his Daughter. She was Mother to Mr. Murdoh 
Mackenzie that went unknown to his Parents from The 
College of Aberdeen, and is now Bishop of Raufoe in Ireland. 
Rorie Mac Vorchie had to his Second Wife Hector Mac 
Vorchie vie Rorie his Daughter with whom he hath Two Sons 
Alexander and Hector. Murdoh Mac Rorie The Son gotten 
betwixt Rorie Moir and Duncan Mac William Dou vie Leod 
his Daughter was King James The Eifth his Servant from 
whom he got The Lands of Eairburne. He was Eirst married 
with The Sheriff of Cromertie^s Daughter with whom he had 
Two Sons Alexander that succeeded him and Master John 
Mackenzie of Towie. He had Two Daughters with Cromer- 
tie'^s I)aughter. The Eldest of them married to her Eirst 
Husband Thomas Mackenzie of Ord, and after his Death she 
married Alexander Mackenzie of Cowil. His other Daughter 
was married with Priesthill. Murdoh Mackenzie had to his 
Second Wife Rorie Mac Ferquhfur'^s Daughter with whom he 
had Three Sons and Two Daughters. The Eldest Son of his 
Second Mcuriage was Rorie Mackenzie of Enockbackster. The 
Second was Hector Mackenzie Chamberlain of Lochcarran, 



86 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

The Youngest John Mackenzie of Corrie. His Eldest 
Daughter of The Second Marriage was married with The 
Laird of Gairloch, his other Daughter with Donald Glass 
MacDonald of Fearside. He had a Natural Son called 
William Mac Vorchie. Murdoh Mackenzie of Fairbume died 
at Fairbume on The 20^ December 1590. 

Alexander Mackenzie of Fairbume was mamed with 
Walter Innes of Innerbreakie his Daughter with whom he had 
Two Sons and Two Daughters. His Eldest Daughter was 
First married with John Mackenzie appearand Laird of Gair- 
loch and after his Death to The Good-Man of Tulloch, his 
Second Daughter to Murdoh Mackenzie of Camasary. This 
Alexander died at Fairbume. 
[pageiiii.] John his Eldest Son was married with Torquil MacLeod of 
The Cogich his Daughter, with whom he had no Succession 
but Daughters. One of his Daughters is married with Murdoh 
Mackenzie of Sand, another married to her First Husband 
Murdoh MacCulloch of Peark, and now she hath Rorie 
Mackenzie of Corrie, another is mamed with John Mackenzie 
of Pitlundie, and The Youngest to Rorie Mackenzie in Ardlair. 
He died at Fairbume The 3^ of August 1644, and is buried 
at Dingwall. Hector Mackenzie his Brother married to his 
First Wife Valentine Chisolme his Daughter. She is Mother 
to Rorie Mackenzie now of Fairbume that married to his 
First Wife Patrick Grant of Glenmoristoun his Daughter. 
He is now married with Daniel Mackenzie of Logic his 
Daughter. One of Hector's Daughters had to her First 
Husband Kenneth Mackenzie of Davochkaime and next 
Murdoh Mackenzie of Achiltie. Another of his Daughters 
was married with Rorie Bayne Tulloch his Son to her First 
Husband, and now is married with Angus Gairloch'*s Son, 
another with Mr. Alexander Mackenzie Minister of Locharran, 
another with Mr. Rorie Mackenzie Eincraig's Second Son, 
another married to Mr. Alexander Mackenzie Mr. John 
Mackenzie of Towie his Youngest Son. Hector Mackenzie of 
Fairbume had to his Second Wife a Natural Daughter of 
Eilcoyes, with whom he had Two Sons, The Eldest of them 
called Collin, The other Charles. He had Three Daughters 
with his Second Wife, The Eldest of them as yet unmarried. 



pp. 1 2 1- 1 23] THE MACKENZIES 87 

The Second was married with Rorie Mackenzie Redcastle'*s 
Brother'*s Son. The Youngest is married with Duncan 
Mackenzie William Mackenzie in Scheildag his Second Son. 
Mr. John Mackenzie of Towie and Minister of Dingwall had 
to his First Wife The Laird of Bellanadallach his Daughter. 
She was Mother to Murdoh Mackenzie of Towie that was 
married to Innerbreakie'^s Daughter, with whom he had no 
Succession but One Daughter that was married with Mr. 
Thomas Ross. One of Mr. John Mackenzie'^s Daughters of 
his First Marriage was married with Colin Mackenzie of 
Kincraig and with Mr. Murdoh Mackenzie of Pitglassie. Mr. 
John had to his Second Wife a Sister of Thomas Fraser of 
Struie, with whom he had Three Sons and Three Daughters. 
He died at Dingwall The 22^ ^f August Anno 1620. 
Murdoh his Eldest Son died at Kinnairdie The 8*^ of 
September 1626, and is buried at Dingwall. His Eldest Son 
of his Second Marriage was Rorie Mackenzie of Towie. He 
was married with InnerlawPs Daughter. She is Mother to 
Alexander Mackenzie now of Towie that is married with Mr. 
Thomas Mackenzie of InnerlawPs Daughter. 

Kenneth Mackenzie Mr. John'^s Second Son of The Second 
Marriage was married with Collector Morison his Daughter. 
He and his Son died at Worcester Anno 1651, and had no 
more Children but Two Daughters as yet unmarried. 

Alexander Mr. John'^s Third Son is married with a Daughter 
of Fairbume. One of Mr. John his Daughters was married 
with Thomas Dingwall of Knockshortie, another to Mr. Alex- 
ander Grant Minister at Urquhart, another to Duncan Mac- 
kenzie that lived in Tarbet. 

Rorie Mackenzie of Knockbackster was married w*Tulloch''8 
Daughter. His Eldest Son Mr. Murdoh Minister of Loch- 
broom is married with MacCuUoch of Peark his Daughter. 
His Second Son Kenneth is married with John Mackenzie in 
Cromertie his Daughter. His Third Son Mr. Rorie Minister 
of Gairloch is married with Knockbain'^s Sister. His Fourth 
Son Alexander is married with Mr. Donald Ross his Daughter, [page Its.] 
His Fifth Son John was married with Little Findone his 
Daughter. His only Daughter was married with John Mac- 
CuUoch in Beawliew. He died at Knockbackster Anno 1645. 



88 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. 1 

John Mackenzie that lived in Corrie was married with Donald 
Clerk his Daughter. She was Mother to Rorie Mackenzie now 
of Corrie that is married with Fairbume's Daughter, to John 
Mackenzie that was married with Doctor Colless his Daughter. 
This John died at Culta Leod Anno 1665, and to Murdoh Mac- 
kenzie that is married with a Gentlewoman of The Name of 
MacLeod. One of John his Daughters was married to Thomas 
Mac Chainich vie Thomas and after his Death to Donald 
Monro Teaninich's Son. His other Daughter was married 
with John buy Mac Chainich vie Thomas. Hector Mackenzie 
Murdoh Mac Rorie his Youngest Son was Chamberlain of 
Locharran. He was married with Donald Mac ean vie ean 
Tere his Daughter. She is Mother to Murdoh Mackenzie in 
Arinachtaick that is married with Contilich his Daughter, and 
to Mr. Alexander Mackenzie Minister of Locharran that is 
married with One of Fairburne his Daughters. One of Hector's 
Daughters was married with Rorie Mac Vorchie vie Alister 
Roy, another was First married to Ferquhar Mac Vorchie vie 
Conil vie Ferquhar, and is now married to Alister Mac Conchie 
vie Heachin. Hector left Two Natural Sons, One called 
Rorie, The other is called John. This Hector died at Eisheam 
in The Year 1642, and is buried at Locharran. 

William Murdoh Mac Rorif/s Natural Son had One Son 
called Thomas. Thomas left Three Sons, One called William 
Mac Thomas, and The Third called John Dou Mac Thomas. 
Rorie beg Mac Rorie The Son gotten with The Lady Belna- 
gowen was married w' Mr. Martin Logic his Daughter. She 
was Mother to Alister Mac Rorie beg that was Parson of 
Contane, and was married with One Janet Aberneathie, with 
whom he had no Succession but One Daughter called Janet 
married to Donald Ross. 

i^galU.] Charta Murdaco M*^Kenzie servitori Regis [Jacobi v. seiz] 

et heredibus suis masculis, quibus deficientibus Seniori heredum 
suarum feminarum absque Divisione. De omnibus et singulis 
terris Regis sequest. Jacent in Comitatu de Ross infra vie de 
Innerness viz Terris Regis de Ferbume cum pert, terris de 

Eirkferbrame alias Ferbrume na Eglis Terris de Auchin- 

aoill- Terris de Ballabraid cum pert ac Piscaria de Ballabraid 



pp. 123-127] THE MACKENZIES 8d 

▼ocat lie Esse cum pert. Tenend de Rege Solvend 

summarn 28»*»— 11 — 04 Tres BoUas Ordei Tres 

BoUas Farinse Tres Bellas avencurum vel summam 6 

solidorum et 8 denariorum pro qualibet boUa victualium 

Unam Martam vel summam duarum Marcarum pro Eodem 

Unum Multonem vel summam trium solidorum pro eodem 

— — Ac Quattuordecim Gallinas le Reik-hens. vel Quattuor 

Denarios pro qualibet Galinea Apud Edin' primo die 

Aprilis 1642 Ch. 174. Lib olim 22. nunc vero 28. 

Archivorum public.^ 

Ch. Murdaco M^Kenzie de Farebren — et Mariobellae 

Urquherd ejus sponsse in conjuncta Infeodatione &c. de Octo 
Libratis Terrarum de Balle-brayd, novi Extentus et Quadra- 
ginta solidatis terrarum de Moy jacent in Comitatu de Ross et 
Vicec. de Invemes super Resignatione dicti Murdaci 24 Jan'^ 
1648 ch. 388. Lib. 31. nunc vero 30.^ 



The Genealogy of The Succession of [p^^^-l 
Master Kenneth Mackenzie The 
Fourth Son of The Eighth Laird of 
Kintail by Lovat's Daughter. 

This Mr. Kenneth was his Father'^s youngest Son and Priest 
of Avoch, so that he never married but kept a Concubine 
nicknamed Lyval, by whom he had Four Sons Mr. Alexander, 
Thomas, Rorie and John caoile. 

Me. Alexandkr married a Gentlewoman of The ClanAUan 
Rorie Mac Allan his Daughter. She was Mother to Kenneth 
Mackenzie of Killichrist, to Mr. John Mackenzie of Inverlawl 
thereafter ArchDeacon of Ross, and to Murdoh Mackenzie of 
Little Findone. Kenneth Mackenzie of KiUichrist married to 
his First Wife The Relict of James Gray of Skibo, with whom 
be had no Succession but One Daughter that was twice 
married. She was First married to John Dumbar of Avacb, 



* Charters added in Macfarlane's own writing. 

* Pages 125 and 126 of ms. are blank. 



&0 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

and then married Lauchlan Macintosh of Cailachie. Kenneth 
Mackenzie of Killichrist had to his Second Wife a Daughter of 
Rorie Moir of Redcastle. She is Mother to Alexander Mac- 
kenzie now of Suddie and to a Daughter that is married with 
The Tutor of Foyers. Alexander Mackenzie now of Suddie 
is married witli Mary Bruce Daughter to The Laird of 
Airtli, with whom he hath Two Sons and Three Daughters. 
Mr. John Mackenzie of Innerlawl ArchDean of Ross was 
married to a Daughter of William Innes of Calrossie, with 
whom he had Four Sons and Two Daughters. His Eldest Son 
Kenneth was married with Culbokie his Daughter. He died 
in Anno 1640 leaving no Succession but Three Daughters. 
Mr. Thomas Mackenzie of Innerlawl Mr. John his Second Son 
was married to Hector Douglass of Muldairg his Daughter. She 
is Mother to Mr. John now of Innerlawl and to several other 
children. Mr. Thomas died at Catboll The V^ of Aprile 1665, 
and is buried at Fairne in Ross. Mr. Jolm's Third Son called 
Alexander died unmarried Anno 1647. Mr. John'^s Fourth Son 
called Mr. James Mackenzie Minister at Nigg is married with 
John Ross of Broadley his Daughter. One of Mr. John''s 
Daughters was married to Hugh Ross of Auchnacloich, another 
to Rorie Mackenzie of Towie. Murdoh Mackenzie of Little 
Findone Mr. Alexander his Third Son was married with a 
Daughter of Murdoh Mac ean vie Allan. His Eldest Son John 
is married w* William Paterson's Daughter. His Second Son 
Kenneth died unmarried Anno 1648. One of Murdoh'^s Daughters 
was married to John Mac Finlay-Milluack and after his Death 
to John Dumbar in Avach, another to Captain Hector, and 
The Third was married to Knockbaxter'^s Youngest Son 
John. 

Murdoh Mackenzie of Little Findone left One Natural Son 
called Alexander. He lived at Edinburgh and died without 
Succession but One Son also called Alexander. He liveth at 
Present in The King^s Service at Tangeir. Thomas Mackenzie 
of Ord Mr. Kenneth his Second Son married to his First Wife • 
Rorie Mac Allan simamed MacLeod once Possessor of a Part 
of Gairloch his Daughter. She was Mother to Murdoh Mac- 
Thomas, to Kenneth Mac Thomas and to One Daughter that 
[pa^€i28.] was married with MacCulloch of Peark. Thomas Mackenzie 



pp. 127.128] THE MACKEN2IES 91 

of Ord had to his Second Wife Murdoh Mackenzie of Fair- 
burners Daughter. She was Mother to John Mackenzie of 
Ord, to Thomas and to Mr. Murdoh and to One Daughter 
that was married to George Grame of Drynie. Murdoh Mac 
Thomas of Scatwall was married to Alister Roy Mac Heachin'^s 
Daughter. He left no Succession, but tailzied his Estate to 
his Foster The Tutor of Kintail. His Second Son Kenneth 
Mac Thomas was married with a Daughter of Kenneth Mac 
Vorchie vie William a Gentleman of The Clan Vorchie. She 
was Mother to Rorie Mac Chainich vie Thomas and Thomas 
Mac Chainich vie Thomas and to John buy Mac Chainich vie 
Thomas. Kenneth Mac Thomas left Three Daughters all of 
them married in Locharran. John Mackenzie of Ord married 
Alexander Cuthbert of Draickie'^s Daughter, She is Mother to 
John Mackenzie now of Ord that is married with Culbokie'^s 
Daughter and to Thomas Mackenzie that is married to Murdoh 
Matthison his Daughter and to James Mackenzie that is 
married with Mr. Ferquhar Clerk's Daughter and to George 
Mackenzie that is married with a Natural Sister of The Laird 
of Gairloch. One of Ord'^s Daughters was married with Tarra- 
dail, another to Hiltoun, another to The Laird of Gairloch'^s 
Brother, another to John Clerk The Minister of Lochailsh his 
Son and The Youngest to Murdoh Mac Chainich vie Vorchie 
vie Chainich. Thomas Mac Thomas was married with Ket- 
wal^s Daughter. His only Son died at Pittonachtie unmanned 
Anno 164S. Master Murdoh Mac Thomas died unmarried in 
The Year 1627. Master Kenneth's Third Son called John 
Caoile had a Son called Murdoh. Murdoh had a Son called 
Thomas. Thomas his Son is James Mackenzie The Carpenter. 
Rorie Mr. Kenneth'^s Fourth Son had a Son called Alister Dow 
Mac Rorie and another called John Mac Rorie. His Daughter 
was First married to a Gentleman of The Clan Donald. She 
married afterward Kenneth Mackenzie of Torherdan Parson of 
Slait 



&2 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [voL. t 



[pageisLY The Genealogy of The Succession 

of RoiiiE Mackenzie of Redcastjle 
Second Son of Kenneth The Eleventh 
Laird of Kintail by The Earl of 
Athol's Daughter. 

This Rorie called also Moir by The Countrey People with 
whom he got that Esteem by his fierce Disposition and vigorous 
Prosecutions of The Feuds wherein The Mackenzies were en- 
gaged with The Clan Ranald and other neighbouring Families 
in his Time was married with Daughter 

to The Laird of Fowles, on whom he begot Murdoh who suc- 
ceeded him in his Estate, Colin Mackenzie of Kincraig and 
several Daughters whereof One was married to Aoighe Mac 
Cay of Bighouse, another to Alexander MacLeod of Taliskeir, 
another to Alexander Mackenzie of Gairloch, another to The 
Good-Man of Grange in Murray, another to Kenneth Mac- 
kenzie of Killichrist and after his Decease to Thomas Chisolme 
of Einairies, another to The Good-Man of Benedgefield, and 
The Youngest to John Bayne of Tulloch. 

Murdoh Mackenzie of Redcastle was married on Margaret 
Daughter to The Baron of Kilravock. She was Mother to 
his Sons Kenneth, Rorie, Alexander, Mr. John and Mr. 
William and to several Daughters whom he married thus, 
The Eldest to The Chisolme of Comer, The Second to Rorie 
Mackenzie of Aplecross, The Third to Alexander Fraser of 
Rilick, The Fourth to Donald Mackenzie of Logic, The Fifth 
to Mr. William Mackenzie Minister at Tarbet, The Sixth to 
Alexander Mac Cra Chamberlain of Kintail, and Tiie Youngest 
to a Son of Eraser of Foires for her First Husband and after 
his Decease to Hugh Eraser Brother to Culduthel. He had 
besides these Two Natural Daughters whereof One married 
Alister Mac Allan in Lochbroom, The other John Mackenzie 
Son to William Mackenzie of Scheildag. 

Kenne'ih The Eldest Son of Murdoh died unmarried. 



^ Pages 129 and 130 of MS. are blank. 



pp. 131-133] THE MACKENZIES 98 

RoRiE his Second Son who succeeded him married Mr. 
Alexander Mackenzie of Kilcoye^s Eldest Daughter. She is 
Mother to Colin Mackenzie now of Redcastle that is married 
with Kenneth Mackenzie of Cowl his Eldest Daughter, to Mr« 
Alexander and to Charles hoth Young Men unmarried and 
to One Daughter who is married to John Mackenzie of Scat- 
waU. Alexander Murdoh his Third Son was married with 
William Paterson'^s Daughter. She is Mother to Rorie that 
was married with Fairbume'^s Daughter, to William Mac- 
kenzie, to John Mackenzie, to Murdoh Mackenzie, to Colin 
Mackenzie all Young Men as yet unmarried. He left Two 
Daughters. The Eldest of them is married with Hiltoun^s 
Brother Rorie, The other as yet unmarried. Mr. John Mac- iP^g'^^] 
kenzie Murdoh^s Fourth Son was Schoolmaster at Chanonry, 
and died after he was ordained Minister in The Year 1640. 
Mr. William Mackenzie Murdoh'^s Youngest Son died at The 
Court of Spain being One of The Principal Doctors of Physick 
in that Court. Colin Mackenzie of Kincraig married to his 
First Wife Mr. John Mackenzie of Towie's Eldest Daughter. 
She is Mother to Colin Mackenzie now of Kincraig that is 
married with Duncan Bayne of Delny his Daughter and to 
Rorie Mackenzie that is married with One of Fairbume'^s 
Daughters. One of Kincraig's Daughters married to her First 
Husband Gilbert Robertson of Kindcass. She hath now to 
her Second Husband John Ross Eldest Son to Hugh Ross 
of Auchnacloich, another of his Daughters married Alexander 
Bayne of Knockbain, another of them was married to David 
Cuthbert Clerk of Inverness, another to John Clunes Son to 
The Baillie of Cromertie. Colin Mackenzie of Kincraig had to 
his Second Wife The Relict of Murdoh Mackenzie of Towie. 
She is Mother to James Mackenzie that is married with 

Kincraig's Daughter of The Second 
Marriage was married to Mr. John Mac Rha Minister of 
Dingwall. Kincraig left a Natural Son called Rorie that is 
married with Donald Mac Heachin vie Ferquhar his Daughter. 
This Rorie hath Two Natural Sons gotten before his Marriage, 
The One called Murdoh, The other called Colin. 

■■ ■ Ch. Conf. Roderico M^Kenzie de Ardafalzie &c. super [page.iss.\ 



94 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

Ch. sibi factam per Joannem Stewart de Mureane SI Junii 
1584. de toto et integro M olendino de Redcastle &c. jacent in 

Dominio de Ardmannoch et infra vie. de Innemes Tenend 

de Rege Conf. 14 Julii 1584.— Ch. 204. Lib. 40.^ 



l^eiss.]^ The Genealogy of The Succession of 

Sir Rorie Mackenzie of Tarbet 
Tutor of Kintail Second Son of Colin 
The Twelfth Laird of Kintail by The 
Laird of Grant's Daughter. 

This notable Gentleman falling by The Death of his ex- 
cellent Brother Lord Kintail to be Tutor to his Nephew, 
Colin thereafter Earl of Seaforth, whose Estate was very 
considerable and The Management thereof of great Difficulty 
both by Reason of The inveterate Feud with Glengairrie and 
some other Neighbours and The Confusion his Affairs in The 
Lewis were left in through The untimely Death of his Father, 
which, nevertheless. Sir Rorie managed with so much Dexterity 
and Success that in The Space of Six Years, during which 
Time he continued Tutor, he extricate his Nephew out of all 
his Difficulties settling him in The Peaceable Possession of a 
vast and goodly Estate a Year before he was Major, and, 
though Sir Rorie had purchased a great Inheritance of his 
own, yet he retained The Title of Tutor of Kintail all his 
Lifetime. He married Margaret Eldest Daughter of Tor* 
quhil MacLeod of Coigach with whom he got The Lands of 
Coigach, and had Children by her. Sir John Mackenzie, who 
succeeded him, Kenneth, Colin, Alexander and Charles and 
James and One Daughter, who was a very worthy Lady 
married to Sir James MacDonald of Slait. Sir Rorie died 
at his own House of Culta Leod in September Anno 1626 
being very much regreted by all his Countrey Men, and is 
buried at Dingwall in a Tomb built there by himself. Sir John 



1 Charter added in Macfarlane's own writing. 
' Page 134 of MS. is blank. 



pp. 133-136] THE MACKENZIES 96 

Mackenzie of Tarbet was married with Margaret Daughter to 
The Lord Inverteil with whom he got The Lands of Inverteil, 
and had Children by her. Sir Greorge Mackenzie, who suc- 
ceeded him, and is now worthily The Darling of his Friends 
and Countrey Men being happily endowed with those Advan- 
tages of Manhood and Learning that fit him for doing The 
Noblest Offices to his Prince and Countrey, is married with 
Anne Daughter to Sir James Sinclair of Mey. John who died 
at London in his Return from his Travels Anno 1662. Mr. 
Rorie now an Advocate before The Lords of Council and 
Session as yet unmarried. Alexander, Kenneth and James 
likewise as yet unmarried, Margaret, who was First married 
with The Laird of MacLeod, and is married now with The 
Laird of Lawers. His Second Daughter, who was married 
with Hugh Lord Lovat, Isobell, who is now Countess of Sea- 
forth, Barbara and Catharine as yet unmarried. Sir John 
died at Tarbet in Anno 1654, and is buried at Dingwall. 
The Second Son of Sir Rorie Mackenzie Tutor of Kintail was 
called Kenneth Mackenzie of Scatwal. He married to his 
First Wife Sir Robert Monro of Fowles his Daughter with 
whom he had One Son and Three Daughters. His Son John 
Mackenzie now of Scatwall is married with Rorie Mackenzie 
of Redcastle's Daughter. One of Kenneth's Daughters is 
married with Robert Monro Leimlair's Son. Another of 
them is married with MacCulloch of Peark, another as yet 
unmarried. Kenneth Mackenzie had to his Second Wife 
Walter Ross of Invercharron's Daughter with whom he hath 
several Sons & Daughters. Also he left Two Natural Sons 
gotten in His Widowhood that are as yet but Children. He 
died at Kenlochlichart Anno 166 and is buried at Ding- 
wall. Sir Rorie Mackenzie's Third Son was called Colin 
Mackenzie of Tarvie. He married Alexander Mackenzie of 
Gairloch's Eldest Daughter being Relict of John Mackenzie 
of Lochslin. His Eldest Son is called Alexander. He is 
married with Rorie Mackenzie of Davockmaluack^s Daughter. 
His Second Son Kenneth is as yet unmarried. His Eldest 
Daughter is married to Archibald MacDonald Sir Donald 
MacDonald^s Third Son. His Second Daughter is married to [pageise, 
Matthew Robertson of Davockhairlie, His Youngest Daughter 



96 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

to Evander M urchison of Avenish. Colin Mackenzie of Tarvie 
died at Kinnellan in The Year and is buried at Ding- 

wall. Sir Rorie'*s Fourth Son was called Alexander Mackenzie 
of Belloane. He married Hugh Eraser of Culbockie^s Daughter 
and Relict of Kenneth Mackenzie of Inverlawl with whom he 
had One Son and Two Daugliters. His Son is called Alex- 
ander Mackenzie of Bellon as yet unmarried. His Eldest 
Daughter was married with Simon Mackenzie Second Son to 
Simon Mackenzie of Lochslin. His Youngest Daughter is 
married with Mr. Rorie Mackenzie of Kilmuire. He left One 
Natural Son called Colin that is Chamberlain to The Lord 
Tarbet. This Alexandar died at Monlochie Anno 1645, and 
is buried at Dingwall. Sir Rorie'^s Fifth Son was called 
Charles. He died unmarried at Chanonrie Anno 1629, and 
is buried at Dingwall. Sir Rorie'^s Sixth Son was called James. 
He died at Inchrorie being unmarried Anno 1647) and is 
buried at Dingwall. Sir Rorie left One Natural Son called 
Master Jolin Mackenzie ArchDean of Ross. He was married 
with a Gentlewoman called Christian Weims. His Eldest 
Son is called Mr. Rorie, his Second Son Mr. Colin, his Third 
Kenneth, his Fourth George, his Fifth Alexander, and his 
Sixth Son James, all of them hopefull Young Men yet un- 
married. Mr. John'^s Eldest Daughter is married with Murdoh 
MacEiver in Leckmelme. Mr. John died at Tarrol Anno 
1666, and is buried at Tarbet. 



[paj^eis9.y The Genealogy of The Succession of 

Mr. Colin Mackenzie of Kinnock 
Third Son of Colin The Twelfth Laird 
of Kintail by The Laird of Grant's 
Daughter. 

This Mr. Colin married to his First Wife a Daughter of 
Torquil MacLeod of The Coigach, She was Mother to Kenneth 
Mackenzie now of Kinnock that is married with Davoch- 



^ Pages 137 and 138 of MS. are blank. 



pp. 136-143] THE MACKENZEES 97 

kairne^s Daughter and to Colin Mackenzie that died unmarried 
at Scat wall Anno 1665, and is buried at Kinnittass. Mr. 
Colin married to his Second Wife The only Daughter of John 
Mackenzie appearand Laird of Gairloch with whom he got 
The Lands of Pitlundie and Davochpollan. She is Mother 
to John Mackenzie now of Pitlundie that is married with a 
Daughter of John Mackenzie of Fairbume, and to Alexander 
Mackenzie that is married with Davochkairne'^s Youngest 
Daughter. Mr. Colin left Two Daughters. One of them is 
married with John mac ean vie Chainich in Herries. The 
other was married with William Dingwall that lived in Oussie. 
Mr. Colin died at KinchuUadrum in May 1650, and is buried 
at Beawliew. 



The Genealogy of The Succession of [^s^us] 
Mr. Alexander Mackenzie of Kil- 
coYE Fourth Son of Colin The 
Twelfth Laird of Kintail by Grant's 
Daughter. 

This Mr. Alexander married to his First Wife a good honest 
Woman The Relict of Sir James Steuart of Kilcoy and 
Daughter to The Tutor of Lovat, with whom he had Three 
Sons and Three Daughters. His Eldest Son Colin Mackenzie 
now of Kilcoy is married with The Laird of Dufius his 
Daughter, with whom he hath Five Sons. The Eldest of 
them is called Alexander. He is married with Kenneth Mac- 
kenzie of Gairloch'^s Daughter. The Second of them is called 
Mr. Rorie Mackenzie, The Third Charles, The Fourth Thomas, 
The Fifth John. Mr. Alexander his Second Son is called 
Alexander Mackenzie of Muirtown. He is married with John 
Cuthbert of CastlehilPs Daughter. Mr. Alexander his Third 
Son is called Mr. Rorie Mackenzie of Kilmuir. He is married 
with a Daughter of Alexander Mackenzie of Belloan. Mr. 
Alexander his Eldest lawfuU Son was married to Rorie Mac- 
kenzie of Redcastle. His Second Daughter was married to 



^ Pages 140, 141, and 142 of MS. are blank. 

6 



98 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

The Tutor of Belnagowen stiled Pitcalnie. His Youngest 
Daughter married to her First Husband Duncan Bayne 
appearand Laird of Tulloch. She married to her Second 
Husband George Monro appearand of Leamlaire. Mr. 
Alexander had Three Natural Daughters. One of them was 
married to Hector Mackenzie of Fairbume to his Second 
Wife. Another was married to Neil Bayne MacLean Ouystie. 
Another of them was married to John Mackenzie Uncle to 
The Laird of Gairloch. Mr. Alexander Mackenzie of Kilcoy 
married to his Second Wife One Margaret Dumbar that served 
Dame Barbara Forbes Countess of Seaforth with whom he had 
no Children but One Daughter that died shortly after himself. 
He was known to be One of The most judicious Men of his 
Name till in his Old Days he made True The Old Proverb, 
That Old Men are twice Bairns, by marrying a Woman that 
was not his Equal in Birth nor Age, and ought rather to be 
One of his Household Servants than his married Wife. This 
Gentleman that lived in all Respects both at Home and abroad 
died at Muirtoun Anno and is buried at Kileaman. 



[paggi47.]^ The Genealogy of The Succession of 

Alexander Mackenzie of Cowl. 

This Alexander was The Son of Colin The Twelfth Laird 
of Kin tail by Mary Eldest Daughter of Rorie Mackenzie of 
Davochmaluack and Anne Daughter to Donald MacDonald of 
Slait. He was happy in his Youth by The Comliness of his 
Person and Agility of Body to be looked upon by Kenneth 
Lord Kintail his Brother and all his Followers being then 
engaged in their hottest Feuds with The Clan Ranald and 
The MacLeods of Lewis as the fittest Man to command what 
Forces his Brother was to make Use of on these Occasions 
wherein he failed them not of their Expectations managing 
that Command (which he enjoyed untill The Tutor of Kintail 
put a Period to all these Troubles by The Transaction with 



^ Pages 144, 145, and 146 of MS. are blank. 



pp. 143-147] THE MACKENZIES 99 

Glengairrie and utter Extirpation of The MacLeods of Lewis) 
with so much Courage and Expedition that, albeit, during 
The whole Tract of those Broils, there passed not any Action 
of Moment wherein he was not singly concerned, yet in all of 
them his constant Success brought no less Honour to himself 
than Advantage and Reputation to his Party. This with his 
singular Industry and upright Dealing in Afiairs got him so 
much of The Love of His Brethren, especially. Lord Kenneth 
(who on his Death Bed honoured him with The Gift of his 
own Sword in Testimony of his Esteem and Affection for him) 
and so much of The Respect of his Friends and Neighbours 
and The good Opinion of The Countrey People that without 
Difficulty or The least Grudge of any Person whatsoever he in 
a short Time purchased a considerable Estate which he still 
augmented by The same Means. During The Rest of his Life 
he was married First to Annabella Mackenzie Daughter to 
Murdoh Mackenzie of Fairbume and Relict of Thomas Mac- 
kenzie of Ord, with whom he had One Son and Two Daughters. 
His Son was Rorie Mackenzie of Aplecross that was married 
with Murdoh Mackenzie of Redcastle's Daughter who was 
Mother to John Mackenzie now of Aplecross that is married 
with Hugh Eraser of Belladrum'*s Daughter, and to Colin 
Mackenzie of Sanachan that is married with Murdoh Mac- 
kenzie of Sand his Daughter. The Eldest of Rorie's Daughters 
was First married with Alexander MacLeod Laird of Rasay. 
To her Second Husband She had Thomas Graham of Drynie, 
and to her last Husband She had Alexander Mackenzie of 
Hiltoun. The Second of Rorie''s Daughters was married with 
The Tutor of Strathouridairs Eldest Son Lauchlan 

Mac Finnon of Scalpay, his youngest Daughter with Murdoh 
Mackenzie Son and Heir of William Mackenzie of Scheildag. 

Alexander Mackenzie of Cowl his Eldest Daughter was 
married with Alexander Mackenzie of Gairloch, his Second 
Daughter w* Mr. William MacCulloch of Peark. He married 
to his Second Wife Christian Monro a Daughter of Hector 
Monro of Assint. She was Mother to Kenneth Mackenzie 
now of Cowl that married to his First Wife The Eldest 
Daughter of Alexander Chisolme of Comer with whom he had 
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Sir Robert Gordon Tutor of Sutherland his Daughter. His 
Second Son called Mr. Simon as yet unmarried. His Youngest 
Son John as yet at School. His Eldest Daughter is married 
with Colin Mackenzie of Redcastle. His Second with The 
Young Laird of Fowles. His Third with Alexander Baillie 
Younger of Dunain. His Fourth Daughter with John Dumbar 
Younger of Banedgefield and The Rest as yet unmarried. 
I page 148.] Kenneth Mackenzie hath now to his Second Wife Mr. 
Thomas Mackenzie of InverlawPs Daughter. Alexander Mac- 
kenzie of CowPs Second Son with Christian Monro was called 
Alexander. He died a Young Man at Elgin in The Year 
1689, and is buried in The Chanonrie Kirk of Elgin. His 
Third Son of The Second Marriage is Hector Mackenzie of 
Assint. He married a Daughter of Hugh Eraser of Belladrum 
who left One Son and One Daughter that are yet but Chil- 
dren. Alexander Mackenzie of CowPs Eldest Daughter of The 
Second Marriage was married with Alexander Chisolme of 
Comer. His Youngest Daughter was married to Sir Alexander 
Innes of Cockstoun. This Gentleman having lived worthily 
died happily at Pittonachtie in The Monetfa of March Anno 
1650, and is buried in a Tomb he caused build for himself at 
Chanonrie. He left besides The large Patrimonies he bestowed 
on all his Children a considerable Sum of Money for pious 
Uses and Gentlemens Children of his Relations. His Eldest 
Son Rorie Mackenzie of Aplecross died before his Father at 
Chanonrie The Sixth of July Anno 1646, and is buried in his 
Father'*8 Tomb at Chanonrie. 



[Pageisi.]^ The Genealogy of The Succession 

of John Mackenzie of Lochslin 
Second Son of The First Marriage 
of Kenneth Lord Kintail by Belna- 
gowen's Daughter. 

This John was married with Eldest 

Daughter to Alexander Mackenzie of Gairloch by whom he 

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pp. 147-155] THE MACKENZIES 101 

had no other Succession save One only Daughter, who wi^ 
married long after her Father's Decease to Norman MacL^(>d*; 
of Beamerey. 

He left likewise Two Natural Sons, One of whom he called • ' 
Kenneth who is now married with Daughter 

to Mr. Alexander Mackenzie Minister of Lochcarran and The 
other called Alexander that lives now in The Lewis and is 
married with Daughter to Corbet of 

Arboll. John Mackenzie of Lochslin died before his Brother 
Grerman Colin Earl of Seaforth at Lochslin Anno 16S1, and 
is buried at The Chanonry. 



The Genealogy of The Succession of [^eiss.]^ 
Thomas Mackenzie Second Son of 
The Second Marriage by Powrie 
Ogilvie's Daughter. 

This Gentleman spent his Youth with great Reputation in 
The Danish and German Wars having for some Time before 
his Return had The Government of The City and Garrison of 
Straelsound in Pomeron from The King of Denmark at his 
coming to Scotland he had The Lands of Pluscarden from 
George Earl of Seaforth his Elder Brother Grerman, who fell 
to The Estate as Heir Male to Colin Earl of Seaforth. He 
married to his First Wife Daughter to 

The Laird of Grant and Relict of Alexander Lord Duffus, by 
whom he had Two Sons and Two Daughters. His Eldest Son 
is called Colin. He is married to Margaret Heatley Daughter 
to The Laird of Bairfoot. His Second Son is called George 
as yet unmarried. His Eldest Daughter is married with Alex- 
ander Chisolme now of Comer. His Second Daughter not as 
yet married. Pluscarden is now married with Jean Cockbum 
Daughter to The Laird of Lantoun and Relict of The Laird 
of Grange, by whom he has hopefull Children. 



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This Simon was Third and Youngest Son of Kenneth Lord 
Eintail by Isobell Daughter to The Laird of Powrie Ogilvie 
his Second Lady. 
•••' He was married First to Daughter to 

Doctor Peter Bruce, who was a Son of The Laird of Feenzies, 
by whom he had Five Sons and One Daughter. His Eldest Son 
Sir George Mackenzie an Advocate before The Lords of Council 
and Session of good Esteem and Expectation as well for his 
Knowledge in his Profession as for his Great Learning in 
most other Sciences is married with Daughter 

to The Lord.Hartrie Dickson. 

His Second Son was called Simon. He was married with 

Daughter to Alexander Mackenzie of 
Bellon, and died at Lochbroom Anno 1664 leaving no Suc- 
cession but One Son who was not bom The Time of his 
Father'^s Decease called also Simon. His Third Son was 
called Thomas, his Fourth is called Alexander and his Fifth 
Colin. These Three Youngest are as yet unmarried. His 
Daughter was married to The Laird of Moyness. 

He married to his Second Wife Anna Daughter to Eraser 
of Kilbokie and Relict of Alexander Mackenzie of Bellon, by 
whom he had One Son called Kenneth and Two Daughters 
who are as yet but Children. He died at Balcony in The 
Moneth of January 1666, and is buried at Chanonrie. 



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pp. iS9-r63j THE GRANTS 108 

The Genealogy of The Grants said [^a^e^,] 
to be written by Mr. James Chapman 
Minister of Cromdall &a in Anno 
1729. 

The Tree of The Family of Grant abridged from The 
Chronicles of Norway sent by an Herauld from The Court 
of Denmark to The Representative of The House of Grant 
informs of The Descent of that Name and declares That 
Wffa a Saxon Lord descended of The Champion Ouden ali^ Wffa a.c. 57 
Wodine (much extolled among The Poets for his Heroic 
Actions especially in Norway & Saxony) was The First King 
of East Angles in The Year of Christ 576. 

Among others descended of Wffa was Hacken Earl of Lagen Hackcn an< 
and Tronde Lagen in Norway his Great Grand Son who did 
succeed as his Heir of Line and Representative. Hacken for 
Power and Conduct was so reputed not only in Swedland 
and Denmark but also in Norway where he was unanimously 
chosen as Lord Hisch Protector of that Kinfi:dom. In which Protector 01 
great Trust he managed with such Approbation that he was ^'^'- 
honoured to bear their Coat of Arms of Three Crowns quar- 
tered as also an Ax and Rampant Lyon, and his Posterity Coat of Arm 
continued to bear The same. He was a Man not only in great 
Power but also of great Strength, and was therefore commonly 
called Hacken Grandt aliks Grant or Grott, which in their 
Language is The same as Great or in Latin Grand is, Great 
or Valourous, and all his Posterity after him are commonly 
called Grants. 

As there be few especially in Power who want their Enemies, 
so The Protector Hacken Grandt had his own who much 
envyed him. On a certain Time falling occasionally among 
some of them, he was attacked by them. It is reported That 
being unarmed he took as a Weapon, which he then pulled 
by The Roots, a Standing Tree, being The First Thing that 
came to his Hand, and with this Tree he so managed his 
Enemies that he rescued himself, and chased^ or, as is re- 
ported, slew some of them. This Action was reputed so 

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104 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

Heroic that his Strength and Valour was further remarked 
at Court, and therefore he was honoured to bear in his Coat 
of Arms not only The Three Crows quartered but also Two 
strong Men with their standing Trees in their Arms as Sup- 
porters of The Crowns with The Motto Stand fast or sure 
and firm, which The Family of Grant as yet retains. 

Hacken Grandt The Protector of Norway married Suanhilla 
The Daughter of Swenerman a Danish Prince of whom he 
begat several Children. 
[^^e264.] Hemming Grant his Second Son is The Progenitor of The 
House of Grant. He married Tora Daughter to Adlistein 
The First of The Norvegian Kings who professed The Chris- 
tian Religion. Among others instructed in The same were 
Hemming and his Wife Tora which was disagreeable to his 
Father Hacken The Protector seeing they did abandon The 
Heathenish Custom of Worshipping and Offering Sacrifice to 
his Progenitor Wodine ali^s Oudine reputed among them 
formerly as a God. 

Hemming being thus made uneasy by his Father thinks fit 
to remove with his Wife Tora out of Norway and come to 
Ireland, where his said Lady died in Exile leaving behind her 
several Sons and Daughters. The Eldest Daughter called 
Astred married Killel Krog younger Son of Tourstoun Earl 
of Northumberland. The younger Daughter named Gurrie 
married The Baron of Birkeroe, of whom several Noble 
Families in Swedland and Norway are descended. These Two 
Sisters were well instructed in The Christian Religion, and 
took Care to adorn their Principles with suitable Practice. 
They caused build Two Christian Churches adorned with 
Steeples within a Fathom of each other and covered them 
finely with Lead, to which they gave The Name of Grants, and 
The Parish is called Grandtsogn, that is Granfs Parishioners, 
The which Churches and Steeples ly nine Miles from Chris- 
tiania and remain as yet. 

Hemming Grant is said to have Four Sons who came along 
with him and afterwards thought fit (upon their Father'*s 
marrying a Second Wife named Isobella Daughter to The 
Prince of Dublin) to push their Fortunes and came to Scot- 
land Anno 1000. 



pp. 163-165] THE GRANTS 105 

The Four Sons are said to be AUand ali^s Andlaw, Gregore 

who is said to be The Progenitor of The Clan Gregore ali^ 

Mac Gregors, Fingon The Progenitor of Clan Fingons ali^s 

Maclnnons and Rowan ali^ Ruthven because red haired, who 

is The Progenitor of The Ruthvens, of whom was The Earl of 

Gowrie, and of them is said, 

Hemmingum genuit Protector maximus Hackin. 
Hinc Grantes, Fingon^ Ruthven^ Gregorius orti. 

The Chronicles of Norway together with The said Tree of 
The Family of Grant are more full in The Account of The 
Root and Branches of Hacken Grant The Protector of Norway 
and Progenitor of The Name of Grant. But purposing to 
follow his Offspring as far as concerns The Family and Name 
of Grant we take more particular Notice of Andlaw aliks Allan 
Grant The Son of Hemming came to Scotland in The Tenth 
Century. He married Moral Daughter to Neil Mac Gregor 
a Gentleman lineally descended of Gregorius King of Scot- 
land, by whose Interest and Portion The Barony of Fruichy 
was purchased. She bore several Children, and 

Paihick Grant Son to Allan Grant of Fruichy did succeed 
his Father about The Year 1090. He married Fergusia a 
Relation of Alpinus of whom he begot One Son and Four 
Daughters. 

WisHiLLA The Eldest Daughter married Duncan The 9^ 
The 88"» King of Scotland, who was Anno 1096 killed by 
Mackpender Thane of Meams. 

Fergusia The 2*^ Daughter married Hacken a ^orNB,y \[page les.^ 
Prince. Moral The S^ Daughter married Dunbar 

Earl of March, and Collobella The youngest Daughter married 
William de Monte The Progenitor of The Movats ali^s Moffats. 

AiXAND Son to The said Patrick Grant of Fruichy succeeded 
his Father about The Year 1150, and then married Dorva- 
gilla Daughter to The Thane of Fife, of whom he begot One 
Daughter and Four Sons. Isobella his Daughter married 
Bancho Stuart of Lochaber. Patrick his Second Son married 
Ingelram^s Daughter. He was Earl of Coucey in France, 
whose Sister Mary was married to Alexander 2** 94^ King 
of Scotland about The Year of Christ 1212 ; And Laurance 
Third Son to The said Allan was Bishop of Murray ; And 



106 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

Malcolm his Fourth Son was The King's Lord Lieutenant 
of The North of Scotland. He is The Progenitor of The 
Malcolms in Scotland. 

Allan The Laird of Grant was much respected at Court. 
His Childrens honourable Marriages made him more known. 
He was honoured with a Commission to be Sheriff Principal 
of Inverness, and purchased The Lands of Stratharrick in that 
Shire about The Beginning of The Twelfth Century. 

Gregor Grant Eldest Son to Allan Grant of Fruichy and 
Stratharrick Sheriff Principal of Inverness succeeded his Father, 
He married Mary Daughter to My Lord Lovat, who bore to 
him Four Sons, namely, Patrick The Eldest, who succeeded 
his Father, Richard The Second, who succeeded as Arch- 
Bishop of Canterbury in England immediately after Arch- 
Bisliop Langtoun in The Year 1229, as The Annals inform. 
Allan The Third Son is The Progenitor of The Family of 
Auchemick, and his Posterity are commonly called Clan Allan, 
i.e. AUan'^s Posterity; of whom there are severals descended. 
And Lucas his Youngest Son commonly called Kiar alias Kearan 
for his being of a gray dark Hue is The Progenitor of Auchin- 
arrow now called Dalchaple, whose Posterity is commonly 
called Clan Chiaran ; of whom there are severals descended. 

Patrick Grant of Fruichy and Stratliarrack succeeded his 
Father Gregor in Honours and Inheritance about The Middle 
of The V6^ Century. He married Bigla only Child of 

Cumming Lord Glenchernick. She was com- 
monly called for her low Stature Bigla Beg. Her Friends 
designed her in Marriage for a Relation of The Name of 
Cumming. But She herself thought otherwise, and her Affec- 
tion led her to marry The Laird of Grant, which at Length 
was obtained to The Satisfaction of both though disagreeable 
to The Name of Cumming, which occasioned their Envy against 
The Grants. Bigla bore to The Laird of Grant Two Sons 
named John and Rodolphus and a Daughter called Mauld ali^s 
Muriel, who were all taken Care of as to their Education. 

John Le Grant aliks Sir John Grant of Fruichy and Strath- 
arrick was a Man of Publick Spirit and of great Account. 
He thought fit with his Brother Rodolphus to take a Concern 
in The Defence of their Countrey against The Insults and 



pp. 165-166] THE GRANTS 107 

Cruelty of Edward commonly called Longshanks King of 
England; For at that Time Sang John Baliol to confirm 
himself as King of Scotland subjected himself and The Nation [A»^^®5«J 
to Edward as his Superior, and notwithstanding this foolish 
and treacherous Behaviour of Baliol Sang Edward in less than 
Four Years expelled him and miserably oppressed The King- 
dom of Scotland to such a Degree that a great many of The 
most valiant and Noble Men in Scotland were apprehended 
by him and carried up to England as Hostages for The Good 
Behaviour of The Scotch towards The Kings of England in 
all Time after. Among these Hostages were John Le Grant 
and his Brother Rodolphus, who after they had been long 
kept there were at Length dismissed upon Terms as appears 
in Rymer's Fcedera Vol. 2^ Page 776. Anno 1297. under The 
Title Manucaptio M agnatum Scotiae &c. Both these Brethren 
John and Rodolphus dying without Issue were succeeded by 
their Sister. 

Mauld She married Andrew Stuart Son to The Sheriff of 
Bute, who by Articles in The Marriage changed his Name, 
and was called Andrew Grant alias Stuart. They had a Son 
and a Daughter. The Daughter named Mary married Lord 
Lovat her Cousin, and The Son named Patrick succeeded his 
Father in ITie EsUte about The End of The W^ Century. 
He was commonly called Patrick Mac Mauld as being The 
Son of Mauld aliks Marjory or Murriel. He married Bathia 
Daughter to The Earl of Ross about The Year 1306, and 
afterwards he married Florence Daughter to The Laird of 
MacLean. They had a Son and a Daughter. The Daughter 
was married to The Laird of Fowlis The Progenitor of The 
Monroes, and The Son named John afterwards called. 

Sir John Grant of Fruichy and Stratharrick succeeded his 
Father. He married Mauld Daughter to Gilbert of Glen- 
chemick, & by her came The Lordship of Glenchemick and 
DuUenside to The Family of Grant, as appears in The Charter 
for that Effect as yet extant of Date about The Beginning of 
The 14*** Century. She brought forth Two Sons to him, viz, 
Robert and Duncan. 

Robert was a Man of great Account in his Time for Influ- 
ence and Courage. He^ distinguished himself in his Skill 



108 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

of handling Arms. His being The Champion appointed for 
Scotland to fight in Duel against Thomas Del Strother for 
England shows The same; For by Appointment of Publick 
Authority in The Time of Robert 9^ King of Scotland and 
Richard 2^ King of England Anno Christi 1380 The said 
Robert was chosen to fight The said Duel, in which he so 
distinguished himself that he came off with The Applause of 
The Spectators. This is recorded in Rymer'^s Foedera Vol. 7^ 
Page 276, where it is told That King Richard gave Letters of 
safe Conduct to these Champions. 

The Broils betwixt Scotland and England as yet continuing, 
The French joined The Scotch against England, and assisted 
them in carrying on a War. They gave them 40,000 Flanks to 
be distributed among The Noble and great Ones, of which The 
said Robert Laird of Grant had a Share as recorded in The 
foresaid Annals. He was so taken up with The Publick Affairs 
of The Nation that he seldom stayed at his own House, and 
dying unmarried he was succeeded by his Brother. 

Sir Duncan Grant, who married Leslie 

Daughter to The Earl of Rothes, of whom he had Two Sons, 
viz, John and Patrick. Gilbert of Glenchemick was Grand 
[pa^eic?.] Father to Sir Duncan, and resigned to him The Lordship of 
Glenchemick and Dullensiden as The Charter given by King 
David dated Anno 1364 in Favours of Gilbert and by Gilbert 
in Favours of Sir Duncan Grant (who is called his Oye in The 
said Charter) more fully bears. The Animosities and Mis- 
understanding betwixt The Cummings continuing occasioned 
to dispose of The Lands of Stratharrick in Order to purchase 
several other Lands contiguous to Balachastle and Glencher- 
nick ; For at That Time there were several Baronies on Spey 
Side to be disposed of, which The Laird of Grant took Care 
(because of their Contiguity to his Inheritance there already) 
to purchase that so he might have his People and Followers 
round about him, and that they might be better in Case to 
offend or defend in One Body as Occasions required. The 
Friends and Dependents of The Laird of Grant that were in 
Stratharrick did relish this Proposal and thought fit to leave 
their Possessions there, and came to Strathspey, where they 
took Possessions which they called after those they had in 



pp. 166-167] THE GRANTS 109 

Stratharrick as Gartenmore, Gartenbeg, Auchinarrow, Del- 
chaple, Balchernich and The like. 

The said Sir Duncan besides his Sons lawfully begotten had 
other Two Sons, The Elder of which called Patrick is The 
Progenitor of The Family of TuUochgorm, and his Posterity 
is commonly called Clan Phadrick, and The other Son called 
Duncan is The Progenitor of The Family of Gartenbeg, and 
his Posterity is commonly called Clan Dunachy. It is re- 
ported That a familiar Spirit ordinarily haunted The Family 
of TuUochgorm, and attended for Intelligence and Drudgery. 
This Ghost was commonly called Meg M uUoch as having The 
Loof of her Hand hairy. It appeared usually in The Shape 
of a Female about Six or Seven Years old in common and 
coarse Habit. The Presbytery of Abemethy being The Church 
Judicatory in these Bounds took Care to enquire into this 
Ghosfs Haunting The Family of TuUochgorm about The 
Year 1647, and after citing TuUochgorm and several Wit- 
nesses before them The Result of all was That there was such 
a familiar reputed to haunt TuUochgorm, Thsit severals saw 
The same in The said Shape, & That suddenly it disappeared. 
But since The more clear Preaching of The Gospel there is no 
Account at all of any such Apparition. 

Patuick Second Son to The said Sir Duncan Laird of Grant 
is The Progenitor of The House of Balnadallach, who is now 
low in his Estate. But of him are descended several Cadets, 
as Grant of Delvey, alias Dunlugas Grant of Delay Tamna- 
voulin Tulloch &c. The said Patrick his Eldest Brother Sir 
John succeeded his Father Sir Duncan both in Honours and 
Inheritance. He was red haired and had a Vein of Poetry, 
and Therefore was usually called Bard Ruoh, i.e. red Poet. 
He married Lucia Gordon Daughter to The Earl of Enzie 
alias Huntly by whom he had One Son named also John, who 
succeeded his Father in Honours and Inheritance. He in his 
younger Years before Marriage visited The Stuart aliks Baron 
of Kincardine, and got his Daughter with Child ; Which Child 
was afterwards because of his Talness and big Stature called 
John More. He is The Progenitor of The Grants of Glen- 
morriston, and his Posterity are usually called Slick Ian vore, 
of whom was afterwards descended Grant of Carron. Sir 



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John married Margaret Ogilvie Daughter to James Ogilvie 
of Deskford aliis Findlater, Their Marriage Contract yet ex- 
tant gives Account of The Tocher, Jointure and Friendship 
betwixt these Families. The Tocher given by Sir James 
[^agel68.] Ogilvie with his Daughter to The Laird of Grant was Three 
Hundred Merks paid at Five Terms or years, that is, Fourty 
Pounds Scots yearly, and The Jointure given by The said Sir 
John to his Lady together with The Provision of The Children 
to be procreated betwixt them both was Twenty Marks worth 
of Land Yearly. Such was The Friendship betwixt these Two 
Families that they entered into a Bond of Association to 
maintain One another'^s Quarrels and keep from Robbing, 
Thigging, Soming or taking One another's Possessions by 
themselves. Friends or Dependents, as The said Contract of 
Marriage dated at Bog of Geith 1484 more fully bears. The 
said Sir John had Two Sons with The said Margaret Ogilvie 
viz. James and John. This John was The Progenitor of The 
^Joannes Grant Families of Corrimony and Shaoglie,* and his Elder Brother, 
Frater %cobi ^^^" James commonly called James na Creach succeeded his 
G.deFrcuchie. Father Sir John Grant in Honours and Inheritance about The 

Ch. Morav. 

p.86'5A*i545.i Year 1525. He married Barbara Erskyne Daughter to The 
Earl of Mar, who brought forth One Son and Two Daughters. 
Anne The Elder was married to Allan Cameron Laird of Loch- 
ziel, and Janet The Younger married to William Sutherland 
Laird of DufFus in The Year 1552 [and afterwards to James 
Dempster of Auchterless].^ 

James was well known and in Favour at Court. King 
James The 5*** took such Notice of him that for his Good 
Services done The Publick he gave him a distinguishing Mark 
of his Favour, which is rarely granted to a Subject, namely. 
His Majesty was pleased to give him a Charter signed under 
his Hand and sealed with his Seal, wherein he is privileged 
with a Discharge and Exemption from being summoned or 
appearing all The Days of his Life before any Temporal Judge 
or Judicatory under The Privy Council or Session in Scotland 
for any Cause whatsoever. Where also The Privilege is ex- 
tended for his good Services done or to be done in Favours of 

^ Side note by Macfarlane. 

' This sentence in brackets has been added by Macfarlane. 



pp. 167-169] THE GRANTS 111 

all his Friends, Tenants, Householders and Servants whatso- 
ever belonging to him, as The said Charter of Exemption 
dated at Stirling Anno 1535 as yet extant more fully bears. 
James na Greach distinguished himself in assisting The Earl of 
Huntly his Cousin against The Insults of several Enemies, and, 
particularly, in revenging The Murder of Gordon Baron of 
Braachally in Dee Water Side, who was murdered by The 
Countrey Men there. The Revenge went such a Length that 
above Six Score Orphans were left in The desolate Countrey on 
Dee Side, no Body knowing who their Parents were. These 
miserable Orphans were out of Pity and Commiseration 
carried by The Earl of Huntly into his Castle, where they 
were maintained and fed. Thus a long Trough of Wood was 
made, wherein was put Pottage or any other Kind of Food 
allowed them, & The Young Ones sitting round about The 
Trough did eat their meat out of it as well as they could. 
James The Laird of Grant at a Time visiting The Earl was 
for Diversion's Sake brought to see The Orphans slabbing at 
their Trough. Which Comical Sight so surprized him that he 
proposed to carry The One Half of them to Balchastle alleging 
That having a Hand in destroying their Parents he was bound 
in Justice to take a Concern in their Preservation and Main- 
tenance. These of them that were brought to Castle Grant 
are to this Day called Slick-Nam-mor i.e. The Posterity of 
The Trough, and they are promiscuously called Grants or 
Gordons. This happened 1540.* 

John Grant succeeded his Father in The Estate. He 
married Marjory Stuart Daughter to The Earl of Athol about 
The Year 1555. Their Children were Duncan, who succeeded 
his Father in The Estate, and Patrick, who married Jean [pagtrieo.] 
Gordon Daughter to The Laird of Echt.^ He was commonly 
called Patrick na Muckrach being The Possessor of that Land. 
He was a Man in good Account, and had The Bailliary of 
Huntly and Strathspey, and by this Means was Judge from 

♦ W™. Grant Son to James Grant of Freucby obtains from Patrick 
[Hepburn] Bp. of Moray tbe lauds of Uver-Fiularig alias Muckeracb 
Mid-Finlarig, and Netber-Finlarig— 7 Maii 1641— Cb. Morav. p. 722.1 



^ Footnote by Macfarlane. ' ' Gicht ' interlined. 



112 GExNEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. i 

The Eastern Sea to The Western. He is The Progenitor of 
Rothemurcus and Colonel Grant of Balnadallach. His Lady 
while a Widow caused build a House in M uckrock which is 
extant as yet with their Names engraven upon it Anno 1598. 
The Daughters of The said John Laird of Grant were Mary, 
who was married to Colin Mackenzie of Kintail, of whom 
The Representative of The Mackenzies, viz., The Earl of Sea- 
forth is descended. The Second Daughter married 
Innes of Balveny and Espeth Third Daughter of The Laird of 
Grant married William Eraser of Struy The Tutor of Lovat 
in The Year 1560. 

The Name of Grant continued firm in their Loyalty to 
their Sovereign, and Hawthornden in his History of The King 
Jameses informs That they continued loyal and steady to 
King James The 4^ when several other Chiftans deserted him. 

Marjory Stuart The Lady Grant being removed by Death 
her Husband John Laird of Grant married Isobcll Barclay 
Daughter to Barclay of Towy, of whom he 

begot One Son, who became The Progenitor of Grant of 
Balintome, and of him are descended Sir Francis Grant Lord 
Cullen One of The Senators of The College of Justice, Grant 
of Monynuisk, Grant of Aimdelly ali^ Auchoynony &c. 

Dlxcan Grant of Fruichy succeeded his Father John Grant. 
He married The Laird of Macintosh's Daughter about The 
year 1570, of whom he begot Four Sons and One Daughter. 
The Daughter married The Laird of Calder in The Shire of 
Nairn. The Sons are John, who succeeded as Laird of Grant. 
Robert, He is The Progenitor of The Family of Lurg. 

Patrick of Elchies. He is The Progenitor of Grant of 
Easter Elchies and 

James The youngest Son The Progenitor of Grant of 
Moyness. Duncan Grant lived in Abemethy, and was 
commonly called Duncan Chiush because he delighted in The 
Fir Woods. In his Time severals of The Name of Grant 
applied themselves to Studies. Mr. Edward Grant was 
famous for his Skill in The Oriental Languages. His Greek 
Lexicon printed at London Anno 1581 shews his Skill in 
Greek and Latin, as being The best before his Time extant, 
and, as The Reformation from Popery and Superstition was 



p. 169-170] THE GRANTS 113 

going on a Pace in his Time, so Mr. Grant ali^ Duglass so 
called because he was of a grim Hue distinguished himself for 
Zeal and Success in The Work of The Gospel, and Joined 
Mr. Knox and The Laird of Dun in preaching The same, as 
Mr. Calderwood informs in his Church History. 

DuKCAN Laird of Grant died young. 

John Geant succeeds his Father Duncan as Laird of Grant. 
He was commonly called John of Fruichy and much regarded 
for his Stock of Prudence and Conduct in The Management of 
Affairs, and Therefore was termed The Wise Laird of Grant. [pageJ70.] 
He purchased several Baronies of Land in his Time such as 
Lethen, Adneedly &c. He married Lillias Murray Daughter 
to The Earl of Tullibardine now Duke of Athol. The which 
Marriage was honoured with The King and Queen their 
Presence about The Year [1686. She was a Lady who dis- 
tinguished herself in Management of her Affairs. She brought 
forth One Son and Two Daughters to him, namely, Anne 
Daughter to John Grant of Fruichy married Lauchlan Mac 
Intosh of Dunachton Captain of Clan Chattan 1611. Jean 
Second Daughter to The said John of Fruichy married 
William Sutherland of Duffus Anno 1612. 

There was a great Correspondence at this Time betwixt The 
Family of Grant and Mac Intosh. The Insults of Mac Donalds 
and Camerons against Mac Intosh occasioned John of Fruichy^s 
joining in Association with him against these Lochabrians as 
their Bonds of Friendship in Castle Grant as yet extant more 
fully bear. It is remarkable That in One of these Bonds The 
Laird of Mac Intosh engages to give The Lands on The other 
Side of Lochy in Lochaber to Allan Mac Calday ali^ Cameron 
for Honours and Services payable to him with some small 
Duty, as John Grant of Fruichy shall determine, and The 
Concern which John Grant of Fruichy had in both these 
Chiftans gave Way to their mutual Friendship and LochzieFs 
peaceable possessing of these Lands as yet. 

John of Fruichy dying, his Son John Grant alias Sir John 
succeeds ; For by his attending at Court and being of a public 
Spirit, known in The World, he was as his Predecessors 
Knighted. He married Mary Ogilvie Daughter to The Earl of 
Findlater, of whom he begot Eight Sons and Four Daughters. 

H 



114 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

He had also a Son before Marriage whom he called Duncan. 
He is The Progenitor of Grant of Clurie who was a Young 
Man of much Sagacity, for whom his Father Sir John had 
possessed much Kindness, and gave him The Lands of Clurie. 

Thk Childrens Names are as follows. James The Eldest 
succeeded as Laird of Grant. 

John Second Son of John Grant of Fruichy was put in 
Commission as Colonel of a Regiment, in which Post he died 
in Holland without Issue. 

Patbick The Third Son was also Lieutenant Colonel and 
Tutor of Grant, had Three Daughters well married. 

Robert The Fourth Son lived in Muchroch. 

Geobge The Fifth Son was also in Commission as Major, & 
died Govemour of The Castle of Dunbarton. 

Alexandeb The Sixth Son died without Male Issue. 

MuNGo The Seventh Son is The Progenitor of Grant of 
Enockando purchased 1700 and Grant of Grantsfield ali^s 
Ballogie, who both are free Barons holding of The King. 
[page 171.] Thomas Eighth Son commonly called Balmacaan had also 
Two Sons Lodovick and Patrick. 

The Daughters are Lillias married to Byres Laird of Cotts ; 
Margaret married to Mackenzie Laird of Gairloch 

brought forth The Representative of that Family. The 
Third married Ogilvie of Eempkeum, and Mary Grant 

The youngest Daughter of Sir John Laird of Grant married 
Gordon Marquis of Huntly. She is Mother to The 
Representative of that Family. She was also afterwards mar- 
ried upon The Earl of Early. 

James Gbaxt of Fruichy did succeed his Father Sir John 
as Laird of Grant. He married Lady Mary Stuart Daughter 
to The Earl of Murray, who bore to him Two Sons and Three 
Daughters. 

The Elder Son Ludovick succeeded his Father as Laird of 
Grant, and The Younger Son named Patrick is The Progenitor 
of Elchies on Spey Side in Knockando Parish. 

The Daughters are Mary, who married Patrick Ogilvie 
of Boyne in Bamf Shire. The Second Daughter married Sir 
Alexander Hamilton of Hags and Margaret The Youngest 
Daughter was married upon Roderick Mackenzie of Red- 
Castle in Ross-Shire. 



pp. 170-172] THE GRANTS 116 

The Laird of Grant died at Edinburgh in The Year 1668, 
and was buried in The Abbay Church there. 

LuDovicK Grant of Friuchy succeeded his Father James 
Laird of Grant. He was a Man of Publick Spirit and awfull 
Mien, reckoned The Best of Chiftans, commanding with 
Authority and Love, on all Occasions ready to express his 
Mind with Freedom. He married Janet Brodie only Child of 
Alexander Brodie Laird of Lethin in Nairn Shire. She was a 
Woman justly remarked for Piety and Virtue. The whole of 
her Conduct savoured of Prudence and Justice. She had Eight 
Children who survived her. Alexander The Eldest succeeded 
his Father. James Second Son to Ludovick Grant of Friuchy 
married Anne Colquhon Heritrix of Luss. George and Lodo- 
vick are in The Army and reputed Men of Courage and Con- 
duct. George is Captain in Colonel Harrison^s Regiment, and 
Ludovick is Major in My Lord Orkney'^s Regiment. 

The Daughters are Elizabeth, The Eldest, married to Hugh 
Rose of Kilraack. She is Mother to The Representative of 
that Family. Anne Second Daughter to The Laird of Grant 
married Colonel William Grant of Ballindallach. She is The 
Mother of The Representative of that Family. 

Janet Third Daughter of Ludovick Laird of Grant married 
Roderick Mackenzie of Skatwell. She is The Mother of The 
Representative of that Family. 

Margaret youngest Daughter of Ludovick Laird of Grant 
married Simon Lord Eraser of Lovat. She is Mother to The [A»/<f ^*] 
Representative of that Noble Family. It is remarked of all 
these Sisters That, as there were no Subjects Daughters had 
better Education, so they all improved The same, and were 
distinguished for Piety and Virtue in their respective Families. 

Ludovick Laird of Grant was in great Account during 
his whole Lifetime, and firmly adhered to The Protestant 
Interest. His early Appearance against a Popish Pretender, 
his being put in Commission by King William Anno 1689 
as Colonel of a Foot Regiment and his Publick Concern 
in The Defeat of The Rebells at Cromdale Hill, where none 
of The King's Forces were killed, though so many Hundreds 
of a Popish Faction and Highlanders died in The Battle, 
which gave The finishing Stroke to The Popish Pretender's 
Cause during^- King William's Reign, I say, all this shews The 



116 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

Man. He was so attached to The Protestant Interest that 
none professing Popery had so much as a Tack of Land or 
Dwelling in all his Inheritance. He was SherriiF Principal 
of Inverness as his Predecessors & always Member of Parlia- 
ment, where on all Occasions he distinguished himself in his 
Faithfullness to The King and Love to his Countrey, and he 
obtained the great Privilege and Honour of having his Lands 
erected into a Regality Anno 1694. He died at Edinburgh in 
The Year 1717, and was buried in The Abbay Church there 
with his Fathers James and Sir John Lairds of Grant. 

Alexander Grant succeeded his Father Ludovick in Honours 
and Inheritance. He was bom in The Year 1677 & married 
upon Elizabeth Stuart Eldest Daughter of James Lord Down 
in The Year 1698, of whom he had no Issue. He was a Man 
who distinguished himself in his Affection to The Protestant 
Interest and against Popery. He not only was SherriiF Principal 
of Inverness, Lord Lieutenant of Inverness and Murray Shires, 
but also was always Member of Parliament, and put in Com- 
mission of a Colonel of a Foot Regiment he engaged in Person 
for The King & Protestant Interest against a Popish Pretender 
at Sherriff Muir Battle in The Year 1716, and was after The 
Battle put in Commission of Brigadier General, and, as he 
himself appeared in Person for The King and Government 
against The Rebells in The South, so likewise he had all his 
own Men under Arms in The North to The Number of Eight 
or Nine Hundred maintained at his own proper Charges under 
The Command of his Brother Captain George Grant. They 
appeared so zealous and faithfull in that Cause as to defeat 
and give The finishing Stroke to a Popish Interest in The 
North of Scotland at that Time. He died also at Edinburgh, 
and was buried with his Fathers in The Abbay Church there 
Anno 1719. 

James Grant of Grant succeeded his Brother Alexander 
as Laird of Grant Anno 1719. He is a Man of solid 
Learning & good Temper, but when offended very sensible 
of Offences given him. He is remarked as a Man endowed 
with a Principle of Justice and Honesty. He married Anno 
1702 Dame Anne Colquhon Heretrix and only Child of 
Sir Humphry Colquhon of Luss, who left him Five Sons 






pp. 172-173] THE GRANTS 117 

and as many Daughters, namely, Humphry Eldest Son; 
Ludovick his Second Son by Articles in Marriage is Heir [pageirs.] 
of Luss and Representative of The Name of Colquhon. He 
studied The Law, and was admitted Advocate in The Year 
1728. He is married on Marion Dalrymple Daughter to Sir 
Hew Dalrymple of North Berwick Lord President of The 
Session in Scotland. James Francis and Charles The Youngest 
Sons to James Laird of Grant are at their Education in 
Schools. The Daughters are Jean Grant The Eldest married 
William Duff of Bracco. She is The Mother of The Represen- 
tative of that Family and several other Children. 

Anne Second Daughter to James Laird of Grant married 
Sir Harry Innes of Innes. She is The Mother of The Repre- 
sentative of that antient Family. Sophia Penuel and Clemen- 
tina The Three Youngest Daughters are as yet at their 
Education, and in The Esteem of all acquainted with them 
very deserving Virgins. 

James Laird of Grant as his Predecessors continues stedfast 
in his Attachment to The Protestant Interest, is Member of 
Parliament, and though by Act of Parliament The Sherriffship 
cannot (he being Member of Parliament) lodge in his own 
Person, yet his Eldest Son is put in Commission as Sherriff 
Principal of Inverness Shire. 

The Name of Grant in his Time as well as in his Predecessors 
Days continues in good Account for Influence and Interest in 
The Countrey ; For besides The several Field Officers as yet in 
his Majesty^s Service and other Officers in Commission there 
are above a Dozen of Free Barons holding of The Crown 
capable to chuse or be chosen Members of Parliament, such as 
Grants of Elchys, Grant of Monymusk, Grant of Rothemurcus, 
Grant of Easter Elchys, Grant of Balnadallach, Grant of 
Auchoinony, Grant of Glenmorriston, Grant of Dunlugas, 
Grant of Knockando, Grant of Ballogie ali^ Grantsfield, 
Grant of Carron and Grant of Grant. 

To The Honourable James Grant of Grant 

Si quid novisd rectius istis, 

Candidus imperti, si non his utere mecum. 



118 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 



pogim.]^ A Brief Genealogical Account of 

the Family of Maclean from it's 
First Settling in the Island of Mull 
and Parts adjacent in the Year 1716. 

The Sirname Maclean or more truely MacGillean signifying 
Son of Gillean is derived from One Gillean Predecessor of this 
Family. He was called Gillean ni tuoidh from his ordinary 
Weapon a Battle Ax called in the Irish Language Tuoidh, 
which his Posterity to this Day bear in their Crest 'twixt a 
Lawrel and Cypress Branch. 

Touching this Gillean we have Nothing on Record, nor is 
there any Tradition concerning him that can be much relied 
on by which at this Distance of Time we can fix on the Place 
of his Residence or what Character he had in the World, 
only That by the universal Consent of Tradition an Irish Man 
of that Name was Predecessor of those Families called after 
him Mac Gilleans as in all antient Writs or Macleans as • 
now write. This Family had their Shenachies and Bards as 
every Family of Distinction in the Highlands had. Yet they 
were so ungratefull to their Benefactors or so ignorant as to 
have left Nothing upon Record worth Noticing preceeding 
the Family''s Settlement in the Island of Mull, or, if they did 
committ any Thing of this Kind to Writ, it has been lost by 
the Injuries of the Times. 

All that remains is a bare Catalogue of Names from 
Gillean upwards to Inighisteurteamher who is said to have 
reigned in Ireland Five Generations before Fergus the First 
King of Scotland. This Catalogue was in the Custody of Mr. 
John Beaton the Last of the Shenachies a Man pretty well 
skilled in Irish Antiquities. There was also another Catalogue 
agreeing with this exactly in an old Genealogical Manuscript 
preserved for a long Time in the Laird of Coirs Family which 



^ Page 174 of MS. is blank. 



pp. 175-176] THE MACLEANS 119 

is now lost. Doctor Kennedy in his Genealogical Dissertation 
of the Royal Line of the Stewarts affirms the Macleans to be 
descended from Loghirni mor Brother to Fergus the Second 
Sang of Scotland and Son to Ere. From which the above 
mentioned Catalogue differs only in this, That they call 
Loghirni Son to Fergus and Grand Child to Ere. He also 
gives a Catalogue of the Predecessors of Ere upwards to 
Inighis Teurteamher, which agrees most with the Two fore- 
mentioned. Moreover Mac Varich Shenachie to the Family 
of Clan Ranald in a Panegyrick upon the Macleans affirms 
their being originally related to Curi Mac Dari whom 
Doctor Kennedy calls Brother Son to Hiar or Eri and 
Grand-Son to Deaodhie both who are mentioned in the fore- 
said Catalogues in near the same Order with that of the 
Doctors. 

This Poem was composed, at least, Thirty Years before [pagtJ76.] 
Kennedy'*s Book was published. All these laid together would 
seem to argue the Genuineness of those Catalogues preserved 
among the Macleans, and, although Macvurich in Hope of a 
Reward should be induced to forge an illustrious and antient 
Descent for those he designed to flatter, Yet I see no Reason 
That Doctor Kennedy a Stranger to them writing in a foreign 
Countrey should do so, or make any Mention of them at all, if 
he had not found in some Record worthy of Credit That they 
were so descended. 

There has been in all Ages a Friendship '^twixt the Mac- 
Kenzies and Macleans and among them both a received Tradi- 
tion of their being descended of Two Brothers. But I could 
never find any Authority for this or any seeming Probability 
even from those who affirmed it most. Mr. Buchanan of 
Auchimar makes Mention of it, and supposes the Macleans 
to be descended of the Gerald Earl of Kildarr, and I 
have beared That Doctor George Mackenzie in his Genealogy 
of the MacKenzies affirms some such Matter. But as Mr. 
Buchanan gives no Voucher, and the Doctor^s Book has 
not appeared in the World, and the forementioned Tradi- 
tion has few Vouchers, and yet fewer that gives it Credit, I 
am always more apt to believe the most received and better 
vouched Tradition above related ; Yet, if the Doctor's Book 



120 



GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 



proves the Fraternity fix)in better Authority, I yield to 
Reason. 

Here follow the forementioned Catalogues. 



Mr. Beaton's 


Dr. Kennedy's 


Mr. Beaton's 


Dr. Kennedy's 


Catalogue. 


Catalogue. 


Catalogue. 


Catalogue. 


OiUean mao 




Fiimduin vio 


Fiimduin vio 


Crathvio 




Carbre riad vio 


Eaoohie vio 


Milhon yio 




Conir vio 


Conir vio 


NeiUvio 




AUiod vio 


Mogalama vio 


Coundullj vie 




Carbre ohromchin 


AIHod or 


CeaUievio 




vio 


Luig Allatach 


Craine vio 




Dari dom 


vio Carbre 


Shamn Diiil-Skoni 




mhor vio 


Chromohin 


vio 




Carbre fium 


vio Dari 


lerei daidh 




mhoir vio 


dom mhoir 


vie Ferghifih 




Conir mhoir vie 


vie Carbre 


vie Neaohdin 




EdirSoeoil 


fium mhoir 


vio Colli mium 




vie 


vio Conir 


vioBoaghan 






mhoir vio 


vioEoaohie 






EdirSieoU 


vio Mhurohuih 






vio 


vicLoghimi 


Logimimor 


Eoidhin vio 


Eogan or Evan vio 


mhoir vio 


mao Ere 


Eri vio 


OUiol vio 


Ferghis abraruodh 


vie 


Olliol vio 


Eri or Hiar vio 


oaghon 




Deaodhie vio 


Deaodhie vio 


ri Albi vio 




Shin vio 


Shin 


Ere vio 




Trenvio 


Roshin vio 


Eaoohie bunrambir 


Eaoohie bunrarahir 


Rotren vio 


Trenvio 


vio 


vio 


Emailivio 


Rotren vio 


Inghis uolieh or 


Inghis uolieh 


Manimhoir vio 


Eamdill vio 


Inghis fear vie 


or fear vie 


Ferghie vio 


Fergo vio 


Ferghis vio 


Ferghis vie 


Ferghis vio 


Feradaoh vio 


Eaoohie tuomhU 


Fiaohra vio 


Olliol erin 


OUiol Erin vio 


vio felim lamhdoid 


Felim lamh doid 


vioFiaohry 


Fiaohry firvary vio 


vio 


vio 


Firvary vie 


Inighisteurteamher 


Oino vio 


Kintovio 


Inghis teurteamher 




Ouori vio 


Guori vie 




• 



[pagem.] 



Tis no Marvel there should be some Difference 'twixt those 
Catalogues, if it be considered That it was usual in those 
Days as well as now for Men to be called Two or more Names, 
also, considering the Transposition of Letters or Ommissions 
of whole Names and many such Mistakes that might easily fall 
out in transcribing such old Papers by many different Hands 
at different Times, sometimes in Haste, and often off Copies 
ill to be read. Such Mistakes have happened very often in 



pp. 176-177] THE MACLEANS 121 

Matters of greater Moment than this, and may here be allowed 
of. So, I think, if any Credit be due to any One of those 
Catalogues, it strengthens that of the other. I am more 
enclined to believe with Doctor Kennedy That LiOghimi mor 
was rather Brother than Son to Fergus the Second : For, were 
he his Son, his Name in all Appearance would be inserted in 
the Scottish History. Whereas, being but a Brother, and he 
and his Posterity living out of the Kingdom, there is no such 
Reason for his being mentioned. But to return to Gillean. 

61LLEAN begot Gilise, who begot Gillicollum, whose Son was 
called Eoin Duih, whose Sons were called Lauchlin lubanich 
Predecessor of the Family of Dowart and Eachin reganich 
Predecessor of the Family of Lochbuy. Tis as uncertain 
where Gilleans Offspring lived or what their Station in the 
World was untill Lauchlan and Eachin^s Time as what or 
where Gillean himself was. But "^tis very probable they were 
of Noble Extraction and of an antient renowned Family, or 
those Two last mentioned could not have had such Honours 
conferred upon them or come at such great Fortunes or 
Alliances as they afterwards did, especially, considering That 
in those Days Nobleness of Birth was thought preferable to 
any other Merit in procuring Alliance : For, as it was once in 
Rome thought a great Dishonour for a Person of Consular 
Dignity to match in a Plebeian Family, so in the Highlands 
there was no matching but with Equals. Moreover, the 
Greatness of their Ambition and Actions would seem to show 
That their Birth was above the common Rank. 

About the Befi:inninff of the Reira of Robert the Third Vide Abercro 
King of Scotland, which was in the Year 1390, those TwovJif2«/* 
Brothers Lauchlin lubanich and Eachin or Hector Reganich 
came, as some say from Ireland to Mac Dougal of Lom^s 
House, where being kindly received and obtaining much of 
Mac DougaPs Favour they had in some Time the Fate of all 
foreign Favourites, which is generally to be hated by those 
who think themselves injured by such Intruders. They wrought 
so far as to bring Mac Dougal at last unto the Design of taking 
away the Lives of the Brothers, of which they being adver- 
tized gave their Enemies the Slip, & came to the Great Mac 
Donald of the Isles. Here again their good Behaviour pro- 



122 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

cured them Mac Donald's Favour. But, as in the former Case, 
so now they began to be hated by those who were afTraid of 
their obtaining too much Favour. The First that vented 
his 111 Will to them was the Laird of M^Kinnon speaking 
harshly to them when returned from Hunting where they had 
been with Mac Donald. They resolved Revenge when an 
Opportunity should offer, which in a little Time did in this 
Manner. 
[^g€J78.] Mac Donald going from Aros in Mull to the Continent 
upon some Expedition sailed away. The Laird of Mac Kinnon 
was to follow. But the Brothers killing liim as he was going 
on Board manned his Galley, and followed Mac Donald resolv- 
ing to make their Fortunes or dy in the Attempt. 

AssooN as they came along Side of him, they boarded and 
made him Prisoner carrying him to the Island of Garrive- 
lich, where giving them fair Promises, they brought him to 
I Collum kill. Here he vowed Friendship to them upon cer- 
tain Stones called black Stones where Men were used to make 
solemn Vows in those superstitious Times, and granted them 
•Vide — — by* Charter the Lands which they and their Successors enjoyed 
licis ^Archivis afterwards. fThis Mac Donald was Jolin Lord of the Isles 
139s whether who was married to Lady Margaret Daughter to Robert 2^ 

this given to , jo ^ o ^ ^ 

Laucbian was King of Scotland. To Lauchlan he gave in Marriage Elizabeth 
I know not!°*' ^^^ Second Daughter, made him his Lieutenant General in 
Time of War, and gave him and his Posterity the Right Hand 
in Pubiicis of all the Clans in Battel. For Eachin he procured Mac Leod 
Craw^rd's^"^ of Lewis*'s Daughter in Marriage who was then a great Man 
Peerage sub in those Parts. 

Donald Lord This would seem to be the proper Place of enquiring which 
of the Isles, ^f ^j^^ Brothers was oldest, and, consequently, whose Repre- 
sentative should be Chief of all the Posterity of both Lauchlan 
and Eachin. I could never hear of any Writ by which this 
Question could be decided, and seeing we know of none, we 
must have Recourse to the next best Method of deciding it. 
"Tis well known to all those who have any tolerable Know- 
ledge of the Clan of Maclean That the Successors of Lauchlan 
Lubanich or the Representative of the Family of Dowart did 
enjoy the Characteristicks of Primogeniture for 300 Years and 
upwards, and, seeing the Possession without Interruption is of 



pp. 177-179] THE MACLEANS 128 

so old a Date, I am sure ^tis easier to acquiesce in it than to 
prove the Contrwy. Yet to put the Matter in as clear a 
Light as I can, I shall impartially set down the Arguments 
of each Side, and allow the Reader to judge which of the 
Families bids fairest for it. 

The only Argument used by the Family of Lochbuy is That 
they have had a well received Tradition among tliemselves 
in all Ages That their Predecessor Eachin Reganich was the 
oldest Brother. After conversing with the most knowing 
Men now alive of this Family upon this Head I could never 
find any other Argument than this nor any Thing to support 
this uncertain and much contradicted Tradition but a Sup- 
position That Lauchlan might have been the prettiest Man 
or the most cunning to insinuate himself in Mac Donald'^s 
Favour and so run away with the Birth Right and Blessing. 
Nor have they any other Answer to make when pressed with 
the Marks of Primogenitures being in the other Family in all 
Ages. But "^tis a known Maxim Supposito Quolibet, sequitur 
Quidlibet. So those Mights and May bes do not in the least 
strengthen the Tradition. On the other Side there is aeon- [pa^el79.] 
stant well received Tradition not only among those of the 
Family of Dowart but among all their Neighbours That 
Lauchlan was the oldest Brother, and his Successors were 
repute Chiefs of the Clan, not only at Home, but every where 
they were known, and that not of late but Time out of Mind. 
Moreover, some of those who owned their Descent from the 
Family of Lochbuy never owned any Chief but the Representa- 
tive of the Family of Dowart. This Tradition is strengthened 
by what follows. 

That Lauchlan Lubanich got from M*^Donald the greatest 
Estate and the most Honourable Alliance, That he made him 
his Lieutenant Greneral in Time of War, and conferred this 
Honour not only upon him, but also entailed the same to his 
Posterity, and gave them the Honour of the Right Hand of 
all the Clans in Battle. Moreover, in Time of War the Lairds 
of Lochbuy always served as Lieutenant Colonels under those 
of Dowart, and never aspired to any higher Command. In 
Time of Peace as well as War the Lairds of Lochbuy gave 
the Place of Honour to the others without any Dispute. All 



124 GENEALOGICAL COLLECnONS [vol. I 

those Things are known beyond Contradiction. In antient 
Writs the Lairds of Dowart are often stiled Maclean Laird 
of Maclean ; Whereas those of Lochbuy are never stiled but 
by the Title of Lochbuy as far as I could ever read or hear. 
The Lairds of Dowart have used the Stile of that Ilk, and it 
has been given them by all those that knew them ; Whereas 
those of Lochbuy never used the same or contradicted the 
others for so doing. On the Contrary the late Murdoch Mac- 
Lean of Lochbuy in backing his Letters for the late Sir John 
Maclean added of that Ilk, which many now alive can attest. 
The Lairds of Dowart of sometime past subscribed Maclean 
without their proper Names by Way of Preheminence ; Whereas 
those of Lochbuy never did or argue against the others doing 
it. All which impartially weighed, the Family of Dowart 
thinks sufficient Proofs of Primogeniture, especially, consider- 
ing there is Nothing against them but an ill vouched Tradi- 
tion supported by some Suppositions, which is but begging 
rather than proving the Argument, and the whole believed 
by a few interested Persons only. Upon the whole I may 
be allowed to make those few Reflections. As there are no 
Grounds for supposing Eachin to have been in any Thing 
inferior to his Brother and so to have been outwitted by 
him, the supposing of it is but a very weak Handle or rather 
none at all to invalidate the Family of Do wart's Right to 
the Superiority. 

In the next Place let us consider what Way those Brothers 
got their Estates from Mac Donald. It was not through Love 
or Favour but by Force against his Will. He their Prisoner 
carried by them where they pleased, obliged to give them his 
ipagelSO.] solemn Oath of Friendship, to grant them such Lands as they 
pleased to ask and his Daughter in Marriage to One of them. 
From which Circumstances "'tis reasonable to conclude That, 
seeing they had the making of tlieir own Fortunes, tlie eldest 
would never suffer his Brother to cheat him before his Face, 
and not only to get the best Estate and the greatest Alliance, 
but also the Superiority in every Point, and that not only he 
himself should be subject to his Younger Brother contrary to 
the Order of Nature, but that all his Race should be so to his 
Brother's Representatives. This is much the more incredible 



pp. 179-180] THE MACLEANS 126 

because that in those Days Men picqued themselves upon 
Superiority, it being of so much Honour and Advantage to 
them, But even supposing but not granting Hector to have 
been such a weak Man as some of his Descendents would have 
us believe he was without any Shadow of Reason, and That 
he should freely consent for himself and his to be subject to, 
and denude himself of his Birthright in Favours of his Brother 
and his Posterity, I think it does not much mend the Matter. 
For in that Case all Men and Laws would look upon his 
Brother as his Superior, it being known to all the World 
That there is Nothing a Man is possessed of but he may 
divest himself and his Posterity of, yea, even of his very 
Birth Right of which there has been innumerable Examples, 
and, though there cannot be shown a formal Renunciation 
under Eachin^s Hand, yet his very consenting to the Matter 
and his Posterity'*s acquiescing in that Consent would have 
made it as valid as if there was a formal Renunciation. This 
very Argument may be retorted upon this Family ; For Charles 
Lochbuy'^s eldest Son divested himself of the whole Estate to 
a very little in Favours of his younger Brother, and he and 
his Posterity, while any of them remained, were Subjects to 
the Posterity of the younger Brother whose Successors are to 
this Day in Possession of the Estate. I doubt if they can 
show a formal Renunciation according to Law under this 
Charles his Hand, yet I am sure the present Lochbuy would 
laugh at any of Charleses Posterity that would come to ask 
either a Part of the Estate or challenge any Superiority upon 
Account of a Birthright which his Predecessor had voluntarily 
renounced, and in which his Posterity had acquiesced. He 
might also plead long Possession without Interruption and 
Prescription. Which Arguments, if they would hold in this 
Case, why not in the other, they being parallel, if it could 
be proven That Eachin was the First-Bom. From all which 
I think Lochbuy has little to say for his being Chief of the 
Macleans. 

Lauchlax Lubanich had by Mac Donald's Daughter a Son 
called Eachin ruoidh ni Cath or Hector RufTus bellicosus. He 
commanded as Lieutenant General under the Earl of Ross at 
the Battle of Harlaw in the Year 1411, where he and Irvin 



126 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

of Drum seeking out one another by the Armorial Bearings 
[pa^elSl,] on their Shields met and killed each other. His Body was 
carried from the Field of Battle by the Clan Innes & Clan vie 
vilvory of Morvern and buried at I Collumkill. 

We have a Tradition That this Eachin ruoidh performed 
many brave Actions in his Time which justly gained him the 
Title of Bellicosus, particularly, That he commanded an Army 
in Ireland, took the City of Dublin & a Fleet that lay in 
the Harbour with several other Things omitted here because 
there is no Authority for them but Tradition. He was married 
to a Daughter of the Earl of Duglas, & had by her Two Sons 
Lauchlin and John. After the Battle of Harlaw there was a 
mutual Agreement ^twixt the Lairds of Drum and Maclean to 
exchange Swords, which was kept up for a long Time by both 
Familys to cancell all Enmity for the future that might 
happen on Account of the above narrated Slaughter. Such 
another Agreement there was 'twixt the Families of Grant 
and Maclean. 

To Eachin Ruoidh succeeded his eldest Son Lauchlan 
Bronich or big Bellyed. He had a Son before Marriage by 
Mac Eachern of Kingerloch's Daughter called Donald of whom 
are descended the Families of Ardgour and Borera in Uist. 
His First Lady was MacLeod of Harish his Daughter by 
whom he had Neill & John Garve. Of Neill descended the 
Family of Ross called Slichd Neill vie Neill, otherwise called 
Slichd i chlaive ierin or Iron Sword, because of their Signal 
Valour, and the Family of Shunay. Of John Garve (so called 
for Ills Gigantick Stature and Strength) is descended the Family 
of Coll. Lauchlin Bronich was taken Prisoner, and kept so 
for a long Time by the Earl of Mar after the Battle of Harlaw, 
during which Time his Brother John was Factor to his Estate 
and in Conjunction with Donald Balloch Mac Donald defeat 
the Earls of Mar and Caithness at Inverlochie in the Year 
1432. 

Lauchlan Bronici^s Lady dying during his Imprisonment 
or before it took to his Second Lady a Daughter of the Earl 
of Mar. It seems That in his Contract with this Lady he 
was obliged to make the Heir Male of that Marriage his Suc- 
cessor in Prejudice of his Sons of the First Marriage, which 



pp. 180.182] THE MACLEANS 127 

he did accordingly ; For Neill the Eldest renounced his Right 
to the Estate and Superiority, so that to him succeeded 
Lauchlin Oig his Son by Mar^s Daughter, who married 
Catharin Daughter to Colin First Earl of Argyle and Chan- 
cellor of Scotland, by whom he had Eachin oir ni nimbristin, 
and a Daughter called Florance or Finvola, who was married 
to Celestine de Insulis of Liochalsh designed Frater Carnalis to 
John Earl of Ross in a Charter by the said Earl to him of 
many Lands in Inverness Shire and to his Heirs Male to be 
procreat 'twixt him and the said Finvola. 

Eachin oir was Lieutenant General to Mac Donald the [pa^fist] 
Elder against his Son at a Sea Fight in the Bloody Bay in 
Irish called Barirereg near Tobermory Bay in the Island 
of Mull, where both MacDonald the Father and Maclean 
were taken Prisoners. He was at continual Strife with his 
Neighbours, who gained Nothing at his Hands, particularly, 
Clanronald. He was killed at the Battle of Flowdon Hill 
September 9^^ 1513. Tis said of him That seeing the King 
in imminent Danger from the English Archers he interposed 
himself and received in his Body the Arrows levelled at his 
Majesty, so dyed bravely by his own Body shielding that of 
his Sovereign*'s. He was married to Macintoshes Daughter by 
whom he had his Son and Heir. 

Lauchlan Catanich so called because he lived in his Youth 
among the Clan Chattan. He married First Elizabeth 
Daughter to Archibald Earl of Argyle, but had no Issue by 
her nor by Auchinbrek'*s Daughter, whom he married for his 
Second Lady. He had by Maclean of Treshinish's Daughter 
Eachin mor, who succeeded him and Allan ni Sop. He lived 
to a great Age, and was murthered by his own Brother in 
Law the First Campbell Laird of Calder in his Bed at 
Edinburgh. To him succeeded his eldest Son. 

Eachin Mor, who built the Castle of Dowart. He took 
his Place in Parliament as One of the Lords of the Kingdom. 
I have been informed by the late Brolos That he saw among 
his own Papers a Letter from Mac Clelland Lord Bombie Earl 
of Kirkudbright directed to this Eachin mor thus. To my 
worthy Chief Lord Hector MacLean of Dowart. The Letter 
is now lost with Papers of greater Value, which were known to 
have been in Brolos^s Custody. 



128 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

This Eachin was a very frugal Man and a great Merchant. 
In his Time the Family of Argyle began the First Encroach- 
ments upon the Family of Maclean, but could gain Nothing 
by it. After some Bickerings they made all Odds even by 
a mutual Alliance ; For Argyle married Julian Maclean'^s 
daugiiter, and gave his Daughter Janet in Marriage to Eachin 
oig Maclean^s Son and Heir. 

This Earl of Argyle was called Arcliibald oig ruoidh. 
Maclean'^s Daughter was his Second I^dy, by whom he had no 
Issue. After his Death she was married to Oneil and after 
him to ODonil in Ireland, and last to Stewart of Appin. She 
was famous for her beauty. Eachin mor was married to 
a Daughter of Hugh MacDonald First Laird of Slate and 
Brother to the Earl of Ross, by whom he had Eachin oig his 
Successor, and Eoin or John duih, from whom descended the 
Family of Kenlochalin. 

AxD Seven Daughters all matched to Highland Lairds. 
Julian the Second Youngest matched as above written. 
Eachin oig lived but Three Years after his Father, in which 
Time he spent all the money his Father left him leaving 
behind One Son by Argyl^'*s Daughter called Lauchlan Mor. 
lpag€i8S.]ShQ married again Eachin Son to Allan ni Sop, and after his 
Death was married to Mac Leod of Harrish. 

Lauchlan Mob or Magnus (justly so called for the Great- 
ness of his Mind and Body) being but a Child when his 
Father died, the King took Care of his Education, and Eachin 
Mac Allan ni Sop his Grand Uncle'*s Son made himself Tutor 
to his Estate with the Design never to restore it if he could. 
He was a brave, but wicked, Man, who never studied the Just- 
ness of his Pretensions providing he was able to maintain them 
by Force. Having married the Lady Maclean and being Tutor 
he expected he might easily make his Peace, although he 
should cut off his Pupill when he came to his Hands. But 
Lauchlan Mor'*s being at Court and continuing there till he 
was of Age to manage his Business hindered his Design. 
Maclean coming Home to take the Management of his Estate 
was very much cajolled by his Tutor, who at the same Time 
endeavoured to give his Clan a bad Impression of him giving 
out he was but a Fool. Yet, young as he was, he saw through 



pp. 182-184] THE MACLEANS 129 

his Tutor^s Politicks, and looked upon himself no better than 
a Prisoner where he should be Master, none but the Tutor's 
Creatures coming near him, and well understanding That 
there wanted but a fit Opportunity of cutting him off he fell 
a counterplotting with his Uncle Eoin duih and Mr. Lauch- 
lan the Laird of Lochbuy'*s Son. He opening the Castle of 
Dowart to them by Night, they surprized Eachin Mac Allan in 
his Bed, and carrying him to the Island of Coll cut off* his 
Head. Lauchlan Mor going to Court King James the Sixth 
proposed a Match 'twixt him and the Heiress of Athol. He 
coming Home to make ready for the Wedding visited at the 
Earl of Glencairn's, where falling in Love with Margaret Earl 
William'*s Second Daughter he married her, by which he lost 
the great Estate of Athol. Soon after this some of the Mac- 
Donalds of Slate going to Islay were Wind bound in the 
Island of Jura, where Maclean had Possessions. They either 
out of Want or 111 Will killed a Number of Cattle belonging 
to Maclean"*s Tenants. Of which Injury the Tenants going to 
Dowart and complaining, Maclean raised such of his Clan as 
lay nearest him, and going straight to Jura surprized the Mac- 
Donalds early in the Morning at a Place called Inir i crochd 
vricht, and killed many of them, the rest flying to Islay in 
their Boats. The MacDonalds being in all Ages Men readier 
to revenge than pocket Injuries, the whole Clan South and 
North gathered, and landed in Mull. Maclean being not in 
Readiness to receive them in the fair Fields sheltered himself 
and his Men with all their Cattle in the highest Hill in the 
Island giving strict Orders That none should descend to the 
Plains. Yet contrary to Orders a Gentleman of Argour's 
Family skirmished with the Enemy, and was defeat with some 
Loss. Among others that were killed there was a brave 
Gentleman of the Family of Treshinish called Alan killed. [A^i^'-^^l 
The MacDonalds finding none to make Head against them in 
the Plains, and not being able to force the high and steep 
Mountains left the Island designing to return very soon in 
greater Numbers, and, as they were preparing for this, Mac- 
lean called together his whole Clan, Dependents and Vassals, 
among whom were the Lairds of M^Kinnon and Barra and 
Maclean of Barera, who, though he lived among the Mac- 



130 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

Donalds in North Uist, yet at this Time left them to assist his 
Chief against them. 

Lauchlan Mor being prepared to give them a warm Re- 
ception and understanding That all the Families of the Mac- 
Donalds were joined as One Man against him thought it not 
prudent to allow them to come again to the Heart of his 
Countrey, but attacked them in an Island South of Kerira 
called Bacca, where he was at a great Disadvantage. They 
having Possession of the Island were drawn up in good Order 
on the Shoar untill they were forced to give Ground by the 
frequent well ordered Volleys of Arrows from Maclean^s Galleys. 
After landing and coming to handy Blows and fighting 
long and obstinately the MacDonalds were wholly routed, 
and betook themselves to their Galleys on the other Side of 
the Island having lost a great Number of Men. In this Battle 
MacNeill of Barra and Maclean of Borera behaved bravely. 
The MacDonalds were so much weakened by their Overthrow 
that, as far as I could learn, they never again invaded the 
Island of Mull, and Angus MacDonald of Islay was so heartily 
wearied of the Quarrel that he sought by all Means a Recon- 
ciliation, which was soon after brought about. But he was a 
Man neither to forgive or forget Injuries. He could not be 
easy with a Neighbour that was able to put a Stop to his 
Ambition, and being a com pleat Master of the Art of Dissimu- 
lation resolved to effect that by Fraud which he could not 
by open or generous Force, which he did in the following 
Manner. After both sides had laid down their Arms Mac- 
Donald invited Lauchlan Mor to his House in a friendly 
Manner as a signal Mark of a hearty Reconciliation. But 
Maclean doubting his Honour would not go. Upon which 
MacDonald, to make his Fraud pass the better, and being sure 
Maclean would not violate the Laws of Hospitality, came to 
the Castle of Dowart where he was well received and heartily 
entertained for several Days. As he was going away he gave 
Maclean a Second Invitation, who depending too much upon the 
Honour and Friendship of his perfidious Neighbour accepted it. 

He, accordingly went to MacDonald'*s House at Kintire 
accompanyed by his Uncle John Duih and Seventy more 
mostly Gentlemen of his Family, where after they had car- 



pp. 184-185] THE MACLEANS 181 

roused most Part of the Night they were laid to sleep in a 
Kiln, where they were not long before the House was sur- 
rounded by armed Men with MacDonald at their Head. 
Maclean and his Men betook them immediately to their Arms, 
and seeing they could not resist such superior Numbers they 
began to capitulate upon Honourable Terms, which were soon 
granted them, but assoon broken : For, as they went out of 
the House they were bound Two and Two with Ropes, and IP^^SS.] 
Two of them whom Angus hated more than the rest he caused 
to bum the Kiln over them, and next Morning contrary to 
Capitulation he caused execute Two more of them, and con- 
tinued so doing every Day till of the Seventy Maclean and his 
Uncle only remained. While this was acting, Two Gentlemen 
of the Family of Islay were taken Prisoners in Mull, which 
MacDonald of Islay hearing he agreed to release Maclean and 
his Uncle upon Condition those Gentlemen that were Prisoners 
in Mull should be set at Liberty. Accordingly he let Mac- 
lean go, and kept his Uncle as Hostage untill the fore- 
mentioned Gentlemen were liberate. Some Days after Mac- 
lean was gone, Mac leain of Ardnimurchuan coming to 
MacDonald informed him That, assoon as Lauchlan Mor 
arrived in Mull, he caused execute the Two Gentlemen. Upon 
which without further Deliberation Eoin duih was execute. 
But Maclean, as he had Regard to his Word and Honour, also 
knowing his Uncle to be in Danger, made all Haste to relieve 
the imprisoned Gentlemen, who came to MacDonald the 
next Day after John duih^s Execution. Sir George Mackenzie 
in his Criminals in the Title of Parracide says That it was 
a received Tradition That Act 51 Pari. 11 James 6 enacting 
That Murther under Trust should be punished as Treason was 
First made upon MacDonald^s killing the Laird of Maclean. 
Which Passage seems to relate to the above written Action ; 
For, though Maclean was not killed, yet his Uncle and Seventy 
of his Men were basely murthered under Trust. 

In the year 1594 Maclean was ordered by the King to join 
the Earl of Argyle against the Earl of Huntley. Both Armies 
meeting in the North at Glenlivet. My Lord Argyle with 
the Forces under his Command retired. Lauchlan Mor drawing 
up his Men at some Distance from the Main Body of the Army 



132 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

kept his Ground, and, when the Gordons began to attack him, 
his Men poured such Showers of Arrows upon them that they 
were obliged to give them no more Trouble. So standing their 
Ground till the Evening they joined Argyle that Night. 
Lauchlan Mor offered That, if Argyle should allow him to 
choose 500 Men out of the whole Army together with his own 
Clan, he would bring him the Earl of Huntley dead or alive, 
w^** Argyle rejected, and Huntley hearing the Proposal studied 
Revenge, which he afterwards effected against Lauchlan Mor^s 
Son, as shall be told in its Place. 

Lauchijvn Mor was not a Man that could tamely sit with 
the Injuries done him by MacDonald of Islay in murthering 
his Uncle and other Friends. So applying himself to the 
Government the forementioned Act of Parliament was made 
upon this Occasion. He got, moreover, Letters of Fire and 
Sword against MacDonald with an Order to the Lairds of 
Macieod and Lochiell to assist him to put the same in Execu- 
[pagtl86.] tion, which he did going to Islay and fighting the Mac- 
Donalds and burning the whole Island. Angus after his 
Defeat having locked himself up in his Castle, having been 
hotly pursued to the very Gates, who seeing he could not 
resist the Storm was resolved to buy his Peace, which he did 
by giving over the Half of Islay to Maclean. Twenty Pound 
Land of which belonged before this to the Family of Maclean. 
The best Harbour upon the Sound of Islay is called Port 
Ascaig. This Place Maclean would have in his Division of 
the Island as being the most convenient for landing in 
from any other Part of his Estate. It was also the most con- 
venient for MacDonald, who would not therefore give it; 
So disagreeing upon the Matter they appointed to meet 
some Time after to adjust Differences in a friendly Method. 
Accordingly, Lauchlan Mor went to Islay against the Day 
appointed with his eldest Son and his whole Clan landing 
in an Island called Island Niave, where he left his Son 
and Men, except Seven Score, who accompanyed him to 
Grunoirt being the Place appointed from whence he sent his 
Proposals to MacDonald, who was James the Son of the fore- 
said Angus Heir to his Father's Wickedness and Perfidy as 
well as to his Estate. James sent back some Gentlemen with 



pp. 185-187] THE MACLEANS 188 

an indifferent Answer, and ordered them at the same Time to 
spy how Maclean was guarded. They seeing his Men few in 
Number and seeing the Boats of those in the Island ebbed past 
the Possibility of being launched by Reason of the Length of 
the Shoar, the Depth of the Sands and the Bulk of the Galleys 
returned to MacDonald telling him That now or never was 
his Time for being upsides with Lauchlan Mor. Upon which 
he immediately attacked him all his Islay Men. Maclean 
made a brave Resistance, and obliged the MacDonalds to 
give Ground Three several Times. But the Kintyre Men 
coming up overpowered Maclean and his small Number, him- 
self being shot in the Belly through his Steel Targe. The 
greatest Part of his Men were cut to Pieces about him bravely 
choosing to die rather than survive their beloved Chief and 
Master. The few that survived could not launch their Boats, 
and go to the Island, but were obliged to fly to other Parts 
from whence they could get safe Passage Home. 

Thus in the Year 1598 fell the brave Lauchlan Mor the 
Scourge of the MacDonalds much lamented by all his Neigh- 
bours. He was the First Protestant Chief of the Macleans. 

He left Issue by Glencaim'^s Daughter Eachin oig his eldest 
Son and Heir, Lauchlan Oig Predecessor of the present Family 
of Torloisk, Gillean Allan and Charles and some Daughters 
one of them married to Lochbuy. 

Arch-Bishop Spotswood in his Church History gives him a 
splendid Character, and, the famous Mr. Johnston writes his 
Epitaph in the following Words. 

Lauchlanus Maclanus Duartius excelsus prosus animo et Ip^i^^s?.] 
Heroica corporis dignitate pariter et robore, cum nobilissimis 
Heroum veterum virtutis laude comparand us, ex insidiis per 
sororis sua; filium indignissima morte peremptus est Anno 
Christi 1598. 

Heroum veterum nova gloria^ fama novorum^ 

Fama vetus, pariter gloria prisca^ recens. 
Objice tela^ neces et mille pericula rerum^ 

Deficiunt citius tela, pericla, neces, 
Quiim Maclano aiiimi, aut animus sua robora Dexter 

Pectora, pectoribus conciliive vigor. 
Nusquam, heu ! tnta fides. Ferit impia dextra repotis 

Heroem hsec nullum secula ferre valent. 



184 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

Eachin oig succeeding his Father and returning from Islay, 
where he was by the unlucky Situation of the Place an idle 
Spectator of his Father's Death and the Defeat of his Friends, 
immediately set himself in a Posture of being revenged, which 
he soon did ; For raising Letters of Fire and Sword against 
James MacDonald he landed in Islay being accompanyed by 
the Lairds of MacLeod, Lochiell, MacKinnon and Barra, 
and defeat the MacDonalds in a pitched Battle at a Place 
called Beinbigirie, and burnt the whole Island. After this I 
could not learn any Difference ''twixt him and the MacDonalds. 

He was a severe Justiciary. He got the Estate into his 
Hands when it was in it's best Circumstances amounting to 
about Five Hundred Merk Land, but was very much impaired 
in his Time. The Marquis of Huntley studied to be revenged 
for the Offer that Lauchlan Mor made to the Earl of Argyle 
the Night after the Battle of Glenlivet, and had an Oppor- 
tunity of being so in the following Manner. There was a 
Convention of Estates to be holden at Stirling by a certain 
Day, where all those cited were to answer to their Names or 
forfault a certain Share of their Estates. Maclean being One 
of those cited came to Stirling by the Day appointed. But, 
while he was changing his Clothes, his Name was called, which 
he not answering to was forfaulted of the Twenty Pound Land 
of Garghavich in Lochaber, of which Huntley took a Gift, and 
all the Friends and Interest that Maclean could make could 
never get the Sentence recalled. Several other Parts of the 
Estate was in his Time lost, of which I cannot give a Distinct 
Account for the Want of the Papers of the Family. 
[page 188.] He married First the 2^ Daughter of Colin Mackenzie of 
Kintail Predecessor of the present Earl of Seaforth, by whom 
he had Eachin Mor his eldest Son, who succeeded him, and 
Lauchlan, who also succeeded him. He married again a 
Daughter of Atcheson of Gosefoord, by whom he had Donald, 
of whom Brolos is descended and John Duidh. 

To him succeeded Eachin Mor. He married Margaret 
eldest Daughter of Roderick Laird of Macleod, but had no 
Issue. He was accounted a good Man but unactive. He out- 
lived his Father but about Five or Six Years, and died leaving 
his Estate to his Brother. 



pp. 187-189] THE MACLEANS 186 

Sir Lauchlan, who was Knighted in his elder Brother^s Life 
Time by the Title of Sir Lauchlan Maclean of Morvern. He 
was much courted by the Marquis of Argyle in the Beginning 
of the Civil War. But Nothing would perswade him from his 
Duty to his King and Countrey, which made him join the 
Marquis of Montrose assoon as he could. The Evening before 
the Battle of Inverlochy he met him in Lochaber, and was 
present at the Battle accompanyed with 30 Men only. After 
which coming Home he raised his whole Clan, and joined 
Montrose immediately after the Battle of Alford, and continued 
with him till after the Battle of Kilsyth, when coming Home 
he and the brave Alexander MacDonald defeat a Party of 
Argyle'*s consisting of Seven Hundred Men at Laggan mor in 
Lorn, they having but about Two Hundred, the rest of their 
Men being severed from them by the Darkness of the preceding 
Night. He made ready a Second Time for joining Montrose, 
and, after he began his March, he was acquainted That the 
King had ordered Montrose to disband his Army. Upon w^ 
Maclean kept himself quietly at Home. Sometime after Sir 
David Lesley coming to the Island of Mull with a strong Party 
of Horse & Foot obliged him to deliver Eight Irish Gentle- 
men, who sheltered themselves with him. Seven of whom were 
execute at Aros, the Eighth making his Escape by the Swift- 
ness of his Horse. Sir Lauchlan'^s Character suffered much for 
giving up the Irish. But, if the Circumstances he was in were 
well known and impartially considered, he would not be so 
much blamed ; For his then only Son and apparent Heir being 
at School at Dumbarton was taken Prisoner, and would be 
liberate upon no other Terms than the giving up of those very 
Eight Irish Officers, and Who would not do as he did ? His 
Enemies being Masters of his Son and a very strong Party of 
them in the Heart of his Countrey, where they destroyed all 
with Fire and Sword Foot forward, he and his Men not able 
to engage them because of their Numbers were forced to take 
Shelter in the highest of the neighbouring Hills without any [pa£ilA 
Hope of Relief Nor could he obtain Peace for himself, nor 
Liberty for his Son but on the foresaid Terms. The Estate 
of Maclean paid none of the Publick Dues during the Civil 
War, and Maclean serving the King at his own Charges 




136 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

thought the Publick Dues of his Estate but a small enough 
Compensation for the great Expences he could not miss to be 
at, nor did he think it consistent with his Loyalty to pay 
them to those who so unjustly usurped the Royal Authority. 
But the Marquis of Argyle, who might be truely said to 
Cromwell it in Scotland, made the Laird of Maclean the sole 
Butt of his Malice for joining the contrary Faction. 

So intending a Process got a Decreet against him for the 
foresaid Publick Dues. Maclean going to Inverary to accom- 
modate Matters was taken by Caption and imprisoned in 
the Castle of Carrick in Cowell, where he was obliged to 
give his Bond for the pursued Sum before he would be set at 
Liberty. This was the First Grounds of that Debt which at 
last ruined the Family. Sir Lauchlan married Mary Second 
Daughter to Roderick Laird of MacLeod, by whom he had 
Sir Hector and Sir Allan and Two Daughters, the eldest 
married to Sir Euin Cameron of Lochiell and the Second to 
Lauchlan Laird of MacKinnon. Very soon after his Imprison- 
ment he died in the Year 1648 or 49, and was succeeded by 
Sir Hector, or, 

Eachik Ruoidh, who was One of the compleatest Gentlemen 
of his Time for Parts and Person. As he came to the Estate 
his People in the Island of Mull and in Morvern were harassed 
by Thefts and Robberies daily committed by Argyle**s People 
of Ardnimurchuan and Lorn, and after Sir Hector had made 
repeated Complaints to Argyle of those Depredations to no 
Purpose, he went to Ardnimurchuan, and there kept Court, & 
so far terrified the Inhabitants that they paid him Homage 
as they would do to their lawfull Superior, and made 
Restitution of what they had taken away for the Seven pre- 
ceeding Years. The same Way he treated those of Lorn. 
When Argyle questioned him for doing so he answered 
That, since His Lordship either would not, or could not, 
bridle his unruly Thieves, he was resolved That he would 
make them keep clear of his People or make their Necks suffer 
for it. 

He set his Heart upon paying his Debt to Argyle, of which 
he paid in One Sum a great Part, and would have done it com- 
leatly, had he lived in Peace for any Time. Some Camerons 



pp. 189-190] THE MACLEANS 137 

that lived in Morvem having killed Maclean of Kingerloch and 
wounded his Son made their Escape. Sir Hector killed all 
their Cows to the Number of 3 or 400, and was resolved upon 
a further Prosecution of them had he lived. The Mac lains 
of Ardnimurchuan much about the same Time murthered 
Maclean of Isle of Muck Brother to the Laird of Coll a [fa^eioo.] 
Gentleman very much lamented, whose Death would not pass 
unpunished but that his King and Countrey**s Cause called 
Sir Hector, and made him lay aside his private Resentments. 
In the Year 1651 he went to Stirling at the Head of Seven 
Hundred Men, where after a short Stay he was ordered to 
Innerkeithing with the Laird of Buchannan under the Com- 
mand of Sir John Brown and General Holburn of Menstrie, 
who commanded the Horse, to stop CromwelPs Passage over 
the Firth. But Holburn being either rank Villain or Coward 
or both, assoon as he saw the Highlanders fairly engaged, 
made off with all his Horse, and left them naked to the 
Mercy of double or triple Numbers, where all their gallant 
Behaviour could avail them little, but being surrounded on 
all Sides were cut to Pieces. Here fell the brave Sir Hector 
in the 27 or 28 Year of his Age nobly sacrificing his Life 
and Clan for the Publick Interest, and more could not be 
done by the most famous Patriots of Greece or Rome. Of the 
Seven Hundred Macleans that engaged not over Fourty ever 
returned to their Countrey, and those always carried about 
them the Marks of their untainted Loyalty and Courage. 
The Buchannans escaped no better. The Earl of Clarendon 
must have been misinformed in laying the Loss of this Battle 
to the Charge of Sir John Brown, who fought bravely, was 
wounded, taken Prisoner 8z died of those Wounds. Whereas 
the Battle was lost by Holbum**s Villany. 

To Sir Hector succeeded his Brother Sir Allan being about 
Five or Six Years of Age. His Uncle Donald Maclean of 
Brolos and Murdoch Maclean of Lochbuy were his Tutors. 
During his Minority there was Nothing done towards the 
Payment of his Debts. At the Age of Nineteen he married 
Julian Daughter to John Laird of Macleod. He made many 
Attempts to agree with the Earl of Argyle, but all to no 
Purpose. Argyle bought up all the Debts he could against 



138 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. i 

him. He was at last obliged to go to London by the Way 
of Ireland to implore His Majesty'*s Assistance. But Duke 
Lauderdale being Argyle^s fast Friend, and having the King**s 
Ear, robbed Maclean of his hoped for Success, untill the King 
peremptorily ordered Lauderdale to see him have Justice. 
The Duke at his next coming to Scotland patched up a Kind 
of Accommodation, by which Argyle obliged himself to give 
so much of the Estate to Maclean, and the King was to buy 
so much more from Argyle as in whole would make up to 
Maclean an Estate of <£*500 Pounds Sterling per Annum. 
During these Transactions Sir Allan died in the 29*** Year 
of his Age in the Year 1674 leaving by his foresaid Lady 
his only Child. 

Sill JoHX at the Age of four Years to the Tutelage of 
Lauchlan Maclean of Brolos and Lauchlan Maclean of Tor- 
[paggi9l] loisk. Immediately, as they began to manage, they joined to 
themselves by good Pensions My Lord MacDonald and Sir 
Ewin Cameron of Lochiell to strengthen them against Argyle's 
Power, and, notwithstanding of the foresaid Agreement, came 
to several Acts of Hostility with him to keep him out of 
Possession. But Sir Ewin, though he was bound to the 
Macleans by Alliance, Money and a solemn Oath, yet re- 
nounced all upon Argyle^s quiting to him a Debt of 40,000 
Merks, which he owed him, which occasioned a By- Word then 
used upon that Head (Ewin has lost his God, but the Earl 
his Money). In the Year 1680 the King wrote to his Privy 
Council in Scotland to see the forementioned Agreement 
ended, which was done, and My Lord Argyle had the Island 
of Tyrie for his Share of the Estate, and Maclean all the rest. 
In the Year 1682 the King appointed Sir George Gordon of 
Haddo Chancellor, William Marquis of Queensberry Treasurer, 
John Marquis of Athol Privy Seal, James Earl of Perth Justice 
General, Kenneth Earl of Seaforth, Sir George MacKenzie of 
Tarbert Clerk Register, and Sir George Mackenzie of Rose- 
haugh King's Advocate, Overseers of Maclean^s Estate. In 
this Year, Argyle making his Escape from the Castle of 
Edinburgh and being forefaulted, the Macleans repossessed 
themselves of Tyrie, and lived very quietly till the dethroning 
of King James. In the Year 1686 Torloisk died, and Brolos 



pp. 190-192] THE MACLEANS 139 

the next Year Upon which Sir John began the Manage- 
ment of his Estate. 

Having appointed Four Gentlemen his Friends Factors of 
his Estate he went to his Travels, First to England, thence to 
France, from whence he returned to Ireland in Company of 
King James, and came to Scotland from the Siege of Derry 
accompanyed by Sir Alexander Maclean of Otler Son to the 
Bishop of the Isles. My Lord Dundee at this Time raising 
Forces for King James, Maclean sent Hector Maclean of 
Lochbuy his Lieutenant Collonel with 300 Men to his Assist- 
ance, who were attacked early in a Morning by 4 or 5 Troops 

of Horse commanded by Major at a Place in Bade- 

noch called Knockbreck. They defeat the Horse, and killed 
their Commander with the Loss only of Lochbuy**s Ensign- 
Bearer and a few Centinels, and next Morning joined Dundee. 
This was the First Blood shed for this Cause in Scotland. 

Sir John understanding That his Friend and Neighbour 
MacNeill of Kalchelly was surrounded by some English Ships 
of War at the Island of Gidha sent a Detachment of his Men 
to relieve him under the Command of Sir Alexander Maclean, 
who brought Kalchelly safe off with the Loss only of the Arm 
of One of Mr. MacNeill's Men shot off by a Cannon Bullet. 
Assoon as Sir John could be ready, he marched oft' to join 
My Lord Dundee leaving his Castle of Dowart well provided 
commanded by James Maclean, which was furiously attacked 
soon after by Sir George Rook and the Men of War under his [p^g^^^i.] 
Command cannonading it for several Days to no Purpose. At 
the Battle of Kellicranky Maclean with his Clan being upon 
the Right were obliged to take up double Ground to equal 
the Extent of Two Regiments that were drawn opposite to 
them. Dundee being killed here, although the Highlanders 
won the Day, yet they were not so expert in using the Victory, 
nor had they a Commander agreeable to their Genius, but an 
old unactive Man, One Colonel Cannon, who, as they were 
passing by the Duke of AthoPs House at Dunkell, where the 
Cameronian Regiment was garrisoned, caused them to attack 
it ; Whereas they had Nothing fit for such a Work, and all 
they got by doing it was to lose a Number of their Men, and 
to be obliged to retreat shamefully. Here Sir John lost Two 



140 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

Captains, and Sir Alexander Maclean'^s Leg was broke. He 
sent Captain Allan Maclean his Cousin and Captain John 
Maclean Brother to Sir Alexander and a Detachment of his 
Men to the North with Colonel Cannon, who with other High- 
landers were attacked upon the First of May at Cromdell Hill. 
They stood till surrounded by the Enemy. Then the Soldiers 
threw down their Arms, and made the best of their Way. 
But the Two forementioned Officers stood, and were made 
Prisoners. Sir John returning Home with his Men kept 
Possession of his Estate untill Argyle had procured a Com- 
mission from King William to bring the Macleans to due 
Obedience, which he began to bring about with Fire and 
Sword coming to Mull with 2500 Men. Sir John would 
have given him a warm Reception, but that he looked for 
Glengarry and Lochiell, who faithfully promised him Assist- 
ance of Men, but, both failing, he did not see it reasonable 
to engage, seeing all his Friends, save his own Clan, had for- 
- saken him, and that he knew, although he should get the 
better of Argyle, yet being Rebell and Argyle in Favour 
with the Government, he might soon recruit a greater Force. 
So he resolved to another Way to Work. Causing all his 
Friends take Protections from Argyle he with a Number of 
young Gentlemen and Soldiers went to the Island of Kemburg, 
where they took several Ships belonging to the Government, 
One of which was loaded with Necessaries for the Army in 
Ireland. He staid in Kernburg till the Year 1692, when 
having King James'^s Orders he capitulated with the Govern- 
ment, and went to London, where he was graciously received 
by King William offering him a Regiment, which Sir John 
declining, he desired he should go Voluntier to the next Cam- 
paign, and, when he returned, he would see Argyle and him 
reconciled, and desired One Johnston Secretary for Scotland to 
see he would get no Injustice done him, while he was absent. 
Sir John came to Edinburgh to prepare for the Campaign, 
and Johnston, instead of being his Friend, proved his Enemy ; 
For, when he put him in Mind of the King^s Commands, he 
[page 193.] denied it, and threatened laying Sir John up in the Castle. 
Upon which he rode Post for London, and designed for 
Flanders after the King, who was gone before. When he 



pp. 192-193] THE MACLEANS 141 

came to London, the Queen told him That she had received 
Intelligence from Scotland That he was gone to the Highlands 
to raise a Rebellion, but That she was glad it was not so, and 
wrote in his Favour to the King her Husband. He proceeded 
on his Way to the Camp as far as Bruges in Flanders, where, 
getting the Account of King William'*s Defeat at Landen, 
and not waiting for a true Account of that Battle, his evil 
Genius hurried him on to his Ruin ; For expecting That all 
was irrecoverably lost on King William'^s Side, and That every 
Thing would turn to the old Channel!, he posted away for St. 
Grermains, where he remained untill Queen Anne's Accession 
to the Throne, and marryed Mary MacPherson Daughter to 
Sir iEneas MacPherson of Essy.^ 

At Queen Anne'^s Accession to the Throne there was an 
Indemnity issued out to all who were abroad. Sir John 
embraced this Opportunity of trying his Fortune once more in 
Britain. But his Lady being big with Child fell sick at Calais, 
where she was delivered of a Son in November 1703. This 
postponed Sir John's Voyage, so that the Day prefixed in the 
Indemnity passed before he came to England. Yet trusting 
the Queen's Clemency he embarked assoon as his Lady and 
Child could bear the Sea, when coming to London he was put 
in the Tower and tried for Queensberry's Plot, or rather My 
Lord Lovat's and assoilzied. When he was liberate, the Queen 
gave him a Pension of 500 Pounds Sterling a Year, which he 
enjoyed during her Life. The greatest Part of this Time he 
staid at London, and sometimes in the Highlands of Scotland. 
Being at the Garrison of Inverlochy when the Queen died, 
they attempted to take him and Lochiell Prisoners. But they 
made Way through the Guards, and left them. 

The Earl of Mar raising an Army for the Pretender in the 
year 1715, Sir John joined him with his Clan at Octerardor 
some Days before the Battle of Sheriff Muir was fought, where 
he was present at the Head of his Regiment, and had One of 
his Captains and Four private Men killed, and Donald Maclean 
of Brolos a noble and brave Gentleman his Lieutenant Colonel 
wounded. Sir John was by this Time fallen into a Decay, 



* Inneressy ' in side note. 



142 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

and was at Perth so ill that he could not go to Scoon to pay 
his Court to the Pretender. When the Army broke up from 
Perth, and came to Montrose, he was offered to go aboard the 
same Ship the Pretender went aboard of. But he refused it. 
He parted with his Men at Keith, and went to Gordon Castle, 
where this brave Unfortunate ended his Days the 12 of March 
1716, and was buried in the Church of Kaffen in the Shire of 
Bamf in the Burial Place of Gordon of Buckie. 

[fiageioi] The Maclean's Arms. 

1"* Quarter Or a Lion Rampant Gules, 2^ Quarter Azu'-e 
a Castle triple towered Argent windowed and port Gules 
massoned Sable, from the MacLeods 3^ Quarter Argent a 
Lymphad with her Sails furled up and her Oars in Action 
Sable, from Argyle 4 Quarter Argent a Salmon naiant proper 
from the MacDonalds and in Chief Two Eagles Heads errascd 
afrontu Gules. Supported by Two Ostriches with a Horse 
Shoe in each of their Bills, and written below, Virtus duris- 
sima terit Crest a Battle Ax with a Laurel and Cypress 
Branch Sal tire Ways about it bound Motto Altera or rather 
Alter-utra Merces. 

The Beginning of Mac Vurich'^s Panegyrick 
on the Macleans mentioned in the Begin- 
ning of this Paper. 

Clan Ghilleoin iii bratich bovi borb ri nibi vigbie 

Smarifi^ din tluoidh er fegh ni fouli ga ndail dimigbie 

Gaerie Glesdi ghoidhell ghani oig fer imighie 

nir Cheil buinti nuil mhrash mherighi iioch tash timiuie 

Imigb ghiv aig Cosnigb Criechi le cruois laimhi 

noch is airr er clon ni Cleri gin mbrou mari 

Si ghivigh i gbuoig o righi gin dialtari 

Sinin dar crou is dar cuini sdi Cburi mac Dari. 

Smarig i bachrigh ri auim bruini forr gruoim ghraui. 

[Aa^el95.] MaC LeANS. 

From Loch-buy are descended the Family of Kin-Gerloch 
called Siol Tearlich or the Posterity of Charles, and the Family 

of Kilmory a late Cadet and MacLean of Davach-Carr 

in the Shire of Inverness. 



pp. 193-196] THE MACLEANS 143 

Donald Son to Lauchlan Bronach had 2 Sons Eoin, of 
whom Ardgour, who is called Mac vie Eoin from him, is 
descended, and Neil, of whom is descended the Family of Borera. 

From Coll is descended MacLean of Isle of Muck. 

From Ardgour are descended Borera, Blaitehe and Treshinish 
and Inerscadel. From Treshinish was descended Ilynish in 
Tirey and Mr. John M*^Lean Min' of Kil-Ninian in Mull. 

From Kean-loch-alyn is descended Hector McLean of Grutin 
and Drumnin. 



Genealogy of The Macleans. i/^geioe.] 

1 Gill-ean. 

5 Gillise. 

3 Gillicolm. 

4 EoinDuih. 

6 Lauchlan Lubanich. i. 1390. 

6 Echin ruodh nan Cath. i. 1411. 

7 Lauchlan Bronach. ii. 

8 Lauchlan Oig. iii. 

9 Eachin Ouir. ii. 1513. 

10 Lauchlan Catanach. iv. 

11 Eachin Moir. iii. 

12 Eachin Oig. iv. 

13 Lauchlan Moir. v. 1698. 

14 Eachin Oig. v. 

16 Sir Lauchlan. vi. 1648. 

16 Sir Allan. 1674. 

17 Sir John. 1716. 

18 Sir Hector. — This Sir James Hector Maclean died at 

Paris aged 47 Years either in the Moneth of January 
or February Anno 1751, and dying a Batchelor was 
succeeded by his Cousin Maclean of Brolos, 

who is nearest Heir Male. 



^ Pages 197 and 198 of MS. are blank. 



144 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 



[page 199.^ De OrIGINE ET InCREMENTO MaK- 

intoshiorum epitome. 
Domino a 

LiBELLUM hunc manuscript um (Domine illustrissime) familiae 
Makintoshiorum Genealogiam, non nullasque alias ad eandem 
spectantes Chronologicas observationes comprehendentem, tibi 
imprsesentiarum ofFero, in quo (ut in omnibus humanis ac- 
tionibus exactissim&' etiam amussi conformatis, prsesertim in 
rebus hujus generis et tantae antiquitatis (plurimi) baud dubio 
(occurrunt defectus, varise que instantiae notatu dignae (quarum 
ego notitiam neutiquam adeptus) omittuntur. Verum quoad 
veritatem assertorum stabiliendam dicere ausim, sine fami- 
geratorum Chronologorum, priseorum M anuscriptorum, vulgaris 
traditionis aliorumve id genus monumentorum, evidenti testi- 
monio, nihil inibi alicujus momenti aut ponderis seriptum esse. 
Ubi veritatem luculenter assertam reperio, audacter describen- 
dam euro, ubi vero vel minima subest dubitandi occasio, 
Authorem nomino, in quovis enim punctulo (quod possem) 

Epitome of the Origin and Increase of the Mackintoshes. 

To . 

By these presents^ most illustrious sir, I offer you this manu- 
script treatise, comprising the Genealogy of the Mackintosh family, 
and some other chronological observations belonging to the same, 
in which (as in all human actions, even such as are most exactly 
conformed to rule^ especially in matters of this kind, and of such 
antiquity) there occur, I doubt not, many defects; and various 
notable points upon which I have not obtained any information are 
omitted. But yet, as to establishing the truth of the statements, I 
venture to say that nothing is there written of any importance or 
weight, except on the undoubted authority of famous chroniclers, 
early manuscripts, common tradition, and other memorials of that 
sort. Where I find the truth clearly vouched^ I take care to have 
it written down boldly ; but where there is the least occasion of 



pp. 199-200] THE MACKINTOSHES 146 

veritatis tramitem mihi insistendum sedul6 curavi. Non in 
familiae Makintoshiae antiquitatis, aut honorabilis unde oriunda 
est stemmatis ostentationem consummandam hoc mihi proposui 
pensum, minime vero. 

Nam Genus et Proavos et quae non fecimus ipsi 
vix ea nostra voco. 

In eadem cum Juvenale omnino sum sententia Quod Nobilitas 
sola atque virtus. 

Sed quod maxime me ad operam meam Genealogiis hisce, 
et observationibus coUigendis impendendam excitavit, imo ipsis- 
simum (si ita fari liceat) Totum ante oculos hfic in re habitum 
est, ut, omnibus Makintoshiis et Catanis suam origincm igno- 
rantibus, veram descensus notitiam commonstrarem ; Cumque 
ita se res habeat, etsi collectanea ipsa aliqualiter confusa sint 
et promiscua, stylo donata humili et inculto, non calamistratis 
verborum flosculis omata, non lucidis sententiarum gemmulis [pa^retoo.] 
instructa, cum nihilominus materia hie tractata ad tuam spectet 
et familiam, baud abs re erit, ut hoc (vel huic omni ex parte 
consimile exemplar speciosiori concinnatum manu) in finem cui 
destinatur domi concerves, sique diligenti ejusdem praelectione, 

doubt, I name the author : for in every pointy however small, I 
have been, to the best of my ability, sedulously careful to adhere 
to the path of truth. For I have not set this task to myself by any 
means in order to parade the antiquity of the Mackintosh family, 
or of the honourable lineage from which it has sprung. 'For 
family and ancestry and those things which we have not ourselves 
made I can scarcely call our own.' I am entirely of the same 
mind with Juvenal, that virtue is the only nobility. 

But what has chiefly moved me to expend my labour on 
these genealogies, and on the collecting of observations — nay, 
the very thing itself, if I may so speak, to be kept in view 
in the whole of this matter — is that I may make clear to all 
Mackintoshes and Chattans, ignorant of their origin, the true 
knowledge of their descent. And as the matter stands thus, albeit 
the collections themselves may be somewhat confused and pro- 
miscuous, presented in a humble and uncultured style, not adorned 
with the artificial flowers of rhetoric, nor set forth with sparkling 
gems of literature, when, nevertheless, the matter here treated 
relates to you and to your family, it will not be out of place that, 
seeing the end to which it is destined, you should preserve this 
(or a copy, wholly or partly like to this, executed by a more 
beautiful hand) in your house ; and if by diligent perusal of the 

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146 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

lis a te hactenus de tuse familiae Genealogia compertis (ita ut 
alios instruere queas) non nihil adjeceris, tunc illi qui in tuam 
tuorumque amicorum gratiam opus suscepit bene impensum 
suum fuisse laborem existimandi conceditur ansa. Vale. 

[pagetOl.] PRiEFATIO LeCTORI. 

Bex£vole Lector, 

Si veritatem eorum quae (praesertim de Makintoshiorum 
origine et antiquitate) in hac Epitome asseruntur dubitaveris, 
tibi innotescat quod ea argumenta, Documenta ac testimonia, 
quae pro Regnorum, Rerum-Publicarum, Civitatum et anti- 
quarum Gentium quarumcunque origine plerumque proferri 
solent, (viz. Chronica, annales, historian, veterum amanuensium 
Scripta et traditiones universaliter receptae) eadem (inquam) 
pro hujus familiae Originis veritate allegantur. 

1° Mackintoshius, ut ait Buchananus lib. 17 Rerum Scoti- 
carum, est magnae inter priscos Scotos familiar Princeps. Haec 
sunt Buchanani ipsissima verba, quae non solum cognomentum 
(Mackintosh) priscum, sed illam etiam familiam expriscis Scotis 
oriundam esse demonstrant. 

same you shall add somewhat to the things already discovered by 
you concerning the genealogy of your family (so that you may be 
able to instruct others) then to him who undertook the work 
for the sake of yourself and your friends occasion will be given 
for thinking that his labour has been well bestowed. Farewell. 

Preface to the Reader. 
Benevolent Reader^ 

If you should doubt the truth of the statements which are made 
in this Epitome (especially concerning the origin and antiquity of 
the Mackintoshes) you should know that such arguments^ docu- 
ments^ and testimonies as are wont^ for the most part^ to be 
adduced for the origin of kingdoms, republics, cities, and ancient 
peoples whatsoever (namely, chronicles, annals, histories^ writings 
of old amanuenses, and traditions universally received), the same, 
I say, are alleged in evidence of the origin of this family. 

1. Mackintosh, as saith Buchanan, book 17 of his Rerum Scoti- 
carum, was the chief of a great family among the ancient Scots. 
These are the very words of Buchanan^ and they show, not only 
the original surname (Mackintosh), but also that the family was 
sprung from the ancient Scots. 



pp. 200-201] THE MACKINTOSHES 147 

2^ Clanchatani et Clanchi Anno Dom. 1396 insignes inter 
se inimicitias summa crudelitate exercebant, et vicinos mag- 
nopere infestabant, ad quos reprimendos Moravise et Crafordiae 
Comites cum copiis a Rege missi sunt, sed eos suis viribus domare 
non poterant. (Ita Buchananus Lib. 10 Rerum Scoticarum. 
Boethius Lib. 16 Scot. Hist, et Major Lib. 6 Cap 6. de Gestis 
Scotorum). Ex quo Makintoshise Gentis antiquitas luculenter 
apparet, Nam, si Makintoshius Clanchatanorum Princeps (ita 
enim a Buchananus lib. 16 Rerum Scoticarum et a Lesleo lib. 9 
de rebus gestis Scotorum designatur) si, inquam Anno 1396 
Makintoshius tanto erat bellipotens, non dubitandum est ejus 
antecessores per multos stetisse annos priusquam ille ad tantas 
vires pervenerat. 

3^^ Mackintoshius et Macleanus in Bello Harlaensi Anno 
1411 fuere (post Donaldum Hebrideanum) decern mille vir- 
orum prsecipui Duces (ita ait Boethius lib. 16 Scot. Hist, et 
Buchananus lib. 10 Rerum Scot. Donaldi Heb. exercitum ita 
numerat.) Ex hoc etiam non minus Makintoshii antiquitas 
qu^m potentia est patefacta ; Nam exercituum ducatus iis 
temporibus non in peritiores milites, sed in potentiores Gene- 

2. The Clanchattan and Ganchi in the year of the Lord 1396 
carried on remarkable feuds among themselves with the greatest 
cruelty, and exceedingly troubled their neighbours. To repress 
these men, the Earls of Moray and Crawford were sent by the 
king with forces, but could not by their power subdue them. 
(So Buchanan, book 10, Rerum Scoticarum:; Boethius, book I6, 
Scotorum Historice ; and Major, book 6, chap. 6, De Gestis Scotorum,) 
From which the antiquity of the Mackintosh people clearly appears. 
For^ if Mackintosh, chief of the Clanchattans (for so he is designed 
by Buchanan, lib. I6, Rerum Scoticarum, and by Leslie, lib. 9, De 
Rebus Gestis Scotorum), if, I say, in the year 1396, Mackintosh was 
so puissant in war, it is not to be doubted that his ancestors 
had flourished for many years before he had attained to such 
power. 

3. Mackintosh and Maclean at the battle of Harlaw, in the 
year 1411, were (after Donald of the Isles) the principal leaders 
of ten thousand men (so says Boethius, lib. I6, Scotorum Historite, 
and Buchanan, lib. 10, Rerum Scoticarum, so numbers the army of 
Donald of the Isles). From this also the antiquity of Mackintosh 
is not less plain than the power : for the command of armies in 
those times was not conferred upon trained soldiers, but upon the 



148 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

archas a monticolis conferebatur et ipsa ejus potentia cum 
tunc non Neotericum fuisse indicat. 

4^ Originem et Genealogiam Makintoshiorum trium ve- 
terum amanuensium scripta copiose testantur, viz. Scripta 
[paletot.] Ferquhardi Domini Makintoshii qui Dunbairae incarceratus 
erat, Andreae Textoris Sacerdotis et G^orgii Monroi a Davo- 
charti (qui Connagiam quondam coluit). Ferquhardus familis 
Genealogiam a Duncano Tertio Fifs Comite ad Duncani Domini 
Makintoshii (qui obiit Anno 1496) decessum recenset. Andreas 
Textor a prsefato Duncano Fifee Comite ad Gulielmi Domini 
Makintoshii qui Strathbogiee necatus erat occidionem Makin- 
toshianae families Genealogiam describit, et Georgius Monrous 
trium Makintoshiorum tantum, viz. prsedicti Ferquhardi, 
Gulielmi Invemessse interempti et Lauchlani oig (i.e.) Junioris 
ad Ravock trucidati Anno 1524 et rerum a Clanchatana tribu 
illis temporibus gestarum historiam enarrat. 

HoRUM amanuensium Scripta, ut fabulosa aut commentitia, 
nequaquam rejiciendasimt. Magna enim pars rerum nota- 
bilium in iis contentarum, aut expressim in Scotichronicis 
memoratur, aut quodom modo in illis attingitur. Imo nullus 
amanuensium quasi a Chronicis in iis rebus quae ad familiam 

more powerful chiefs of clans^ and such power of itself indicates 
that it was not then new. 

4. The writings of three old amanuenses abundantly testify to 
the origin and genealogy of the Mackintoshes^ namely^ the writings 
of Ferquhard^ laird of Mackintosh^ who was incarcerated at 
Dunbar; of Andrew Weaver, priest; and of George Monro of 
Davocharti, who sometime dwelt at Connage. Ferquhard traces 
the genealogy of the family from Duncan, third earl of Fife, to the 
decease of Duncan, laird of Mackintosh, who died in the year 
1496. Andrew Weaver describes the genealogy of the Mackintosh 
family from the aforesaid Duncan, Earl of Fife, to William, laird 
of Mackintosh, who was killed in the slaughter at Strathbogie ; and 
George Monro narrates the history of three Mackintoshes only, 
namely, the aforesaid Ferquhard, William, slain at Inverness, and 
Lauchlan oig (that is) younger, murdered at Ravock in the year 
1524, and of the deeds performed by the Clanchattan tribe in those 
times. 

The writings of these amanuenses are nowise to be rejected 
as fabulous or feigned : for the most part of the notable events 
contained in them are either expressly mentioned or in some 
way treated of in the Scots chronicles. Indeed^ not one of the 



pp. 20I-202] THE MACKINTOSHES 149 

Makintoshianam pertinent dissentire videtur, preeterquam quod 
Clanchatanorum ductor in pugnfi ad Septentrionale Urbis 
Perthae latus Anno 1396 a Boethio lib. 16. Scot. Hist. Christe 
makeean et a Majore lib. 6. Cap. 6 de gestis Scotorum Christe 
Johnson designatur. Sed a Ferquhardo Makintoshio et Andrei 
Textore amanuensibus Shaus Makgilchrist vik ean vik Innish 
nominatiu-, et in hoc Amanuenses Chronicis sunt prseferendi ; 
Quippe Shaus M akgillchrist vik ean vik Innish (JEnem Domini 
Makintoshii pronepos vulgo Christe makean a suis designatus) 
a prsecipuis illius familise Historicis ab sevo in eevum Clan- 
chatanis in ilia pugnd prsefuisse dicebatur. Nam ab ipso 
tribu (Lauchlano Clanchattanae tribus Genearcha tunc grandsvo 
et imbecilli) ob ejus magnanimitatem et fortitudinem eorum 
Ductor in illo confiictu electus est. 2^® Boethius lib. 16 Scot. 
Hist. Dominum Makintoshium in Bello Harlaensi interemptum 
fuisse narrat. Sed Ferquhardus et Andreas amanuenses Mil- 
colum Makintoshium tunc Clanchattanorum Ducem ad Annum 
1457 vixisse aiunt, et in hoc etiam Boethius est mendosus; 
Nam Makintoshius nunc Clanchattanorum Genearcha habet 
chartas eidem Milcolumbo datas Annis 1443, 1447, 1456. et 

amanuenses is found to differ from the chronicles in what relates 
to the Mackintosh family^ except that the leader of the Clan- 
chattans^ in the fight at the north side of the town of Perth in 
the year 1396, is designed by Boethius, book 16, Scotorum Hisiorias 
Christy Makean ; and by Major, book 6, chapter 6,De Gestis Scotorum, 
Christy Johnson; but by Ferquhard Mackintosh and Andrew 
Weaver, amanuenses, he is named Shaw Macgilchrist vie Ian 
vie Innish; and in this the amanuenses are to be preferred to 
the chronicles: because Shaw Macgillchrist vie Ian vie Innish 
(great-grandson of Eneas, laird of Mackintosh, commonly called by 
his own people Christy Makean), by the principal histories of the 
family, from age to age, is said to have been chief of the Clan- 
chattans in that fight. For he was chosen by the clan itself, on 
account of his magnanimity and bravery, their leader in that com- 
bat (Lauchlan, captain of the Clanchattans, being then very aged 
and imbecile). 2"** Boethius, book l6, Scotorum Historian, narrates 
that the Laird of Mackintosh was killed in the battle of Harlaw. 
But Ferquhard and Andrew, the amanuenses, say that Malcolm 
Mackintosh, then chief of the Clanchattans, lived to the year 
1457; and in this also Boethius is erroneous: for Mackintosh, 
now captain of Clanchattans, has charters given to the same 
Malcolm, dated in the years 1443, 1447, 1456; and Major, 



160 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol i. 

Major Lib. 6. Cap. 10. de rebus gestis a Scotis scribit Mac- 
leanum Donaldi Insulani Campi-Ductorem in Bello Harlaensi 
occisum ; Sed de Makintoshio tunc nihil recensct. Praeterea 
in hac re Amanuenses quippe antiquiores, et iis tcmporibus 
quibus hsec evenerant proximiores Chronologi sunt praeponendi. 
[page 303,] Item notandum est quod licet Milcolumbus Bello Harlaensi 
superfuit, attamen Jacobus Makintoshius Rothemurchusise 
Dominus et Shai dentati (qui Perthse Clanchattanis prsefuit 
Anno 1396) filius in eo prselio ferro occubuit, et in hoc Boethii 
error exoritur et patescit. 

5^ Ipsum vocabulum Makintoshich familiae originem digito 
quasi demonstrat; Nam Makintoshich est Thani filius, et 
iste honoris titulus (ex omnium Scotorum Chronicorum con- 
sensu) a Milcolumbo Tertio Scotorum Rege in Comitis titulum 
permutatus est Anno 1157 aut 1161, Ex quo constat quod 
tunc aut brevi post Cognomentum Makintosh ortum habuit. 
Sed dices forsitan Shaum Makintoshium familiae primum (ex 
meo concessu) Comitis (et non Thani) Fifae fuisse filium. ad 
hoc R. Primi Makintoshii genitor erat, et Thanus et Comes ; 
Nam ii qui Comites a Milcolumbo Tertio creati sunt, Thani 
postea ex consuetudine (et Hibemica Lingua Toshich Perenne) 

book 6^ chapter 10, De Rebus Gestis a Scotis, writes that Maclean, 
general of Donald of the Isles, was slain in the battle of Harlaw : 
but of Mackintosh then he recites nothing. Moreover, in this 
matter the amanuenses are to be preferred, because more ancient 
and nearer in point of time to the period in which these things 
happened. It is also to be noted that although Malcolm survived 
the battle of Harlaw, yet James Mackintosh, laird of Rothemurchus, 
and son of Shaw (who commanded the Clan Chattan at Perth in 
the year 1396), fell by the sword in that battle ; and in this the 
error of Boethius takes its rise and becomes manifest. 

5. The word Mackintosh itself points out, as with the finger, the 
origin of the family. For Mackintosh is son of the Thane : and 
that title of honour (by consent of all the Scots Chronicles) was 
changed by Malcolm third, King of Scots, into the title of Earl, 
in the year 1157 or ll6l : from which it appears that then, or 
shortly afterwards, the surname of Mackintosh arose. But you 
will say, perhaps, that Shaw, the first of the family of the 
Mackintoshes, was (by my own admission) son of the Earl, and 
not of the Thane of Fife. To this I answer, the father of the 
first Mackintosh was both Thane and Earl : for those who were 
by Malcolm Third created Earls, were afterwards, by custom. 



pp. 202-203] THE MACKINTOSHES 161 

appellabantur, et sic eorum poster! per quosdam Annos, Ex- 
empli Gratia, Thani Lenni (seu Levinise) et Cathenesise 
fuerant Comites a Milcolumbo 3 creati, et ita a Buchanano 
et Majore continu6 ex inde designati sunt. (Buchananus lib. 7 
rerum Scot. Major lib. 4. cap. 6. de gestis Scotorum). Attamen 
Boethius lib. 13. Scot. Hist, easdem Personas quas Buchananus 
et Major Comites, ille vero Thanos nuncupat. Ita nunc 
Montis rosarum et Atholise Marchiones, Argathelise, Pertho*, 
Seafordise Comites, Lovattse, Raijae et Makdonaldorum 
Dynastse, quamvis Marchiones, Comites et Dynastse a Rege 
creati sunt, attamen Lingua Hibernica. Gram-mach-mor, 
Monach-mor, Mackallen-mor, Drumordach-mor, Makynich, 
Mackimmi, Mackigh, Mackalister, (secundum eorum ante- 
cessorum designationem) denominantur. 

Sic est, Shaus Makintoshiorum primus, tametsi Comitis 
filius, rite tamen a progenitoris honoris veteri titulo Makin- 
toshius cognominabatur. 

6*" Makintoshiorum Genearcha Thanorum Fifensium (sub 
cognomine MacDuff) insignia continuo gesserunt, quod eorum 
originem et Genealogiam propalam indicat. 

7"* Vetus fratemitas et amicitia inter Wemesios, Shaos, 

called Thanes (and in the Gaelic tongue always Toshach)^ and 
so their posterity also for some years. For example^ the Thanes 
of Lennox and Caithness were created Earls by Malcolm the Third ; 
and so they are designated continually thereafter by Buchanan 
and Major (Buchanan, book 1, Rerum Scoiicarum ; Major, book 4, 
chapter 6, De Gestis Scotorum), Boethius, however, book 1 3, Scotorum 
Historic, calls the same persons Thanes whom Buchanan and Major 
call Earls. So now, the Marquises of Montrose and Atholl ; the 
Earls of Argyll, Perth, Seaforth ; the Lords Lovat, Reay, and 
Macdonald, although created by the King, Marquises, Earls and 
Lords, are yet denominated in the Gaelic language Grammach- 
mor, Monach-mor, Mackallen-mor, Drumordach-mor, Makynich, 
Mackimmi, Mackigh, Mackalister (according to the designation 
of their ancestors). Even so, Shaw, the first of the Mackintoshes, 
although son of the Earl, was yet rightly sumamed Mackintosh 
from the old title of honour of his progenitor. 

6. The chiefs of the Mackintoshes have continually borne the 
ensigns of the Thanes of Fife (under the surname of MacDuff) which 
plainly indicates their origin and descent. 

7. The ancient brotherhood and friendship always observed 
between the Wemyses, Shaws, Duffs, and Mackintoshes^ as kinsmen 



152 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

DuiTos et Makintoshios jugiter observata, ut consanguineos 
ex eodem stemmate (Macdufib) oriundos, familise originem 
exprimit. 

S** Communis traditio universaliter ab aevo in sevum pro 
indubitata veritate recepta (Nam famse standum est) ut ait 
Livius relatu Curtio (ubi certam derogat vetustas fidem) et 
[/^^et04.] testimonio supra scripta Makintoshiorum originem et antiqui- 
tatem indubitabilem reddunt, unde est, quod, cum Makintosh- 
iorum familia Procerum et Optimatum progenies sit Hiber- 
nic^ Suill vigh kin toshich crebro designatur, ut a quibus- 
dam Clanchattanorum (aliisque illius generis) plebiis familiis 
distingueretur. 

Maxintoshiana origine et antiquitate ita ab incerto clarifi- 
cat&, plurima quidem, \Am in hujus familise Genealogia, quam 
in Chronologicis observationibus, quae ad meam notitiam non 
pervenerant, defectiva esse fateor. Sed, si Scriptorum, qui 
priscis temporibus in Septentrionali Scotise plaga hominum acta 
aut Genealogiam scriptis mandarunt, paucitas; Si immanis 
ruina, quae ex belli eventu et aliis accidentibus amanuensium 
scriptis fideliter imitandis intensio perpense consideretur, 
deliquia in tali tractatu esse minime est admirandum. 

sprung from the same stem (MacDuff) expresses the origin of the 
family. 

8. The common tradition universally received as undoubted 
truth from age to age (for it is the nature of tradition to endure), 
as Livy says in reference to Curtius (where antiquity lessens sure 
belief), and the testimony above written render the origin and 
antiquity of the Mackintoshes indubitable : whence it is that since 
the family of the Mackintoshes is the offspring of nobles and great 
men, it is often in Gaelic designated Suill vigh kin toshich, that 
it may be distinguished from certain plebeian families of Clan- 
chattans (and others of that kind). 

The Mackintosh origin and antiquity having thus been cleared 
from uncertainty, there are yet many things as well in the 
genealogy of this family, as in the chronological observations, 
which have not come to my knowlege, which I confess to be 
defective. But, if the fewness of writers who in early times in 
the northern regions of Scotland committed to writing the acts 
or the genealogy of men, if the wild ruin, occasioned by the 
event of war and other accidents, the intentness of the amanu- 
enses bent on faithfully imitating writings, be duly considered, it 
is not to be wondered at that in such a treatise there are defects. 



pp. 203.20s] THE MACKINTOSHES 163 

Denique notandum est quod, quotiescunque (ante Annum 
Domini 1600) menses Januarius, Februarius et primi 24 dies 
mensis Martii in hac Epitome occurrunt cum praecedenti anno 
annumerandi sunt. Nam ante prsedictum tempus Annus in 
Scotifi a ^ die M. Martii incipere solebat. Sed sub finem 
Anni 1599 in conventii publico Annum a Cal. Januariis Anno 
1600 et sequentibus inchoari statutum est. 



De [^£ei06.] 

FiFO DUFFO EJUSQUE SuCCESSORIBUS 

FiFiE Thanis et Comitibus (cog- 
NOMINE Macduff) unde familia 
Mackintoshia suam traxit Origi- 

NEM. 

PRiELUDIUM. 

Alpino Scotorum a Brudo Rctorum Rege in praelio (non 
procul a Taoduno) capto, et paulo post crudeliter obtruncato, 
ej usque capite con to affixo, et in conspectissimo loco 
Abrenethii (maximi apud Pictos oppidi) ad ludibrium pro- 

In conclusion^ it is to be noted that as often as (before the years 
of the Lord 16OO) the months January/ February^ and the first 24 
days of the month of March occur in this Epitome^ they are to be 
reckoned with the year preceding : for before the time aforesaid, 
the year in Scotland used to begin from the 25th day of the 
month of March : but in the end of the year 1599^ in a public 
convention^ the year was ordained to begin from the calends of 
January in the year 16OO and onwards. 

Concerning Fife Duff and his successors, 
Thanes and Earls of Fife (by the surname 
of Macduff) whence the family of Mackin- 
tosh derives its Origin. 

Prelude. 

Alpin, King of Scots^ having been taken in battle^ not far from 
Dundee^ by Brud, King of the Picts^ and shortly after cruelly 
beheaded^ and his head fixed on a pole set up in the most con- 
spicuous place of Abernethy (the chief town of the Picts) for 



164 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

posito, Kenethus Secundus Alpini filius patemse necis ultionem 
ita perniciter ad versus Pictos est prosecutus, ut, illorum viribus 
multis asperis prseliis fractis, tandem eos ex omni Britannia 
expulit, et Pictorum Regnum suo Imperio adjecit Anno 
839. Christi 839. 

PiCTis ita prostratis, agros (per eos antea occupatos) pro 
virtute cuj usque suis divisit, et, ut simul cum Pictis eorum 
memoria interiret, statuit illorum Possessiones, Regiones, 
Urbes et Castra no vis nominibus (veteribus obliteratis) de- 
signari, et in hac Divisione Otholiniam (regionem ad id usque 
tempus ita vocatam) Fifo DuiTo viro nobili et bellicoso, et ex 
priscis Scotis orto (inclaruerat enim hujus viri virtus in bello 
adversus Pictos gesto) elargitus est. 

Ind£ vero hsec Regio ad futuram rerum a Fifo DufFo strenue 
gestarum memoriam Fifa est denominata. 

Hie Fifus Duffus fuit primus Fifae Thanus, et omnium Fifae 
Thanorum Comitumque [cognominis Makduffi] progenitor. 
Inter Fifum Duffum primum, et Duncanum Fifae sextum et 
ultimum, Thanum, sed primum Comitem, quatuor intervenere 
Thani, quorum Nomina in Scotorum Chronicis non recor- 
dantur. 

mockery, Kenneth^ second son of Alpin, so swiflly prosecuted 
vengeance against the Picts for the slaughter of his father^ that 
their forces having been vanquished in many fierce battles^ he at 
length expelled them from all Britain, and added the Kingdom 
of the Picts to his empire in the year of Christ 839. 

The Picts, having been thus destroyed, he divided the lands 
(formerly occupied by them) among his own people for their bravery; 
and in order that, together with the Picts^ the memory of them 
should perish, he ordained their possessions, countries, cities, and 
castles to be designated by new names (the old being obliterated) ; 
and in this division he gave Otholinia (the district which until that 
time was so called) to Fife Duff, a man noble and warlike, and 
sprung from the ancient Scots (because the valour of this man had 
been very notable in the war carried on against the Picts). 

Henceforth, this country was denominated Fife, as a lasting 
memorial of the deeds strenuously done by Fife Duff. 

This Fife Duff was the first Thane of Fife, and progenitor of all 
the Thanes and Earls of Fife [of the surname of MacdufFJ. Be- 
tween Fife Duff the first and Duncan the sixth and last Thane, 
but first Earl, four Thanes intervened, whose names are not 
recorded in the chronicles of the Scots. 



pp. 205-206] THE MACKINTOSHES 165 

1. DuNCANUs Makduffus Sextus Fifae Thanus, omnium 
Scotorum Procerum (ut scribit Buchananus) longe potentissi- 
mus erat Scotorum primus qui Comitis titulo est honoratus, 
et, quia Regni e manibus Makbethi Tyranni restituendi primus 
fuerat Author, Rex Micolumbus Tertius [cognomine Kendmor] 
ut ejus nominis factique gloria ad posteros perveniret, ilium 
tribus [vel, alii scribunt, quatuor] privilegiis donavit. Primum, 
ut posteri ejus Fifenses Thani Regem coronandum in Cathedra 
collocarent. Secundum, ut in Regio exercitu primse aciei 
prseessent. Tertium, ut ob hominis generosi csedem im- 
prsemeditatam S4, ob plebeii 12 Marcas argenti solummodo 
solverent. Concessit etiam ut tribui Mackduifo perpetua esset 
Regalitas, hoc est, ut potestatem haberent quoslibet in suo [pa^^^^oe.] 
tribu crcandi Magistratus aut Judices juridicundo constituendi 
quacunque in Actione extra Crimen Majestatis Isesae et, ex 
quacunque Regni parte, si quis ex Makduffi tribu vel regione 

in jus vocatus esset, ad suos revocandi Judices. 

2. DuNCANO Makduffo succcssit filius Milcolumbus Secundus 
Comes, de quo nihil memorabile scriptum in Scoti-Chronicis. 

1. Duncan MacdufT^ sixth Thane of Fife, by far the most power- 
ful (as Buchanan writes) of all the nobles of the Scots, was the 
first who was honoured with the title of Earl ; and forasmuch as 
he was the prime author of delivering the kingdom from the 
hands of the tyrant Macbeth, the King, Malcolm Third [sur- 
named Canraore], in order that the glory of his name and work 
might descend to posterity, gave him three [or others write fourl 
privileges. First, that his descendants. Thanes of Fife, should 
set the King to be crowned in his chair : second, that in the royal 
army they should be preferred to the first rank : third, that for 
the unpremeditated slaughter of a gentleman they should pay 
only 24 merks of silver; for the slaughter of a commoner 12 
merks. He granted also that to the clan Macduff there should 
be a perpetual regality : that is, that they should have the power 
of creating any persons in their tribe magistrates, or of appointing 
judges for administering the law in any action whatever, except- 
ing the crime of lese majesty ; and of recalling from any part of 
the kingdom, any one of the clan Macduff, or of their coimtry, 
who might be called in judgment, to their own judges. 

2. To Duncan Macduff succeeded his son Malcolm, second 
Earl, of whom nothing memorable is written in the Scots 
chronicles. 



156 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

3. DuNCANUs Milcolumbi filius et Tertius Fifae Comes fuit 
vir admodum potens et prudens et Regi suo per quam fidelis, 
in quo David Rex (Milcolumbi Tertii filius) moribundus tantum 
sperabat, ut, Milcolumbum nepotem illi peculiariter commen- 
davit et Anno 1153 per eum curavit per universum Regnum 
circumducendum et pro indubitato Regni Successore accipi- 
endum. 

Hic Fifae Comes quatuor habuit filios, viz., Milcolumbum, 
Shaum, Johannem et Duncanum. A Milcolumbo Comitis 
natii maximo descendere omnes Fifae Comites usque ad Roberti 
Secundi Regis tempora. 

Shaus Comitis natu Secundus Praefectus (seu Constabularius) 
arcis Invernessae a praefato Milcolumbo Quarto Scotorum Rege 
est constitutus, et, ibi cum habitaverat, a vicinis Shaw Mack- 
intoshich (id est, Thani filius) vulgo vocabatur, et hoc modo 
cognomen Makintosh ab eo initium 8umpsit,et in ejus posteros 
transiit. 

Ab Johanne Comitis natu Tertio familia Wemisia originem 
duxit. Nam uamh est Spelunca vel Antrum, et hic Johannes 
vulgo a loco habitationis designabatur lojn moir na wamh, 
hoc est, Magnus Johannes ab Antro, et processu temporis 

3, Duncan^ son of Malcolm, and third Earl of Fife, was a man 
most potent and wise, and very faithful to his King, in whom 
King David, son of Malcolm Third, when dying, trusted so much 
that he specially committed to him his grandson, Malcolm ; and 
in the year 1153 he caused him to be led about by him through 
the whole kingdom, and to be received as his undoubted 
successor. 

This Earl of Fife had four sons, namely, Malcolm, Shaw, John, 
and Duncan. From Malcolm, the eldest bom, descended all the 
Earls of Fife, until the times of King Robert the Second. 

Shaw, second son of the EUirl, was appointed by the aforesaid 
Malcolm Fourth, King of Scots, governor (or constable) of the 
castle of Inverness ; and while he dwelt there he was commonly 
called by the neighbours Shaw Mackintoshich (that is, son of 
the Thane), and in this manner the surname Mackintosh took be- 
ginning from him, and passed on to his posterity. 

From John, third son of the Earl, the Wemyss family derives 
its origin. For ua?nh is a cave or den, and this John was commonly 
designated, from the place of his habitation, Jojn moir na wamh, 
that is, Big John of the cave^ and in process of time the word 



pp. 206-207] THE MACKINTOSHES 157 

vocabulum wamh corrupte pronunciabatur weem, et sic 
Johannes Comitis Fifse Tertius filius a Speluncis quas fre- 
quentabatur cognomen sibi etposteris cusquisivit. 

A Duncano Comitis Fifse natu minimus Barones a Fandui 
et Craighead et multi alii cognominis Makduffi pervenerunt. 

4. MiLCOLUMBUs Makduffus prsefati Duncani filius primogeni- 
tus et Quartus Fifse Comes bina Monasteria fundavit Anno 
Chr. unum virorum in Culrossia, alterum vero 
mulierum in Septentrionali Bervico. 

5. Milcolumbo successit Duncanus Quintus Fifse Thanus 
(unus e Sex Regentibus tempore Interregni post Alexandri 
Tertii Regis obitum) qui per Abemethios postea extinctus 
est. 

6. MiLcoLUMBUs Makduffus Sextus Fifae Comes apud 
Varium Sacellum pugnans pro Patria adversus Anglos inter- 
emptus est Anno Christi 1290. t^tf^'^^] 

7. Duncanus praedicti Milcolumbi filius et Septimus Fifse 
Comes cum Roberto Brussio adversus Anglos fideliterinservnt, 
et Davidi Brussio adversus Balliolum constanter adhsesit. 
Nam primo apud Duplinum a Balliolo Anno 1382 et deinde in 

wamh was erroneously pronounced weem ; and so John, third son 
of the Earl of Fife^ acquired, from the caves which he frequented, 
a surname to himself and his posterity. 

From Duncan, youngest son of the Earl of Fife, have come the 
Barons of Fandui and Craighead, and many others o£ the surname 
of Macduff. 

4. Malcolm Macduff, eldest son of the aforesaid Duncan, and 
fourth Earl of Fife, founded two monasteries in the year of Christ 

, one of menTTn Culross, the other, of women^ in North 
Berwick. 

5. To Malcolm succeeded Duncan, fifth Thane of Fife (one o£ 
the six Regents in the time of the Interregnum after the death 
of King Alexander the Third), who was afterwards killed by the 
Abemethies. 

6. Malcolm Macduff, sixth Earl of Fife, was slain while fighting 
for his country against the English at Falkirk, in the year of 
Christ 1290. 

7. Duncan, son of the aforesaid Malcolm, and seventh Earl of 
Fife, served faithfully with Robert Bruce against the English, and 
constantly adhered to David Bruce against Balliol. For first at 
Duplin he was taken by Balliol in the year 1332^ and then in the 



158 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

praelio Duelmensi cum Davide Brussio ab Anglis captus est 
Anno a Christo nato 1348. 

Huic, deficiente prole masculo, successit filia (Isabella Mak- 
duflp) Fifee Comitissa, quae post patris obi turn jus Comitates 
Fifae in favorem Roberti Stuarti Montethise Comitis resignavit 
Anno Christi 1371. 

Sic incepit, crevit, floruit et desiit per antiqua et prae 
nobilis familia MakduiT, qua? in summo honore, potentia et 
sestimatione steterat per spatium 53S Annorum. 



[/fl^eftW.] De 

Origine et Incremento Makintoshiorum. 

Epitome. 

De Shao Makintoshiorum Primo. 

Shaus Duncani Makduffi Tertii Fifae Comitis (sed Octavi 
Thani) Secundus Alius in uxorem duxit iGgidiam Montgo- 
meriam Hugonis Montgomerii Aulici filiam, ex qua tres re- 
liquit filios, viz. Shaum, Milcolumbum et Duncanum. 

battle of Durham he was taken by the English with David Bruce 
in the year from the birth of Christ 1348. 

To this man^ failing an heir-male, succeeded a daughter (Isabella 
Macduff), Countess of Fife, who, after the death of her father, 
resigned the right of the earldom of Fife in favour of Robert 
Stuart, Earl of Monteith, in the year of Christ 1371. 

So began, increased, flourished, and came to an end, the very 
ancient and most noble family Macduff, which had stood in 
the highest honour, power, and esteem for the space of 532 
years. 

An Epitome of the Origin and Increase of the 

Mackintoshes. 
Concerning Shaw the first of the Mackintoshes. 

Shaw, second son of Duncan Macduff, third Earl of Fife (but 
eighth Thane) took as his wife Egidia Montgomerie, daughter of 
Hugh Montgomerie, courtier, of whom he left three sons, namely, 
Shaw, Malcolm, and Duncan. 



pp. 207208] THE MACKINTOSHES 159 



ObSERVATIONES CHRONOLOGICiE. 

Hic Shaus in Septentrionalen Scotise plagam venit cum 
Milcolumbo 4 Scotorum Rege ad supprimendam insurrectionem 
(per Morravos excitatam) Anno Ch, 1163, et ob ejus virtutem 
et fortitudinem in Kebelles a Rege arcis Innemessae. Prae- 
fectus (seu Constabularius) eodem Anno est constitutus et 
agrorum Pettise Brachliae cum Saltu Strathernise (quae olim 
Moraviorum in ilia Rebellione interfectorum prsedia erant) 
possessionem accepit. 

Shaus in arce Invernessensi habitans per vicinos Makin- 
toshich vocabatur (id est, Thani filius): Nam pater ejus licet 
Comitis titulo honoratus vulgo Toshach, i.e. Thanus a plebe 
designabatur. 

Thanus erat honoris seu dignitatis titulus: Nam Primores 
Regni Scotorum Thani tunc dicebantur, et Lingua Hibemica 
Thanus interpretabatur Toshach, i.e. Regionum Primarius seu 
Princeps, et Makintoshich est Primarii filius, et haec est cog- 
nominis Makintoshich significatio et origo. 

Shaus fatis occubuit Anno ab incamato Christo 1179. 



Chronological Observations. 

This Shaw came to the north country of Scotland along with 
Malcolm rv. King of Scots, to suppress an insurrection, stiired up 
by the men of Moray, in the year of Christ 1163, and for his 
valour and fortitude against the rebels he was, in the same year, 
appointed governor (or constable) of the Castle of Inverness, and 
received possession of the lands of Petty Brachley, with the forest 
of Stratheme, which formerly were the estates of the men of 
Moray slain in that rebellion. 

Shaw, while dwelling in the Castle of Inverness, was called by 
his neighbours Mackintoshich (that is, son of the Thane). For his 
father, though honoured with the title of Earl, was vulgarly 
designated by the common people, Toshach, that is. Thane. 

Thane was a title of honour or dignity. For the nobles of the 
kingdom of the Scots were then called Thanes, and in the Gaelic 
tongue Thane was interpreted Toshach, that is, the chief or prince 
of the country, and Mackintoshich is son of the chief, and this is 
the signification and beginning of the surname Mackintosh. 

Shaw died in the year from the incarnation of Christ, 1 179. 



160 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

CoNTEMPOKAKEUs huic Shao fuerat Soraldus Makgilbridus 
(ali^ Summerledus) Argathelise Thanus, Ronaldi pater, et 
Donaldi avus, a quo familia vulgo Clandonald est ita de- 
nominata. Circa hoc tempus incepit cognomen Shaw a quodam 
nuncupato Milcolumbo Makshaw MakdufF, qui Fifensis Thani 
fuerat pronepos, et ea ratione hujusShai Makintosh patruelis, 
et ab hoc Milcolumbo Shai de Sauchi et Grinok exorti sunt. 



Uage»^.] De Shao Makintoshio ejus Nominis 

ET COGNOMINIS SeCUNDO. 

Shaus Makintosh praedicti Shai filius Mariam Sandilan- 
diam Sandilandorum Principis filiam duxit, quae iUi quatuor 
peperit filios, viz. Milcolumbum, Ferquhardum, Gulielmum 
et Edwardum. 

Obs, Chron. 

Shaus Secundus Makintoshiorum Dominus in Prsefecturam 
arcis Invemessensis patri suffectus erat primus illius familiae 

Contemporaneous with this Shaw was Sorald Makgilbrid 
(otherwise Summerled)^ Thane of Argyll, father of Ronald, and 
grandfather of Donald, from whom the family, vulgarly Clan 
Donald, is so denominated. About this time began the surname 
Shaw, from a certain man called Malcolm Macshaw Macduff, who 
was grandson of the Thane of Fife, and on that account cousin, 
on the father's side, of this Shaw Mackintosh ; and from this 
Malcolm the Shaws of Sauchie and Greenock are sprung. 

Of Shaw Mackintosh, second of his Name and 
Surname. 

Shaw Mackintosh, son of the aforesaid Shaw, married Mary 
Sandilands, daughter of the chief of the Sandilands, who bore 
to him four sons, namely, Malcolm, Ferquhard, William, and 
Edward. 

Chronological Observations. 

Shaw, second laird of the Mackintoshes, having succeeded his 
father in the governorship of the Castle of Inverness, was the first 



pp. 208.209] THE MACKINTOSHES 161 

qui se Makintoshium subscripsit, et arcis Inveraessae Pr8efectur£ 
80 Annos potitus est, et ob summam ejus erga Regem fideli- 
tatem, et in arce defendend& contra Donaldum Insulanum (qui 
Rossiam et Moraviam praedse et direptioni exposuit, arcemque 
Invernessse obsedit) strenuitatem Quaestor Regis proventuum 
circa Invemessam a Rege Gulielmo est designatus. 

Illius frater Milcolumbus Annavici cum Gulielmo Rege 
captus brevi post reditum decessit Anno 1176, et erat Makin- 
toshise familise primus qui in Templo Franciscanorum Inver- 
nessse humatus est. Duncanus frater alter pugnans pro Patria 
contra Insulanos prope Invemessam morte occubuit Anno 
Christi 1196. Huic contemporaneus erat Ronaldus M^orald 
vick gilbrid et ejus filius Donald us, a quo Clandonaldi 
originem traxerunt. 



De Ferquhardo Makintoshio 8***^ 
Famili^ Domino. 

Ferquhakdus ejus Nominis Primus, et Dominus Makintosb 
Tertius Saram (seu Soroch) MackduiT Milcolumbi Quarti Fifse 

of that family who subscribed himself Mackintosh ; and having 
enjoyed the governorship of the Castle of Inverness for thirty 
years^ he was, both on account of his eminent fidelity towards the 
King, and his valour in defending the castle against Donald of 
the Isles (who subjected Ross and Moray to robbery and plunder, 
and besieged the Castle of Inverness), by King William^ designated 
Quaestor of the King's revenues about Inverness. 

His brother, Malcolm, of Anna town, was taken with King 
William, and died shortly after his return, in the year 1176, and 
was the first of the Mackintosh family who was buried in the 
church of the Franciscans of Inverness. Duncan, the other brother, 
fell in death while fighting for his country against the Islanders, 
near Inverness, in the year of Christ 11 96. To him was con- 
temporary Ronald M^Sorald vie Gilbrid, and his son Donald, 
from whom the Clan Donald derived their origin. 

Of Ferquhard Mackintosh, third 
Laird of the Family. 

Ferquhard, the first of his name, and third Laird Mackintosh, 
took to wife, Sara (or Soroch) Macduff, daughter of Malcolm, fourth 



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Comitis filiam uxorem cepit, liberosque per earn habuit. Sed 
omnes filii ante ipsum decesserunt adeo ut nepos ex fratre 
Gulielmo erat ei succedaneus. 

Hic Gulielmus Ferquhardi frater vir formse amabilis, et ex 
omni parte perfectus duxit Beatricem Lermontham Fifensem, 
per quam genuit Shaum, Fergusium et Alexandrum. 

Edwarbus Ferquhardi frater in Fifa plerumque mansit, ibi 
que etiam obiit, et ab eo Toshii de Mony vaird processu tem- 
poris originem duxerunt. 

IfofiSio.] Obs. Chron. 

Ferquhardus a teneris Annis apud Milcolumbum Fifas 
Comitem educatus est, et Milcolumbo fratre natu maximo 
sine liberis defuncto, patri successit Anno 1^10, et erat unus 
e Ducibus qui Anno 1211 cum eodem Milcolumbo profecti 
sunt adversus Gx)thredum Makwilliam insignem Cathenensem 
Rebellem. 

Gulielmus ejus frater Regiam aulam secutus erat ex numero 
eorum qui Alexandrum Regem comitati sunt, cum antiquum 
foedus cum Philippo Septimo Francorum Rege renovavit Anno 
1216. 

Earl of Fife, and had children by her. But all his sons died before 
himself^ so that his nephew, by his brother William, was successor 
to him. 

This William, brother of Ferquhard, was a man of a lovable 
form, and being perfect in every part, he married Beatrice 
Lermonth, a Fife lady, by whom he had Shaw, Fergus, and 
Alexander. 

Edward, brother of Ferquhard, remained for the most part in 
Fife, and there also he died ; and from him, in process of time, the 
Toshachs of Monzievaird derived their origin. 

Chronological Observations. 

Ferquhard from his tender years was brought up with Malcolm, 
Earl of Fife ; and his eldest brother, Malcolm, having died without 
children, he succeeded to his father in the year 1210, and was one 
of the leaders who, in the year 121 1, went with the same Malcolm 
against Gothred Macwilliam, the noted Caithness rebel. 

William his brother haunted the court, and was of the number 
of those who accompanied King Alexander when he renewed the 
ancient league with Philip the Seventh, King of the French, in 
the year 1216. 



pp. 209-2 10] THE MACKINTOSHES 168 

CoNTEBCPORAKEUs his fuit Gillicattan Makgellespick chlerich 
(a quo Clanchattani sic vocantur) qui a Connoght Hibemitt 
Provincia in Lochabriam venit Anno Salutis nostrae 1216. 



De Shag Domino Makintosh 4K 

Shaus prsefati Gulielmi et Beatricis filius, Ferquhardo patruo 
successit, et uxorem habuit Helenam Calderam Calderise Thani 
filiam, ex qua quinque susceperat filios, viz. Ferquhardum, 
Duncanum, Alexandrum, Shaum oig (i.e. juniorem) et Mil- 
columbum. Fergusius Shai frater Hibemiam petut, et ab eo 
Makintoshii, qui in Hibemid degunt, descendere. 

De Alexandro Shai fratre ej usque posteris nihil in Anna- 
libus annotatur. 

Obs. Chron. 

Hic Shaus erat suae familise Primus qui in Septentrione 
uxorem duxit, et priusquam hsereditate patemfi potitus est, ab 
Andrea Moravise Episcopo (qui Templum Cathedrale Elginise 

Contemporary with these was Gillichattan Macgillespic chlerich 
(from whom the Clanchattans are so called) who came from 
Connaught, a province of Ireland, into Lochaber, in the year 
of our salvation 1215. 



Of Shaw, fourth Laird of Mackintosh. 

Shaw, son of the aforesaid William and Beatrice, succeeded to 
Ferquhard his father's brother, and had to wife Helen Calder, 
daughter of the Thane of Calder, of whom he had five sons, 
namely, Ferquhard, Duncan, Alexander, Shaw oig (that is, 
younger), and Malcolm. Fergus, the brother of Shaw, went 
to Ireland, and from him the Mackintoshes who live in Ireland 
descend. 

Of Alexander, the brother of Shaw, and his posterity, nothing 
is recorded in the annals. 

Chronological Observatons. 

This Shaw was the first of his family who married a wife in the 
north country ; and before he obtained possession of the paternal 
inheritance he acquired from Andrew, Bishop of Moray (who 



164 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

fundavit) agrorum Rothemurchensiam possessionem acquisivit 
Anno 1S36. Erat etiam familise Makintoshise Primus qui 
possessionem agrorum vulgo Mikl-geddes et Rait obtinuit, 
quam ejus posteri per multos Annos retinuerunt. Excessit 
e vivis Anno Salutis Christianse 1^65. 

CoNTEMPORANEi huic Shao erant David Lindesiorum Primus, 
cujus Proprium Nomen Scripto commemoratur, Laurentius 
[page MIL] Grantorum Primus, Gilleanus Mcuskleanorum et Leodus Mac- 
kleodiorum progenitores. 



De Ferquhardo Domino Makin- 
toshiorum y^. 

Febquhardus Makintosh Quintus familise Grenearcha erat 
patre prsecelsior, vultu amabilis, omnique genere virtutis in 
generoso requisito longe prsecellens. 

UxoaEM duxit Moram Makdonaldi filiam iGneae oig mae- 
donald de Insulis, quae illi unicum tantum peperit filium 
nomine iGneam. 

DuNCANUs Ferquhardi frater erat prsedicti iEneae nepotis 

founded the cathedral church of Elgin)^ possession of the lands 
of Rothemurchus^ in the year 1236. He was also the first of the 
Mackintosh family who got possession of the lands commonly 
called Meikle-Geddes and Rait^ which his descendants retained 
for many years. He departed this life in the year of Christian 
salvation 1265. 

Contemporary with this Shaw were David, the first of the 
Lindsays whose proper name is commemorated in writing, 
Laurence^ the first of the Grants, Gillean, and Leod, progenitors 
of the Macleans and the Macleods. 

Of Ferquhard, fifth Laird of the 
Mackintoshes, 

Ferquhard Mackintosh, fifth chief of the family, more illus- 
trious than his father was, amiable of countenance, and excelled in 
every quality requisite in a gentleman. 

He married Mora Macdonald, daughter of Eneas oig Mac- 
donald of the Isles, who bore to him an only son, by name 
Eneas. 

Duncan, brother of Ferquhard, was tutor of the aforesaid Eneas, 



pp. 210-211] THE MACKINTOSHES 166 

Tutor, et ejus Posteiitas Rothemurchusice sistit usque ad 
tempus certaminis inter Clanchatanum et Clankevill Anno 
1896. 

Obs. Chron. 

Hic Ferquhardus strenuus et bellicosus Juvenis Rothemur- 
chusise degens, patre adhuc vivente, electus est Populi Badio- 
nachensis Dux in expeditione ab Alexandro Tertio Rege contra 
Achonem Norwegiae Regem facta Anno 1^3, et erat e prae- 
cipuis Ducibus qui insequente vere cum Atholice Comite ad 
Hebrides Insulas sub Scotorum Regis Imperium reducendas 
missi sunt, ex quo itinere innotescit JEnese Insularum Domino, 
cujus filiam paucos post Annos (ut supra memoratum) in 
Matrimonium accepit. Sed ea non diu est potitus; Nam 
Tertio a nuptiis mense cum generoso quodam Insulano latrun- 
culis ludens, ille et colludens se invicem pugionibus confodiunt. 
Hoc evenit Anno Christi 1271. 

Anno 1^8 Gilbrai Clanvikgilbrai progenitor sub alis et 
tuteld Ferquhardi se cum posteris recepit, et juramento 
obstrinxit. 



his nephew, and his posterity continued at Rothemurchus until 
the time of the fight between the Clanchattan and Clankevill 
in the year 1396. 

Chronological Observations. 

This Ferquhard^ being a valiant and warlike young man^ living 
at Rothemurchus^ while his father was yet alive was chosen leader 
of the Badenoch people in the expedition made by King Alex- 
ander the Tlurd against Haco^ King of Norway, in the year 1263, 
and was one of the principal leaders who were thereafter sent 
with the Earl of Athol to reduce the Hebrides under the power 
of the King of Scots, on which journey he became known to 
Eneas, Lord of the Isles, whose daughter, a few years later, he 
took in marriage, as above mentioned. But he did not long enjoy 
the union, for in the third month after the marriage, when playing 
chess with a certain gentleman of the Islands, he also playing, 
they stabbed one another with their dirks. This happened in the 
year of Christ 1271. 

In the year 1263, Gilbrai, progenitor of the Clan Macgillivray, 
betook himself with his posterity under the wings and tutelage 
of Ferquhard, and became bound by oath. 



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Ce j^neA Domino Makin- 

TOSHIORtJM vi*°. 

^NEAs Ferquhardi filius, cum vix decimum sextum letatis 
annum attigerit, Evse filiae et unicte proli Gilpatrici Mak- 
dughall vikgillichattan (suae familiie Frimarii) Matrimonio 
deviactus est, ex qu4 septem m^ulos et duas filias genuerat, 
If^ttlt.] viz. Gulielmum, Johannem, ^neam oig, Milcolumbum, Fer- 
qubardum, Duncanum et Shaum beg, i.e. parvum, Muriellam 
et Slainam. Muriella nupta erat DomiDo de Cullodin, et 
SlaJna erat Mater Davidis du de nud, a quo Clandai lloren- 
tJBsiina a quoudam inter Catanos familia provenere. 

JEsEAB habuit unam notham nomine Isabellam, quam duxit 
Duncanus Makgilivrai cognominatus alin, i.e. elegans, siue 
fiunilise pritnarius. 

Obs. Chron. 

jSneas possessionem terrarum Glenlui et Lochairbag in 
Lochabria uak cilm hsereditariS Prafectura et Imperio Clan- 
chattanorum pro dote cum Eva accepit 

Of Eneas, the sixth Laibd of the 
Mackintoshes. 

Eneas, son of Ferqubard, when be had scarcely reached the 
sbcteenth year of his age, was engaged in marriage to Eva, 
daughter and only child of Gilpatric Macdugal vie Gillichattan 
(chief of his family), of whom he begat seven sons and two 
daughters, namely, William, John, Eneas oig, Malcolm, Fer- 
qubard, Duncan, and Shaw beg, that is, little, Muriell, and Slane. 
Muriel] was married to the laird of Culloden, and Slane was 
mother of David du. of Nude, from whom are descended the Clan 
Dai, formerly the most flourishing family among the Cbattans. 

Eneas had a bastard, named Isabella, whom Duncan Macgillivray 
Bumamed aUn, that is handsome, chief of his family, married. 

Chronological Observatioks. 
Eneas received with Eva as dowty possession of the lands of 
Glenlui and Locharkaig, in Lochaber, together with the hereditary 
chiefship and command of the Clanchattans. 




211-212] THE MACKINTOSHES 167 

Erat vir admodum et audax et fortis, frigoris, laboris, et 
inedias patientissimus, erat etiam crispicapillus, et ob fideli- 
tatem erga Regem Robertum Brussium ab eo multum amatus. 

Sub hoc tempus Gens Cummiiiea (potens tunc familia) agros 
Mikl-geddes et Rait (olim Shai Makintoshii Mneee avi prs&dia) 
sibi assumpsit. 

Angucana etiam factio (quam Cumminea familia tunc 
sequebatur) totam fere Morraviam subjugans, arcem Inver- 
nessam in suam ditionem redigit, et Cummineis Mackintoshii 
inimicis custodiendam tradidit 

H.EC erat fons inimicitise per multos Annos inter Gentem 
Cummineam et Makintoshiam. Florente Cummine& factione, 
ifineas (suam percipiens impotentiam ad Cummineam vim 
resistendam) Lochabriae commoratus est usque ad Annum 
1308, et tunc arx Invernessensis a Rege Roberto Brussio 
intercepta et subversa est. 

Sub id tempus Mneas e Lochabri& reversus in Rothemur- 
chusifi plerumque habitabat, et, quoties rei bene gerende 
ofFerebat occasio, Cummineos aliosque Regis adversarios cum 
amicorum cohorte, quce ei adhsesit, semper infestus premebat. 

Is erat unus ex Randolphi praecipuis Ducibus in Bello 

He was a man singularly bold and strong, most patient of cold^ 
labour, and hunger : he was also curly haired ; and on account of 
his fidelity towards King Robert the Bruce, greatly loved by him. 

About this time, the Cummin people, then a powerful family, 
assumed the lands of Meikle-Geddes and Rait, formerly the estate 
of Shaw Mackintosh, grandfather of Eneas. 

The English faction also (which the Cummin family then 
followed), subduing almost the whole of Moray, reduced the 
Castle of Inverness to their own power, and delivered the custody 
of it to the Cummins, the enemies of Mackintosh. 

This was the source of enmity durin^^ many years between the 
Cummin people and Mackintosh. While the Cummin faction was 
flourishing, Eneas (perceiving his inability to resist the power of 
the Cummins) abode in Lochaber until the year 1S08, and then 
the Castle of Inverness was surprised and thrown down by King 
Robert Bruce. 

About that time, Eneas, having returned from Lochaber, dwelt 
for the most part in Rothemurchus ; and as often as occasion 
offered of doing good service, with a band of friends who adhered 
to him, he made himself always troublesome against the Cummins 
and other adversaries of the King. 

He was one of the principal leaders under Randolph in the 



168 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [voL. I 

fiannockbumensi Anno 1814, nee non in expeditione ad versus 
Anglos facta Mense Octobri 1819. Sed statim post banc 
expeditionem labore ac Bello lassatus domum rednt. 

Anno 1836 Gulielmum Filium ad Andream Morravum 
cum suppetiis misit adversus Johannem * Cumineum Atholis 
Comitem. 
l^^c tis.] M AGNOPERE cum Badionocheusibus habitare cupiebat, ideoque 
possessionem agrorum Bendchar acquisivit, et brevi post 
omnium prsediorum inter Rivum Calendar et Goynaelu 
Grandsevus et liac vita migravit Anno Salutis humanse 1846. 

Hujus MnesB tempore semen disidii inter Makintoshios et 
Cameronos satum est, quod inde per 360 Annos summo odio et 
invidia accrevit, et tenaciter duravit 

Sub idem etiam tempus vixit Beanus Makmilmor, a quo 
familia vocata Clanbean sic denominatur. 

Hic Beanus erat fidelis JEnesd assecla adversus Cummineum 
Rufum JEnesd inimicum inveteratissimum. 

Illi contemporanei erant Nicolaus Campbellorum Primus 
cujus nomen scripto traditum invenimus. Item Robertus, 

battle of Bannockbum, in the year 1314^ and also in the expedi- 
tion midertaken against the English in the month of October 1319; 
but immediately after this expedition he returned home> worn out 
with toil and war. 

In the year 1336, he sent his son William with supplies to 
Andrew Murray against John * Cummin, Earl of Athol. 

He desired very earnestly to dwell with the people of Badenoch^ 
and therefore he acquired the lands of Benchar, and soon after 
of all the estates between the river Calander and Guynack. At 
a great age he departed this life in the year of human salvation 
1346. 

In the time of this Eneas the seed of discord between the 
Mackintoshes and Camerons was sown, which thenceforth for 
360 years increased and tenaciously endured with the utmost 
hatred and envy. 

About the same time also lived Bean Macmilmor, from whom 
the family called Clan Bean is so named. 

This Bean was a faithful retainer of Eneas against the Red 
Cummin, the most inveterate enemy of Eneas. 

To him were contemporary Nicolas, first of the Campbells whose 
name we find handed down in writing; also Robert, Kenneth, 



* David de Strabolgy : potius dicendum. 



:pp. 212-21 3] THE MACKINTOSHES 169 

Kenethus, Grodfridus et Michael, Innesiorum, Makeniorum, 
Hosorum a Eilravock, et Brodiorum progenitores. Circa hoc 
etiam tempus cognomen Forbes initium sumpsit. 



De Gulielmo Domino Makintosh 7"^ 

GuLiELMUs Mnesd patri successit, et Florentiam Calderam 
Calderise Thani (iliam sibi Matrimonio junxit, ex qua Lauch- 
lanum genuit, et Moram, quam Roderico Makallan vie Ronald 
Mudiarti Domino in Matrimonium tradidit, quae illi unam 
tantum peperit filiam, quam Evenus Makgilloni Camroniorum 
Dux in uxorem accepit, ex qua Donaldum du Makeivin patrem 
'Allani (apud Corricheartl) a Clanchatanis interempti genuerat. 
Hie Donald us erat avus Eweni Makallan qui Elginise decoUatus 
est Anno 1647. 

Post Florentiae decessum Gulielmus turn grandaevus in 
uxorem duxit Margaretam filiam Roderici mor (i.e. magni) 
IVfakleod a Lewis, ex qua unum habuit (ilium nomine Mil- 
columbum et quatuor (ilias, quanim natu maximam Janetam 
Domino Lochluy cognomine Haio, Secundam nomine Moram 

Godfrey, and Michael, progenitors of the Inneses, Mackenzies, 
Roses of Kilravock, and the Brodies. About this time also the 
surname of Forbes took rise. 

Of William, seventh Laird of Mackintosh. 

William succeeded Eneas his father, and joined to himself 
in marriage Florence Calder, daughter of the Thane of Calder, 
of whom he begat Lauchlan and Mora, whom he gave in 
marriage to Roderic Macallan vie Ronald, laird of Moydart, who 
bore to him one daughter only, whom Even Macgilloni, chief 
of the Camerons, took to wife, of whom he begat Donald du 
Makewin, father of Allan, murdered by the Clanchattans (near 
Corricheartl.) This Donald was grandfather of £wen Macallan 
who was beheaded at Elgin in the year 1 547. 

After the death of Florence, he being then very old, married 
Margaret, daughter of Roderic mor (that is big) Macleod of 
Lewis, of whom he had one son, named Malcolm, and four 
daughters^ the eldest of whom, Janet, he gave in marriage to 
the laird of Lochlui, surnamed Hay; the second, by name 



170 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

(qu8e erat cocles) Hugoni Ros a Eilravock, Tertiam Domino 
Ogilvy, et Quartam Domino a Cullodin in Matrimonium 
tradidit 

GuLiELMUs ante primum connubium habuit Concubinam 
Lochabriensem*nomine Renildam filiam Donaldi du mak eivin 
vie Sorald vie gilloni, quae illi duos peperit filios spurios, viz. 
iGneam et Donaldum, et post Florentise obitum duos alios 
spurios ex alia Coneubind genuit, viz. Adamum et Soraldum et 
[pagetu.] Notham nomine Annam, quce Gothedro Makdonyehi vie Calid 
Matrimonio eonjugata est. 

Johannes Gulielmi frater genuit Gilchristum Shai dentati 
patrem, qui eleetus erat Duetor triginta Clanehattanorum, 
qui Perthce contra totidem Clankevillorum pugnavere coram 
Roberto Tertio Seotorum Rege Anno 1896, et ab hoe Shao» 
Shai de Rothemurchus progeniti ae denominati sunt. 

Shaus in uxorem duxit filiam Roberti Makalaster vie Innish, 
ex qua genitus est laeobus Mackintosh (ali^ Sha) de Rothe- 
murchus, qui in Bello Harlacnsi occubuit Anno 1411. lacobus 
in uxorem sibi adjunxit filiam Gregorii Grant, ex qua duos 
reliquit filios, viz. Alexandrum keir, i.e. fuscum, et ai seu 
Adamum, a quo Shai de Tordarrach enati sunt, et Unam 

Mora, (who was blind of one eye,) he married to Hugh Rose 
of Kilravock, the third to Lord Ogilvy^ and the fourth to the 
laird of Culloden. 

William/before his first marriage, had a Lochaber concubine^ 
by name Renilda^ daughter of Donald du Makewin vie Sorald 
vie Gilloni, who had to him two bastard sons, namely, Eneas 
and Donald ; and after the death of Florence he had two other 
bastards by another concubine, namely, Adam and Sorald^ and 
a natural daughter named Anna, who was joined in marriage to 
Gothedrus Makdonyehi vie Calid. 

John, brother of William, begat Gilchrist, father of the toothed 
Shaw, who was elected leader of the thirty Clanchattans who, 
at Perth, before Robert Third, King of Scots, fought against as 
many of the Clankevill, in the year 1396, and from this Shaw, 
the Shaws of Rothemurchus are descended and denominated. 

Shaw married a daughter of Robert Macalister vie Innish, of 
whom was born James Mackintosh (alias Shaw) of Rothemurchus, 
who fell in the battle of Harlaw in the year 1411. James took 
to him as his wife a daughter of Gregory Grant, by whom he 
left two sons, namely, Alexander keir, that is, brown, and Ai. 
or Adam, from whom the Shaws of Tordarroch are sprung, and 



pix 213-214] THE MACKINTOSHES 17i 

filiam nomine Mathildem, quae Ronaldo Makalaster vie tnnish 
peperit Johannem Du, Donaldum, et Alexandrum. 

H.£c Mathildis post obitum mariti nupta est Johanni Forbes 
(alias Makgillichallum), ex qua genuit Robertum, Milcolumbum 
Alexandrum, et Alexander keir quinque habuit filios, Johan- 
nem, Alexandrum oig, i.e. Juniorem, Jacobum, Ferquhardum 
et Inverum (seu Evandrum). 

Johannes genuit Allanum, et Allanus Jacobum postremum 
cognomenti Sha de Rothemurchus Dominum. 

Ab Alexandro Shai de dell, a Jacobo Shai de Delnavert, a 
Ferquhardo Ferquharsoni a Mar, et ab E vandro Shai ab Hereies 
directe provenere. 

iSNEAs oig prsedicti Gulielmi frater in Atholia habitavit, et 
ab eo descendereint Makintoshii de Glentelt, qui per multos 
Annos summa sestimatione in Atholia floruerunt. 

MiLcoLUMBirs Gulielmi f i-ater duos habuit filios, Ferquhardum 
et iSneam. De Ferquhardo nulla fit mentio. iEneas unum 
habuit filium nomine Gulielmum, qui ob homicidium ab illo 
inopinanter Damuce perpetratum Annum 143S in Marriam 
fugit, et ab eo Toshii Abredonenses originem duxerunt. 

Hic Milcolumbus cum fratre Ferquhardo in Bello Dimel- 

one daughter named Matilda, who bore to Ronald Macalister 
vie Innish John du, Donald, and Alexander. 

This Matilda, after the death of her husband, was married 
to John Forbes (alias Macgillicallum), of whom he begat Robert, 
Malcolm, Alexander. Alexander keir had five sons, John, Alex- 
ander oig, that is, younger, James, Ferquhard, and Iver (or 
Evander). 

John begat Allan, and Allan, James, the last laird of Rothe 
murchus by the surname Shaw. 

From Alexander have directly proceeded the Shaws of Dell ; 
from James, the Shaws of Dalnivert; from Ferquhard, the 
Farquharsons of Mar ; and from Evander the Shaws of Harris. 

Eneas oig, brother of the aforesaid William, dwelt in Athol, and 
from him have descended the Mackintoshes of Glentilt, who have 
for many years flourished in Athol with the greatest esteem. 

Malcolm, brother of William, had two sons, Ferquhard and Eneas. 
Of Ferquhard no mention is made. Eneas had one son named 
William, who on account of homicide perpetrated by him without 
premeditation at Damaway in the year 14S3, fled into Mar, and 
from him the Aberdeen Toshes derive their origin. 

This Malcolm, with his brother Ferquhard, fell in the battle 



172 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

mensi occubuenint Anno 1S48.* De posteritate Duncani et 
Shai beg nihil scriptum invenimus. 

Obs. Chron. 

Hic Gulielmus erat supra communem popularum staturam 
procerus, robustus, sed minime carnosus, eratque suae familise 
primus qui se Clanchattanorum Ducem subscripsit. Continuo 
[pa^etu.] post patris obitum contra Cameronos pugnabat. Unam vero 
memorabilem pugnam habuit adversus eos et eorum Ductorem 
Donaldum du makeven vie ean in Monte Drumgli, ubi multi 
Cameronii extincti sunt. Ibi etiam perut Evander M*^Conchy 
vie Gilliwray Gulielmi nepos ex sorore Isabella. 

Post banc pugnam Gulielmus Cameronos ita aiHixt et pro- 
stravit ut demum eorum residuum in exitium misit. 

Is Possessionem Barronise de Moy a Davide Moravensi 
Episcopo accepit. 

Jus etiam Barroniae Glenluy et Lochairkagg, patre MneSi 
adhuc, vivente, a Domino Insularum acquisivit Anno 1336. 

Nec non Barroniam de Rothemurchus de novo accepit a 
Johanne pilmor Moraviae Episcopo 19 Martii 1347. 

of Durham in the year 1348.* Of the posterity of Duncan and 
Shaw beg, we have found nothing written. 

Chronological Observations. 

This William was tall, above the common stature of the people, 
robust, but not at all fleshy, and was the first of his family who 
subscribed himself captain of the Clanchattans. Afler the death 
of his father he fought continually against the Camerons. One 
memorable battle he had against them and their leader, Donald 
du Makeven vie Ian, in the hill of Drumgli, where many Camerons 
were slain. There also perished Evander M^'Conchy vie Gillivray, 
nephew of William by his sister Isabella. 

After this fight, William so vexed and bore down the Camerons 
that at length he drove the residue of them into exile. 

He also, while his father Eneas was still living, acquired right 
to the Barony of Glenlui and Locharkaig, from the Lord of the 
Isles, in the year 13S6. 

Also^ he received of new the Barony of Rothemurchus, from 
John Pilmore, bishop of Moray, on 19th March 1347. 



* Side-note, 1340. 



pp, 214-215] THE MACKINTOSHES 178 

Anno 1848 sagitta vulneratus est in Bello Dunelmensi. 

Ultimo Februarii 1869 confirmationem Juris quod prius 
habuit terrarum Glenlui et Lochairkagg a Davide Brussio 
R^e accepit Sconice Anno R^ni David us 29; reliquum vero 
▼its curriculum 8umm& pace domi transegit. 

Antiquo insigni (quod erat rubicundus Leo fremebundus et 
ruber manus dextra per cor proprium pollicem habens in 
campo aureo) adjunxit longam navem nigram in eodem 
campo; Nam EvaGulielmi mater nullum insigne sibi proprium 
habuit, ideoque Gulielmus navem pro Catana tribu suo insigni 
adjecit. 

De hoc Gulielmo fama est (quamvis Pettiae quotannis habi- 
taverat) eum tamen septem natales Christi dies successive ad 
quoddam promissum implendum Lochabrise observasse super 
apicem montis Torchronam. 

Urlustrl£ Pettiensis naturse concessit. Sed ante obitum 
jussit corpus suum post mortem transportari, et in Insula 
Lochairkagg inhumari, quod ex madato factum est Anno 
Salutis 1868, ibique ejus sepulchrum ad hunc usque diem con- 
spiciendum est. 

In the year 1S48 he was wounded by an arrow at the battle of 
Durham. 

On the last of February 1359, he received from King David 
Bruce confirmation of the right which he had before of the lands 
of Glenlui and Locharkaig^ at Scone, in the twenty-ninth year 
of the reign of David. 

The remaining course of his life was passed at home in the 
greatest peace. 

To his old ensign (which was a red lion rampant, and a dexter 
hand gules holding by the thumb a heart proper in a field or) he 
added a long galley sable in the same field. For Eva, the mother 
of William, had no proper ensign of her own, and therefore he 
added the galley to his ensign for the Chattan tribe. 

Concerning this William there is a tradition that (although he 
had dwelt almost constantly at Petty) yet he, in fulfilment of a 
certain promise, observed seven Christmas days in succession in 
Lochaber, on the top of mount Torchrona. 

He died at Urluster of Petty ; but before dying, he ordered his 
body after death to be carried over and buried in the island of 
Locharkaig, which was accordingly done, in the year of salvation 
1368 ; and there his sepulchre is to be seen to this day. 



174 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

Hujus Gulielmi tempore vixit Nicolaus Makolan, a quo 
familia quondam vocata Clan Nicol vie olan, qui se Clanchattan 
profitebantur, exorta est. 

MiLMOR MAK BEAK filius prsedicti Beani mak Milmor et 
quatuor ejus filii, Paulus, Gillies, Milmor et Ferquhardus post- 
quam Cumminei Rufi (Economum ej usque duos alios famulos 
Patonum et Eessonum interfecissent, recta ad hunc Gulielmum 
(tum Connagise degentem) iter tendunt, et ei obsequium fide- 
l^etlG.] liter promittentes, ab illo tanquam Duce et Protectore 
patrocinium et tutelam pro se ipsis et posteris petimt et asse- 
quuntur. 

CoNTEMPORANEi huic Gulielmo fuerunt Alexander Eraser 
ejus cognominis primus Dominus de Lovat. 

Hugo Ross illius cognominis primus de Balnagown, 
Gebrgius Monro a Logy primus Monroiorum qui jus haeredi- 
tarium de Fowles accepit. 

Et Nicolaus Sutherlandus de Thorobo filius Eenethi 6 
Sutherlandise Comitis, qui fuerat primus de DufFus Dominus. 

De Lauchlano Domino McIntosh viii. 

Lauchlanus Gulielmi filius in uxorem duxit Agnetam 

In the time of this William lived Nicol Macolan, from whom 
sprung the family^ sometime called Clan Nicol vie Olan^ who pro- 
fess themselves to be of the Clan Chattan. 

Milmor Macbean, son of the aforesaid Bean Mac Milmor, and 
his four sons, Paul, Gillies, Milmor, and Ferquhard, after they had 
slain the steward of the Red Cummin and his two other servants, 
Paton and Kesson, took their way straight towards this William 
(then living at Connage) and, faithfully promising subjection to 
him, they asked and obtained from him, as their leader and 
protector, patronage and safeguard for themselves and their 
posterity. 

Contemporary with this William were Alexander Eraser, first of 
that surname. Lord of Lovat ; Hugh Ross, first of his surname of 
Balnagown; George Monro of Logic, first of the Monros who 
received the hereditary right of Fowlis ; and Nicolas Sutherland 
of Thorobo, son of Kenneth, sixth Earl of Sutherland, who was the 
first lord of Duffus. 

Of Lauchij^^ the eighth Laird of Mackintosh. 
Lauchlan, son of William, married Agnes Eraser, daughter of 



pp. 215.216] THE MACKINTOSHES 176 

'Fraseriam filiam Domini de Lovat, quae pepeiit Ferquhardum 
et Margaretam; Spurium habuit nomine Johannem. Hie 
Lauchlanus erat robustus et ex ophthalmus. 

MsEAS frater ejus spurius Makgillesii filiam duxit, ex qu& 
duos filios et totidem filias progenuit, viz. ifineam, Johannem, 
Mariam et Renildam. 

Mkeas Junior Moram Makintosh filiam Domini Glentelt in 
uxorem duxit, quae illi filium nomine Donaldum peperit, et 
duas filias, quarum senior. Domino Donaldo mak ean viell, et 
junior, Johanni Ross a Ballivat, nupta est. 

Hic Mneas in conflictQ apud Criny challiach interemptus 
Anno 1441. 

Johannes JEnese filius Secimdo genitus erat pater Donaldi 
et avus Andreas, a quo Makintoshii in Strathnaver descendere. 

Mabia Mnese filia Matrimonio juncta est Roderico Mak- 
tearlich, ex qua Hectorem et Margaretam mak rori progenuit. 
Hsec Margareta Gillieso Makphail nupta est, et ex ea 
Johannem Reoch, Allanum Dominum, Paulum, Moristum, 
Helenam, Margaretam et Eatherinam procreavit. Renilda 
MnesB filia pninor natQ nupta erat Mnese ovir Makronold, per 



the Lord of Lovat^ who begat Ferquhard and Margaret. He had 
a bastard son named John. This Lauchlan was robust and 
goggle-eyed. 

Eneas^ his bastard brother, married the daughter of MacGill^ 
by whom he had two sons, and as many daughters, namely, 
Eneas, John, Mary, and Renilda. 

Eneas, younger, married Mora Mackintosh, daughter of the 
laird of Glentilt, who bare to him a son named Donald, and 
two daughters, the elder of whom was married to Donald mac 
Ian viell, and the younger to John Ross of Ballivat. 

This Eneas was killed in the fight at Criny Challiach, in the 
year 1441. 

John, the second son of Eneas, was father of Donald, and 
grandfather of Andrew, from whom the Mackintoshes in Strath- 
naver are descended. 

Mary, the daughter of Eneas, was united in marriage to Roderic 
Mactearlich, of whom he had Hector and Margaret mac Ron. This 
Margaret was married to Grillies MacphaH, and of her he begat 
John, Reoch, Allan the Laird, Paul, Morist, Helen, Margaret, and 
Katherine. Renilda, younger daughter of Eneas, was married to 
Eneas ovir MacRonald, by whom he had children, namely, Eneas 



176 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

quam is liberos habuit, viz. Mneaxa mor iOneam beg. Adamus 
Makwilliam alter spurius frater Lauchlani primo in Atholia 
commoratus est, et postea ad Garva mor in Badeanochia trans- 
migravit, et ab illo Makintoshii a Glenshi, Strathardell, 
Glenyla oriundi sunt. 
[pagetl/.] SoRALDUs Makwilliam Adami frater erat pater Milcolumbi 
et avus Gulielmi qui Urlustise habitarunt. 



Obs. Chron. 

Anno 1370 Cameroni exules tunc reversi, et ad unum omnes 
convocati, amicis et assedis sibi adjunctis, clam per montes 
Badenochise transgredientes, inferiorem Comitatus partem 
simul ingredientes, regionis armenta abigerunt, quos extempio 
prsefatus Lauchlanus (tum in villa Bendcharia degens) cum iis, 
quos in tam subita et celeri expeditione potuerat colligere, 
prosequitur, et cursii apprehendit prope vicum Invernahawn, 
ubi acriter pugnatum est. Victoria primo Cameronis (qui 
majoris numeri fuerant) inclinavit. Nam una pene Catta- 
norum stirps nomine Clandai erat penitus deleta. Residui a 
pugna se recepere. 

mor^ Eneas beg. Adam Mac William^ the other bastard brother 
of Lauchlan, dwelt first in Athol^ and afterwards passed over to 
Garva mor in Badenoch ; and from him the Mackintoshes of Glen- 
shee, Strathardell, Glenisla, have sprung. 

Sorald MacWilliam, brother of Adam^ was father of Malcolm, 
and grandfather of William, who dwelt at Urluster. 

Chronoix>gical Observations. 

In the year 1370, the Cameron exiles having returned, assembled 
all at one place, and their friends and retainers having joined 
them, they secretly passed over through the hills of Badenoch, 
entered all at once the lower part of the earldom, and drove 
away the cattle of the country; whom the aforesaid Lauchlan 
(then living in the village of Benchar) immediately pursued, 
with those whom, in so sudden and hasty an expedition he was 
able to collect, and reached them in flight near the village of 
Invemahavon, where a fierce fight took place. Victory at first 
inclined to the Camerons, who were the greater number, for 
almost a whole sept of the Chattans, by name the Clan Dai, was 
utterly destroyed. The remainder withdrew from the conflict. 



pp. 216-217] THE MACKINTOSHES 177 

DuM haec agebantur, altera Cattanorum Stirps (nomine 
Clanvurrich) quae se pugnatoribus non junxerat, quoniam 
Clandai a Makintoshio dextro aciei corau ei prselati fuerant, 
anxia quod se auxilio speravissent, statim Cameronos priore 
certamine vulneratos defatigatosque summo furore invadit, et 
in eos amicorum necem strenue ulciscitur, prsedamque recu- 
perat. In hac pugnfi Cameroniorum Ductor nomine Tearloch 
mor, i.e. magnus Makgilloni cum maximfi sociorum parte 
cecidit in loco nunc ab illo Corhearlich dicto. 

Hujus LAuchlani tempore Catani et Clancai (seu, ut scribit 
Johannes Major) Clankavilli insigne dissidium 8umm& atroci- 
tate exercebant. Ad has turbulentas familias reprimendas 
Morravise et Crawfordiae Comites a Rege missi simt, qui 
tribuum Duces seorsim allocuti, banc conditionem iis pro- 
ponunt, ut ex utrisque triginta gladiis tantummodo armati 
coram Rege in campo ad Septentrionale Urbis Perthce latus 
decertent. Conditio utrisque placet, et dies certamini dictus 
a bellatoribus exacts observatur. Multo furore et sudore 
pugnatum est. Omnes Clancai interempti prceter unum, qui 
Taum flumen natando elapsus est. Clanchattanorum vero 

Whilst these things were being so acted, another sept of the 
Chattans (named the Clanvurrich) who had not joined with those 
who were fighting, because the Clandai were preferred by 
Mackintosh to the right wing of the line of battle, being 
solicitous that they might expect their aid, forthwith rushed 
with the utmost fury upon the Camerons, wounded in the 
former fight and weary, and strenuously avenged upon them the 
slaughter of their friends, and recovered the booty. In this 
battle fell the leader of the Camerons, by name Tearloch mor, 
that is great Makgillony, with the greater part of his con- 
federates, in the place now named from that event Corhearlich. 

In the time of this Lauchlan, the Chattans and Clancai, or (as 
John Major writes), Clankevills, were carrying on dissension with 
the greatest atrocity. In order to repress these turbulent tribes, 
the Earls of Moray and Crawford were sent by the king, who, 
having spoken to the leaders of the tribes separately, proposed 
to them this condition, that thirty of both sides, armed only 
with swords, should fight in presence of the king in the field 
on the north side of the tovm of Perth. The condition pleased 
both, and the day fixed for the battle was duly kept by the 
warriors. They fought with much fury and sweat. All the 
Clancai were killed but one, who escaped by swimming over the 

M 



178 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vou I 

undecim supervixerunt, sed omnes graviter vulneribus lacerati, 
inter quos erat eorum Prsefectus, viz. praefatus Shaus Mak- 
intosh (alias Makgillichrist mak ean). 

Hoc autem obiter non est omittendum, quod, ciim Rex et 
Optimates prselium expectarent, unus a Catanis morbo cor- 
reptus est, in cujus locum quidam nomine Henricus Wynd 
injussus ultro se profert, certamen aggreditur, et acerrime pug- 
nat, et erat unus ex undecim qui cvaserunt. 
[pagetlS,] Ab hoc Henrico Wynd ilia familia Clanchattana (vulgo 
Slighk ghow Chruim nuncupata) orta est. 

Post hunc conflictum Clanchattani omnes (ob eorum bonam 
fortunam sub ductu Shai Makintosh in ilia pugna) prsedicto 
Lauchlano Makintosh eorum Genearchae novo servitii et 
obsequii vinculo in perpetuum permansuro (addito juramento) 
se et posteros strictissim^ ligavere. 

Shaus etiam possessionem terrarum Rothemurchus a 
Lauchlano gratis accepit. 

Hoc tempore vixit Gilpatrick mac ean vulgo kean du mak 
ean, a quo ilia Clanchattanorum familia, Clancheandui vocata, 
originem traxit. Circa hoc etiam tempus vixit Kenethus 

river Tay. Of the Clanchattans there survived eleven, but all 
were grievously lacerated with wounds, among whom was their 
chief, namely, the aforesaid Shaw Mackintosh (alias Macgillichrist 
mac Ian). 

But this, by the way, is not to be omitted, that while the king 
and the nobles were waiting for the battle, one of the Chattans was 
seized with sickness, in place of whom a certain man, by name 
Henry Wynd, willingly offered himself unbidden, engaged in the 
conflict, fought fiercely, and was one of the eleven who survived. 
From this Henry Wynd, that Clanchattan family (commonly called 
Slighk ghow Chruim) took rise. 

Afler this conflict, all the Clanchattans (because of their good 
fortune in that fight under the leadership of Shaw Mackintosh) 
most strictly bound themselves and their posterity (an oath being 
added) by a new bond of service and subjection to the aforesaid 
Lauchlan Mackintosh their chief, to endure for ever. 

Shaw also received possession of the lands of Rothemurchus 
freely from Lauchlan. 

In this time lived Gilpatrick Macean, commonly called Kean 
du Macean, from whom that family of Clanchattans, called 
Clancheandui, derives its origin. About this time also lived 



pp. 217-218] THE MACKINTOSHES 179 

Mak ewn Parsoni pater, a quo Clanphersoni denominati 
sunt. 

Hic Eenethus a Lochabrid in Badenochiam venit, et prim6 
TuUocherse habitavit. 

Inquiunus et assecla prsedicti Lauchlani Domini Makintosh. 
Sed ejus fratres Johannes, Murriachus et Gilliesus longe ante 
tempore illuc veneruiit. Hic Lauchlanus Dominus Makintosh 
inter vivos agere desiit Anno Christi 1407. 

MsEAs et Donaldus faatres Lauchlani Nothi et Johannes 
ejus spurius (ilium, propter accidentalem csedem quorundam 
Generosorum (qui erant Alexandri Stuarti Marrise Comitis 
consanguinei) subito intercept!, capitali supplicio Edinburgi 
affecti sunt. 

Sub hoc idem tempus Clantarrell, uni Makintoshii asseclce, 
et inter Clanchattanos numerati, Pictice florebant. 

CoNTEMPouANEi huic Lauchlauo fuerant hi trcs, viz. Johannes 
mor mak ean vie Innish oig, a quo Makdonaldi de Kintyr, Ila 
et Antrum descenderunt, Ronaldus mak ean vie Innish oig 
Makdonaldorum de Mudiart, Moror Glengarry et Knodiort 
progenitor et Igh (seu Hugo) mak Donald vie Morgan, a quo 

Kenneth Macewn^ father of Parson^ from whom the Clanphersons 
are named. 

This Kenneth came from Lochaber into Badenoch^ and dwelt 
first at Tullocher. 

He was a tenant and retainer of the aforesaid Lauchlan^ laird of 
Mackintosh. But his brothers, John^ Murrach, and Gillies, came 
thither long before tliat time. This Lauchlan^ laird of Mackintosh, 
passed away from among the living in the year of Christ 1407. 

Eneas and Donald, bastard brothers of Lauchlan^ and John 
his bastard son, on account of the accidental slaughter of some 
gentlemen (who were kinsmen of Alexander Stuart, Earl of Mar) 
were suddenly intercepted, and suffered capital punishment at 
Edinburgh. 

About this same time, the Clantarrell^ retainers to one of the 
Mackintoshes^ and reckoned among the Clanchattans, flourished 
at Petty. 

Contemporaneous with this Lauchlan were these three, namely, 
John mor mac Ian vie Innish oig, from whom the Macdonalds 
of Kint3rre, Islay, and Antrim have descended. Ronald Makean vie 
Innish oig, progenitor of the Macdonalds of Moidart^ Morar, 
Glengarry^ and Knoidart ; and Igh (or Hugh) Macdonald vie 
Morgan, from whom the family Maky is derived. This Igh and 



180 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

familia Maky derivatur. Hie Igh et Donaldus ejus filius 
Dingwalli ex mandato Nicolai Sutherlandio? Comitis interexnpti 
sunt Anno 1395. 



De Ferquhardo Domino Makintosh 9**°. 

FfiRQUHARDUs Lauchlani filius uxorem sibi adjunxit Mgidiaxa 
Innesiam filiam Domini Innis de eodem, ex qui tres habuit 
filios, Duncanum, Micolumbum et Ferquhardum, et filias 
[page $19.] plurimas. Sed, quoniam pater sua vilitate et ignavia pessum 
ivit hsereditatem suam abdicando, ejus liberi insequalibus sunt 
Matrimonio conjuncti. Una filiarum Isabella Duncano Mak- 
kynich vie Eun (vulg6 Parson designate) Matrimonio tradita 
est, eui peperit Beanum Makpherson, a quo familia de Brin 
oriunda est. 

DuNCANUs Ferquhardi Primogenitus eum filia Donaldi Mak- 
kynieh vie Ewn Matrimonio eontraxit, ex qua Johannem et 
Ferquhardum procreavit. Cum alia fcemina (eujus nomen est 
nobis ignotum) quator genuit filios, viz. Roderieum, Johannem 
Mnea,m et Donaldum gorm. De horum sex fratrum posteris 
ali^s narrabimus. Hoe obiter notandum, quod Mneas 

Donald, his son^ were killed at Dingwall, by command of Nicolas, 
Earl of Sutherland, in the year 1S95, 

Of FfiRQUHABD, NINTH LaI&D of MACKINTOSH. 

Ferquhard, son of Lauchlan, took to wife Egidia Innes, daughter 
of the Laird Innes of that Ilk, by whom he had three sons, Duncan, 
Malcolm, and Ferquhard, and many daughters. But because the 
father, by his vileness and sloth, went down to decay by resigning 
his heritage, his children were married to persons below their 
rank. One of the daughters, Isabella, was given in marriage to 
Duncan Mackynich vie Ewen (commonly designed Parson) and 
bore to him Bean Macpherson, from whom the family of Brin 
took rise. 

Duncan, first bom of Ferquhard, contracted marriage with the 
daughter of Donald Mackynich vie Ewen, of whom he begat John 
and Ferquhard. With another woman (whose name is unknown 
to us), he begat four sons, namely, Roderic, John, Eneas, and 
Donald gorm. Concerning the posterity of these six brothers, we 
shall give account at another time. This, in passing, must be 



pp. 218.219] THE MACKINTOSHES 181 

Duncani filius Glengarrise habitaverat, et sic ejus posteri in 
hunc usque diem. 

2<^o Ferquhardus mak Terq'^ vie Lauchlan habuit filium 
iGneam, et hie duos genuit filios Thomam et Hugonem. Hie 
Thomas (postquam Ferquhardus Dominus Makintosh captivus 
Edinburgum a Rege Jacobo Quarto allatus esset Anno 1495) 
ad Ferquhardum visendum ivit, ut fortuna illi ita favebat, ut 
cum fcemina vidua Matrimonio conjunctus est. Hie Thomas 
vulgo designabatur Thomas mak Innish, et post illud ejus iter 
Meridionale vocabatur Thomas Angus, et ab illo Cognomen- 
tum Angus nunc Bruntylandise degens initium sumpsit. 

Hugo prsedicti Thomse frater Invernessse estatem egit^ (et 
sic ejus successio) et erat Hugonis Mak Angus nunc ibi nautse 
progenitor. Milcolumbus Mak Ferq'^ vie Lauchlan genuit 
Thomam, et Thomas Duncanum et Lauchlanum, Duncanus 
genuit Ferquhardum, et Lauchlanus genuit Thomam et 
Ferquhardum. Hie Thomas M'Lauchlan genuit Ferquhardum, 
et Ferquhardus genuit Hectorem et Ferquhardum oig. Hi 
Hector (vulgo Hector M'Ferquhar mack Commi) habuit sex 

noted, that Eneas, son of Duncan, dwelt in Glengarry, and so 
do his posterity to this day. 

Secondly, Ferquhard mac Ferquhar vie Lauchlan had a son, 
Eneas, and he begat two sons, Thomas and Hugh. This Thomas 
(after that Ferquhard, laird Mackintosh, had been brought 
captive to Edinburgh by King James the Fourth, in the year 
1495) went to visit Ferquhard, and fortune so favoured him 
that he was joined in marriage with a widow woman. This 
Thomas was commonly designated Thomas mac Innish, but after 
that southern journey of his he was called Thomas Angus, and 
from him the surname Angus, now flourishing at Bruntisland, took 
beginning. 

Hugh, brother of the aforesaid Thomas, spent the summer^ at 
Inverness (and so his succession), and was the progenitor of Hugh 
mac Angus, now mariner there. Malcolm mac Ferquhar vie 
Lauchlan begat Thomas, and Thomas begat Duncan and Lauch- 
lan. Duncan begat Ferquhard, and Lauchlan begat Thomas 
and Ferquhard. This Thomas M*^Lauchlan begat Ferquhard, 
and Ferquhard begat Hector and Ferquhard oig. This Hector 
(commonly called Hector M^Ferquhar mac Commi) had six 
sons, namely, Donald, John, Master Alexander, minister at 
Petty, Master Ferquhar, Dean of the Isles, Master Lauchlan, 

^ Query, * (etatem egit,' passed his life. 



182 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

filios, viz. Donaldum, Johannem, Magistrum Alexandrum 
Pettiensem Ecclesiastem, Magistrum Ferquhardum Insularum 
Decanum, Magistrum Lauchlanum Lochabrise Ecclesiastem, 
et Magistrum Hectorem, qui sine liberis decessit. Hi quatuor 
postea Genealogiam suam et Prosapiam non exploratam 
habentes, quoniam inter Fraserios tribus setatibus vixerunt, 
sub cognomine Eraser lauream donati sunt. 

Ferquhardus MakLauchlan erat mediae staturse, exilis cor- 
poris, coloris fusci, melancholicse indolis et reservatae naturae, 
et, ab illo, tota Stirps, quae dicitur Slighk Ferquhar vie 
[pagetSO.] Lauchlan orta est. E vivis excessit Anno Salutis humanae 1417. 

Ab Johanne Ferquhardi fratre, sed notho, Domus de 
Crathymor in BadenochiS est oriunda, cujus posteri Slighk 
ean lea vie Lauchlan sunt appellati. 

Obs. Chron. 

Ferquhardus vixit tempore Regiminis Roberti Stuarti Fifae 
Comitis, vir quieti totus deditus, et brevi post Connubium 
sponte hffireditatem et primogenituram in favorem Milcolumbi 
patrui resignavit, possessionem Eylachi et Corrivori sibi et 

minister of Lochaber, and Master Hector, who died without 
children. These four have not their genealogy and progeny here- 
after discussed^ because they lived for three generations among 
the Erasers, and they were given their degree under the surname 
of Fraser. 

Ferquhard MacLauchlan was of middle height^ slender of body, 
of a dark colour, of a melancholy, indolent, and reserved disposi- 
tion. From him the whole sept, which is called Slighk Ferquhar 
vie Lauchlan is sprung. He departed this life in the year of 
salvation 1417. 

From John, brother of Ferquhar, but illegitimate, there sprang 
the house of Crathymor in Badenoch, whose posterity are called 
Slighk Ian Lea vie Lauchlan. 

Chronological Observations. 

Ferquhard lived in the time of the Regency of Robert Stuart, 
Earl of Fife ; was a man wholly given to ease, and shortly after 
his marriage he voluntarily resigned his heritage and birthright in 
favour of Malcolm his paternal uncle, retaining possession of 



pp. 219.220] THE MACKINTOSHES 188 

posteris retinens, quam ejus posteritas per spatium 200 
Annorum coluit. 

CoNTEMPORANEUs huic Ferquhardo erat Normannus M^Leod 
filius Roderici mor M^Leod de Lewis primus ejus cognomenti 
Dominus de Assint. 



De Malcolmo Domino Makintosh x™^ 

MiLCOLUMBUs Makiktosh (Clanchattanorum Dux) filius 
Gulielmi et Ferquhardi patruus uxorem duxit Moram Mak- 
donald (alias Makronald) filiam Ronaldi Domini de Mudiart, 
ex qua genuit Duncanum, Lauchlanum, Allanum et Milco- 
lumbum, et quinque filias, quarum primogenita Muriella, 
Johanni mor Grant de Freuchi, Secunda natii Janeta, Patricio 
Grant (alias mak ean roy) fratri Duncani Grant de Freuchy 
Militis Aurati, Tertia Margareta, Hectori mak Tearloch, illius 
familise Praefecto, Quarta Monica, Alexandro Eraser, Thomae 
Domini Lovat nepoti per Secundum filium Gulielmi et Quintet, 
Soraldo Makleod, conjugata est. 



Kylachi and Corrivori to himself and his posterity, which they 
kept for the space of two hundred years. 

Contemporaneous with this Ferquhard was Norman M^Leod, 
son of Roderic mor M^Leod of Lewis, the first of that surname 
Laird of Assint. 

Of Malcolm, the tenth Laird of Mackintosh. 

Malcolm Mackintosh (chief of the Clanchattans) son of William, 
and uncle of Ferquhard, married Mora Macdonald (alias: Mac- 
ronald), daughter of Ronald, laird of Moidart, by whom he had 
Duncan, Lauchlan, Allan, and Malcolm, and five daughters, of 
whom the first bom, Muriella, was married to John mor 
Grant of Freuchy ; the second, Janet, to Patrick Grant (alias mac 
Ian Roy), brother of Sir Duncan Grant of Freuchy ; the third, 
Margaret, to Hector mac Tearloch, chief of his family ; the foiurth, 
Monica, to Alexander Fraser, nephew of Thomas, Lord Lovat, by 
the second son of William ; and the fifth to Sorald Macleod. 



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Obs. Chron. 

MiLcoLUMBUs erat vir elati et magna molientis animi, medi- 
ocris staturse, omnis extremitatis, mediae, frigoris, laboris et 
inquietis patientissimus, in Bello fortunatus, et omni virtutum 
genere bene instructus. Iniquitate tantum et errore temporis 
et loci in quo vixit non fuerat, ut debuit, Uteris imbutus. 
Ejus consanguinei et asseclae (Clanchattana tribus) ob eorum 
fortia facta apud omnes vicinos tunc temporis in magno honore 
et sestimatione erant. In multis prseliis ipse adfuerat, et eum 
victoria magnopere attendebat. 
[^ogeHl] Consensu Ferquhardi et genendi applausu et approbatione 
omnium amicorum Clanchattanorum Dux est declaratus Anno 
Salutis humanse 1409. 

Anno 1411 se Donaldo Insulano ad versus Regentem Rober- 
tum Stuartum Fifse et Montetise Comitem (in Controversia 
de Rossise Comitatu) adjunxit, et erat altere prsecipuis post 
Donald um Ducibus in Bello Harlaensi, et ob ejus eodem die 
promeritum et servitium obtinuit jus haereditarium terrarum 



Chronological Observations. 

Malcolm was a man of a lofty and contriving mind^ of moderate 
stature^ very patient in enduring every kind of hardship, of hunger, 
cold, labour, and want of rest ; fortunate in war, and well instructed 
in every kind of virtue. Only by reason of the turbulence and 
error of the time and place in which he lived, he was not so 
imbued with learning as he should have been. His kinsmen and 
retainers (the Clanchattan) were at that time in great honour and 
esteem among all their neighbours on account of their brave 
deeds. He himself had been present in many battles, and victory 
greatly favoured him. 

By consent of Ferquhard, and with the general applause and 
approval of all his friends, he was, in the year 1409, declared 
chief of the Cianchattans. 

In the year 1411 he joined himself to Donald of the Isles 
against the Regent Robert Stuart, Earl of Fife and Monteith (in 
the controversy concerning the Earldom of Ross), and was next 
after Donald among the principal leaders in the battle of Harlaw ; 
and on account of his merit and service on that day he obtained 
the hereditary right of the lands of Glenroy and Glenspean, and 



pp. 220-221] THE MACKINTOSHES 185 

Glenroy et Glenspean et officii Senescallus et Ballivatus totius 
Dominii de Lochabrii factus est haereditarius Diocetes. 

Ix hoc Bello de suis multos amisit, inter alios Jacobum 
Makintosh de Rothemurchus Dominum. Multi etiam de 
tribCi Clanbean in hoc prselio desiderati sunt. Paulo post 
antiquum dissidium inter Catanos et Cumineos redintegratur. 
Nam jussu Alexandri Cumminei (qui terris Namise et Rait 
potiebatur) Micolumbi pedisequse numero duodecim unk omnes 
prope Rait ob levissimam caussam strangulati sunt. 

Quo audito, Milcolumbi bills efTerbuit. Post aliquot dies 
arcem Namise cum suorum decem tantummodo stratagemate 
ingreditur (ubi tunc Primores Cumminei familiae) qui Moravise 
degebant (epulabantur) et ellatam sibi injuriam ita retribuit, 
ut, priusquam Cumminei arma capere potuerint, omnes a Mil- 
columbo et adjutoribus confodiuntur. 

Post hoc factum confestim Cumminei, collecta vi, Makin- 
toshiorum terras invaseruut. Milcolumbus contrk hoc usus 
est stratagemate; Cum Cummineorum intentio illi innotuit, 
ducentos viros fortes, audaces et celeres selegit, cum quibus 
latitans in Sylva quse versus ortum est a lacu Moyensi (per 

of the office of Steward and Bailie of the whole lordship of Locha- 
ber, and was made hereditary Steward. 

In that battle he lost many of his friends, among others 
James Mackintosh laird of Rothemurchus. Many also of the 
family of Clanbean were lost in that battle. A little while 
afterwards the old feud between the Chattans and the Cummins 
was renewed. For, by the order of Aleicander Cummin (who 
possessed the lands of Nairn and Rait), the attendants of 
Malcolm, to the number of twelve, were, for a very slight cause, 
all at once strangled near Rait 

On hearing of this, the wrath of Malcolm boiled over. Some 
days after, by stratagem, with only ten of his men, he entered 
the tower of Nairn (where the chief men of the Cummins who 
dwelt in Moray were then feasting) and so revenged the wrong 
done to him, that before the Cummins could take their arms 
they were all stabbed by Malcolm and his helpers. 

After this deed, the Cummins having collected a force, forthwith 
invaded the lands of the Mackintoshes. Malcolm opposed this 
attack by using a stratagem. When the intention of the Cummins 
was made known to him, he selected two hundred strong men, 
bold and swift, with whom lurking in the wood which lies 
eastward from the loch of Moy (by which the Cummins were to 



186 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

quam Cumminci ituri essent) jussit nonnullos de suis cum 
armentis in hostium couspectu ad monies fugere, ut nihil 
fraudis suspectum haberent. Interim, dum secure prope 
Sylvam Cumminei tendunt, Milcolumbus summa ira, furore 
et audacia, cum suis in inimicorum Primores ruit. Cumminei 
rapide et ex improviso adorti terga vertere cogebantur, fugi- 
entes et palantes, in qua fuga eorum multi fuerant prostrati ; 
Nam fugati sunt circiter sex mille passus, ut lapidum acervi 
super occisos adhuc testantur. 

Hoc evenit paulo antequam Jacobus Primus Rex ex Anglia 
liberatus est. Anno 1428 Jacobus Rex, Invemessam, ad jus 
dicendum, latrociniaque comprimenda, venit, ubi quosdam 
Latronum Duces in custodias misit, quorum nonnuUi, datis 
vadibus, liberi domos dimissi, alii in custodiis detenti, et quidam 
supplicio afiecti sunt. Interea cum, per vicinos prsedicti Mil- 
columbi Makintosh fidelitatem et potcntiam disceret, arcem 
[pageft22.'\ Invemessae illi custodiendam tradidit, quo officio ejus pro- 
genitores per multos Annos potiti sunt. 

Eo tempore Alexander Insulanus Rossiae Comes (propter 
multa flagitiose et crudeliter a se perpetrata) Invemessae captus 

pass) he ordered some of his men, with the cattle, to flee to the 
hills in the sight of the enemy, that they might have no occasion 
to suspect a snare. In the meantime, while the Cummins were 
coming on securely near the wood, Malcolm and his men rushed 
upon the leaders of the Cummins, with the utmost rage, fury, and 
boldness. The Cummins, being thus suddenly and unexpectedly 
attacked, were forced to turn their backs, fleeing and scattering, 
and in their flight a great many of them were cut down ; for they 
were driven about six thousand paces, as a heap of stones over 
the slain bears witness to this day. 

This happened shortly before King James the First was liberated 
from England. In the year 1428 King James came to Inverness 
to administer justice and to repress robbery, when he put certain 
of the robber chiefs in custody, some of whom, having given 
pledges^ were allowed to go free to their homes, others were 
detained in ward, and some were executed. Meanwhile, having 
learned from the neighbours the fidelity and power of the 
aforesaid Malcolm Mackintosh, he delivered to him the custody of 
the castle of Inverness, which office his progenitors had possessed 
for many years. 

At this time Alexander of the Isles, Earl of Ross (on account of 
many deeds wickedly and cruelly perpetrated by him), was seized 



pp. 221-222] THE MACKINTOSHES 187 

est, et Fertham perductus. Sed brevi post per amicos Regem 
exorabitem expertus domum remittitur. Ubi primum ad suos 
rediit, coUecta manu hominum rapto vivere assuetorum, Inver- 
nessam oppidum in praedam suis permisit, et deiude, expilatis 
oedibus ignem injecit, et arcem obsidione cinxit, sed frustra ; 
Nam, ab hoc Milcolumbo arcis Prsefecto viriliter defendebatur, 
adeo ut Alexander, cum, in se expeditionem parari, rescisset, 
in Lochabriam properato se contuliL Hsec acta sunt Anno 
1429. 

EoDEM etiam tempore Milcolumbus Clanchattan et Clan- 
chameron quod Alexander ad suas partes seduxit, eum deserere 
et Regis partes sequi efiecit. 

Alexander hac parte virium destitutus, suas copias dimit- 
tere, et in ^Ebudas profugere, coactus. In Festo Falmarum 
sequenti Anno 1430, inter istas tribus orto dissido, tanta 
contentione animorum et virium pugnatum est, ut, multis 
Clanchattanorum trucidatis, Cameronii pene omnes extincti 
fuerint. 

Die Resurrectionis Dominicse proxime sequenti prsedictus 

at Inverness and led to Perth. But soon after, having by his 
friends made trial of the king's leniency, he was sent home, 
where, as soon as he returned, having gathered a force of men 
accustomed to live by robbery, he delivered up to them the 
town of Inverness as a prey; and then, having ransacked the 
houses, he set them on fire. He surrounded the castle by way 
of siege, but in vain, for it was manfully defended by this 
Malcolm, captain of the castle, so that Alexander, on learning 
that he (Malcolm) was preparing an expedition against him, 
betook himself in haste to Lochaber. These things were done in 
the year 1439. 

At the same time also Malcolm succeeded in persuading the 
Clanchattan and the Clan Cameron whom Alexander had enticed 
to take part with him, to desert him, and to prefer the king's 
part 

Alexander, on being deprived of that portion of his men, dis- 
missed his forces, and was compelled to take flight to the 
Hebrides. On Palm Sunday following, in the year 1430, a feud 
having arisen between these two clans, so fierce was the conflict 
of mind and force, that while many of the Clanchattans were 
slain, the Camerons were almost all destroyed. 

On the day of the Resurrection of our Lord next following, the 
aforesaid Alexander, Earl of Ross, clad only with a cloak, threw 



188 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

Alexander Rossiae Comes tantum amiculo tectus ad 

genua Regis (in Templo Sanctse Crucis dum Sacra celebrantur) 
supplicem se dejecit, et, se, suamque salutem, ei credidit. 
Regina et Proceres, qui aderant, pro ejus vitS plurimum 
Regem deprecati, in Tentallonis arcem Rex ilium custodi- 
endum misit, in quk, ad mensem Octobris ejusdem Anni, de- 
tinetur, quo mense Jacobus Secundus Rex natus est, quo de 
republicum gaudium celebratur, et inter Isetandum Alexander 
et alii Nobiles, qui Regem ofTenderant, condonati sunt. In- 
terea temporis Donaldus Baldoch, Alexandri patruelis, velut 
injuriam propinquo illatam ulturus, novum excitavit tumultum, 
ad quem supprimendum, Alexander et Allanus Stuarti, Marrise 
et Cathenesise Comites (quibus Milcolumbus Makintosh) ex 
mandato Regis (se adjunxit) coacta Popularium manu, ad 
Inverlocheam profecti sunt, ubi Donaldi adventum prsesto- 
labantur (Nam ille quotidie, se venturum, et prselia cum iis 
conferturum, pollicebatur). Interea, Comitum exercitu annonse 
\ja^ti3.] inopise multum presso, quidam tribuum Ductores (inter quos 
Milcolumbus Makintoshius erat unus) adjacentes terras, viz. 
Ardnamurchin, Suinard et Glenelg, peragrare, eorumque 

himself at the feet of the king as a suppliant (in the church 
of Holyrood^ while divine service was being celebrated)^ and 
yielded up to him himself and his safety. The queen^ and 
the nobles who were present^ having besought the king 
earnestly for his life, the king committed him to be kept 
in the castle of Tantallon. There he was detained until the 
month of October the same year; in which month King James 
the Second was bom, which event was joyfully celebrated 
by the public; and in the midst of the rejoicing, Alexander, 
and other nobles who had offended the king, were pardoned. 
In the meantime, Donald Balloch, his kinsman, as if he would 
revenge the injury done to his relative, excited a new tumult, to 
suppress which, Alexander, Earl of Mar, and Allan Stuart, Earl 
of Caithness (to whom Malcolm Mackintosh, by the king's com- 
mand, joined himself), with a forced levy of people, departed to 
Inverlochy, where they waited the arrival of Donald (for he was 
daily promising that he would come and would engage with them 
in battle). In the meantime, the army of the earls being much 
pressed for want of provisions, some of the leadei*s of the clans 
(among whom Malcolm Mackintosh was one) were commanded to 
go through the adjacent lands, namely, Ardnamurchan, Suinard, 
and Glenelg, and to carry off their cattle. 



pp. 222-223] THE MACKINTOSHES 189 

armenta auferre, mandantur. Quibus absentibus, Donald us, 
rem astu tractare instituens, de quarts vigilia, suis sine tumultfi 
expositis, Comites inopinantes et semis omnes aggressus, magnam 
stragem edidit. Periit illic Allanus Cathenesise Comes cum suis 
fere omnibus, et Alexander Marrise Comes trepida fug& cum 
paucis evasit. Post hsec Milcolumbus, domum reversus, ejus 
studium, et tota cura, erat, fortunam suam stabilire, et prim6, 
possessionem fiduciariam Barroniae de Moy, durante vit& a 
Johanne Innesis Morraviensi Episcopo 6^ Februarii 1487 
acquisivit. 

5^ Octobris 1442, Dominium hsereditarium prsedictarum 
terrarum Rait et Geddes ab Alexandro Gordonio, (postea 
Comite Huntlseo) ad quern tum illse pertinuerant, accepit 

XI Februarii 1443, jus hsereditarium earum terrarum quibus 
in Lochabria potiebatur a prsefato Alexandro Rossensi Comite 
accepit. 

Deinde 13 Novembris Anno 1447, jus hsereditarium Senas- 
culatus et Ballivatus totius Dominii de Lochabria ab eodem 
Alexandro adipiscitur. 

Anno 1452 Milcolumbus senio confectus erat, et Johanni 
Rossensi Comiti (tunc Rebelli) affinis ; Jacobus Secundus Rex 



While they were absent^ Donald^ determining to handle the 
affair with craft, having marshalled his men without disturbance, 
about the fourth watch he attacked the earls suddenly and while 
they were half asleep, and made a great slaughter. There perished 
there Allan, Earl of Caithness, and almost all his men ; while the 
Earl of Mar, with a few of his, made off by a cowardly flight. 
After these things, Malcolm having returned home, his whole 
desire and care was to establish his fortune, and first on 6th 
February 1437 he acquired from John Innes, Bishop of Moray, 
possession of the Barony of Moy, in trust during Hfe. 

On 5th October 1442, he got the hereditary lordship of the 
aforesaid lands of Rait and Geddes, from Alexander Gordon 
(afterwards Elarl of Huntly) to whom they then belonged. 

On nth February 1443, he received from the aforesaid Alex- 
ander, Earl of Ross, the heritable right of those lands which he 
possessed in Lochaber. Then, on 1 3th November 1447 he obtained 
from the same Alexander the heritable right of the Stewardry and 
Bailiery of the whole lordship of Lochaber. 

In the year 1452, Malcolm was slain in his old age, and by John 
Earl of Ross, his kinsman by marriage (then a rebel). King James 



190 GExNEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

custodiam arcis Invemessse cuidam cognomine Crichtono dedit, 
qui per eundem Johannem Rossise Comitem Anno 1455 
stratagemate inde expulsus est. 

Anno 1454 subitum et in excogitatum dissidium (ob levis- 
simam causam) oritur inter Milcolumbum Mackintosh vulgo — 
Gillicallum oig, Makgilichallum oig, nepotem prsedicti Mil- 
columbi Domini Mackintosh, et Johannem Monro Tutorem 
de Fowlis, ex quo acerrimus conflictus sequitur, cujus origo 
haec fuit. 

JoHANN£s Monro, Hugonis Monro de Fowlis filius secundo 
genitus, et, Johannis Monro sui nepotis ex fratre Georgio 
Monro de Fowlis Tutor, ad Meridionalem plagam iter tendit 
ad pupilli sui negotia expedienda domum revertens per Strath- 
ardell inter accolas et ipsum oritur dissentio, qua Strathardelii 
Johannem indigne et contumeliose prosequuntur et abutuntur. 
Ille vindictae studens domum revertit, et consanguineos et 
amicos de injuria illi data informat, et eorum auxilium im- 
plorat. Illi volenter obsequium dant. Ducenti selecti sunt, 
qui sub ductu prsedicti Johannis summa celeritate progressi, et 
Strathardell ingressi, antiquam eorum adventus rumor illuc 
pervenerat, terras vastant, et armenta exportant. In reditfi 



the Second gave the custody of the castle of Inverness to one of 
the surname of Crichton, who was expelled thence by the same 
John, Earl of Ross, by stratagem^ in the year 1455. 

In the year 1454, a sudden and unpremeditated discord arose 
(on account of a very trivial cause) between Malcolm Mackintosh, 
commonly called Gillicallum oig, Macgillicallum oig, grandson of 
the aforesaid Malcolm laird of Mackintosh, and John Monro, 
tutor of Fowlis, on which a very bitter conflict followed, the 
origin of which was this : 

John Monro, second son of Hugh Monro of Fowlis, and tutor of 
John Monro his nephew by his brother George Monro of Fowlis, 
took a journey to the south country in order to expedite the 
affairs of his pupil ; and as he was returning home by Strathardel, 
a strife arose between the country people and him, in which the 
Strathardel men basely and shamefully pursued and abused him. 
He returned home bent on revenge, and informed his kinsmen 
and friends of the injury done to him, and implored their help. 
They willingly responded. Two hundred men were selected, 
who, under the leadership of the said John, advanced with the 
utmost celerity, and invaded Strathardel before the rumour of 



pp. 223-224] THE MACKINTOSHES 191 

apud fluvium Findornium illis obviam fortuitu factus est 
praedictus Milcolumbus oig, qui, explorat£ tota re, consilio 
juvenum ilium sequentium motus a Johanne partem prsedae 
petiit. Johannes 24vaccas et taurum ofTert. Hoc ille fastidiose [po^f^U-] 
et incaute respuit, et prsedse tertiam partem oult, et nihil 
minus, quod Johannes contemptim venuit, et nihil daturus 
progreditur. Milcolumbus fremens, hoc notum amicis statim 
fadt, et subito accolas Strathamiae, Pettise et Lairchardellse 
Johannem insequi, et prsedam impedire mandat, donee ipse 
cum Strathemensibus subsequerentur. Mandato obsequium 
datur, et Johannem trans fluvium Nessam sequuntur, et, ad 
locum vocatum Clachnaherri eum cursu apprehendunt. 
Johannes 40 de suis cum prsedk dimisit, et reliquos pro se 
pugnare stimulat. Fit atrox conflictus. Fauci utriusque 
partis evadunt, et Johannes pen^ exanimatus, ut mortuus 
relinquitur. Sed Dominus Lovat de eventu certior factus, 
eum sanari curat. Johannes postea Backhlach, i.e. mutilatus, 
vocabatur, quia in eo conflictu manu mutilabatur, et ab illo 
familia Miltonia orta est. Milcolumbus, cujus temeritate hsec 
evenerunt, non adfuit pugnae; Nam, ante ejus adventum, 

their approach had come thither^ wasted the lands^ and carried 
off the cattle. On their return, when at the river Findhom, 
it so happened that the aforesaid Malcolm oig met them, who 
having inquired into the whole matter, was moved by the 
advice of the young men who followed him to ask a part of 
the booty from Monro. John offered him twenty-four cows 
and a bull. This he disdainfully and rashly rejected, and 
demanded the third part of the booty and nothing less ; 
which John contemptuously refused, and, marching on, would 
give him nothing. Malcolm, in a rage, made this known 
forthwith to his friends, and at once ordered the men of 
Stratheme, Petty, and Lairchardel to follow John, and impede 
the moving of the cattle until he with the Stratheme men should 
come up. In obedience to this command, they followed John 
across the river Ness, and overtook him in flight at the place 
called Clachnaharry. John sent forty of his men onwards with 
the booty, and stimulated the rest to flght for him. The conflict 
was fierce : few of either party escaped, and John, almost lifeless, 
was left for dead. But Lord Lovat, on being informed of the 
event, used means to restore him. John was afterwards called 
Backhlach, that is, mutilated, because in the fight his hand was 
cut off. From him the Milton family sprung. Malcolm, by 



192 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

pugna finita est. Idem M ilcolumbus in uxorem duxit Janetam 
Monro ejusdem Johannis sororem. 

Anno 1457 Milcolumbus Dominus Makintosh in Insula de 
M oy vitam morte commutavit, et, in Templo Franciscanorum 
Invernessae cum antecessoribus sepelitur. Huic Milcolumbo 
Tearloch, i.e, Carolus male ewn vie volan (a quo tribus Clan- 
tearloch originem traxit) pro se et posteris se ipsum haeredi- 
tarium servum subscripsit Hoc tempore etiam Rodericus 
aliter Reven male milmor vik Isak, a quo Clanreven et Donald us 
M akgilleandris, a quo Clanleandrish nominati sunt, a Mudiarto, 
cum Mora Macdonald supra memorata Domina Makintosh, 
venerunt, cujus posteri se inter Clanchattanos numeravenmt, 
et, Makintoshio tanquam Duci se devoverunt. Sic etiam 
Gulielmus Makchlerich, a quo Clancherich designati sunt, 
hujus Milcolumbi fuerat domesticus, et pro se et posteris, illi 
obsequium et fidelitatem adjurati sunt. 

CoNTEMPORANEUs huic Milcolumbo erat Hugo Makdonald 
Alexandri Comitis Rossise filius Nothus, Makdonaldorum a 
Slait progenitor. 

Item Robertus Grahamus primus ejus cognominis Fintrise 

whose rashness these things came about, was not present at the 
fight^ for it was ended before his arrival. This same Malcolm 
married Janet Monro, sister of this John. 

In the year 1^57, Malcolm laird of Mackintosh departed this 
life in the island of Moy, and was buried with his ancestors in the 
church of the Franciscans at Inverness. To this Malcolm^ Tear- 
loch, that is Charles mac Ewen vie Volan (from whom the 
Clan Tearloch derived its origin) subscribed for himself and his 
posterity as hereditary servant. At this time also, Roderic, other- 
wise Reven mac Milmor vie Isak, from whom the Clan Reven, 
and Donald Macgilleandrish, from whom the Clan Andrish are 
named, came from Moidart, with Mora Macdonald, the afore- 
mentioned wife of Mackintosh, whose posterity have counted 
themselves among the Clanchattans, and devoted themselves to 
Mackintosh as their chief. So, in like manner, William Mac- 
chlerich, from whom the Clan Chlerich are designated, was 
a domestic of this Malcolm, and for himself and his posterity 
swore obedience and fidelity to him. 

Contemporary with this Malcolm was Hugh Macdonald, bastard 
son of Alexander, Earl of Ross, progenitor of the Macdonalds of 
Sleat. 

Also, coeval with this Malcolm, was Robert Graham, first of 



, p. 224.225] THE MACKINTOSHES 198 

Dominus, et, Gulielmi Domini de Graham filius ex Mari& 
Stuarta Roberti Tertii Regis filia, erat huic Milcolumbo 
coaeviis. 



De Duncano Domino Makintoshi- 

ORUM XI. 

DuNCAXus Milcolumbi primogenitus Clanchattanoram Dux 
Matrimonio sibi junxit Floram Makdonald, Johannis Comitis 
Rossiae natam, per quam multos habuit filios, qui omnes ante 
patrem vivis exempti sunt praeter unum nomine Ferquhardum, 
qui patri successit. Habuit etiam Nothum nomine Mil- 
columbiun, qui genuit Johannem vulgo designatum Sir John 
Malcolmson, qui habuit filium nomine Duncanum, Angusii et 
Hectoris genitorem. 

Hie Angusius seu iEneas unam habuit fiUam, quam Dun- [pagetts.] 
canus Makintosh de Aberardor jam grandaevus duxit, et ex 
qua genuit liberos adhuc inter vivos. 

DuNCANUs Dominus Makintosh habuit etiam Notham nomine 
Margaretam per filiam Gulielmi M*^Sorald vie Nicol, quae 
nupta erat Johanni du mak ronald, et ille peperit tres filias, 

his surname Lord of Fintray^ and son of William Lord of Graham 
by Mary Stuart^ daughter of King Robert the Third. 

Of Duncan, eleventh Laiud of the 
Mackintoshes. 

Duncan, the first-bom of Malcolm, chief of the Clanchat- 
tans, took to himself in marriage Flora Macdonald^ daughter of 
John, Earl of Ross, by whom he had many sons, who all died 
before their father, except one called Ferquhard, who succeeded 
him. He had also a bastard named Malcolm, who begat John, 
commonly called Sir John Malcolmson, who had a son named 
Duncan, father of Angus and Hector. 

This Angus, or Eneas, had a daughter whom Duncan Mac- 
kintosh of Aberarder, already of great age, married, and by whom 
he had children, still alive. 

Duncan, laird of Mackintosh, had also a natural daughter, 
Margaret, by a daughter of William M^Sorald vie Nicol, who was 
married to John du Macronald, and had three daughters, the 

N 



IM GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vou I 

qcMrum Moior ntipta end Bmdo mmk cso clieir, qui ex e& 
gmirit Duncamiin, Fcrqulianliiiii, Johmnimii mor, Mflccdumbuin 
ct Jacobum* 

LAircHLASLi DuDcmni frmier primo diixit filuun Ducis tribus 
JlakgilliniT, qui Ga*knior in Ikdcnoddi pofddelmt, ex qua 
nulkm bdbuit progmiem. 

Povr hujus uxofis decwwim ex Eliaibethi Caldeni filia 
Hugonis Calderi Panooi de Kingusii 61iuni procreant nomine 
3Iilcolunibuni, qui nunquam ^fatrimoniali oopulm derinctus 
est^ neve ulkm bdbuit progeniem nisi unum filium ilkgitimum 
Jobannem, ex quo stirps ilia nan diu de bine oognita per 
dcsignationem Sli^ik ean vie gillidialluni, et nunc Cbmeacheny 
initium sumpsiL 

JoHAXVEs bic erat filius adulteiinus, cujus matrem BfQco- 
lumbus nqiuit. Nam, cum JcJiannes procreatus erat, mater 
ejus erat nupta agricoLee in Nudmor, qui vulgo cognominabatur 
Kendich Grogach, t^. mercator crinitus. 

Hic Johannes Milcolumbi filius (aliter ^lakcumsonus dictus) 
ex Euphemia Dunbar (Adreie Monro a Miltoun vidua) genuit 
LaucUanum, qui primo duxit Barbaram Hay, quae illi nuUos 
perperit liberos, quam repudians, Cameronam 

Donaldi du mak ewn filiam viduam 



eldest of whom was married to Bean mac Ian cheir, who had by 
her Duncan Ferquhard, John mor, Malcolm and James. 

Lauchlan, brother of Duncan, married first a daughter of the 
chief of the Clan Macgillony, who possessed Gaskmor in Bad- 
enochy by whom he had no offspring. After the death of this 
wife, by Elizabeth Calder, daughter of Hugh Calder, parson of 
Kingussie, he begat a son named Malcolm, who was never married, 
nor had he any offspring but one illegitimate son John, from whom 
that branch, not long since known by the designation Slighk Ian 
vie Gillicallum, and now Claneachan, took beginning. 

This John was bom in adultery, whose mother Malcolm ravished. 
For when John was bom his mother was married to a former in 
Nudmor, who was commonly sumamed Kendich Grogach, that is, 
the hairy merchant. 

This John, son of Malcolm (otherwise called Malcolmson), by 
Euphemia Dunbar (widow of Andrew Monro of Miltoun), begat 
Lauchlan, who married, first, Barbara Hay, who had no children 
to him : repudiating her, he forcibly carried off Cameron, daughter 
of Donald du mac Ewen, widow of Fraser of 



pp. 225-226] THE MACKINTOSHES 195 

rapuit, et cum ea tanquam uxore 
habitavit, ex eaque progenuit Hectorem, qui duxlt mulierem 
Itossensem cognomine Monro, ex qua genuit Donaldum, qui, 
diem sine prole, obiit. Sed, ex foemin& populari Ardmeanacha 
Janeta Shirshar, tres spurios progenuit filios, viz. Alexandrum, 
Lauchlanum et Johannem. Ex alid Concubina habuit etiam 
alium Spurium, qui vocabatur iEneas, et, ab his quatuor 
Hectoris filiis omnes Claneachani descenderunt. 

Deinde hie Lauchlanus Duncani frater duxit Katherinam 
Grant, Duncani Grant Equitis Aurati filiam, qus duos illi 
peperit, Gulielmum et Lauchlanum et quinque filias, quarum 
primogenita Mora, Domino Makgrigor, et post ejus decessum 
Baroni de Kincaim Matrimonio tradita est. 

Secunda nomine Mariora, Eugenio Makallan, Cameroniorum 
Duci, tertia nomine Katherina, AUano Makronald Domino de 
Knodiort^ Quarta nomine Johanna, Domino Aslun (Calder) et 
post ejus decessum, Lesly de Kininvy, et 

Quinta, Ferquhardo Makeachen de Kingortoch nupta erat. 

Alanus Duncani frater duxit Fraseriam {page fH^.] 

iiliam Domini de Lovat, viz. Hugonis Tertii ejus nominis 
Domini, ex qua quinque genuit filios, Lauchlanum, Gulielmum 



and lived with her as his wife ; of whom he had Hector, who 
married a woman of Ross, sumamed Monro, by whom he had 
Donald, who died without issue. But by a common woman of 
Ardmeanach, Janet Shirshar, he begat three bastard sons, namely, 
Alexander, Lauchlan, and John. By another concubine also he 
had another son, who was called Eneas ; and from these four sons 
of Hector, all the Claneachan have descended. 

Afterwards this Lauchlan, brother of Duncan, married Katharine 
Grant, daughter of Sir Duncan Grant, who bare to him two sons, 
William and Lauchlan, and five daughters, of whom the eldest. 
Mora, was given in marriage to the laird of Macgregor, and, after 
his death, to the Baron of Kincaim. 

The second, named Marjory, was married to Ewen Macallan, 
chief of the Camerons; the third, named Katharine, to Allan 
Macronald, laird of Knoidart ; the fourth, named Johanna, to laird 
Aslun (Calder), and after his death, to Leslie of Kininvie; 

and the fifth to Ferquhard Maceachen of Kingortoch. 

Alan, brother of Duncan, married Fraser, daughter of 

the lord of Lovat, namely Hugh the third lord of that name, by 
whom he had five sons, Lauchlan, William mor, John, Alexander, 



196 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

mor, Johannem, Alexandrum et Hugonem. Tres etiam ex e& 
habuit filias, Renildam, (Alexandro Mak Innish nuptani) 
Euphemiam, (Johanni Shaw ali^ Makalister cheir de Rothe- 
murchus) et aliam Domino de Lud in Atholia. Post obitum 
prims AUani sponsse Matrimonio se adjunxit filie Domini a 
Pitsligo, ex qua procreavit Gulielmum oig et Allanum Reoch. 
Ab his septem Allani filiis, ilia Makintoshiorum familia, quae 
Slighk Allan dicitur, est derivata. 

MiLCOLUMBUs Duncani frater minimus genuit Milcolumbum 
oig et Dugallum. 

MiLcoLUMBus OIG, ex prsedicta Janeta Monro, Hugonis 
Domini de Fowlis filia genuit Gulielmum et Ferquhardum. 

DuGALLus, Milcolumbi filius, tres genuit filios, viz. Dugalluni 
Bayn, Hugonem Roy et Johannem du, et ex posteritate hujus 
Ferquhardiy nuUus masculus extat praeter nunc 

Pettise degentem* 

Obs. Chron. 

DcJxcANUs suo tempore non multum fuit rebus turbidus, in- 
quietus, nee, vivente patre, in ullo memorabili conflictu fuisse 
legitur nisi in ilia pugna apud Culloden, ubi, cum fratribus 

and Hugh. He had also by her three daughters, Renilda, married 
to Alexander mac Innish ; Euphemia to John Shaw, otherwise 
Macalister cheir of Rothemurchus ; and the third to the laird of 
Lude in Athole. After the death of the first spouse of Alan, he 
joined himself in marriage to a daughter of the laird of Pitsligo, 
by whom he begat William oig and Allan Reoch. From these 
seven sons of Allan, that family of Mackintoshes which is called 
Slighk Allan is derived. 

Malcolm, youngest brother of Duncan, begat Malcolm oig and 
Dougall. 

Malcolm oig, by the aforesaid Janet Monro, daughter of Hugh, 
laird of Fowlis, begat William and Ferquhard. 

Dougall, son of Malcolm, had three sons, namely, Dougall Bayn^ 
Hugh Roy, and John du ; and of the posterity of this Ferquhard 
there is no male now extant but , now living at Petty« 

Chronological Obseuvations. 

Duncan, in his time, was not much troubled or disquieted with 
affairs, nor^ while his father was alive, is he recorded to have been 
in any memorable battle, unless in that fight at Culloden, where. 



p. 226] THE MACKINTOSHES 197 

I^uchlano et Alano, paucisque aliis, Gillespicum Macdonald, 
Alexandri Comitis Rossise Nothum prosecutus est, cum armenta 
Pettiae arripuisset, in qua pugn&, Makdonaldorum multis caesis, 
coeteri (licet numero plures) se in fugam conjiciunt. Nee 
incruenta fuit victoria; Nam una stirps Clanchattanorum, 
nempe Clantarrel, pen^ extincta fuerat. Hsec, paucis, ante 
Milcolumbi mortem, annis, evenerunt. 

Hic Duncanus in vindicta csedis Milcolumbi beg sui fratris 
et Mnedd Makinnish vie William sui consanguinei, ad Craig- 
charihach Anno 1441 Lochabriam late vastavit. Jus posses- 
sionis quod habuerat terrarum Rothemurchus, consanguineo 
suo Alexandra keir Makintosh (vulgo Alister keir mak hamish) 
disposuit. 

Hic Alexander fuit filius Jacobi Makintosh, in Bello 
Harlaensi csesi, et nepos Shai dentati Ducis 30 Clanchatta- 
norum, qui Perthae contra Clancavillos pugnavere Anno 1896. 

Hic Alexander accepit jus Feudale terrarum Rothemur- 
chus a Davide de Stuarto Moraviensi Episcopo 24 die 
Septembris Anno 1464, quod jus Allanus Makintosh (alias 
Sha) de Rothemurchus nepos prssdicti Alexandri postea 

with his brothers Lauchlan and Allan, and a few others, he pur- 
sued Gillespie Macdonald, bastard of Alexander, Earl of Ross, 
when he had lifted the cattle of Petty. In which fight many of 
the Macdonalds were slain, and the rest (albeit many in number) 
betook themselves to flight. Nor was the victory without blood, 
for one family of the Clanchattans, that is to say, the Clan Tarril, 
was almost extinguished. These things happened a few years 
before the death of Malcolm. 

This Duncan, in revenge of the slaughter of Malcolm beg his 
brother, and of Eneas Maclnnish vie William his cousin, at Craig 
Cailloch, in the year 1441, ravaged Lochaber widely. He dis- 
poned the right of possession which he had of the lands of 
Rothemurchus to his kinsman Alexander keir Mackintosh 
(commonly called Alister keir Machamish). 

This Alexander was son of James Mackintosh, slain at the battle 
of Harlaw, and grandson of Shaw the toothed, leader of the thirty 
Clanchattans who fought at Perth in 1396 against the Clan 
Quhele. 

This Alexander received the feudal right of the lands of Rothe- 
murchus from David Stuart, Bishop of Moray, on 24th September 
1464 ; which right Allan Mackintosh (alias Sh&w) of Rothemurchus, 
grandson of the aforesaid Alexander, afterwards alienated to Adam 



198 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

alienayit Adamo Gordono Castri Ruthvenensis Gubernatori 
Anno 1639, reservata solummodo yitali reditu Jacobi sui filii. 
pageHT,] Hoc modo JUS terrarum de Rothemurchus a Makintoshiis et 
Shais defluit postquam trecentis et tres Annos ab lis potitse 
essent. 

Is Duncanus jus hsereditarium terrarum Glengarry, Ach- 
drom, Letterfinlay et utriusque Leanachan a Johanne Rossie 
Comite sibi acquisivit Anno 1466. Sed quomodo amiserit est 
nobis ignotum. 

Anko 1467 Gulielmus Dominus Forbes et idem Duncanus 
Makintosh, mutuo foedere, in perpetuum duraturo, se et 
posteros, jurejurando, inter ipsos aliosque eodem foedere junctos^ 
dato, obstrinxerunt, quod, ad hunc usque diem, inviolatum 
observatur. Hoc foedus scripto mandatum est, Datum Forbes 
9 die Augusti 1467. Obligatio est dura et severissima, et stylus 
insolitus, ideoque, proprio idiomate hie ad verbum transcribo. 

This Indenture made at Forbes the Ninth Day of August, 
the Year of God One Thousand Four Hundred Three score 
and Seven Years. 

Betwixt an Honourable Lord William Lord Forbes, Sir 
Alexander Forbes of Pitsligo, Alexander Forbes of Toquhan, 
Arthur of Forbes and John of Forbes of Brouchous on one 
Part and Honourable Men Duncan Makintosh Chief and 

Gordon, governor of the castle of Ruthven, in the year 15$Q, 
reserving only the liferent of James his son. In this manner the 
right of the lands of Rothemurchus passed away from the Mack- 
intoshes and the Shaws, after it had been possessed by them for 
three hundred and three years. 

This Duncan acquired to himself the heritable right of the lands 
of Glengarry^ Achdrom, Letterfinlay^ and of both the Leanachans, 
from John, Earl of Ross, in the year 1466 ; but in what manner he 
lost it is unknown to us. 

In the year 1467, William Lord Forbes, and the same Duncan 
Mackintosh, bound themselves and their posterity in a mutual 
covenant, that should endure for ever, by an oath sworn between 
them and others joined with them in the same covenant, which is 
observed inviolate to this day. This covenant was committed to 
writing, dated at Forbes the 9th day of August 1467. The obliga- 
tion is hard and very severe, and the style unusual, and therefore 
I transcribe it here in its proper idiom, word for word : ^ This 
Indenture/ etc. 



pp. 226-228] THE MACKINTOSHES 199 

Captain of Clanchattan, Hutcheon Ros Baron of Kilravock, 
Lauchlan and Allan Makintosh Brothers to the said Duncan 
on the other Part proports and bears Witness That it is fully 
appointed and accorded betwixt the said Parties in Manner 
and Form as after follows. That is to say, the foresaid 
Lord Forbes and his Party before written binds & obliges them 
(baith for themselves and all and sundry their Kin Men Party 
and Inheridance that will adhere to them to keep hairtie 
Friendship, Kinrent, Love and Tendemes, and to tak oppen 
upright Pairts in all and sundry their Causes and Quarrels with 
the foresaid Duncan Hutcheon, Lauchlan and Allan and till 
all their Kin Men Pairty and Inheridence, and, if any Manner 
of Man scaps or would scape for their Deeds, disherisone 
banishing or undoeing, the said Lord Forbes and his Pairty 
shall defend them at all their goodly Power baith be Slight 
and Might, and doe for them as for their own Person, Kin or 
Men, keiphand his Allegiance & Service to our Sovereign Lord 
our King* And in like Manner the foresaid Duncan and his 
Party before written binds and obliges them baith for them- 
selves and all and sundrie their Kin Men Party and Ipheri- 
dence that will inherite to them to keep hairty Friendship, 
Kinrent, Love and Tendemes, and to tak oppin upright 
Pairt in their Cause and Quarrel to the said William Lord 
Forbes, Alexr., Alexr., Arthur and John and all their Kin 
Men Pairty and Inheridence, and, if any Manner of Man scaps 
or would scape for their Deeds, disherison banishing or undoe- 
ing, the said Duncan, Hutcheon, Lauchlan and Allan and 
their Men Pairty and Inheridence shall defend them at all [pagttiS.] 
their goodly Powers baith be Might and Slight defend them 
and do for them as for their own Persons Men or Kin keepand 
their Allegiance ever to our Sovereign Lord the King and the 
said Duncan and Hutcheon keepand their Allegiance to the 
Earl of Ross, and Mair attour ilk ane of the said Parties are 
obliged to others That they shall never ane of them na of ther 
Men for any Manner of Meid na or Reward to come na gang 
to make Hership, Slaughter or Disturbance on the tother 
in Time to come, and That all & sundrie thir accord and 
Pointment shall be leill and truely keept without Fraud of 
Guile to the langest livand of them Twa and their Baimes 



«00 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL I 

gotten of them and all that comes of them, and this Bond 
perpetually to endure for evermore, & to the Security of this 
either of the Pairties has made till other their great bodily 
aithes, the haly Evengell tuched, and whosoever brakes in 
any of thir Conditions shall be hauldin unfamous, menswom 
& to renounce their Faith of Christ, and never to be beared 
in Proof na Witness na Ly in Kirk nor Christin BuriaL 

In Witnes hereof the said Pairties to their Indentures inter- 
changeablie had affixed their Seales for the langer livand of 
either Pairties. 

DuKCANCJs accepit confirmationem Juris Senasculatfis Balli- 
vatus Dominii de Lochaber et terrarum quas in ilia regione 
possidebat a Jacobo 3 Rege Annis 1475 et 1476. 

Post hsec, prsesidio, quod Johannes, Comes Rossise, in arce 
Invernessensi posuit, semoto, praedictus Crightonius, arcis 
possessionem sibi resumpsit. Sed, quia hoc sine Regis man- 
dato egit, Ferquhardus Makintosh, prsefati Duncani filius, 
arcem machinamento quodam (quod Sus vocatur) suffbdit, et, 
magna parietis parte diruta, Crightonium aufugere cogit Anno 
1491. 

Et tunc Duncanus arcem reparavit, et tenuit usque ad 
Annum 1495, in quo Comes Huntleus, eandem cum officio vice 
Comitatus de Invernes a Rege accepit, et, Ajino sequenti, 
Duncanus Annum agens 86 Invemessse vitam morte commu- 
tavit, ubi cum antecessoribus in humatus est. Lauchlanus 

Duncan received from King James the Third, in the years 1475 
and 1476, confirmation of the right of stewartry of the bailiery of 
the lordship of Lochaber, and of the lands which he possessed in 
that country. 

After these things, the guard which John, Earl of Ross, had placed 
in the castle of Inverness, having been removed, the aforesaid 
Crichtbn resumed to himself possession of the castle. But because 
he did this without the king's mandate, Ferquhard Mackintosh^ 
son of the aforesaid Duncan, undermined the castle by a certain 
machine (which is called a sow), and a great part of the wall 
having been thrown down, he forced Crichton to take flight, in 
the year 1491. 

And then Duncan repaired the castle, and held it till the year 
1495, when the Earl of Huiitly received it from the king, along 
with the office of Sheriff of Inverness. In the following year 
Duncan died at Inverness in his eighty-sixth year, and was buried 
there with his forefathers. Lauchlan, brother of Duncan, lived 



pp. 228229] THE MACKINTOSHES 201 

Duncani frater plerumque Gellovise in Badenochia ut surrogatus 
Dux populi Badeonochensis commoratus est. Postea ob banc 
caussam Laucblanus Badconocbensis vocabatur. Erat staturse 
mediocris, corporis robusti et subcandidi colons. In procursa- 
tione ad Clarichallioch Anno 1441 contra Cameronos nonnullus 
digitos amisit. Ibi etiam ejus frater minimus Milcolumbus 
1)eg et consanguineus Mneas Maklnnish vie William interempti 
fuerunt. Quamobrem Duncanus et Allanus Lauchlani fratres 
(ut supra memoratum) extemplo peragrantes Abirtarf, Locha- 
briam degrassantur. Hie Laucblanus, jus haereditarium 
Gellovise, a Georgio Secundo Huntleo Comite, acquisivit Oct. 
2 Anno 1481. 

Allanus Duncani frater, Balcherrinachise in Stratharrika 
plerumque habitabat, et inter vivos agere desiit SO Februarii 
1476. 

MiLcoLUMBCJs Duncani fratrum natu minimus, in conflictu 
Cranychalliach (ut supra meminimus) necatus est Anno 1441. 

Circa hoc tempus vixit iEneas pater Milmorii (a quo ilia [pagete9.] 
Clanchattanorum familia vocata Slighk Milmor vie Innish) 
Paulus gow avus Andrese M^Phail (a quo Clanphail), et Finlaius 
keir (a quo Clan Finlay cheir) denominationem sumpserunt 

for the most part at Gelloway in Badenoch^ as he was chosen chief 
of the Badenoch people. On this account he was afterwards 
called Lauchlan of Badenoch. He was of middle height, robust 
of body, and of somewhat fair complexion. He lost some of his 
fingers in a raid against the Camerons at Craig Callioch, in the 
year 1441. There also his youngest brother, Malcolm beg, and his 
cousin, Eneas Maclnnish vie William, were killed. On account of 
which, Duncan and Allan, brothers of Lauchlan, as is above 
mentioned, forthwith invaded Lochaber, ravaging Abertarf. 
This Lauchlan, on October 2nd, 1481, acquired from George 
second Earl of Huntly, the heritable right of Gelloway. 

Allan, brother of Duncan, dwelt chiefly at Balcherrinachy in 
Stratherrick, and died on 20th February 1476. 

Malcolm, the youngest of the brothers of Duncan, was slain (as 
we hav€5 mentioned above) in the battle at Craig Callioch in the 
year 1441. 

About this time lived Eneas, father of Milmor, from whom that 
family of the Clanchattans called Slighk Milmor vie Innish have 
taken their name ; Paul Gow, grandfather of Andrew M^Phail, 
from whom the clan Phail ; and Finlay keir, from whom the clan 
Finlay cheir are designated. 



202 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

De Feuquhardo Domino Makintosh 

F£UQUHAUDus iiabuit uxorem iGgidiam Fraseriam, Domini 
de Lovat filiam, quae illi unum tantum peperit filium nomine 
Donaldum (qui dolore calculi obiit infans) et quatuor filias^ 
quarum una nupta erat Domino de Guthri, altera Domino de 
Glenkindi (Strauchan), Tertia Alexandra mak allan Clan- 
ronaldorum Duci, et Quarta Shao Domino de Rothemurchus* 
Tempore Captivitatis Dunbarriae per generosam quandam 
babuit Hectorem et Gulielmum. Hector duxit Filiam^ 
Johannis Grant de Frewchii, ex quS unum habuit filium Fer* 
quhardum, qui infans duorum Annorum expiravit. 

Obs, Chronologica. 

Ferquhardus vir strenuus et perornatus, procerus, sed 
macilentus, prsedia sua Lochabrias et alibi summ& pace 
tenuit. 

AxNo 1491 arcem Invemessae (ut supra dictum) submit^ 

COXCERNING FeRQUHARD, the TWELFTH LaIRD of 

Mackintosh. 

Ferquhard had for his wife Egidia Eraser, daughter of the Lord 
of Lovat, who bare to him only one son^ named Donald, who died 
an infant, of the disease of the stone, and four daughters, of 
whom one was married to the laird of Guthrie, another to the 
laird of Glenkindy (Strauchan), the third to Alexander mac Allan, 
chief of the Clanronald, and the fourth to Shaw, laird of Rothe- 
raurchus. In the time of his captivity at Dunbar he had by a 
certain gentlewoman. Hector and William. Hector married a 
daughter of John Grant of Freuchy, by whom he had one son, 
Ferquhard, who died an infant of two years. 

Chronological Observations. 

Ferquhard was a man strenuous and eloquent, tall but slender. 
He held his estates in Lochaber and elsewhere in the utmost 
peace. 

In the year 1491 he threw down the castle of Inverness, as 

^ ' Filiam/ an interlined later addition. 



p- 229] THE MACKINTOSHES «08 

& sequent! Anno ab Eugenio mak allan Camroniorum Duce 
ligamen obsequii & servitii pro se et suis contra omnes mor- 
tales scriptis mandatum 19 Februarii 149S accepit. 

Anno 1495 ille et Kenneth us Mackenzie a Kintail, propter 
propinquorum et asseclarum nefanda facinora, a Jacobo 4 
Scotorum Rege Inyemesss capti sunt, et deinde in arce Edin- 
burgensi duobis Annis detenti, unde, per funem a summitate 
arcb parietis evasere. Sed brevi post in SylvS Torwood a 
Domino Bucbanano intercept! sunt, ubi Kenethus Mackenzie 
inter capiendum ocdsus est, et Ferquhardus captus et Edin- 
burgum delatus, unde, ad arcem Dunbar brevi transfertur, 
ubi, sedecim Annis, captivus detinetur usque ad Regis necem 
in Bello Floudouno Anno 1513, quo tempore Ferquhardus cum 
aliis incarceratis liberati sunt. 

Statim post Ferquhardi incarcerationem Dunbarrise 
Alexander Dominus Gordoun, postea Tertius Huntlei Comes, 
officium vice-Comitatfis de Invemes cum praefecturS arcis 
ejusdem und cum fundo Connagise a Rege accepit Anno 1495, 
et sic custodia arcis Invemessae bis a Familid Makintoshiana 
dempta est. 

before said ; and in the following year he received from Ewen 
mac Allan^ chief of the Camerons, a bond of submission and 
service for himself and his people, against all men, put in writing 
on 19th of February 1492. 

In the year 1495, he and Kenneth Mackenzie of Kintail, on 
account of the wicked deeds of their neighbours and retainers, 
were seized at Inverness by King James the Fourth, and then 
detained for two years in the castle of Edinburgh, from whence 
they escaped by a rope from the top of the castle wall. But in a 
short time after they were intercepted in the wood of Torwood, 
by the laird of Buchanan, where Kenneth Mackenzie, while being 
seized, was slain, and Ferquhard taken and brought back to 
Edinburgh, whence he whs transferred to the castle of Dunbar, 
where he was detained a prisoner for sixteen years, until the 
death of the king at the battle of Flodden in the year 1513, 
when Ferquhard, with the others imprisoned, were liberated. 

Immediately after the imprisonment of Ferquhard at Dunbar, 
Alexander, Lord Gordon, afterwards third Earl of Huntly, re- 
ceived from the king the office of sheriff of Inverness, with the 
governorship of the castle thereof, together with the land of 
Connage, in the year 1495, and so the custody of the castle 
of Inverness passed away the second time from the family of 
Mackintosh. 



204 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

Comes Huntileus possessionem Connagise 16 Annis usque ad 

Annum nativitatis Jacobi 5 R. quo tempore Pettia dono a 

[pagetso.^ Rege data est Gulielmo Ogilvio Equiti Aurato, Ogilvii de 

Banfo fratri, quoniam ejus uxor Anna Rail erat prima qus, 

Regi nativitatem Principis notificavit.. 

Hic Gulielmus Ogilvjus arcem Delzieldam Pettis fundavit 
et coluit ad tempus quo Clanchattani sub ducatu prsfati Mil- 
columbi ^ mor Makintosh (aliks makgillichallum) et Ferquhardi 
ejus filii (audita Domini Makintoshii libertate a Castello 
Dunbar) arcem Delzieldam oppugnaverunt, et igne crem€unint, 
ubi Gulielmi Ogilvii filium et 18 alios interemerunt. Post hoc 
factum Dugallus, Johannem Ogilvium Gulielmi fratrem cum 
sponsa et progenie e Connagi& fugavit, ubi Dugallus deinde 
per spatium 5 Annorum commoratus est donee ipse & ejus 
filii Ferquhardus et Donaldus roy in arce Invemessae trucidati 
fuerant. 

Hector Ferquhardus Nothus, vir fortis et intrepidus, post 
neccm Lauchlani oig (Lauchlani Badionocensis filii) electus est 
Clanchattanorum Prsefectui, et h&c Prsefectura potitus est 
spatio 5 Annorum. 

Gulielmus alter Ferquhardi Nothus, Forresise mandato 

The Enrl of Huntly had possession of Connage for sixteen 
years^ until the year of the birth of King James the Fifth, when 
Petty was given by the king to Sir William Ogilvie, brother of 
Ogilvie of Banff, because his wife, Anna Rail, was the first to make 
known to the king the birth of the prince. 

This William Ogilvie built the Delzield castle at Petty, and 
dwelt there until the Clanchattans, under the leadership of the 
aforesaid Malcolm^ mor Mackintosh {aUas Macgillicallum) and 
Ferquhard his son (on hearing of the liberation of the laird of 
Mackintosh from the castle of Dunbar) assaulted the Delzield 
castle, and burned it, when the son of William Ogilvie, and 
eighteen others, perished. After this deed, Dougall chased John 
Ogilvie, brother of William, with his wife and children, away 
from Connage, where Dougdl afterwards dwelt for five years, 
until he and his sons Ferquhard and Donald Roy were killed in 
the castle of Inverness 

Hector, bastard son of Ferquhard, a man brave and intrepid, 
was after the slaughter of Lauchlan oig, son of Lauchlan of 
Badenoch, elected chief of the Clanchattans, and enjoyed this 
position for the space of five years. 

■ — ^ - - - ■ 

» Error for *Dugalli.' 



p. 230] THE MACKINTOSHES 205 

Jacobi Comitis Morravie capite mulctatus est. Quippe erat 
Ductor eorum qui Parochiam Dykiam depopulati sunt Anno 
1581. 

Hic Ferquhardus Dominus Makintosh, sine progenie legit- 
tim& ex suo corpore procreate Deo Naturseque concessit Inver- 
nessae 8 Octobris 1514, quo defuncto, Regimen tribfis 
Clanchattanorum, ad Gulielmum primogenitum Lauchlani 
Badenochensis pervenit. 

De GuLiELMO Domino Makintosh xiii. 

GuLiELMiJs Lauchlani Badionachensis filius et Ferquhardi 
patruelis Matrimoniali copula conjunctus est Isobellas Mak- 
neven Baronise de Dunachtown hseretricse Anno 1497, ex qua 
nuUam suscepit progeniem. 

Post Isobellae obitum, ex Pauli Makwirrich filia duos natos 
totidemque natas progenuit. Nati ^neas et Donaldus Glas. 
Mneas erat pater Johannis quondam Delliphur possessoris, 
qui unam tantum habuit filiam, quam Hugo Eraser, ali^s mak 
ean vie Alister, duxit, ex qu& procreatus est Alexander Eraser 
de Erchet. Donaldus Glass erat vir admodum strenuus et 
gnavus, ex quo familia de Stron est orta. 

William^ another bastard of Ferquhard's^ was put to death at 
Forres, by order of James, Earl of Moray, because he was the 
leader of those who in 1531 laid waste the parish of Dyke. 

This Ferquhard, laird of Mackintosh, without lawful issue of 
his body, died at Inverness on the 8th of October 1514. On his 
death, the chiefship of the Clanchattans devolved upon William, 
eldest son of Lauchlan of Badenoch. 

Concerning William, the thirteenth Laird 
of Mackintosh. 

William, son of Lauchlan of Badenoch, and cousin of Ferquhard, 
married Isobella Macnevan, heiress of the barony of Dunachton 
in the year 1497, by whom he had no issue. 

After the death of Isobella, by a daughter of Paul Macvurrich 
he had two sons and as many daughters. The sons were Eneas 
and Donald Glas. Eneas was father of John, sometime owner of 
Dellifur, who had only one daughter, whom Hugh Fraser, alias 
Makean vie Alister, married, of whom was bom Alexander Fraser 
of Erchitt. Donald Glas was a man of great vigour and activity, 
from whom sprang the family of Strone. 



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* 

Observatio Chron. 

GuuELMUs, Ferquliardo patnieli ut proximus hseres masculus 
suffectus est) vir robusti corporis, speciose forme, arguti in- 
genii, et liberalis supra fortunam indolis, et in illo tanta erat 
morum suavitas, ut, omnes, t&m alienos qiikm cognatos, sibi 
devinxit. Praeterea, durante patruelis captivitate, non solum 
omnia ejus negotia, sed etiam, totam tribum Clanchattanam 
[pa^eSSi.] summa laude et aequitate gubernavit. 

Axxo 1496 Cameronii de Lochabir, Appin et Ronoch cum 
quibusdam a Glencovua, et eadem nocte invadunt Brebado- 
nochiam et Strathnairn, et clancuUum jumentum agmina ex- 
portant. Gulielmus subitam in Konoch et Appin expediti- 
oncm facit, ubi, multis Clancbameroniorum trucidatis, eorum 
agros depopulavit. 

EoDEMQUE supplicio Glenco affixit, quoniam Cameronios in 
praedictis praedationibus auxiliatl sunt. Lochabria adhuc est 
Intacta Gulielmus studet vindictae. Patruelem Dugallum 
Makgillichallum animosum ac imperterritum virum consulit, 
qui hac conditione poUicitus est totam Lochabriam subjugare, 
et Cameroniorum animos brevi diminuere. Petiit solummodo 

Chronological Obskuvations. 

William was chosen as next heir male to his cousin Ferquhard^ 
a man of robust body^ of handsome form^ with a shrewd mind, 
and inclined to be liberal above his fortune ; while in him there 
was so much sweetness of manner that he won every one to him- 
self^ as well strangers as kinsmen. Besides, during the captivity 
of his cousin, not only did he manage his affairs, but also ruled the 
whole Clanchattan with the highest credit and equity. 

In the year 1496, the Camerons of Lochaber, Appin and 
Rannoch, with some from-Glencoe (came), and on the same night 
invaded Brae Badenoch and Strathnairn, and stealthily carried 
off herds of cattle. William made a sudden raid on Rannoch and 
Appin, where after killing many of the clan Camerons, he wasted 
their lands. 

He inflicted the same punishment on Glencoe, because tliey 
assisted the Camerons in these robberies. Lochaber as yet 
was intact; but William, studying revenge, consulted with 
his cousin Dougall Macgillicallum, a man courageous and un- 
daunted, who promised to subdue all Lochaber and soon to 
break the spirits of the Camerons, on this condition: he 
asked only for thirty brave^ swift, and strong youths, whom he 



pp. 230-231] THE MACKINTOSHES 207 

80 intrepidos, alacres, fortesque juvenes, quos e Clanchattand 
tribfi ipse excerperet cum possessione terrarum Borlum et 
Culbairds pro spatio unius Anni ad adolescentes sustinendos. 
Quo concesso, non dubitavit quin istos profugos et vagabundos 
supprimeret. Hoc dato, extemplo Dugallus cum filio Fer- 
quhardo rem aggrediuntur. Sic se res habuit. Tempore 
nocturno, vento ab Oriente flante, in Abirtarfiam, et ita 
subito, in pagum aliquem sibi propositum transvolant, et, 
istius armentis et incolis deletis, statim regrediuntur forsitan 
6 aut 7 dies postea agros proximos ita depopularent. Hoc 
eousque faciebant donee intestinum dissidium inter ipsos 
Clanchattanos illud diremit. 

Hic Gulielmus Makintosh, de familiis Granted et Mac- 
kenzia multum meruit. Primo Johannes Grant de Frewciiy 
nepos Duncani Grant Equitis Aurati, a Tutore Jacobo Grant 
a Ballindalloch hsereditate ejectus, ad hunc Gulielmum ejus 
nutricium et patruelem conditionem et statum conquestus est, 
et auxilium implorat. Gulielmus concedit, et adolescentuli 
misertus ducentos e Clanchattana tribu excerpit, et, a Ban- 
chari& Badionocensi sub ducatu prae nominati Dugalli Mak- 

himself should select from the Clanchattan tribe; with the 
possession of the lands of Borlum and Culbairds for the space of 
one year^ for the sustenance of the young men; which, being 
granted, he had no doubt but that he should suppress those 
fugitives and vagabonds. This having been agreed to, Dougall, 
along with his son Ferquhard, forthwith entered upon the busi- 
ness. It was carried out in this manner : in the night-time, the 
wind blowing from the east, they would quickly pass over to 
Abertarf^ and so coming suddenly on some village determined 
upon by them, and having destroyed the cattle and the inhabitants 
of the place, they would immediately return, perhaps six or seven 
days after, and so waste their lands. This they were doing so 
far until intestine dissension among the Clanchattans themselves 
brought it to an end. 

Tliis William Mackintosh deserved well of the families of Grant 
and Mackenzie. In the first place, John Grant of Freuciiy, grand- 
son of Sir Duncan Grant, having been ejected from his heritage 
hy his tutor, James Grant of Ballindalloch, complained to this 
William concerning his tutor and cousin his condition and estate, 
and implored help. William yielded, and having pity on that 
young man, he selected two hundred of the Clanchattan tribe, 
and sent them from Banchar in Badenoch under the leadership 



208 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

gillichallum sui patruelis cum Domino Grant (turn 16 Annos 
agente) ad patemam hsereditatem redipiscendam misit. Primfi 
uocte, Kincamise Strathspeienses sistunt (quasi, venandum in 
Glen mor sequenti die illuc venissent), qu& nocte Johannes mor 
Grant Glenmorist uni antecessor a Domino Grant, per fiUam 
Baronis de Kincaim procreatus est. Sequenti nocte ad 
Mullachard ex improviso venerunt^ ubi Tutorem cum sociis 
apprehendunt, et ewm et Grantorum primarios jurejurando 
astringunt quod, Johanni, tanquam suo justo et legitime 
Grenearchse et Duci, in futurum obsequentes forent, et hoc 
modo Dominum Grant in quieta rerum suarum possessione 
relinquunt. 

Circa hoc tempus Kenethus Makenzie a Kintail (vulgo 
Kynach vlair) qui, Alexandrum Makgillespick (alias Mak- 
donald) a Lochailish ad vicum Park prostemit (ex (ilia Donaldi 
Insulani, quam duxerat, unum tantum procreavit (ilium nomine 
[pa^etS'j.] Kenethum (vulgo Kynach avig vocatum). Hie est ille qui, a 
Domino Buchanano in Torwood occisus est, ut supra dictum. 
Kenethus pater uxorem suam Donaldi filiam repudiat, et, 
Domini Lovat (ih'am e domo patem& vi rapit, et ex ek quatuor 
genuit filios quorum maximus natu Johannes vocabatur. 

of the aforenamed Dougall Macgillicallum, his cousin^ with the 
laird of Grant (then sixteen years of age), to recover his paternal 
heritage. The first night, they stayed at Kincamy in Strathspey, 
as if they had come thither to hunt in Glenmor on the following 
day ; on which night, John mor Grant, ancestor of Glenmoriston, 
was begotten by the laird of Grant, on a daughter of the baron 
of Kincaim. On the night following they came unexpectedly to 
Mullachard, where they apprehended the tutor with his asso- 
ciates, and bound him and the chief men of the Grants by an 
oath, that they would in future be obedient to John, as their just 
and lawful head and chief; and in this manner they left the laird 
of Grant in the quiet possession of his own. 

About this time Kenneth Mackenzie of Kintail (commonly 
[called] Kynach vlair) who overthrew Alexander Macgillespick 
{alias Macdonald) of Lochalsh, at the town of Park, begot by a 
daughter of Donald of the Isles, whom he had married, an only 
son named Kenneth (commonly called Kynach avig). He it was 
who was slain at Torwood by the Laird of Buchanan, as was said 
before. Kenneth, the father, repudiated his wife, the daughter 
of Donald, and carried off by force from her parental home a 
daughter of Lord Lovat, and by her had four sons, the eldest of 
whom was named John. 



pp. 231-232] THE MACKINTOSHES 209 

Kenetho arvig (oig) sine legitima prole extincto,et patre mor- 
tuo, Hector Roy makenzie filius Alexandri (agnomine Inrick) et 
Johannes patruus existimans Johannem suum nepotem Nothum 
et se ipsum Eenethi vlair legitimum haeredem, Johannem 
exterminat. Hie adhuc nisi adolescens prsedictum Gulielmum 
Makintosh (suum ex Matre cognatum) petiit, illi rem totam 
demonstrate et, ab eo consilium et auxilium efflagitat Gulielmus 
annuit, et, adolescentem apud se tenuit quod Annos viriles 
attigerit, et tunc cum eo octoginta viros audaces et magnanimos 
a Borlum sub ductu Dugalli Makgillichallum et Ferquhardi 
filii, misit, qui noctumo itinere progressi, rapide et ex impro- 
vis6 domum Killenensem, ubi tunc Hector habitaverat, ingredi- 
untur, et eum captivum fecerunt, et, convocatis Mackenziorum 
primoribus, omnes un^ jusjurandum interponant de fideli, erga 
Johannem Makenzie, tanquam Mackenziorum Genearcham et 
Principem, obsequio, et, in eo statu, Dugallus et socii Johannem 
inter suos relinquunt. 

Hic Gulielmus Makintosh, post obitum sponsae Isobellse 
Maknevan, possessionem Baronise de Dunachtown retinuit. 

PosT£A Elizabetha Maknevan, Isabellse soror minor natu, et. 



Kenneth arvig (oig), having been cut off without lawful issue, 
and the father being dead, Hector Roy Mackenzie, son of Alex- 
ander (sumamed Inrick), and John his father's brother, esteeming 
John his nephew a bastard, and himself the lawful heir of Kenneth 
vlair, drove John away. He being as yet only a youth, sought 
out the aforesaid William, declared to him the whole matter, and 
earnestly craved his advice and aid. William assented, and kept 
the young man with him until he had reached the years of man- 
hood; and then he sent with him eighty bold and courageous 
men from Borlum, under the leadership of Dougall Macgilli- 
callum, and Ferquhard his son ; who, having advanced rapidly by 
a night march, came unexpectedly to the house of Killen where 
Hector then dwelt, and made him prisoner; and, having called 
together the chief men of the Mackenzies, they all together 
gave their oath of faithful service towards John Mackenzie, as 
the Head and Chief of the Mackenzies ; and in that state, Dougall 
and his company left John among his own people. 

This William Mackintosh, after the death of his wife, Isobella 
Macnevan, retained possession of the Barony of Dunachton. 

Afterwards, Elizabeth Macnevan, younger sister of Isabella, 



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pnedictarum terrarum cohseres, jus suum resignavit in favoreni 
Alexandri Comitis Huntlei, qui Gulielmo deinde earundem 
proprietatcm pecunia vcndidit. Et hoc modo jus hsereditarium 
Baronise de Dunachtown, in Makintoshiorum possessionem 
illapsum est. Hoc evenit Anno 1502. 

Anno 1513, Ferquhardo Domino Makintoshio e caroere 
liberato, hie Guliclmus, in testimonium diligentie et cune 
tempore suas administrationis 1800 Clanchattanorum, in 
campo Inverind coram Ferquhardo delect um fecit, quos statim 
ei tradidit. Quo facto, se regimine exuit, quod, 18 Annos 
antea, tanquam vicarius, 8umm& laude tenuit. 

Anno sequent! Ferquhardus e vivis excessit, et idem Guliel- 
mus, ut proximus hseres masculus, illi successit. Sed Johannes 
roy Makintosh (alias mak Lauchlan vie allan) Gulielmi oon- 
sanguineus aegre ferens quod Gulielmus tota hasreditate poti* 
retur, studet per fas et nefas aliquam posssessionem ab illo 
extorquerc, aut multis molestiis ilium vexare. Quamobrem, 
Fraseriis consanguineis ex avia in opem perditionem indicat, 
cum quibus, ad Dundaviot, Gulielmus Makintosh ex 
constituto convenit. Johannes agros de Miklegeddes petit. 

and co-heiress of the aforesaid lands resigned her right in favour 
of Alexander, Earl of Huntly, who thereafter sold the property of 
the same to William for money : and in this manner the heritable 
right of the Barony of Dunachton passed into the possession of 
the Mackintoshes. This happened in the year 1502. 

In the year 1518, Ferquhard laird of Mackintosh having been 
liberated from prison, this William, as a testimony of his diligence 
and care in the time of his administration, in the field of 
Inverind in the presence of Ferquhard, made choice of 1800 
of the Clanchattans, whom he forthwith gave to him. This 
having been done, he divested himself of the government, which 
for eighteen years before he held, as deputy, with the highest 
praise. 

In the following year Ferquhard died, and the same William, 
as his next heir male, succeeded to him. But John Roy Mack- 
intosh (alias MacLauchlan vie Allan), kinsman of William, grieving 
much that William should possess the whale heritage, set himself 
rightly or wrongly to extort some possession from him, or to vex 
him with many troubles. Wherefore, he won over the Frasers, 
his kinsmen by his grandmother, to his interest, with whom, at 
Dundaviot, William Mackintosh met by appointment. John 
demanded the lands of Meikle Geddes: William refused. John 



pp. 232-233] THE MACKINTOSHES 211 

Gulielmus renuit. Fremit Johannes, et minatur Grcddes incen- 
dere, si sibi non detur. Quo cognito, Gulielmus excandescuit, 
et jubet omnes amicos tunc prassentes Johannem respuere, et 
vero etiam mandat ingravissimsp pcense damnatione, ne quis 
cum tecto recipiat, aut, ulla re ad vitam necessarid juvet, et 
ita conventus dissolvitur. 

Paulo post Gulielmus, sine ulla suspicione Invernessa; com- 
moratur, quod quam primum Johanni innotescit, cum suis 
complicibus nocturno itinere ille oppidum ingreditur, et, Gul- [pagttSS,] 
ielmum, sine asseclis aut servis, lecto secure affixum et dormien- 
tern, inhumaniter confodit 22 die Maii Anno Domini 1515, 
aetatis Anno 48. 

Ilico, post barbaram banc Gulielmi caedem, per cussores 
fugiunt. Lauchlanus Makintosh caesi frater, rumore ad se 
volante, imperat Dugallo Makgillichallum filioque Ferquhardo, 
cum cohorte viginti fortium militum homicidas insequi, quorum 
vestigia facile comperta sunt. Nam omnes qua quaversum 
illos odio habebant. 

DuGALLUs, cum suo manipulo, eos in Cathanesiam pro- 
sequitur, inde ad Strathnaverniam, inde vero ad Assint, inde 
ad Lochailsh, a Lochailsh ad Abirtarf, inde ad Strathspeyam, 

raged^ and threatened to bum Geddes, if it was not given to him. 
On hearing this William grew very angry, and ordered all his 
friends then present to reject John ; and indeed he even charged 
them under the heaviest penalty not to receive him under their 
roof, or help him with anything necessary to life: and so the 
meeting dissolved. 

Shortly after this William resided at Inverness without any 
suspicion. As soon as this was known to John, he with his 
accomplices came to the town by night, and inhumanly stabbed 
him as he lay in bed sleeping securely, without retainers or 
servants, on 22nd May 1515, in the forty-eighth year of his 
age. 

Immediately after this barbarous murder of William the assassins 
fled. Lauchlan Mackintosh, brother of the victim, when the news 
reached him, ordered Dougall Macgillicallum, and his son Fer- 
quhard, with a band of twenty brave soldiers, to pursue the 
murderers, whose footsteps were easily found, for all the people 
on every side held them in detestation. 

Dougall, with his handful, pursued them into Caithness, thence 
to Strathnaver, thence to Assint, thence to Lochalsh ; from Loch- 
alsh he followed them to Abertarf^ thence to Strathspey, through 



«12 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIOXS [VOL. i 

per Strathjspeam ad Strathdi^ et inde ad Glenesk, insectantury 
ubi percussores itinere defatigati, et ex improviso intercepti, 
omnes ad unum capti sunt (numero tredecim) et decollati, 
quorum capita Lauchlano sunt allata, et stipitibus ejus jussCi 
afllixa ad terrorem talia molientibus incutiendum. Haec 
evenerunt Anno 1516. 

Hir: Gulielmus, in prsefata expeditione ab illo in Rennoch 
facta, Bardum Makintier ketho adduxit, a quo Makintirii in 
Badcnochia nunc Clanchattani vocati descendenint. 



De Lauchlano Domino Mackin- 
tosh XIIIL 

Lauchlaxus Makiktosh, Lauchlani Badionocensis filius^ 
Gulielmo fratri sufTectus, uxorem sibi adjunxit Joannam 
Gordoniam filiam unicam et haeredem Domini Lochinvarriae 
sororem uterinam Jacobi Stuarti Moravise Comitis filii illegi- 
timi Jacobi Quarti llegis, quam, ex Janeta Kennedy, Comitis 
Cassilissa* filia susceperat 



Strathspey to Strathdee, and thence to Glenesk, where the 
assassins, wearied with the chase^ and suddenly intercepted, 
were all to a man taken, being thirteen in number, and beheaded. 
Their heads were brought to Lauchlan, and by his order were 
fixed upon spikes, to strike terror upon those who should dare to 
do such deeds. These things happened in the year 1516. 

This William^ in the aforesaid expedition made by him into 
Ilannoch, brought away Bard Maclntyre, from whom the Mao- 
Intyres in Badenoch, now called Clanchattans, are descended. 



Of Lauchlan, the fourteenth Laird of 
Mackintosh. 

Lauchlan Mackintosh, son of Lauchlan of Badenoch, having 
succeeded his brother William, took to himself as his wife Jean 
Gordon, only daughter and heiress of the Laird of Lochinvar, 
sister uterine of James Stuart, Earl of Moray, illegitimate son of 
King James the Fourth, whom he begat by Janet Kennedy, 
daughter of the Earl of Cassillis. 



pp. 233-234] THE MACKINTOSHES 213 

Lauchlanus, ex hac Joanna genuit Gulielmum successorem, 
et Margaretam, quae nupta erat Gualtero Innesio a Calrossi. 

Huic etiam duo spurii filii nati sunt ante connubium, viz. 
Johannes, cujus mater erat filia Dallassii a Cantray, et, a 
Johanne, Makintoshii, qui quondam litle Dunachtown posside- 
bant, venere. Alter Spurius Gulielmus vocabatur, Makintosh- 
iorum, qui Einrara et Pittowry possidebant, progenitor, cujus 
mater erat filia mor Maktearlich. Tres etiam 

filias Spurias habuit, viz. Agnetam, Ronaldo Makdonald glash 
nuptam, Eatherinam, Johanni Grant de Elachi, et Marioram, 
quae nupta erat Dugallo Makpherson, qui Essich coluit. 
Johanna Gordonia post mariti obitum matrimonio tradita est 
Jacobo Ogilvio de Cardell Domino de Finletour fratri Mar- 
garetse Ogilviae postea Dominae Makintosh. 



Obs. Chron. 

Hic Lauchlanus erat improcerus (et ideo saepe Lauchlanus 
beg, i.e. pusillus denominatus), sed admodum robustus. 
Romanum nasum et Aquilinos oculos habuit, caesariemque lpogeiS4,2 

Lauchlan, by this Jean^ begat William his successor, and 
Margaret, who was married to Walter Innes of Calrossie. 

There were bom to him before marriage two bastard sons, 
namely, John, whose mother was a daughter of Dallas of Cantray ; 
and from this John came the Mackintoshes who sometime possessed 
little Dunachton. The other bastard was called William, pro- 
genitor of the Mackintoshes who possessed Kinrara and Pittowry^ 
whose mother was a daughter of mor Mactearlich. He had 

also three bastard daughters, namely, Agnes, married to Ronald 
MacDonald glash ; Katherine, to John Grant of Elchie ; and 
Marjory, who was married to Dougall Macpherson, who lived in 
Essich. 

Jean Gordon, after the death of her husband, was given in 
marriage to James Ogilvie of Cardell, laird of Finlatour, brother 
of Margaret Ogilvie, after^'ards Lady Mackintosh. 

Chronological Observations. 

This Lauchlan was low of stature (and so often called Lauchlan 
beg, that is little), but very robust, had a Roman nose and eagle 
eyes, and hair of a colour inclining to yellow. 



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flavescentis coloris. Apud vicinos omnes, ob corporis animique 
virtutem, sed, speciatim, propter ejus frugalitatem, erat 
multum honoratus, et licet multis pressus difficultatibus, 
durantibus octo Annis, in quibus Clanchattanis prseerat, 
Baroniam tamen de Drumchardin et Beufoord eo tempore sibi 
conquisivit. Erat (ut narrat Leslcus de rebus gestis Scotorum) 
vir agrorum locuples, prudentia tkm singulari prsestans, ut 8uo» 
omnes prae caeteris, inter officii lineas prseclare quidem con- 
tinuerit. Connubium inter ipsum et Johannam Grordoniam 
consilio et persuasione praedicti Comitis Moravian finitum est, 
ut suam in Septentrione factionem augeret, et, quo banc suam 
intensionem facilius assequeretur, donuni Wardae et Maritagii 
Lauchlani cepit. 

Lauchlanls suppetias Johanni Maky filio aoidh roy ad- 
versus Nigellum Nawrach et ejus filios elargitus est Anno 1617^ 
et, ejus opitulatione potissimum, possessio et jus terrarum de 
Strathnaver, ad prolem aoidh roy Maky pervenit. 

AxNo 15^0 praedictus Dugallus Makintosh (alias Makgilli- 
challum) Lauchlani patruelis, vir elati animi, reminiscens acta, 
quae suo tempore fecerat, dixisse fertur, se Domini Makintoshii 



Among all his neighbours he was much honoured on acount of 
his strength of body and of mind^ but especially for his frugality ; 
and although during the eight years in which he ruled over the 
Clanchattans he was oppressed with many difficulties^ yet in that 
time he acquired to himself the Barony of Drumchardin and 
Beufoord. He was (as Leslie narrates, De Rebus Gestis Scotorum,y 
a man rich in lands^ acting with such singular prudence that 
he very successfully kept all his people^ more than others, within, 
the bounds of duty. The marriage between him and Jean 
Gordon was accomplished by the advice and persuasion of the 
aforesaid Earl of Moray, that he might increase his faction in 
the North ; and that he might the more easily follow out thla 
his intention, he received the gift of the ward and marriage of 
Lauchlan. 

In the year 1517 Lauchlan gave liberal assistance to John Maky, 
son of Aoidh roy, against Neil Nawrach and his sons ; and chiefly 
by his aid the possession and right of the lands of Strathnaver 
came to the children of Aoidh roy Maky. 

In the year 1520 the aforesaid Dougall Mackintosh (alias Mac- 
gillicallum), cousin german of Lauchlan, a man of a haughty 
disposition^ remembering the deeds which in his time he had 



p. 234] THE MACKINTOSHES 216 

nepotem esse non minus qxikm Lauchkuius oig (ita enim 
Makintoshius vulg6 vocabatur) et majora in honorem familise 
fecisse qukm Lauchlanus Badionochensis et ejus filii, et tribCis 
Dueatum ante quemlibet alium meruisse, et, brevi post hsec 
dicta, possessionem arcis Invemessensis sibi assumpsit, et, in 
omni, tanquam Clanchattanorum Dux se gerere conatur. Sed 
in ipso in caepto prostratus est. Nam Anno 1521, arce Inver- 
nessae stratagemate capta, Dugallus et filii, Ferquhardus et 
Donaldus Roy (ob eorum insolentiam) gladio perierunt, et 
deinde Dominus Makintosh, arcem Invernessensem et Conna- 
giam, antiquas suorum antecessorum possessiones, ingreditur. 

Sub id tempus orta est controversia inter Dominum Makin- 
tosh et Johannem Campbellum Calderium Equitem Auratum, 
qui duxit Muriellam Calderiam Calderias hseredem de terris 
Miklgeddes et Rait. Inter quos (post multa atrocia facta) fit 
reconciliatio hac conditione, ut, agris istis controversis, 
Makintoshius, dum in vivis esset, potiretur, quse reconciliatio 
Sacramento sancita scriptis mandata est apud Bandchar in 
Badenochia 20 Aug. 1521 adhuc inter Makintoshii chartas 
extans. 

done^ is reported to have said that he was grandson of the laird 
of Mackintosh not less than Lauchlan oig (for so Lauchlan was 
commonly called) ; and that he had done more for the honour of 
the family than Lauchlan of Badenoch and his son, and was 
deserving of the chiefship of the clan before any other. 

Soon after making these assertions he took possession of the 
Castle of Inverness, and endeavoured in every way to carry him- 
self as chief of the Clanchattans. But his enterprise was nipped 
in the bud; for in 1521 the Castle of Inverness, having been 
taken by stratagem, Dougall and his sons, Ferquhard and Donald 
Roy, perished by the sword for their insolence ; and then the 
laird of Mackintosh entered into the Castle of Inverness and 
Connage, the ancient possessions of his ancestors. 

About this time there arose a controversy between the laird of 
Mackintosh and John Campbell of Calder, knight, who married 
Muriel Calder, heiress of Calder, concerning the lands of Meikle- 
Geddes and Rait. After many atrocious deeds, reconciliation was 
made between them, on this condition, that Mackintosh should 
possess these disputed lands while he lived; which agreement 
was ratified by oath, and committed to writing at Bendchar in 
Badenoch on August 20th, 1521, still extant among the charters 
of Mackintosh. 



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Hic Lauchlanus Dominus Makintosh Anno 15S2, agrorum 
Connagiae possessionem per aliquot Annos, pnedicto Johanni 
Malcolmsono (alias Makgillichallum) nepoti suo illegitimo ex 
fratre Milcolumbo, gratis dedit, ad hunc finem, ut, Euphemiam 
Dunbarram, Andreas Monro, a Miltown viduam, Matrimonio 
illi obtineret, et hoc modo, Johannem a pristinis grassationibus 
mansuefacere putavit. Aliter tanien evenit, ut, a Lesleo de 
rebus gestis Scotorum ample narratur. 
[page 235]. Lauchlanus, omnes suos, intra officii lineas continere conatur. 
Sed hoc, multorum animos, qui, ikm arcta officii I^e con- 
stringi, agre tulerant, ab eo multum alienavit. Inter alios, 
quorum barbariem Lauchlanus abhorrebat, iste Johannes Mai- 
colmsonus, in pristina sua pravitate et nequitia indesinentcr 
permansit, quod Lauchlanum multopere afflixit. Eum accersit, 
et leniter increpare statuit. Interea adfuerat quidam nomine 
Milmor mak dai, Domini Lauchlani frater collactaneus ejusque 
primarius assecla, qui cujusdam viduae Brivianas amore captus, 
accidit quod Dugallus Makqueen alius Lauchlani cognatus earn 
rapuit, quod evenisse, inscio Lauchlano et sine ejus consens{i 
non verisimile putavit, ideoque vindictam meditatur. Odium 

This Lauchlan^ laird of Mackintosh^ in the year 1522, freely 
gave possession of the lands of Connage for some years to the 
aforesaid John Malcolmson {alias Macgillicallum) his illegitimate 
nephew, by his brother Malcolm ; for this purpose, that he might 
obtain for him in marriage Euphemia Dunbar, widow of Andrew 
Monro of Miltown ; and in this way he thought to tame John of 
his wonted maraudings. It happened otherwise, however, as is 
fully narrated by Leslie, De Rebus Gesiis Scotorum, 

Lauchlan endeavoured to keep all his people within the bounds 
of duty ; but this greatly alienated from him the minds of many 
who felt it grievous to be so constrained by the strict law of duty. 
Among those whose barbarity Lauchlan abhorred, this John 
Malcolmson continued incessantly in his accustomed depravity 
and lawlessness, which very greatly distressed Lauchlan. He 
sent for him, and resolved to reprove him gently. Meanwhile 
there was present one named Milmor mac Dai, foster brother 
of Lauchlan, and his principal henchman, who, having be- 
come enamoured of a certain widow at Brin, it happened that 
Dougall Macqueen, another kinsman of Lauchlan, carried her off; 
which Milmor judged could not likely have been done unknown 
to Lauchlan, and without his consent ; and therefore he medi- 
tated revenge. Concealing his hatred, he seized this opportunity. 



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celat, et hanc ansam arripit. Johannem Malcolmsonum, quern, 
alta molire et dominari ambire sciebat, clanculum prsefatur, 
dicens Makintoshium, de illo ignominiose locutum esse, et 
Sat}aice, ilium Makcheandich grogich denominasse, ilium odio 
habere, et insuper quod, ilium, a possessione Connagiae ejicere, 
intenderit. Hoc non prius dictum quam creditum. Johannes 
simultatem et ssevitiam in tenebrionis corde (contra suum 
Dominum) radicatam percipiens, hunc perfidum et flagitiosum 
nebulonem sibi associat, et ambo in unum conjimcti, suum in 
noxium Ducem trucidare conspirant, et, ni cunctatio conatum 
detegeret, horrendum hoc facinus sequenti die perpetrare in- 
stituunt. Makintoshius tunc Loindvulgias in Badenochia per- 
noctabat, ubi rem aggredi non audebant. Cum proximo die in 
reditu venaturum (in loco Breravock vocato) sciebant, et ibi 
ilium interficere conclusum est. 

SuMMo mane 25 die Martii Anno 1524 Makintoshius, ad 
fatalem sedem venatoriam iter aggreditur. Sed Johannes 
Malcolmsonus, Milmor, et ejus frater Gulielmus cum tribus 
aliis sceleris sociis intervallum faciunt, et, quum primum 
Makintoshium solitarium in sede venatoria viderent, cum in- 
vadunt, et ex insidiis pcrfide confodiunt 34 setatis Anno. 

He conferred secretly with John Malcolmson, whom he knew to 
be ready for high attempts^ and ambitious to bear rule, telling 
him that Mackintosh had spoken of him contemptuously, and had, 
by way of satire, named him MacKynich Grogich, regarded him 
with hatred, and that, moreover, he intended to eject him from 
the possession of Connage. This was no sooner said than believed. 
John, perceiving malice and cruelty rooted in the heart of the 
knave against his chief, associated to himself this perfidious and 
wicked scoundrel; and having both become of one mind, they 
conspired to murder their blameless chief; and lest delay should 
reveal the plot, they determined to perpetrate this horrid villainy 
on the following day. Mackintosh was then spending the night 
at Loindvulgie in Badenoch, where they dared not make the 
attempt ; but as they knew that on his return the next day he 
would hunt in the place called Breravock, it was concluded to 
kill him there. 

Early on the morning of the 25th day of March 1 524 Mackin- 
tosh took his way to the fatal hunting seat. But John Malcolmson, 
Milmor, and his brother William, with other three wicked accom- 
plices, made a halt until they saw Mackintosh alone in the hunting 
seat, when by an ambush they set upon him and treacherously 
stabbed him, in the thirty-fourth year of his age. 



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In hujus parricidie vindictam Donald us Makintosh (alijis 
glas), Makintoshii ex fratre Gulielmo nepos, et Donaldus 
Makintosh (alias mak william vie allan ejus consanguineus 
ope Domini mak Gregor, qui, trucidati sororem duxerat, post 
tempus trimestre, Johannem Malcolmsonam, prope Akakelt, 
apprehendunt, et, in insula Hothemurchusia catenis vinctum 
ponunt, ubi detinetur donee Comes Morraviensis Scotise Hegens 
(et trueidati Levir) in Septentrionem venit, in eujus prsesentia 
obtruneatus est 1 Maii Anno 1531. Verum reliqui Makin- 
toshiorum tarn infestis animis percussorem perseeuti sunt, ut, 
ilium, aliosque sui sceleris socios, extremo supplicio paulo post 
merito mulctaverint. Lesleus Lib. 9 de Gestis Seotorum. 
Itidem Milmorus, cum fratre residuisque seeleris sociis, eapti 
sunt, et meritas pcenas luunt, et eorum manus eonto ailixse sunt 
ubi suum Dominum trucidaverunt. 
[pagetse,] QuoD vero Makintoshii filius (ut scribit Lesleus) propter 
tenellam aetatem, ad subditos paulo ferociores, metu poenaque 
continendos, ineptior videretur, ejus eonsanguineum, cui nomen 
Hectori Makintoshio communi eonsentione delegerunt Dueem 
quoad tenellus,' ejus eonsanguineus, per setatis maturitatem. 

In revenge of this parricide, Donald Mackintosh (alias Glas), 
nephew of Mackintosh by his brother William, and Donald 
Mackintosh (alias MacWilliam vie Allan), his kinsman, with the 
help of the laird of MacGregor, who had married the sister of 
the murdered man, about three months after, apprehended John 
Malcolrason, near Anakelt, and put him bound in chains on the 
island of Rothemurchus, where he should be detained until the 
Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland (and brother-in-law of the slain 
man) came to the north, in whose presence he was beheaded on 
1st May 1531. But the rest of the Mackintoshes so fiercely pur- 
sued the murderer, that they soon after punished him and the 
other associates of his wickedness by death as they deserved. 
Leslie, book 9, De Gestis Seotorum, In like manner, Milmor, with 
his brother and the residue of their companions in crime, were 
taken, and suffered merited punishments, and their hands were 
stuck upon a pole where they had murdered their chief. 

Because, as Leslie writes, the son of Mackintosh seemed unfit, 
by reason of his tender age, to govern by fear and punishment 
subjects somewhat unruly, his kinsman. Hector Mackintosh, was 
by common consent elected chief, until the youth, his kinsman, 
should by maturity of age be able to hold the government of his 
elan. So Leslie. 



pp. 235-236] THE MACKINTOSHES 219 

tribus suae clavum tenere posset. Ita Lesleus. Hie Hector 
(nunc Clanchattanorum Dux) electus erat (ut supra dictum 
est) filius Spurius prsedicti Ferquhardi Domini Makintosh, ex 
generosa quadam (cujus nomen est nobis ignotum) genitus, 
tempore captivitatis patris Dunbarrise, clavum per 5 Annos 
singulari vero prudential tenuit, et erat ab omnibus vicinis 
multum dilectus. 

Cum illo, Domini de Calder, Fowls, Slait et Eilravock, 
amicali vinculo, jurejurando obsignato, consociati sunt, quo 
vinculo in tres Barones astringuntur, ut, communes cum 
Makintoshio animos inimicosque habeant, non ejus injussu 
feed us aut bellum faciant, auxiliave poscentibus mittant. 
Literse exaratse, Invemessas Aprilis ultimo Anno 1527. 
Testes Johannes Williamson, Donaldus Williamson ejus frater, 
et Donaldus Notarius Publicus. Cum Caleno etiam, Arga- 
thelias Comite, amicitias vinculo eodem Anno idem Hector 
obstrictus est. Hoc quoque vinculum inter Makintoshii 
chartas adhuc extat. 

DuM Hector Tutoris officium viriliter et probe exerceret, 
Comes Morraviensis (ut scribit Lesleus) cum Makintoshii 
vidisset (si puer temeritati populi paulo immanioris commit- 

This Hector^ now chosen leader of the Clanchattans, as is said 
above^ was bastard son of the aforesaid Ferquhard, laird of Mack- 
intosh, begotten of a gentlewoman (whose name is unknown to 
us) in the time of his father s captivity at Dunbar. He held the 
government for five years with singular prudence, and was much 
esteemed by all the neighbours. 

With him the lairds of Calder, Foulis, Sleat, and Kilravock 
joined together in a bond of amity, confirmed by oath, whereby 
the three barons became bound to have common friends and 
enemies with Mackintosh ; that they should not, without his 
consent, make league or war, or send help to such as asked for it. 
These old letters are dated at Inverness the last day of April 
1527. The witnesses were John Williamson, Donald Williamson 
his brother, and Donald, notary public. The same Hector became 
bound also with Colin, Earl of Argyll, in a bond of amity in the 
same year. This bond also is still extant among the charters of 
Mackintosh. 

While Hector was exercising the office of tutor manfully and 
with probity, the Earl of Moray (as Leslie writes), when he saw 
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tatur) quantis undique angustiis premeretur, pie pro studio in 
nepotem (fuit enim ex ejus sorore susceptus) curavit, ut alio 
inde, ad Ogilvios suse matris propinquos traductus, et morum 
elegantitl limaretur, aliisque ad pietatem praeceptionibus pru- 
denter imbueretur. 

Hector, infantem sibi insidiose surreptum vehementer 
excanduit. Nam, cum plurimum inde de sua fide ac auctori- 
tate imminutum esse diceret, omnem tentavit viam, qua, 
puero, in suam denuo potestatem asserto, et fides sibi et 
authoritas sarciretur. Verum omnes arbitrati sunt, eum, de 
puero, in suam potestatem asserendo, tam solicite anxium 
fuisse, ut, illo extincto, sibi suaeque proli, viam, ad Regimen 
tribus perpetuum, communiret, quse sententia, quod, Morravi- 
ensi penitus insculpta erat, puerum omni cura ac diligentia 
conservabat, ne in Hectoris manum uUa ratione veniret, quo 
Nomine, cum Hector infrenderet, ac, suam, in Moraviensem 
iram, quocunque modo expuere vellet, fratrem suum Guliel- 
mum, aliosque suos cognatos, incitavit, ut, junctis sibi copiis, 
vastitate prsedisque, Comitis Morraviensis agros ac terras 

every side, if the boy were in a little while entrusted to the 
temerity of a wild people, out of regard for his nephew (for he 
was born of his sister), piously provided that he should be removed 
from thence to another place, and so he was taken over to his 
mother's kindred, the Ogilvies, that he might be trained in refine- 
ment of manners, and imbued wisely with other pious instructions. 

Hector's anger burned vehemently when the child was thus 
craftily taken away from him. For, while he declared how greatly 
he was thereby bereft of his credit and authority, he tried every 
means by which, if the boy were of new asserted to be in his 
power, his credit and authority might be reaffirmed. But all 
were of opinion that his great solicitude to have the child declared 
in his power, was in order to strengthen the succession of himself 
and his family to the perpetual rule of the clan when the boy was 
gone. Which opinion was so deeply impressed upon Moray that 
he guarded the boy with all care and diligence lest he should by 
any means fall into the power of Hector. On which account the 
latter gnashed his teeth with rage, and determined to pour out his 
wrath against Moray in whatever way he could. 

He therefore stirred up his brother William, and his other 
kinsman, in order that by joining their forces to him they might 
harry the fields and lands of the Earl of Moray by devastation and 
pillage, which they did with such fury that, having plundered the 



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vexaret, quod tanto cum furore fecerunt, ut Dykensi municipio 
direpto, castroque Darunaio obsesso, plurinia infinitse crude- 
litatis signa, caedes, incendia, prsedationes, in viris, fceminis ac 
fautoribus promiscue delendis, ediderunt. 

Cum Comes Morraviensis, illos, in suis agris affligendis aliis- [A»^'^^] 
que sceleribus edendis immaniter exultantes vidisset, a Rege 
ejusque Concilio impetravit, ut Prorex in illo bello consti- 
tutus, illorum furorem ac audaciam in Republica vastanda 
armis coerceret. Ita Lesleus. 

Brevi post Comes (magna cum comitante caterva) Inver- 
nessam venit (ad jus dicendum, ut divulgabatur), inde vero 
Strathnamiam petit, tanquam ad, Domini Makintoshii negotia 
peragenda (nam erat ejus Tutor nominatus). Interem plebem 
Pettiensem, Strathemensem et Strathaimensem ad Tordar- 
rach citat, ubi, 18 eorum, qui in praedatione Dykensi adfuerant, 
super trabem domus, in qua Curia tenta erat, suspensi sunt. 
Hoc intra domum factum est, ni illi, qui foras morabantur, 
executionem impedirent. 

Lesleus scribit (sed falsa informatione) quod ducenti illic 
laqueo strangulati sunt. Horum, inquit Lesleus, tanta fuit 
in Ducem fides, ut, cum, singulis ad crucem perductis vita 

town of Dyke and besieged the castle of Darnaway, they gave 
many proofs of their unbounded cruelty by slaughters^ burnings, 
and robberies, promiscuously destroying the men and women who 
were favourers of the earl. 

When the Earl of Moray beheld them wildly exulting in 
ravaging his lands and in their other villainies, he obtained from 
the king and his council the appointment of lieutenant in that 
war, so that he might by force of arms punish their fury and 
audacity in wasting the commonweal. So Leslie. 

Soon afterwards, the earl, accompanied with a great force, came 
to Inverness (to minister justice as it was given out); thence he 
made for Strathnaim, as it were to manage the affairs of the laird 
of Mackintosh, for he was appointed tutor. Meanwhile he 
summoned the people of Petty, Stratheme, and Strathnairn to 
Tordarach, where eighteen of these who were at the plundering 
of Dyke were hung upon a beam of the house in which the court 
was held. This was done within the house, lest those who were 
loitering at the doors should have hindered the execution. 

Leslie writes (but upon erroneous information) that two hundred 
were there strangled with the rope. Of these, says Leslie, such 
was their loyalty to their leader, that when they were led forth 



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propoiieretur, si, in queiii Hector locum se abdiderat aperirent, 
omnes constantissimo responderent, se id nescire. At, si id 
quidem scissent, nullo potuissent pcenae aut timoris genere 
induci, ut, prodita fide, illud aperirent. Ita Lesleus. Sed 
paulo post quidam nomine Dugallus bayne M^Farquher vie 
coul, qui, Euphemiam Dunbar viduam praefati Johannis Mal- 
colmsoni duxerat, Gulielmum Hectoris prodidit, cui Forressae 
gula laqueo fracta est. Hector, cum, se, omnium subsidio 
jam exclusum, ani mad vert erat ; Alexandri Dunbarri Decani 
Morraviensis opera fideli usus, occulte confugit ad Regem 
supplex, Nam, Regis maluit misericordiam dubius implorare 
qukm Morraviensis vindictam certus experire. Rex, iUum, 
delictorum veniam suppliciter orantem in gratiam recepit, ac, 
quod, animo, judicio, viribus plurimum valebat, eum intimis 
sensibus postea complexus est. Ita Lesleus. 

PosTEA Anno 1532, 25 Januarii, Fani Andrese, mors, illi ex 
improviso, a quodam Jacobo Spenso Sacerdote est illata, ob 
quod Spensus, exin a Sacerdotii dignitate motus, caedis 
poenam capite persolvit. 

A auiBUSDAM narratur hunc Hectorem, a Jacobo 5 Rege 

one by one to the cross, life was offered to them if they would 
disclose the place in which Hector had hid himself^ they all, with 
the utmost constancy, declared they did not know ; but that if 
they did know, they would not by any sort of punishment or fear 
be induced by betraying their trust to make it known. So Leslie. 
But a little while thereafter, one named Dugall Bayn M'Farquher 
vie Coul, who had married Euphemia Dunbar, widow of the afore- 
said John Malcolmson, betrayed William, brother of Hector, who 
was hanged at Forres. Hector, when he considered that he was 
now excluded from the succour of every one, making use of the loyal 
help of Alexander Dunbar, Dean of Moray, betook himself as a 
suppliant to the king ; for he preferred to crave mercy of the king 
doubtfully, than certainly to undergo the vengeance of Moray. On 
his humbly praying for the pardon of his crimes the king received 
him into favour, and as he was a man of great spirit, judgment, 
and courage, he was by and by employed in more intimate matters. 
Thus Leslie. 

Afterwards at St. Andrews, on 25th January 1532, he met his 
death suddenly at the hands of one James Spens, a priest ; on 
which account Spens, being afterwards degraded from the dignity 
of the priesthood, paid the penalty of murder with his life. 

By some it is stated that this Hector was, by King James the 



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legitimum declaratum fuisse, et quod, si diutius viveret, pro 
hsereditate paternfi et Clanchattanorum Prsefectura, con- 
tenderet. 

De Gulielmo Domino Mak- 
intosh xv. 

GuLiELMUs, praedicti Lauchlani filius, uxorem duxit Mar- 
garetam Ogilviam, Domini de Finletour filiam, ex qua genuit 
Gulielmum (qui infans cecidit), Lauchlanum, qui patri suc- 
cessit, et Margaretam, quas erat, primo, Domina de Grant, 
9^^ Domina de Abirgeldi, deinde, Domina de Pitsligo, et, 
postremo, Domina de Duffus. 

ObS. ChRON. [page 238,^ 

Hic Gulielmus habuit staturam desiderabilem, corpus bene 
compactum, aquilinos oculos, capillos speciosos, et ingenium 
promptum et solertissimum. Annum agebat Tertium cum 
pater deletus est, et tunc, studio Comitis Morraviae sui avun- 
culi, ad Dominum de Finlatour mittitur, ubi, circiter 7 Annos 

Fifths declared legitimate ; and that^ if he had lived longer^ he 
would have contended for the paternal inheritance and the chief- 
ship of the Clanchattans. 

Of Willliam, the fifteenth Laird of 
Mackintosh. 

William, son of the aforesaid Lauchlan, took to wife Margaret 
Ogilvie, daughter of the laird of Finlatour, by whom he had 
William (who died an infant), Lauchlan, who succeeded his father, 
and Margaret, who was first Lady of Grant ; secondly. Lady of 
Abergeldie, then Lady of Pitsligo, and lastly. Lady of Duffus. 

Chronological Observations. 

This William was of a desirable stature, had a body well knit, 
eagle eyes, beautiful hair, and a ready and very shrewd mind. 
He was three years of age at his father s death ; and then, by the 
care of the Earl of Moray, his uncle, he was sent to the laird of 
Finlatour, with whom he resided for about seven years. He was 
thereafter sent to the Earl of Cassillis, who was so careful in 



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mansit, deinde ad Comitem Cassilissas transmittitur, qui, eum 
curavit ita educandum, ut, brevi tempore, morum ac vite 
probitate (ut ait Lesleus) in ipsis teneris aetatis unguiculis ita 
conformabatur, ut, cum, ad Hempublicam se contulisset, omnes 
Duces eorum, quibus in ultima Scotia Hiburnus Sermo erat 
vemaculus, ilium, tanquam virtutis solidam quandam efBgiem, 
ad Reipublica? probe constituenda? egregium Artificem, suspex- 
erint. Buchananus scribit eum fuisse virum malarum Artium 
ignarum, et qui, comitate et modestia, omnique humanitatis 
genere, cum iis certabat qui, magna, parentum et Magistrorum 
cura, ad virtutem copiendam erudiuntur. Lib. 16, 17. 

Baronle Lochinvarrse per matrem is erat legitimus hseres, 
et haereditate potiretur si mater, a consanguineo suo (cui jus 
suum ante connubium, insciente futuro marito, privatim dis- 
posuisset) non esset circumscripta. Attamen, quoniam legiti- 
mus fucrat ha^res, Gulielmus, suo insigni Gordoniorum insigni 
(quod erat caput abscissum) adjunxit. 

Anxo 1540, sua negotia administrare, et Clanchattanorum 
Regimen gerere incepit, et, a Subditis totis animis amplexus 
est, (nam Duce diu caruerunt). Sed, vicinis viz. Granteis, 
Fraseriis et Cummineis multum displicuit Catanam tribuoi 

educating him, that in a short time (as Leslie says) he was so 
brought up, even from his childhood, in goodness of manners and of 
life, that when he entered upon public life all the chiefs of those 
in the remote parts of Scotland, to whom the Irish language was 
vernacular, admired him as a perfect example of virtue, an artificer 
well skilled for promoting the public good. Buchanan writes that 
he was a man ignorant of evil devices, and who, in politeness, 
modesty, and every kind of accomplishment, vied with those who 
were instructed with the greatest care by their parents and 
teachers, to the exercise of virtue. Books H), 17. 

Through his mother he was lawful heir to the Barony of 
Lochinvar, and should have possessed the inheritance, if his 
mother had not been circumvented by her kinsman, to whom, « 
unknown to her future husband, the right had been privately 
disponed before her marriage. Nevertheless, as he was the lawful 
heir, William added the crest of the Gordons (which was a head 
cut off) to his arms. 

In the year 1540, he began to administer his own affairs and to 
exercise the rule of the Clanchattans, and was embraced by his 
subjects with all their heart (for they had long been in want of a 
leader). But to the neighbours, namely, the Grants, the Erasers, 
and the Cummings, it was very displeasing that the Clanchattans 



p. 238] THE MACKINTOSHES 225 

Ducem habere, Nam dicebant, Si Catana tribus Ducem haberet, 
quod totam Scotise Septentrionem inquietarent. 

12 Mau 1543 Cartam Locationis quoad vitam terrarum de 
Benchar,Clun,Shiplim et Essich,a Georgio ejus nominis Secundo 
et Quarto Comite de Huntlei accepit, eodemque Anno, hujus- 
modi jus agrorum de Petty, Breachly et Strathem a Regina 
Regente accepit. Nam ejus priores easdem terras ita tenebant. 

Anno 1544, Comitera Huntleum comitatus est in ilia expe- 
ditione facta a Domino de Lovat adversus Clanronaldorum 
Ducem, et post regressum a Lochabria exploratum habens 
Clanronaldos Domino de Lovat et suis insidiari, se cum suis 
(tanquam suppetias ofTert, quod Dominus de Lovat abnuit 
asserens, quod ipse, ad Clanronaldum domandum sufficeret. 
Huntleus, totius rei gnarus, Dominum Lovat applaudit, et 
Makintoshium secum versus Badenochiam fert. Dominus de 
Lovat cum suis rect^ domum vadunt, et, ad Lochlochi prope 
Laggan achdrom, Clanronaldi obviam se Fraseriis dederunt. 
Acriter pugnatur 25 Julii 1544. Victoria ad Clanronaldos incli- 
navit. Nam Dominus Lovat et maximus natu filius cum omni- 
bus suis illic pene extincti sunt, et, adversariorum pauci evasere. 

had a chief ; for they said, If the Clanchattans had a chief they 
would disturb the whole north of Scotland. 

On 12th May 1543 he received from George, second of the 
name and fourth Earl of Huntly, a Charter of Letting, for his 
lifetime, of the lands of Benchar, Clune, Shiplin and Essich ; and 
in the same year he received in like manner, from the queen 
regent, the right of the lands of Petty Breachly and Strathem. 
For his forebears were wont so to hold the same lands. 

In the year 1544, he accompanied the Earl of Huntly in the 
expedition made by the Lord of Lovat against the chief of the 
Clanronalds ; and after returning from Lochaber, having discovered 
that the Clanronalds were lying in wait for Lovat and his men^ 
he offered himself and his people by way of support, which Lovat 
refused, asserting that he himself was able to subdue Clanronald. 
Huntly, being informed of the whole matter, praised Lord Lovat 
and brought Mackintosh with him towards Badenoch. 

Lovat and his men were marching straight home when, at 
Lochlochy, near Laggan achdrom, the Clanronalds threw them- 
selves in the way of the Erasers. The battle was bitterly fought 
on 25th July 1544. Victory inclined to the Clanronalds, for Lord 
Lovat and his eldest son, with almost all their men, were there 
slain^ and of their adversaries few escaped. 

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Profuit Clanronaldis eo die quod quidam nomine Beanus 
Clerach Centurio (et Domini Lovat servus) jussus Clanronaldos 
a tergo persequi, in ipso acici limine violata fide, cum centum 
selectis militibus aufugerat. 

NoTAXDUM est quod 12 agricolae Pettienses, qui, post reditum 
a Lochabria per Abirtarfiam, iter domum facientes, a Clan- 
[^geiS9.] ronaldis (ignoranter, ut Clanronaldi asserebant) interempti 
sunt, ob quod brevi poenas dabunt. 

HuNTLEUs, penultimo Octobris 1544, Makintoshium sub se 
Satrapam in Septentrione constituit. 20 Octobris 1546 novum 
jus Baroniae de Moy, a Patricio Hepbumio Morraviae Episcopo, 
accepit. Nam Chartse antique? temporis iniquitate perierunt. 
25 Maii 1546, in vindictam cladis Pettiensibus Abirtarfise 
illatae Anno 1544 (ut supra memoratum est) Makintoshius, 
non solum, va^titate et praedis agros Glengarry vexavit, sed 
etiam, agricolas cum resistentes interfecit. 

AxNO 1547 Makintoshius, ut Huntlei vicarius, Eugenium 
Macallan Cameroniorum Ducem et Ronaldum Makdonald 
Glas, Rebelles, ob nefanda facinora, declaratos, apprehend! 
curavit, quos Huntleo tradidit. Nam ejus mandato capti 

It was an advantage to the Clanronalds on that day that one 
named Bean Clerach^ a captain and servant of Lord Lovat^ having 
been ordered to attack the Clanronalds from behind, violated his 
trust in the very beginning of the fight and fled with one hundred 
chosen troops. 

It is to be noted that twelve countrymen of Petty, after the 
return from Lochaber, while making their way home throug^h 
Abertarf, were slain by the Clanronalds (ignorantly as they 
asserted), for which they were punished soon after. 

On 30th October 1544 Huntly appointed Mackintosh lieu- 
tenant in the north under himself. On 20th October 1545 he 
received from Patrick Hepburn, Bishop of Moray, a new right to 
the Barony of Moy, for the old charters were wasted by the injury 
of time. 

On 25th May 1546, in revenge of the slaughter committed on 
the men of Petty in 1 544 (as above narrated). Mackintosh not only 
harried the lands of Glengarry by wasting and plunder, but also 
slew the country people who resisted him. 

In the year 1 547 Mackintosh, as lieutenant of Huntly, appre- 
hended Ewen Macallan, chief of the Camerons, and Ronald 
Macdonald Glas, declared rebels on account of their nefarious 
misdeeds, and delivered them to Huntly, as it was by his order 



pp. 238-239] THE MACKINTOSHES 227 

fuerant. Hi postea Bogagithiae truncati sunt, et Eugenii 
caput Elginiae Prsetorio affixum. 

Anno 1548 Makintoshius, Lauchlanum filium Johannis 
Malcolmsoni (qui illius patrem trucidavit) in gratiam recepit, 
et possessionem agrorum Connagiae pro quibusdam Annis illi 
concessit, et Lauchlanus, ut, fidem in violatam suo consanguineo, 
ut Duci et GenearchsB observaret, non solum, se, vinculo jura- 
mento obsignate, de fideli erga Makintoshium obsequio et 
servitio illi obstrinxit, sed etiam Georgius Monro de Davoch- 
garti. Jacobus Dunbar de Tarbat et Robertus Dunbar de 
Durris, ejus cognati et consanguinei, maximam sortis partem, 
pro ejus fidelitate, oppignoraverunt. Sed hoc non profuit. 
Nam Lauchlanus, cordis simultatem pro tempore dissimulans, 
omni sinistro modo, suum innoxium Ducem tollere statuit, 
ut ex eventu apparebit. Anno 1649 Huntleus, cum, hujus 
Makintoshii potentiam suspectam haberet, nee, ingenio recto, 
ad scelerum ministeria, abuti posse videretur (ut ait Buchan- 
anus) nee non, ab omnibus vicinis et montcuiis cum multum 
honoratum cemeret, ejus virtutis splendorem invidere coepit, et 
ideo, sibi ilium vinculis obligare desiderat, quibus, a Causa 



they were taken. They were afterwards beheaded at Bog o' 
Geicht and the head of Ewen Cameron was fixed upon the 
Tolbooth of Elgin. 

In the year 1548 Mackintosh received into favour Lauchlan, 
son of John Malcolmson (who murdered his father)^ and granted 
to him possession of the lands of Connage for some years. And 
Lauchlan, in order that he might keep inviolate his allegiance to 
his kinsman as his chief and the head of the family, not only 
bound himself by bond^ ratified by oath^ to give faithful obedience 
and service to Mackintosh^ but also George Monro of Davoch- 
garty^ James Dunbar of Tarbat, and Robert Dunbar of Durris, his 
cousins and kinsmen, pledged the greater part of their fortune 
for his fidelity. But this proved of no avail : for Lauchlan, dis- 
sembling for a time the malice of the heart, determined by every 
sinister means to make away with his innocent chief, as will 
appear from the event. 

In the year 1549, Huntly, as he regarded with suspicion the 
power of Mackintosh, and (as Buchanan says) was unable to make 
use of him, with his upright mind, to subserve his evil purposes ; 
as he perceived him also to be honoured by all his neighbours, 
and by the Highlanders, he began to envy the splendour of 



228 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIOXS [VOL I. 

Huntlei fKT f&s et nefas, stare teneretur. Sed Guliehnus, se in 
ejus clicntelain dcdere plane recusavit. Quamobrem Huntleus 
indignabundus, cum e Prsefectura et Jurisdictione ejecit, et, 
in ejus locum Johannes Hamiltonus est substitutus. Paulo 
|K>st Lauchlanus, Johannis Malcolmsoni filius, qui, hujus 
Makintoshii patri manus antea violentas inferebat (ut ait 
Leslcus) arrepta hujus occasionis ansa, Makiotoshium perfide 
Huntleo calumniatur asserens se audivisse ilium dioentem 
indignitatem illi illatam (cum Huntlei vitse dispendio) ulturum^ 
Insignis Calumnia; Nam hie Makintoshius erat (ut scribit 
Buchananus) vir probus et malarum Artium ignarus, et qui^ 
comitate et modestiu, omnique humanitatis genere cum iis 
certabat, ({ui, magna, parentum et Magistrorum cure ad 
virtutem capiendam erudiuntur. Attamen Huntleus, inito 
consilio cum lis, (pii Makintoshii patri manus antea violentas 
intulerant, viz. cum eo Lauchlano, Johannis Malcolmsoni filio 
et ejus sociis, nunc quoquc, Makintoshium morte violenta 
tollere intcndens, ex improviso captum in carcerem Strath- 
bogisc conjicit. 
[pageS^fJ.] Sun id tempus Huntleus unus eorum, qui, Reginam Regentem 

his virtue^ and therefore wished to bind him to himself by such 
iKmds as to make him stand for his (Huntly's) cause whether 
good or bad. Hut William absolutely refused to commit himself 
to his jwwcr. Wherefore Huntly, being very angry, deprived him 
of the lieutenancy and jurisdiction, and John Hamilton was put 
into his place. 

A little while afterwards, Lauchlan, son of John Malcolmson, 
who (as Leslie says) had before laid violent hands on the father 
of this Mackintosh, laying hold of this occasion, perfidiously 
calumniated him to Huntly, asserting that he had heard him say 
he would revenge the indignity done to him at the cost of Hmitly's 
life : a notorious calumny ! For (as Buchanan writes) this Mack- 
intosh was an honest man, unacquainted with evil devices; and 
who in courtesy, sobriety of mind, and every point of good breed- 
ing, vied with those who were most carefully educated by their 
parents and teachers to the exercise of virtue. But yet, Huntly, 
having consulted with those who formerly laid violent hands on 
the father of Mackintosh, that is to say, with this Lauchlan, son 
of John Malcolmson, and his associates, now purposing to remove 
Mackintosh also by a violent death, seized him unawares, and cast 
him into prison at Strathbogie. 

It happened at this time that Huntly was one of those who 



pp. 239.240] THE MACKINTOSHES 229 

in Galliam comitaturus esset, arbitratus non satis tutum Makin- 
toshium post se libenim relinquere, quamvis, nullam dignam 
expetendi supplicii caussam reperiebat, tamen sub praetextfi 
Legis de vivis ducit, ubi, in Prsetorio Abredonensi 2 Aug. 1550 
curiola habita, de proditione adversus Huntleum (tunc Reginse 
vicarium in Septentrione) accusatur. Juridici nominati fuerant 
Gulielmus Seton de Meldrum, Gulielmus Udny de eodem, 
Alexander Crawford de Fedderet, Johannes Forbes de Towy, 
Alexander Lesly de eoden, Gulielmus Cheyn de Strathloch, 
Gilbertus Gray de Shives, Thomas Chalmer de Cuits, Thomas 
Meldrum de Iden, Alexander Chalmer de Belnacraig, Patricius 
Cheyn de Essilmont, Miles Alexander Con de Aucri, et 
Johannes Seton de Disblair, omnes Clientes Huntlei. Testes 
adducti erant Donaldus M^William vie dai dui servus quondam 
Johannis Malcolmsoni praefati (ad Rothiemurchus decollati 
propter csedem Lauchlani Domini Makintoshii) Rei patris (et 
alter testis proefatus Lauchlanus, Johannis Malcolmsoni filius, 
qui, ut ait Lesleus) faces, ad Gulielmum Makintoshium toUen- 
dum, et prsetulisse et subjecisse putabatur. 

Makintoshius objecit quod Huntleus non debet Accusator 
et Judex esse in eadem et sua Caussa, 2^^ quod testes Rei 

were to accompany the queen regent to France. Concluding that 
it was not quite safe to leave Mackintosh at freedom, though he 
found no just occasion for punishing him, yet he sought to deprive 
him of life under colour of law, when in a court held in the Tol- 
booth of Aberdeen, on 2nd August 1550, he was accused of 
treachery against Huntly (who was then the queen's lieutenant in 
the north). Those nominated on the assize were William Seton 
of Meldrum, William Udny of that Ilk, Alexander Crawford of 
Fedderet, John Forbes of Towy, Alexander Leshe of that Ilk, 
William Cheyn of Strathloch, Gilbert Gray of Shives, Thomas 
Chalmer of Cults, Thomas Meldrum of Iden, Alexander Chalmer 
of Belnacraig, Patrick Cheyn of Essilmont, knight, Alexander 
Con of Auchry, and John Seton of Disblair, all retainers of Huntly. 
The witnesses brought forward were Donald M^William vie Dai 
dui, servant of the late John Malcolmson aforesaid, beheaded at 
Rothemurchus for the murder of Lauchlan laird of Mackintosh, 
father of the accused : and the other witness, the aforesaid 
Lauchlan, who, as Leslie says, was supposed to have suggested 
and laid the plot for destroying William Mackintosh. 

Mackintosh objected that Huntly ought not to be accuser and 
judge in the same cause, and that his own: 2nd, That the 



230 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIOXS [VOL. I 

capitales hostes esseiit, et, 8^ quod Inquisitores omnes Accusa- 
tores clientes erant, quibus exceptionibus a Judice rejectis, 
Pnefectus Abredonise, repetitis exceptionibus, ad Commiiia 
appellat, et, contra sententiam in ea Caussa futuram protes- 
tatus, curiam deserit. Sed hoc nihil profuit. Ad Inquisitionem 
itur. Illi, qui, de Reo inquisituri essent, ab Huntleo credere in- 
ducti, quod in re nihil ille aliud praeter honorem appetebaty et, 
si Reum in ejus potestate ponerent, quod e custodia cum bona 
gratia in columis abire permitteretur, sententiam hac fiducia 
creduli promulgant, et, Reum, ad Judicis clementiam referunt. 
Quo facto, Judex Reum in monticulo (vulgo Woman Hill, i.e. 
monte mulierum) eodem die circiter horam secundam pomeri- 
dianam obtruncandum, et, bona ejus, in Publicum redigenda, 
pronunciat. 

Hac sententia publicata, Pnefectus Abredonensis, coUectis 
Civibus, homicidium impedit. Huntleus fremens Makintoshium, 
in Strathbogiam captivum rcducit, et, quoniam eum jure non 
poterat vita privare, considerate prsedicta protestatione, ideo, 
odio dissimulato, cum uxore agit suu, ut, se absente, de homine 
innoxio supplicium sumat (ratus facinoris in vidiam in earn 

witnesses were his (the defender's) chief adversaries: and 3rd^ 
That the assizers were all clients of the accuser. These excep- 
tions having been repelled by the judge, the Provost of Aberdeen^ 
repeating the exceptions, appealed to Parliament; and having 
protested against the sentence about to be given in that cause^ he 
left the court. But this availed nothing ; the matter was put to 
trial, and the jury, being induced by Huntly to believe that he 
sought nothing but honour in the affair, and that if they would 
put the accused in his power, he should permit him, with a good 
grace, to go free without any harm. They, trusting in this assur- 
ance, gave forth their sentence, referring the accused to the 
clemency of the judge. Whereupon, the judge gave sentence 
that he should be beheaded on the hill (commonly called the 
Woman Hill) on the same day, about the second hour after noon ; 
and that his goods be escheated. 

This sentence having been published, the Provost of Aberdeen, 
assembling the citizens, hindered the execution. Huntly being 
enraged, led Mackintosh captive again to Strathbogie : and finding 
that he could not by law take away his life, considering the afore- 
said protestation, therefore, dissembling his hatred, he arranged 
with his wife that in his absence, she should inflict the punishment 
upon the guiltless man (thinking that the blame of the wicked 



pp. 240-241] THE MACKINTOSHES 231 

transferri posse). Nee virilis animi mulier (ut ait Buchananus) 
rem cunctanter suscepit. Nam 23 August! Anno 1550, eum, 
securi (absente marito) percutiendum curavit 29 aetatis Anno. 

29 August! Catana tribus, Makintoshii corpus, ad Inver- 
nessam transtulerunt, ubi, cum antecessoribus in humatus est. 

NoTANDUM est quod 21 August! 1550 Lauchlanus, Johannis 
Malcolmsoni filius (propter falsum testimonium, adversus 
Makintoshium Abredoniae gestum) non solum, possessionem 
agrorum Connagiae, durante vita, ab Huntleo accepit (nam 
Huntleus, post mortem Jacob! Stuart! Regis fratris Morravise 
Comes creatus est, verum etiam, terrarum Pettiae, Breachliae et 
Strathernise Diaecetes et proventuum CoUectaiius factus, et, quo 
melius, contra malevolos muniretur, ultimo die August! Anno 
pra^icto, Roberto Monro de Fowlis in officio Subvicecomitatus 
Invemessae, adjunctus est. Pergamenae super his datae, inter [pageW, 
Domini Makintoshii Chartas adhuc extant. His iinitis,Lauch- 
lanusdomum extemplo revertit, et castrum Pettiense ingreditur. 
Brevi post Officium vice Cbmitatus exercet, et, praetimore, 
armatam catervam, circa se continuo habuit, et, de cognatis 
multos sib! amicitia adhaerere coegit. Haec tamen non prosunt. 

deed would be laid on her) ; nor (as Buchanan says) was this 
strong-minded woman slow to take the business in hand, for on 
the 2drd of August 1 550 (her husband being absent), she caused 
him to be beheaded, in the 29th year of his age. 

On the 29th of August, the Clan Chattan carried the body of 
Mackintosh to Inverness, where he was buried with his ancestors. 

It is to be noted that on 21st of August 1550, Lauchlan, son of 
John Malcolmson (for his false witnessing against Mackintosh at 
Aberdeen), got from Huntly, not only possession of the lands of 
Connage for his lifetime (for Huntly, after the death of James 
Stuart, the king's brother, was created Earl of Moray), but also 
was appointed chamberlain and collector of the rents of the lands 
of Petty, Brachlie, and Stratheme. And that he might be the 
better fortified against those who wished him ill, he was, on the 
last day of August, the year aforesaid, joined with Robert Monro 
of Fowlis in the office of sheriff-depute of Inverness. The parch- 
ments granted on these appointments are still extant among 
the charters of the Laird of Mackintosh. These things being 
accomplished, Lauchlan returned home forthwith, and entered 
the Castle of Petty. He exercised the office of sheriff for a short 
time ; and for fear, he had an armed band around him continually, 
and forced many of his kinsmen to adhere to him. These means. 



232 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

Nam Catanei, tantum suae familiae notam impune inultam non 
ferentes (ut ait Lesleus) illas injurias, occulte, sed acriter, 
sumaque animorum contentione, prosequebantur. Dolo ergo 
Petteum Castellum ingressi, Lauchlanum filium Johannis Mal- 
colrasoni supra memorati apprehendunt, ac, universis ejus 
clientibus exilio damnatis, ilium, tanquam Ducis sui proditorem 
confestim et merito trucidant ultimo Septembris 1551. 

M AKiKTosHii caedes, Gilberti Cassilissse Comitis (csesi magni 
avunculi) et aliorum animi, Makintoshio impense favebant, 
animis ac voluntatibus in Huntleum graviter commotis, 
magnos tumultus (ut ait Lesleus) concitasset, nisi, Tiegmed 
prudentid, latens animorum odium aliquando compesceretur. 

Anno 1557 Cassilissse Comes tunc Scotise Thesaurarius, 
Huntlei Comitem ej usque filium (Dominum de Gordoun) et 
Johannem Hamiitorum, Comitis vicarium cum residuis arbitris, 
qui, Makintoshium damndrant, coram Parliamento Edinburgi, 
pro Makintoshii csedi et proscriptionis sententiae reductione 
citat. Huntleus ver6, facinoris vindictam, in uxorem transferre 
posse ratus, judicio sistit, et criminis conscius et reus judicatur, 
ideoque carcere retentus est. Sed de pcena sententiis est 
variatum, aliis in Gallia, eum ad aliquot Annos relegantibus, 

however^ were unavailing^ for the Clan Chattan (as Leslie says) 
could not endure that such injuries perpetrated on their family 
should pass unpunished^ and were secretly, but eagerly^ and with 
the utmost vehemence, prosecuting revenge. Accordingly, having 
by stratagem gained entrance to the Castle of Petty, they seized 
Lauchlan, son of John Malcolmson, above mentioned, and having 
condemned his followers to exile, they slew him as confessedly 
the betrayer of their chief, on the last day of September 1551. 

The murder of Mackintosh grievously moved the minds of 
Gilbert, Earl of Cassillis, grand-uncle of the victim, and of others 
who were very friendly to him, against Huntly, and should (as 
Leslie says) have stirred up great tumults, but for the prudence of 
the queen whereby the latent enmity was somewhat allayed. 

In the year 1557, the Earl of Cassillis, then Treasurer of Scot- 
land, summoned Huntly and his son Lord Gordon, and John 
Hamilton the earl's deputy, with the rest of the judges who 
condemned Mackintosh, before the Parliament at fxlinburgh, for 
the slaughter of Mackintosh, and for reduction of the sentence 
of forfeiture. But Huntly, thinking that he might be able to 
transfer the blame of the crime upon his wife, compeared; and 
having been privy to the crime was found guilty, and therefore 



p. 241] THE MACKINTOSHES 288 

aliis capite mulctandum censentibus. E6 tcuidem decursum 
est, ut, pro caede Parti satisfaceret, ac in custodia retineretur 
done, jure, quod, in Morraviam sibi vendicabat, cederet, 
Orcadum, Hethlandicarum Insularum et Marriae vectigalibus, 
omni, denique, patrimonio Regio, quod, in ilia plaga situm 
est, item Praefecturis juridicis aliquot Provinciam, unde, illi, 
magnse commoditates erant, abstineret, omnesque fructus ut 
endos fruendosque Publicanis et Coactoribus, quibus Regenti 
visum esset, libere permitteret. Quidam scribunt quod, praeter 
haec, ad 5 Annos relegari decemitur, sed quod, pro summa 5 
mille librarum, a Regina in patriS raovari permissus est. Paulo 
post Cassilissae Comes, qui solus, Makintoshii negotia agebat, 
supremam vitae diem obiit, quo mortuo, Makintoshius tunc 
Minor pro tempore silet. 



De Lauchlano Domino Makin- 

TOSH XVI. 

Lauchlanus praenominati Gulielmi filius, uxorem duxit 

kept in prison. But in regard to the punishment to be inflicted 
there was a difference of opinion^ some were for banishing him so 
many years to France; others were for beheading him. At length 
it came to this that he should for the nmrder satisfy the party ; 
that he should be retained in custody until he surrendered the 
right which he claimed to himself in Moray, and to the customs 
of Orkney, of the Shetland Islands, and of Mar; and, in fine, that 
he should abstain from the whole of the royal patrimony which 
was situated in that country, and from his jurisdictions in that 
province, from which great advantages had accrued to him ; and 
that he should freely permit all the profits to be used and enjoyed 
by the taxmen and collectors, as to the regent might seem 
good. Some write that besides these, he was adjudged to five 
years of exile, but that for the sum of five thousand pounds he 
was permitted by the queen to remain in the country. A little 
while afterwards, the Earl of Cassillis, who alone managed the 
affairs of Mackintosh, died, whereupon Mackintosh, being then a 
minor, was for a time quiet. 

Of Lauchlan, the sixteenth Laird of 
Mackintosh. 

Lauchlan, son of the aforenamed William, married Agnes Mac- 



234 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

Agnetam Mackenzie filiam Kenethi Mackenzie a Kintail (agno- 
mine Kynach naquirk), ex qua 7 habuit filios, Angusium (seu 
iGneam), Gulielmum, Milcolumbum, Johannem, Duncanum^ 
Allanum et Lauchlanum ; et 6 filias, Janetam Dominam 
Makleod, Katherinam Dominam Glengarry seniorem. Mar- 
garetam Dominam Glengarry juniorem, (postea de Finzean), 
Marioram, 1^ Dominam Macdonald (postea Dominam Fowlis)^ 
Isabellam Dominam Glenurchi, et Elisabethan, quae Matri- 
[pa^et4i.] monio, Davidi Ross de Holm tradita est. 



Obs. Chron. 

Hic Lauchlanus septimum agebat Annum cum occideretur 
pater. Erat vir staturse eminentis supra popularem, magni 
roboris, bonae corporis constitutionis et aequalis mixtures valoris 
et prudentiae. Aliter tAm potentissimis Adversariis se opponere 
non poterat. 

CiESO patre, quia multos infans habuit inimicos, ad Dominum 
Maky, viz. aiodh mak Donald vie ky clanculum transmittitur 
(qui huic Makintoshio per matrem erat propinquus, et familiar 
Makintoshiae maximus fautor). Sed in itinere puer, a praedicta 

kenzie, daughter of Kenneth Mackenzie of Kintail (sumamed 
Kynach naquirk), by whom he had seven sons, Angus (or Eneas), 
William^ Malcolm, John, Duncan, Allan, and Lauchlan : and six 
daughters, Janet, Lady MacLeod; Katherine, Lady Glengarry, 
elder; Margaret, Lady Glengarry, younger (afterwards of Fin- 
zean); Marjory, first Lady Macdonald, afterwards Lady Foulis; 
Isabella, Lady Glenurchay ; and Elizabeth, who was given in 
marriage to David Ross of Holm. 

Chronological Observations. 

This Lauchlan was seven years old when his father was killed. 
He was tall of stature, above the common, of great strength, of a 
good constitution, and having an equal mixture of valour and 
prudence; otherwise he could not have resisted adversaries so 
powerful as he had. 

When his father was slain, the child, having many enemies, 
was privately carried over to the laird of Mackay, namely, 
Aiodh mac Donald vie Ky (who was of kin to this Mackintosh by 
his mother, and was a chief favourite of the Mackintosh family). 



pp. 241.242] THE MACKINTOSHES 286 

Kenetho Makenzi interceptus, per quosdam Annos apud ilium 
perhumaniter est educatus. Ejus fortuna, durante pupillari 
estate, a Donaldo Makintosh Williamson Tutore regebatur. 
Anno 1560, facta resignatione in manus Reginse terranim 
suarum in Lochabria, novum jus earundem & officii Senescalatfis 
et Ballivatus totius Dominii de Lochabria, et ab ea sibi com- 
parat, et tunc, in Aula Regia duos Annos permansit quoad 
Regina in Invemessam venit Anno 1562. 

Hoc tempore Huntleus erat Romanse factionis in Scotia, et 
Jacobus M orraviae Comes Reginse frater Nothus Orthodoxorum 
Caput, quae factiones sibi invicem oppositae sunt. Huntleus 
armis et opibus potens, ejusdemque fidei cum Regina, elatus, 
Reginam, suo filio secundo genito Johanni Gordono a Finletour 
nubere, et, si recusaret, cogere conatur, 

et ab hoc Comites Morraviae et M ortoniae, dum in 
Septentrione cum Regina essent, tollere studet, non solum, 
quod ejus intensionem in hdc re retardarunt, sed etiam, quod 
reformatae Religiones summi erant propugnatores. Regina 
Invemessam venit mense Septembri 1562, et, in arce (sua, 
propria domo) pemoctare velit. Sed Alexander Gordoun (e 

The boy was, however, intercepted on the way by the aforesaid 
Kenneth Mackenzie, with whom he was courteously brought up 
for some years. During his pupilarity his estate was managed by 
the tutor, Donald Mackintosh, William's son. 

In 1 560, resignation having been made by him, in the hands of 
the queen^ of his lands in Lochaber, he obtained from her a new 
right to himself of the same, and of the office of stewartry and 
bailiery of the whole lordship of Lochaber ; and then he remained 
at Court for two years, until the queen came to Inverness in 1562. 

At this time Huntly was the head of the Popish faction in 
Scotland, and James^ Earl of Moray, bastard brother of the queen, 
was head of the orthodox party ; which factions were in opposi- 
tion to each other. Huntly, powerful in arms and resources, and 
being of the same faith with the queen^ aspired to marry her to 
his second son, John Gordon of Finlater, and if she refused, he 
would attempt to force her to it ; and to that end he purposed to 
cut off the Earls of Moray and Morton whil6 they were in the 
north with the queen, not only because they hindered his inten- 
tion in that affair, but also because they were the chief promoters 
of the reformed religion. The queen came to Inverness in the 
month of September 1562, and wished to pass the night in the 
castle, which was her own house, but Alexander Gordon (of the 



236 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

familia Bochroma) Huntlei sen'us, Januas clausit (nam 
Huntleus erat arcis Praefectus). Interea traditur Johannem 
Gordonum a Finletour Huntlei filium praememoratum cum 
1000 armatis in campis esse, et Badenochenses non procul 
abesse, qui in ejus auxilium venerunt. Ilegina periculum per- 
pendens, quod in oppido immunito diversaretur, timet. Ea 
nocte ingeminatus excubitus ad oppidi portas constitnitur. 

M AKiXTOsHius tunc adfuit, qui Huntleo minime favebat, et 
cujus amici etclientes erant oppido proximi, a Regina sevocatus, 
ilium orat, ut, propinquos, ad eam tuendam properato colliget. 

Ille in urbe pemox incunctanter, Donaldo Makintosh sue 
Tutori, reliquisque cognatis, Reginae statum indicat 

Sequenti die Clanchattana tribus militari ordine oppidum 
ingressa, Reginam, dum reliqui vicini adessent, protegit. 
Makintoshius, cum audivisset Badenochenses ad Naimam 
flumen adventasse, ad Huntleum auxiliarentur, illis obviam 
factus, ad Reginam omnes adducit. Hoc vero audito, Johannes 
Gordonus, ab oppido 9 milliaria distans fremit, et, citra 
{jageg4S,] Speyam revertens, patri se adjunxit, Sequenti die Fraserii et 

Bochrom family, a servant of Huntly, who was governor of the 
castle) closed the gates. In the meantime it was reported that 
John Gordon of Finlater, the aforementioned son of Huntly, was 
in the field with a thousand armed men ; and that the Badenoch 
men, who were coming to help him, were not far off. The queen^ 
considering the danger, was afraid to sojourn in the town, which 
was unfortified. That night the guard was doubled at the gates 
of the town. 

Mackintosh, who was by no means favourable to Huntly, was 
then present, and his friends and retainers were next to the town. 
He was called aside by the queen, who besought him to gather 
together his kinsmen speedily for her defence. He remained in 
the town the whole night, and indicated to Donald Mackintosh, 
his tutor, and the rest of his kinsmen, the position in which the 
queen was placed. 

On the next day, the Clanchattans, having entered the town 
in military order, protected the queen until the rest of the 
neighbours should arrive. When Mackintosh heard that the 
Badenoch men had come to the river Nairn in order to support 
Huntly, he met them in the way, and brought them all to the 
queen. On hearing of this, John Gordon, who was then about 
nine miles from the town, raged, and returning to the other 
side of the Spey, he joined with his father. On the follow- 



pp. 242.243] THE MACKINTOSHES 287 

Monroi, Keginae copiis adunantur, et, illd nocte, excubias 
ponunt. Regina ita adjuta, arcem Invemessensem obsedit, 
quae quoniam, ad oppugnationem sustinendam non satis munita, 
deditur, et Alexander Gordonus arcis Prsefectus suspenditur. 
Sed ejus commilitones incolumes dimittuntur, et Regina Aber- 
doniam rediit. 

28 Octobris Bellum Corrichianum pugnatum est, ubi, ex 
Huntleanis circiter 120 interempti, et 100 capti, ex altera 
acie nemo. 

Inteb captivos erat ipse Huntleus et duo filii, Johannes et 
Adamus. 

Pater grandaevus et corpulentus, inter capientium manus in 
armis suffocatur. 

Captivi Aberdoniam ducti, quorum quinque baud minimae 
notae suspensi fuerant. 30 die mensis Octobris, et 2 Novem- 
bris. Johannes Gordonus a Finletour et Georgius Gordoun a 
Cuelearachy capite truncantur. 

Anko 1568, 7 Junii, mediatione Johannis Leslei Rossensis 
Episcopi, Georgii Gordun a Shives militis Roberti Innes de 
Invermarky Georgii Barkley de eodem, Magistri Georgii 
Grordoun de Beldorney, et Johannis Ross a Ballivat, Comes 
Huntley filius praememorati Comitis, qui Corrichiae obiit, et 

ing day the Erasers and the Monros were joined to the queen's 
forces, and were her guards that night. Thus aided^ the queen 
laid siege to the Castle of Inverness, which^ as it was not 
sufficiently fortified to bear the assault, was surrendered, and 
Alexander Gordon, captain of the castle, was hanged ; but his 
companions in arms were dismissed unharmed, and the queen 
returned to Aberdeen. 

On the 28th of October the battle of Corrichie was fought, 
where of Huntly's men one hundred and twenty were slain, and 
a hundred taken prisoners ; of the other side no one was hurt. 
Among the captives was Huntly himself, and his two sons, John 
and Adam. The father, being aged and corpulent, was suffocated 
in his armour in the hands of his captors. 

The prisoners having been brought to Aberdeen, Ave of the 
more distinguished of them were hanged on the 30th day of 
October; and on 2nd November, John Gordon of Finlater, and 
George Gordon of Coclarachy, were beheaded. 

In the year 1568, on the 7th of June, by the mediation of John 
Leslie, Bishop of Ross, George Gordon of Shives, knight, Robert 
Innes of Invermarky, George Barclay of that Ilk, Mr. George 
Gordon of Beldomie, and John Ross of Ballivat, the Earl of 



288 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

Makintoshius, se invicem amplexi sunt, et dissidium removetur. 
Eo tempore Mackintosh! us accepit jus haereditarium agrorum 
de Bonchar, clun, Shiplin, kincraig, Essich, Tordarrach, Dun- 
delchak, et Bunchrubin, a Comite Huntleo. Insuper accepit 
jus de novo Baronise de Dunachtown, etc, et Huntleus et 
Makintoshius, se et posteros, stricto amicitiae vinculo, Sacra- 
mento confirmato, obstrinxerunt, quod adhuc extat inter 
Makintoshii Chartas. Haec unio in contaminata observabatur 
quoad vixit ille Huntleus. Sed pauIo post ejus successor, 
eandem fregit. 

Axxo 1569 Makintoshius, Donaldo M^Ewin, alias Cameron, 
et Johanni ejus fratri, terras Glenluij et Locharkagg, propter 
^rum servitium et obsequium, locavit pro summa 80 Mercarum 
annuatiro, ut, in pacto continetur. 

Anno 1570 dissidium inter Makenzios et Monroos ortum 
est, quod, Makintoshium utri usque familiae Genearchis aiSni- 
tate devincturo, nonnihil inquietavit (nam Robertus Monro a 
Fowlis, Monroorum Princeps, Margaretam Ogilviam, Makin- 
toshii matrcm, in uxorem habuit, et Colini Mackenzie a Son- 
tail, Makcnziorum Genearchae, soror Agneta, Makintoshio erat 
Matrimonio conjuncta). Attamen, has tribus, Makintoshius, 

Huntly^ son of the aforementioned earl who died at Corrichie^ 
and Mackintosh^ embraced one another^ and the dissension was 
removed. At that time Mackintosh received from the Earl of 
Huntly the hereditary right of the lands of Benchar, Clone, 
Shiplin^ Kincraig, Essich, Tordarroch, Dundelchak, and Bun- 
chrubin. Moreover, he received of new the right of the barony 
of Dunachton, etc. Huntly and Mackintosh also bound them- 
selves and their posterity in a strict bond of unity, confirmed by 
oath, which is still extant among the Mackintosh charters. This 
union was observed inviolate while this Huntly lived ; but his 
successor broke it soon after. 

In the year 1569, Mackintosh leased to Donald M^Ewan, alias 
Cameron, and John his brother, the lands of Glenlui and Loch- 
arkaig, for their service and submission, for the sum of eighty 
merks yearly, as is contained in the agreement. 

In the year 1570 there arose contention between the Mac- 
kenzies and the Monros, which not a little troubled Mackintosh, 
who was by affinity allied to the chiefs of both the families ; for 
Robert Monro of Fowlis, chief of the Monros, had married Mar- 
garet Ogilvie, the mother of Mackintosh, and Agnes, sister of 
Colin Mackenzie of Kin tail, chief of the Mackenzies, was married 



pp. 243-244] THE MACKINTOSHES 289 

nulla persuasione reconciliare poterat. Dissidii caussa hsec 
€rat. 

Arx Chanoneensis, ad Lesleum de Balquhain, ex dono 
Johannis Leslei Rossensis Episcopi, jure pertinebat. Nihil- 
ominus Morraviae Comes (tunc Regens), arcem, Andreae Monro 
Miltoniano (homini admodum arroganti) custodiendam, dedit, [pa^etU-l 
ac, Balquhainium aliter remunerare pollicetur. Brevi post, 
Regente interempto, Andreas Monro, ex permissu, Levinise et 
Marrise Comitum (qui Regentes successerunt) arcis posses- 
sionem retinet. Makenzio tribus, Andrese aemula, arcis jus, 
a Balquhainio emit, et, arcem obsidione cingit. Fit csedes 
hinc inde, et, quoniam Makintoshius, discordes, ad concordiam 
nulla aliter ratione adducere poterat, ad Craigvodiam prope 
Chanonise arcem cum sex centum suorum venit, ubi, ab obses- 
soris et obsessoribus conspiceretur, et vovit se cum suis, opem 
illae parti laturum quad, ad pacem et concordiam magis inclin- 
atam perspiceret, et ita, alteram partem tractabilem et man- 
suetam rediturum. Hocmodo utraque tribus ad concordiam 
coacta, Makintoshium, tanquam utraeque parti benevolum, 
Judicem Compromissarium elegit, qui incunctanter, arcis et 

to Mackintosh. But for all that^ Mackintosh could not by any 
persuasion reconcile these families. 

The cause of the dissension was this. The castle of Chanonry 
belonged by right to Leslie of Balquhan, by the gift of John 
Leslie, Bishop of Ross. Nevertheless, the Earl of Moray (then 
regent), gave the custody of the castle to Andrew Monro of 
Milton, a very arrogant man, and promised to recompense Bal- 
quhan in some other way. Shortly after, the regent having been 
slain, Andrew Monro, by permission of the Earls of Lennox and 
of Mar (who succeeded as regents), retained possession of the 
castle. The Mackenzies, emulous of Andrew, bought the right 
of the castle from Balquhan, and laid siege to it On this there 
followed some slaughter, and as Mackintosh was unable to bring 
the contending parties to concord by any other means, he came 
with six hundred of his men to Craigwood, near the castle of 
Chanonry, where he could be seen both by the besiegers and the 
besieged, and vowed that he, with his men, would help that party 
which he should perceive most inclined to peace and concord, so 
that the other party would be rendered tractable and tame. Both 
the clans being in this manner forced to concord, they chose 
Mackintosh, as bearing good will to both parties, to be judge 
arbiter ; and he, without delay, adjudged possession of the castle, 



240 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

agrorum, ad eandem pertinentium possessionem Makenziis, et^ 
ea Monroorum praedia, quae, tempore dissentionis, vi, a Mak- 
enziis possidebantur, Monrois adjudicavit, et hoc mode illud 
dissidium, Mackintoshii opera, cujus, apud utrosque plurimum 
valebat auctoritas, extinctum erat. 

Anno 1572 et die 12 mensis Junii Ronaldus filius Ronaldi 
Makdonald glaish a Gargochia, haereditariam obligationem 
obsequii et servitutis pro se, posteris, propinquis et clientibus, 
jurejurando dato, contra omnes mortales (Atholiae Comite 
tantummodo dempto), Makintoshio et posteris dedit. Hoc 
ligamentum datum est apud Insulam Moyensem coram his 
testibus, Gacobo Makintosli a Gask, Johanne Forbes a Tolly» 
Guilelmo Cuthbert, et Johanne Ker, Invemessae Civibus, 
Nigello Makconil vie niel dicti Ronaldi servo, Donaldo Du 
mak hamish vie Alister Badenochensi, et Johanne Gibson 
Notario Publico. 

EoDEM Anno, et die 7 mensis Septembris, Hector, Johannis 
Malcolmsoni supra dicti nepos, Dugallum Makpherson a Essich 
(in vindictam caedis Lauchlani, ejusdem Hectoris patris, in 
Castello Pettiensi, Anno 1551, ut supra memoratum), ex im- 
proviso prope dignam vallem trucidavit. Quamobrem idem 
Hector, ex Domini Makintoshii mandato, hoc eodem Anno in 

and of the lands pertaining thereto, to the Mackenzies ; and the 
estates of the Monros, which in time of the strife were forcibly 
possessed by the Mackenzies^ he restored to the Monros ; and in 
this manner^ by the aid of Mackintosh^ whose authority availed 
very much with both the parties^ that discord was allayed. 

In the year 1572, on the 12th day of June, Ronald, son of 
Ronald Macdonald glaish of Gargochy, gave to Mackintosh and 
his posterity a heritable obligation of manrent and service for 
himself, his posterity, kindred and dependents against all mortals 
(excepting only the Earl of Atholl), an oath being interposed. 
This bond is dated at the island of Moy, before these witnesses, 
James Mackintosh of Gask, John Forbes of Tolly, William Cuth- 
bert and John Ker, citizens of Inverness, Niel Makconil vie Niel, 
servant of the said Ronald, Donald Du mac Hamish vie Alister of 
Badenoch, and John Gibson, notary public. 

The same year, on the 7th day of September, Hector, grandson 
of the above-mentioned John Malcolmson, unexpectedly murdered 
Dougal Macpherson of Essich, near Dingwall ; in revenge for the 
slaughter of Lauchlan, father of this Hector, in the castle of Petty, 
in the year 1551, as before mentioned. Wherefore, the same 
Hector was by the command of the laird of Mackintosh, taken 



pp. 244-245] THE MACKINTOSHES 241 

villa Dunisostray captus et decoUatus. Caput ejus supra 
Praetorium oppidi Invernessae publice ad contumeliam, aliosque 
exemplo terrendos, statumini afiixum est. Eodem etiam sup- 
plicio eodemque sceleris socii afiiciebantur. 

Anno 1573, et 14 die Martii, controversia inter Makin- 
toshium et Georgium Monro a Davochgarti de possessione 
Connagiae, ex mediatione et arbitrio Colini Makenzii a Kintail, 
Walteri Urquhart a Cromarti, Roberti Monro a Fowlis et 
Hugonis Ross a Kilravock, semota est, et Connagiae possessio 
Makintoshio adjudicata. Controversiae caussa haec erat, viz., 
Statim post csedem Lauchlani, Johannis Malcolmsoni filii 
Anno 1551 praefatus Georgius (Lauchlani frater uterinus) 
possessionem Connagiae, a Barbara Hay (LAUchlani Relicta) 
pro pecuniarum summa accepit (nam ilia, earundem terrarum 
vitalem reditum a Comite Huntlei habebat). Deinde idem 
Georgius Monro (Makintoshio tunc puero), earum fiduciarum 
locationem pro quibusdam Annis a Regente accepit. Nam, a [M?* ^^-1 
Catana tribu tota Connagia depopulata est Anno 1568. Mak- 
intoshius, vacuam illarum terrarum possessionem (tanquam 
sibi haereditariam) assumpsit. Haec enim praedia, a 14 illius 

and beheaded the same year^ in the town of Dunisostray. His 
head was ordered to be set above the Tolbooth of Inverness^ for 
disgrace, and as an example to terrify others. At the same time 
the associates of his wickedness were subjected to the same 
punishment. 

A controversy having arisen between Mackintosh and George 
Monro of Davochgartie concerning the possession of Connage, it 
was, on the 14th of March 1573, removed by the mediation and 
award of Colin Mackenzie of Kintail, Walter Urquhart of Cromarty, 
Robert Monro of Fowlis, and Hugh Rose of Kilravock, the posses- 
sion of Connage being adjudged to Mackintosh. The cause of 
the controversy was this: Immediately after the slaughter of 
Lauchlan, son of John Malcolmson, in the year 1551, the afore- 
said George (brother-uterine of Lauchlan), received possession ot 
Connage, for a sum of money, from Barbara Hay, rehct of Lauchlan 
(for she had the liferent of these lands from the Earl of Huntly). 
Thereafter the same George Monro (Mackintosh being then a 
child) got a trust-lease of the lands from the Regent, for certain 
years : for the whole of Connage was laid waste by the Clan- 
chattan in the year 1568. Mackintosh assumed the vacant 
possession of these lands as his own heritage : for these estates 
were possessed by fourteen chiefs of his family before that year ; 



242 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

familise Genearchis, ante ilium Annum, possidebantur, et 
Georgius Monro, in fratris sui caedis vindictam (Makintoshio 
tunc puero), Connagiae possessionem modo pr»dicto tantum 
acquisivit, et hujus controversiae hsec erat fons et origo. 

Anno 1579, et die 27 Januarii, foedus inter Atholiae Comitem 
et Makintoshium prius ictum renovatur, et, scriptis, jureju- 
rando dato, mandatur apud Pertham coram testibus, Johanne 
Montis Hosarum Comite, Duncano Grant de Frewchy hserede, 
Jacobo Meanzies de eodem, et Georgio Drummond a Blair. 
Anno 1580, ad Lochabrianorum arrogantiam domandam. In- 
sulam in lacCi vulgo Lochlochi erigendam Makintoshius curavit, 
quae EUan-darrach, i.e. lacus quemeus, diccbatur. Nam super 
quemeas trabes extruebatur, et, dum hoc ageretur, Makin- 
toshius, bis mille & quingentos armatos secum in Lochabria 
habebat, a vigesimo nono die Maii usque ad vigesimum 
prinium diem Augusti, in hCic Insula praesidium coUocavit, quo 
durante, omnes Lochabriani, suis superioribus admodum sub- 
ditos et morigeros sesc gesserunt. Sed, quamprimum Insula 
erat diruta, Lochabriani in solitam rebellionem et nequitiam 
recurrunt. 



while George Monro, in revenge for his brother's death (Mackin- 
tosh being then a child), acquired possession of Connage in the 
manner aforesaid only. This was the spring and origin of this 
controversy. 

In the year 157P, on the 27th day of January, the covenant 
formerly executed between the Earl of Atholl and Mackintosh 
was renewed ; and, being sworn, was committed to writing, at 
Perth, before these witnesses, John, Earl of Montrose, Duncan 
(Jrant, heir of Freucliy, James Menzies of that Ilk, and George 
Drummond of Blair. 

In the year 1580, in order that he might subdue the insolence 
of the Lochaher men, Mackintosh caused an island in the loch 
commonly called Loch Ix)chy, to be constructed, which was called 
Alan-darrach, that is, the oaken island : for it was built upon 
oaken beams ; and while he was engaged on this, he had 2500 
men along with him in Lochaber, from the 29th day of May to 
the 21st day of August. In that island he placed a garrison, and 
while it was there, all the people of Lochaber were very sub- 
missive and obedient to their superiors : but as soon as the island 
was broken down they relapsed into their wonted rebellion and 
mischief. 



p. 245] THE MACKINTOSHES 243 

Anno 1586 Makintoshius, haereditarium jus Baroniae de 
Lairgs sibi acquisivit. 

Anno 1587 Comes Huntleus, coram quibusdam Primoribus 
exprobravit Makintoshium non audere ofiicium Ballivatus et 
Senescalatus in Lochabria exercere. Makintoshius respondet, 
quamdiu patriis legibus et Regia authoritate patrocinatus 
esset, se, nullam oppositionem timere; Dixit etiam, quod in 
animo habuit illo uti officio in mense Augusto tunc proximo, 
et quod, ni vi majori impediretur, intensionem prosecuturum 
esset, et, ad hoc promissum implemendum, cum copiis sub 
finem Julii in Lochabriam progreditur, et in tribus Curiis 
(quarum prima in Achachar, secunda in Makommor, et ter- 
tia in Keppoeh) sontes et vitiosos mulctat, et latrones sine 
impedimento punit. Hoc, ex Instruments inter Mackintoshii 
Chai'tas luculenter patet. 

Annis 1587 et 1588, Sutherlandiae, contra Cathanesiae 
Comitem, Makintoshius strenue et amanter opitulatus est. 
Semper cnim tam copiis quam consilio Sutherlando adfuit, et 
tandem, Makyum cum suis (licet Cathanesii generum), ad 
Sutheriandiae Comitis partes attraxit. Quo facto, ilia contro- 

In the year 1586, Mackintosh acquired the heritable right of 
the Barony of Lairgs. 

In the year 1587, the Earl of Huntly, in presence of the chiefs, 
upbraided Mackintosh, asserting that he dared not exercise the 
office of Bailiery and Stewartry in Lochaber. To this Mackintosh 
answered that as long as he had the defence of the laws of the 
country and the royal authority he did not fear any opposition. 
He said also, that he was of a mind to use that office in the month 
of August then next ; and that unless he was hindered by greater 
force, he would carry out that intention. In order to fulfil this 
promise, he went with his forces in the end of July into Lochaber, 
and in three courts (of which the first was in Achachar, the 
second in Makommer, and the third in Keppoeh), he fined the 
offenders and evil doers, and punished thieves without impedi- 
ment. This clearly appears from an Instrument among the 
charters of Mackintosh. 

In the years 1587 and 1588, Mackintosh strenuously and amicably 
assisted the Earl of Sutherland against the Earl of Caithness: for he 
was ever present with Sutherland to help him, as well with men as 
with counsel ; and at length he brought over Mackay (though he 
was the son-in-law of Caithness) with his men to the side of the 
Earl of Sutherland, whereupon the controversy came to an end. 



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versia finita est. Anno 1588 Januarii 15 Gulielmus Macleod 
a Dunvegan stricto amicitiae vinculo, se et suos hseredes, contra 
omnes mortales (Ilegia Majestate solummodo excepta) astrinxit. 
Hoc vinculum apud Cullpdin datum est. 
[pa£!ee4^] EoDEM Anno, et Die 25th Feb. Alexander Makronald a 
Garrochia, obsequium et 8er\'itium, non solum pro se et haere- 
dibus, sed etiam pro omnibus suis propinquis et Clientibus, 
stricto vinculo, contra omnes mortales (Regia Majestate et 
Huntleo Comite solummodo exceptis) Makintoshio et hseredibus 
obligavit. Hoc datum est Calidoniae coram testibus, Thoma 
Stewart a Gartintulli Equite, Johanne Stewart Makandro ab 
Inverchyriachan, Johanne Stewart Jamieson a Tillipueris, 
Gulielmo Makean duy a Corribroch, et Thoma Grod Notario 
Publico. Anno 1589 niense Feb. iGneas, Domini Makintoshii 
filius, Comitis Martialis agros, tam in Memia, quam in Buch- 
ania, Comitis Huntlei jussu, omni cladis genere vastavit, et 
ingentem indidem pra^dam abegit. Hujus vastationis caussa 
haec erat. Comes Martialis, Huntleo infensus (inter alia teme- 
raria et sesquipedalia verba, Perthae, coram Huntleo et aliis 
Optimatibus, edita) dixit, se, nee opibus nee viribus Huntleo 
secundum. Huntleus, hanc ostentationem aegre ferens. 



On 15th January 1588, William MacLeod of Dunvegan bound 
himself and his heirs, in a strict Ik)nd of Amity (with Mackin- 
tosh) against all mortals (his majesty only excepted). This bond 
is dated at Culloden. 

In the same year, on the 25th of February, Alexander Mac- 
Ronald of Garrochy became bound in a strait bond of manrent 
and service, not only for himself and his heirs, but also for all his 
kindred and dependants, to Mackintosh and his heirs, against all 
mortals, exccj)ting only the king and the Earl of Huntly. This Is 
dated at Dunkeld, before witnesses, namely, Thomas Stewart of 
Grantully, Knight, John Stewart Macandrew of Inverchyriachan, 
John Stewart, James's son, of Tillipurie, William Mackean duy of 
Corribroch, and Thomas Gow, notary public. 

In the month of February 1589, Angus, son of the laird of 
Mackintosh, by order of the Earl of Huntly, harried the lands of 
the Earl Marischal as well in the Meams as in Buchan, with eveiy 
kind of violence, and brought away from thence a large booty. 
The occasion of this devastation was this. The Earl Marischal 
having offended Huntly (among other things by rash and vaunting 
words uttered at Perth, before Huntly and other nobles) said that 
he was second to Huntly neither in wealth nor in power. Huntly 



pp. 245-246] THE MACKINTOSHES 345 

spondet, Non est quod te mihi viribus compares; Est enim 
mihi Vassalus, qui te, suis viribus, ex Memiae finibus exter- 
ininare valet, et, ut, banc jactantiam probaret, quamprimum 
(lomum rediit, Makintoshio rem totam narrat, et illi mandat, 
ut, depopulatione, aut alio contemptibili modo, Martialem 
dehonestet, quod incunctanter Makintoshius suscepit, et in- 
stanter, prsedictum suum filium (manu 600 virorum validorum) 
cinctum, in Merniam misit, ut supra dictum, qui totius Mer- 
niae praedam, at Strathbogiae portas, sine certamine perduxit, 
quam postea inter suos divisit. Haec expeditio, etsi nimis levi 
de caussa fuisset suscepta, Huntleus tamen ej usque fautores et 
Clientes multum gaudebant. Martialis vanitatem ita fuisse 
refutatam. Brevi post Huntleus indignabundus quod, suos 
proventus in Badenochia amplificare non poterat, Castellum 
Ruthvenense reparare statuit, et, quo, hoc ejus institutum, 
major! cum expeditione exequeretur, Makintoshium per literas 
rogat, ut ejus agricolaeet asseclae, in lapidibus, lignis, cementis, 
et aliis necessariis asportandis, Architectis et Ministris adsint. 
Makintoshius, tali ministerio nuUo modo astrictus, et, praesi- 
dium in eo loco sibi et suis noxium futurum praescius, suppetias 

taking this boast^ not without pain^ replied : ' That your compare 
yourself to me in power is nothing ; there is, forsooth, a vassal of 
mine who with his forces is able to exterminate you from the 
bounds of the Meams.' And, in order to prove this boast, as soon 
as he returned home he told the whole matter to Mackintosh, and 
ordered him, by spoliation, or in some other humiliating way, to 
disgrace Marischal. Without delay Mackintosh undertook the 
business; and forthwith arming his son aforesaid, he sent him, 
with a band of 6OO strong men, into the Mearns, as was said 
above, who, without a fight, brought the booty of the whole 
Meams to the gates of Strathbogie, and afterwards divided it 
among his men. Although this expedition was undertaken on a 
very trivial occasion, yet Huntly and his favourers and clients 
were very much pleased, — the vanity of Marischal having been so 
confuted. Soon afterwards Huntly, being angry that he could not 
increase his revenues in Badenoch, determined to repair the 
castle of Ruthven ; and that he might carry out this purpose of 
his with greater expedition he wrote to Mackintosh asking that 
his tenants and friends should assist the architects and servants 
by carrying stones, timber, lime, and other necessaries. Mackintosh 
being nowise bound to afford such service, and foreseeing that it 
would be against the interest of himself and his people that a 
garrison should be in that place, utterly refused to carry the 



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ferre pemegat. Quo cognito, Huntleus f remit, et se, propug- 
naculum in Badenochia struendum curaturum, ad omnes 
Catanos Badeonochenses domandum sufficiens jactitat. Badeo- 
noclienses, Huntlei intensionem cementes, ejus conatum re- 
tardare statuunt, et, primo, apert^ opus impediunt, ddnde, 
Architectos in necessariis suppeditandis contermunt, et ita 
opus pro tempore deseritur. Interea Makintoshius, contractis 
copiis, Lochabriam, ad praedones domandos, ingreditur. Hunt- 
leus eadcm tcmpestate per emissarios mandat, ne, Makintoshii 
Curiis, Cameronia aut Clanronaldina tribus obtemperet. Atta- 
mcn nonnuUi, Curiis adfuerant, et, absentibus mulctatis, 
lja^et4?,] Makintoshius, circiter decimum sextum diem mensis Julii, 
Anno 1590, domiim reditt. Autumno sequenti, grave dis- 
sidium, inter Huntlei et Morraviae Comites exarsit, cujus 
caussa et origo lisec erat ; Johannes Granteus, 
Grantei a Ballindalloch Tutor, aegre ferens quod Johannes 
Gordonius Birmorensis (Thomae Gordoni a Cluny Militis 
frater), Grantei a Ballindallach Helictam duxerat, et, inter 
Grantcos habitaret, de re exili, cum illo, altercatur, et, inter 
delitigandum, Gordoni servum intereniit. Quamobrem, in jus 
vocatus, cum non affuissct, iile cum criminis sociis hostes 

supplies. On learning this^ Huntly raged^ and boasted that he 
would construct a fortress in Badenoch sufficient to overawe all 
the Chattans of that country. 

The Badenoch people, perceiving Huntly's design, determined 
to hinder his attempt ; and first, they openly impeded the work ; 
then they frightened the builders as to supplying the necessary 
materials ; and so the work was, for the time, left off. Meanwhile^ 
Mackintosh, having drawn together his forces, went into Lochaber 
to subdue the robbers. At the same time Huntly, by his 
emissaries, forbade the Clan Cameron and Clanronald to obey the 
orders of Mackintosh. Yet, for all that, some attended the 
courts, and the absentees having been fined. Mackintosh returned 
home about the l6th of July 1590. 

In the following autumn there arose a grievous feud between 
the Earls of Huntly and Moray, the cause and origin of which was 
this : John Grant, tutor to Grant of Ballindalloch, was much 
displeased because John Gordon of Birsmore (brother of Thomas 
Gordon of Cluny, knight,) had married the widow of Grant of 
Ballindalloch, and was dwelling among the Grants. For this 
small affair he quarrelled with him, and in the brawl slew a servant 
of Gordon's. On being summoned to trial he did not compear. 



pp. 246.247] THE MACKINTOSHES 247 

public! denunciantur, et bona in fiscum redacta sunt. Huntleus, 
sui consanguine! partes tutatus (ut vice Comes Banfensis) 
Rebelles prosequitur, ct, arcem Ballindallachensem, 21 Novem- 
bris, Anno 1590, obsidione cingit. Deditio brev! facta est. 
Sed Granteus, se subduxit, et, sub, Comitis Morraviae clientela 
se protegit, cujus patrocinium. Comes, lubenti animo suscepit. 
Quo quamprimum cognito, bellum hinc inde indicitur. Mor- 
raviae Comitis partes, Atholise Comes; Clanchattanorum, 
Grantorum et Dunbarrorum Genearchae cum Domino de Calder 
tueri statuunt. Sed horum prsecipui (prseterquam Makin- 
toshius, Clanchattanorum Dux), Morraviae Comitis partes in- 
tempestive deseruerunt. Nam Dominus de Grant, tametsi 
ejus privata Caussa tunc agebatur, et, has inimicitias excitavit, 
et quod Dominus de Calder erat is, qui, Morraviae et Atholiae 
Comites, et Makintoshium, ad, Grantei Caussam sufiulciendam 
stimulavit et induxit, hi tamen fueri primi tergiversatores ; 
Nam, ante exitum Anni 1592, sese per-clam Huntleo reconcili- 
arunt. Makin toshius vero, Comitis Morraviae partibus ita 
obnix^ adhaesit, ut Huntleus, totas vires et potentiam in 
Makintoshium, et Makintoshius, suas in ilium, usque ad finem 
belli, crudeli clade et depopulatione gnaviter extendit. 

and therefore he and his accomplices in the crime were denounced 
rebels^ and their goods confiscated. Huntly (as sheriff of Banff) 
having taken the part of his kinsman^ laid siege to the castle of 
Ballindalloch on 21st November 1590. It was soon surrendered, 
but Grant withdrew and sheltered himself under the guardianship 
of the Earl of Moray, who willingly undertook his protection. As 
soon as this was known, war was declared. The Earl of Atholl, 
the chiefs of the Clanchattans, the Grants and the Dunbars, with 
the laird of Calder, determined to take part with the Earl of 
Moray. But of these, the principal persons (excepting Mackintosh, 
leader of the Clanchattans) unseasonably deserted the Earl of 
Moray's interest. For the laird of Grant, although he was then 
acting in his own cause, and had stirred up these enmities; and 
though the laird of Calder was he who had stimulated and 
induced the Earls of Moray and Atholl, and Mackintosh, to 
uphold the cause of Grant, yet these were the first to turn their 
backs. For before the end of the year 1592, they secretly 
reconciled themselves with Huntly. But Mackintosh firmly 
adhered to Moray, so that Huntly vigorously employed his whole 
force and power against Mackintosh, and the latter did the same 
against him in cruel slaughter and devastation to the end of the war. 



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12 Novembris mensis die Anno 1590 Domini Makintosh et 
Grant, firmo et haereditario foedere adversus omnes Comites, 
qui, eos injuste infestarent (sub poena 8000 Marcarum) sese 
astringunt. Hoc foedus scriptum et signatum est Forresis 
Die, Mense et Anno prsedicto. Paulo post Comites Atholiae 
et Morraviae et Domini Makintosh, Grant et Calder unit cum 
Morraviensi vice Comite, Forresiae (ut, de bello consultarent) 
coeunt. Huntleus, ad conventionem dissolvendam ita clan- 
culum et celeriter properat, quod Comites et eorum socii prope- 
modum ex improvise intercepti essent. Nam Huntleus, vix 
centum passus ab urbe distabat, cum rumor adventus, ad 
eorum aures pervenerat, qui multum perterriti, summfi, qua 
poterant, celeritate, ad Darnuam perfugiunt. Huntleus fero- 
citer insequitur. Damua, ante ejus adventum, munitur. Sed 
Comes Atholius, Makintoshius, Granteus, Calderus et Mor- 
ravije vice Comes, ad amicos et clientes convocandos, properant, 
[^ai^et48.] quo citiiis, si obsideretur Damua, sua? parti suppetias ferrent. 
Huntleus cum suis arci appropinquat. Sed Johannes Gordonus 
Birfonerensis, hasta armatus, propius aggreditur, tanta insulta- 
tione et arrogantia milites praesidiarios exprobrans, quod, 
globulo plummeo ab arce transfixus, examinatus concidit. 

On 12th November 1590, the lairds of Mackintosh and Grant 
became bound in a firm and hereditary covenant (under a penalty 
of 8000 merks) against all earls who should unjustly trouble them. 
This covenant was written and signed at Forres on the day 
aforesaid. Shortly afterwards the Earls of Atholl and Moray, and 
the lairds Mackintosh, Grant, and Calder, together with the 
Sheriff of Moray, met at Forres, to consult about war. Huntly 
hastened to dissolve this convention so secretly and swiftly that 
the earls and their associates were almost intercepted unawares ; 
for Huntly was scarcely a hundred paces distant from the town 
when the rumour of his coming reached their ears. They, greatly 
terrified, fled with all possible haste to Damaway. Huntly 
fiercely followed them. Darnaway was fortified before his arrival. 
But the Earl of Atholl, Mackintosh, Grant, Calder, and the Sheriff 
of Moray hastened to assemble their friends and dependants, that 
they might the sooner bring assistance to their own party in case 
Damaway was besieged. Huntly with his men drew near to the 
castle ; but John Gordon of Birsmore, armed with a spear, went 
nearer, reproaching the garrison with such insolence and bravado, 
that he was shot through with a bullet from the castle, and fell 



pp. 247-248] THE MACKINTOSHES 249 

Huntleus, cum, nuUam spem arcis potiundae, haberet, domum 
revertitur 24 die Novembris 1690. Anno 1691, quibusdam 
hostilitatis arcis alter utrinque perpetratis, Comes Morraviae et 
Vice Comes ejusdem, ab Huntleo ex improviso et inclementer 
trucidati sunt, quod, multis caedibus, vastationibus, rapinis et 
incendiis, inter Huntleum et Makintoshium, sequenti quadri- 
ennio, occasionem prsebuit. Nam Makintoshius, ex Morra- 
viana factione solus cum amicis et clientibus, istius necis 
ultionem, ad finem usque belli prosecutus est. Haec caedes 
patrata est 7 Iduum Feb. A.D. 1591. 

Hoc tempore Huntleus, Lochabrienses, ad Makintoshios et 
Grantos infestandos instimulat. Makronaldini Lochabrienses 
e Strathspeia et Cameroni, ab ea parte Badenochiae, quae erat 
iis proxima, praedas eripiunt, et hi Duncanum Makintoshium a 
Crathy cum nonnullis aliis Badenochensibus ex insidiis inter- 
ficiunt. 

Intra paucos dies Makintoshius, collecta amicorum manu, 
Cameronionim agros pervagatus, ingentem indidem praedam 
abegit, et Patricius Grantus, Domini de Grant filius, ut, in- 
juriam, suis amicis illatam, ulcisceretur, Brelochabriam cum 



dead. Huntly^ having no hope of possessing the castle^ returned 
home on 24th November 1590. 

In the year 1591, after some hostilities on both sides^ the Earl 
of Moray and the sheriff thereof, were suddenly and cruelly 
murdered by Huntly ; which event gave occasion for many 
slaughters^ devastations, ravages, and burnings between Huntly 
and Mackintosh during the next four years. For Mackintosh was 
the only one of the Moray faction, who, with his friends and 
clients, earnestly sought to revenge that murder, even to the end 
of the war. The murder was perpetrated on the 7th Ides of 
February 1591. 

At this time Huntly stirred up the people of Lochaber to vex 
the Mackintoshes and the Grants. The Mac Ronalds of Lochaber 
harried and plundered Strathspey, and the Camerons did the 
same in that part of Badenoch which was next to them, and 
treacherously slew Duncan Mackintosh of Crathie, with some 
others of the Badenoch people. Within a few days Mackintosh, 
having gathered a band of his friends, overran the lands of the 
Camerons, and drove away therefrom a huge booty ; and Patrick 
Grant, son of the laird of Grant, that he might avenge the 
mischief done to his friends, invaded Brae Lochaber with his 



260 GENEAIX)GICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

copiis ingressus, earn ferociter depopulatur, et, cum magna 
praeda, domum rediit Interim Alexander Makronaldus a 
Gargocliia(qui, non ita pridem, suum servitium, stricto vinculo 
et jurejurando, Makintoshio contra omnes) Atholiae Comite 
solummodo dempto (obligavit) se Huntleo adjunxit, Castrique 
Invemessensis custodiam suscepit. Sed diu ibi non manserat, 
cum, anonae indigentia, praesidium deserere est impulsus. Ipse 
vero cum praecipuis amicorum, ad Huntleum, ut de summa 
rerum consul tet, clanculum secedere conatur, sed veritus, ni 
omnes aditus terrestres, a Maktoshio obessi et circundati 
forent, cymbis, ad pagum Findorum se et socios transvehi 
statuit. Hoc cum abdite Makintoshio innotesceret, Lauch- 
lanus et Alexander (^Sneae Makintoshii a Termet filii) cum 12 
strcnuis sociis, duabus cymbis vectis, ad eos obviandos, missi 
sunt, qui in cymbas, in quibus Makronaldini noctu violifica- 
bantur, bonis avibus incurrunt. Sed cymba, qua, eorum 
Princeps vehebatur, in proximam terram aufugerat. Altera 
vero, in qua Makronaldus ab Insh et socii fuerant, in medios 
hostes illapsa est. Diu pugnatum. Tandem Makronaldini, 
nonnullis eorum caesis, aliis lethaliter vulneratis, deditionem 

forces, and after wildly harrying it returned home with great 
spoil. 

Meanwhile^ Alexander MacRonald of Gargochy (who not so long 
before had become bound by a strict bond, by swearing to render 
service to Mackintosh against all men, the Earl of AthoU onty 
excepted) joined himself to Huntly, and undertook the custody of 
the castle of Inverness ; but he had not been long there when 
from lack of provisions he was compelled to desert the garrison. 
He attempted to withdraw secretly with his principal friends to 
Huntly, in order to consult about all matters; but fearing that all 
the land routes were blocked and guarded by Mackintosh^ he 
resolved to convey himself and his associates by boats over to the 
Findhorn district. When this came privately to the notice of 
Mackintosh, he sent Lachlan and Alexander (sons of Angus 
Mackintosh of Termet), with twelve strong men in two boats^ to 
meet them, who by good luck in the night-time encountered the 
boats in which the Mac Ronalds were sailing. The boat in which 
their chief was made off to the nearest land ; but the other boat, 
in which were MncRonald of Insch and his companions, glided 
into the midst of the enemy. They fought a long time ; but at 
last, as some of them were slain, and the rest mortally womided 
the MacRonalds surrendered; two of their leaders, namely, 



pp. 248-249] THE MACKINTOSHES «61 

subeunt, quorum Domini, viz., Gothedrus du, ej usque filius 
proximo die in arbore suspensi strangulantur. Quippe, a 
Makintoshio nutriti, illique jurejurando vincti, fide violate, 
sine uila caussd se, Huntlei partibus adjunxerant. Brevi post 
Cameroni pecora, quae, a Strathernia abegissent, in campo 
Morillensi interimerunt. Nam, ea tuta, in Lochabriam se 
introducere posse (si Catani eos insequerentur) non prospi- 
ciebant. 

Mense Feb. 1592 iEneas, Domini Makintoshii primogenitus, 
cum selecta suorum manu, terras Glenbuket et Aberzeldi, 
omni calamitatis genere fcedavit, eodemque mense Catanorum 
copiae, sub eodem Duce magnam prsedam, e terris Glenlivat 
et Strathdoun propulerunt. Mense Octobri sequenti Huntleus, [page 249.] 
Badenochiam ingressus, Badenochenses ita inter se distraxit, 
ut, Makphersonorum nonuUi, Makintoshium (suum quanquam 
Ducem et Genearcham) deseruerant, et Huntleo, tanquam 
Domino et superiori, adhaeserant. 

Badenochexsiuus ita inter se divisis, Huntleani, praesertim 
Cameroni (quos Huntleus tunc in suppetias citaverat) quasdam 
Makintoshioruni domus cremarint, et, nonnullo pecora abege- 
runt, et, quoniam Huntleana factio in Badenochia erat Makin- 

Gothred Dhu^ and his son^ were hanged the next day on a tree ; 
because that they^ having been fostered with Mackintosh^ and 
bound to him by oath, had without cause violated their fealty, by 
going over to Huntly's side. A short time afterwards, the 
Camerons, in the Haugh of Morill, slew the cattle which they had 
taken away from Stratherne, for they did not see how they could 
bring them safe into Lochaber, if the Chattans pursued them. 

In the month of February 1592, Angus, the first-bom of the 
laird of Mackintosh, with a select band of his people, destroyed 
the lands of Glenbucket and Abergeldy, with every kind of 
mischief: and in the same month the forces of the Chattans, under 
the same leader, drove away a great booty from the lands of 
Glenlivat and Strathdoun. In the month of October following 
Huntly, having invaded Badenoch, and so divided the people 
there that some of the Macphersons deserted Mackintosh (although 
he was their leader and head of their clan), and adhered to Huntly 
as their lord and master. 

The Badenoch people being thus divided among themselves, 
the Huntlean faction, especially the Camerons (whom Huntly 
had then called to his assistance), burned some houses of the 
Mackintoshes, and took away some cattle. And because his 



262 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

toshiana multo imbecillior, Huntleus, Castrum Ruvinense 
reparare et munire, in eosque prsesiclium collocare statuit. Sed 
Makintoshius, huic aequo ac priori conamini obstitit. Nam 
Catanoriim quidam (sub Domini Makintoshii primogeniti 
ductu) totam calcem, quae, Huntlei jussu a Rothemurchusia 
ad Castrum Ruvenense asportabatur, portitoribus contusis 
(erant enim hi ex Badenochensibus desciscentibus), in aquam 
Speiam conjecerunt. Huntleus (ejus conamine ita subverso) 
magnopere infensus domum rediit. Cameroni ver6 illi astite- 
runt donee, Strathdouniam praeteriisset. Sed per montes 
Marrianos (veriti ne Catanatribus, iis insidias tenderet) re- 
gressi sunt. Makintoshius, ut, damna, ab Huntleanis et 
Cameronis in Badenochia tunc accepta, ulcisceretur, iGneam 
Makintoshium (vulgo Williamsonium, virum strenuum, cum 
Catanorum selecta manu,) ad Gordoniorum agros spoliandos 
misit, qui 10 Novembris 1592, terras Strathdee et Glenmuick 
aggressi, quicquid, ferro ilammaque fcedavi poterat, corrumpunt 
ac diruunt. In hue expeditione Henricus Gordoun a knock, 
Alexander Gordoun a Toldu, Thomas Gordoun a Blar- 
charrish cum Barone de Breachly cumque aliis nonnullis gene- 
rosis una cum 120 plebeiis, occisi fuerant. 

faction in Badenoch was much weaker than that of Mackintosh, 
Huntly determined to repair and fortify the castle of Ruthven, 
and to plant a garrison among them. But Mackintosh withstood 
this just as he had done the former attempt. For certain of the 
Chattans (under the command of his eldest son) threw the whole 
of the lime, which was by Huntly's order being brought from 
Rothemurchus to Ruthven Castle, into the river Spey, after they 
had beaten the carriers, who were of the revolting Badenoch men. 
Huntly, seeing his project thus frustrated, went home greatly 
offended. The Camerons, indeed, stuck to him till he had passed 
Strathdoun ; but fearing lest the Clan Chattan should lie in wait for 
them, they went back by the Braes of Mar. 

In revenge for the losses then inflicted on Badenoch by 
the Huntly faction and the Camerons, Mackintosh sent Angus 
Mackintosh (commonly called Williamson) a strenuous man, with 
a select company of the Chattans, to spoil the lands of the Gordons. 
They accordingly, on 10th November 1592, invaded the lands of 
Strathdee and Glenmuick, and spoiled and destroyed whatever they 
could with fire and sword. In this expedition Henry Gordon of 
Knock, Alexander Gordon of Toldu, Thomas Gordon of Blaircarrisli, 
with the baron of Breachly, and some other gentlemen, together 
with one hundred and twenty of the common people, were slain. 



p. 249] THE MACKINTOSHES 253 

HiscE ita perpetratis, Makintoshius, totos Huntlei pro- 
ventus, tarn in Badenochia, quam in Invemessensi 

possedit, et, tanquam suos (durante Bello) detinuit. 

PosTEA, Lochabriam (coUecta quam poterat magna manu) 
ingressus, tola ilia plaga, ferro et ilamma depopulata, cum 
ingenti hominum clade pecorumque praeda, domum sine cer- 
tamine se contulit, post cujus reditum multse viles incursiones 
in Grordonorum agros factae sunt. 

EoDEM tempore praedictus iEneas, Domini Makintoshii 
primogenitus, istam Makphersonorum manum, quae, hosti se 
adjunxerat, prostemere totis viribus contendit, quorum princi- 
palium nonnullos apprehensos, suo patri castigandos tradidit. 
Sed is semper dementia plenus, eos, jurejurando dato de fideli 
servitio, sibi, tanquam Genearchae, praestando, dimisit. Hi 
tamen, fide violata, hosti denuo se adjunxerunt, et magis 
infense qu^m ante ad versus Makintoshium se gesserunt. Mneas 
ideo multum ultioni deditus, sed hac in re a patre impeditus, 
Regno deserto, Hierosolymam proficisci statuit, et, proximo 
vere, iter ingressus est. 

Hic notandum quod, tempore illius controversiae inter 



These things having thus been accomplished^ Mackintosh de- 
tained as his own (during the war) the whole rents of the lands 
belonging to Huntly^ as well in Badenoch as in Inverness. After- 
wards^ having gathered as large a force as he could^ he went into 
Lochaber, and having wasted that country with fire and sword^ 
with a great slaughter of men^ he betook himself homewards with 
a large prey of cattle^ without a fight. After his return many 
small incursions were made upon the lands of the Gordons. 

At the same time^ the aforesaid Angus^ eldest son of Mackin- 
tosh, strove with all his power to overthrow the company of the 
Macphersons who had joined with the enemy ; and having seized 
some of the chief men thereof, he delivered them to his father to 
be punished. But he, always full of mercy, dismissed them, on 
their swearing to yield faithful service to him as their chief. 
They nevertheless soon violated their oath, and joined the enemy 
again, and behaved themselves more offensively against Mackin- 
tosh than before. Angus, therefore, was strongly bent on revenge, 
but having been hindered in that by his father, he left the king- 
dom, having resolved to depart to Jerusalem ; and, indeed, on the 
next day he set out on his journey. 

It should be noted that, in the time of this controversy between 



264 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. i 

Huntleum et Makintoshium, tota tribus (quondam Clan- 
wurrichia, nunc Macphersona, dicta) Makintoshio suo Gene- 
archae adhseserant prseterquam pauci (ex ea familia vulgo 
Slighk kynich vie Ewin), qui, Huntleo, tanquam suo Domino 
superiori, adjunxerant. Immo vero et hi, finito Bello, sub 
Makintoshii clientelam se receperunt, & stricto obsequii vin- 
[ fagt iSO,] culo ac jurejurando obstrinxerunt. 

Anno 1593 Huntleus cum magnis, turn equitum, quam 
peditum copiis, Baroniam de Petty, omni calamitatis genere 
devastat. Hoc eodem die quo Petty crematur, Makintoshius, 
ut, Damna accepta ulcisceretur, pari crudelitate Gordonorum 
agros pervagari conatus, Gulielmum suum filium, ad terras, 
Cabbrach Achindun, et Black water, vastandas, cum pauco, 
Catanorum et Makronaldorum nuraero, misit. Huntleus tunc 
in villa Cula Pettiensi castra metatus, cum pro certo haberet 
Gulielmum Makintoshium eo progressum reditum, qua poterat 
celeritate, ad suos agros tuendos properat, eamque Catanorum 
manum dissipatam (dum Cabbrach excideretur) adortus, eorum 
14 occidit, reliquosque in fugam facile conjecit. Nam Ron- 
aldus mak Ronald ab Insh ej usque assectores, quibus Guliel- 
mus potissimum confidebat, perfide et ignominiose aufugerant. 

Huntly and Mackintosh, the whole tribe, formerly called Clan 
Vurrich, now Macpherson, adhered to Mackintosh their chief, 
excepting a few (of that family, commonly called Slighk Kynich 
vie Ewin) who joined Huntly as their lord superior. But these 
also, when the war was ended, betook themselves again to the 
protection of Mackintosh, and bound themselves to him in a strict 
bond and oath of submission. 

In the year 1593, Huntly, with great forces both of horse and 

foot, wasted the Barony of Petty with every kind of calamity. On 

the same day in which Petty was burned. Mackintosh, in order to 

avenge the mischiefs so inflicted, by an attempt to ravage the 

lands of the Gordons with the like cruelty, sent his son William, 

with a few of the Chattans and a number of the MacRonalds, 

to harry the lands of Cabrach, Achindoun, and Black water. 

Huntly, having then pitched his camp in the Coultown of 

Petty, when he heard for certain that William Mackintosh was on 

his way thither, hastened his return with all possible speed to 

defend his lands; and having attacked the straggling band of 

Chattans, while they were leaving the Cabrach, he slew fourteen of 

them, and easily put the rest to flight. For Ronald MacRonald 

of Insch and his followers, in whom William tnisted too much. 



pp. 249-250] THE MACKINTOSHES 255 

Ronaldus erat qui occulte, Huntleum, ad banc aggressionem 
invitavit. Anno 159B Sept. 10 Invemessse praepositus, Prae- 
tores, ejusdemque Senatus, stricto vinculo Syngrapho signato 
Makintoshio perfidio in pyramide Invemessensi collocaturo 
sese hac lege obstrinxerunt, viz. quod ipsi, pro Regis servitio, 
pyramidem tute ac viriliter, ad versus Huntleum ej usque fae- 
tionem, durante Bello, propugnarent, qua in re, si deficerent, 
scy et, Makintoshii, tribusque Catanae capitales inimicitias 
lubenti animo in perpetuum subituros fideliter promittunt. 
Hoc vinculum signarunt Johannes Cuthbert de Old Castlehill, 
Alexander Patersonus Ballivus, Gilbertus Patersonus Ballivus, 
Johannes Ros, Jaspardus Dempstorus, Gulielmus Cuthbertus, 
Gulielmus Gumming, &c. Hie notandum quod Atholiae 
Comes (tunc Scotiae Septentrionalis Praefectus, Andreas Ochil- 
triae Regulus, et Dominus Makintoshius, ad Huntleum ej usque 
participes persequendos, Regis mandato, in Comitis Morravia? 
necis ultionem missi fuerant, tametsi Makintoshius, 

sua tribu solummodo adjutus, hoc officio p^rfunctus est. 

Hoc Anno Nov. 10 Makintoshius, ut, suas partes, accessione 
virium, adversus tkm potentes hostes, firmaret, Argatheliae 
Comitem foedere sibi adjunxit, quo pactum est quod eorum 

treacherously and basely ran away. It was Ronald who secretly 
incited Huntly to this aggression. 

On the 10th September 1593, the provost, bailies, and council 
of Inverness, by a strait bond, written and sealed, to be laid up in 
the steeple of Inverness, bound themselves to Mackintosh under 
this stipulation, that is to say, tliat they would during the war 
securely and manfully defend the steeple for the service of the 
king against Huntly and his faction ; in which matter if they 
should fail, they promised faithfully and with willing mind to 
undergo the deadly enmity both of Mackintosh and the Clan- 
chattan for ever. Those who signed this bond were John Cuthbert 
of Old Castlehill; Alexander Paterson, bailie; Gilbert Paterson, 
bailie; John Ross, Jaspar Dempster, William Cuthbert, William 
Cumming, and others. Here it is to be noted that the Earl of 
Atholl, then Lieutenant of the North of Scotland, Andrew, Lord 
Ochiltree, and the laird of Mackintosh, had been sent by the 
king's command to pursue Huntly and his accomplices, in order 
to avenge the slaughter of the Earl of Moray ; yet Mackintosh, 
assisted only by his clan, performed that duty. 

In this year, on the 10th of November, in order that he might 
strengthen his party by an accession of power against such potent 
enemies. Mackintosh joined to himself the Earl of Argj-ll in a treaty, 



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^lryiW*tt^* M^T fratr^ Hs^ics 3[Akj a. Fir et XaigBtro 
Ger^gv> KrUcin 4c. 

Mi!:;(%K Martio fteqienti Hsctleu^ totss ^irSioBw tan ex 
IWleri^jctfU et I»chabni« qn&ia ex cacipcstri R^Soiie Petteam 
A^jp'fibMjM, eskAdem jUi^qce 3Iakhitoi§Iiion:m pncdsa r iniirit, 

Mr.si%K iumo %t(\utnH Argatbelue Cooks tuac Regis Strm- 
Urgu-s nukf^M collecto exeitntu, adrenzim Hantleum ejinque 
#:onv>rt» (tunc Rebellen), Regi^ mundato p r ogi csMs ST Sep- 
tetnbris C.a%injm Kuvennense lo Badenochia obsicfione ciiigit. 
I>i<'biJA nonnulHii, in eo ijppugnaodo fnistra consoniptts, ob- 
nulumem v>lvit. Verntu Strathdouniam incedit, et, 2 Octobris, 
t^j^iWi prope Ca^truniy I>njmm]nnuni caatra metatus esL Huntleus 
cum MU]» tunc Strathbogi^e, donee exploratum baberet, quam 
[mKul hrMtcft abes^eniy morabatur. 5 Norembris 1594 Hunt- 
lean] crum ArgatheliiM apud Toirentem vulgo Altchuxixchax 
(UfUffrcnni^ duabuft fere horis pugnatum est. Tandem Argatbelii 

whereby it was agreed that each of them should help the otber, 
witli tlie va9<tals and friends of both the confederates, against all 
mortals, excepting the king's majesty and the Earl of Moray. This 
covenant was signed at Inveraray, before these witnesses, Angus 
Mackintosli, afuut Williamson, of Termet, William Mackay, brother 
of Hugh Mackay of F'ar, Mr. George Erskine, etc. 

In the month of March following, Huntly, with all his forces, 
AN well from Hadenoch and Lochaber as from the level country. 
Invaded Petty, and bumt it and the other estates of the Mackin- 
toshcH, and reduced them almost to ruin. 

In June following, the Earl of Argyll, who was then the king's 
general, having mustered a large army, went, by order of the 
king, nKainst Mnntly and his partisans (then rebels), and on the 
1^7th of St^ptenihcr besieged the castle of Ruthven in Badenoch. 
After wuNting some days in fighting there to no purpose, he raised 
the siege, and going on towards Strathdoun, pitched his camp on 
the and of October near to Drummin Castle. Huntly with his 
men was then tarrying at Strathbogie, until he should find out 
how far the enemy was distant. On the 5th of November 1594, 
lluntly encountered Argyll at the burn commonly called Altehun- 
Icchan, where they fought for about two hours. At last the 



pp. 250-251] THE MACKINTOSHES 257 

fugati, ex iis ceciderunt circiter quingenti, quorum primarii 
Archibaldus Campbellus Dominus Lochinnell cum Jacobo 
firatre (Argathelise Comites hseredes, si sine liberis discederet) 
et Gilleanus Makniell a Bara. Ex Huntleanis ver6 16, quorum 
primarius Patricius Gordonus Achindunensis Miles Huntlei 
patruus; plurimi utrinque vulnerati ; multi Gordonorum Equi 
jaculis confossi expirarunt, optima quoque spolia et ingentia 
parta sunt. 

Hoc praelium Altchunlochanum (aliter Glenlivetum), et, a 
quibusdam, Avinianum dicitur. 

Brevi post hunc congressum, hse arces, Regis mandato 
eversse sunt, viz. Strathbogiana, Slaina in Buchania, Culsa- 
munda in Gurriochifi, Balgaisia et Craigia in Angusia, quae, 
ad Comitem Huntleum, Errolium, Gordonum a Newtonia, 
Gualterum Lyndesarum Militem, et Johannem Ogilvium itidem 
Militem, pertinebcmt. Hisce ifa peractis. Rex in Australem 
regionem iter ingressus, Levinise Ducem , suum primarium 
Scotise Justiciarium post se in Septentrione reliquit, qui, Mak- 
intoshium suum vicarium surrogat, ut Commissi Elginise data 
primo die Januarii ejusdem Anni testatur. 
. Mexse Martio proximo Huntleus proscriptus, Regnum 

Argyll men being put to flight, about five hundred of them were 
slain, the principals of whom were Archibald Campbell, laird of 
Lochinnell, with his brother James (heirs of the Earl of Argyll if 
he should die without children), and Gillean MacNeill of Barra. 
On Huntly's side were killed sixteen, of whom the most distin- 
guished was Patrick Gordon of Auchindoun, Knight, Huntly's 
uncle : many on both sides were wounded ; many horses of the 
Gordons, being thrust through with darts, died. Great and 
valuable were the spoils divided among the victors. This battle 
of Altchunlochan, otherwise Glenlivet, is by some called Aviniane. 

Shortly after this conflict, these castles were, by the king's 
order, thrown down, namely, of Strathbogie, of Slains in Buchan, 
of Culsalmond in Garioch, Balgay and Craigie in Angus, which 
belonged to the Earls of Huntly and Erroll, to Gordon of Newton, 
Walter Lindsay, Knight, and John Ogilvie, also Knight. These 
things having been so done, and the king having taken his course 
toward the south country, he left behind him in the north the 
Duke of Lennox, the Chief Justice of Scotland, who appointed 
Mackintosh his depute, as his commission dated at Elgin, the 1st 
of January of the same year, bears witness. 

In the month of March thereafter, Huntly, having been pro- 

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deseruity sed, mense Junio 1597, a Rege revocatus, in Parlia- 
mento Edinburgi tento proximo Decembri ipse et Comites 
Angusise et Errolise, in pristinum favorem, honorum et statum 
restituuntur, et Anno 1599 Huntleus, titulo et dignitate 
Marchionis, a Rege honoratus est. 

Ultimo Martii dicti Anni Makintoshii Stronenses, Farquhar- 
soni Bremarrenses, et Makintoshii Glenscienses, stricto obsequii 
vinculo, sc et posteros, Domino Makintoshio, suo (xenearchiae, 
contra omnes mortales (Regia auctoritate excepta) obstringunt. 
Testes, Thomas Gordonus a Cluny, et Georgius Drummondus 
a Blair. Anno 1595 tenrae Tullich et Elrigg a Makintoshio 
acquisitae sunt. 

AxKo 1597 mensis Junii ultimo foedera inter Atholis 
Comitem et Makintoshium prius icta renovantur. Hoc foedus 
est contra omnes Mortales, Regia Majestate solummodo ex- 
cepta. Testes Gualterus Rollochus a Latoun Miles, Jacobus 
Stewart Acmadensis Miles, iGneas Makintoshius ali^ Wil- 
liamsonus Termetensis et Gualterus Doggus Scriba. Hoc 
ligamen datum est apud Ross, Mense, Die et Anno antedictis. 
[page25i.] Mexse JuHo 1597 Die 26 Huntleus et Makintoshius, omni- 
bus pra?teritis Maleficiis obliteratis, Elginise reconciliati sunt* 

scribed^ left the kingdom; but in June 1597 he was recalled by 
the king^ and in the Parliament held at Edinburgh in December 
following, he and the Earls of Angus and Erroll were restored to 
their former favour, honour, and estate ; and in the year 1599 
Huntly was honoured by the king with the title and dignity of 
marquis. 

On the last day of March of the same year, the Mackintoshes 
of Strone, the Farquharsons of Braemar, and the Mackintoshes of 
Glenshee, bound themselves and their posterity in a strait bond 
of manrent to the laird of Mackintosh their chief, in the usual 
terms. The witnesses were Thomas Gordon of Cluny, and George 
Drummond of Blair. In 1595 the lands of Tullich and Elrig were 
acquired by Mackintosh. 

On 30th June 1597, the covenants formerly made between the 
Earl of Atholl and Mackintosh were renewed, in the ordinary 
form ; the witnesses being Sir Walter Rollock of Latoun, 
James Stewart of Auchmadies, Knight, Angus Mackintosh, edia* 
Williamson, of Termet, and Walter Dog, writer. This bond is 
dated at Foss, the month, day, and year aforesaid. 

On 26th July 1597, Huntly and Mackintosh were reconciled at 
Elgin, all their past feuds being obliterated. 



pp. 251-252] THE MACKINTOSHES 269 

EoDEM Anno Nov. 19 M akintoshius et Eenethus Mackenzius 
a Eintail, stricto fcedere, jurejurando hinc inde dato, pro se 
et posteris contra omnes Mortales (Regia Majettate excepts) 
consociati sunt. Hoc foedus ictum est Invemessae coram 
Roderico Mackenzio Ardaphalensi, Jacobo Makintoshio Gas- 
kensi, Johanne Makenzio Garlochensi, MneSi Makintoshio 
Termetensi, Alexandro Mackenzio Farburnensi, Lauchlano 
Makintoshio Stronensi, Eenetho Mackenzio Brocudillensi, 
Lauchlano Makintoshio, praedicti Mnese Termetensis filio, 
Eenetho Mackenzio Eilchristonensi, Gulielmo Makintoshio 
Ratensi et Roderico Mackenzio Culteleodensi. 

Anno 1598 Makintoshius jus suum terrarum Lochabriensium 
amisit. Caussa amissionis hsec erat. In Parliamento Edin- 
burgi tento 19 Decembris 1579 statum est, ut omnes Hsere- 
ditarii Possessores Insulani et Montani, praediorum suorum in 
iis locis diplomata et instrumenta coram Seaccarii Judicibus 
ante 15 diem sequentis Maii producerent sub pcena eorundem 
confiscationis. Hoc tempore Makintoshii diplomata, in 
manibus quorundam amicorum (ipso inscio) custodiendi caussS, 
seposita fuerant. Nee tunc sciverat ubi invenienda. Unde 
evenit quod poenam subire est coactus. Verum Anno 1609 

The same year, on the 19th of November, Mackintosh and 
Kenneth Mackenzie of Kintail agreed in a strait bond of mutual 
friendship, for themselves and their posterity, in the usual 
manner. This deed was executed at Inverness, in presence of 
Roderick Mackenzie of Ardfalie, James Mackintosh of Cask, 
John Mackenzie of Garloch, Angus Mackintosh of Termet, Alex- 
ander Mackenzie of Fairburn, Lauchlan Mackintosh of Strone, 
Kenneth Mackenzie of Brocudill, Lauchlan Mackintosh, son of 
the aforesaid Angus of Termet, Kenneth Mackenzie of Kili- 
christ, William Mackintosh of Rait, and Roderick Mackenzie of 
Cultaleod. 

In the year 1598^ Mackintosh lost his right of the lands of 
Lochaber. The cause of the loss was this: In the Parliament 
held at Edinburgh on 19th December 1597, it was enacted that all 
heritable owners of the Islands and Highlands should produce 
the charters and instruments of their estates in those places 
before the Judges of the Exchequer, before the 15th day of May 
following, under pain of having the same confiscated. At that 
time Mackintosh had his charters in the hands of certain friends, 
in whose custody they had been deposited without his knowledge. 



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Alexander Hayus Miles et Registri Clericus, ni alii Makin- 
toshio malevolo hoc qusestu potirentur, de jure terrarum 
Lochabriensium tarn ad Makintoshium quam ad Mack- 
gillearaum pertinentium, cum Rege pactus est, et, Anno 1614, 
Macleanorum partem Lochabrise Domino Gordono venundat, 
etiamque Makintoshii partem in ipsius Makintoshii favorem 
resignavit. Eodem Anno 1598 Makintoshius, dimidium 
terrarum Glenluy et Lochairkagg Allano Cameron a Loch- 
zield pro Summa 6000 Marcarum pignori dedit, altenim vero 
dimidium pro servitio Militari et obsequio ei coUocavit pro 
spatio 19 Annorum hac lege, quod si Allanus aut ejus 
Hsercdes, durante pignore, Makintoshium hostiliter invaderent, 
hoc casu et pignus et locationem et possessionem in perpetuum 
amitteret; Si vero Makintoshius aut ejus poster! Allanum 
adoriretur, eo casu terras non sine pignoris et locationis duple 
redimendas licitum fore. 

Anno 1601 Makintoshius, Argatheliae Comiti ex mandate 
Regis adjunctus in expeditione ad versus Clangregoros (tunc 
Rebelles) strenue in istam efFraenam et turbulentam tribum se 

neither did he then know where to find them ; so that he was 
forced to suffer the penalty. But in the year l609, Sir^^lex- 
ander Hay, Clerk Register, lest others in malevolence to Mack- 
intosh should become possessed of this advantage, agreed with 
the king in regard to the right of the lands of Lochaber, 
as well of those belonging to Mackintosh as those of MacLean. 
In l6l4 he disponed the portion of Lochaber pertaining to 
the MacLeans to Lord Gordon ; and also resigned the other 
part in favour of Mackintosh himself. In the same year 1598 
Mackintosh gave to Allan Cameron of Lochiel the half of the 
lands of Glenluy and Locharkaig, in wadset for the sum of 
f)000 merks, but the other half he let to him for miltary service 
and obedience, for the space of nineteen years, on this con- 
dition, that if Allan or his heirs, during the wadset, should 
invade Mackintosh in hostile manner, he should in that case 
lose both the wadset and the lease and possession for ever: 
but if Mackintosh or his posterity should attack Allan, then it 
would not be lawful to redeem the lands without doubling the 
wadset and the lease. 

, In the year l601, by command of the king. Mackintosh, in 
conjunction with the Earl of Argyll, acted vigorously in the 
expedition against the Clan Gregor (then rebels) that unruly and 



pp. 252-253] THE MACKINTOSHES 261 

gessit. Nam ejus opera eorum prsediis depopulatis, nonnuUi 
ex praecipius capti, alii Caesi fuerant, adeo ut Rex, Makin- 
toshii studium et diligentiam in ilia militia tanquam per- 
gratum servitium sibi prsestitum agnoverat. In cujus rei 
testimonium perhumanam illi epistolam misit, qua, Dun- 
canum Mackgregorum (ali^ Mak ean chaim) a Makintoshio 
captum, decollandum, ej usque caput ad Edinburgum mit- 
tendum mandat. Hsec epistola (adhuc inter Makintoshii 
chartas) data est apud Coenobium Sanctae Crucis penultimo [^ei5S.] 
Martii 1608. 

Inter expeditiones adversus Clangregoros erat una a 
Gulielmo Makintoshii 9!^ genito, et Gulielmo Makintoshio 
Jamesono Ratensi facta, quae silentio non est praetereunda. 
Res ita se habuit* Makintoshius, Argathelias Comiti adversus 
istam turbulentam tribum Regis mandato adjunctus, 120 
selectorum virorum (praetcr Ministros) ad Rennocham sub 
ductu praedicti sui filii et Gulielmi Makintoshii Ratensi misit. 
Clangregori impressionem pertimescentes, sua pecora pro- 
tegendi caussa inter aflines et benevolos Atholienses dis- 
pergunt. Gulielmus in Rennochiam celeriter profectus, cum 
se deceptum perspiceret, et de facto nonnihil intelligeret, in 

turbulent tribe. For by his assistance their lands were wasted, 
some of their chief men taken, and others slain ; so that the king 
acknowledged the zeal and diligence of Mackintosh in that war- 
fare as very acceptable service performed to him, in testimony 
whereof he sent to him a very friendly epistle, in which he 
ordered Duncan MacGregor (alias MacEan chaim), captured 
by Mackintosh, to be beheaded, and his head to be sent to Edin- 
burgh. This letter, which is still among the writs of Mackintosh, 
is dated at the Abbey of Holyrood on 30th March l603. 

Among the expeditions against the Clan Gregor there was 
one by William, second son of Mackintosh, and William Mackin- 
tosh, son of James of Rait, which ought not to be passed over in 
silence. The affair happened in this way. Mackintosh, being 
by the king's command associated with the Earl of Argyll against 
that turbulent tribe, sent to Rannoch one hundred and twenty 
select men of his clan, besides servants, under the leadership 
of his son aforesaid, and of William Mackintosh of Rait. The 
Clan Gregor, greatly fearing an assault, dispersed their cattle 
for the sake of protection among their relatives and friends in 
Atholl. William went quickly into Rannoch ; and when he saw 
that he was deceived, and knew not how, he directed his course 



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Atholiam iter dirigit, unde omnia peoora armentaque sibi 
obvia abegit. Atholii prout admoniii, prsedam et ab actoris 
properato sed incomposite insequuntur, et, ab actores in aiduis 
terrarum inter Atholiam et Badenochiam cursu apprehendunt. 
Ho8, cum Gulielmus cemeret, prsedam cum ministris dimisit, 
et per nuncios Atholiis indicat se Regis mandato adversus 
Clangregoros missum, quaedam Rebellium pecuda ab^isse, 
seque scire cupidum qua fiducia quispiam eo mandato fungendo 
eum interpellare audeat. Si vero Atholii quipiam, sua 
armenta cum coeteris abacta fuisse allegarent, hoc sue impulsu 
et irritamento evenisse (quod ex legium tutelam et patrocinium 
suscepissent) ideo omnia eorum Bona confiscata fuisie; 
attamen propter vetustum fcedus, quod inviolatum per multos 
Annos inter domum Atholinam et Makintoshianam steterat, 
se omnia pecora ad Athalos tantum pertinentia ipsis redona- 
turum. Hie favor ab Atholis contemptim respuitur, et nihil 
iis prseterquam integra pecorum restitutio satisfaceret. Gul- 
ielmus hac Responsione summopere infensus, cum Atholos 
(tunc numero 300) confusos, exagerantes, et ad impetum 



into AthoH^ whence he drove all the flocks and herds that 
came in his way. The AthoU men, when they got word of 
this, hastily, but in disorder, pursued those who had driven 
off the prey, and overtook them in their route on the high 
grounds between AthoU and Badenoch. When William saw 
them, he sent off the booty with the servants, and informed the 
Atholl men by messengers, that he was sent against the Clan 
Gregor by command of the king, and had driven away some of 
the rebels' cattle ; and that he wished to know by what assurance 
any one dared to interrupt him in carrying out that mandate. 
But if any of the Atholl men alleged that their cattle had 
been carried off with the rest, that had happened by their 
own rashness and provocation, because they had taken upon 
them the protection and defence of outlaws, and therefore all 
their goods were confiscated : but yet, on account of the old 
treaty, which for many years had stood unbroken between the 
house of Atholl and that of Mackintosh, he would restore to 
them all the cattle pertaining to the Atholl men only. This 
favour was by the Atholl people contemptuously refused, and 
nothing would satisfy them but the full restitution of the cattle. 
William being greatly offended by this response, when he saw 
the Atholl men (then in number 300) in disorder, but increasing. 



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accigentes cemeret, raptim et derepente in eos irrumpit, 
omnesque ad unum in fugam vertit. Catani vero ita acriter 
eos prosecuti sunt, ut, arma et stragulas (quo celerius aufuge- 
ent) Atholi abjicere adiguntur. Pauci occisi, multi tamen 
capti, quorum 13 ex prsecipuis Stewartorum et Robertsonorum, 
et duo tantum Clangregororium, ad Insulam Moyensem licet 
captivi perducti summa tamen ingenuitate spatio novem 
hebdomadarum a Makintoshio hospitati sunt, postea dimissi. 
In hac expeditione parva ilia Catanorum manus, et honorim 
et ingentem pecudum prsedam, 70 stragulas et 50 arcus et 
gladios lucrata est ; Hos enim gladios, arcus et stragulas, 
Atholi, aut reddere, aut inter fugiendum abjicere cogebantur. 

Familia Makintoshiana et Campbella Calderiana, licet, [pagefS64\ 
multis, amicitise et sodalitatis vinculis, inter se conjugates 
fuerant, ter tamen inter se virulenter dissidiis laborfirunt. 
Prima controversia de terns Rait et Geddes contigit (ut supra 
Cap. de Lauchlano ejus nominis Secundo & 14 Domino Mak- 
intoshio narravimus). Secunda disssentio inter 
Campbellum Calderianum et Lauchlanum ejus nominis 
Tertium (de quo nunc agimus) accidit. Cujus caussa et origo 

and girding themselves for the attack^ swiftly and all of a sudden 
broke upon them^ and turned them all and every one to flight. 
The Chattans indeed pursued them so fiercely that they were 
forced to throw away their -arms and plaids, that they might run 
the faster. Few were killed, but many were taken, of whom 
thirteen were of the chief men of the Stewarts and the Robert- 
sons, and only two of the Clan Gregor, who although they were 
led as prisoners to the island of Moy, were yet treated by Mackin- 
tosh with the utmost courtesy for the space of nine weeks, and 
afterwards set free. In this expedition that small band of the 
Chattans won both honour and great spoil of cattle, seventy plaids 
and fifty bows and swords, for the Atholi men were forced either 
to surrender their swords, bows and plaids, or to throw them 
away in their flight. 

The iamilies of Mackintosh, and Campbell of Calder, although 
they were bound together by many bonds of friendship and 
fraternity, yet they were on three occasions grievously troubled 
with mutual strife. The first controversy was about the lands of 
Rait and Geddes (as we have narrated above in the chapter 
concerning Lauchlan, second of that name, and fourteenth laird 
of Mackintosh). The second happened between Camp- 

bell of Calder and Lauchlan, third of that name (of whom 



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hsec erat. Hie Lauchlanus ejus et antecessores, possessionem 
terrarum de Ardishyr et Delnes quiete per multos Annos 
tenuerunt; jure tamen hse terrse, ad Lesleum Finderasium 
pertinebant. Finderasius, terrarum venditionem Makintoshio 
obtulit. Interim Campbellus Calderius, pro majore pecuni- 
arum Summa quam a Makintoshio oblata est, cum Findeiasio 
paciscitur, et, pecuniam denumerat. Makintosbius, injuriam 
ulcisci statuit. Simultas tanta hinc inde accrevit ut terrse 
controversae, per spatium trium Annorum desertse erant, quod 
Calderium multum compugit. Rebus sic stantibus, Calderius 
(cum illi innotesceret, Makintoshium, nuptiis Dalasii a Buddet 
Leathiniae adfuisse) 20 Equites et 40 Pedites clientium con- 
gregate et, Makintoshium (9 tantum clientibus) iisque Pedi- 
tibus (comitatum) inter redeundum aut capere aut interficere 
intendit. Makintosbius ita interceptus, ad hortum frumen- 
tarium, qui non procul aberat in villa vocata AUennana, viso 
hoste, accurrit, et, se et suos horto tanquam propugnaculo 
commisit. Calderius Equo celeri invectus, et Cataphractarius, 
nee non thoraci et phaleris nimium coniidens, prse cceteris longo 
intervallo adequitat, et prope hortum veniens, ejus Equus, 
sagitta barbata in pectore transfixus, et Equus et Eques in 

we are now treating)^ the cause and origin of which was this. 
This Lauchlan and his ancestors held possession quietly for 
many years of the lands of Ardersier and Delnies. These 
lands^ however, belonged by right to Leslie of Findrassie, 
who offered to sell them to Mackintosh. In the meantime^ 
Campbell of Calder bargained with Findrassie for a larger price 
than was offered by Mackintosh, and paid the money. Mackin- 
tosh determined to be avenged for this wrong. Such was the 
enmity that arose on this account that the lands in question 
lay waste for three years, wliich greatly vexed Calder. ^Tiile 
matters were standing thus, Calder having been informed 
that Mackintosh was at the wedding of Dolace of Budyet, in 
Lethen, gathered of his vassals twenty horsemen and forty foot, 
and proposed to seize or to kill Mackintosh as he returned, 
accompanied with only nine of his followers, and these on foot. 
Mackintosh, finding himself thus intercepted, ran, in sight of the 
enemy, to a corn-yard, not far from the village of Allenaha, and 
committed himself and his men to the yard as to a fortress. 
Calder, mounted on a swift horse, and confiding too much in his 
coat of mail, breastplate and trappings, rode a long way before 
his men, and coming near the yard, his horse having been pierced 



p. 254] THE MACKINTOSHES 266 

terram violenter ruunt, unde evenit quod Equitis Caput et 
Corpus licet per armatum misere super gelu collisum est. Hoc 
enim accidit Mense Februario Anni quern, cum pars 

adversa humi jacentem perspexerat, hortum, ad Calderum 
interficiendum transvolat* Sed Makintoshius alta voce ex- 
clamat et deprecatur ut Calderi vita preservaretur, et sic, 
Makintoshii opera, Calderus, ex hostium manibus liberatur, 
et, ad arcem Ccdderiam, a suis amicis transportari permittitur. 
In hac tamen pugnicula Calderanorum sagitta coqsus et alter 
vulneratus est. Ha^ insignis benevolentise nota in Calderi 
vita salvanda (eo vero tempore quo ille, ad Makintoshium 
interficiendum illuc venerat), rcpentinse concordiae inter partes, 
dum vixerant, occasionem prsebuit. Tertii vero dissidii inter 
hos accolas caussa erat hsec. Anno Gulielmus et Dun- 

canus, praedicti Lauchlani Domini Makintoshii filii, Magistrum 
Donaldum Campbellum et Colinum ejus fratrem, ob 
direptionem, ab illis in villa Dunachtonia perperam factam, 
apprehendunt, et, quibusdam ex eorum clientibus coesis, 
aliisque vulneratis, captos et vinctos, ad patrem suum Makin- 
toshium, tunc Collodini degentem dimittunt, quod pater 

in the breast with a harbed arrow^ both horse and rider fell 
violently on the ground, whence it happened that the head and 
body of the rider, though fully armed, were painfully bruised on 
the ice, for this fell out in the month of February of the year ; 
when the adverse party saw him l3ring thus on the ground, they 
ran over from the yard to kill him: but Mackintosh called out 
with a loud voice and entreated that Calder s life should be 
spared ; and thus by the help of Mackintosh, Calder was rescued 
from the hands of the enemy, and was permitted to be carried by 
his friends to the castle of Cawdor. In this skirmish, however, 
one of Calder's party was slain with an arrow, and another 
wounded. This signal mark of goodwill in saving Calder's life, 
at the very time when he had come there to kill Mackintosh, 
gave occasion of a sudden concord between the parties, which 
lasted while they lived. 

Of the third dissension between these neighbours, the occasion was 
this. In the year William and Duncan, sons of the aforesaid 

Lauchlan, laird of Mackintosh, apprehended Mr. Donald Campbell, 
and Colin his brother, on account of a robbery rashly perpetrated 
by them in the town of Dunachton, and some of their party being 
slain and others wounded, they sent these two prisoners bound 
to their father Mackintosh, who was then residing at CuUoden. 



266 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. i 

[page 966,'] 8Bgerrime tulit, eumque magnopere afflixit. Hoc enim 
prseceps et temerarium factum, damni vastique expendii 
ansam Makintoshio prsebuit. Anno 1604 Makintoshius, 
ignominia, Sibi, a Eennetho Mackenzio Eintalensi illata, 
magnopere compungitur. Hanc tamen nou inultam fore, si 
brevi tempore incolumis vitam duxisset, plane sibi proposuit. 
Res ita se habuit. Kennethus Mackenzius Eintalensis, qui 
non ita pridem, stricto amicitise vinculo cum Makintoshio 
devinctus est, Leogi insulse victoriam sibi cogitans, suppetia^, 
amicitiam et benevolentiam Fifanis (qui tunc earn insulam 
armis subigere conabantur) propalam pollicitus est, et, quo hoc 
promissum confirmaret, fratrem Rodericum cum copiis, ad eos 
auxiliandos, et anonam a Rossia, ad eos sustendandos, 
navicula misit. (Abscondite tamen incolas, viz. Shiiltorquelos, 
contra Fifanos, consilio et armis opitulabatur.) Interim vero, 
dum, ad Fifanos commeatum dirigit, quiete, incolarum, 
Imperatorem exorat ut, navem, in qua annona transvehebatur, 
obiter apprehendat, quo, Fifani annonae confisi et frustrati, 
hoc facto, Insulam Leogum deserere cogerentur, quod con- 



He took the matter very sorely, and was greatly troubled. For 
this rash and foolish deed was the occasion to Mackintosh of 
vast loss and expense. 

In the year l604, Mackintosh was greatly vexed by an affront 
offered to him by Kenneth Mackenzie of Kintail. He was fully 
resolved, however, that if he lived for a short time, that dishonour 
should not go unavenged. The matter happened thus : Kenneth 
Mackenzie of Kintail, who not so long ago was bound in a bond 
of strict friendship with Mackintosh, meditating the conquest of 
the island of Lewis to himself, openly engaged to give supplies, 
friendship, and goodwill to the men of Fife who were then 
attempting to subdue that island by arms; and that he might 
confirm this promise, he sent his brother Roderick with forces to 
help them, and provisions from Ross in a small ship to sustain 
them. (Privately, however, he was assisting the inhabitants, 
namely the Schiol Torquils, against the Fife men, both with 
advice and arms.) In the meantime, while he directed the pro- 
visions to the Fife adventurers, he quietly invited the leader of 
the islanders to seize the ship, in which the provisions were 
carried over, by the way, so that the Fife men who were trusting 
to the supply being disappointed, would by this means be forced 
to desert the Island of Lewis, which accordingly happened. For 



p- 255] THE MACKINTOSHES 267 

gruenter accidit. Nam Fifani annonse indigentes et incoepti 
pertaesi, suum jus et titulum Leogi Insulse Eintalensi Regulo 
vendiderunt. Sed, priusquam hoc evenerat, Eintalenses 
Reguli occulta perfidia contra Fifanos in apertum praedicatur, 
et quidam cui nomen Nigellus Macleodusi (aliks Nigellus 
makian) ut index, suspicione violatus est. Quamobrem occulte 
quodammodo Kintalius eum proscribit. Quo cognito, Nigellus, 
ad Makintoshium recurrit (erat enim Nigellus Dominae Mak- 
intoshiae) Eintaliae amitae (CoUactaneus) ut, eo Mediatore, 
Nigelli integritas, Kintalio ocyus manifestaretur. Makin- 
toshius, Kintalii patrocinatum, Nigello pro quibusdam diebus 
iinpetrat, et, ad Canoncam die destinato accedit, & Nigellum 
sub Kintalii tutelam dorai Johannis Irvini sui hospitis relinquit 
donee, de bora congressionis constaret. Interea, dum Nigellus 
in horto hospitis tutus (ut putabat) sine uUo timore perambii- 
labat, Rodericus Mackenzius Redcastalensis et decern criminis 
socii insidiatores (Domini Kintalensis mandato) praecipitanter 
et subito innoxium a tergo assultant, et ferociter et perfidiose 
eum gladiis confodiunt, et exanimatum relinquunt. Hoc 
tamen, quantum fieri potuit, occultatur donee Makintoshius et 
Kintalius separaverant. Sed, quamprimum innotescit, Mak- 

the Fife adventurers, being in want of provisions, and worn out, 
sold their right and title to the island of Lewis to the Lord of 
Kintail. But before this happened, the secret perfidy of Lord 
Kintail against the Fife men was openly declared, and a certain 
man, by name Neil Macleod (alias Neil Mac Ian) was wrongly 
suspected as the informer. Wherefore Kintail in some way 
secretly proscribed him. On learning this, Neil had recourse to 
Mackintosh (for Neil was foster to the lady of Mackintosh, Kin- 
tail's aunt) so that, by his mediation, the integrity of Neil might 
be more speedily manifested to Kintail. Mackintosh obtained 
Kintail's protection to Neil for some days, and went on the day 
appointed to Chanonry, and left Neil, under the safeguard of 
Kintail, in the house of John Irvine his host, until he should be 
made aware of the hour of meeting. In the meantime, whilst 
Neil was walking in the garden of his host, safe, as he Uiought, 
without any fear, Roderick Mackenzie of Redcastle and ten 
accomplices were (by Lord KintaiPs order) lying in wait, and 
swiftly and suddenly attacked the innocent man from behind, 
and cruelly and treacherously stabbed him with their swords, and 
left him dead. This was kept hidden, however, as much as possible 
until Mackintosh and Kintail had separated. But as soon as it 



268 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

intoshius nimiopere fremit et excandescit. Attamen, cum, se 
tunc imparem ad injuriam vindicandam, cemeret, quiescit, et 
domum suam in cunctanter rcdiit, nee, tantam ignominiam diu 
fore inultam cogitat. Sed Deus Omnipotens, qui Mundi 
moderatur habenas, aliter decreviL Nan Makintoshius 
Mense Octobri 1606 Connagise fatis cessit. Vixit Annis 63, 
et crat primus Makintoshiorum Dominus qui Pettise humatus 
est. 



[pagttse,^ De iENEA Domino Makintosh xvii. 

iGxEAS Lauchlani primogenitus, Joannam Campbellam, 
iVi^hibaldi, Argathelise Comitis et Regni Cancellarii filiam in 
uxorem duxit Anno 1582, ex qufi duos iilios et totidem filias 
genuit. Gulielmus, filiorum natu major puer Argatheliae 
demortuus est. Lauchlanus vero minor natu, avi haereditati 
successit. Filiarum senior Argathelise etiam virguncula ex- 
tincta est. Isobella vero junior, Georgio Rosso Domino 
Balnagown nupta erat. Haec vixit Annos 84, et decessit 
Mense Martii 1672. 

came to his knowledge Mackintosh raged and burned with anger. 
Nevertheless^ as he saw that he was not then able to avenge the 
injury, he became calm, and returned home without delay, nor did 
he intend that so great an affroiit should remain long unavenged. 
But God Almighty, who regulates the government of the world, 
decreed otherwise, for Mackintosh died at Connage in the month 
of October 1606. He lived sixty-three years, and was the first 
chief of the Mackintoshes who was buried at Petty. 

Of Eneas, seventeenth Laird of 
Mackintosh. 

Eneas, the first bom of Lauchlan, married, in 1582, Jean 
Campbell, daughter of Archibald, Earl of Argyll, chancellor of the 
kingdom. By her he had two sons and as many daughters. 
William, the elder son, died in Argyll when a boy ; but Lauchlan, 
the younger son, succeeded to the heritage of his grandfather. Of 
the daughters the elder also died in Argyll when a girl; but 
Isobella, the younger, was married to George Ross, laird of Balna- 
gowan. She lived eighty-four years, and died in March 1672. 



pp. 255-256] THE MACKINTOSHES 269 

iExKE frater Gulielmus, Beatricem Innesiam, Domini Inver- 
markensis filiam uxorem cepit, quae, illi 4 iilios, Lauchlanum, 
ADgusium (seu iEneam), Robertum et Gulielmum peperit. • 
Milcolumbus Mnesd frater prime, Janetae MacDonald, Domini 
Glengarriensis filise Matrimonio devinctus est, ex qua genuit 
Joncmnem et filias. 2^^ duxit Christianam, Magistri Johannis 
Monro a Fema filiam, quae, unam tantum natam illi peperit. 

Johannes praedicti iEneae frater, Christianam Macky 
sororem Donaldi primi dc Reia Reguli Matrimonio sibi 
adjunxit, ex qua, unam tantum filiam habuit nomine Eliza- 
betham, quas nupta erat Magistro Lauchlano Grant ab 
Elchis. 

DuNCANUs Lauchlani filiorum 5^ natus primo in uxorem 
duxit Beatricem, iGneae Makintoshii a Termet filiam, ex qua, 
unum tantum filium habuit nomine Gulielmum patrem 
Lauchlani nunc ab Abirardard et filias. 2^^ duxit 

Dunbariam Dunbari a Grangd filiam, ex qua, sex filios, 

viz. Jacobum, Allanum, Duncanum, Johannem, Mneaxn et 
Alexandrum, et unam filiam, habuit. S^^^ duxit, JEnese Makin- 
toshii, alias Mackonchi vie Sir John, filiam nomine 
quae, Hectorem et illi peperit. 

William, the brother of Eneas, married Beatrix Innes, daughter 
of the laird of Invermarkie, who bore to him four sons, Lauchlan, 
Angus (or Eneas), Robert, and William. Malcolm, brother of 
Eneas, married, first, Janet MacDonald, daughter of the laird of 
Glengarry, of whom he had John, and daughters. He married, 
secondly, Christiana, daughter of Mr. John Monro of Feme, who 
bore to him one daughter only. 

John, brother of Eneas aforesaid, married Christiana Mackay, 
sister of Donald, first Lord of Reay, by whom he had only one 
daughter named Elizabeth, who was married to Mr. Lauchlan 
Grant of Elchies. 

Duncan, the fiflh born of the sons of Lauchlan, married, first, 
Beatrix, daughter of Angus Mackintosh of Termet, by whom he 
had only one son, named William, father of Lauchlan now of 
Aberarder and daughters. He married, secondly, 

Dunbar, daughter of Dunbar of Grange, by whom he had 

six sons, namely, James, Allan, Duncan, John, Eneas, and 
Alexander ; and one daughter. He married, thirdly, a daughter 
of Eneas Mackintosh, alias Mackonchi vie Sir John, named 
who bore to him Hector and 



270 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

Allanus Lauchlani filiorum 6^ natus duxit Kosain, 

Davidis Rossi ab Holm filiam, ex qua, Lauchlanum et Alexan- 
drum et filias genuit. S^° duxit Lilliam Falconeriam 

filiam. Patricii Falconerii de fratris Domini de Halcartonii, 
ex qua, MneRm et duas natas procreavit. Euphemiam 
Campbellam, Domini Calderii filiam, uxorem sibi adjunxit. 
Habuit etiam duos Nothos Johannem et Gulielmum. 

Lauchlakus filiorum Makintoshii natu minimus Joannam 

filiam Andreas Macphersoni a Grangia uxorem habuit, quae, 

[page 257.] juj j^Qg fijios, ^neam et Gulielmum, et quinque filias n. 

Agnetam, Janetam, Elspetam, Isobellam et Margaretam 

peperit. 



Obs. Chronologica. 

Pr.efatus ifineas brevi post conjugium, Catanorum Ducatum 
sub suo patre in omnibus expeditionibus, dimicationibus, dis- 
criminibusque ad ilium tribum spectantibus adfuit, et, in pro- 
sequenda militia adversus Gordonos et Cameronos, se hominem 
strenuum et sagacem semper praebuit. In rebus tamen 
gravioribus paternis consiliis morigerum fore oportuit. Sed 

Allan^ the sixth son of Lauchlan^ married Rose^ daughter 

of David Rose of Holm^ by whom he had Lauchlan and Alexander, 
and daughters. Secondly, he married Lilias Falconer, daugh- 

ter of Patrick Falconer, brother of the laird of Halkerton, by 
whom he had Eneas, and two daughters. He married, thirdly, 
Euphemia Campbell, daughter of the laird of Calder. He had also 
two bastard sons, John and William. 

Lauchlan, the youngest of the sons of Mackintosh, married Jean, 
daughter of Andrew Macpherson of Grange, who bore to him two 
sons, Eneas and William, and dye daughters, namely, Agnpes, Janet, 
Elspeth, Isobella, and Margaret. 

Chronological Observations. 

The aforesaid Eneas, a short time after his marriage, was, under 
Ids father, leader of the Chattans, and was present in all the expedi- 
tions, battles, and dangers belonging to that tribe ; and in pro- 
secuting the war against the Gordons and Camerons, he showed 
himself ever a man of courage and sagacity. In more weighty 
matters, however, it behoved him to submit to the advice of his 



pp. 256-257] THE MACKINTOSHES 271 

haec refnenatio ita offensa illi erat, ut, ferventiori belli tem- 
pore, patrifi, uxore et amicis desertis, versus Hierosolymam 
iter capescit. Initio Septembris 1593 Romam venit, et sub 
ejusdem Mensis finem setatis Anno 27. Padicse decessit, quod 
luculenter, ex Uteris certatoriis, quarum una scripta a Magistro 
Davide King Edinburgensi data a portu de Hercule 2 Die 
Octobris, altera, a Magistro Georgio Thomsono Rosmarkensi, 
scripta data Romae 22 Oct. 1598 testatur. Erat is juvenis 
magnanimus, fortis, imperiosus, et aliquantum severus. 

GuLiELMUs Mnees frater, Catanorum gubemationem et 
Ducatum tempore minoritatis Lauchlani sui nepotis habuit, 
eratque Dux strenuus et elatus, nee non in omnibus bellicis 
conaminibus prosperus, prseterquam in expeditione ista 
Cabbrachensi (de qua supra), ubi, a Ronaldo Makronald ab 
Insh proditus, quandam jacturam perpessus est. Anno 1608 
Jacobus 6 Scotorum Rex, Makintoshii educationis anxius, 
hunc Gulielmum (tunc Makintoshii tutorem) per epistolam 
rogat ut, pupillum, ad Academiam Cantabrigensem aut Oxon- 
iensem educandum mittat. Haec epistola (adhuc inter Makin- 
toshii Chartas) data est Thetfordiae 6 Decembris Anno 1608. 

father. But this restraint was so disagreeable to him that when 
the war was hottest, he forsook his country, wife, and friends, and 
set out on a journey towards Jerusalem. In the beginning of 
September 1593, he came to Rome, and at the end of the same 
month he died at Padua, in the twenty-seventh year of his age. 
This event was certified by letters, one of which was written by 
Mr. David King, of Edinburgh, dated from the Port of Hercules, 
on 2nd October ; and the other, written by Mr. George Thomson 
of Rosmarky, dated at Rome, 22nd October 1593. This young 
man was magnanimous, brave, imperious, and somewhat severe. 

William, brother of Eneas, had the government and leadership 
of the Chattans in the time of tlie minority of Lauchlan, his 
nephew, and was an able and high-spirited leader, and prosperous 
in all military enterprises, except only in that raid of Cabrach 
(of which above), where, being betrayed by Ronald MacRonald 
of Insch, he suffered defeat. In the year 16O8, James the 
Sixth, King of Scots, being anxious about the education of 
Mackintosh, requested this William (then tutor of Mackin- 
tosh) by letter to send the pupil to be educated at the 
university of Cambridge or of Oxford. This letter (still among 
the Mackintosh charters) was dated at Thetford, on 6th Decem- 
ber I6O8. 



«72 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

Is Gulielmus, dum tutulare oflicium exercebat, controversias et 
dissentiones, quas recentes tumultuationes, inter quasdam, 
Cattanorum familios et inter ipsum Makintoshium et eorum 
nonnullos incitaverant, extinxit, eosque, stricto amicitise 
foedere inter ce copulavit. Postea ver6, Cattanarum famili- 
arum Prsefectos, haereditario obsequii et servitii vinculo 
syngraphoque, contra omnes mortales (Regia Maj estate, Comi- 
tibus Huntlei et Morravise exceptis), Makintoshio suo Duci 
et Genearchfie devinxit. Huic syngrapho apud Termet dato 
4 Aprilis 1609 suis manibus subsignarunt Gulielmus Makin- 
toshius Cattanorum Dux, Milcolumbus Makintoshius, Johannes 
Makintoshius a Delzelda, Duncanus Makintoshius, Lauchlanus 
Makintoshius, MnesB Makintoshii a Termet filius, Lauchlanus 
Makintoshius a Gask, Gulielmus Makintoshius a Rait, 
Andreas Mackphersonus a Cluny, Evenus Macphersonus a 
Brin, Johannes Macphersonus a Breakachy, Donaldus Mack- 
queenus a Corribroch, Adamus Mackbeanus a Tordarrach, et 
Milcolumbus Mackphersonus ab Owy. Hi vero Notariorum 
manibus subscripserunt, viz. Mneas Makintoshius a Termet, 
Thomas M^AIister vie Thomas a Pitmean, JEneas Macphalius 
a Einkell, Alexander Makintoshius ab Holm, Alexander 



This William, while he exercised the office of tutor, extin- 
guished the controversies and feuds which the recent tumults 
between certain families of the Chattans, and between Mackintosh 
himself and some of them, had excited, and joined them together 
in a strict covenant of friendship among themselves. Afterwards 
he bound the chiefs of the Chattan families In a bond of manrent 
to Mackintosh, their leader and chief, against all mortals (except- 
ing the King's Majesty, the Earls of Huntly and Moray). To this 
deed, dated at Termet, on 4th April l609, those who subscribed 
with their own hands were : William Mackintosh, chief of the 
Chattans, Malcolm Mackintosh, John Mackintosh of Dalzeld, 
Duncan Mackintosh, Lauchlan Mackintosh, son of Angus Mackin- 
tosh of Termet, Lauchlan Mackintosh of Gask, William Mackin- 
tosh of Rait, Andrew Macpherson of Cluny, Evan Macpherson of 
Brin, John Macpherson of Breakachy, Donald Macqueen of Corri- 
brough, Adam MacBean of Tordarroch, and Malcolm Macpherson 
of Owy. These following subscribed by the hands of the notaries, 
namely, Angus Mackintosh of Termet, Thomas M'Alister vie 
Thomas of Pitmean, Angus Macphail of Kinchyle, Alexander 
Mackintosh of Holm, Alexander Mackintosh, Hectors son, of 



pp. 257-258] THE MACKINTOSHES 273 

Makintoshius Hectorsonus a Wester Lairgs, Donaldus M^AIister 
royus a Foynes, Johannes Makintoshius Angusonus a Morill, [pagetSS,] 
Alexander M^Conil vie Farquhar a Davochgarrioch, Mil- 
columbus M^Bean a Duloromby, Suetonius Makqueenus a 
Ravogg, Johannes M^Ian duy vie Conill vie Niell in Strath- 
masy, Alexander Macferquliar vie Comas, et Johannes du Mac 
Conill. Hoc vinculum et foedus scriptum per Alexandrum 
Dufi* Notarium attestatum et signatum est a Johanne ab 
Old Castlehill Invernessse Prsefecto, Magistro Johanne Uos 
Invemessae Cive, Donaldo Macquin Ecclesiaste Pettiensi, Mil- 
columbo Ego Notario, et prsedicto Alexandro Duff Scriba. 

In patrimonium accepit Gulielmus agros de Bandchar in 
Badenochid; postmodo, hsereditarium jus Baroniae de Borlum 
sibi acquisivit. Tribum Cattaueam optime gubemavit. 
Pupilli tamen sortem perperam administravit (suis enim rebus 
nimium consuluit). Obnt Anno Christi 1630, aetatis suae 63, 
inque sepulchro patemo Pettiae inhumatus est. Milcolumbus 
iGneae frater, Ulrustiam Pettiensem prius incoluit. Deinde 
feudum haereditarium agronim de Brin obtinuit. Is erat 
admodum animosus, sed quodammodo largificus. Morti occu- 
buit Anno Christianas Redemptionis 1634, aetatis sua; 65, et 
prope Gulielmum fratrem sepultus est. 

Wester Lairgs, Donald M^'Alister Roy of Phoyness, John Mackin- 
tosh of Morill, Angus's son, Alexander M^Conill vie Farquhar, of 
Davochgarioch, Malcolm M*Bean of Dalcrombie, Sween Macqueen 
of Ravogg, John M^Ian Du vie Conill vie Niell in Strathmasy, 
Alexander Macfarquhar vie Comas, and John Du MacConill. This 
bond and covenant, written by Alexander Duff, notary, is attested 
by John Cuthbert of Old Castlehill, provost of Inverness, Mr. John 
Ross, citizen of Inverness, Donald Macqueen, minister of Petty, 
Malcolm Ego, notary, and the aforesaid Alexander Duff, writer. 

As a patrimony, VVilliam received the lands of Bendchar in 
Badenoch ; he afterwards acquired the heritable right of the 
barony of Borlum. He ruled over the Clanchattan very well ; but 
mismanaged the estate of the pupil (for he consulted far too much 
his own advantage). He died in 1 630, in the sixty-third year of 
his age, and was buried in the family burying-place at Petty. 
Malcolm, the brother of Eneas, formerly dwelt at Ulrust in Petty, 
and thereafter obtained the heritable fee of the lands of Brin. 
He was a very courageous man, but somewhat too liberal. He 
died in l634, in the sixty-fifth year of his age, and was buried near 
to his brother William. 



«74. GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

JoHAKXEs Mnese frater, in Delzielda Pettiensi prius habi- 
tavit. Postea, villain Dundelchak pignori adeptus est Erat 
is, Gallise liberaliter educatus, per humanus et affabilis. Vixit 
Annos 63, vitamque morte commutavit Anno a Christo nato 
1645, et in Tempio moyensi humatus est 

DuNCANUs erat vir admodum audax, strenuus et munificus, 
et multum virtuti et industriae deditus. Villam et agros 
utriusque Aberardorae a patre accepit (nam D. Makintoshius, 
iis temporibus, possessionem omnium et singularum terrarum 
Pettiensium, Strathernensium et Strathnaimensium, pro exiguo 
reditu, quiete tenuit). Duncanus vivis exemptus est Anno 
1651, et in Tempio Dunlechetensi terrse instratus est 

Allaxus possessione agrorum de Daviot a patre donatus est 
Hie erat spectabilis constitutionis et facets indolis, et, ex hac 
vit& migravit Anno 1646, setatis vero suse 63, et in Tempio 
Daviotensi humatus. 

Lauchlaxus, JEneod frater et Lauchlani filiorum natu 
minimus erat vir eminentis staturse, et omni modo perfectus. 
Haereditarium jus agrorum de Corribroch, a Comite Morravise 
(tunc Septentrionis Praefecto), eo quod, ejus strenuitate et 
fortitudine Jacobus Granteus insignis Rebellis apprehensus 

John^ the brother of Eneas, resided at first in Dalziel of Petty, 
and afterwards got the toMoi of Dundelchak in wadset He was 
liberally educated in France, and was very courteous and affable. 
He died in l645, aged sixty-three, and was burled in the church 
of Moy. 

Duncan was a man of great bravery, active and bountiful, 
and noted for his manliness and industry. From his father he 
received the town and lands of both the Aberarders (for the 
laird of Mackintosh in those times for a small rent quietly held 
possession of all and sundry the lands of Petty, Stratheme, and 
Strathnaim). Duncan died in l651 and was buried in the church 
of Dunlichty. 

Allan received from his father possession of the lands of Daviot 
He was of a goodly appearance, and had a pleasant disposition. 
He died in 1()46, aged sixty-three, and was buried in the church 
of Daviot. 

Lauchlan, brother of Eneas, and youngest of the sons of Lauch- 
lan, was tall of stature and in every way well made. For his 
activity and courage in apprehending James Grant, a noted 
rebel, he obtained from the Earl of Moray (then General of the 



pp. 258-259] THE MACKINTOSHES 275 

esset, adeptus est. E vivis excessit Anno 1635, et, Pettiae in 
sepultura paterna contumulatus est 



De Lauchlano Domino Makin- 
tosh xviii. 

Lauchlanus Secundus, Mness Domini Makintosh Junioris 
(ilius, proavo suo Lauchlano cognomine Magno successit. 
Fratre enim Gulielmo teneris Annis defuncto, proavus patri 
Mness superstes erat. 

Anno 1612, sibi Matrimonio conjunxit Annam Grant, 
Domini a Grant filiam natu maximam, ex qua tres habuit filios, Ipa^eess.] 
Gulielmum, Lauchlanum et iEneam, et filiam unam nomine 
Isabellam. Filiam etiam Notham habuit, quse, succedente 
nuUo progenici monumento, morti occubuit. 



Chronologicje Observationes. 

Natus est hie Lauchlanus Anno 1593 Mense Junio, patre 

North) the heritable right of the lands of Corribroch. He died 
in the year 1635, and was buried in the family burying-place at 
Petty. 

Of Lauchlax the eighteenth Laird of 
Mackintosh. 

Lauchlan, second son of Eneas the laird of Mackintosh younger, 
succeeded to his great-grandfather (grandfather) Lauchlan, sur- 
named the great. For his brother William having died in youth, 
the grandfather outlived Eneas the father. 

In the year l6l2 he married Anne Grant, eldest daughter of the 
laird of Grant, by whom he had three sons, William, Lauchlan, 
and Eneas; and one daughter named Isabella. He had also a 
natural daughter who died without leaving issue. 

Chrokoix)gical Observations. 
This Lauchlan was bom in the year 1 593, in the month of June. 



276 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. i 

interim peregrinandi curam suscipiente, diligenti industriu 
amici sui et consanguinei Domini Johannis Campbell a Calder 
(qui, ex tutoribus, tenellae setati prseeuntibus unus erat) com- 
mode educatus, omnigena eruditione et honestis virtutum 
studiis instructus est usque quo, suarum rerum, gerendarum 
potens esset. 

Anno 1613 (a suscepto rei familiaris gubemaculo tertio, 
aetatis vero vicesimo) Allanus Cameron de Lochield (aliks 
Makonilldui) occisis aurora quadam 19 ex prsecipuis sui 
nominis tribus, puta Cameroniae (quibus, suis nimirum clien- 
tibus, patrocinabatur Dominus Gordonus). Praelapsa quippe 
aetate, nonnullas ex priscis Allani possessionibus, non impetrato 
ipsius consensu, praeoccuparunt. Exlex evadit. 

Advertit Dominus Gordonus magnam hoc facinore suae 
famae inustam fuisse maculam. Quapropter, sese penitus 
in vindictam accingit, sciensque baud penes semet esse, non 
suiFragante Makintoshio, commode suum exequi propositum, 
Makintoshio (non duntaxat quod esset Huntleo cliens, 
verum etiam et propter fomentatas olim inter utramque 
banc familiam, Catanam, se et Cameronam, graves inimicitias). 

His father having in the meantime undertaken the burden of 
travelling, he was suitably educated by the diligent care of his 
friend and kinsman Sir John Campbell of Calder (who was one of 
the tutors who counselled him in his youth), and instructed in 
every kind of learning and virtue, until he should be able to 
manage his own affairs. 

In the year l6l3 (being the third since he assumed the govern- 
ment of his estate, and the twentieth of his age) Allan Cameron 
of Lochiel (otherwise M^'Conill Du) slew in one morning nineteen 
of the chief men of his own clan name, that is to say Camerons 
(to whom, as his clients. Lord Gordon was patron), because in the 
preceding summer they had occupied some of the old possessions 
of Allan, without having obtained his consent. Being beyond the 
law, he escaped. 

Lord Gordon considered that by this wicked deed a great 
affront was done to his honour, and therefore girded himself 
thoroughly for revenge ; but knowing that he could not by him- 
self effectually prosecute his design without the aid of Mackintosh 
(not only because he was vassal to Huntly, but also because of the 
grievous feuds which were of old fomented between both the one 
family and the other, the Chattans and the Camerons), he employed 
Mackintosh to make war against Allan, off*ering him conditions of 



pp. 259-260] THE MACKINTOSHES 277 

ad Bellum adversus hunc AUanum inferendum, oblatis plerisque 
magni momenti legibus, est usus. 

CcETERUM, se nunquam prius, suse cum Cameroniis conten- 
tioni coronidem impositurum, donee latifundia Makintoshii 
tanta fruerentur pace ac sua, pollicebatur. 

Verum Makintosh, seriis Domini a Grant (non multum tunc 
temporis Huntleae familiae faventis) soceri sui rogatibus, nee 
non propter initum diu antea, Allani cum proavo suo foedus, 
quo uterque qu^m strictissime, ne hostili more invicem inva- 
derent, devinciebatur, oblatum rejicit munus nullatenus dubitans 
quin, Dominum Gordonum (proprii honoris tuendi gratia) 
bellum contra Allanum suscipere oporteret ita ut (urgente, sc 
necessitate), longe prioribus meliores conditiones concederet, 
qukm, ad optatam metam, propositum sibi negotium perducat. 
Hanc repulsam aegre ferens Dominus Gordonus, Makintoshio, 
ut, sese (quippe, ad hoc, propter pactum, mutui auxilii gratia, 
proavi sui, cum Comite Huntley Anno 1668 fcedus, obligatum) 
suis partibus, ad sustinendam hanc adversus Allanum contro- [pageteo.] 
versiam, adjungeret, praecepit. Ast cum, compertam sibi 
haberet Dominus Makintosh prsedicti foederis invaliditatem 
(propter Edictum Parliament! Anno 1586) hisce conditionibus. 



great importance. He promised, moreover, that he would never 
put end to this quarrel with the Camerons until the Mackintoshes 
enjoyed their estates with as much peace as he did his own. 

But Mackintosh, on the serious advice of his father-in-law, the 
laird of Grant (who did not at that time much favour Huntly's 
family), and also on account of the contract long before entered 
into between his grandfather and Allan, whereby they were both 
strictly bound not to invade each other in hostile manner, rejected 
the offered employment, nowise doubting but that it belioved 
Lord Gordon (for the sake of defending his own honour) to 
undertake the war against Allan, so that he should, of necessity, 
grant conditions better by far than those first offered, before he 
could bring the proposed enterprise to the wished-for end. 
Lord Gordon took this repulse in bad part, and charged Mack- 
intosh to join him in maintaining that feud against Allan, because 
he was bound to that effect in virtue of a bond of mutual help 
agreed upon by his grandfather with the Earl of Huntly in the 
year 1568. But the laird of Mackintosh held that the said bond 
was found to be invalid as to him, because of the Act of Parlia- 
ment in the year 1585, so that he could not be brought on these 



278 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

ad, expeditionis hujus munus subeundum, nequaquam adduci 
poterat. Quamobrem, Comiti Morraviensi (sub cujus praesidio 
tunc temporis plurimi ex Makintoshia et Catana tribu dege- 
bant) sese insinuavit. Dominus Gordonus, hac ratione sperans 
Clanchattanos, nolente volente Makintoshio, suis sese adgluti- 
natures partibus. Interea temporis discordise nonnihil hinc 
oriundae quod Makintosh, convitiosas quasdam calumnias in 
cursu Equestri (cujus etiam victoriam reportavit Makintosh) 
prope Urbem Nairniensem habito, ab Henrico Anderson, 
Comitis Morraviensis Hippocomo, evomitas, ultus esset, inter 
Comitem Morraviensem et Makintoshium creverat. 

ExPECTANTE, iu hoc tcmporis articulo, suppetias. Domino 
Gordono, Comes Morravia;, omnem nominis Catanei (suae 
ditionis) populum, in Domini Gordonii auxilium assurgere 
jussit. Makintoshius quippe legitimum Catanei nominis Caput 
et Princeps, ulteriori, eorum, in armis progressui restitit, 
Comitisque Morraviensis Apparitori, in verba minus urbana 
erumpenti, nonnulla influxit verbera, quapropter et Comes 
Morraviae et Dominus Gordonus mutua vi, in Makintoshium con- 
spirarunt cumquc, tanquam oppressionis reum, coram Dominis 
Secreti Concilii citarunt (donee, eos, de pacato suae familiae 

conditions to bear the charge of that expedition. Gordon there- 
upon insinuated himself to the Earl of Moray (under whose pro- 
tection many of the Mackintosh and Chattan tribe were then 
dwelling), hoping by this means^ that, whether Mackintosh was 
willing or not, the Clanchattans would adhere to his interest. 

In the meanwhile some discord arose between the Earl of 
Moray and Mackintosh, because the latter threatened to revenge 
certain reproachful calumnies uttered by Henry Anderson, the 
earl's groom, at a horse race held near the town of Nairn, which 
was won by Mackintosh. 

As at this very time. Lord Gordon was expecting assistance, 
the Earl of Moray, by his own authority, ordered all of the Chattan 
name to rise to the help of Gordon. But Mackintosh as the head 
and chief of the Chattan name resisted to the last their going forth 
in arms ; and the officer of the Earl of Moray having broken out 
with unpleasant words, blows ensued ; for which reason both the 
Earl of Moray and Lord Gordon conspired with their mutual 
power against Mackintosh, and having cited him before the Lords 
of Privy Council as guilty of oppression, they caused him to be 
imprisoned in the Castle of Edinburgh (until he should find 



p. 260] THE MACKINTOSHES 27^ 

gestfi, datis, sc. vadibus, certiores faceret), in arce Edinburgena 
incarcerari fecerunt, ubi aliquamdiu manserit. Tandem ver6^ 
suS apud Aulicos habita gratia, sine uUo adhibito fidejussore, 
pristinse restituitur libertati. 

Mense Anno 1616 Makintoshius, variis, audacis 

latrocinii et furti^ a Clanchameroniis, suos vicinos acriter 
opprimentibus, commissi, querelis, sese, Lochabriam, justitiae 
omnibus administrandse gratia, parvo comitatu recepit. Verum 
enim vero supra commemoratus Allanus (Makintoshii appro- 
pinquantis rumore allato), omnia vada et cunctos aditus Aquae 
Lochiensis muniit et clausit, foederique jam olim cum invicem 
quam strictissime pacto nullo habito respectu, convocatis, sc. 
undique amicis suis et sectatoribus, hostili agitatus animo, 
Makintoshio Aquam transeunti restitit, quod (ut postea pate- 
bit), et ipsi Allano, ipsiusque postcritati, magno fuit damno 
et detrimento. Makintoshius interim hac repulsa, major! sibi 
futurum commodo et honori advertens, potius tum temporis 
redire, qu^m, cum tkm exigua cohorte, in opposita irruere 
munimenta, domum hac vice est regressus, comparataque 
libertate, Allanum et quotquot Clanchamronorum agros Glen- 



surety by pledges given for the peaceable behaviour of his family) 
where he remained for some time ; but at length by the favour 
which he had at court, he was restored to his former freedom 
without finding any surety. 

In the year 1616, upon various complaints of audacious robbery 
and theft committed by the Clan Cameron, who were bitterly 
oppressing their neighbours. Mackintosh, with a small company, 
went into Lochaber for the purpose of administering justice to 
all. But the above mentioned Allan, upon the rumour of the 
approach of Mackintosh, secured and closed all the fords and 
passes of the Water of Lochy. Having no regard to the strict 
bond formerly agreed upon between them, but moved with 
hostile intent, he convoked his friends and followers from all parts, 
and resisted the attempt of Mackintosh to pass over the water, 
which (as will afterwards appear) was a great loss and detriment 
both to Allan himself and to his posterity. Upon this repulse. 
Mackintosh, considering it would be more to his advantage and 
honour to retire at this time, rather than to rush, with so small a 
band, on the opposing force, returned home for that time ; and 
having procured power to remove Allan, and as many of the Clan 
Cameron as dwelt on the lands of Glenluy and Lochairkagg, 



280 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

luy et Lochairkagg incoluere, a suis possessionibus removendi, 
brevi postea, Allanum et sua gentis prsecipuos, quippe, gravi 
oppressionis crimine conspersos, coram Dominis Secret! Con- 
[page i6l.] cilii evocavit, et propter contumaciam, attrocia homicidia, horri- 
das prsedationes et hujusmodi qukm plurima reatus truculenta 
scelera, Makintoshio, illos igni ferroque vastandi concessa est 
facultas. Mense Junio 1617 Makintoshius dignitate Equestri 
a Rege exornatus est, ut brevi post, eorum unus qui Principi 
Carolo a privato cubiculo fuerant est admissus. 

Mense succedente, Makintoshio in Lochabriam 

magno apparatu properanti, Allanus, cum, sese, Makintoshii 
viribus (Regis upote vestiti mandatis) repellendis imparem 
sciret, sponte submittit. Quapropter, discordias suas, delibe- 
rato sapienti quorundam amicorum consilio determinandas 
reliquerunt, qui (pensitatis utrinque rationibus), Allanum, 
omnejus in agros Glenluy et Lochairkagg sine uUo speciosi 
prsetextus fuco, Makintoshio resignare, quatuorque reperire 
generosos, opibus, agris potentes, que, eum, uUumve ex suis 
posteris, Makintoshio, ullive ex suis successoribus aut clienti- 
bus in tranquilla horum agrorum possessione, nullam illaturos 
injuriam sponderent, dijudicarunt. Quam ob caussam, Mak- 

from their possessions^ he soon afterwards summoned Allan and 
the chief men of his tribe before the Lords of Privy Comicil^ as 
stained witli the heavy crime of oppression ; and on account of 
their contumacy^ atrocious murders^ dreadful robberies^ and many 
such barbarous crimes of which they were guilty, power was 
given to Mackintosh to harry them with fire and sword. 

In the month of June 1617, Mackintosh was honoured by the 
king with the dignity of knighthood ; and shortly afterwards was 
admitted as a gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Prince Charles. 

In the following month Mackintosh hastened into Lochaber 
with a great equipage, and Allan, when he saw that he was un- 
able to repel the forces of Mackintosh (especially as he was vested 
with the king's mandate) freely submitted. Whereupon they 
left off their feuds, which were settled by the wise counsel of 
certain friends, who, having weighed the reasons of both parties, 
decided that Allan should without any specious colour of pre- 
text resign to Mackintosh all right to the lands of Glenluy and 
Lochairkagg ; and that he should find four gentlemen sufficient in 
wealth and lands, who should be responsible that neither he nor 
any of his posterity would trouble Mackintosh or any of his 
successors in the peaceable possession of these lands. For which 



pp. 260-261] THE MACKINTOSHES 281 

intoshium 6000 minas depignorati agri pretium, Allano per- 
flolvere decrevere (idque, non obstante Dominorum Concilii 
Decreto Allanum, omni in pecuniam banc jure) proptere quod, 
Makintosbio apud Aquam Lochyensem restiterat (privatum 
fuisse declarante) nee non Makintosbium, 3000 minarum, 
Allano, quippe quod, terras Glenluy et Locbairkagg, a Came- 
ronis longo sevo possessas, renunciaret et desereret, denumerare 
statuerunt. Visus est imprimis Allan us, buic determinationi 
8uum addidisse calculum, verum postea, promissum, in inve- 
niendo, so. vade, fefellit, aflirmans nequaquam potuisse sese 
quenquam reperire qui pro ejus posteris susciperet. Quocirca 
voluit, ab bac foederis clausula recedere, ipsumque Allanum, 
sub certissimo gravioris damni supplicio, pro suis posteris 
obligantem accipere, si mod6, vel sufficientem, pro sese fuisset 
liberis generatis aut adbuc generandis fidejussorem pararet. 
Videbatur et boc etiam Allano placuisse. Verum Die coii- 
stituto nequaquam promissis stetit. Persuasus erat in bac 
re deficere Allanus, instigante Domino Gordono, qui, cum, 
primum suum propositum Makintosbio nocendi irritum fuisse 
videret, nee par pari referre poterat, eum, in rebus suis pera- 
gendis, disturbare per fas et nefas, arrepta opportunitate, 

cause they decerned that Mackintosh should pay to Allan £6000 
as the price of the wadset land (and that notwithstanding that by 
decreet of the Lords of Council Allan had been deprived of all 
right to that money, because he had opposed Mackintosh at the 
Water of Lochy). They also appointed Mackintosh to pay to Allan 
£3000, because he had renounced and abandoned the lands of 
Glenluy and Lochairkagg, which had been for a long period 
possessed by the Camerons. At first Allan seemed to give his 
consent to this determination ; but afterwards he failed to find 
security, affirming that he could get no one who was willing to 
undertake for his posterity. Mackintosh was willing, therefore, 
to recede from this clause of the agreement, and to accept Allan 
himself as obliging for his posterity, under a very sure and heavy 
penalty, if only he provided a sufficient surety for himself and 
his children bom or yet to be bom. This also seemed to 
satisfy Allan. But on the day appointed, he did not stand to his 
promises, having been persuaded to fail again on this occasion by 
the instigation of Lord Gordon, who when he saw that his first 
project for hurting Mackintosh was of no avail, and that he 
could not be even with him strove with all his might, by force 
and fraud, and snatching every occasion to disturb him in the 



282 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

omnibus contendit viribus, atque hunc in finem (postquam, 
cum Allano in gratiam, cunctis oblivioni traditis discordiis, 
redierat, sine ulla, vel minima, injuriae, illi, ab Allano in 
occidendis clientibus, illatae, reparatione) cum cum Makintoshio 
amicitiam inire impedit, Mackronaldumque, ne debitam 
pra?beret obedientiam, effecit, animadvertens Makintosh 
Allanum sibi tantopere imposuisse Gordonum, Allani quippe 
herum et superiorem, eum, coram Dominis Privati Regiae 
Majestatis Concilii, exhibere jubet. Abnuit Gordonus negans 
sibi clientem fore Allanum. Sed, Johannem illius filium suum 
clientem ingenue confitetur. Makintosh interea jubet ipsum 
hunc Johannem exhibere. Dominus Gordonus, nuUo legis 
grypho potuisse irretiri Johannem certo existimans, aut saltern 
nullatenus dubitans quin, sua potestate, sine ullo damni 
periculo, eum incolumem restitueret, citanti Makintoshio 
obtemperat, Johannemque Cameronum Edinburgum attulit^ 
ubi vix per spatium duorum aut trium Dierum delituerat, 
[pagetesf]. cum, a Dominis Concilii, Makintoshio, cum apprehendendi 
concessa est facultas, quem postea apprehensum in Prsetorio 
Edinburgensi incarcerarunt, ibique per tres succedentes Annos 
captivus coercebatur usque quo Dominus Lauchlanus Mak- 

management of his affairs. And towards that end (after he had 
come into favour with Allan again,. all their traditional feuds 
having been consigned to oblivion without any, or the very least, 
reparation for the wrong done to him by Allan in killing his 
vassals) he hindered him from entering into friendship with 
Mackintosh, and prevailed upon MacRonald also not to render 
the obedience he owed. Mackintosh, finding that Allan had so 
greatly imposed upon him, charged Gordon, because he was 
Allan's master and superior, to produce him before the lords of 
his Majesty's Privy Council. Gordon refused, denying that Allan 
was his vassal ; but he frankly confessed that John his son was 
his vassal. Mackintosh then charged him to produce this same 
John. Lord Gordon, confidently judging that John could not 
be brought within the grasp of the law, or, at least, no way doubt- 
ing but that by his own influence he should get him off* without 
any risk of loss, obeyed the summons, and brought John Cameron 
to Edinburgh, where he had hardly lurked the space of two or 
three days when warrant was granted by the Lords of Council to 
Mackintosh to apprehend him, after which they imprisoned him 
in the Tolbooth of Edinburgh. There he was detained prisoner 
during the three following years, until Sir Lauchlan Mackintosh 



pp. 261-262] THE MACKINTOSHES 283 

intosh ex hac vit& commigraverit, a cujus decessu Dominus a 
Grant (Makintoshii junioris prsedicti Domini Lauchlani filii 
tutor habitus), Anno 16SS, Johannem Cameronum, a careens 
servitute sed injuste liberavit. Makintoshius, incarcerato (ut 
memoravimus) Johanne Camerono, postea, sese adversus Mack- 
ronaldum accingit. Quo in exilium rclegato, brevi temporis 
progressu, Makintoshii res Lochabricnses quam optime ab eo 
dispositae relinqui videbantur. 

Anno 1618 Dominus Gordonus, dicam (pro evictione 
Baroniae de Bendchar) adversus Makintoshium impegit. 
In hue tamen actione Gordonus succubuit. Quapropter, 
cum Dominus Gordonus, in decimis Cullodini colligcndis, 
ulteriorem Makintoshio processum inhiberet (has enim deditu 
opera et ex consiho, a Marchione de Hamilton, Gordonus, 
ad molestiam Makintoshio creandam, sibimet comparavit), 
instante deeimandi tempore, ad Cullodinum sese confcrre, 
decimasque coUigere decrevit. Hoc enim modo, certissimam 
Makintoshio maculam inurere sperabat. Verum Makintosh in 
caussffi suae detrimentum, Regis Legibus resistere noluit. 
Duntaxat, sedificium suum CuIIodinense, omnibus hostibus 
oppugnandis necessariis firmissime praemuniit, patruisque 

died, on whose decease the Ijiird of Grant (regarded as tutor 
of young Mackintosh, son of Sir Laiichlan); in the year 1622, 
liberated John Cameron from the bondage of the prison, but 
unjustly. Mackintosh, as we have mentioned, having imprisoned 
John Cameron, afterwards girded himself nf^ainst MacRonald, who 
having been sent into exile, the affairs of Mackintosh in Lochaber 
seemed in a brief process of time to be disposed by him to the 
best advantage. 

In the year I6I8 Lord Gordon set upon an action against 
Mackintosh for the eviction of the barony of Bendchar. In this 
pursuit, however, Gordon failed. Wherefore, having Inhibited 
Mackintosh from proceeding further in collecting the teinds of 
CuUoden (for Gordon had procured these to himself from the 
Marquis of Hamilton, by a surrender, and of purpose to create 
trouble to Mackintosh) he resolved to come himself to Culloden 
at the time of uplifting the teinds, and to collect them. For in 
this way he was hopeful of branding Mackintosh with a very 
signal affront. But Mackintosh was unwilling to resist the 
king's laws to the detriment of his own interest. He therefore 
did no more than strongly fortify his house of Culloden, with all 
things necessary for opposing enemies, and delivered the keeping 



284 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

suis, Duncano, sc. et Lauchlano Makintoshiis custodiendum 
tradidit, et, paucis, ante, Domini Gordonii ad decimas coUi- 
gendas, adventum, dicbus, conscensis Equis, in Aulam Angli- 
canam se recepit. 

Interea Dominus Gordonus, 6 Die Novembris 1618, septin- 
gintis Equitibus comitatus, Invemessam venit, et aurora sub- 
sequenti, ingenti militum examine CuUodinum adit, praesi- 
diisque conspectis, Dominum Robertum Gordoun Sutherlandiae 
gubernatorem, Duncano (cui uno cum fratre suo Lauchlano 
commissa est sedificii tutela) declarantem illuc sese accessise 
Legum Regiae Majestatis exequendam, decimarumque ad se 
jure pertinentium colligendarum gratis, misit. Respondet 
Duncanus, sese, etiamsi possent, Dominum Gordonum, a Debito 
suo capiendo, non non impedituros. Castellum tamen, suae 
fidei commissum, firmiter se propugnaturos asserit. Dato hoc 
responso, Dominus Gordonus, nullum iis fuisse decimas impedi- 
endi consilium advertens, omnino inglorium, sibique dedecori 
futurum putavit, in expugnato Castello redire. Idcirco missi 
sunt Dominus a Lovat (qui tunc praesto erat) praedictus 
Robertus Gordonus et Georgius Monro a Miltoun (omnes 
Makintoshii fautorcs), ut, Duncano significarent, a Dominis 

of it to his uncles, Duncan and Lauchlan Mackintosh, and a 
few days before the arrival of Lord Gordon to collect the teinds^ 
betook himself on horseback to the English court. 

Meanwhile, on 5th November l6l8. Lord Gordon, accompanied 
with seven hundred horsemen, came to Inverness, and on the 
following morning went, with a great company of soldiers, to 
Culloden, and, in sight of the garrison, sent Sir Robert Gordon, 
governor of Sutherland, to Duncan (to whom, along with his 
brother Lauchlan the safe keeping of the house was committed), 
declaring that he had come thither in pursuance of the king's 
laws, and for the purpose of collecting the teinds pertaining to 
him by right. Duncan replied that although they could, yet 
they would not hinder Lonl Gordon from taking what was due 
to him, asserting, nevertheless, that they would firmly defend the 
castle committed to their trust. This answer being given, Lord 
Gordon, finding that there was no intention to hinder them from 
gathering the teinds, judged that it would be altogether inglori- 
ous and disgraceful on his part to retire without attacking the 
castle. He therefore sent Lord Lovat (who was then present), 
the aforesaid Robert Gordon, and George Monro of Miltown (all 
friends of Mackintosh) to inform Duncan that he had a warrant 



pp, 262-263] THE MACKINTOSHES 285 

Secreti Consilii, in Hobertum Mackonchy abbrich (ex Clan- 
grregoriis unum) commissam esse potestatein, (juein, seeuritatis 
cauBsfiy illuc confugisse audiverat, ac propterea sibi in animo 
esse, aedificium illud, ne inibi lateret, accurato examine dis- 
quirere. Retulit Duncanus istum, de quo loquitur, nusquam 
illic latitare, neque se, ull& lege, (praesertim cum tantus in pro- 
pinquoesset exercitus), domum scrutari permissurum. Domi- 
nus a Lovat, Duncani propositum intelligens, eo dolo, ut tanto 
facilius daretur ingressus, usos agnovit, ideo<]ue summopere 
efflagitare perstitit ut, se cum Domino Roberto Gordon, 
Georgio Monro a Miltoun aliiscjue duobus Aulam ingredi per- 
mitterent, fideliter pollicentes se, nuUam doniui creaturos 
molestiam, militesque non, pra^fixas metas excedere ausuros. 
Huie eorum rogatui Duncanus prsebuit assensum, quod etiam, 
Domino Gk>rdono, ulterius, in suo ulciscendi proposito pro- [pftgetes.^ 
cedere nequeunti, placuit, et ita Dominus Gordonus, dismisso 
exercitu, parva reportatu victoria minorique gloria (neque 
enim decimsc fuerant collectae), domum est regressus. 

Axxo 1619 Dominus Gordonus ct Makintoshius (nonnullis 
intercedentibus amicis) Edinburgi quandam amicitia? inierunt 
speciem. Verum, cum postea Dominus Gordonus, Allani 

intrusted to him by the Lords of Privy Council^ against Robert 
Makonchy abbrich (one of the Clan Gregor), who for the sake of 
security had fled hither^ as he had heard ; and therefore it was 
his purpose to search that house carefully, lest he should be 
hidden there. Duncan retorted that the man of whom he spake 
was never hidden there, nor would he on any condition permit 
the house to be searched, especially when such an army was 
near it. Lord Lovat, perceiving the resolution of Duncan,, 
acknowledged that they had used that device in order the more 
easily to get access; and therefore he continued to beg very 
earnestly that they would allow him, with Sir Robert Gordon, 
GeorjBfe Monro of Miltown, and two others, to go into the hall, 
faithfully promising that they would not molest the house in any 
way, and that the soldiers would not dare to over-pass the limits 
before fixed. To this request of theirs Duncan gave assent ; on 
which account also Lord Gonlon was pleased to proceed no further 
in his purpose of revenge ; and so, having dismissed his army, he 
went home, carrying back but small triumph and less glor^', 
for even the teinds were not gathered. 

In the year I619, Lord Gordon and Mackintosh (by the inter- 
cession of some friends) entered into a certain semblance of 
friendship. But as Gordon afterwards espoused the cause of 



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Cameroni caussam, ad versus Makintoshium susceperat, durante 
Makintoshio, aliquae semper inter ipsos viguere discordiae. 

Mense Aprili 16£0, quarundam injuriarum, pluriumque 
aliorum criminum, ab Mnea Macalister vik ean duy cum fratre 
suo Alexandre Glenroyensibus perpetratorum, conscius, Guliel- 
mum Makintosh a Borlom, triginta strenuis viris associatum, 
subitanea expeditione (ut illos apprehenderent), Lochabriam 
legavit. Quo probe executo, captivos in arcem Cullodinensem 
eos adduxit, ibique inclusi tenebantur donee, sese, non solum 
propter hactenus patrata crimina satisfacere, verum et residuum 
suae vitse tempus probis et emendatis moribus traducturos 
sponderent. 

Hic Dominus Lauchlanus Makintosh, magnificis, tum animi, 
turn corporis dotibus prsecelluit, vir ingentis speciei, aliquem 
vulgaris staturae et capite et humeris excedens, tenuis came, 
ossibus pra^grandis, vultu amabilis, eloquio benignus, placidus- 
que omnibus suis familiaribus, perdilectus, tantusque, erga 
eum, Principis sui favor erat, ut, si Divina Benignitas con- 
cessisset majores in luce mores, excelsum dignitatis gradum 
initurus sperabatur, cumque ultimo Londini degeret, Princeps 
Carolus, ut, quanti ilium aestimaverat, testaretur, discessurum, 

Allan Cameron against Mackintosh^ there continued always some 
feuds between them while Mackintosh lived. 

In the month of April 1 620, Mackintosh being conscious of 
certain wrongs and many other faults, perpetrated by Angus 
Macalister vie Ian du, with his brother Alexander, against the 
people of Glenroy, sent William Mackintosh of Borlum, with a 
band of thirty able men, on a sudden expedition into Lochaber, 
to apprehend them : which was readily done and the prisoners 
brought to Culloden Castle, where they were held in close 
custody until they gave satisfaction not only for the crimes they 
had already done, but found surety that they would lead the 
remainder of their lives with honest and reformed manners. 

This Sir Lauchlan Mackintosh was a man who excelled in 
splendid endowments as well of mind as of body, of great stature, 
exceeding by head and shoulders the onlinar}' height, spare of 
flesh, but very large of bone, of an amiable countenance, courteous 
and pleasant in speech, and beloved by all his friends. And so 
great was the favour of his prince towards him, that if divine 
goodness had granted to him longer life, he would have come to 
a high degree of dignity ; and when he last resided in London, 
such was the esteem in which Prince Charles held him, that on 



p. 263] THE MACKINTOSHES 287 

gladio, quo ipse tunc cingebatur, donavit Hujusce gladii (qui 
et hodici a Domino Makintoshio conservatur) capulus argento 
rinuatus, totusque, splendidaauratura ornatus enitescit, a Rege 
etiam hoc tempore ei promissum, si quern denuo in Aulam 
faoeret regressum, ilium in Comitatum Orkniensem omac jus 
accepturum. Verum Numini Omnipotenti, secundum bonum 
suae voluntatis consilium, alta humilianti, humiliaque exaltanti 
eum domum redeuntem, e lachrimosa hdc miseriarum valle 
removere placuit. 

2S. Die Junii Anno Domini 1622, aetatis 29, Gartinbegia? 
Straihspayensis, morti succubuit, familiaribus suis et propin- 
quis cujuscunque generis, qualitatis, sortis ac conditionis, 
praeproperum illius obitum merito deploranfcibus. Cum suis 
majoribus in Templo Pettiensi est inhumatus. 

De Gulielmo Domino Mak- 
intosh xix. 

GuLiELMUs Makixtosh Domini Lauchlani filius, noveni 
duntaxat Annos et quatuor Menses natus, cum pater vitae 
munere fungi desiit. Anno 1638, Margarctnm Graham, Domini 

his departure he gave him the sword with which himself was 
then girded. Of this sword (which is preserved to this day by the 
laird of Mackintosh) the hilt is chased with silver, and the whole 
glitters with splendid golden gilt. At that time also a promise 
was made to him by the king, that when he next returned to 
court he should be preferred to the right of the earldom of 
Orkney. But it pleased the Lord Almighty, who bringeth low 
the lofty and exalteth the humble, to remove him from this vale 
of tears and miseries while he was on his way home. He died 
at Gartenbeg in Strathspey, on the 22nd day of June l622, aged 
twenty-nine years, his very early death being deservedly deplored 
by his friends and neighbours of every degree, quality, lot and 
condition. He was buried with his ancestors in the church of 
Petty. 

Of William the xinkteexth I/AIki) of 
Mackintosh. 

William Mackintosh, son of Sir Lauchlan, was only nine years 
and four months old when his father died. He married, in lf)38, 
Margaret Graham, eldest daughter of the laird of Fintray (a lady 



288 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

a Fintray filiam natu maximam (dignissimam sane, et, omni- 
genis virtutibus clarain Dominam) uxorem duxit, ex qua 
varies progenuit liberos, quorum nulli (demptis Lauchlauo, 
Gulielmo, Elizabetha et Johanna) patri supervixere. Eliza- 
betha, Alexandre Farquharsono D. a Wardhouse, Johanna 
vero, Andrese Spaldino Baroni de Essintilly est nupta. 
[pa^eg64.] Lauchlanus Secundus Domini Lauchlani filius, Isobellam 
Graham, unicam Domini a Claipots filiam, sibi conjugem 
adoptavit, ex qua, unum filium (qui sub incunabula mortuus 
est) nomine Lauchlanum, et duas filias, suscepit, quarum natu, 
maxima (M argareta dicta), Hectori Makenzie ab Assint, minor 
vero (Isobella nuncupata), Gulielmo M'Pherson a Noid uxori 
data est. 

iExEAs Tertius Domini Lauchlani filius, primo, Joannam 
Gordon solam Roberti Gordon a Tillifrosky filiam (et Gordoni 
a Sachin Kelictam), ex qua nullam procreavit sobolem, deinde 
vero, Marjoriam Robertson, Johannis Robertson ab Insulis 
filiam (ex qua, Lauchlanum, Alexandrum, Elizabetham, 
Janetam et Joannam habuit), foedere Matrimoniali sibi 
conjunxit. 

Isobella, unica Domini Lauchlani filia, defunctis parentibus, 
nullaque, illae, rei familiaris relicta portione, Magistro Alex- 

of very great worth, and distinguished by every virtue), by whom 
he had several children^ none of whom survived their father 
excepting Lauchlan, William, Elizabeth, and Jean. Elizabeth 
was married to Alexander Farquharson, laird of Wardhouse, and 
Jean to Andrew Spalding, baron of Essintillie. 

Lauchlan, second son of Sir Lauchlan, chose as his wife Isabel 
Graham, only daughter of the laird of Claypots, of whom he had 
one son named Lauchlan, who died an infant ; and two daughters 
the eldest of whom, named Margaret, was given in marriage to 
Hector Mackenzie of Assint, and the younger, named Isabel, to 
William Macpherson of Nuid. 

Angus, third son of Sir Lauchlan, married, first, Jean Gordon, 
only daughter of Robert Gordon of Tillifroskie, and widow of 
Gordon of Sachon, of whom he had no issue : afterwards he 
married Majory Robertson, daughter of John Robertson of Inches, 
by whom he had Lauchlan, Alexander, Elizabeth, Janet, and 

Jean. 

Isabel, only daughter of Sir Lauchlan, on the death of her 
parents, with no portion left to her^ was married to Mr. Alexander 



pp. 263-264] THE MACKINTOSHES 289 

andro Roso, Tutoris a Kilravock filio (cui unum peperit natum, 
qui, dum in Scholis versabatur, mortem obiit), Sociatori est 
ooDJuncta. 

Obs. Chrox. 

Durante hujus Makintashii state Pupillari, avunculus ejus 
Dominus a Grant, rei familiaris gubemands curam suscepit. 
Verum, sese, sicut, amicum et sedulum Tutorem decebat, 
minime gessit. Nam (prseter alia detrimenta et incommoda, 
sub hoc male administrante Tutore, perpcssa) Pupilli Debita 
(Tutoris culpa et inertiA) ita accrevere ut magna ejus 
praediorum pars, sere alieno pene exhausta sit. 

Anno 1624 (a, Domini Lauchlani Makintoshii decessu biennio) 
nonnuUa dissidiorum semina, inter Comitcm Morraviensem 
et Tribum Makintoshiam, exoritura videbantur. Res ita so 
habuit. Tribus Makintoshia et Clanchattana, Comitibus 
Morraviensibus, fideli constantisi ac constanti fidelitate, per 
varia rerum discrimina, usque quAque firniissime adhiesere, 
erantque soli propensissimi qui, ad Comitis Morraviensis 
(Dinbir^ filia interempti) praematuram necem in March- 
Rose, son of the tutor of Kilravock, to whom she bore one son, 
who died while he was at the school. 

Chronological Observations. 

During the minority of this Mackintosh, his uncle, the laird of 
Grant, undertook the care of managing his affairs. But he did 
not behave himself as became a friendly and careful tutor. For 
(besides many other losses and disadvantages suffered under his 
mal-administration) the debts of the minor (by the fault and 
laziness of the tutor) increased to such a degree that a great 
part of his estates was, in a manner, taken away for debt. 

In the year l624, two years after the death of Sir L;mchlan, 
some matters of dissension seemed like to arise between the 
Earl of Moray and the family of the Mackintoshes. The matter 
was to this effect. The Mackintosh family and the Clanchattan 
had ever most firmly adhered with steadfast and loyal fidelity to 
the Earls of Moray, through the various controversies in which 
they were involved ; and they alone had most eagerly endeavoured, 
with all their might, to avenge upon the Marquis of Huntly the 
untimely death of the Earl of Moray (killed at Donibristle). 

^ * Duniblrstle ' interlined. 



290 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

ionem a Huntly, ulciscendam, totis viribus eniterentur. 
Nihilominus, Comitis illius filius, Huntleo, recenti amicitiie 
vinculo adjunctus, iiniversam, Nominis Makintoshii et Clan- 
chattani familiam (Domino Makintoshio adhuc Annis im- 
maturo), ex agris Petty, Breachly et Strathnaim (horuni 
plerumque Dominium tenuit, quippe Superior, Comes Mor- 
raviensis) elimare omni conatur industria, quos tamen agros 
antea, per quadringintorum Annorum spatium, constanti 
possidere serie. Hoc cum Makintoshei et Cattanei aegre 
perferre poterant, trecentos ex suis sectatoribus, sub ductu et 
tutela trium ex, Clanchattani Magni Makintoshii filiis (ipsi 
Pupillo propatruis), convocarunt. Tum, sese simul, adversus 
Morravise Comitem, adjungentes, cunctos illius famulos, ex 
agris Petty expulore, sibique, omnein proven tum jus arripuere. 
Verum, cum, vi amorum, iis resistere, penes Comitem M orravise 
minime esset (haud, magnam enim, ipsis demptis, habuit 
clientelam), tandem obtinuit ut nuUis ex, Kegise Majestatis 
subditis, illos humane tractaret, aut benigno susciperet hospitio. 
Tum Stuartos, Atholienses et Dunenses, in suum evocavit 
aux ilium, sed frustra (nam ne vel hi, cum Clanchattanis aperto 
[^e263.] marte congredi audebant). Quocirca, quod vi adimplere 

Nevertheless, the son of that earl, having joined with Huntly in 
a bond of friendship, attempted by every means to deprive the 
whole family of the name of Mackintosh and Clanchattan (the 
laird of Mackintosh being yet in minority) of the lands of Petty, 
Breachly, and Strathnairn (of the most part of which the Earl 
of Moray held the lordship as superior), which lands they had 
possessed heretofore in an unbroken line, during four hundred 
years. As the Mackintoshes and Clanchattan took this in very 
bad part, they gathered together three hundred of their own 
followers, under the leadership of three of the sons of Lauchlan 
More (grand-uncles of the minor). Then, having joined together 
against the Earl of Moray, they drove away all his servants from 
the lands of Petty, and arrested the rents. But as the Earl of 
Moray was not able by himself to resist them by force of arms 
(for he had no great following but themselves) he at length 
obtained [letters forbidding] any of his Majesty's lieges to treat 
them kindly, or to give them lodging. Then he called to his 
aid the Stuarts of Atholl and of Doune, but in vain, for neither 
did these dare to join in open battle with the Clanchattans. 
Wherefore, what he could not accomplish by force, he endea- 



pp. 264.265] THE MACKINTOSHES 291 

nequiret, illud, arcana arte exequi sedulo nititur. lUe enim 
(proposita magni ponderis mercede) cum quibusdam ex eorum 
prsecipuis per emissarios privato elaboravit dolo ut, nonnuUos 
Principum familise Cattanse tunc rebellantis, scelerata tra- 
ducerent perfidia, quo recusato, satis subdole, illis (quos 
emissarii antea prodi voluerant) egregium hoc mendacium 
proponendo, quosdam (eos, nempe, qui primo sues traducere 
abnuerant) brevi contra eos insurrecturos imposuere. Itaque, 
Comiti Morraviae sese submittere persuadebantur. Propterea 
quoque, se praeteritae Rebellionis veniam comparaturum, 
agrosque alios (vice Pettiensium) in Strathem et Strathnaim 
daturum poUicitus est. 

Hoc illis, quibus propositum est, placuit, atque hac ratione 
Comes Morraviae et Tribus Makintoshia et Catanea (qua? tum 
exlex erat), habitas cum invicem discordias composuerunt. 
Hunc itaque in modum, sine muUo sanguine effuso, tempestuosi 
harum dissidiarum tumultus, quae, Comiti Morraviae certissimo 
forent dispendio, 'ni Makintoshii (astutia, ne quid acerbius 
dicam) fraude Domini a Glenurchi et Baronis de Achchyl, 



voured assiduously to do by hidden craft. For he laboured 
privately by his emissaries, with some of their leading men (a 
reward of great value being offered^ that they should, by guile, 
betray some of the chief men of tne Chattan family, then in 
rebellion. They having refused to commit this wicked perfidy, 
the emissaries, craftily enough, imposed upon those whom before 
they wished to be betrayed, by setting forth the egregious false- 
hood that certain persons (meaning those who at first had refused 
to betray their own friends) were shortly to rise against them. 
Therefore they persuaded them to submit to the Earl of Moray, 
for which also it was promised them that he would procure a 
pardon for their past rebellion, and that he would give them 
other lands in Strathern and Strathnaim, instead of Petty. 

This pleased those to whom it was proposed ; and by this means 
the Earl of Moray and the family of Mackintosh and the Clan- 
chattan (which was then outlawed) settled the discords which 
existed between them. After this manner, therefore, without 
much bloodshed, were the stormy tumults of those feuds 
quieted, which would have caused undoubted loss to the Earl 
of Moray, if the Mackintoshes had not been forced (by subtlety, 
that I may not say anything worse) to differ among themselves 
by the fraud of the laird of Glenurchay, and the baron of 



892 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

qui, tunc temporis, pro Comite Morraviae steterant emissarii, 
sibi invicem diffidere cogerentur, sedati sunt. 

Anno 1630, Mense vero Decembris, Lauchlanus Makintosh 
(aliter Junior nuncupatus), prsedicti Lauchlani Magni filius natu 
minimus, acceptis, a Comite Morraviae, qui, Septentrionalibus 
Regni Scoticani partibus turn pra^erat, mandatis, Jacobum 
Grant virum Rebellione insignem, qui multifaria, eaque 
sceleratissima oppressionis et caedis crimina, adversus familiam 
de Ballindallach commiserat, armorum vi deprehendit. 
Caussam enim quare hie Jacobus Grant contumax cvaserit, 
subsequentibus exhibitam reperies. 

Johannes (vulgo Roy) Grant a Carron (Johannis Grant a 
Glenmorriston Nothus) sub Annum 1550, inimico animo, 
Johannem Grant, Johannis Grant a Ballindallach (hodie inter 
vivos commorantis) attavum, assecutus, eum cruenta interemit 
manu. Quod scelus, persuasione et seria (ut credebatur) 
rogitatione Domini a Grant, propter fomentatam in suo 
pectore, adversus amicum suum, et consanguineum Ballin- 
dallach, quandam invidiam, fuerat perpetratum, atque hinc, 
gravium inimiciarum et controversiarum initium, quae a patre 
in filium inter utramque banc familiam in hunc usque diem 
invariata perdurante serie. 

Auchyle, who on that occasion were the emissaries on behalf of 
the Earl of Moray. 

In the year 1 i)30, in the month of December, Lauchlan Mackin- 
tosh (otherwise called the younger), youngest son of the aforesaid 
Lauchlan More, by orders received from the Earl of Moray, who was 
then lieutenant of the northern parts of the kingdom of Scotland, 
apprehended by force of arms James Grant, a notorious rebel, who 
had committed many and most wicked deeds of oppresssion and 
slaughter against the family of Ballindalloch. You will find the 
occasion why this James Grant became rebellious shown as follows. 

John (commonly called Roy) Grant of Carron, bastard son of 
John Grant of Glenmoriston, in the year 1550, with evil intent 
and bloody hand, pursued and killed John Grant, great-grand- 
father of John Grant of Ballindalloch now living. This villainy 
was perpetrated by the persuasion and at the earnest desire (as 
was believed) of the laird of Grant, on account of some grudge 
which he cherished in his heart against his friend and kinsman 
Ballindalloch. And hence the beginning of that grievous enmity 
and strife between both families, which has lasted in an invariable 
course from father to son to this day. 



pp. 265-266] THE MACKINTOSHES 298 

Varus abhinc annis (regnante Jacobo 6 Scotorum Rege) 
Jacobus Grant (Grantei a Carron patruus), cum, in, Elgini, 
Urbis Morraviensis, foro, staret, deprehenso Grantei Nominis 
quodam (ex familia Ballindallachensi) fratrem suum Thomam, 
prsefervido et impetuoso conatu insequente, sese illi objicit, et, 
conspecto ob oculos fratre suo variis transfosso vulneribus in 
plateis jacente, tanta animi vehementia et alacritate, percus- 
sorem est insectatus, ut ilium interemit, et, sese fugse convertit. 
Ballindallach, Jacobum Grant, propter patratum hoc crimen, 
ad forum Judiciale citavit. Verum ille, cum, diem dictum non 
observasset, est proscriptus. Dominus a Grant ssepe ssepius, 
ad cos, mutuis amicitise vinculis conglutinandos, sua authoritate 
(sed frustra) usus est. Adeo quippe, contumaci animo fuerat 
Ballindallach, ut, nuUis pacis aut reconciliationis conditionibus 
(efciamsi plurima, exilium, put^, personae, permagnaque, tum iP^i*^ 
divitiarum, tum pecuniae, ad animi usque sententiam, summa, 
fuerant oblata), sine effuso Jacobi sanguine omnino placaretur. 
Percipiens autem Jacobus, nullam (vita dempta) malevolis et 
virulentis hostium suorum animis satisfacturum piaculum, des- 
peratum iniit cursum. Quendam Exlegum confoederatorum 
numerum ex montigenis sibi adsciscit, et propalam Exlex 

Several years ago, in the reign of James the Sixth, King of 
Scots, James Grant, uncle of Grant of Carron, while he was standing 
in the market-place of Elgin, a town of Moray, one of the name of 
Grant (of the Ballindalloch family), was observed hotly and violently 
pursuing Thomas, brother of the said James. The latter put himself 
in opposition to the assailant, and beholding his brother lying before 
his eyes on the street, pierced with several wounds, he attacked the 
aggressor with such vehemence and quickness of spirit that he 
killed him, and then turned and fled. For this crime Ballindalloch 
summoned James Grant to the Justice Court: but the latter 
failing to keep the day, was outlawed. The laird of Grant used 
his authority again and again to unite them in the bonds of friend- 
ship, but in vain. So that although many proposals were offered to 
his consideration, such as the banishment of the party, and very 
great sums both of goods and of money, Ballindalloch was so 
obstinate that no conditions of peace or reconciliation would at 
all please him without the death of James. The latter, therefore, 
perceiving that no sacrifice but his life would satisfy his malevo- 
lent and virulent enemies, resorted to a desperate course. He 
openly became an outlaw, and took to himself as confederates a 



294 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

evadit, et non solum, suis inimicis inolestias creare, verum, 
variis aiiis, Regise Majestatis subditis, depraedationibus et 
incursionibus infestare aggreditur. Jacobuin Grant a Dehiabo 
(ex familia Ballindallachensi) insecutus occidit, et, in obstinato 
hoc cursu persistens, inimicos suos impendio vexavit, et de- 
populatus est. 

Inteuea temporis Conies Morravise, Borealis Scotia partis 
Pra^fecturam obtinuit, cui propterea, hujus Jacobi (intra sui, 
quippe, officii limites) insecutio et suppressio incumbebat. 

Comes, varia, ad Jacobum Grant insequendum, accersivit 
auxilia, sed operam lusit. Ille enim tutus usque et sine detri- 
mento evadit, adeo ut Jacobus, cceterique criminis socii, ad 
atrociora perpetranda facinora instimulantur. 

JoHANNtis Grant a Carron (hujus Jacobi ex f rat re nepos) in 
patrui fulcrum et adjumentum clanculum esse existimatur. 

Johannes Grant a Ballindallach, omne adhibuit studium, 
quomodo, Johannem a Carron (optimse spei juvenem) prosequi 
poterat. 

Johannes Grant a Carron, Alexandro Grant ab Inveraury 
et 8 aliis associatus, e domo sua (ad materiam, in Sylva Aber- 
nethy, proscindendam) decedit. 

Ballindallach, arrepta hac ansa, sedecim ex suis amicis, 

number of lawless men from the mountains, and went on^ not only 
to create troubles to their enemies^ but also to molest divers others 
of his Majesty's subjects by their robberies and incursions. He 
pursued and slew James Grant of Delnabo (of the Ballindalloch 
family), and by persisting in this obstinate course he annoyed and 
wasted his enemies greatly. 

In the meantime^ the Earl of Moray obtained the lieutenancy of 
the northern part of Scotland, and so the pursuit and suppression 
of this James Grant fell to him as within the bounds of his office. 
The earl called for various help towards the pursuit of James 
Grant, but his labour was lost, for the outlaw still got away safe, 
and without hurt, so that he and his accomplices were the more 
encouraged to perpetrate their villainies. 

John Grant of Carron (nephew of this James by his brother) 
was judged to be a support and help to his uncle in a private way. 
John Grant of Ballindalloch used every means he could to pro- 
secute John of Carron (who was a young man of very good 
expectation). He, with Alexander Grant of Inveraury, and eight 
others, went from his own house to cut down timber in the wood 
of Abemethy. Ballindalloch seizing this occasion assembled six- 



pp. 266-267] THE MACKINTOSHES 295 

armis recinctis, convocavit, et, esse, in sylvam, in qua Carron 
erat, proripuere, subdol^ prsetendentes hue sese appulisse, ut, 
Jacobum Grant, aliosque ex illiCis sociis (contra quos, datam 
fuisse illis Commissionem testabantur) disquirerent. Tandem, 
Carron hostiliter invasere, qui diu, strenuo ac virili animo 
decertavit. Verum, furiosos hostium impetus (quippe sine 
paludamento) ulterius sustinere nequiens, manibus Ballindallach 
interficitur. Thomas Grant a Davoy, Lauchlanus M akintosh 
a Ravokmor (Johannis Grant a Ballindallach ex Sorore nepos) 
et plerique alii illius amici, a Johanne Grant Carronensi et 
Alexandro Grant Inveraurensi fuere interempti. Impune 
tamen et sine damno evasit hie Alexander. Nam postea, 
Ballindallach plurimis discruciavit molestiis, variosque ex 
illius sectatoribus morfci dedit, et, Jacobo Grant, ad, Ballin- 
dallachii agros depopulandos, suas contulit suppetias. 

Hic apprime observanda est, tum et admiranda, secreta 
Providentia, et arcanum, Dei Omnipotentis Judicium, qui, 
tantum, Johanni Grant a Carron retribuit calamitatis men- 
suram, quantam, illius proavus Johannes Roy Grant a Carron, [facets?,] 
attavo Ballindallachii fuerat ante largitus. Eedem enim 

teen of his friends, with their weapons ungirded, and stole away 
into the wood where Carron was, craftily pretending that they 
came thither to search for James Grant and others of his asso- 
ciates (against whom they affirmed a commission was given to 
them). At last they assailed Carron in a hostile manner^ who 
for a long time fought with courage and manliness. But 
being unable (as he was without armour) any longer to sustain 
the furious onset of the enemy, he was slain by the hands of 
Ballindalloch. 

Thomas Grant of Dalvey, Lauchlan Mackintosh of Ravokmor 
(nephew of Ballindalloch by his sister), and many others of his 
friends, were killed by Jolin Grant of Carron and Alexander 
Grant of Inveraury. This Alexander, however, escaped with 
impunity and without harm : for afterwards he greatly tormented 
Ballindalloch with many troubles, slew several of his followers, 
and gave his help to James Grant in harrying the lands of 
Ballindalloch. 

Here the secret judgment of God Almighty, in His providence, 
is much to be observed, as well as admired, who rendered to John 
Grant of Carron such a measure as his great-grandfather, John 
Roy Grant of Carron, had formerly dealt to an ancestor of Ball- 
indalloch. For on the 11th day of the month, namely, of 



296 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [voL, I 

Mensis Die, xi, puta, Septembris, quo Johannes Grant, Ballin- 
dallachii attavum trucidaverat, ipsissimo eodem prsdicti Mensis 
Die, hie Carron, a Johanne Grant a Ballindallach, plurimis 
interfluentibus Annis, perimitur. Praeterea, eadem (Lseva, sc.) 
uterque manu utebatur. 

Denique observabile est Johannem Grant a Ballindallach, 
in Johanne Grant a Carron interficiendo, eadem lorica, qua, 
Johannes Roy, in caede attavi Johannis Grant a Ballindallach, 
indutus erat, fuisse circum munitum. Quam loricam, Ballin- 
dallach brevi antea, a Jacobo Grant, in tumultu inter ipsos 
excitato, abripuerit. Hinc, impenetrabilia esse Dei judicia, 
eumque, sanguinem sanguine puniturum, luculenter cemere 
possumus. Comes Morraviensis (qui tunc, Septentrionalibus 
Scotiae partibus, praeerat), audito hoc eventu, Johannem Grant 
a Ballindallach, ad versus Johannem Grant a Carron, illiusque 
fau tores (et si contra statutas Kegni Leges) tutari ccepit et 
defendere, et hoc niodo impedimento fuit et obici justitiae con- 
tra Ballindallach exequendae. Verum et, illi ita apud Aulam 
Regiam favct, ut, a Rege, quorundam Annorum cessationem 
et tutamentum, contra ordinarium justitiae vitum, illi 



September^ on which John Grant had slain the ancestor of 
Ballindalloch, on the self-same day of the month aforesaid, after 
the lapse of many years, was this Carron killed by John Grant of 
Ballindalloch. Moreover, they both used the same hand, that is 
to say the left. And, in conclusion, it is observable, that John 
Grant of Ballindalloch, when he slew John Grant of Carron, was 
armed with the same coat of mail with which John Roy Grant was 
clad at the slaughter of the ancestor of John Grant of Ballin- 
dalloch; which coat of mail the latter had a short time before 
taken by force from James Grant in a skirmish between them. 
Hence we may clearly discern that 'the judgments of God are 
inscrutable, and that He will avenge blood by blood. 

The Earl of Moray (who was then lieutenant in the northern 
parts of Scotland) on hearing of this event, began to protect 
and defend John Grant of Ballindalloch against John Grant of 
Carron and his friends (although contrary to the statute laws of 
the kingdom) ; and in this way, not only was there a stop put to 
the execution of justice against Ballindalloch, but also he so 
favoured him at the royal court, that he obtained for him from 
the king a cessation and protection for several years against the 
ordinary course of justice. Hence it has happened that hitherto no 



p. 267] THE MACKINTOSHES 297 

obtinuerit. Undeevenitquod, nullo adhucpro caede Carronis 
piaculo dato, hse inimicitise etiamnunc inter partes incomposi- 
tae vigent. 

Vkrum nee quicquam haec iniquitatis acta valuere. Nam, 
majori indies acerbitate Jacobus et Alexander Grant, contra 
Ballindallach ejusque fautores, sunt accensi, quos, continuis 
incursionibus et caedibus, agros possessionesque vastando, in- 
desinenter turbavere, eumque, a Borealibus Scotiae partibus 
aufugere, et ut plurimum Edinburgi commorari coegere. 
Haec Jacobi Grant facinora, Comitis Morravise (qui, quatenus 
tunc Septentrionis Prsefectus, ignominise evitandse caussS, 
hujusmodi contumacias, omnesque insignes Boreales Rebella- 
tores, supprimere devinciebatur) haesitabundum detorquebant 
animum. Verum enim vero, cum (propterea quod, in eos, qui, 
Makintoshios jamdudum rebellantes benigne cxceperunt, 
inclementissim^ sese gessisset) in maximo apud omnes 
haberetur odio, timeretque hos suos clientes, sc. Makintoshios, 
non ita pridem variis in se vexatos injuriis, non animitus, 
aliqua, contra Jacobum Grant subituros hostilia, eo extremi- 
tatis ventum est, ut, quomodo, se, ex hac difficultate et 
angustia, extricaret, magnopere animo fluctuabat. 



satisfaction lias been given for the slaughter of Carron, and 
even now these feuds remain unsettled between the parties. 

But neither did this act of injustice avail anything. For James 
and Alexander Grant were daily more enraged against Ballindalloch 
and his partisans, whom they incessantly annoyed by continual 
incursions and slaughters^ and by ravaging their lands, so that 
they forced him to abandon the northern parts of Scotland, and 
to dwell for the most part in Edinburgh. These exploit^ of 
James Grant distracted the wavering mind of the Earl of Moray 
(who, as then lieutenant of the north, was bound, for the sake 
of avoiding disgrace, to suppress such obstinate evil-doers, and 
all the notorious rebels of the North). But yet, as he was by 
all held in great odium (on account of his unmerciful dealing 
against those who long ago received the Mackintoshes kindly 
when they were rebelling), and fearing that those his clients, 
namely, the Mackintoshes, having been before so vexed by the 
various injuries done to them, would not be disposed to under- 
take hostile service against James Grant, he was brought to 
such extremity that he was greatly tossed in mind as to how 
he should extricate himself from this difficulty and distress. At 



298 GExNEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

Tandem comperiens se (prseterquam Makintoshios) parvum 
satis et vilem, at talia peragenda, habuisse comitatum, (non 
obstante rigidd ejus in hanc familiam in dementia) ex iisdem 
quosdam in hac re collocare statuit. Itaque, Gulielmo Male- 
intosh a Kylachy non spemendum tradidit comitatum, ut, 
Jacobum Grant, ejusque foederatos socios, diligenti scrutaretur 
indagine. Gulielmus munus accipit. Verum Jacobus Grant 
(audito Gulielmum, rei hujus curam suscepisse), segregatis 
undique sociis, adeo caute insectatores evitavit, ut ilia hdc vice, 
re infecta, regredi cogerentur. 
ipagetes.] Hoc, Comiti novam creavit molestiam. Quippe plurimi ex 
illius malevolus jactitare minime dubitabant, ilium non, tanta 
polluisse authoritate, quanta, uni Kebelli apprehendendo, 
sufficeret. 

Comes Morraviae, tanta rerum perculsus, Lauchlanum 
Makintosh, cognomine Oig, Domini Makintosh propatruum, 
ad hujus negotii curam gerendam vocat. Lauchlanus vero 
(ut, Dominum suum, ab ignominiosis famse labeculis, con- 
servaret), negotium subire spondet, et sic, Mense Decembri 
A.D. 1630, Lauchlanus cum triginta strenuis Catanis, tanta 

last^ finding that (excepting the Mackintoshes) he had but a 
small and worthless company for engaging in such enterprises, 
he resolved (notwithstanding his severe unkindness towards that 
family) to assemble some of them for that work. Therefore 
he delivered to William Mackintosh of Kylachy a considerable 
company, that he might make diligent search for James Grant 
and his accomplices. William undertook the task. But James 
Grant (on hearing that William had taken this matter in hand) 
dispersed his companions on every side, and so warily avoided 
his pursuers, that they were forced, for that occasion, to return 
without effecting their purpose. 

This created new trouble to the earl ; for many of those 
who had no goodwill to him were not slow to throw out the 
taunt that he could not wield so much authority as would suffice 
to apprehend one rebel. 

The Earl of Moray, deeply affected with such a state of things, 
called for Lauchlan Mackintosh, surnamed Oig, grand-uncle of 
the laird of Mackintosh, to bear the charge of this affiiir. 
Lauchlan (that he might preserve his chief from any taint of 
dishonour) freely consented to undertake the business, and so, 
in the month of December l630, with thirty strong men of the 
Chattans, he pursued the rebels with such constancy and unwearied 



pp. 267-268] THE MACKINTOSHES 299 

animorum constantia et indesinenti cura, Rebelles (cum con- 
sectatoribus numero pares) usque quaque sunt insecuti, ut 
tandem, in terra Strathdounensi, cum iis concurrunt, ubi, t^m 
ardenti animorum acrimoniS Rebellantes premebantur, ut 
(sine ullo alieni ex Lauchlani sectatoribus inflicto vulnere, 
dempto uno) septem, e Rebeilantium numero, humi cecidere, 
duo cremati periere, et ipse Jacobus Grant, aliisque ex suis 
sociis vulnerati, in captivitatem redacti fuere, et Lauchlanus, 
propter eximium suae strenuitatis, in hoc negotio adeo probe 
exequendo, exhibitum specimen, non modo, ingentem con- 
secutus est honorem, verum etiam, jure hsereditario in agros 
Corribrochenses (quibus hodie ejus posteri potiuntur),a Comite 
Morraviensi est donatus. 

Anno 1632 Patricius Murray Tillibardinus Comes et aliis, 
cognomine Meason, natione Anglus, in Septentionalem Scotise 
partem, nonnullas, ex prsestantissimis locorum Montanorum 
Sylvis, emere statuentes advenere. Lochabriam, ad Sylvas 
Domini Makintosh perlustrandas, adeunt, quae, cum, corum 
votis qukm optime responderent, easdem nummis comparare 
determinant. Verum Dominus a Grant (ut, in suam utilitatem, 
Sylvarum, sc. Abemethiensium venditione, pactum pertraheret), 
eos, sententiam mutare cogit, negatque se illis quatenus Mak- 

diligence^ that at length he encountered them in the territory 
of Strathdoun^ where the rebels were so overborne by the fierce 
vehemence of their assailants that seven of their number were 
cut down^ two perished by fire, and James Grant himself, and 
others of his accomplices^ being wounded^ were taken prisoners, 
while none of the followers of Lauchlan were wounded but one. 
On account of the notable proof of his valour which he showed 
in so ably executing this enterprise^ Lauchlan not only won great 
honour, but also got from the Earl of Moray the heritable right 
to the lands of Corribroch, which his posterity possess to this day. 
In the year 1632^ Patrick Murray, Earl of Tullibardine, and 
one named Mason, an Englishman, came to the north part of 
Scotland, for the purpose of buying some of the best woods in 
the Highlands. They went to Lochaber to view the woods of 
the laird of Mackintosh, which, as they answered very well to 
their expectation, they determined to purchase them. But the 
laird of Grant (that he might make a bargain to his own advan- 
tage, that is to say, by the sale of his woods of Abemethy) got 
them to change their mind, and refused to bind himself to them 



800 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

intoshii Tutorem obligare,atque hoc unum eratex ingratis illis 
actis, quibus, Dominus a Grant, Makintoshio (suo Pupillo et 
nepoti), in teneris et immaturis Annis versanti, plurimum 
attulit detriment!. 

Anno 1634 Makintoshius, haereditaria successione in patris 
locum subiens, Dominum a Grant, quanam ratione, rem 
familiarem tenera aetate, lUius studio et curae commissam, 
administrasset declarare jubet. Verum Dominus a Grant 
(cum, se male gubemasse, conscius esset), rationem reddere 
diffitetur, asserens sese, Makintoshii et Wardae et Maritagii 
donationem habuisse, neque propterea, rationi reddendae esse 
obnoxium. Ast Makintoshius compertum habens Kegem, 
[^^ei69,] audita patris morte, Comiti a Mar (Thesaurario), Makintoshii 
Wardam et Maritagium, in ipsius Makintoshii commodum et 
utilitatem quam securissimum praestare, mandasse, Scaccarii 
Libros scrutari effecit, Syngraphamque, a Domino a Grant 
concessam, qua, Makintoshii Wardam et Maritagium, ipsi 
Makintoshio profuturum, obstringebatur, repent. Dominus a 
Grant (cum, irritum conspiceretsuumconatum), ante redditam 
suae Administrationis rationem, Makintoshium, omnibus, 
quibus posset, molestiis turbare determinat. Quod, Makin- 

in so far as he was tutor to Mackintosh ; and this was one of those 
unkindly deeds which the laird of Grant did to Mackintosh^ his 
pupil and nephew^ during his minority^ and much to the detriment 
of the latter. 

In the year 1 634, when Mackintosh entered upon the heritable 
succession in room of his father, he ordered the laird of Grant to 
show in what manner he had administered the family estate 
committed to his charge and care during his minority. But the 
laird of Grant (as he knew he had administered badly) deferred 
to render account, asserting that he had the gift of the ward and 
marriage of Mackintosh, and was therefore not bound to render 
account. But Mackintosh, having learned that the king, on hear- 
ing of his father s death, had ordered the Earl of Mar, the Treasurer, 
to make the ward and marriage of Mackintosh as secure as possible 
for the advantage of the minor himself, caused a search to be 
made in the books of the exchequer, and found a bond granted 
by the laird of Grant, whereby he was bound to use the ward and 
marriage of Mackintosh for the profit of the latter. The laird 
of Grant (when he saw that his project was baffled) resolved to 
molest Mackintosh to the utmost of his power before rendering 
account, which incited Mackintosh to summon him before the 



pp. 268.269] THE MACKINTOSHES 301 

toshio, eum, coram Dominis Secret! Concilii, citandi stimulos 
adjccit. Verum Dominus a Grant, priusquam res in aliquem 
acerbitatis gradum processerat, amicorum neutralium Decretis 
se subjicere pollicetur. Quod, Makintoshio placuit, et ita 
discordias suas, Roberto Farquharson de Invergald, Magistro 
Alexandro Hay uni ex Clericis Sessionis, Magistro Jacobo 
Baird Causidico, et Magistro Jacobo Farquharson Sigillo 
Scribae, determinandas retulerunt. Qui, Dominum a Grant 
10,000 Lib. Monetae Scoticanae Makintoshio retribuere 
decernunt. Haec tamen Summa reveru erat, illu, a Domino a 
Grant juste Makintoshio debita, quadruplo minor. Verum 
Arbitri ex proposito, summamadeo exiguam retribui jusserunt, 
ut cuncta malevolentise et odii vestigia, quae (majori repetita 
summa), inter conjunctas Personas exoriri poterant, remove- 
rentur. Nihilominus Dominus a Grant, praedicti Decreti (quo- 
run dam malevolorum instigatione) reductionem innt, perque 
integrum Annum, Legis molestiis Makintoshium exerceri fecit. 
Verum postea irrita et frustrata caussu, ab inccepto destitit. 
Summam persolvit. Durante hocanimorum divortio, Dominus 
a Grant, depigneratos haberis Makintoshii agros Locliabrienses, 
malitiose satis et inimice, jus suum in hosce agros, Johanni 

Lords of Privy Council. But before the matter had gone to any 
extremity, the laird of Grant offered to submit to the decision 
of neutral friends, which was agreeable to Mackintosh ; and so 
their discords were referred for determination to Robert Far- 
quharson of Invercauld, Mr. Alexander Hay, one of the clerks 
of session, Mr. James Baird, advocate, and Mr. James Farquharson, 
writer to the signet, who decerned Grant to repay to Mackintosh 
£10,000 Scots. In very deed, however, this sum was four times 
less than was justly owing by Grant to Mackintosh. But the 
arbiters ordered repayment of such a small sum on purpose to 
remove every vestige of malevolence and emnity which, if they 
had demanded a greater sum, might have sprung up between the 
parties. Nevertheless, the laird of Grant (by the instigation 
of some evil-disposed persons) took steps for a reduction of the 
aforesaid decreet, and for a whole year he caused trouble to 
Mackintosh by legal proceedings. But afterwards, finding that 
his case was frustrated, and in vain from the beginning, he 
desisted, and paid the money. 

During this variance, the laird of Grant, having the wadset 
of Mackintosh's lands in Lochaber, maliciously disponed his 
right to these lands to John Cameron of Lochiel (son of Allan 



302 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

Cameron a Lochield (Allani Makoldui filio), manifestissimo 
Makintoshii inimico, disposuit, et ita, Johanni Cameron, 
nudam agrorum possessionem (qua tantum, ante illud tempus, 
fruebatiir) legitimam concessit. Hoc, Domini a Grant facinus, 
Makintoshio et haeredi (ut postea patebit) magnas peperit 
molestias, et ingentes sumptus exhausit. 

Anno 1635, grassante per totum Regnum, gravium miseri- 
arum et impise oppressionis diluvio, Domini Privati Concilii, 
omnes Tribuum et Faniiliarum Principes et Capita, Patria- 
rumque Gubernatores, coram sese evocari mandarunt, ut, pro 
suis Tribubus et Sectatoribus obligarent, quorum plurimi tunc 
prsesentes, viz. Marchio de Huntlei, Comites Sutherlandiae et 
Seafordiae, lleguli Lorniae et Lovattiae, et Domini a Grant, 
Macdonald M'Lean, et alii plerique, pignora dederunt. Alii 
vero, viz. Allanus Cameron a Lochield, ej usque filius 
Johannes, Domini McGregor, Glenco, Gleneves, et Macronald 
[pa^gtro.] in Keppoch (cum, nullam, qui, pro illis, suam interponeret fidem 
reperirent), in custodiis detenti sunt. Solus Dominus Mak- 
intosh libere dismissus est, adhibito duntaxat vade, se, queui- 
docunque vocaretur, praesto futurum, atque, banc obtinuit 
gratiam, non modo, quod ipse esset tranquillae indolis et 
placati animi vir, verum etiam et, quia magna suae Familiae 

MacConill duy), the manifest enemy of Mackintosh, and so granted 
to John Cameron plain legal possession of the lands^ of which^ 
before that time, he had the profit only. This mischievous 
action of the laird of Grant brought great trouble to Mackintosh 
and his heir, and was the cause of vast expense, as will afterwards 
appear. 

In the year 1635, a flood of grievous troubles and impious 
oppression having spread throughout the whole kingdom, the 
Lords of Privy Council ordered all the chiefs of lands, and heads 
of families, and governors of counties to be called before them, 
in order that they should become bound for their clans and 
followers, many of whom then present, namely, the Marquis of 
Huntly, the Earls of Sutherland and Seaforth, the Lords Lome 
and Lovat, and the lairds of Grant, MacDonald, MacLean, and 
many others, gave pledges. But others, namely, Allan Cameron 
of Lochiel, John his son, the lairds of MacGregor, Glencoe, 
Gleneves, and MacRonald in Keppoch (as they found no surety 
who would undertake for them) were detained in custody. The 
laird of Mackintosh alone was freely dismissed, on his only giving 
a pledge to appear again whenever he might be called, and this 
favour he obtained, not only because he was a man of a tranquil 



pp. 269-270] THE MACKINTOSHES 303 

pars, Marchioni de Huntley, Coniitibus a Mar, Athol, et 
Murray, aliisque, clientes et inquilini essent, neque perinde 
ejus mandatis obnoxii. 

Anno 1637 Makintoshius, agros suos Locliabrienses prse- 
dictos, e manibus hsecedum Johannis Cameron redemit, et, quia 
nulla agrorum renunciatio, Makintoshio data esset (Eveno 
Camerono Johannis filio tunc Pupillo existente), pecunia, in 
manus Jacobi Cuthbert Invernessse Pra^fecti, deposita est, 
quae brevi postmodum (Dominorum Privati Concilii jussu), 
Donaldo Cameron a Lochield Tutori, in ipsius Pupilli commo- 
dum tradita erat. Verum enim vero redempti a Makintoshio 
agri, per longam Annorum seriem, injusta satis et acri 
violentia, per Cameronos detinebantur. Anno pra;dicto 1637 
magna, de Religione et Regimine Ecclesiastico, controversia in 
Regno Scoticano est exorta. 

Anno 1638 plerique ex Nobilibus, Generosis et Verbi Dei 
Ministris, Foedus, in Religionis tutelam (ut eorum verbis utar), 
adversus omnes innovationcs &c., inter, invicem pepigerunt, 
quod, ingenti vastationi, caedi, crudelitati, et dadibus infinitis, 
per uni versa Regis Dominia, vigintiduorum Annorum spatio, 
propatulum prsebuit ostium. Vigente hoc molcstiarum 

and peaceable disposition^ but also because a great part of his 
family were retainers and tenants to the Marquis of Huntly^ the 
Earls of Mar^ Athol and Moray^ and others^ and so not subject to 
his orders. 

In the year l637, Mackintosh redeemed his lands in Lochaber 
aforesaid from the hands of the heirs of John Cameron, and 
whereas no renunciation of the lands was given to Mackintosh 
(Ewen Cameron, son of John, being then minor) the money was 
deposited in the hands of James Cuthbert, provost of Inverness, 
and soon after (by order of the Lonis of Privy Council) was 
delivered to Donald Cameron, tutor of Lochiel, for behoof of the 
said minor. But yet, the lands so redeemed were unjustly and 
violently detained from Mackintosh by the Camerons, for a long 
course of years. 

In the year l637 there arose in the Scottish kingdom a great 
controversy concerning religion and church government. 

In the year l638, many of the nobles, gentlemen, and ministers 
of the Word of God joined together in a covenant for defence of 
religion (as they use the words) against all innovations, etc., 
which opened a wide door for devastation, slaughter, cruelty, and 
infinite miseries, throughout the whole of the king's dominions, 



304 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

tumultu, Makintoshius, a Marchione Argathelise coeterisque 
fcederatis, tantopere, in rerum suarum transactionibus (quippe 
Regiam tueretur Caussam), perturbabatur, ut ne vel, commune 
Legum Rcgni beneficium, ad versus suos oppressores exequen- 
darum, adipisci posset, atque ita, abagris suis Lochabriensibus, 
etiamsi jure et legitime redemptis, tranquille perfruendis, 
infelici remoratur violentia. 

FcEDERATi, ordiente Uerum adhuc Chao. tanta intumuere 
insolcntia, ut, sibi omnem authoritatem arrogarint. Nova et 
hactenus inaudita, adversus Regem, in venere Judicatoria, et, 
abjudicate Episcoporum jurisdictione, ambabus quasi ulnis, 
Regimen Presbyteriale amplectuntur, quod, omni, qua possunt 
acrimonid et assidua sedulitate, ad extrema usque Belli pro- 
texere. Plurimi tamen interea temporis, tum ex Nobilibus, turn 
Generosis et Verbi Divini Praeconibus, a Regis Caussa contra 
Foederatos steterunt, inter quos Makintoshius ipse (occulte sc.) 
quippe corpore infirmus. Ejus vero consanguinei et sectatores, 
in propatulo, sese, maxime sinceros, et, in Regis Caussa pro- 
movenda, propensissimos, demonstrarunt, a deo ut, narrata 
Regi Makintoshii fidelitate, Epistolam gratulatoriam illi 

for the space of twenty-two years. While this tumult of troubles 
lasted^ Mackintosh was very much disturbed in the transaction of 
his affairs by the Marquis of Argyll and others of the Covenanters 
(because he defended the royal cause), so that he could not get 
the common benefit of the laws of the realm against his oppres- 
sors; and thus he was, by violence, unhappily, kept from peace- 
ably enjoying his lands of Lochaber, though they were lawfully 
redeemed. 

In the confusion of affairs which now set in the Covenanters 
were puffed up with such insolence as to arrogate to- themselves all 
authority. For they invented new and hitherto unheard of judica- 
tories against the king; and having abjured the jurisdiction of 
the prelates, they embraced, as it were with both arms, the 
presbyterial government, which they defended with all the keen- 
ness and assiduous zeal in their power to the very end of the war. 
Many, however, as well of the nobles as of the gentlemen and the 
preachers of the Divine Word, stood for the cause of the King 
against the Covenanters. Among whom was Mackintosh himself, 
though secretly, because he was infirm in body ; but his kinsmen 
and followers openly showed themselves most sincere and zealous 
in promoting the king's interest; so that the fidelity of Mack- 
intosh having been reported to the king he wrote him a letter 



pp. 270271] THE MACKINTOSHES 805 

scripsit, cujus hie, ipsi Archetypo (inter Makintoshii Chartas 
jacenti), omni ex parte, simillimum exhibetiir Exemplar. 
Verba subsequentibns habentur lineis. 

Carolus R. 

Fidelissime et perdilecte, Salutem dicimus. Allato nobis 
rumore, te, Foederatorum vestigiis minime institisse, sed, temet 
illis semper opposuisse, gratias tibi propterea animitushabemus, 
summopere efflagitantes, ut, eodem, quo incoepisti, passQ, 
incedas. Confide quoque nos, te omnesque alios, eadem tecum [page t7l.] 
animi fidelitate prseditos et obsequiosa nobis obedientia per- 
sistentes, Regia nostra Authoritate protecturos. Quumque 
etiam nonnullis abhinc Annis nos, haereditarium Justiciarii 
oflicium intra Insulas aliasque (intra quas et tui continentur 
agri) in nostro concessu memoratas partes, Comiti Argathe- 
liensi contulerimus, ex Regia nostra, benevoli tui et fidelis, 
erga res nostras, animi impraesentiarum observantia, cupientes 
te liberare, ne, a quoquam nisi a nobismet ipsis dependeas, 
nullatenus, prsefato Comiti morigereris aut adhsereas rogamus, 
sed ut ipse aliique omnes tui, tum amici, tum clientes, quos tibi 
undequaque adjungere queas, in suppetiis, pro viribus vestris, 

of thanks^ of which a copy similar in every part to the original 
(lying among the charters of Mackintosh) is here given. The 
words are contained in the following lines : 

' Charles R. 

'Trusty and well-beloved, we greet you well. The rumour 
having been brought to us that you have not walked in the foot- 
steps of the Covenanters but have ever opposed yourself to them, 
we give you hearty thanks therefor, mightily entreating you to 
go on in the way you have begun. Trust also in us that we will, 
by our royal authority, protect you, and all others imbued with the 
same loyalty of mind as you are, and who continue in complaisant 
obedience to us. And whereas, also, some years ago, we did 
confer upon the Earl of Argyll the heritable office of Justiciar 
within the Islands and other parts mentioned in our grant (within 
which your lands are comprehended), we, of our princely regard 
to your affectionate and faithful mind towards our interests at this 
present juncture, being desirous of freeing you from depending on 
any one but ourselves, do require you that you in nowise obey or 
adhere to the said earl, but that you and all yours whom you may 
join to you from every quarter, as well friends as vassals, be 
ready to furnish supplies, according to your abilities, to our 

u 



806 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

Prsefecto nostro (special! a nobis donato potestate) adminis- 
trandis, aut copiis, ab Hibernia, rerum nostrarum illic faelicius 
peragendarum gratia, mittendis paratissimi sitis. Tibique 
persuadeas nos, vivis, tuse promptitudinis in nobis, allata 
quandocunque ansa, auxiliandis, effectis. Te, ne, praememorati 
Comitis, aut cujuslibet alterius, nutibus subjiciaris, liberare 
quam propere operam daturos. Vale, Datum a nostra Aula 
Dunelmensi S Maii 1639. 

Hoc eodem Anno, Makintoshii agros Lochabrienses Arga- 
theliaeMarchio, igni ferroque penitus devastavit, non mod6 quod 
Ronaldus Macdonald in Keppoch (primarius horum agrorum 
possessor), Rei Regise sedulo promovendae omne adhibuerat 
studium, verum etiam et quoniam Makintoshius, cui in dictos 
agros hsereditarium jus erat, neque, Foederatorum factioni 
ad versus Regem, sese adjungere, neque, hosce suos agros 
Argathelise Marchioni (cujus animus, eosdem in suam redigere 
ditionem usque anhelebat) vendere nullatenus pertrahi poterat, 
plerorumque etiam (neque improbabilis) sententia erat depopu- 
latos ex industria fuisse agros, ut, sc. Domino Makintoshio 
inutiles redditi, minoris constarent. 

iNJURiiE illse, Lochabriensibus, ab Argatheliae Marchione, 
ej usque Tribu (Campbellis), illatse, non diu inultse fuerant. 

lieutenant (specially empowered by us), or to the forces to be 
sent thither from Ireland^ for more effectually forwarding our 
affairs : and be assured that we, whensoever occasion shall offer by 
the lively effects of your promptitude in helping us, will afford you 
the means, as speedily as possible, to free yourself, so that you 
shall no longer be subject to the will of the aforementioned earl 
or of any other whatsoever. Farewell. Given from our court at 
Durham, 2nd May 1639/ 

In this same year the lands of Mackintosh in Lochaber were 
harried with fire and sword by the Marquis of Argyll, not only 
because Ronald Macdonald in Keppoch (the principal owner of 
these lands) gave all his care earnestly to promote the cause of 
the king, but also because Mackintosh, to whom pertained the 
heritable right of the said lands, would not join himself to the 
faction of the Covenanters against the king, nor could he be 
persuaded by any means to sell these lands to Argyll (whose desire 
was to have them brought into his power). And also it was 
the opinion of many (and not without probability) that the lands 
were then wasted on purpose that, having been rendered useless 
to the laird of Mackintosh, they should be of less value. 

These injuries done by the Marquis of Argyll and his clan (the 



pp. 271-272] THE MACKINTOSHES 807 

Nam Anno 1640 hi cum ISO virorum manu, Bradalbiam in- 
gress!, ingentem indidem pecorum gregem abegerunt. Camp- 
belli vero, collecta, qukm ex improviso poteremt magna, man(i 
(erant enim eorum Principum circiter 80 prsesto, in cele- 
brandis cujusdam Generosi Nuptiis, baud procul intensi), 
abactores insequuntur. Proelium in Monte dicto 

factum est. Non diu tamen pugnatum cum Campbelli (etsi 
numero plures), variis ex eorum Prsecipuis eodem loci crudeliter 
csesis, sunt debellati. 

PosTEA Argatheliae Marchio (quippe, sese, assiduis infestari 
molcstiis, a Brealochabriensibus, verebatur), habitas cum iis 
inimicitias composuit, iisque 3000 Mercas, injuriarum 
allatarum compcnsationem, persolvit, idque, ingenti caede, et 
depopulationibus, ab iis, in Campbellorum Tribum, perpe- 
tratis, non obstante. 

Akko 1644, foederatis Scotis, Angliam, cum exercitfi 18,000 
Peditum et SOOO Equitum, ingressis, Rex Domino Makintoshio 
Epistolam, res, et pen^ verba subsequentia, comprehendentem, 
scripsit. 

CaROLUS R. [page t7t.] 

Fidelissime et perdilecte, Salve. Quandoquidem omnia 

Campbells) to the Lochaber people were not long unavenged, 
for in the year l640 they went, with a band of 120 men, into 
Breadalbane, and from thence carried away an immense drove of 
cattle. But the Campbells, having collected a company as hastily 
as they could (for they were readily increased by about eighty of 
their chief men who were celebrating the marriage of a certain 
gentleman not far off) pursued the raiders. A battle took place 
on a hill called : the fip^ht, however, had not con- 

tinued long, when the Campbells, although more in number, were 
defeated, and several of their leaders cruelly killed at the same 
place. Thereafter the Marquis of Argyll (because he was afraid 
of being continually molested by the Brae Lochaber men) settled 
the feuds he had with them, and paid them 3000 merks as com- 
pensation for the wrongs he had done to them, and that notwith- 
standing the great slaughter and pillaging inflicted by them on 
the Clan Campbell. 

In the year l644, the Scots Covenanters having entered 
England with an army of 18,000 foot and 2,000 horse, the king 
wrote a letter to the laird of Mackintosh, containing the matter 
and almost the words following : 

' Charles R. 

' Right trusty and well-beloved, we greet you well. Whereas 



808 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

benevoli animi et paternae curae indicia, ad Regnum illud 
nostrum Scoticanum quam felicissimum et faustissimum 
creandum, exhibita, non modo, nostro inibi Populo, omnia 
quae, vel minima juris specie, aut ullo Prudentiae colore, turn 
in iis, quae, vel ad Regimen Civile aut Ecclesiasticum spectant 
rite componendis, rogari poterant, concedendo, verum et, in 
rebus meri favoris et omnino gratuitis, ad animi usque sen- 
tentiam, illis adstipulando. Malitiosis ibidem et perditissimis, 
validae et malevolae factionis, ad, nostrorum Subditorum 
animos adversus nos excitandos, conatibus tantum abfuit, ut, 
ullum grati animi indicium nobis redditurum speremus, vel 
pacem illam quietemve (non leviusculis expectatara rationibus), 
antiquae illi et nativae nostrae Patriae procuremus. Quinimo 
bona nostrorum Subditorum pars, non tantum arma adversus 
nos arripuit, verum et, se, Regnum hoc invasuros, et in 
Rebellatorum aux ilium accessuros, ad Regimen hactenus 
stabilitum subvertendum, declararunt. Coacti igitur, neces- 
sario nostri propugnaculo et tutela, optimos quosque modos, et 
maxim^ idoneas metliodos, imminenti huic malo et instanti 
cladi antevertendi, excogitare, fidelibus nostris et constanti 

all the tokens of our good mind and paternal care manifested 
towards that our Scottish kingdom^ for the felicity and prosperity 
thereof, not only by granting to our people therein all that 
could, with the least semblance of right, or with any pretext of 
prudence, be demanded, for lawfully settling those things which 
belong either to the civil or the ecclesiastical government, but 
also by assenting to them in matters of mere favour, and alto- 
gether gratuitous, according to the desire of their mind, have, by 
the malicious and perverse efforts of a powerful and malignant 
faction to stir up the minds of our subjects against us, so far 
failed as to any token of a grateful mind which we hoped would 
be rendered to us, or as to that peace and quietness which we 
desired (with no light expectations) to that our ancient and 
native country : But rather, a great part of our subjects have not 
only taken up arms against us, but also have declared that they 
will invade this kingdom, and will come to help the rebels to 
subvert the government hitherto established. Being therefore 
forced, for our necessary defence and protection, to think upon 
the best means, and above all the most suitable methods of avert- 
ing this imminent evil, and threatened ruin, we resort to those 
of our subjects who are of a steadfast mind, who are neither 



p. 272] THE MACKINTOSHES 309 

animo prseditis Subditis, quos, nee livida aliorum malitia^ nee 
seelerata pcrfidise Contagio, infieere valuit, reeurrimus. Inter 
quorum Praeeipuos te merito semper habuimus. Cumque nos 
hunc in finem, generalem, omnium nostrarum copiarum 
haetenus evocatarum, aut adhue, in Insulis et Montanis Regni 
Seotieani partibus, excitandarum, Prsefeeturam, fidelissimo ac 
dilcetissimo nostro Cognato Konaldo Comiti ab Antrim, nee 
non, perfideli et plurimum dilecto Cognato nostro Comiti a 
Seaforth (una cum prs^icto Comite ab Antrim) Jurisdictionem 
ibidem Justiciariam donaverimus, concessa quoque illis potes- 
tate, Patriam agrosque Arehibaldi Argatheliae Marchionis 
(primarii juxta ac ingratissimi, horrendorum istorum adversus 
nos facinorum promotoris) invadere, grassantemque late 
Rebellionem supprimere. Nos, tua fidelitate et praelarga tui 
erga nos animi benevolentia, tum et Caussse sequitate summo- 
pere freti, Literas base, tuas in manus dirigere (ut, in 
eadem animi fidelis constantia firmiter persistas) baud ini- 
doneum duximus, teque obnixe rogare ut, cunctis tuis viribus, 
Comitibus a Seaforth et Antrim in omnibus iis quibus illi vel 
eorum alter, tuam, in justissima juxta ac maxime necessaria 
hac re felicius adimplenda, accersant opem, tuo subleves admini- 

infected with the dark maUce^ nor with the wicked contagion 
of the treason of the others ; among the chief of whom we have 
always deservedly judged you to be. And whereas, for this 
purpose, we have given the rank of lieutenant-general of all our 
forces as yet called together, or still to be raised in the Islands 
and Highlands of our Scottish kingdom, to our most trusty and 
well-beloved cousin, Ronald, Earl of Antrim; and also to our 
right trusty and well-beloved cousin the Earl of Seaforth (together 
with the aforesaid Earl of Antrim) the justiciary jurisdiction 
there : power being also given to them to invade the lands of 
Archibald, Marquis of Argyll (the prime and also most un- 
grateful promoter of these horrible doings against us), and to 
suppress the widely spreading rebellion : we, greatly relying on 
your fidelity, and your abounding goodwill towards us, as well 
as on the equity of our cause, have deemed it not unfit to direct 
these letters into your hands (that you may persist firmly in the 
same constancy of faithful affection), and earnestly to request 
you, that with all your power you will afford your support to the 
Earls of Seaforth and Antrim, in all those matters wherein they 
or either of them shall send for your aid, in order to the happy 
accomplishment of this most just, as well as most necessary 



810 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

culo, certoque sis animo nos, tuani proinptitudinem et summam 
in h&c re fidelitatem, memori recondituros pectore, debitamque 
(quando dederit Deus) retributuros mercedem. Vale iterum 
atque iterum. Datum ab Aula nostra Oxoniensi 20 Die 
Januarii, nostrique Regni 29 164|. 

Transactis octo post receptam banc Epistolam Diebus, a 
Regia Majestate alia itidem, Makintoshio tradita est Epistola, 
qua, integrae Morraviae Region! praeesse imperabatur, cujus 
etiam hie verba ad verbum exponuntur. 

[paggS73.] CaROLUS R. 

Fidelissime et perdilecte, S. Quandoquidem illi ut pluri- 

mum, quibus, nostri illius Regni gubernaculum commissum est, 
libertate illis concessa tantopere abusi sunt, ut, in nostrum, 
detrimentum, extremumque rerum nostrarum subversionem et 
hie et illic eam penitus convertunt, verum etiam (quod, 
horrenda omnia et perfida eorum facinora hucusque impie 
perpetrata, summoper adauget et aggravat) sese turpium 
mercenariorum adinstar (sine ulla vel minima fucosi prsetextus 
specie) iis hoc in loco, nobis nostrique Authoritati obstinata 

service ; and you may rest assured that we shall lay up in our 
mindful heart your promptitude and great fidelity in this matter, 
and shall (whensoever God shall give opportunity) recompense 
you with due reward. Farewell again, and again. Given at 
our court at Oxford, 20th January, and of our reign the nineteenth 
year l64j.* 

Eight days after the receipt of this letter, another epistle from 
his Majesty was delivered to Mackintosh, by which he was com- 
missioned to govern the whole district of Moray. The terms of 
the letter are here set forth : 

'Charles R. 

* Right trusty and well -beloved, we greet you well. Whereas 
those to whom, for the most part, the government of that our 
kingdom was committed, have so greatly abused the freedom 
granted to them as to convert it wholly to our detriment, and to 
the utter subversion of our affairs both here and there : yea, more 
(what greatly increases and aggravates all their dreadful and 
treacherous deeds hitherto wickedly perpetrated), they have (with- 
out the least appearance of any pretext), like base mercenaries, 
joined themselves as hirelings to those in this place who are op- 
posing themselves in obstinate rebellion to us and our authority, in 



pp. 272273] THE MACKINTOSHES 311 

RebeUione adversantibus (ut, una cum nefariis suis perfidis et 
conferatis proditoribus, nostrum hoc Regnum petulant! in- 
vaderent impetu), tanquam stipendiarios, adjunxerunt. Nos, 
igitur, (utriusque Regni propugnandi gratia) homines istos, 
donata quippe Authoritate, quasi armis in nostra pectora 
repercussis abutentes, eadem privare cogimur, eamque illis 
concedere, quos et honor et sincera nobis parendi promptitudo 
nullatenus, sese perditissimis illis et scelestis perfidies patronis 
immiscere obligabunt. Te itaque ex eorum numero esse qui 
inter primos et nostris rebus et nostri hujus nativi Regni, 
quod, plerorumque scntentia, propter paucorum perfidiam, 
plurimis oportet exerceri miseriis, ni pars melior nostrorum 
illius Regni Subditorum constanti fidelitatis serie hucusque 
nobis inservientium, tantum pro nostra sua Caussa praesti- 
terint, quantum, pro extraneis Rebellatoribus agit perfidiosa 
factio. Gloriae et Honori bene cupiunt indubitatissime freti 
Te, utpote nunc in quem peculiarem spem reponimus, integras 
Morravise Regioni prsefecimus, nullatenus haesitantes quin 
omnem adhibeas diligentiam non modo, ad limites tuse fidei 
commissos, nobis qu^m maxime morigeros, conservandos, verum 
et pariter, nostro illius Regni Proconsuli tuam conferas opem 

order that they may, together with their faithless and treacherous 
confederates, invade this our kingdom by an insolent attack. 
We, therefore (for the sake of defending both kingdoms), are 
forced to deprive these men of the authority given to them, 
because they are abusing it as a weapon to strike against our 
breast, and to bestow the same on those whom honour and 
sincere readiness to obey us will oblige in no wise to mingle 
themselves with these abandoned and wicked patrons of perfidy : 
and judging you to be among the chief of those who most un- 
doubtedly do rightly seek glory and honour both to us and to the 
affairs of this our native kingdom, which, in the opinion of most 
people, must suffer very many miseries on account of the perfidy 
of a few, if the better part of our subjects of that kingdom, who 
have hitherto served us in a constant course of loyalty, shall not 
stand for our cause and their own as much as the perfidious 
faction do for foreign rebels. Relying upon you, as one in whom 
we now repose peculiar trust, we have set you over the whole 
province of Moray, no wise doubting but that you will give all 
diligence, not only to preserve the bounds committed to your 
trust as loyal as possible to us, but also, that you will likewise 
afford your aid and support to our lieutenant-general of that 



312 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

et adminiculum, in quibuslibet tumultibus et turbulentis in- 
surrectionibus, intra quamlibet Regni partem pullulantibus, 
penitus supprimendis, iisque omnibus, non acceptd a nobis 
venia, illegitima arma aut capientibus aut adhuc capturis, 
eousque profiigandis donee, relictis armis, nostris Legibus 
debitum praebeant obsequium. Praeterea quoque volumus Te 
in posterum nullatenus uUam, sive Privati Concilii, sive 
Comitionim,sivePublicorum quorumlibet aliorumConventuum, 
Authoritatem (nostra non concurrente) tuo comprobaturum 
suffragio, neve, ulla ex injustis eorum Decretis intra praescriptos 
tibi limites, exequi permittas, Teque duntaxat gubemari sinas 
jussis nostri Proconsulis (vel, illo absente,) fidelissimi nostri et 
dilectissimi Cognati Georgii Marchionis a Huntley, cui, 
insuper, mandatum dedimus, tibi, in omnibus ad nos spectanti- 
[pogeg74.] bus, nostram voluntatem fusius declarandi, teque, speciatim, 
nostro nomine certissimum faciendi, nos, sincerum tuum et 
constans nobis inserviendi studium (quod etiam, memori 
recondituros pectore ingenue poUicemur) acuto observasse 
oculo. Cumque tandem aJiquando, tua, taliumque tui simil- 
ium, sedula et diligenti industria, tumultuosas illius Regni 
confusiones, et tempestuosse compositse fuerint procellae. 



kingdom, in wholly suppressing whatever tumults and turbulent 
insurrections may spring up within any part of the kingdom, and in 
routing all those who, having received no permission from us, have 
already taken, or shall in future, take unlawful arms, so long and 
until they shall lay down their arms, and render due submission 
to us. Moreover, we also will, that you do in nowise acknowledge 
by your suffrage any authority, whether of Privy Council, or of 
committees, or of whatever other of their public conventions 
(without our concurrence), nor permit any of their unjust decrees 
to be executed within the bounds prescribed to you ; but that 
you allow yourself to be governed only by the orders of our 
lieutenant-general, or, in his absence, of our right trusty and 
right well- beloved cousin George, Marquis of Huntly, to whom 
also we have given warrant to declare to you more fully our will 
in all things relating to us, and particularly to assure you in our 
name that we have observed, with a keen eye, your sincere and 
constant care to serve us (which also we do ingenuously promise 
to lay up in our mindful breast) : and when at length by the 
zealous and diligent labour of you, and such as you, the tumultu- 
ous disorders and stormy troubles of that kingdom shall hereafter 



pp. 273-274] THE MACKINTOSHES 313 

nosque valuerimus, unicuique, pro suo merito, debitum 
rependere prsemium, tibi, quicquid favoris, a Principe clemen- 
tissimo in fidelcm et bene merentem Subditum conferri debet, 
expectare fas erit. Itaque, te, et res quascunque ponderosas, 
tuae creditas curse, bene dicenti Deo commendantes, tibi ex 
animo valedicimus. Datum apud Aulam nostram Oxoniensem 
Quinto Die Februarii, et Decimo Nono nostri Regni Anno 
164f. 

Mexse Augusto, Annoque 1644, omnis Makintoshii Tribus, 
cunctique clientes, qui, Badenochenses agros incolebant, sese, 
Regiis partibus adjunxere, primique omnium erant, qui, ex 
professo, Regiam caussam, adversus foederatos Scotos asserue- 
runt, et Badenochenses, magnaque, residuorum Makintoshii 
Cognatorum pars unk cum universis Brelochabrise colonis, 
indubitata animi constantia, et in concussa fidelitate, Marchioni 
a Montrois (primario Regiorum exercituum Duci), per omnes 
angustias et cuncta discrimina, adhaesere, inque omnibus, quae 
gesserit, prccliis, suis praesto fuerat Personis, neque, ilium 
ullatenus deseruere donee (praecipiente Rege) impositum 
exoneravit munus, Regnumque Scotiae reliquit. Postea vero, 
a Marchionis a Montrois tunc temporis decessu, ex Populo 

have been settled, and we shall be able to repay to every one a 
due reward according to his merit, you may expect for yourself 
whatever of favour ought to be conferred by a most clement 
prince upon a subject so loyal and well deserving. Therefore, 
commending you, and the weighty matters intrusted to your 
care, to the blessing of God, we heartily bid you farewell. Given 
at our court at Oxford, the fifth day of February, in the nine- 
teenth year of our reign, l64f,' 

In August 1644, the whole clan of Mackintosh, and all the 
vassals who dwelt on the lands of Badenoch, joined themselves to the 
royalists, and were the first of all who avowedly asserted the royal 
cause against the Scots Covenanters ; and the Badenoch men, and 
a large part of the remaining kindred of Mackintosh, together 
with the whole tenants of Brae Lochaber did adhere, with un- 
doubted steadfastness of mind and unwavering fidelity, to the 
Marquis of Montrose (chief commander of the royal troops), 
throughout all straits and dangers, and were present in all the 
battles which he fought, nor did they ever desert him until, by 
command of the king, he resigned the charge laid upon him and 
left the kingdom of Scotland. But afterwards, on the departure 
at that time of the Marquis of Montrose, some of the Badenoch 



814 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

Badenochensi quidam, aliique ex Clanchattanis, Marchionem 
ab Huntley, in Regia caussa tuenda, sunt secuti, neque un- 
quam amplexam hanc neglexere caussam quamdiu ulli alicujus 
momenti viri, Ducis officium praestare audebant. Quantum 
autem ad ipsum Dominum Makintosh attinet, omnibus omnino 
manifestum est quod, cum valetudinario et infirmo esset 
corpore, neque, propterea, campis militaribus idoneo, domi 
commorari oportebat. 

Anno 1648, Makintoshius, propter constantem sui animi 
iidelitatem, Acto Parliamenti, Inverlochise in Lochabria (ut, 
incolos, ne in solitas prorumperent enormitates, probe dispositos 
conservaret) Gubernator est constitutus. Verum, Anno 1649, 
variata rerum serie, praedictum Parliamenti Decretum, alio 
novo est rescissum, et Makintoshii oppressores (Cameronii 
puta), ut antea, fulti et indulti. Anno 1650 Rex Carolus 
Secundus, e Breda per Scotos accersitus, et, in terram apud 
Grermach expositus, brevi post, cum unus Anglorum exercitus, 
Australes Scotiae partes non modo invasisset, sed fere subegisset, 
\ja^ee75.] inter alios fideles suos Subditos (quos in fatiscentis Regni sub- 
sidium summopere evocavit), Domino Makintoshio ejusque 



people^ and others of the Clanchattans, followed the Marquis of 
Huntly in defence of the royal cause, and never neglected to em- 
brace that cause so long as there were any men of any weight who 
dared to assume the duty of leader. But as to the laird of Mack- 
intosh himself, it was thoroughly evident to all that with a sickly 
and infirm body, and on that account unfit for miUtary duty, it 
behoved him to remain at home. 

In the year 1648, Mackintosh, on account of his constant 
loyalty, was by Act of Parliament appointed Governor of Inver- 
lochy in Lochaber (that he might keep the people there well 
affected, lest they should break forth in their wonted lawless 
doings). But by the altered course of affairs in 1649, the afore- 
said decree of Parliament was rescinded by a new one, and the 
oppressors of Mackintosh (that is, the Camerons) were, as before, 
bolstered up and indulged. 

In the year 1650, King Charles the Second, having been called 
from Breda by the Scots, and having landed at Garmouth a short 
while after, when an English army not only invaded the southern 
parts of Scotland, but almost subdued it, among others of his loyal 
subjects whom he urgently called to the help of the distracted 
kingdom, he sent a serious letter to the laird of Mackintosh, 



pp. 274-275] THE MACKINTOSHES 816 

Tribui et amicis nominis Catanei, seriani Epistolam, subjectis 
comprehensam lineis, legavit. 

Caeolus R. 

Fidelissime et perdilecte Consanguinee, et fidelissimi et per- 
dilecti, S. Miserandus status, et deplorabilis Regni hujus 

calamitas non potest non vobis probe innotescere Elato et in- 
solent! hosti, omnibus suis studiis tarn fauste, adversus agmina 
nobis in ejusdem tutelam constituta, evenientibus, qui (Australi 
Forthae et Clydae latere ab iis devicto) nuperrime etiam Castello 
Edinburgeno, prava perfidia, et per obscuru eorum inibi con- 
stitutorum vilitate, in suas manus arrepto. Hanc et enim 
Civitatem isti antea devastarunt, Templa dirucrunt, nee non 
insolenti arrogantia nostram cremarunt Regiam, triumphanti 
nunc insultat animo. Hujus modi injuriae, quam plurimaque 
alia mala, graviter, Subditos nostros, Australes, Orientales, et 
Occidentales incoleutes Comitatus, supprimentia, solamen, sup- 
petias et ultum, longis implorant clamoribus. Quamobrem nos 
una cum nostri Parliamenti Optimatibus, hisce malis et miseriis 
subitum commiscentes remedium, hunc Parliamenti nostri 
Actum de militibus colligendis, ad tuam accessurum ditionem, 

and his clan and friends of the Chattan name^ as in the lines 
following : 

' Charles R. 

' Right trusty and well-beloved cousin^ and right trusty and 
well-beloved, we greet you well. The pitiful state and misfortune 
of this lamentable kingdom cannot but be well known to you — 
the enemy elated and insolent, all their designs against the forces 
by us appointed for defence thereof having turned out so success- 
fully, who (after conquering the south side of the Forth and Clyde) 
have also more recently seized the castle of Edinburgh by the 
wicked treachery and hidden villainy of those stationed therein. 
That city these invaders formerly laid waste, the churches they 
ruined,and also, with insolent arrogance, they burned our palace; and 
now they insult triumphantly. Such wrongs, as well as the many 
other evils pressing grievously upon our subjects dwelling in the 
southern, eastern, and western counties, cry loudly for relief, help, 
and revenge. Wherefore we, together with the estates of our 
Parliament, having consulted as to a speedy remedy for these evils 
and miseries, have emitted this Act of our Parliament, which will 
come to your jurisdiction, for mustering the troops, and which we 



316 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

emisimus, quod, nostra Epistola felicius comitatum iri existi- 
mavimus, vosque impendio rogitantes, imo, conjurantes (ut, si 
quae, erga Deum Pietas, erga Patriam Amor, si quis, erga nos 
Respectus) nulla interposita mora, nullo interveniente obstaculo, 
qukm citissime excitemini, vestraque induatis arma, inque, 
fratrum vestrorum, plurimis (eh eu) discruciatorum miseriis, 
suppetias, celerrimo properetis passu, utque, eorum sanguinem, 
inclementissime, in variis Patriae angulis, efFusum, praeterea 
quoque multitudinem eorum, qui, in duro carcere, cxtremum, 
pro esurie, efflant Spiritum, aliorumque, qui indies, panis et 
quotidiani victus inopia, in Urbibus et Villis omnino fatiscunt, 
vindicetis. Haec, inquam, quod, vestros animos, in suppetias 
properanter et efficaciter afferendas, magnopere afiiciunt, pro 
certo habemus. Itaque nil ulterius vobis pensitandum pro- 
ponemus praeter nostram intensionem, quae est vel, benedicente 
et succurrente Des Opt. Max. malis hisce et miseriis mederi, 
omniaque, quae protervi et contumaces hostes crudelibus et impiis 
perpejtrarunt animis, ulcisci, Gentemque banc (hucusque invic- 
tam), a sordidis illis ignominiae labeculis et contaminantibus 
opprobriorum criminibus vindicare, vel vitae in susceptacaussa dis- 



have thought good should go accompanied with our letter, earnestly 
entreating, nay conjuring you, that if there be any piety towards 
God, love to your country, if any respect towards us, that without 
delay, or any intervening obstacle, you will as quickly as possible 
bestir yourselves, gird on your arms, and hasten with the utmost 
celerity for the relief of your brethren, afflicted, alas ! with so 
many miseries, and that you may avenge their blood, most un- 
mercifully shed in divers corners of the land, besides also the 
multitude of those who are breathing out their last breath in dire 
captivity for hunger, and of others in towns and villages who are 
every day fainting for want of bread and daily food. These 
things, we are sure, will greatly affect your hearts so that you 
will speedily and effectually render help. We will therefore lay 
nothing further before you to be pondered in your minds, except 
our own resolution, which is, either by the favour and help of 
Almighty God to heal these evils and miseries, and to revenge all 
that these knavish and obstinate adversaries have, with cruel and 
impious minds, perpetrated ; and to vindicate this nation (hitherto 
unconquered) from these wretched stains of ignominy, and defiling 
scandals of reproach, or to suffer the loss of life in the cause we 
have undertaken; nor would we survive the destruction of our 



pp. 275-276] THE MACKINTOSHES 317 

pendium pati, nee Populi nostri cladibus superstites esse quorum 
tuendorum gratia, tot animas (si nobis essent) quot Subditos [A»/'^^] 
libentissime oppignorare vellemus. Persuademur itaque, cer- 
tique sumus, vos uullatenus ofliciis defecturos, sed, omni animi 
hilaritate, in vestrae Religionis, Patriae, Regis, proprii Honoris, 
Uxoruni,Liberoruni, Libertatum, propugnaculum, animas vestras 
immolaturos, nee non, Majoribus vestris dignos futuros, iisque, 
vos, in Virtutum et Honorum studio, et in Patria defendenda, 
qukm simillimos prsestituros. Nos, igitur, (unumquemque 
vestri, quinam primus, sese, in hostium conspectu ostenderit, 
eertaturum sperantes) hoe quoque fruiniur eomitatu. Sterlinum 
profieiseimur (ibi enim indubitanter sequens futurus est con- 
gressus), atque illie (usque quo vos in nostrum veniatis sub- 
sidium), vel feroees hostium impetus sustinere, vel morti 
oecumbere, parati erimus, sique, parvum hune, quo comitamur, 
numerum (ob vestram nobis suecurrendis tarditatem) majori 
expugnari, contingat, perpetua vobis inuretur infamise macula 
vos (efflagitante etiam vestro Rege unk eum suo Parliamento), 
in, fratrum vestrorum (nune ab hostibus eversorum) auxilium 
non eitiori accelerasse gradu. Verum enim vero, fidelitatem 
vestram, obsequium et diiigentissimum nobis parendi studium, 

people, for the sake of whose defence we are willing most freely 
to pledge as many lives (if we had them) as we have subjects. 
We are persuaded therefore, and assured, that you will in nowise 
be wanting in your duties, but with all cheerfulness of heart will 
sacrifice your lives in defence of your religion, country, king, your 
own honour, your wives, children, liberties, and will show that 
you are worthy of your forefathers, and like to them in their love 
of virtue and honour, and in defending their own country. We, 
therefore (hoping that every one of you will strive who shall first 
show himself in sight of the enemy), are advancing to Stirling with 
the force we already liave (for there undoubtedly the next assault 
will be), and there (until you come to our help) we shall be ready to 
sustain the fierce attacks of the enemy, or to fall in death ; and if it 
should happen that the small number by which we are accompanied 
should be defeated by a greater (on account of your slowness to 
succour us) the perpetual stain of infamy shall be branded upon 
you, that (when earnestly called upon even by your own king, with 
his Parliament) you did not hasten with a quicker step to the aid 
of your brethren (now overthrown by enemies). But yet, judging 
your loyalty, obedience, and most earnest desire to appear for us. 



318 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

extra omnem dubitationis aleam posita existimantes, vobis vale- 
dicimus. Datum ab Aula nostra Perthensi 24 Die Decembris 
A.D. 1650, Regnique nostri Anno 2^°. 

Makintoshius, recepta hac Epistola, omnem quam potuit, 
commisso sibi officio diligentissime fungendi navavit operam. 
Ad amicos et consanguineos scripsit, variosque cum iisdem 
observavit conventus, firmissime secum determinans vei jamjam 
vel nunquam se, suam, pro, Regis Patriseque caussa, potentiam 
manifestaturum. Verum adhibitam lusit operam. Quippe sub 
hoc tempus duae circa Regem erant factiones. Una, Duci 
Hamiltonio, ab'a, Argatheliae Marehioni favebat. Utraque, 
Regi benevolentiam et studium profitebatur. Prior tamen 
fideliori erga Regem erat animo. Argathelia; Marchio omni 
nitilur conamine, quo, suae factionis hominibus, exercitus tunc 
evocandi Regimen concedere posset, cumque, Makintoshium, 
permagnoe Tribus et complurium sectatorum virum, Regiaeque 
caussas omnino faventem, satis compertum haberet, ut, eum, 
rebus Regiis ullatenus promovendis inutilem redderet, omni, in 
8U08 amicos, et Nominis Catanei sectatores, jure privare, callide 
allaboravit, atque in hunc finem (cilim unicuique Tribus 
Principe, in Montanis et Septentrionalibus Scotiae partibus, 

to be put beyond the hazard of doubt^ we bid you farewell. 
Given at our court at Perth, the 24th of December 1650, and of 
our reign the second year.* 

On receiving this letter Mackintosh made all the effort he 
could to execute the charge committed to him with the utmost 
diligence. He wrote to his friends and kinsmen, held several 
meetings with them, being most firmly determined that now or 
never he would make manifest his power for the cause of his 
king and country. But the labour was spent in vain : because at 
this time there were two factions about the king, the one 
favoured the Duke of Hamilton, the other the Marquis of Argyll. 
Both professed goodwill and zeal for the king. The former, how- 
ever, was the more faithful towards him. Argyll strove by every 
means possible that the command of the army then being mus- 
tered should be given to the men of his party ; and as he well 
knew that Mackintosh was a man of a large clan, and had very 
many followers, and wholly favourable to the royal cause, he 
laboured craftily to render him altogether useless for promoting 
the king's affairs, by depriving him of all right to lead his friends 
and followers of the Chattan name ; and to that end (as it was 
granted to every chief of a clan in the Highlands and northern 



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pp. 276-277] THE MACKINTOSHES 319 

sui Nominis Populum et amicos producere et regere fuerat con- 
cessum) Argatheliae Marchio, qui, specialem, in hoc excitan- 
dorum militum acto describendo, exercuit manum, Makintoshii, 
qu& alicujus Tribus Principis, Nomen praetermitti eflecit. 
Verum (ne egregia haec fraus perciperetur), eum, tanquam 
unum ex Badienochensibus Praefectis, memorat, mandans, sc. 
Dominum a Lochield, Dugallum M^Pherson, Makintoshium, 
aut ejus fratrem Lauchlanum, Populum Badenochensem pro- 
ducere. Veruntamen, in ipsissimo hoc temporis articulo, 
Actum Dominum Makintosh (licet suae Tribus Genearcham, et [p^v^^-] 
illius Populi Caput), ab iisdem ullatenus curandis, secludens, 
comparat Arg. Marchio, Populique Badenochensis gubema- 
culum, Jacobo Menesio Chiliarchae et praememorato Dugallo 
(famulis suis et clientibus) concessit. Insuper, etiam, aliud 
procurat Actum 30 Januarii Die Anno 1651 datum, quo 
Dominus a Grant, omnibus, intra priscam Morraviae Comitis 
divisionem, Peditibus praeesse mandabatur (ipse enim Morraviae 
Comes tunc temporis, suo in campis officio defungendi inidoneus 
erat). Atque hi Pedites, Makintoshii (ex Tribu, sc. CataneS) 
Consanguinei erant et Cognati. Hac itaque ratione, non modd, 
Nominis Catanei Regimen, a Makintoshio (legitimo eorum 

parts of Scotland to lead forth and command the people of his 
own name)^ the Marquis of Argyll^ who had a special hand in 
drawing the act of calling out the troops^ caused the name of 
Mackintosh^ as chief of any clan, to be passed over. But (lest this 
egregious fraud should be perceived) he mentioned him as one 
of the Badenoch chiefs, charging, that is to say, the laird of 
Lochiel, Dougall Macpherson, Mackintosh, or his brother Lauchlan, 
to lead forth the people of Badenoch. But yet, at the very same 
point of time, he prepared an act, secluding the laird of Mack- 
intosh (although head of his own clan, and chief of that people) 
from having anything to do with them, and gave the command 
of the Badenoch people to Colonel James Menzies, and the afore- 
mentioned Dougall (his own servants and vassals). Further, he 
procured another act, dated SOth January 1651, whereby it was 
ordained, that the laird of Grant should be put in command of 
all the footmen within the old division of the Earl of Moray 
(for the earl himself was not then able for doing duty in the 
field) ; but these footmen were the kinsmen and near relatives 
of Mackintosh (that is, of the Clanchattan). On this account, 
therefore, not only was the command of the Chattan clan craflily 
and stealthily taken away from Mackintosh (their lawful chief). 



320 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

Principe) subdole et furtim abreptum est, sed, valido et fideli 
Populo bipartite, et ab invicem segregate, debitis suis, erga 
Regem ofiiciis prsestandis impar reddebatiir. Makintoshius, 
sese, tanta aspersum fuisse macula, comperiens, ingenti angus- 
tiarum Pelago vexatus jactabatur animus, quanam ad eandem 
detergendam, uteretur methodo. Quippe tunc temporis omnia 
penes partem, ipsi injurias et damna inferentem, erant. Verum, 
cum ilie, in Regiam, corpore elanguescens tum proficisci non 
poterat, duas Epistolas, unam Regi, aliam vero Optimatum 
Conventui scribendas curavit, quibus, quanto doloris onere 
premebatur animus, propterea quod ipse, inter omnes alios 
Familiarum Principes, solus, suae Tribus conductu et guber- 
naculo privatus fuerat, declaravit, ideoque supplicissime efflagi- 
tabat ut, ilium, in eadem cum reliquis sorte collocare dignar- 
entur. Verum, cum utraque, in Marchionis Argatheliae manus 
primo incideret, intradita conservabatur, et, hac vice, Makin- 
toshius, benevoli sui et fi delis erga Regem animi (adversante, 
Argatheliae Marchionis, aliorumque suae factionis hominum 
infidelitate), nulla, in propatulo, exercere testimonia valuit. 
Tandem Strategus Midltonus, ut, exercituum evocationem 
acceleraret, Invernessam accedens, cum, injuriis et detrimentis, 
quibus, Dominus Makintosh gravabatur, compertum habuisset, 

but an able and loyal people were divided into two parts^ the 
one separated from the other, and so were rendered unable to do 
their duty to the king. Mackintosh, finding himself aspersed with 
such a mark of dishonour, his troubled soul was tossed in a 
vast sea of difficulties, as to what method he should use to wipe 
it off. Because at that time the party that inflicted the wrongs and 
losses upon him was swaying almost all affairs. But as he was 
unable, by reason of bodily weakness, to go to court, he wrote 
two letters, one to the king, and the other to the Convention of 
Estates, in which he declared how greatly he was grieved that 
he alone of all the other chieftains was deprived of leading and 
commanding his own clan ; and therefore he most humbly craved 
that they would condescend to put him in the same position 
as the rest. But, as both letters came first into Argyll's hands, 
he kept them back undelivered, and so, in this instance. Mackin- 
tosh could not openly give proof of his affection and loyalty towards 
the king, while the treachery of the Marquis of Argyll and of the 
rest of his faction stood in the way. At length, General Middle- 
ton coming to Inverness, to hasten the calling out of the army, 
when he found out the wrongs and hindrances wherewith the 
laird of Mackintosh was oppressed, gave to him a declaration 



pp. 277-278] THE MACKINTOSHES 821 

illi, declarationem suis obsignatum manibus bisce verbis con- 
cessit. QuAKDOQUiDEM DuperuDi Optimatum Edictum in 
Marchionis Argatheliae favorem, ad Clanchattanos Badenoch- 
enses evocandos, aliudque, quo, Dominus a Grant, Nominis 
Clanchattani residuum, intra Invemessensem Satrapiam,excitare 
praecipitur, emissum sit, et quatenus Makintoshius ejusdem 
Tribus Princeps et Genearcha, luculenta satis, suae diligentiae, 
animique, in singulis suis amicis et sectatoribus, ad instantem 
evocationem, excitandis, propensissimi, ediderit testimonia, 
Regiaeque Epistolse sibi in hunc finem missae, debitam praestare 
libentissime voluerat obedientiam, nee tamen (nisi recentiora 
violando Statuto) ardentissimum animi sui desiderium exequi 
poterat, ideo, Makintoshium (etsi eas non contulerat suppetias, 
quae, si eadem, qua alii Tribuum Duces, in sui Nominis 
Populum, donaretur autboritate, expectandae essent) merito 
inculpabilem in hac re indicandum esse declaro. Haec Declar- 
atio data est Mense Martio 1651. 

In hac expeditione, Clanchattanorum ducatus et gubema- Ipo^regrs.] 
culum extemis concedendo, Argatheliae Marchio suum adim 
plevit propositum. Quippe, qui eorum Rectores fuerant con- 
stituti, recepta pro validioribus pecunia, abjectissimos quosque, 

signed with his own hand, in these words : ' Whereas a late 
edict of the estates was sent out in favour of the Marquis of 
Argyll, for calling out the Clanchattans of Badenoch, and 
another, by which the laird of Grant was ordered to raise 
the residue of the name of Clanchattan within the province of 
Inverness ; and for as much as Mackintosh, the chief and head of 
that clan, has given sufficiently clear testimony of his diligence 
and heartiness in stirring up every one of his friends and followers 
for this present levy, and has with the utmost willingness given 
due obedience to the king's letter sent to him to that effect, yet 
could he not (without violating the more recent statute) follow 
out the most ardent desire of his mind, therefore I declare him 
deservedly to be accounted blameless in this matter, although 
he should not afford those aids which might be expected if he 
had been invested with the same authority over the people of his 
name as the other chiefs of clans were/ This declaration is 
dated in the month of March 1651. 

In this expedition the leadership and command of the Clan- 
chattans having been given to strangers, the Marquis of Argyll 
gained his purpose. For those who were appointed their officers, 
taking money for the abler men, chose the most worthless to 



322 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

ad militum officia subeunda, adoptarunt, quod, si, sub legitimi 
Capitis sui auspiciis prodirent, minime fieret. 

Makintoshius, durante toto Anglicanae Usurpationis tem- 
pore, in eadem (non obstante ingeniorum divortio) usque erga 
Regem perstitit constantia et fidelitate, quod etiam, quibusdani 
«x Anglicanis Ducibus, hostium ejus Clanchameronorum partem 
in Lochabriensibus asserendi ansam administravit. Moderan- 
tibus adhuc rerum fraena Usurpatoribus, campestribus oflficiis 
exequendis (ob corporis infirmitatem) impar erat. Tria tamen 
exigua Clanchattanorum agmina, cum Comite Glencairnensi et 
Midltono Stratego (dum pro Rege starent) continuo mansere, 
unum, viz. a Marria, sub Gulielmi Farquharsoni ab Inverey 
prsesidio, aliud e Badenochia, sub Lauchlani Makintoshii 
(Jamesoni) auspiciis. Tertium vero a Strathemia et Strath- 
nernia, Ductore Jacobo Makintoshio Donaidsono, atque hi 
Regiis negotiis indeclinata adhaesere constantia, etsi valida 
Anglorum praesidia, in Marriu, Badenochia et Invernessa, imo, 
usquequaque, eo viguere tempore. 

Hic Gulielmus D. a Makintosh vir erat insigni pietate, actis 
Justus et sequus, promissi tenax, fidemque (ut cum Poeta 

undergo the military service, which would not have happened 
if they had been led out under the command of their lawful 
chief. 

During the whole time of the English usurpation^ Mackintosh 
(notwithstanding the division of opinions) persisted in the same 
constancy and loyalty towards the king, which also gave occasion 
to some of the English commanders to take the part of his 
enemies^ the Clan Cameron, in the affairs of Lochaber. While 
the usurpers held the bridle of government, he was unable 
because of bodily infirmity to do duty in the field. Three small 
companies, however, of the Clanchattan remained continually 
with the Earl of Glencairn and General Middleton (while they 
stood for the kin^) : one, that is to say, from Mar, under the 
command of William Farquharson of Inverey; another from 
Badenoch, under the leadership of Lauchlan Mackintosh (James's 
son) ; a third from Stratheme and Strathnaim, with James 
Mackintosh, Donald's son, as their leader; and these adhered 
to the royal interest, with unwavering constancy, notwithstanding 
that powerful garrisons of the English were at that time in Mar, 
Badenoch, and Inverness, yea everywhere. 

This William laird of Mackintosh was a man of eminent piety, 
just and equal in his doings, tenacious of his promise, and (as I 



p. 278] THE MACKINTOSHES 823 

loquar) indocilis temerare pactam, vita honestus, et moribus 
probis. Initam semel amicitiam solido coluit animo, corpore 
infirmo et valetudinario, atto tamen et ingenti animo, qui, 
vigesimo secundo Novembris Die 1660 (quo Carolus Secundus 
suo Regno est restauratus) quadragesimo aetatis Anno, corrup- 
tibilem corporis sarcinam deposuit, atque in Templo Pettiensi 
cum suis Majoribus in eodem reconditus est monumento. 

Lauchlakus, Secundus Domini Lauchlani filius, Marischal- 
anam Abredoniae Academiam adivit Anno 1632, ubi, rei 
Philosophicse triennii spatio operam dedit. Regressu inde 
facto, assiduis, bonarum literarum studiis suum intendit 
animum usque quo f rater ejus Dominus Makintosh copulam 
iniit Matrimonialem. Hoc vero tempore, inter Regem eosque 
ex suis Subditis, qui Foederati dicebantur, exortis Civilis Belli 
tumultibus, cum ipse D. Makintosh (obstante, viz. corporis 
infirmitate, tantum operse et laboris, quantum, suarum rerum 
angustiis et variis perplexitatibus rite et ad amussim disponen- 
dis sufliceret, adhibere nequiret) bic firmo animi consilio inito, 
omnibus rerum molestiis sustinendis suos humeros substituere 
determinat, quo ipsius frater, infirmus puta, et parum prospeni 
valetudine (nebulosis hisce tempestatibus), majori cum libertate, 

may say with the poet) untaught to violate his plighted troth ; 
honourable in his life^ and of good manners: friendship once 
formed he cherished with steadfast heart ; with a weak and sickly 
body, he yet had a lofty and great mind. He laid down the 
corruptible burden of his body on the 22nd of November I66O 
(in which year Charles the Second was restored to his kingdom)^ 
in the fortieth year of his age^ and was buried in the church of 
Petty^ in the same tomb with his ancestors. 

Lauchlan^ second son of Sir Lauchlan^ went^ in 1632, to Mari- 
schal College at Aberdeen^ where he gave himself to the study 
of philosophy for the space of three years. On his return from 
thence, he applied his mind assiduously to the study of letters, 
until his brother the laird of Mackintosh married. But at that 
time, the tumult of civil war having arisen between the king and 
those of his subjects who were called Covenanters^ seeing that the 
laird of Mackintosh himself, by reason of bodily weakness^ was not 
able to give so much labour as would suffice for rightly settling 
according to rule the difficulties and varied perplexities of his 
affairs, Lauchlan resolved, with firm purpose of mind, to bear upon 
his own shoulders all the trouble of these affairs, whereby his 
infirm brother, with little favourable health, might (in these dark 



824 GENEALOGICAL COLLECnONS [vol. i 

animique tranquillitate, et quiete, suis perfrueretur avocamentis. 
Prosperitate itaque Domus et Familiae Makintoshise, pri vatis suis 
commodis praelata, res fraternas, turn in Septentrionalibus, 
turn in Australibus Scoticanis partibus, tanta cum fidelitate et 
pa/re f79.] diligenti^, tAmque exili sibi ipsi utilitate, et, coram Mundo, 
Gloria, gessit, ut, laboris adhibiti minimc pudore teneretur. 

Anno 1562, et Nobilibus et Generosis Invemessfle vicecomi- 
tatus, Anglicanse Gentis Del^atos Delkethae convenire jussus, 
priusquam, Chartulae isti aut Declarationi (genuino nostro 
sermone) vulgo the Tender dictae, (qua, quisque subscribens, 
Regi et Optimatibus renunciare tenebatur) suam adhiberet 
manum, munere admodum lucrativo, sc. Invemessse vice- 
Comitat(is, nee non Ecclesiastico, vulgo Commissarii, abnuit ac 
sprevit. Quotquot enim eo tempore Satrapiarum Delegati 
erant, ab Anglis, in gratitudinis tesseram et testimonium, 
talibus, intra suas ditiones, donabantur ofiiciis. Ille vero, etsi, 
Dalkethae utque, suae Commissionis exequendse gratia, proces- 
sent, audito tamen et pro comperto habito, sese, prsdictam 
Chartam sua obsignare manu oportuisse, antequam Delegatus 
admitteretur, patefacto primum, iis, qui, eum delegarunt^ 

and stormy times) with greater freedom^ quietness^ and tranquillity 
of mind^ enjoy his pursuits. Preferring, therefore, the prosperity 
of the house and family of Mackintosh to his own private advan- 
tage, he managed his brother's affairs, as well in the north as in 
the south parts of Scotland, with so great fidelity and diligence, 
and with so little profit to himself, and ostentation before the 
world, that he had no need to be ashamed of the labour he had 
undergone. 

In the year l652, having been commissioned by the nobles and 
gentlemen of Inverness-shire to meet the delegates of the English 
nation at Dalkeith, before he would put his hand to that paper or 
declaration, commonly called in our speech the Tender, by which 
every one subscribing was bound to renounce the king and the 
Estates of Parliament, he refused and spumed the very lucrative 
gift of the office of sheriff and commissary of Inverness-shire. For 
as many as were delegates of the shires at that time were invested 
by the English, as a mark and testimony of gratitude, with such 
offices as were in their gift. But he, although he proceeded to 
Dalkeith for the sake of executing his commission, yet on hearing 
and knowing for certain that it behoved him to sign with his 
hand the aforesaid paper'before he would be admitted as delegate, 
having first made known his mind to those who had sent him, he 



pp. 278-279] THE MACKINTOSHES 326 

animo, ulterius, in hac re progredi respuit, et, in ejus vicem, 
alius Delegatus est surrogatus. Quocirca, Usurpatoribus 
deinceps jugiter contemptui habebatur. 

Durante primo (statim a fratris obitu) sexennio, tenelli sui 
Nepotis et Genearchae res (prsesertim, eas cum Clanchameronis, 
quam plurimis angustiis et diflicultatibus implicatissimas, 
curandas et gubemandas suscipere, magnam negotiorum 
fecit partem, quas, tandem, in summum Makintoshii, tum 
honorem, tum commodum, per varies casus, per tot discrimina 
rerum, post varias, oppositionum, anxietatum, et id genus 
aliarum molestianum perpessas tempestates) in placidam tran- 
quillae serenitatis composuram redegit. Quod, ex sequenti 
Capite, cuilibet manifestissimum reddetur. 

Anxo 1661 hie, a Conventu Regni Ordinum unus ex Regis 
Ironarchis, eorumque Publicorum yulg6 ExcyfT dictorum 
Qusestoribus intra Invernessse Vicecomitatum est constitutus. 

i£x£As, Tertius Domini Lauchlani filius. Anno 1616, in 
lucem editus est, et erat, mitis, placidae et probae indolis vir, 
pacificus et minime factiosus. Hie, Anno 1659, jus haeredi- 
tarium, in agros vulg6 Daviot vocatos, obtinuit. 

refused to proceed further in that business, and another was 
appointed delegate in his stead. On which account he was ever 
afterwards held in dislike by the usurpers. 

During the first six years immediately after the death of his 
brother, he made it a great part of his business to attend to and 
manage the affairs of his young nephew and chief (which were 
greatly involved in many straits and difficulties, especially those 
relating to the Clan Cameron), which at length, through diverse 
events, and many changes of affairs, afler enduring various storms 
of opposition, anxieties and other troubles of that sort, he reduced 
to a placid composure of tranquil serenity, as well to the honour 
as to the advantage of Mackintosh, which, in the following chapter, 
will be made veir manifest to every one. 

In the year I56l, this Lauchlan was appointed by the Conven- 
tion of the Estates of the Kingdom one of the king's justices of 
the peace, and a commissioner of excise of the shire of Inverness. 

Angus, the third son of Sir Lauchlan, was bom in the year 1616, 
and was a man of a meek, placid, and good disposition ; peaceable 
and not factious. In the year l659, he got the heritable right to 
the lands of Daviot. 



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De Lauchlano Domino Mackin- 
tosh XX. 

Lauchlaxus Makixtosh, Annos 21 et 6 Hebdomadas natus, 
patri Gulielmo successit. 

In Scholis Invemessse et Elginae literas humaniores edoctus 
est. Primo biennio, rei Philosophical in Academia Regia 
Abredonensi, postea vero in Gymnasio Leonardino Andreapoli- 
pa^etso.] tano, operam navavit, et duodecimo Die Septembris, Anno 
16679 cum Magdalena Lindesay, unica Domini ab Edgell filia, 
connubii foedus iniit, ex qua suscepit. 



Obs. Chron. 

Is rerum suarum status (in primo ejus cum iisdem agressu) 
plurimis involvebatur perplexitatibus. Praeter enim portiones 
illas, quae vel depignoratae erant, vel quas per vim detinuere 
Clanchameroni, vix quinta rei famiiiaris pars, in proprios usus 
collocanda, reliqua erat. In Scholis etiam constanter, paucis, 

Of Lauchlan the twentieth Laird of 
Mackintosh. 

Lauchlan Mackintosh succeeded to his father^ William^ at the 
age of twenty-one years and six weeks. 

He was educated in humanity at the schools of Inverness and 
Elgin ; and at King's College^ Aberdeen, he studied philosophy 
for the first two years, but thereafter at St. Leonard's College^ in 
St. Andrews. 

On the 12th of September l667 he married Margaret Lindsay, 
only daughter of the laird of Edzell. 

Chronological Observations. 

The state of his affairs, on his first entry thereto, was involved 
in many perplexities. For besides those portions of his estate 
which were either wadset or forcibly detained by the Clan 
Cameron, there was hardly a fifth part left to be employed for 
his own use. For some years immediately before his father's 



pp. 279.280] THE MACKINTOSHES 827 

statim ante patris decessum, Annis, versabatur, quod caussse 
erat cur, in initio, rerum suarum conditionis aliquantulum 
esset inexpertus, ideoque, usque quo, majorem, in suis negotiis 
regendis, perspicaciam haberet, rerum suarum curam, pondus et 
gubemaculum, in praememoratum patruum suum I^ucblanum, 
utpote (quibus in angustiis prsesens tenebatur rerum status) 
usu peritiorem et consultiorem, devolvere coactus est. 

Patre Makintoshio, Mense Novembri, Anno 1660, (ut 
dictum est) defuncto, subsequenti Januario, Pariiamentum 
Edinburgi habitum est, in quo Comes a Midltown Regis 
Delegatus erat. Makintoshius, arreptS hac opportunitatis 
ansa, et patefacta sua (summa, qua potuit, diligenta) Membris 
Comitiariis, caussa, de immensis & gravissimis pressuris, quas, a 
Clanchameronis, agros ejus de Glenluy & Loehairkagg, injusta 
ct nefaria violentia possidentibus, sustinuit, conqueritur. 
Verum tumultuosae illius temporis discordiae, et undique 
vigentia litigia, Makintoshii proposito et consih'o magnse 
fuerunt morse et impedimento. Parliamentum hoc, in duas 
factiones (M ideltonianam, Landordelianam, ita, a Capitibus suis, 
viz. Comite a Midletown tunc Regis Delagato, et Coniite Lander- 
doliae, qui Regis a Secretis erat, appellatas) distribuebatur. 

decease^ he was constantly employed at school, which was the 
occasion of his being at first somewhat unacquainted with the 
condition of his affairs^ and therefore until he should have better 
judgment for regulating his own matters^ he was forced to devolve 
the burden and control thereof upon his aforementioned uncle, 
Lauchlan, as more experienced and skilful to deal with the 
difficulties in which his estate then was. 

Mackintosh his father having died^ as stated, in the month of 
November I66O, a Parliament was held at Edinburgh in Januar}' 
following, in which the Earl of Middleton was the king's commis- 
sioner. Mackintosh, taking occasion of this opportunity, made 
known his case (with all the diligence he could) to the members 
of Parliament, and complained of the great and heavy wrongs he 
sustained from the Clan Cameron, who were possessing, with 
unjust and nefarious violence, his lands of Glenluy and Loch- 
arkaig. But the tumultuous discords of that period, and the 
litigations springing up on every side, were a great delay and 
hindrance to the purpose of Mackintosh. This Parliament was 
divided into two factions, the Middletonian and the Lauder- 
dalian, so called from their heads, namely, the Earl of Middleton, 
then the king's commissioner, and the Earl of Lauderdale, who 
was the king's secretary. 



328 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

Hac tempestate, Argatbelise Marchio, in arce Edinburgena 
incarcerabatur, cui favebat Landerliana factio. Sed, alia prs^ 
valente factione, Laesse Majestatis reus tenebatur, atque 27 
Maii in Foro Edinburgeno detxuncatus. 

Ev£Nus Cameron a Lochield (Makintosbii Antagonista), 
cum, Argatheliae Marchionem (cujus familia ille cum suis freti 
dependerunt) vitd privatum fuisse, atque Lauderdelianam fac- 
tionem brevi cessuram, compertum haberet, ad Midltonum, 
ejusque factionem (ut ibi tutus lateret), confugit. At, ut, suae, in 
hac re, sinceritatis specimen ederet, inter eorum primuserat, 
qui, Petitionem (qua, Dominus a Lorn, ne patemS frueretur re 
familiari, impediebatur) Regiae Majestati representatem, ob- 
[page £81,] signarunt. Quapropter Comes Midltonensis, ejus Caussam 
tenaciter asseruit, atque omni usus est Methodo, omnique, quae 
potuit, interposuit obstacula ne Makintosbii Petitio propalam 
legeretur. Quippe verebatur, audita semel Caussa; aequitate, 
Makintoshium, suam adversus Lochield intentionem adimple- 
turum. 

HAc ratione Makintosbii Caussa, magnam perpessa est 
moram. Tandem vero Mense Septembri 1661, ingeutem post 
oppositionem, ab adversa parte factam, opera, conamine et 

At this time the Marquis of Argyll, to whom the Lauderdale 
faction was favourable^ was imprisoned in the castle of Edin- 
burgh; but the other faction prevailing, he was held guilty of 
high treason, and on 27th May was beheaded at the Cross of 
Edinburgh. 

Ewen Cameron of Lochiel^ the adversary of Mackintosh, when 
he learned that the Marquis of Argyll (on whose family he and 
his people were dependent) was gone, and that the Lauderdale 
faction would in a little while give way, he betook himself to 
Middleton and his faction (that he might lurk there safely). But^ 
in order to give some semblance of sincerity in this matter, he 
was among the first of those who signed a petition which was 
presented to the king (by which the Lord Lorn was hindered from 
enjoying the paternal estate). Whereupon the Earl of Middleton 
firmly avouched his cause, and employed every method, and inter- 
posed every obstacle he could^ lest the petition of Mackintosh 
should be openly read. Because he was afraid that, if the equity 
of the cause was once heard^ Mackintosh would accomplish his 
purpose against Lochiel. On this account the cause of Mack- 
intosh suffered great delay. But at last, in the month of 
September 166} , after great opposition made by the adverse 



pp. 280-281] THE MACKINTOSHES 329 

studio Montis Rosarum Marchionis, Crafordiae Comitis (qui 
tunc, Parliamenti Praesidis vice) absente Cancellario (fortuito 
fungebatur) et Satrapae a Duffus cura, nervosum Decretum, 
quo Evenus Cameron a Lochield, omni jure in, Makintoshii 
agros Lochabrienses, sc. Glenluy et Lochairkagg, posthabito 
quocunque praetext^is fuco, se denudare et Makintoshio possi- 
dendos, sub S0,000 Mercarum pcena restituere, a Parliamento 
obtinuit. 

Progrediektibus ita rebus, Makintoshius, Commissionem 
contra Clanchameronos comparare nititur. Verum Comes 
Midltonus R^s Delegatus et Glencaimiae Comes (Cancel- 
larius) qui, ea tempestate, inter Clanchameronorum fautores 
praecipuus erat, in hoc, pariter, Makintoshio impense per 
biennium restiterunt, praetendentes, sc. hoc Regni tranquillitati 
et paci obstiturum, quod ille baud parvam creavit molestiam, 
nee minores exhausit sumptus. 

Anno vero 1663, Comite Midltona a titulo semoto, et 
Comite a Rothes in illius vicem delegato constituto, denuo, 
recentem, ad commissionem adversus Clanchameronos adipis- 
cendam, Makintoshius facit recursum, cui, tandem, Cancel- 
larius obstitit. Sed tandem aliquando, mediante Caussae 

party, by the labour, effort, and zeal of the Marquis of Montrose, 
and the care of the Earl of Crawfurd (who was then, in the 
Chancellor's absence, Vice-President of Parliament) and of Lord 
Duffus, he obtained from the Parliament a strong decree, whereby 
Ewen Cameron of Lochiel was ordained to denude himself of 
whatever right he could pretend to the lands of Mackintosh, that 
is to say, Glenluy and Locharkaig, and to restore the possession 
thereof to Mackintosh under penalty of 20,000 merks. 

His affairs having thus advanced, Mackintosh endeavoured to 
procure a commission against the Clan Cameron. But the Earl 
of Middleton, the king's commissioner, and the Earl of Glencaim^ 
Chancellor, who at that time were among the chief favourers of 
the Clan Cameron, earnestly withstood Mackintosh in this matter 
also, for two years, pretending that it would obstruct the tran- 
quillity and peace of the kingdom, which caused him no small 
trouble, and consumed no less expense. 

But in the year l663, the Earl of Middleton having been 
removed from office, and the Earl of Rothes appointed commis- 
sioner in his stead. Mackintosh again made a fresh attempt to 
obtain a commission against the Clan Cameron, but the Chancellor 
again withstood him. But at length, in the same year^ by the 



830 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

aequi tortas et nobilium amicorum (inter quos baud parvas 
meruit gratias Lauderdeliae Comes) intercedente cura et opera, 
adversus Clanchameronos, eorumque asseclas, amplissimam, 
igni ferroque vastandi commissionem, et literas, hospitia et 
commercia inhibentes, nee non, quatuor vicecomitatuum, 
Nomensis, so. Rossensis, Invernessensis et Perthensis, auxilium 
suppetiasque concedentes, a Dominis Secreti Concilii eodem 
Anno obtinuit, cujus tamen executio, propter subsequentes 
caussas, in Menses Augustum et Septembrem Anni 1665 est 
dilata. 

Makintoshius, hac, magnis cum perplexitatibus commissione 
adepta, in praedictorum Vicecomitatum Foris promulgandam 
curavit, et, proximo in eunte Vere, Nobiles omnes et Generosos 
illorum Vicecomitatuum, nee non alios, quos, sibi suaeque 
Caussas favere non dubitabat, sollicitis efflagitare precibus 
ipse sedulo aggreditur, atque omnibus submissi animi judiciis, 
adjutrices (auxiliatrices) eorum suppetias in se conferri suppli- 
cavit. At, quoniam, pro temporis brevitate et, rerum urgente 
necessitate, in Perthae Vicecomitatum proficisci tunc illi non 
licuit, serias et, ponderosis rationum momentis oneratas, ad 
Comitem Atholiensem ej usque Clientes, literas scribendas 
curavit. Verum vchementes illi us rogatus et seria postulata 

justness of his cause, and the care and effort of his noble friends 
(amongst whom the Earl of Lauderdale deserved no small thanks), 
he obtained from the Lords of Privy Council a most ample com- 
mission of fire and sword against the Clan Cameron and their 
retainers, and letters of intercommuning^ granting also the help 
and support of four sheriffdoms, namely, Nairn, Ross, Inverness, 
and Perth, the execution of which was, on account of the causes 
following, delayed to the months of August and September of the 
year 1665. 

Having, with great difficulty, obtained this commission. Mack- 
intosh caused it to be promulgated at the market crosses of the 
aforesaid shires, and early next spring he himself went to all the 
nobles and gentlemen of these shires, and to others whom he 
doubted not to be favourable to himself and his cause, and with 
all the tokens of a humble mind, besought their assistance. But, 
because on account of the shortness of the time, and the urgency 
of affairs, he could not then go to Perthshire, he caused serious 
letters, charged with weighty reasons, to be written to the Earl 
of Atholl and his vassals. But the vehement requests and serious 
demands vanished into thin air ; for every one, the nobles as well 



pp. 281-282] THE MACKINTOSHES 331 

tenues evanuere in auras. Quippe singuli eorum Destrictuum, 
turn Nobiles, turn Grenerosi (demptis illis ex Nomine Cataneo IP^?^ ^'^-•1 
illic forte degentibus), nullo habito, vel consanguinitatis, 
affinitatis, amicitise, meritorum, caussae sequitatis, vel Hegia^ 
commissionis respectu aut ratione, simpliciter suum denegarunt 
subsidium. Im6, quidam, Makintoshio sanguinis conjuncti 
vinculis (in quorum Majores Domini a Makintosh baud sper- 
nenda contulerunt beneficia, ut, ex prsecedente commentariola 
perspicuum est), arcanfi fraude, illi maxime resistebant. 

Pbimi et prsecipui eorum, qui, suas suppetias et subsidia 
(etiamsi, huic prsestando Concilii Decretis obnoxii) abnegarunt, 
fuerant hi, Comites Atholiae et Seaforthae, Dynastes a Lovat, 
Domini a Calder, Balnagown, Fowls, Kilravok, Domini a 
Grant Tutor (et patruus) Park, Georgius Monro a Caleaim 
Miles, Chisolmus Comriae, Titularis a Keppoch Tutor Guliel- 
mus Bailly a Dunain, et Invemessse oppidi Prsefectus etc. 

Omnes hi Nobiles et Generosi cum omnibus suis Familiis, 
Tribubus, Sectatoribus et Clientibus (demptis quatuor privata^ 
sortis hominibus) Domino a Makintoshio, in maximis ipsius 
calamitatibus et extremis necessitatibus, suum tum auxilium, 
tum amicitiam subduxerunt. 

Immo, horum nonnuUi, viz. tutelaris Keppochiae Tutor et 

as the gentlemen of these districts (excepting those of the Chattan 
name that happened to dwell there) simply refused their help^ 
having no respect nor consideration either of kinship^ affinity, 
friendship^ merits, the equity of the cause, or of the royal com- 
mission ; yea, some who were joined to Mackintosh by the ties of 
blood, and on whose ancestors the lairds of Mackintosh had not 
spared to confer benefits (as is evident from the preceding notes) 
were, by hidden deceit, most opposed to him. 

The first and principal of those who refused to give their 
support and subsidies (although obliged to do so by decree of the 
Council) were these, the Earls of AthoU and Seaforth, the Lord 
Lovat, the lairds of Calder, Balnagown, Fo wlis, Kilravock, the 
tutor (and uncle) of the laird of Grant, the laird of Park, George 
Monro of Culcaim, knight, Chisholm of Comer, the titular tutor 
of Keppoch, William Baillie of Duncan, and the Provost of Inver- 
ness. All these nobles and gentlemen, with their families, clans, 
followers, and vassals (excepting four men of private rank) with- 
drew both their help and their friendship from the laird of Mack- 
intosh in his great distress and extreme necessity. Yea, some o^ 
these, namely, the titular tutor of Keppoch and the Frasers of 



332 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

Fraserii Stratharikenses, in propatulo, sese, adversus Makin- 
toshium, Clanchameronis adjunxerunt. Alii, nimirum, Comes 
ab Athol (etsi, in uni versa justitise administratione, Scotia? 
tunc temporis praeerat, et e Regis Consiliaris unus erat) et 
Domini a Calder et Kilravok, maxima cum contumelia in 
inhumanitate, quotquot ex Clanchattanis sub illis degebant, 
et cum Makintoshio Lochabriam adire volebant, graviter inter- 
minati sunt. Itidem Dominus Makenzie a Tarbat Miles R. 
non tantum ante comparatam, adversus Clanchameronos, com- 
missibnem, sese ingentem rebus Makintoshii antagonistam 
prsebuit, verum et deinceps etiam, expectatis a Makintoshio 
suppetiis non minori fuit obstaculo, quod fecit non ea ratione, 
qu&y plerique ex memoratis Generosis suum retraxerunt auxi- 
Hum (quippe, viz. sibi damnum illatum iri, et injurias a 
Clanchameronis prsedatoribus verebantur) sed quod ipse et 
Evenus Cameron a Lochield, eidem factioni (Midltonianae 
utpote) favebant. Grantei etiam et Fraserii, prosperae Clan- 
chattanorum claritati aemulantes, eorum damnum et dispendium 
avidis anhelebant animis. Quatuor duntaxat Generosi, suis 
Personis, Makintoshio, adversus Clanchameronos, subvenerunt 
(qui peregrini dicebantur), nempe, Johannes Grant a Rothe- 

Stratherrick, openly joined themselves to the Clan Cameron 
against Mackintosh ; others, that is to say^ the Earl of Atholl 
(although he was then Justice-General of Scotland and one of 
his Majesty's councillors) and the lairds of Calder and Kilravock 
harshly threatened such of the Clanchattan as lived under their 
rule, with the utmost contumely and barbarity, if they dared 
to go with Mackintosh into Lochaber. In like manner. Sir 
[George] Mackenzie of Tarbet not only showed himself a great 
antagonist to the interests of Mackintosh before the commission 
against the Clan Cameron was obtained, but also thereafter was 
not less an obstacle to the aid expected by Mackintosh, and this 
not on the same account as that on which the most of the gentle- 
men mentioned withdrew their help (because they were afraid 
that loss and injury would be inflicted upon themselves by the 
Clan Cameron robbers), but because he and Ewen Cameron of 
Lochiel belonged to the same faction, that of Middleton. The 
Grants also and the Erasers, envious of the prosperous renown of 
the Clanchattan, were striving with all their might for their hurt 
and detriment. Four gentlemen only, of those who were called 
strangers, came^ to the help of Mackintosh against the Clan Cameron, 
namely, John Grant of Rothemurchus (who had as his wife a 



pp. 282-283] THE MACKINTOSHES 883 

murchus (qui Gulielmi Makintosh a Kylachy filiam uxoreni 
habuit) Gidielmus Forbes a Skeleter (cui altera ejusdem filia 
conBorti data est) David Ros ab Urchny, et Johannes Camp- 
bell ab Auchindoun (qui, habito M arternae Familiae respectCi, 
Makintoshii Consanguinei erant), atque hi, tanta animi con- 
stantiS, quanta ullus Clanchattanorum, Makintoshio (durante 
septem Hepdomadum spatio, usque quo Lochabria regressum 
fecerat) adhseserunt. Neque minores ex inde Rothemurcho 
accrevere gratiae, Johannem Grant a Glenmoristown (ipsi 
Makintoshio consanguinitate propinquum), Clanchamronorum 
Caussam public^ sustinendam, et, nonnullos ex suo populo, iis 
adversus Makintoshium, succurrere destinandos curasse. Qui 
ex prsedictis Familiis, Makintoshio favisse (sed, ne iram Genear- 
chis suis commoverent) abstinuisse videbantur, erant Thomas 
Mackenzie a Pluscarden, Simon Makenzie a Lochslin cum filio [p^eiss.] 
Domino Georgio, Colinus Mackenzie a Redcastell, Colinus 
Mackenzie a Coulcowy, Rodericus Mackenzie a Davochmaluack, 
Robertus Grant ab Elchis, et Suetonius Grant a Gartinbeg. 

CoMiTis Morraviensis, in hac rerum Makintoshii periodo 
gestus hujus modi erat. Cum Evenus Cameron a Lochield, 
deserto Argathelise Comite, sese, Midltonianse factioni adjunx- 

daughter of William Mackintosh of Kylachy), William Forbes of 
Skelleter (married to another daughter of the same), David Ross of 
Urchany, and John Campbell of Auchindoun (who, in respect of 
their mothers family, were cousins of Mackintosh); and these 
adhered to Mackintosh with as much constancy' of mind as any 
of the Clanchattan (during the space of seven weeks until he 
returned from Lochaber). Nor did less thanks accrue to Rothe- 
murchus that John Grant of Glenraoriston (nearly related by 
consanguinity to Mackintosh himself) publicly supported the cause 
of the Clan Cameron, and took care to send some of his people to 
help them against Mackintosh. Those of the aforesaid families 
who seemed to favour Mackintosh, but held back lest they should 
incur the wrath of their chiefs, were Thomas Mackenzie of Plus- 
carden, Simon Mackenzie of Lochslin, with his son Sir George, 
Colin Mackenzie of Redcastle, Colin Mackenzie of Kilcoy, 
Roderick Mackenzie of Davochmaluack, Robert Grant of Elchies, 
and Sueton Grant of Gartinbeg. 

The conduct of the Earl of Moray in this juncture of Mackin- 
tosh's affairs was of this sort. When Ewen Cameron of Lochiel 
deserted the Earl of Argyll and joined the Middleton faction. 



334 GENEALOGICAL COLLECnONS [vol. I 

isset, statim Morravise Comes pro Makintoshio stare ccepit. 
Sed simulac Argatheliae Comes (propter cognitas sibi fines) 
Eveno Camron, novae incundae amicitiae ostium praebuisset, et, 
congruenter, ilium in favorem recepisset, Morraviae Comes, 
partim, Comitis Argatheliae intentionis, de, Makintoshii agris 
Lochabriensibus ipsi acquirendis, promovendae gratia, partim 
ver6, ne aliqua, suis de CataneS Tribu Clientibus, ex bello 
et Cameronos excitcuido, introduceretur perturbatio, a prima, 
erga Makintoshium benevolentia et promptitudine defecit. 
Imo, liovas, illi in Lochabriam proficiscenti, clanculum creavit 
molestias, et (ut poste fusius declarabitur) ejus illuc expedi- 
tionem, quantum potuit, restitit. Itidem Comes de Aboyn 
(Huntlei Tutor), Makintoshio, nunc favebat, nunc (verso in 
eontrarium animo) resistebat. Quamdiu enim Evenus Camron 
Midltoniam amplexus fuerat faetionem, Aboynus non, quantum 
auxilii sperabatur, in rebus Makintoshii Lochabriensibus ad 
optatum perducendis, metam, contulit, quod, multos, ingentes 
illas ignominiarum maculas, Familiae, Huntlei, ab Eveni 
Cameron Majoribus aliisque suae Tribus baud antea diu 
inustas, considerantes (trucidationem puta 



the Earl of Moray began forthwith to stand up for Mackintosh. 
But as soon as the Earl of Argyll (for ends known to himself) had 
afforded to Ewen Cameron a door of entry to renewed friendship, 
and had accordingly taken him into favour, the Earl of Moray, 
partly for the sake of promoting Argyll's purpose of acquiring the 
Lochaber lands of Mackintosh to himself, but partly lest disturb- 
ance should be brought among his own vassals of the Clanchattan 
by war arising between them and the Camerons, fell away from his 
former good-will and promptitude towards Mackintosh : yea, he 
secretly created new troubles against him on his departing into 
Lochaber (as shall be more amply shown afterwards) and resisted 
his expedition thither as much as he could. 

The Earl of Aboyne (tutor of Huntly), in like manner, was at 
one time favourable to Mackintosh, and at another (having changed 
his mind) was against him. For so long as Ewen Cameron em- 
braced the Middleton faction^ Aboyne did not affonl so much 
help as was expected in advancing the affairs of Mackintosh in 
Lochaber to the desired end, which touched many with no small 
wonder, considering the great marks of ignominy wherewith the 
family of Huntly was branded not long before by the predecessors 
of Ewen Cameron and others of his clan, such as the murder of 



p. 283] THE MACKINTOSHES 335 

Cameroni a Gleneves, Johannis Cameron, alias Bodach, ab 
Erraghty plerorumque aliorum) iiumero 17 (ex pra^cipuis Hunt- 
lei Clientibus Lochabriensibus apud Inverlochiam Anno 1613, 
Johannis Gordon ab Invermarky, et Johannis Gordon a New- 
town apprehensionem, ipsumque Marchionem ab Huntley, in 
tumulis Glenmoriston, aClanchameronisfugatum), non leviscula 
perstrinxit admiratione. 

QuAMPRiM&M ver6 Evenus Cameron, Midltonianas partes 
deseruisset, et, ab Argathelise Comite in gratiam receptus 
esset, Aboynium tunc, suae, erga Evenum, benevolentia^ poeni- 
tuit. Verum hsec ejus sera poenitentia, nihil prorsus, Makin- 
toshii angustiis profuit. 

Deficiente ita, omnium conterminorum Vicecomitatuum 
expectato auxilio, Makintoshius, cum amicis suis et assecta- 
toribus Tribiis Catanese, conveniendi consilium iniit. Admini- 
culum enim Vicecomitatuum, opus aggrediendum facilitaturum, 
et brevioris temporis spatio perfecturam, animadvertebat. 
Populum tamen suum (Clanchattan), prsesertim cum (ut sepius 
polliciti sunt), ad omnia subeunda oificia, proclives et para- 
tissimi essent, (aspirante etiam illis Regise Majestatis Authori- 
tate) Clanchamronos, temporis progressu, vel, ad debitam 



Cameron of Gleneves^ John Cameron, alias Bodach, of 
Erracht, and many others, to the number of seventeen, of the 
principal Lochaber vassals of Huntly, at Inverlochy, in the year 
1613, and the seizure of John Gordon of Invermarky, and of 
John Gordon of Newtoun ; and the putting to flight of the 
Marquis of Huntly himself by the Camerons on the braes of 
Glenmoriston. But as soon as Ewen Cameron deserted the 
Middleton party, and was received into favour by the Earl of 
Argyll, then Aboyne repented of the goodwill he had shown 
towards Ewen. But this, his late repentance, profited Mackin- 
tosh absolutely nothing in his difficulties. 

The expected assistance of all the neighbouring shires having 
thus failed, Mackintosh entered on the design of calling together 
his own friends and followers of the Clanchattan. For he con- 
sidered that though the help of the shires would have made the 
enterprise go on the more easily, yet he knew that his own people 
(the Clanchattan), especially as they had often promised, and 
were inclined and very ready to undergo all kinds of services 
(inspired also by the king's authority), were able enough either to 



886 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

obedientiam cogere, vel, eosdem penitus expungare, satis valu- 
isse sciebat. 

SuTHKRLANDiAE Comes (ctsi, Makintoshii commissioni minime 
insertus), praestiti olim a Makintoshii proavo et coUati in 
Comitis patrem servitii caussa, non tantum suppetias promisit, 
verum etiam et selectos centum et viginti strenuos viros, 
[fia^et84.] omnibus necessariis et requisitis Officiariis condecoratos, una 
cum sexaginta servis, ad impedimenta curanda, bene armatis, 
ut, cum Makintoshio, durantibus ipsius, adversus Clancham- 
ronos, molestiis, constanter usque permanerent, mittendos 
curavit. 

Anxo 1664, Mense Maio, Makintoshio, promissi a Comite 
Sutherlandise agminis adventum expectanti, et, suos exercitus 
lustranti et recognoscenti, seque in Lochabriam accingenti, 
Evenus Cameron, vulpino more, insidias et dolos struere aggre- 
ditur. Episcopo Morraviensi aliisque pacatae indolis viris 
ibidem commorantibus Epistolas inscripsit, serio efflagitans ut, 
exortas, inter Makintoshium et se ipsum, lites, illi, suS media- 
tione componere niterentur, seque, Makintoshio satisfacere, 
sine ulla sanguinis eiFusione, quam promptissimum esse pro- 
fitebatur. Quo audito. Comes et Episcopus Morravienses, 

compel the Clan Cameron^ in process of time, to the obedience 
they owed, or wholly to subdue them. 

The Earl of Sutherland (though not included in Mackintosh's 
commission), for the sake of service formerly rendered by the 
great-grandfather of Mackintosh to the earl his father, not only 
promised support, but also sent a hundred and twenty chosen and 
able men, well provided with officers and every requisite, together 
with sixty servants to take charge of the baggage, well armed, in 
order that they might remain constantly wiUi Mackintosh during 
his labours against the Clan Cameron. 

In the year 1664, while Mackintosh was waiting the arrival of 
the force promised by the Earl of Sutherland, and was mustering . 
and reviewing his army and preparing himself for Lochaber, Ewen 
Cameron, like a fox, set about devising snares and wiles. He 
wrote letters to the Bishop of Moray, and to other men of 
peaceful disposition dwelling there, earnestly beseeching them 
to endeavour to settle, by their mediation, the strife that had 
arisen between Mackintosh and himself; and professed himself 
to be most willing to satisfy Mackintosh, without any shedding of 
blood. Upon hearing this, the Earl and Bishop of Moray, and 



pp. 283-284] THE MACKINTOSHES 3S7 

aliique nonnulli, scse interponunt, ut, suo studio et labore, 
partium discrimina ita componunt, ut, octo Dierum spatio, 
ad verbalem consensum, tandem, perventum est. Evenq 
Cameron, ad suam consensus partem adimplendum (ut dignos 
inveniret Fidejussores), menstruale spatium concessum est. 
Elapso concessi temporis spatio, num spontanea, pactam fidem 
violandi resolutione, an (ut vulgo tradebatur) Comitis Ar- 
gatheliae et Domini a Glenurchy persuasibus, maxima cum 
infamia nee minori sibi detrimento, Evenus, ab icto foedere 
turpissime declinat, atque ita, detestanda sua fraudulentia, 
Makintoshium, a perficienda sua in Lochabriam expeditione, 
ilia aestate, impedivit. 

FucosA hsdc et subdola caliditas tantopere Makintoshii 
animum exasperavit, ut, suae Tribus Clanchattanse praecipuos 
(qui, quod, t^m depressis conditionibus in nupero interloquio 
habitis, sese subjecerat, caussse erant) calidam banc methodum 
non, sine manifesta eorum ipsiusque ignominia, ab Eveno 
excogitatum fuisse existimas, eorum benevolentiam ad Lydium 
lapidem revocare, (et, Familiarum Capita separatim alloquendo) 
num tunc temporis, ordienti, sc. Autumno, in ipsius auxilium, 
adversus Clanchameronos, assurgerent, explorare determinat, 

some others^ interposed themselves^ and by their earnest eflTorts 
they so composed the differences of the parties^ that in the space 
of eight days they came at length to a verbal agreement. A 
month was granted to £wen Cameron for implementing his part of 
the agreement (that he should find sufficient sureties). The space 
of time granted having elapsed^ whether of his own free resolu- 
tion to violate the compact^ or (as was commonly reported) by 
the persuasions of the Earl of Argyll and the laird of Glenurchy, 
Ewen, with the deepest dishonour^ and not less detriment to 
himself, most basely drew back from the bargain agreed upon ; 
and thus, by his detestable deceit, he hindered Mackintosh from 
executing his expedition to Lochaber for that summer. 

This sly and crafty trickery so greatly exasperated Mack- 
intosh, that, thinking the chief men of his clan (who were the 
cause of his submitting himself to such low conditions in the late 
conference) would regard the cunning method devised by Ewen 
to have been in manifest contempt of them and of himself, he 
resolved to put their goodwill to the touchstone, and (by speak- 
ing to the heads of families separately) to find out whether they 
would at that time, that is, at the beginning of autumn, rise 
to his assistance against the Clan Cameron. And first of all, 

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888 GExNEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. i 

imprimisque, Andream Mackphersonum a Cluny, cujus sin- 
cerum amorem, extra omnem dubitationis aleam positum ease, 
liactenus indicavit, effatur, qui, placidi et decentis responsi 
vice, insipidos nonnullos et absurdos sibi concedendos rogavit 
articulos, quibus iiondum largitis, se, sua degenaturum auxilia 
statuit. 

Unus Articulus hie erat, ut, illi (quasi vero) pra^icto An- 
drese illiusque hseredibus, Secundus a Makintoshio locus ante 
omnes Makintoshios et Clanchattanos concederetur. 

Alter erat, ut omnes agri olim unquam, a Clanwurrichis (ita 
Mackphersoni olim vocabantur), hodie verb, ab aliquo Makin- 
toshii Nominis possessi (quacunque comparati arte), ClaD- 
wurrichis restituerentur. 
[paget86.] Tertio, ut ipse Makintoshius, una cum quatuor aut quinque 

ex sui Nominis praecipuis, propriis testarentur autographis, 
quicquid adminiculi, Andreas Macpherson a Cluny esset, hac 
vice, exhibiturus, non, ex alio, qukm mera benevolentiS, pro- 
fluere fonte, nee, ad hoc conferendum, ut Cliens ad Genearcham, 
obstringi, sed idem adminiculum, velut in vicino in vicinum, 
tanquam munusculum, elargiri. 

Primo Articulo responsum est, 1™^, Honorum et Dignitatis 

he spoke to Andrew Macpherson of Cluny, whose sincere aflTection 
he had hitherto esteemed to be placed beyond the hazard of 
doubt^ who, instead of a kindly and becoming response, demanded 
some foolish and absurd articles to be conceded to him^ which, if 
not yielded, he was resolved to refuse his help. 

One article was, that the second place should be given by 
Mackintosh to him, the said Andrew (forsooth !) and his heirs, 
before all Mackintoshes and Clanchattans. 

Another was, that all lands which were ever formerly possessed 
by the Clan Vurrich (so the Macphersons were formerly called), 
but now by any of the name of Mackintosh (in whatever way 
acquired) should be restored to the Clan Vurrich. 

Thirdly, that Mackintosh himself, along with four or fiyt^ chief 
men of his name, should testify by their own handwriting, that 
whatever aid Andrew Macpherson afforded on this occasion should 
be regarded as flowing from no other source than mere goodwill, 
not as that which a vassal was bound to yield to a chief, but as a 
favour bestowed by one neighbour on another. 

To the first article it was answered : 

1. That the conferring of places of honour and dignity was 



pp. 284-285] THE MACKINTOSHES 889 

locorum collationem inter Regias Prserogativas annumerandam 
esse, neque, propterea, a quolibet Subdito (non consentiente 
ipso Rege) tractandam, et quod suificiens honor est homini 
cum dignus honore est. S^% Nullum promotionis locum ulli 
Privato Subdito infra Baronetum debitum, civiltatis duntaxat 
gratis nonnuUis in more positum esse, aliis, considerate eorum 
Dignitate, Stemmate aut consuetudine inter Majores excultd, 
non nunquam etiam (nuUo trium enumeratorum in dubium 
revocato) divitiarum habits ratione, Primatum oiFere, omnesque 
vero Familiarum Nominis Catanei partes, Andreae Makpherson 
a Cluny, Dignitate, Stemmate aut Consuetudine inferiores. 
Im6, quorum res familiaris minor esset (ni, trium praememora- 
torum respectu, excelsiorem mererentur gradum), libentissime 
cessuros. Neque plus, ullo rationis prsetextu, rogitari potest. 

Secundo Articulo hunc in modum obviam itum est. Sicut 
nullo jure asseri quivit, aliquos Dominorum a Makintosh, ullos 
unquam ex Clanwurichis, a nativis suis possessionibus (non 
sufiragantibus ipsis), pepulisse, ita, neque majori jure aifirmari 
potest, quemlibet ex Trib(i MakintoshianS, ullos, Clanwurrich- 
orum avitas Possessiones violenter et illegitim^ comparfisse. 



reckoned to be among the royal prerogatives ; and therefore not to 
be dealt with by any subject without the consent of the king ; and 
that there is honour enough to a man when he is worthy of it. 

2. That no place of preferment is due to any private subject 
below a baronet ; to some it is given, by custom, for the sake 
of civility only; to others in consideration of their worth, their 
lineage^ or custom honoured among the forefathers. Sometimes 
even (when none of the three points mentioned are called in 
question) on account of wealth ; and, indeed, all heads of the 
families of the Chattan name, inferior in dignity, lineage, or 
custom to Andrew Macpherson of Cluny, yea whose estate was 
less than his (unless they merited higher rank in respect of the 
three points before mentioned), would freely yield to offer him 
precedence ; and no more, on any pretence of reason, could be 
demanded. 

The second article was met in this way. As it could not be 
asserted on any just ground that any of the lairds of Mack- 
intosh had ever driven off the Clan Vurrich from their native 
possessions (without their own consent), so neither could it be 
affirmed that any one of the Clan Mackintosh had violently and 
unlawfully acquired any of the ancietit possessions of the Clan 



340 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

ipsos, nihilominus, omnes eas Possessiones, quae aliquando ad 
Clanwurrichos attinebant, (etsi licitissime acquisitas) duplici 
hac lege paratissimos esse Clanwurrichis restituere. Prinio, 
ut tota pecunia, iis comparandis coUocata, retribueretur. 
^Deinde vero ut Clanwurrichi, iisdem conditionibus, omnes eas 
Possessiones, in quas Makintoshiis olim jus erat, iis restaura- 
rentur. 

Tertium autem propositum (quod, revera, prae se ferebat ut 
Makintoshius, sua manu, se non Clanwurrichorum Phylarchum 
esse testaretur) adeo ridiculum et sibilis excipiendum aestima- 
batur, et, Makintoshium tanta exacerbavit ira, ut semel animo 
suo, se, nihil, illi articulo, quippe, risu potius quam responsione 
magis digno, replicaturum statuerat. Veruntamen, ne qui, 
vinculis illis et relationibus, inter Makintoshium et Tribum 
Clanchattanam intercedentibus, peregrini erant et extranei, 
viso et lustrato hoc articulo, eundem, uUa rationis umbra, cor- 
roborari aut suffulciri existimarent, neve (si nulla, propositori, 
ne quid verius dicam, stulto, in sua stultitia opponeretur repli- 
catio) illi inani sibi applauderet ostentatione, praetereaquoque, 
[page €86.] praesentem suarum rerum statum diligenter pensitando, negotia- 
que sua, indubitatis rationis bene conformatae regulis, non 

Vurrich ; yet they were ready, nevertheless, to restore all those 
possessions which at any time belonged to the Clan Vurrich 
(although quite lawfully acquired) on this twofold condition: 
Firstly, that all the money given for purchasing them should be 
paid back; and secondly, that the Clan Vurrich should, on the 
same terms, restore all those possessions which belonged before to 
the Mackintoshes. 

But the third proposal (which, in truth, presumed that Mack- 
intosh would witness under his own hand that he was not the 
chief of the Clan Vurrichs) was deemed so ridiculous as to be 
hissed at, and provoked Mackintosh to such wrath that he at once 
resolved in his OMm mind to make no reply to that article, as 
worthy of laughter rather than an answer. But, notwithstanding, 
lest those who were strangers to those bonds and relationships 
subsisting between Mackintosh and the Clanchattan, on the 
sight of that article, might, without any shadow of reason, con- 
sider it as corroborated or supported; or lest if no reply was 
made to the proposer (may I not say more truly, to a fool in his 
folly ?) he should pride himself with vainglory ; and further, on 
carefully pondering the present state of his affairs, and that his 
business should be managed according to the undoubted rules of 



pp. 285-286] THE MACKINTOSHES 341 

vero turbulentis temerarise passionis motibus gerenda esse, tarn 
vividam et nervosam exhibuit responsionem, quam, niillus, 
ratiociniis aut argumentis repellere poterat. 

Prima itaque Responsio hujusmodi erat, Satis manifestum 
esse, et probe natum in omnibus Regni hujus partibus, in 
plurimis ejusdem testimoniis, antiquis tabulis, et priscis com- 
mentariis, turn et in variis Parliamentorum Actis, Dominos a 
Makintosh ab aevo in sevum, saltern, ex quo Makintoshius, 
cum unica Gilpatrici Mak Dugall vie Gillichattan filiS, foedus 
Matrimoniale contraxit Anno 1S91, non tantum sestimatos 
et vocatos, verum et (in hosce usque 50 Annos proxime elapsos) 
in suis titulis, chartis, instrumentis, et diplomatibus, Gentis 
Cattaneae Duces jugiter designatos fuisse. 

Secundo, Authentici omnes et maxime approbati Gentis 
Scoticanae Chronologi, Makintoshium Clanchattanorum Ducem 
et Principem pronunciant. 1"**, Lesleus, in nono de gestis 
Scotorum Libro, inquit, Tribus Clanchattana vulgo nuncupata 
Makintoshiana a Principe Makintoshio &^. et in decimo suo 
libro, Gulielmum Makintosh Tribus Clanchattanae Ducen nun- 
cupat. Buchananus etiam, decimo sexto Rerum Scoticarum 
libro, eundem Gulielmum Catanse Familiae Principem appellat. 

well-ordered reason^ and not by the turbulent motions of reckless 
passion, he presented an answer so lively and vigorous that no 
one could repel it by reasonings or arguments. 

The first answer, therefore, was to this effect: That it was 
sufficiently manifest and well known in all parts of this king- 
dom, by many testimonies thereof in ancient registers and early 
histories, as well as by various Acts of Parliament, that the lairds 
of Mackintosh, from age to age, at least since Mackintosh married 
the only daughter of Gilpatric MacDugall vie Gillichattan, in the 
year 1291^ have not only been esteemed and called, but also have 
always (until these fifty years last bypast) been designated captains 
of the Clan Chattan, in their titles, charters, instruments, and 
diplomas. 

Secondly, all the most authentic and approved chroniclers of 
the Scots nation declare Mackintosh captain and chief of the 
Clanchattan. First, Leslie, in the ninth book of De Gestis 
Scotorum, says the Clanchattan tribe was commonly called Mack- 
intoshiana from Mackintosh the chief, etc. ; and in his tenth 
book, he calls William Mackintosh captain of the Clanchattan. 
Second, Buchanan also, in the sixteenth book of Rerum Scoticarum, 
calls the same William chief of the Chattan family. Third, in all 



842 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

3"**, In omnibus commissionibus et Uteris, a Dominis Privati 
Concilii, in Makintoshii gratiam, adversus Clanchamronos 
aliosque, concessis, Makintoshius, Clanchattanorum Princeps 
dicitur et designatur. 4*°, et quod majus est, Anno 1609, 
prsecipua Clanchattanarum Familiarum Capita (et cum coeteris 
Andreas Makpherson a Cluny hujus, adhuc, inter vivos exis- 
tentis avus), et foedere & jurejurando, sese et posteros, Principem 
suum Makintoshium, adversus omnes (dempta suprem& Autho- 
ritate et legitimis suis Dominis), sequi, tueri et succurrere, 
firmissime Syngraphfi obligarunt (adhuc inter cceteras Mak- 
intoshii Chartas secura) prolixiore verborum serie declaratum 
exhibetur. Jam enim, si Makintoshius, se, Clanwurrichorum 
(qui, inter antiquissimas Clanchattanorum Familias, habentur) 
Genearcham non esse, autographo declararet, sequali jure, se 
nullatenus, residuarum Clanchattanarum Tribum et Familiarum 
Principem esse, testari, et, consequenter, jus suum hseredi- 
tarium renunciare potuit, quod, quantse sibi suseque Familiae 
ignominiae foret et dedecori, quamque universo Clanchattanorum 
Nomini ruinosum et lethale nemo (nisi amens) non videat. Si 
enim, inter ipsos prorumpi permitteretur animorum scissura 
aut separatio, hoc non mod6, eos odiosos et omnibus contemptui 
habendos, verum et ab invicem sejunctos omnibus vicinis in 

commissions and letters granted by the Lords of Privy Council in 
favour of Mackintosh, against the Clan Cameron and others, he is 
designated chief of the Clanchattan. Fourth, and what is more^ 
in the year l609, the heads of the families of the Clanchattan (and 
with the others Andrew Macpherson, grandfather of him who is 
still living), by compact and oath, most firmly bound themselves 
and their posterity, by a written bond (still preserved among the 
other charters of the Mackintosh) to follow, defend, and succour 
Mackintosh their chief against all^ excepting the supreme 
authority and their rightful lords, as appears evident in a more 
extended narration. For, besides, if Mackintosh should declare 
by his own writ that he is not the chief of the Clan Vurrich (who 
are held to be among the most ancient of the families of the 
Clanchattan), by equal right he might testify that he was not 
chief of the other tribes and families of the Clanchattan, and con- 
sequently renounce his hereditary ri<rht, which would be so great 
an ignominy and disgrace to himself and his family as to prove 
ruinous and fatal to the whole name of the Clanchattan, which no 
one (unless he be crazy) looks for. Because, if they should give 
way to a rupture among themselves^ the rending asunder of their 



pp. 286-287] THE MACKINTOSHES S48 

paratam prsedam traderet. Nam, ut triplicata funis cito dis- 
cindi non potest (Ecclesiastes 4. 12.) ita (ut ait Christus, 
Mark S. S5.) domus in se divisa stare non potest. Flebilis 
ille, distractionis, inter Tribus Israeliticas, a legitimo suo 
Capite deiicientes, exortce, eventus, omnibus Terrse Familiis 
exemplo sit et monitui, cumque ita se res habeat, minim est 
quid, homines eo impudentiae impulerit, ut, articulos usque 
adeo insipidos sibi largiendos proponerent. 

Post exhibitum hoc Responsum, nullam praeterea, Makin- 
toshio prsememorati articuli crearunt solicitudinem. Fauci 
enim vel nuUi ex ipsis Makphersonis (dempto ipso Andred a 
Cluny et duobus aiiis), articulos istos suis comprobarunt suf- 
fragiis. Flurimi, tamen, (ne aliquam dedecoris notam Andreae 
inurerent), in incerto potius vagari quiim, quanta a prseexpli- 
catis articulis abhorruerant (donee Makintoshius et Andreas) 
temporis processu, in ampliorem concordise assequendae metho- 
dum inciderent, declarare, statuere. 

Sub hoc tempus Johannes Makpherson Inveressie Tutor (qui, [pagits? 
praedictis istis articulis minimi favere videbatur), Andream 
derelinquere, et, universas Tribus vulg6 Slighkean vie Ewin et 

minds would not only make them odious and hold them up to 
contempt to everybody, but also deliver them, when divided 
against each other, as a ready prey to all their neighbours. For, 
as a threefold cord is not soon cut asunder (Ecclesiastes iv. 12), so 
(as Christ says, Mark iii. 25) a house divided against itself cannot 
stand. The event of the lamentable distraction which arose among 
the tribes of Israel, in falling away from their lawful prince, is an 
example and admonition to all the families of the earth; and 
when the matter holds thus, it is matter of wonder what drives 
men to such shamelessness as to propose articles so foolish to be 
granted to them. 

After giving this answer the aforementioned articles did not 
cause any further solicitude, for few or none of the Macphersons 
(except Andrew of Cluny and two others) approved of them. 
Many, however (lest they should put any mark of disgrace upon 
Andrew), were resolved to leave the matter undetermined, 
rather than declare their dislike to these articles, until Mackintosh 
and Andrew should alight upon some more excellent way of 
coming to agreement 

About this time, John Macpherson, tutor of Invereshie (who 
seemed not to favour these articles), proposed to abandon Andrew, 
and to lead all his tribe, commonly called Slighkean vie Ewin, 



344 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

Slighkgillies (binas Clanwurrichorum Familias), in Makintoshii 
servitium, imo, Andrea licet invito adducere decrevit, hac, 
tamen, lege, ut Gulielmus Makintosh a Borlum, agros a Raits, 
eodem pretio, quo ipse, eosdem comparaverat, illi vendere 
spondeat. Quod iniquum satis et impertinens erat desiderium. 

M AKiNTOSHius, illata illi, hunc in modum a quibusdam ex 
suis cognatis, tantd injuria, eorum prsecipuos, pristinum illud 
foedus (Anno 1609, ab omnibus Clanchattanarum Familiarum 
Familiarum Capitibus concessum) nova reiterare solennitate 
per contari statuit. 

F(EDus hoc, Makphersonis Badenochiae degentibus imprimis 
exhibitum est, qui omnes (dempto prsedicto Andrei Cluniensi 
ejusque amicis propinquioribus, ad hoc oificium subeundum 
minime impetratis), oblatum fcedus propriis confirmare auto- 
graphis (prsecipuis mod6 ex Nomine Makintoshio illis in hac 
re praeeuntibus) qukm paratissimi erant. 

HiNC ver6 Alexander Makintosh a Connadus (qui, magnum 
semper, erga Genearcham, coluisse videbatur amorem, cuj usque 
vestigiis cceteri, ut plurimum, insisterent) imprimis rogatus, 
plane et sine ullis verborum ambagibus, se, neque fcederi huic 
subscripturum, neque, quidpiam, in Makintoshii commodum 

and Slighkgillies (two families of the Clan Vurrich) into the 
service of Mackintosh^ yea though Andrew was unwilling ; on this 
condition however, that WilHam Mackintosh of Borlum should 
agree to sell to him the lands of Raits for the same price which he 
himself had given for them : which was a desire sufficiently unjust 
and impertinent. 

Finding himself in this manner so much wronged by certain of 
his kinsmen. Mackintosh determined to require the chief men of 
them to renew with fresh solemnity that ancient bond (granted in 
the year I609 by all the heads of the families of the Clanchattan). 
This bond was first presented to the Macphersons dwelling in 
Badenoch, who all (excepting the said Andrew of Cluny and his 
near friends, who were not asked to do this duty) were ready to 
confirm the offered bond with their subscriptions^ provided only 
the chief men of the name of Mackintosh would go before them 
in that matter. Hereupon, Alexander Mackintosh of Connage 
(who seemed always to cherish great affection towards his chief, 
and in whose footsteps the rest would, for the most part, follow), 
was first asked. He openly, and without any circumlocution, 
professed that he would neither subscribe that bond, nor would he 
do anything tending to the advantage or profit of Mackintosh, 



p. 287] THE MACKINTOSHES 846 

aut utilitatem tendens, praestiturum, professiis est, ni primo, 
patruum suum iGneam Makintosh, propriam Daviotse Posses- 
sionem (agri nimirum, Davatam, prsefato Mneady a Comite 
Murraviens, 7,000 minis depignoratam, cujus reversionem 
Connagius, privato, sed inimico, modo, coemendum curavit) 
renunciare, et, sibimet (usque quo Principalis Summa com- 
mode haberetur) annus 7,000 mercarum redit(i satisfacere, 
sollicitaret et persuaderet, illegitimus, re vera, et, nulla, 
vel rationis, vel humanitatis, umbra suiFultus Rogatus, 
quem, Genearchse in tantis, prsesertim, versanti angustiis, 
proposuisse cognatum maxime dedicebat. Gulielmus Makintosh 
a Eylachi, ad foedus su& stabiliendum manu, advocatus, se nun- 
quam (ni, Alexandrum Makintosh a Connadg prsecedentem 
conspiceret) isti Syngraphae suffragaturum respondit. Tertio, 
autem, loco accersitus Donaldus M^ueen a Corribroch, se, 
neque illi Syngraphae manus adhibiturum, neque, Makintoshio, 
in Coronide rebus Lochabriensibus imponenda, auxiliaturum, 
inquit, ni, Gulielmum Makintosh a Kylachi, jus suum in agros 
de Ravokbeg (quod, tamen, mutuo, Gulielmi Makintosh a 
Kylachi et iEneae Makqueen) Donaldi genitoris (consensui 
omnino contrarium erat, qui, praedictos agros, propter quandam 
pecuniarum Summam, eodem Gulielmo Kylachensi non diu 
antea oppignoravit) abdicare cogeret. 

unless he would first solicit and persuade his uncle Angus 
Mackintosh to renounce his own possession of Daviot (that is to 
say the davach of land wadset by the Earl of Moray to the said 
Angus for 7000 merks^ of which Connage had in a private, but 
unfriendly way^ bought the reversion)^ and to satisfy him for the 
annual rent of 7000 merks : an unlawful demand truly, and 
supported by no shadow of reason or humanity^ greatly becoming 
a kinsman to offer to his chiefs especially when in such difficulties. 
William Mackintosh of Kylachy, on being called to subscribe 
the bond with his hand, replied that he would never do so until 
he should see Connage going before him in that matter. But in 
the third place, Donald Macqueen of Corribroch being called he 
said he would neither put his hand to that document^ nor assist 
Mackintosh in accomplishing his designs in Lochaber unless he 
would force William Mackintosh of Kylachy to resign his right 
to the lands of Ravochbeg (which was, nevertheless, altogether 
contrary to the mutual agreement of William Mackintosh of 
Kylachy, and Angus Macqueen, father of Donald^ who not long 
before wadset the aforesaid lands to the same William of Kylachy 
for a certain sum of money). 



846 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

Makintoshius, datis hisce, a suis amicis, (qui, non accepta 

mercede, Phylarchum minime comitari determinant) tarn ridi- 

culis et nuUam rationem redolentibus Responsis, maximft 

incaluit indignatione. Verum, residues suos amicos et cognatos 

semel rogatos Syngraphum signatures, et, difficilem rerum 

ipsius conditionem, propriore mentis intuitu perpensuros, pro 

persuaso habens, nullum ulteriorem, in saxo volvendo, facere 

progressum decrevit, nuUus dubitans quin tandem aliquando 

Deus Opt. Max. suos cognatos, mitigata paulatim eorum 

asperitate, mitiore donaret Mentis Dispositione, quod postea 

etiam ex animi sententid evenit. In Conventu enim, inter 

[pagitss.] Makintoshium nonnullosque ex suis amicis prope Templum 

Kincaimense in Strathspeid S9 Decembris Die 1664, habito, 

factum est ut omnes Nominis Catanei Generosi tunc temporis 

prsesentes (prsememorato Alexandro a Connage, in propositi 

sibi resolutione firmiter persistente, excepto), in Makintoshii, 

ad versus Clanchameronos, subsidium, subsequente Vere, assur- 

gere strictis sese obligarunt vinculis. Huic Conventui Andreas 

Makpherson a Cluny non aderat. 

Clanchameroni, Andream Makpherson et Alexandrum Mak- 
intosh a Conadg, quantum penes illos erat (ut videbatur), 



Mackintosh was greatly incensed by these answers given by his 
friends (who were determined not to accompany their chief 
without a reward) so ridiculous and void of all reason. But being 
persuaded that the residue of his friends and kinsmen would sign 
the bond as soon as they were desired to do so, and that they 
would in a better state of mind consider the difficult position of 
his affairs, he concluded to advance no further in the way of 
rolling the stone, not doubting but that, when their asperity was 
by degrees mitigated, God would at length give to his kinsmen 
a milder frame of mind; which afterwards came to pass according 
to his wish. For^ in the meeting held near the church of Kin- 
cairn in Strathspey, on 29th December 1664^ between Mackintosh 
and many of his friends, it so happened that all the gentlemen of 
the Chattan name then present (excepting the aforementioned 
Alexander of Connage, who firmly persisted in his resolution) 
bound themselves by the straitest obligations to rise in the follow- 
ing spring to the help of Mackintosh against the Clan Cameron. 
Andrew Macpherson of Cluny was not present at this meeting. 

On discovering that Andrew Macpherson and Alexander Mack- 
intosh of Connage were (as it seemed) joined as if in conspiracy. 



pp. 287-288] THE MACKINTOSHES 847 

Makintoshii negotia, omnibus methodis disturbare et cunctis 
remorari obstaculis, quasi conspiratione fact&, conatos fuisse 
comperientes, banc opportunitatem, in commodum suum et 
lucrum accommodare statuerunt, Clanchattanosque, sceleratis 
latrociniis et improvisis praedationibus (pecudes gregatim 
abigendo) molestarunt. 

CoNTdMELiosuM hoc et sceleratum Clanchamronorum facinus, 
usque adeo, Makintoshii mentis quietem, novo curarum access^, 
disrupit ut, vel illatam injuriam ulciscendi, vel, saltem, utram- 
que Tribum, Catanam, so. et Cameronam, sanguine semel effuso, 
in Bellum provocandi, consilium inire constituit. In cujus 
rei prosecutionem, viginti strenuos juvenes, in Lochabriam, ut, 
si fieri possit, nonnullos, ex praecipuis Clanchamronorum in ejus 
Commissione commemoratorum, apprehenderent, legavit. Hi 
enim, cum duobus ex Adversariis forte fortund congressi, oppo- 
nentes hostes eodem loci interfecerunt. 

His itaque occisis, emissa rediit Cohors. Interea temporis 
Comes Roth usius Regis Delegatus et Regni Cancellarius (quor- 
undam Nobilium, Eveno Cameron a Lochield faventium roga- 
tibus), Makintoshio Literas, quibus, Edinburgum, omni, qu& 
poterat, celeritate, accedere jubebatur, dirigendas curavit. 
fiisce, pariter, obtemperat et obsequitur. Venim, ciim, illico, 



attempting^ as much as they could, to disturb by all means, and 
to obstruct by every obstacle^ the affairs of Mackintosh, the Clan 
Cameron resolved to turn this opportunity to their own advantage 
and gain^ and molested the Clanchattan by wicked robberies, and 
unexpected plunderings^ driving away their flocks and herds. 

This shameful and wicked deed of the Clan Cameron so broke 
Mackintosh's peace of mind, that he determined to consult about 
avenging the wrong inflicted, or at least to stir up both clans to 
war, with the shedding of blood. In prosecution of which de- 
sign he sent twenty strong youths into Lochaber that they might 
seize^ if they could, some of the chief men of the Clan Cameron 
mentioned in his commission. They, therefore, having by chance 
met with two of the adversaries, who offered resistance, they slew 
them on the spot. After this slaughter the band returned. 

In the meanwhile the Earl of Rothes, the king's commissioner and 
chancellor of the kingdom (at the request of certain of the nobles 
who favoured Ewen Cameron of Lochiel), caused letters to be 
directed to Mackintosh, by which he was ordered to come to Edin- 
burgh as speedily as he could. These he obeyed and complied with. 



348 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

illuc pervenisset, procellosis recentium diiHcultatum et perplexi- 
tatum fluctibus agitabatur. Imprimis, per spatium bimestre, 
jubente Cancellario, detinetur. Deinceps, seriis efflagitabatur 
rogatibus ut, agros suos Lochabrienses vilissimo et despicabili 
pretio venderet (cui astipulari nullo modo voluit). Tertio, 
denique, illi, omnes Clanchattanos, quiete sese et tranquille 
gestures, obstringere, mandatum est, quo etiam ponderosis 
rationum momentis recusato, tandem, servos suos, inquilinos 
et famulos legi obsecuturos, sese obligare efficitur. 4^, Pacem 
nullatenus violare, aut, nullas, saltem, excitare copias sub- 
sequente aestate inhibetur, domumque postea regredi per- 
mittitur. 

M AKiNTosHius statlm a regressik, suorum cognatorum animos, 
inviolabili sinceri amoris vinculo, sibimet agglutinare, vigen- 
tesque inter illos animositates, tenebroso perpetuae oblivionis 
sippario involvendas tradere, omnes ingenii nervos intendit, 
atque ita. Mensem Maium, Junium, Juliique noiinihil, trans- 
egit (quippe, datas sibi, a Cancellario discedenti, injunctiones 
in memoriam revocavit). Verum, penitiori oculo, tristem 
rerum suarum statum perpendens, messisque tempora, soli to 

But, forthwith, when he came there he was tossed on the stormy 
waves of fresh difficulties and perplexities. First, by the chancellor's 
order, he was detained for the space of two months. Then he 
was importuned by urgent request to sell his lands in Lochaber 
at the lowest and most despicable price (to which he would on no 
account submit). In the third and last place^ he was commanded 
to oblige all the Clanchattan people to behave themselves quietly 
and peaceably ; which also, for weighty reasons, he refused ; but 
at length he was prevailed upon to yield that his servants and 
tenants should bind themselves to submit to the law. Fourthly, 
he was enjoined not to disturb the peace, or, at least, not to raise 
any forces in the following summer. He was then permitted to 
return home. 

On his return. Mackintosh immediately applied himself with all 
his energies to attach the minds of his kinsmen to himself, by the 
inviolable bond of sincere affection, and to give up all the ani- 
mosities existing among them to be wrapped in the dark veil of 
perpetual oblivion, so that during the months of May, June and 
July he accomplished somewhat (for he called to mind the injunc- 
tions given to him when he was leaving the Chancellor). But on 
a deeper and deliberate view of the sad condition of his affairs, 
and observing that the harvest would come with tardier pace than 



pp. 288-289] THE MACKINTOSHES S49 

tardiore accessura pass(i, animadvertens, succedentis Augusti 
initio, in Lochabriam progrediendi firmum iniit consilium. 

Hoc suum propositum, in angulo quasi (futura, nimirum, [/<y'^ 
sibi verebatur impedimenta et ob Venturas remoras), nonnullis 
patefecit, quod non adeo latenter custoditum est quin, in, non- 
nulorum Makintoshii cognatorum aures pervenerat. Gulielmus 
M akintosh a Kylachi et Alexander M akintosh a Connadg erant 
qui initi consilii promulgatores fuisse credebantur. Illi enim 
earn, tunc temporis (quam debuissent), erga Makintoshium, 
minimi foventes benevolentiam, determinato ejus proposito 
adversari satagunt. Quam ob rem, praedictum Makintoshii 
decretum, Comiti Morraviae prodiderunt, astutamque banc ex- 
cogitarunt methodum, ut, se, Comes (quatenus Vice comitatus 
Invernessensis Prseses), Curias, eodem Augusti Mense, in Strath- 
spey, Badenoch, Stratharrick, Abirtarf, Urwhart, et Glen- 
moristoun, per Vicos affirmaret, utque, universos Nominis 
Catanei Clientes, ad se ipsum, tanquam Satellites, comitan- 
dum, evocaret. Hisce, itaqua, rationibus, quin, determinatam, 
Makintoshii in Lochabriam expeditionem irritam facerent, 
nullatenus haesitarunt. Makintoshius, omnia hasc, in suae in- 
tentionis obstructionem, omnino perpetrata fuisse animadver- 



usual^ he firmly resolved to go into Locbaber in the beginning of 
August following. 

This his purpose he made known to some^ as it were in a comer 
(for he was, doubtless^ afraid that hindrances and delays would 
come). It was not, however, kept so secretly but that it came to 
the ears of some of his kinsmen. William Mackintosh of Kylachy 
and Alexander Mackintosh of Connage were beUeved to be the 
promulgators of this design. For they were not at that time 
actuated by such good- will towards Mackintosh as they ought,, 
and busied themselves to oppose his determined purpose. Where- 
fore they betrayed it to the Earl of Moray, and devised this crafty 
plot, that is to say, that the Earl of Moray (as Sheriff Principal of 
Inverness) should in the same month of August hold courts by 
turns in Strathspey, Badenoch, Stratherrick, Abertarf, Urquhart, 
and Glenmoriston, and that he should summon the whole vassals 
of the Chattan name to attend upon him as his guards. By these 
means, therefore, they had no doubt they would prevent the 
expedition resolved on by Mackintosh into Lochaber. 

Mackintosh, observing that all these things were perpetrated for 
no other purpose but to obstruct his intention, attempted to dis-*^ 



860 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

tens, Comitem Morraviensem, a Curiis tunc temporis tenendis, 
dimovere conatur. In contrarium, tamen, Comes suaderi 
noluit. Quapropter, uterque, ad propositas suas expeditiones 
peragendas, accingitur, et, decimo, Mensis August! Die, Anno 
1665, Comes M orravise, a DamowS, et M akintoshius, a Moy- 
ensi, in Strathspeyam procedere aggrediuntur. 

Omnes Comitis Morraviensis Vassali cum viro, armis bene 
instructo, ab uno quoque agri aratello, Superiorem comitantur. 
Reliqui yer6 omnes Clanchattani Strathemiae et Strathnairnise 
commorantes una cum populo Lerchardellensi et Lerbendcbar- 
ensi, in Phylarchi sui subsidium consurgunt. Comes Morra- 
viensis, omnem Badenochse populum, in suarum Curiarum 
observationem accedere mandat, atque, hoc modo, ille cum suis 
consuasoribus (callido satis et vulpino more), Makintoshio, in 
sui propositi adimpletione, omnes, quas possent, injicere re- 
moras, aliosque quoscunque, quibus, in M akintoshii sublevamen, 
assurgere animus erat retrahere, toto pectore incumbebant. 
Verum, quibus Divina succurrit Benignitas, frustra sese oppo- 
nunt homines. Makintoshius(nonobstantibus omnibus istis, quae 
intervenerunt, oppositionibus, et licet Populus Badenochensis, 
Pettiensis et Marrensis) solo Gulielmo Farquharson ab Inverey 
cum 25 strenuis viris ilium sectantibus exceptis (nullatenus, in 

suade the Earl of Moray from holding the courts at that time. 
The earl, however, would not be persuaded to the contrary. 
Whereupon they both prepared to carry out their proposed expe- 
ditions; and on the 10th of August l665, the Earl of Moray set 
out from Damaway^ and Mackintosh from Moy in Strathspey. 

All the vassals of the Earl of Moray, with one man well trained 
in arms, from each plough of land, accompanied their superior. 
But all the rest of the Clanchattan, dwelling in Stratheam and 
Strathnairn, together with the people of Lerchardell and Ler- 
bendchar, rose to the help of their chief. The Earl of Moray 
charged all the people of Badenoch to come to keep the courts ; 
and in this way he, with advisers (cunningly enough and foxlike), 
applied themselves with all their heart to throw in all the delays 
they could to hinder Mackintosh from carrying out his purpose, 
and to draw back others who were of a mind to rise to his assist- 
ance. But men oppose themselves in vain to those whom the 
Divine Goodness succours. Notwithstanding all these oppositions 
which came between, and although the people of Badenoch, Petty 
and Mar (excepting only William Farquharson of Inverey, with 
twenty-five active men following him) did not at that time rise 



pp. 289-290] THE MACKINTOSHES 851 

partes M akintoshii corroboremdas, eo tempore, assurrexerant, 
primo, tamen, ipsinsarmilustrio, circiter quadringentos indubi- 
tati animi viros) apud Templum de Insh (selegit, atque, hoc 
<K)dem numero) quanquam null! alii in 8uppetias accederentX 
priusquam assumpta semel exueret aut seponeret arma, in 
Lochabriam proficiscendi stabilitum inivit consilium. 

Interea temporis Johannes Grant a Rothemurchus, Guliel- [pag*^^ 
mus Forbes a Skeleter, Johannes Makintosh a Fortin, Georgius 
Farquharson a Brughderg, cum suis asseclis, ad octoginta 
fortium virorum numerum, in Makintoshii Caussam asserendam 
et yindicandam, ex improviso ad eum confluunt. 

Gekerosi illi ex Nomine Clanchattano, qui, in Comitis 
Morraviensis Satellitium sunt egressi, Dominum a Makintosh, 
talem suo infixisse animo propositum, tantumque in hac re fecisse 
progressum, ut, sine dedecore, arma hactenus assumpta, nullo 
notabili perpetrato facinore, abjicere nequiret, culpamque (si 
ulla in prsesenti committeretur negotio) in se ipsos merito 
transferendam esse percipientes, hisce, inquam, moti considera- 
tionibus, opportunum, imprimis, et commodum esse, Comitem 
et Makintoshium in placidiorem adducere familiaritatem, nee 
non, utriusque sibi in vicem animos aptiore et magis idoneo 

to strengthen the party of Mackintosh^ yet at his first muster at 
the Church of Inch he selected about four hundred men of 
resolute mind^ and with the same number^ though no othere 
should come to his help^ he steadfastly resolved to march into 
Lochaber before he would put off* or lay down the arms then 
taken up. 

In the meantime John Grant of Rothemurchus, William Forbes 
of Skeleter, John Mackintosh of Fertyn, George Farquharson of 
Brochderg, with their retainers to the number of eighty brave 
men unexpectedly joined themselves to him to assert and vindi- 
cate his cause. 

Those gentlemen of the Clanchattan name who went as guards 
to the Earl of Moray^ when they saw the laird of Mackintosh so 
fixed in his resolution^ and that he had made such progress in that 
affair that he could not without dishonour now lay down arms 
without having done any notable deed ; and that the blame (if 
any should be incurred in the business) would deservedly be 
imputed to them — moved, I say, by these considerations, they 
judged it opportune and convenient first of all to bring the earl 
and Mackintosh to a more friendly intimacy, and also that both 
parties should declare their minds to one another in a more 



352 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

exhibere modo existimarunt (Gulielmus Makintosh a Kylachi 
et Alexander Makintosh a Connadg, in prsesenti hac re, pro 
suo libitu, Comitem regere valebant), quo prsestito, cum suo 
Genearcha, in suscepto negotio perficiendo statuerunt con- 
currere. Quapropter cum M akintoshio conveniunt, cumque, in 
omnibus illius rebus honorabili finegerendis, vindicaturos sese, 
subventurosque (ipsum modo amicorum consilio et monitu r^ 
pateretur) fideliter poUicentur. 

Huxc eorum rogatum, in omnibus, durante illius expeditionis 
tempore (si modo illi omnes in eadem unanimes essent sen- 
tentia, et, ab agris Lochabriensibus apretiandis, abstinerent), 
prsestiturum sese promittit, et qu6 facilius, initam suam obliga- 
tiouem expedirent, Conventum, a Comite et Makintoshio, 17 
Die Augusti observandum (antea enim, etsi in eadem com- 
morantes Patria, non mutuo fruiti sunt aspectu) instituunt. 
Habito jam conventu. Comes Morravise et Makintoshius, 
amicissimo more, aliquamdiu reciprocis interloquebantur ser- 
monibus. Die vero subsequenti Comes Morraviae (finitis illis 
Curiis Badenochae habendis), ipsum secessurum, omnesque suos 
Nominis Clanchattani Clientes cum Makintoshio Lochabriam 
adire permissurum fideliter spondet. 

becoming and suitable manner (William Mackintosh of Kylachy 
and Alexander Mackintosh of Connage were able to rule the earl 
in this matter as they pleased)^ which being accomplished they 
determined to concur with their chief in advancing the design 
which he had undertaken. They accordingly met with Mackin- 
tosh^ and promised faithfully that they would defend and maintain 
him in bringing all his affairs to an honourable end^ provided that 
he allowed himself to be ruled by the advice and counsel of his 
friends. 

This request of theirs he promised to perform in all things 
during the time of that expedition^ if only they were all unanimous 
in the same opinion, and would abstain from putting a price on 
his Lochaber lands, and the more readily to expedite their begun 
engagement; they appointed a meeting to be held between the 
Earl of Moray and Mackintosh on the 17th of August (for hitherto 
though dwelling in the same country they had not seen each 
other). When the meeting took place the Earl of Moray and 
Mackintosh conferred together a long time in the most amicable 
manner. On the following day, the Earl of Moray faithfully 
promised that when these courts of Badenoch were finished he 
would himself depart, and permit all his vassals of the Clanchattan 
name to go with Mackintosh into Lochaber. 



pp. 290291] THE MACKINTOSHES 368 

Interea vero amici nonnulli, Makintoshium et Andream 
Makpherson a Cluny in placidam redigere concordiam operam 
navarunt. Tandem, Andreas, debitum Makintoshio conferre 
adminiculum poUicetur, hac, tamen, lege, viz. si, in ejus Gratiam 
Gulielmum Makintosh a Kylachij jus suum haereditarium in 
agrum Farrensem, eodem, quo Alexander Makintosh (praedicti 
Gulielmi patruus) comparavit, pretio, abdicare persuaderet. 
Ad cujus rei pleniorem notitiam, attendendum est, Semida- 
batam banc Farrensem agrum, olim, a quodam JEnek M^Pher- 
son (e Familia Brinea oriundo), fuisse possessam, qui, exhaustis 
divitiis, et, nullo in prsedictum locum (praeter meram agri pos- 
sessionem) illi ulterius remanente jure, suum loci natale jus 
(vulgo Duchis dictum), huic Alexandro Makintosh (dicti 
Gulielmi patruo) quingentis Monetae Mercis, et, durante ipsius 
vitae spatio, viginti Libris quotannis solvendis, vendidit. Alex- 
ander, Comiti Morraviae, mille Scoticanae Monetae Libra, pro 
ejusdem agri possessione et vitali reditu, Domino, autem, a 
Calder, 500 Mercas, Decimarum acquirendarum gratia, concessit. 
Gulielmus Makintosh a Kylachi, Alexandro patruo jam de- [pag*99l 
functo, ut haeres succedens, Comiti Morraviensi, grandem 
pecuniam (nomine Grassuma), ad novum in agrum jus adipis- 

In the meantime some friends were endeavouring to bring Mack- 
intosh and Andrew Macpherson of Cluny to a friendly agreement. 
At length Andrew promised to give due assistance to Mackintosh, 
on this condition, however, that is to say, if he would persuade 
William Mackintosh of Kylachy to give up his heritable right to 
the estate of Farr in his favour, for the same price which Alex- 
ander Mackintosh (uncle of said William) paid for it. For the 
better understanding of this matter, it is to be observed that this 
half davach land of Farr was formerly possessed by a certain 
Angus Macpherson (sprung from the Brin family), who having 
exhausted his means, and having no farther right to the place 
remaining to him but the mere possession of the land, sold his 
birthright of the place (commonly called Duchis) to Alexander 
Mackintosh (uncle of the said William), for five hundred merks 
money, and twenty pounds to be paid to him yearly during his 
own lifetime. Alexander gave 1000 pounds of Scots money to the 
Earl of Moray for possession and life rent of the same land, but 
500 merks to the laird of Calder for the sake of acquiring the 
teinds. William Mackintosh of Kylachy, on the death of Alex- 
ander, his imcle, succeeding as heir to him, gave a large sum (in 
name of grassum) to the Earl of Moray to obtain a new right to 

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354 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

cendum, dedit, et, paucis, ante excursam agrorum locationem, 
Annis, eosdem in hsereditarium feudum acquisivit. 

Jam, autem, Andreas MacPherson a Cluny, in hac eixpedi- 
tione, commodum esse Makintoshio et perutile existimans, si 
ipse cum coeteris Clanchattanis suis etiam accederet subsidiis, 
cum Makintoshio surgere renuit, ni, in ejus favorem, Gulielmum 
Makintosh a Eylachi, illam, suae haereditatis, partem, nempe, 
Farram, pro Summa sequivalente ei tantum, quae, Comiti 
Morraviae pro agri feudo, persoluta erat, renunciare efficeret, 
quod, sane, poposcisse, summae est inhumanitatis et iniquitatis 
extremitas, cui rogatui adimplendo, Gulielmus Eyiachiensis 
nullatenus cedere voluit. Andreas ita spe frustratus, per 
Mediatorem suum Alexandrum Makintosh a Connage, explorat 
Num Makintoshius, in laboris mercedem, centum Librarum 
Sterlingarum Syngrapham concederet (o quantum cogit aeges- 
tas). De hujus rei propositione Makintoshius, Andream a 
Cluny et suum Cognatum esse et Clientem et Vassalum per- 
pendens, imprimis dubitabundus hsesit. Verum, a praecipuis 
suis amicis tunc temporis praesentibus (ne a tergo Andreas 
relinqueretur, rebus sic stantibus), sufiragia adjicere inducitur, 
et illi, nempe, amici, Makintoshium, ab hac Summa solvendfi, 

the hinds ; and a few years before the expiry of the lease thereof 
he acquired them in heritable fee. But now, Andrew Macpherson 
of Cluny^ judging that it would be very advantageous to Mackin- 
tosh in this expedition, if himself, with others of his clansmen, 
should afford their help, refused to rise with Mackintosh unless 
he prevailed upon William Mackintosh of Kylaehy to renounce in 
his favour that part of his heritage, namely Farr, for a sum 
equivalent only to that which was paid to the Earl of Moray for 
the fee of the land ; to ask which was, indeed^ the last degree of 
unkindness and injustice. William Mackintosh of Kylaehy would 
in no wise yield to grant this request. Thus frustrated in his 
expectation^ Andrew, by his mediator, Alexander Mackintosh of 
Connage, endeavoured to find out whether Mackintosh would 
give him a bond for a hundred pounds sterling (O how need 
compels !) as a reward for his labours. In regard to this proposal. 
Mackintosh was at first very much in doubt^ considering that 
Andrew of Cluny was his kinsman^ depender, and vassal ; but he 
was induced by some of his principal ^ends then present to give 
his consent, that Andrew might not be left behind while matters 
stood as they were ; and they, that is, the friends, promised to 
relieve Mackintosh of the payment of this sum on their return. 



p. 291] THE MACKINTOSHES 866 

post regressum, exonerare poUicentur. Makintoshius, eorum 
desideriis astipulans, rei, tamen, adimpletionem usque qu6, 
unius Diei itineris intervallo, Lochabriam appropinquassent, 
distulit. Hoc inter Makintoshium et Andream M^Pherson 
colloquium in loco vulg6 Shichjmnich dicto habitum est 21 Die 
Augusti 1665. 

Hag tempestate, caedis nonnihil, inter quosdam Domini 
McDonald i Clientes et Populum Invemessensem, commissum 
est, quod, Comiti M orraviensi prions sententise (domum a Brea- 
badenoch redeundi) et in Abirtarfiam iter faciendi, ansam 
prsebuit immutandse. lUinc enim Comes, se, Satellitium suum, 
in Makintoshii stipationem, 24 Augusti Die, remissurum, 
ipsumque, cymba, ab Abirtarfia in Auldowriam, transiturum, 
fideliter promisit. Eadem nocte (prout conclusum est), Abir- 
tarfiam versus incedit. Novum hoc et recens Comitis Morravi- 
ensis consilium (utut blanda fucatum Apologia), Makintoshio 
minime placuit, illi, tamen, acquiescere oportuit, atque ita, 
vigesimo quinto Augusti Die, Makintoshius (agmini illi, ab 
Abirtarfa expectato, occursurum se sperans), in Parochiam 
Lagganensem progredi orditur. Verum, nihil, ab iis sibimet, 
toto hoc tempore, relatum, habuit, de quo summopere percelle- 

Mackintosh^ while yielding to their wishes, stipulated that the 
fulfilment of the bargain should be put off until they had ap- 
proached within one day's march of Lochaber. This conference 
between Mackintosh and Andrew Macpherson was held in the 
place commonly called Shichynnich, on 21st August 1665. 

At this season some slaughter took place between some of Lord 
Macdonald's dependers and the people of Inverness, which 
afforded occasion to the Earl of Moray to change his former pur- 
pose (of returning home from Brae Baden och), and making his 
journey into Abertarf. For from thence he had faithfully pro- 
mised to send back his guard on the 24th of August to attend on 
Mackintosh, and that he himself would pass over by boat from 
Abertarf to Aldourie. The same night (as was concluded) he 
went on towards Abertarf. This new and fresh design of 
the Earl of Moray (although coloured with a lame apology) 
did not please Mackintosh, yet it behoved him to acquiesce 
thereto ; and so, on the 25th of August, Mackintosh began 
to march into the parish of Laggan (hoping to meet with 
that company expected from Abertarf). But he had no word 
brought to him from them this whole time, at which he was 
very much troubled, especially when he considered that not 



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batur, praesertim cum, non solum Comitem Morraviensem polli- 
citum fuisse, verum etiam Gulielmum Makintosh a Kylachi et 
Alexandrum Makintosh a Connadg, fidem magnis juramentis 
confirmatam dedisse, sese (modo incolumes essent) vicesimo 
quarto Augusti Die retrocessuros, animadvertisset. 

ViGEsiMo sexto Die Clanwurrichi (tunc Makphersoni^dicti), 
seipsos coram Makintoshio, Andreas Makpherson a Cluny 
illiusque Familia, ad Septentrionale fluvii Speyensis latus, 
[pagetdt,^ Slighkean vie Ewin, et Slighk Gillies vie Ewin (in eadem simul 
Cohorte) ad Australem aquae partem (pari utrinque numero, 
put^, centum et viginti) quaquaversum lustrarunt. Sub hoc 
tempus Carolus Farquharson a Monaltry (cum duodecim ex 
suisSectatoribus, strenuissimis viris),Makintoshio sese adjunxit. 

ViGEsiMo septimo Augusti Die Makintoshius, Epistolas a 
Comite Morraviensi et ab iis suorum Cognatorum qui ex Comitis 
Satellitio erant, ad se ipsum missas, illos non promissis stetisse 
excusantes, et, magna cum animi vehementia, efflagitantes ut, 
quandoquidem nota nonnulla, ad Comitis manus modo per- 
venissent, Makintoshii et honorem et utilitatem, ut prae se 
Li terse ferebant, respicientia, ideo ut, ad Stratharrick usque 
privata comitatu, Populi sui residuo et impediments, Bade- 

only had the Earl of Moray promised, but also William Mackin- 
tosh of Kylachy and Alexander Mackintosh of Connage had 
given their word, confirmed by great oaths, that (if they were 
well) they would come back on the 24th of August. 

On the twenty-sixth day the Clan Vurrich (then called Mac- 
phersons), Andrew Macpherson of Cluny and his family, at the 
north side of the water of Spey, Slighkean vie Ewin, and 
Slighk Gillies vie Ewin (together in one company) at the south 
side of the water (both being of an equal number, that is, one 
hundred and twenty) from every quarter mustered before Mac- 
kintosh. At the same time Charles Farquharson of Monaltry with 
twelve of his followers, very able men, joined with Mackintosh. 

On the 27th day of August, Mackintosh received letters sent 
to him from the Earl of Moray, and from those of his kinsmen 
who were of the earl's guard, excusing themselves for not stand- 
ing to their promises, and with great earnestness entreating 
him, that whereas some notes had just come to the earl's hand, 
concerning both the honour and advantage of Mackintosh, as 
the letters themselves showed, that, therefore, he would deign 
to come down to Stratherrick with a private convoy to hear the 
things which were to be spoken, leaving the rest of his people 



p. 292] THE MACKINTOSHES S67 

nochse, usque quo regrederetur, relictis, ad ea, quae dicenda 
erant, auscultanda, descendere dignaretur, recepit. Desiderium 
hoc, Makintoshii animum, recenti curarum fluctu, molests dis- 
cruciavit, qui, amicis suis, tunc temporis, praeventibus, quid in 
tali cas(i prsestitu utilius esset, consultis, Epistolam, omni, qua 
possent, celeritate, Gulielmo M akintosh a Eylachy et Alexandro 
Makintosh a Connadg, coeterisque amicis Stratharrick tunc 
commorantibus (fama enim erat discessisse Comitem Morravi- 
ensem), quanta, si Makintoshius Stratharrick proficisceretur, 
secutura essent incommoda, commonstrantem, destinandam 
conclusere. Namque, si, ea tempestate, suas a tergo copias 
relinquendas statueret, hoc, praeterquam quod, eonim incessui 
ingenti foretobjici, maximas enim hactenus et longas satis per- 
tulerant moras, etiam vulgo, eorum Ducibus Stratharrick cum 
Makintoshio existentibus, a Signis suis discedendi (instante 
jam Autumno) ansam praeberet. Quapropter (si quicquam 
alicujus momenti aut ponderis, ad praesens negotium pertinens, 
dicendum esset), illud vel scripto vel nuncio impertiri rogavit. 
Epistola hasc, magna cum promptitudine, legata est, et, immi- 
nente jam sequentis Diei tempore vespertino, Lauchlanus Mak 
ab Abirardor et Donald Mcintosh ab Auldouri, cum, missae 
Epistolae responsione accesserunt. Secunda etiam haec Epis- 

and baggage in Badenoch until his return. This demand griev- 
ously tormented the soul of Mackintosh with a fresh flood of cares ; 
and having consulted with his friends then present as to what 
was best to be done in such a case^ they concluded that a letter 
should be directed^ with all speedy to William Mackintosh of 
Kylachy and Alexander Mackintosh of Connage^ and the other 
friends then remaining in Stratherrick (for there was a report 
that the Earl of Moray had gone away) showing what inconveni- 
ences would follow if Mackintosh went to Stratherrick. For if 
he should leave his forces at that time behind him, besides prov- 
ing a hindrance to their march (for they had already endured 
many and long delays) it would also afford occasion to the rank 
and file, their leaders being with Mackintosh in Stratherrick, to 
desert their colours, the harvest being just at hand. Wherefore, 
if there was anything to be said of any moment or weight pertain- 
ing to the present business, he requested that it might be imparted 
either by writing or by messenger. This letter was sent with 
great promptitude, and forthwith on the next day in the evening 
Lauchlan Mackintosh of Aberardor and Donald Mackintosh of 
Aldourie came with an answer to the letter sent. This second 



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tola, Makintoshium Stratharrick adire, non minore quam antea 
fervore, urgebat, ubi Morravise Comes, ex consilio, M akintoshii 
adventum expectabat, habitumque prae manibus negotium, 
illius labore dignum esse, et, si, illius animo non satisfactum 
esset, omnes tunc Comitis assectatores, Makintoshium, in Loch- 
abriam usque, ante regressum, concomitaturos certificabat. 
Quamobrem, Stratharricam, et ex inde Lochabriam, cum omni- 
bus suis copiis, exercitibus et impedimentis, aliisque id genus 
necessariis, iter facere determinat, atque, vigesimo nono Augusti 
Die, castra a Eylarchill (Brebadenochensi villula) removet, et 
in Stratharrick progreditur. Fauci, tamen, Clanwurrichorum 
(dempto Cluny, nonnuUisque, ex pra^cipuis amicorum suorum, 
Generosis) cum M akintoshio Stratharrick profecti sunt. Quippe, 
Clanwurrichi, tam subitaneum minime sperabant incessum, 
ideoque, viatici nihil Brebadenochiam adduxerunt. Ast, sese 
omnibus suppeditatos necessariis, quamprimum vocarentur, 
secuturos, polliciti sunt. 
[paget9S,'\ Sa nocte Makintoshius, Eillennse in Stratharrick castra 
posuit. Succedente vero Die, in Stratharrick umbilicum 
expansis Insignus profectus est, atque, conscriptis nongintis in- 
concussi animi viris (non numeratis impedimentorum custo- 
dibus) in loco Delchapil appellato Tentori locavit. Ultimo 

letter also, with no less warmth than before, urged Mackintosh to 
go to Stratharrick, where the Earl of Moray was, of purpose, ex- 
pecting his arrival ; and certified beforehand that the business 
treated of was worth his trouble, and if it did not prove to his 
satisfaction, then all the followers of the earl would, before his 
return, accompany Mackintosh into Lochaber. Wherefore he 
resolved to march to Stratherrick with all his forces, men and 
baggage and other necessaries of that kind, and from thence to 
Lochaber ; and on the 29th day of August he removed his camp 
from Kylarchill (a small town of Brae Badenoch) and advanced into 
Stratherrick. Few, however, of the Clan Vurrich (except Cluny 
and some special gentlemen of his friends) went with Mackintosh 
to Stratherrick. For the Clan Vurrich did not expect so sudden 
a march, and therefore had brought no provisions to Badenoch. 
But they promised that they themselves, with all needful supplies, 
would follow as soon as they were called. 

That night Mackintosh pitched his camp at Killen in Strather- 
rick; and on the following day marched with displayed banners 
into the middle of Stratherrick, mustering nine hundred men of 
unwavering mind, without counting the keepers of the baggage ; 



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Augusti Die Kellachius, Connagius, Abirardor, et uterque Cor- 
ribrochius, a Comite Morravise, ad Makintoshium ejusque 
amicos legabantur, ut, iis, omni diligentia, inculcarent multi- 
faria, isU mala et varia incommoda, Bella, ut plurimum, 
concomitantia ; Efiecta, nimirum, Belli perniciosa esse et dam- 
nifera, Eventum turn periculosiim turn incertum, et inexpertis, 
duntaxat, dulce fore Bellum, Makintoshiique amicos, etsi, 
Lochabriam cum eo una expeditione contenderent, brevi tem- 
poris decursQ, molestiarum bellicarum fastidio laboraturos, 
longeque optimum fore, pretium non aspernandum, ante sus- 
ceptum Bellum, oblatum, boni consulere, qu^m, a Bello semel 
inito, post varia perpessa dispendia (neque sine dedecore, 
fonan,) retrocedere, ipsosque, ut, Comitem Morraviae pro centum 
mille Mercarum, tanquam aequipollenti omnibus Makintoshii 
agris Lochabriensibus pretio, ultro semet obligaturum, sufficien- 
tenque in hunc finem Fidejussorem inventurum, Makintoshio 
et suis amicis patefacerent, legatos fuisse. Tanta omnino gravi- 
tate, et seria vividitate traditus est hie sermo, ut nonnuUi ex 
Makintoshii amicis tunc prsesentibus, oblatum pretium minime 
respuendimi putarent. Alii, tamen, contrarise omnino sententise 



and encamped in a place called Delchapel. On the last day of 
August^ Kylachy, Connage^ Aberardor and both the Corribrochs 
were sent by the Earl of Moray to Mackintosh and his friends^ that 
with all diligence they should inculcate upon them the manifold 
toils and disadvantages which for the most part accompanied 
wars ; that, without doubt, the effects of war are pernicious and 
fraught with loss ; the event dangerous as well as uncertain, and 
that war is sweet only to the inexperienced ; that although the 
friends of Mackintosh should contend along with him in one ex- 
pedition, in a short time they would be wearied with disgust of 
the toils of warfare ; and that it was far better not to despise a 
good price offered before undertaking war than to go back from 
a war began, after suffering various losses (and perhaps not with- 
out dishonour) ; and that they were sent to make known to 
Mackintosh and his friends, that the Earl of Moray would 
willingly oblige himself for a hundred thousand merks as an 
equivalent price for all the Lochaber lands of Mackintosh, and 
would find a sufficient surety for that effect. This discourse 
was delivered with such gravity and earnestness, that some of 
the friends of Mackintosh then present thought he should not re- 
ject the price offered. Others, however, were wholly of a contrary 



860 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

erant. Veriim ipse Makintoshius (qui, post missas ad se tam 
importunas, tot tamque seriis rogatibus usque adeo fartw 
Epistolas, magni aliquid sperabat), audita pretii vilitate, baud 
parum excanduit, dixitque se nunquam tali fuisse animo, neqje 
ullam coegisse ilium necessitatem, totis suis agris Lociiabrien- 
sibus se penitus exuere, ne, si tale unquam cogitasset, se nuHa- 
tenus adeo despicabili pretio eosdem venditurum asseruit. 

Jam animadvertere oportet banc, Comitis Morraviae, pr»- 
memorati pretii oblationcm, in Argatheliee Comitis utilitatem 
factam fuisse (prsestita, quippe, est Comiti, in hunc finem, 
securitas, famulusque Comitis Argatheliae cum eo, M akinto^i 
responsum expectans, morabatur). Cum autem, Connagius, 
Aldourius, coeterique omnes cum hac Legatione missi, se, in hoc 
puncto, nullo modo, praevalere posse comperirent, Evenum 
Cameron a Lochicld, quorundam Dierum intervallo, armorun 
cessationem Scriptis implorasse, eandcmque concedi, Co]iii:i8 
Morraviae suffragium ac desiderium fuisse patefecerunt et 
testati sunt. Makintoshius, eorum rogatui calculum, imprimis, 
addere renuit. Quippe, armorum intercapedinem largiri, hostis 
commodo et utilitati futurum aiebat. Tali cnim concessione, 
plus temporis et otii, ad hostem ej usque Populum omnibus 



opinion. But Mackintosh himself (who, after so many letters sent 
to him^ filled full with such importunate and earnest requests, hoped 
for something great) was not a little angry on hearing the low 
price offered, and declared that he never was inclined, neither 
would any necessity force him to part wholly with his lands of 
Lochaber, but if he should ever think of such a' thing, he avowed 
he would on no account sell them for so despicable a price. 

It ought now to be observed that this offer by the Earl of 
Moray of the aforementioned price was made on behalf of the 
Earl of Argyll (for security was offered to the earl to that effect, 
and Argyll's servant was then staying with him expecting Mack- 
intosh's answer). But when Connage, Aldourie, and the others 
sent with that message found that they could by no means 
prevail in that point, they testified that Ewen Cameron of Lochiel 
had earnestly requested, in writing, a cessation of arms for the 
space of some days, and showed that it was the Earl of Moray's 
opinion and desire. Mackintosh at first refused to give his con- 
sent to their request, because, he said, to grant an intermission 
of arms would be to the advantage and gain of the enemy ; for by 
such a concession there would be more time and leisure to supply 



pp. 293-294] THE MACKINTOSHES 861 

requisitis suppeditandos, haberetur; Nullum unquam cessa- 
tionem (nisi impetratoris commodum) impetratum fuisse; 
Deinde, banc cessationis largitionem, Populos suos fatigaturam, 
eosque (exorsa bactenus messe), a castris recedere coacturam, 
nee non, dedeeori sibi futurum si non adbue appulsis Loebabrise 
finibus eessationem aeeommodaret. Hisee auiiei repliearunt, 
boe, non tarn in bostis, quam in suum eommodum, cessurum, 
prsesertim eum, Populos suos, spatio jam menstruali a mansion- 
ibus absentes (eorum, saltem, nonnulios, domum regredi, victiis [^ogiet94.] 
aliorumque apparatuum aceercendorum gratii, oportebat) 
omnesque ilios, Comitem Morraviensem attendentes, praeter- 
quam quod, Dominum suum domum eomitari neeesse erat, 
nulla viatieorum (usque quo aliunde supplerentur babuisse 
genera, quartamque Populi partem) subitanese excitationis 
annique temporis respectii (domi fuisse, qui, intra 8 Dierum 
spatium, in Bellum adduci posset, etiamque) totius Nominis 
praecipuis unamij[suffragio Locbabriam profieiscentibus (vulgum, 
Signis vel abesse, vcl recedere, baudquaquam ausurum, tant- 
umque abfuisse ut uUum, largienda cessatione pateretur 
dedecus, quin magno potius exinde frueretur commodo, quippe, 



the enemy and his people with all requisites : no cessation was 
ever asked for, but to the advantage of those who asked for it ; 
and then the granting of this cessation would weary his people, 
and (the harvest being now begun) would force them to go back 
from the camp ; also, it would be a dishonour to him if he should 
agree to a cessation when the bounds of Lochaber were not yet 
reached. To these objections the friends replied that it would 
not be so much to the enemy's advantage as to his own, especially 
when his people, having already been absent from their homes 
for a month (at least some of them) behoved to return home for 
the sake of procuring victuals and other provisions ; and those 
who were attending the Earl of Moray, besides being bound to 
convoy their lord home, had no kind of provisions until they 
should be otherwise supplied ; and the fourth part of the people, 
in respect of the sudden rising, and the time of the year, were at 
home, and could be brought to the war within the space of eight 
days : and, besides, all the chief men of the name being of one 
mind to go forward to Lochaber, the common people would in no 
wise dare to be absent, or to desert the colours ; that there would 
not appear to be any dishonour in granting a cessation, but 
rather a great advantage would thereby accrue, because then the 



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tunc exercitus, difficiles quosque et arduos aditus, advefsus 
oppositos hostes, majori incolumitate transgrederetur, veri- 
simileque fore iinicam caussam cur Lochieldus, tant& aviditate, 
armorum intercapedinem anhelabat, fuisse, ut beoevoli amid, 
majori facilitate, semet, utriusque partis tumultibus sedaiufis 
interponerent. Argumenta ista usque adeo profecerimt ut, 
Makintoshium, ab ultimo Augusti, in undecimum Septembris 
Diem, illiusque Diei Horam duodecimam, cessationem laigiri 
aduxerunt. 

LocHiELDUs etiam, ea tempestate, amicis quibusdam inter 
partes tuto et sine periculo de re agitata conferendi lioentiam 
conciliavit. Hsec enim libertas, sex, quoscunque nominare 
libuerit, amicis (si modo, nullos praeter famulos suos domestioos 
secum opportarent) concessa est. Hsec, tamen, cessationis, con- 
ditio,a Lochieldo(ut in progressu clare patebit)turpissime violata 
est. Rebus ita procedentibus, Makintoshius, Comiti Morrairi- 
ensi valedixit, qui, cum, oblatum pro agris Lochabriensibus 
pretium, Makintoshium respuisse percepisset, indignabundus, 
omnes suos Clientes Clanchattanei Nominis, ac si eos non redi- 
turos permitteret, secum adduxit. 

AsT illi, se nullo persuasfi abfuturos, sed omnes, ad ilium, 

army might advance with more safety through the difficult and 
dangerous passes against the opposing enemies ; and it was very 
likely that the sole cause why Lochiel sought with such anxie^ 
an intermission of arms was that well-meaning friends might witn 
the greater facility interpose for settling the feuds of both the 
parties. These arguments prevailed with Mackintosh so far as 
to lead him to grant a cessation from the last of August to the 
11th of September^ and the twelfth hour of that day. 

Lochiel also, at that time, got licence for some friends to confer 
between the parties, safely and without danger, concerning the 
matter in dispute. This liberty was accordingly granted to any 
six friends he pleased to name (providing only that they should 
bring with them none but their household servants). This condi- 
tion of the cessation was, however, most shamefully violated by 
Lochiel (as will clearly appear in due course). 

When matters were thus going forward. Mackintosh took fare- 
well of the Earl of Moray, who, when he saw that Mackintosh 
had rejected the price offered for the lands of Lochaber, was very 
indignant, and took away with him all his vassals of the Clan- 
chattan name, as if he would not allow them to return. But they 



p. 294] THE MACKINTOSHES 868 

quocunque vocaret, septimo Septembris, certissim^ sese recep- 
turos, Makintoshio occultum fideliter poUiciti sunt. Makin- 
toshius, motis a Delchappill Tentoriis, secundo Septembris Die 
Gartinam profectus est, ibique, positis, duarum Noctium spatio, 
castris, noDDullos inde ex suorum amicorum praecipuis, mag- 
namque Populi partem, viatici afierendi gratia, legavit, tresque 
Cohortes, unam, ad utrumque Findomensis fluminis latus, aliam 
ver6 ad rivum Naimensem, Eilravokam et Calderam versus, 
tertiam, denique, eircum fluvium Nessensem ad Petti usque et 
Ardirshier et Delnes, ad, eorum locorum Clanchattanos, qui 
vel aversi, vel nondum, adhuc, commonefacti erant, excitandos, 
dimisit, secumque, duntaxat, patruum suum Lauehlanum Clun- 
eium, et Invereium una cum ducentis ex Populi prsestantissimis 
in Satellitium eonservavit. 

QuABTo Septembris, Gortelak, quinto yer6 Abirehalidor, 
ubi, quatriduum, usque quo coeterae suae provenientes copise 
ascendissent, commoratus est, advenit. Sexto enim Septembris, 
Chartam quandam, a Comite Morraviensi ex aratam et sub- 
scriptam, omnes ejus Clientes, sese, ad Dannowan, septimo 
instantis Mensis, sub ingentis damni supplicio, conferre juben- 



promised faithfully to Mackintosh^ secretly^ that they would by no 
persuasion be absent^ but would most certainly betake themselves 
to him, to whatever place he called them^ on the 7th of September. 

Mackintosh moved his camp on the 2nd of September from 
Delchapel and marched to Garten, and there encamped for two 
nights. From thence he sent some of his principal friends, and a 
large part of the people, for the purpose of bringing provisions, 
and sent away three companies, one to both sides of the river 
Findhom, the other to the water of Nairn, towards Kilravok and 
Calder; and lastly, the third around by the water of Ness to 
Petty, and as far as to Ardersier and Delnes, to raise the Clan- 
chattans of these places, who were either averse or had not as 
yet been warned, while he kept with himself only his uncle 
Lauchlan, Cluny, and Inverey, along with two hundred of the 
ablest of his men as a guard. 

On the 4th of September he came to Gortuleg, on the fifth 
to Aberchallader, where he remained four days, until the rest of 
his forthcoming forces should come up. On the 6th of Septem- 
ber he received a paper indited and subscribed by the Earl of 
Moray, commanding all his vassals to go to Damaway on the 
seventh of that months under a heavy penalty. This caused 



364 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

[pagtt96.^ tem, recepit. Hoc,Makintoshio haud parvam creavit angustiam 
(quippe, Edictum istud, de industria, ut Makintoshio obstaculo 
esset, et, Populum, a debitis suppetiis conferendis, impediret, 
emissum est). Comes, interea, nullam sibi praestitam obedien- 
tiam, cunctosque suos Nominis Clanchattanei Clientes, fixo 
animo, semet, Makintoshio adjungere determinasse animadver- 
tens, atque neque commodum sibi, neque tutum fore, Regiae 
Majestatis Authoritati in propatulo opponere comperiens, 
resque ita gubemari ut nullus omnino effunderetur sanguis 
existimans (quippe, rumor erat, quosdam ex suis Clientibus, se, 
omni diligentia, preesens hoc negotium ita curare, ut, sine 
effuso sanguine, regressum facerent, allaboraturos pollicitos 
fuisse) priorem immutavit sententiam, Clientiumque suorum 
resolutioni favendi quoddam dedit specimen. Amicam nee non 
Epistolam, Makintoshio (ne quis de eo in suo pectore, inimicitie 
suspiciones foveret, quippe, ilie, omnia, ex animi sententia, in 
praesenti hoc negotio, cessura sincere optabat) conscribendam 
curavit. In ipsissimo, tamen, hujus Epistolae sinu includebatur 
alia, per Comitem Morraviae (ut videbatur) a Comite Rothusiae 
summo Regis Legato, impetrata, candido quasi et placido more 
petenti ut Makintoshius, a pace disturband^, usque quo ipse, 

Mackintosh no small difficulty (for that order was sent on purpose 
that it should be an obstacle to him^ and prevent the people from 
bringing the assistance they owed). Meanwhile the earl, observ- 
ing that no obedience was given to him, and that all his vassals 
of the Clanchattan name were determined, with fixed resolution, 
to join themselves to Mackintosh, and finding that it would be 
no advantage to himself, nor indeed safe, openly to oppose the 
King's Majesty's authority ; and thinking that matters might be 
so ordered as entirely to avoid the effusion of blood (for the 
report was that certain of his vassals had promised that, with all 
diligence, they should labour that this present enterprise should 
be so guided that they should return without any bloodshed), 
changed his former purpose, and made some show of favouring 
the resolution of his vassals. He caused a friendly letter to be 
¥rritten to Mackintosh (that he should not harbour in his breast 
suspicions of enmity on his part, for in his heart he sincerely 
wished him success in his present undertaking). In the very 
bosom of this epistle, however, there was another, obtained by 
the Earl of Moray (as it seemed) from the Earl of Rothes, the 
King's High Commissioner, desiring, in a sort of friendly and 
gentle way, that Mackintosh should abstain from distiu*bing the 



p. 295] THE MACKINTOSHES 866 

ilium, mutuis verbis, conveniret, abstineret, prsetensamque 
promissionem (ut, sc. adversiis Lochieldum, ill& sestate, minimi 
insurgeret) in Makintoshii memoriam revocanti. Verum 
Epistola M ense Augusto scripta erat, quod firmissimo et in- 
dubitato erat Argumento, Epistolam, more prsedicto, non 
serio, sed precari6, comparatam fuisse. Quapropter, ab amicis, 
ne, prsesenti huic negotio ofiendiculo foret, occultandum 
curavit. Hsec Epistola, nono Septembris Die, Makintoshio, in 
Glendoum, villam, in remotissimfi, versus Lochabriam, Strath- 
arrikee parte, sitam, proficiscenti, tradita est. In qufi villfi, 
duarum Noctium spatio, Tentoria fixit, atque, ibidem loci, 
Makintoshio, a Domino Glenurehy juniore, novam armorum 
intercapedinem, in Lochieldi gratiam, ut amici nonnulli, ad 
prsesentem controversiam convenirent, impetrante, alia tradita 
est Epistola. Verum Makintoshii Responsum hujusmodi erat, 
viz. se, in Lagganadidrom intra Comitatum Lochabriensem, 
duodecimo Mensis instantis Die, iter facturam, ubi, ejus vivendi 
copia, si libuerit, frueretur. Ita Makintoshius cum suo exercit(i, 
magna animi tranquillitate, per tredecim Dierum spatium, 
Stratharricse (inter centimanos istos et superbientes Gigantes, 



peace until he himself should meet with him in conference^ 
recalling to the memory of Mackintosh a pretended promise (to 
wit, that he would not rise against Lochiel that summer). But 
this letter was written in the month of August^ which was a very 
strong and indubitable evidence that the letter was procured in 
the manner aforesaid^ not seriously^ but by request. For this 
reason he took care to keep it hidden from his friends^ lest it 
should prove a hindrance in this present business. This letter 
was delivered to Mackintosh on the ninth day of September^ 
when he was on his way to Glendoum, a town in the farthest 
part of Stratherrick, towards Lochaber. In that town he en- 
camped two nights, and there another letter was delivered to him 
by the laird of Glenurehy, younger, requesting a new cessation 
of arms in favour of Lochiel, in order that some friends might 
meet together about the present controversy. But the answer of 
Mackintosh was to the effect, that he would be at Laggan-a- 
chidrom, in the Lochaber country, on the twelfth day of that 
same month, where, if he pleased, he might enjoy the liberty of 
meeting with him. 

Thus Mackintosh with his army sojourned for the space of 
thirteen days in Stratherrick with the greatest tranquillity of 



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quos haud diu antea inani glorii turgidos jactare non pudiut, 
cunctos in Regno Scoticano commorantcs Clanchattanos et si 
uno unitos agmine, per eorum patriam ineedere, ne vel in 
animum inducere ausuros) diversati. Undccimo Septembris, a 
GIendo,in Abirtarfam, explicatis Insigniis, commigrarunt, ibique 
Makintoshius, copiis illis, a Badenochia, juxta suam institu- 
tionem, accessuris, iisque Brelochabriam ineolentibus Slighkean 
dui vik ronald vulgo vocatis, occurrcns statim in Kiiwhimen, 
mille ducentorum et sexaginta audacis animi et inconcusss 
strenuitatis virorum (ducentis et quinquaginta militibus, turn 
animi turn corporis armatura haud leviter instructis, in, coai- 
meatuum et impedimentorum tutelam, destinatis, non nume- 
ratis) deleetum fecit, illaque Nocte, castra sua, in villa Kyltira 
figi, mandavit, ubi inconcinnae plera?que & in decentes Petitionee, 
ab Andrea Makpherson a Cluny factae sunt, quarum aliae 
negata;, alise vero (in Makintoshii damnum minimi cedentes) 
concessse. Itidem Concilium Bellicum hoc loci electum et in- 
stitutum est, copiseque omnes in formale Regimen redacts. 
[paget96\, Quo facto, et omnibus controversiis (inter Clanchattanos 



mind (among those hundred handed and proud giants^ who not 
long before were puffed up with vain glory, and not ashamed 
to boast that all the Clanchattan dwelling in the kingdom of 
Scotland, though united in one army, would not dare to march 
through their country, if they even dared to think of it). 

On the 11th of September they removed from Glendo to 
Abertarf with displayed banners, and there Mackintosh having 
met with the forces coming from Badenoch according to his 
appointment, and those dwelling in Brae Lochaber, commonly 
called Slighkean Dui vik Ronald, he forthwith made choice in 
Kilwhimen of twelve hundred and sixty men of a brave spirit 
and unwavering courage (not reckoning two hundred and fifty 
soldiers, well furnished both in mind and body, and not slightly 
accoutred, destined for guarding the provisions and baggage); 
and that night he ordered his camp to be pitched in the town of 
Kyltire, where several ill-considered and unbecoming petitions 
were made by Andrew Macpherson of Cluny, of which some were 
refused, but others (not much to the prejudice of Mackintosh) 
were granted. There also a council of war was chosen and con- 
stituted, and all the forces reduced to regular command. Which 
being accomplished, and all disputes (that appeared to be among 
the Clanchattan) removed, they marched, without any disturbance 



pp. 295-296] THE MACKINTOSHES 867 

vigere apparentibus) semotis, duodecimo Septembris, sine ull& 
disturbatione, in Lagganachrom vestigia flexere. Tredecimo, 
autem, Die, Dominus a Glenurchi, Makiutoshio obveniens, non- 
nullos amicos (qui, cum eo, de instanti controversifi, conferrent) 
selegi rogavit. Quamobrem Gulielmus Makintosh a Borlum, 
Alexander Makintosh a Connadg, et Dugallus Makpherson a 
Pury (qui illuc appulisse credebatur vel ut, Makphersonos, si 
posset, reduceret, vel, saltern, ut, pactum de agnis Lochabrien- 
sibus, in Comitis Argathelise commodum omnino cessurum, 
enix^ contenderet), huic muneri subeundo destinati sunt. Hie 
Dies, CoUoquiis, sed frustraneis, et nihil omnino certi con- 
cludentibus, fere totus insumptus est. Tantum Dominus a 
Glenurchi, serios interponendo rogatus, recentem ab armis 
vocationem, in, Diei Satumi succedentis Horam secundam 
pomeridianam, in Lochieldi favorem, obtinuit. 

Decimo quarto enim Die, per lucos Glastormorenses ad 
Clufies, villam Makintoshio propriam, gressus direxerunt. 
Quibus appropinquantibus, Lochieldus ejusque cognati et 
sectatores, sese cum suis bonis et omnigenis pecudum gregibus, 
in AustrcJe fluvii Airkakensis latus, rivi ingentis, et, tunc, 
nulla arte cymbfi, aut uno, duntaxat, vado, ab adversariis satis 



into Lagganachrom on the 12th of September. But on the 
thirteenth day the laird of Glenurchy met with Mackintosh and 
asked that some friends should be selected who might confer with 
him about the present controversy. Wherefore William Mackin- 
tosh of Borlum^ Alexander Mackintosh of Connage^ and Dougall 
Macpherson of Poury (who was believed to have come thither in 
order^ if possible, to withdraw the Macphersons, or at least that 
he might earnestly strive that the bargain about the lands of 
Lochaber should be wholly to the advantage of Earl of Argyll) 
were appointed to take this business upon them. That day was 
almost entirely spent in conferences, but in vain, and nothing at 
all certain was concluded ; only the laird of Glenurchy, by earnest 
entreaties, obtained a fresh cessation from arms in favour of Lochiel, 
until two o'clock in the afternoon of the following Saturday. 

But upon the fourteenth day they took their way through the 
woods of Glastormore to Clunes, Mackintosh's own town; on 
whose approach Lochiel, his kinsmen, and followers withdrew 
themselves, with their goods and all their herds and flocks, to the 
south side of the water of Arkaig, a great water, and at that time 
not passable by any means but by boat or by the ford only, which 



868 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

munito, pertransibilis, proripuerunt, aquamque, inter sese et 
Makintoshii agmina, interfluentem, occupcure decrevere. 

Jam enim animadvertendum est Rivum Airkakensem (uno 
Milliari longum), e lacu, nomine Lochairkagg, per duodedm 
milliarium intervallum extenso, in alium lacum (nomine Loch- 
iochi) dimanare, cumque aqua hsec (uti dictum), nullo alio vado, 
unico duntaxat excepto, permeari nequeat, Makintoshium (cui 
nulla tunc temporis erat cymba), utrumque lacus AJrkakensis 
latus (viginti quatuor milliaria ineedendo) circundare oportebat 
priusquam, ad locum ubi fixa erant hostis Tentoria, adveniret. 
Re ita se habente, Clanchameroni (ut fama fercbat), si Makin- 
toshius lacum circummearet, seipsos pecudumque ^reges, in 
Boreale aquee latus transvehere determinarunt, atque, hac arte, 
sese, Makintoshii agmina (usque quo totus consumeretur com- 
meatus) evitaturos sperabant. At Makintoshius (percepto 
eorum consilio) baud spemendam exercitus partem, ad fiuminis 
vadum muniendum, relinquere et, cum residuis copiis circum- 
meare concludit. Quindecimus Dies, Colloquiis (observata, 
tamen, inter utramque partem, distantia) etiam impensus est. 

Decimo sexto Die Makintoshius Borlumensis (qui unus ex 
Interlocutoribus erat) coeteros, quippe, nullam spem, in pr»- 

was sufficiently guarded from the enemy ; and they determined 
to keep the water flowing between themselves and the army of 
Mackintosh. For it should be observed that the river Arkaig 
(being one mile long) flows down from the loch called Loch- 
arkaig, extending over a distance of twelve miles, into another 
loch (named Lochlochy), and as this water cannot be passed (as 
was said) by any other ford but one only, it behoved Mackintosh 
(who at that time had no boat) to compass about both sides of the 
loch of Arkaig (by marching twenty-four miles) before he could 
reach the place where the enemy were encamped. The position 
being so, the Clan Cameron (as was reported) were determined, if 
Mackintosh should go round the loch, to carry over themselves 
and their herds and flocks to the north side, and by this device 
they hoped to evade the army of Mackintosh until their whole 
provision should be consumed. But Mackintosh, perceiving their 
intention, concluded to leave no small part of his army to guard 
the ford of the river, and with the rest of his force to march 
round. The flfteenth day was also spent in conference (the 
distance between both parties being nevertheless maintained). 

On the sixteenth day, Mackintosh of Borlum (who was one of 
those conferring) altogether deserted the others, because there 



pp. 296-297] THE MACKINTOSHES 869 

senti negotio, quicquam efficiendi, concipiebat, penitus deseruit. 
Prseterea quoque ille aliique duo, quoad res, de quibus colloquia 
instituebantur, idem sen tire minimi credebantur. Borlum enim, 
Makintoshii turn honorem, turn utilitatem, prs oculis semper 
habebat. Puryus vero, Comitis Argathelise rebus favebat, 
et quod ad Connagium attinet, etsi, Comitem Argathelise, l^ets?. 
Nominis Makintoshii deeori et commodo long^ posthabuit, 
quoddamque, illi a Makintoshio praemium prout velocibus 
famse alis constantia vehebatur, pro hac ejus in Lochabriam 
opera pollicitum fuerit, tantae illi, tamen, curse erat Lochieldi 
utilitas, ut, eum et Makintoshium, amico concordise nexu ligare, 
etiamsi cum Makintoshii detrimento, obnixe laborare statuit. 
Derelictis (ut antea dictum) a Borlumio Interlocutoribus, e6, 
residuis duobus, fines suos exequendi minus restabat diffi- 
cultatis. Quamobrem (cum, Makintoshium, suam Caussam 
alacriter vindicaturum noverint) sedulo et sollicite, maximam 
Concilii Bellici partem (prsesertim, Chmium, qui, plerosque ex 
suis amicis in hoc Concilio sedentes habuit) in suam attrahere 
sententiam conati sunt. Prsedicti decimi sexti Diei tempore 
matutino Connagius et Puryus (adducto secum Clunio) in 

seemed to him no hope of effecting anything in the present affair. 
Moreover, he and also other two were believed not to be of the 
same mind in regard to the precise matters about which the con- 
ferences were instituted. For Borlum ever had before his eyes as 
well the honoiu* as the advantage of Mackintosh. But Poury 
favoured the interest of the Earl of Argyll ; and as for Connage, 
although he held the Earl of Argyll in far less regard than the 
honour and advantage of the Mackintosh name, and as report was 
carried on swift wings that he had been promised by Mackintosh 
a reward for his trouble in going to Lochaber, yet the advantage 
of Lochiel was so cared for by him that he resolved to labour 
earnestly to bind him and Mackintosh in the friendly bond of 
concord, although to the detriment of Mackintosh. Those engaged 
in conference having been deserted by Borlum (as before stated), 
there remained the less difficulty to the other two to pursue their 
own ends. Wherefore (as they knew that Mackintosh would 
quickly vindicate his cause) they diligently and anxiously endea- 
voured to draw the greater part of the council of war (especially 
Cluny, who had many of his friends sitting in that council) to 
their opinion. 

On the morning of the said sixteenth day, Connage and Poury 
(taking Cluny with them) went to meet with the laird of Glen- 



870 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

Domini a Glenurchi et Hugonis Eraser a Foyer (qui ex parte 
Lochieldi interloquebantur) occursum ivenuit. Interea tern- 
poris Makintoshius, copiis suis, Aehnasavil versus incedendi 
jussa dedit. Arctissimi enim totius Lochabriae aditus, inter 
villas Clunes et Aehnasavil interjacent. Hasce id ciro angustiaa, 
ante exactum vocationis tempus, transmeare determinat. 
Exercitus congruenter progreditur, et, ante elapsam primam 
tern poris pomeridiani Horam, in Aehnasavill appuleruot, ubi 
(refocillato victu Populo) Concilium conclamatum est. CIuojus 
enim et uterque Interlocutor nuper a Colloquiis regressi, prae- 
cipuos Nominis Cattanei, iis, quae dicturi erant, auscultandis, 
praesto fore cupiebant. Connagius, rupto silentio, omnes 
Interlocutorum transactiones, blandulo verborum lenocinio 
repraesentat, se, sc. omnibus omnino usos fuisse methodis, 
omnem, quam possent, navasse operam, qua praesens Contro- 
versia, ad umbilicum (habita etiam Makintoshii utilitatis 
ratione) perduceretur, nuUamque apparere futurae concordiae 
umbram, ni Makintoshius, agros suos, Glenluy et Lochairkagg 
vendendi firmum iniret consilium, ipsosque (etsi nulla donatos 
libertate) emendi et vendendi leges iniisse, magnoque animi 



urchy and Hugh Eraser of Foyer (who were on the conference 
on Lochiers behalf). In the meantime^ Mackintosh gave orders 
to his forces to march towards Aehnasavil. For the most difficult 
passes of all Lochaber lie between the towns of Clunes and Aehna- 
savil. He resolved^ therefore^ to pass beyond these defiles before 
the time of the cessation was run out. The army accordingly went 
forward, and before the first hour after noon arrived at Aehnasavil; 
where (the people having been refreshed with food) the council 
of war was called together. For Cluny and both the members of 
the conference, having just a little before returned from colloquy, 
were desirous that the chief men of the Chattan name might be 
present to hear what they were to say. Connage, breaking the 
silence, in bland and winning terms, showed all that had passed 
between those on the conference, to the effect that they had used 
all means, and made every effort they could, that the present 
controversy might be brought to a point (respect being always 
had to the advantage of Mackintosh), and that there appeared no 
prospect of future agreement unless Mackintosh would agree to 
advise about selling his lands of Glenluy and Locharkaig; and 
that they themselves (though without warrant given to them) had 
entered upon conditions of buying and selling, and had with great 



p. 297] THE MACKINTOSHES 871 

fervore, Lochieldo, ut, quinquaginta mille Libras, saltern, offer- 
ret, inculcasse, atque e6 tandem, neque ulterius, magn& difficul- 
tate, delatum fuisse Lochieldum, ut 72,500 Mercas largiretur, et, 
firmo ingentis juramenti se obstrinxisse vinculo, omnia potius, 
incertis Belli casibus traditurum, quitm plura concederet. 

Makintoshius (cui nullum agrorum vendendorum fuerat 
consilium, et, licet tale quicquam statuisset, infra octoginta 
Mercarum millia vendere se nunquam consensurum decrevit) 
audita hac sermonis serie, retulit, se prius, totam fortunam 
periculis subjecturum, qukm tali unquam astipularetur con- 
dition!. Purius Mcpherson, quosdam ibi Generosos esse, qui 
(pensitata oblationis amplitudine), vitas suas, nuUomodo, in h^c 
controversia, periclitarentur, respondit. Clunius M^Pherson 
(in hujus sermonis fulcrum et corroborationem), se, hostes, 
numero circiter octingentos aut nongeutos, in ordinem mili- 
tarem redactos, conspexisse, neque, ulli, prselia aggrediendi, 
eorem imbecillitatem argumento esse, aiebat. Quantum enim 
ad se spectabat (si oblatse respuerentur conditiones), ipsum, ad 
banc controversiam discutiendam, ne vel manibus gladium 
arrepturum novit. Donaldus Makintosh Aldouriensis, et 
Donaldus McQueen Corribrochensis, simili semet obstrinxerunt 



fervour of mind impressed upon Lochiel that he should offer at 
least 50^000 pounds; but that at lengthy after great difficulty, 
he could be brought no further than to give 72,500 merks; 
and had bound himself firmly, on his great oath, that he would 
risk all to the uncertain issues of war rather than yield. 

Mackintosh (with whom there was no purpose of selling his 
land, and though he might resolve on such a thing, was deter- 
mined never to consent to sell below 80,000 merks), on hearing 
this line of discourse, replied that sooner than agree to such a 
condition he would hazard his whole fortune. Poury Macpher- 
son answered, that there were gentlemen there who (considering 
the largness of the offer) would on no wise venture their lives in 
this quarrel. Cluny Macpherson (by way of support and con- 
firmation of that speech) said that he had seen the enemy drawn 
out in military order, to the number of eight or nine hundred, 
and no one should venture into battle presuming on their weak- 
ness. So far as concerned himself (if the conditions offered were 
refused) he vowed that he would not take sword in hand to 
quell this quarrel. Donald Mackintosh of Aldourie and Donald 
M 'Queen of Corribroch bound themselves with the like vow. In 



372 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

voto. Adjecit itidem Connagius Etsi Makintoshii agminn^ 
Lochieldi duplo superarent, se, tamen, pro comperto habere, 
magnam Populi partem viatico destitutes esse, neque, sine 
esculentis et eduliis, istos progredi posse, hostique Bellum 
aggrediendi remanere animum, et, quanquam hostes Bella 
[page £98.] gerendi incapaces essent, eos, tamen, pro libitu pugnandi ansas 
evitare, adversariosque suos, cum dedecore regredi cogere posse. 
Imo (ut paucis absolvam), residui in hoc Consilio confidendes 
G^nerosi, demptis, duntaxat, tribus, qui, in, Makintoshii, 
illiusque cognatorum decus et honorem, plus adhuc temporis, 
in majori pretio acquirendo, impendendum, existimabant, 
Populum victus inopem animadvertentes, et, quo, in hac re, 
Aldourius, Cluneus, Connagius, Corribrochus et Purius essent 
animo, compcrientes (antequam ulla committeretus sanguinis 
effusio), oblatum pretium boni consulere perpendebant. Makin- 
toshius, audita particulari unius cuj usque sententia, magna 
commotus indignatione, surrexit, dixitque, se neutiquam dubi- 
tare quin, tot Nominis Clanchattani, ej usque Caussa?, ad versus 
Clanchameronos, sustinendee promptos et paratos, Lochabris 
tunc commorantes reperiret, quot (adjuvante Numinis bene- 
volentia), nuUo quorumlibet oppositionum habito respectu, 

like manner^ Connage added^ that although the army of Mackintosh 
was double that of Lochiel, yet he held it for certain that a great 
part of the people were destitute of provisions, and they could not, 
without meat and drink, go to war with an enemy ready to fight ; 
and although the enemy were incapable of engaging in war, yet 
they could at their will avoid occasions of fighting, and so force their 
adversaries to retire with dishonour. Yea (that I may dismiss the 
subject in few words), all the rest of the gentlemen on the council, 
excepting only three who were of opinion that for the credit and 
honour of Mackintosh and his kinsmen more time should yet be 
spent for acquiring a larger price, observing that the people were 
in want of food, and finding in what mind Aldourie, Cluny, Con- 
nage, Corribroch, and Poury were upon this matter, considered it 
good to deliberate upon the price offered before any fighting took 
place. On hearing every one's particular opinion. Mackintosh, 
moved with great indignation, rose up and said that he had not 
the least doubt but that he should find as many of the name of 
Clanchattan then dwelling in Lochaber, ready and prepared to 
sustain his cause against the Clan Cameron, as would be able 
(with the help of God), in this present state of affairs, to carry 



pp. 297-298] THE MACKINTOSHES 373 

ipsius, in prsesenti hoc rerum statu, desideriis, ad debitam 
metam perducendis, pares essent, atque ita fatus, semet celeriter 
erexit. Hinc eoim semimilliare progressae copise, ea Nocte, ad 
lacus Lochairkag latus, castra locanda curarunt. 

Decimo octavo Die rursus conveniunt amici, et, Makintoshio, 
permulta ilia et damnifera, sine viatico, procedendi incommoda, 
illique longe ut ilius et magis honorificum fore, prsmemorato 
pretio sufFragari, quam, re summa infecta, domum redire, 
insinuare allaborant, seque omnes a regressfi, 2,500 Mercas, ex 
ipsorum pecunia, ad Summam 50,000 Librarum supplendam, 
addituros, polliciti sunt. 

H^c, Mackintoshii mentem, baud leviusculo disturbantium 
molestiarum cumulo circumquaque onerarunt. Suo, t€unen, 
versans animo quandoquidem, tot, tantisque angustiis et cruci- 
antibus perplexitatibus, in hac prima sua expeditione, occur- 
reret, verisimile fore in secunda se majoribus occursurum, imo, 
et illos ex suis cognatis, quos, ob prsestitum tunc obsequium, 
non leve manebat prsemium, ipsum, maximis angustiarum 
fluctibus agitatum, deserturos, nee non, si hostes, sese, suasque 
pecudes tunc temporis subducerent, victiis indigentiam, turn 
sibi, turn suo Populo, manifestam dedecoris maculam aspergere 

out his desires to their destined end^ in spite of the opposition of any 
persons whatever ; and having thus spoken, he quickly drew him- 
self up. The army marched forward thence half a mile, and that 
night encamped at the side of Locharkaig. 

On the eighteenth day^ the friends again met, and laboured 
to impress upon Mackintosh the many and harmful disadvantages 
of going on without provision, and that it would be far more to 
his advantage and his honour to agree to the aforementioned price 
than to return home with his main purpose undone ; and they all 
promised that on his return they would provide of their own money 
2500 merks to make up the sum of 50^000 pounds. 

These things burdened the mind of Mackintosh with no light 
load of disturbing troubles from every quarter. Yet, when he 
considered that since in this his first expedition he had met with 
so many difficulties and cross purposes, it was very likely that, 
in the second, he should encounter greater : yea, also, that those 
of his kinsmen, who had no light reward awaiting them for 
the service then rendered, were about to desert him amidst the 
heaviest floods of difficulties, and that, if the enemy at that time 
should withdraw themselves and their cattle, the want of supplies 
would cast a manifest stain of dishonour both upon himself and 



374 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

potuisse, annuumque Summse a Lochieldo promissse reditum, 
turn et conditionem a suis amicis factam, sibi futuram emolu- 
mento majori, qukm ullum alium eorum agrorum proventum, 
ab ipso vel suis posteris deinde sperandum, amicorum sententiae, 
etsi ingenti animi reluctantia, succumbere, oblatumque pretium 
(etsi invitus) exosculari decrevit. Eo vespere, Mackintoshius 
cum suo Populo, per semimilliaris spatium regressi sunt, cas- 
traque sua juxta Insulam Lochairkaggensem defigenda curarunt, 
et, decimo nono Septembris Die, in Clunes iter contendenmt, 
ubi (post, variarum rerum, ad praesens ncgotium spectantium, 
agitationem) Pactum exaratum, et, ab utraque jiarte, sub- 
scriptum est, in quo, Makintoshius, agros Glenluyet Lochair- 
kagg, Lochieldo, vel cuivis alii, ab eo post modum nominando, 
vendere tenebatur. Lochieldus autem, se ipsum et sex ex 
suorum amicorum prsecipuis, sub ingentis dispendii pomis, 
Makintoshio, duodecim millium et quingentarum Mercarum 
Summam (pretii venditorum agrorum partem) duodecimo 
Januarii proxime successuri Die, intra Urbem Perthensem, 
solvere, eodem quoque Die, sufRcientem, pro reliqu^ Summa, 
prsestare securitatem (ad, sex quorumlibet virorum, a Makin- 



his people ; and that the yearly rent of the sum promised by 
Lochiel, as well as the condition proposed by his friends, would 
yield to him a greater emolument than any other revenue of the 
lands that could be hoped for by himself or his posterity there- 
from, he resolved, though with great reluctance, to yield to the 
opinion of his friends, and to accept (though against his will) the 
offered price. 

That night Mackintosh, with his people, withdrew by the 
space of half a mile, and pitched their camp near the island of 
Locharkaig; and on the 19th of September they marched to 
Clunes, where (after the discussion of various matters relating to 
the present business) a contract was written out, and subscribed 
by both parties, whereby Mackintosh was bound to sell the lands 
of Glenluy and Locharkaig to Loch i el, or to any other person to be 
afterwards named by him ; while Lochiel straitly obliged himself 
and six of his principal friends, under penalties of large amount, 
to pay to Mackintosh the sum of 12,500 merks (part of the price 
of the lands sold), on the 12th of January next, within the 
town of Perth : also, on the same day, to find sufficient security 
for the remainder of the amount (to the full satisfaction of what- 
ever six men should be nominated by Mackintosh), and that the 



pp. 298-299] THE MACKINTOSHES 876 

toshio nuncupandorum, plenam satisfactionem), solutionisque 
terminos fore Festa Martini Annorum 1666 et 1667, firmiter 
obligavit. Vigesimo Septembris Die 1665, Lochieldus, superato 
Airkaggensi fluvio, ipse et Makintoshius, viginti quatuor ex 
cognatorum prsecipuis undique comitati, in pago Cluniensi, 
pariter conveniunt, et, sibi invicem, amico more, obviam 
euntes, colloquuntur, combibunt, et, permutatis, in sincerse 
reconciliationis testimonium, gladiis, discesserunt. Diluto (ut 
verisimile erat) prisco illo et perantiquo odio, magna ssevitifi 
et crudelitate, inter eorum Antecessores, per trecentorum et 
sexaginta Annorum spatium, continuato. Pomeridiano illius 
Diei tempore, Makintoshius cum suo exercitu, a Pago Clunensi, iP^i^^ 
in Laggan-achdrom, semet, ordine receperunt, ubi, post varios 
exhibitos amicitise amplexus, copiae Badenochenses et Marrenses, 
Makintoshio, cceterisque amicis valedixerunt, atque ita fideiis 
hie exercitulus, bonis avibus et tranquille dimissus est. 

Hoc inter Makintoshium et Lochieldum Fcedus, multorum, 
qui (prosperae et amplae Clanchattanorum fortunse semulantes, 
scelestamque Clanchameronorum in latrocinia propensionem 
odio habentes), talem inter eos congressum, qui, in utriusque 

terms of payment should be the feasts of Martinmas of the years 
1666 and 1667 respectively. 

On the 20th of September l665, Lochiel, having passed over 
the water of Arkaig, Mackintosh and he met together in the 
village of Clunes^ accompanied on each side with twenty-four 
of the chief men of their kinsmen^ and conversed and drank 
with each other in a friendly manner; and when separating 
they exchanged swords, in token of sincere reconciliation, thus 
wiping out (as seemed probable) that original and very ancient 
hatred, which had lasted with great fierceness and cruelty between 
their ancestors for the space of three hundred and sixty years. 
In the afternoon of that day. Mackintosh with his army marched 
from Clunes village to Lagganachdrom, where, after various demon- 
strations of friendship, the forces of Badenoch and Mar bade fare- 
well to Mackintosh and the other friends, and so this faithful little 
army was auspiciously and peacefully dismissed. 

This agreement between Mackintosh and Lochiel disappointed 
the hope of many who (emulous of the prosperous and great 
fortune of the Clanchattans, and holding in hatred the wicked 
propensity of the Clan Cameron to robbery) were wishful of such 
a conflict between them as might tend to the destruction of both^ 



876 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

pemiciem certo tenderet, futurum optabant, spein fefellit, aliis- 
que, qui (utramque Tribum, sanguine semel efiiiso, perpetuum 
tractaturam Bellum verentes), sua subduxerunt subsidia, sese 
adeo inhumane, erga Makintoshium, gessisse, pcenitendi ansam 
praebuit. 

Illi etiam, quorum Majoribus (rerum arctarum perplexi- 
tatum pclago circumquassatis) saepe ssepius favebant et auxilia- 
bantur Domino a Makintosh, ut in praecedentibus hisce pagellis 
clarum est, quique, hac vice, in, grati animi testimonio edendo 
defecerunt (ut Mackenzii, Grantei, aliique), suum jam errorem 
deprchendere aggrediuntur, suaeque ingratitudinis pcenitere 
ccBperunt. 

M£NK£ Januario Anni 1666, Makintoshius, sex ex sui 
Nominis primis comitatus, Pertham, ut, icti inter ipsum et 
Lochieldum Fcederis Capita rite adimpleta videret, profectus 
est. Verum Lochieldus, qui, toto hoc tempore, Comitis 
Argatheliae utilitati inhiabat, nondum apparuit. Sed Dominum 
a Glenurchi juniorem (ut ejus excusaret absentiam, aliumque 
Conventum Edinburgi, Mense Februario inde subsecuturo, 
habendum, statueret) misit. Quod etiam efFectum est, ubi, 
post varias ortas et discussas contentiones, Pactum de agris 



and gave occasion of repentance to others^ who (fearing that both 
clans^ if once blood was shed, would wage perpetual war) withdrew 
their help^ and so behaved themselves unkindly towards Mack- 
intosh. Those also whose ancestors (when tossed on every side in 
a sea of straits and perplexities) were again and again favoured 
and helped by the laird of Mackintosh, as is evident in these fore- 
going pages, and who on this occasion failed to give any token of 
gratitude (as the Mackenzies, Grants^ and others), began now to 
discover the error they had fallen into, and to repent of their 
ingratitude. 

In the month of January 1666, Mackintosh, accompanied with 
six chief men of his name, went to Perth that he might see the 
chief points of the agreement come to between himself and 
Lochiel duly fulfilled. But Lochiel, who was all the time looking 
eagerly to the interests of the Elarl of Argyll, did not as yet 
appear. But he sent the laird of Glenurchy, younger, that 
he might excuse his absence, and appoint another meeting to 
be held at Edinburgh in the month of February then follow- 
ing. Which also was done, and here, after various contentions 
that had arisen were discussed^ the bargain anent the lands of 



p. 299] THE MACKINTOSHES 377 

Glenlui et Lochairkagg, ante elapsum vigesimum quartum 
Mensis Martii Anni 1666 Diem, cum Comite Argathelise con- 
clusum, et, ad optatam metam, idque in summam Mackintoshii 
satisfactionem tandem perductum est. 

Ad Festum Penteoostes ejusdem Anni Makintoshius, Summa 
viginti mille Mercarum solata, agros suos Brelochabrienses, e 
manibus Mnesa Domini Maakdonald redemit. Mense Sep- 
tembris 1666, caedis nonnihil, inter quosdam Nominis Gordonii 
et Farquharsonorum Bremarrensium, commissum est, quod, 
Makintoshio nonnullam creavit molestiam. Imo, ni res pru- 
denter curata, et, ulteriori malo tempestive prseclusa fuisset 
janua, in deteriora perpetranda attraheretur utraque Familia. 

Res ita se habuit, Johannes Gordonus a Breachly, accepta 
ab Urbis Abredonise Senatu, eorum, qui, in fluvio Diensi, 
Salmones, tempore, a Lege vetito (viz. inter 15 Augusti et 30 
Novembris Diem) occiderent, puniendorum libertate, nonnuUos 
Nominis Farquharsoni, eorumque Inquilinos, rigido et inhumano 
more, multavit, et, 15 prsedicti Mensis Die (convocata suorum 
Clientium et Sectatorum cohorte) quosdam Bremarrenses, a 
Mercato, apud Kilmuram Angusianam habito, regredientes, in 



Glenluy and Locharkaig was, before the 24th of March in the 
year 1666^ concluded, and brought at last to the end desired^ 
and that to the greatest satisfaction of Mackintosh. 

At Whitsunday of the same year. Mackintosh redeemed his 
lands of Brae Lochaber from the hands of Eneas, Lord Macdonald, 
for the sum of 20,000 merks. 

In September I666, some slaughter was committed between 
certain of the name of Gordon and the Farquharsons of Braemar 
which caused some trouble to Mackintosh; in fact, unless the matter 
had been prudently dealt with, and the door closed in good time 
against further mischief, it might have drawn both families into 
worse misdeeds. The affair happened thus : 

John Gordon of Breachly, having received from the town council 
of Aberdeen warrant to punish those who killed salmon in the 
water of Dee in the time forbidden by law (that is, between 
1 5th of August and 30th of November), fined some of the name 
of Farquharson, and their tenants, in a strict and inhumane 
manner; and on the 15th day of the month aforesaid (having 
called together a band of his clients and followers) he beset 
certain of the Braemar people on the highway as they were 
returning from the market held at Kirriemuir, in Angus, and 



878 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

via trita, obsidendos curavit, atque (flagellatis eorum aliis) 
illegitimo more, ab iis 16 aut 18 Equos pignore arripuit. 

Decimo septimo memorati Mensis Die, Johannis Farquhar- 
son ab Invercy (eorum fere omnium, prsefata prsedatione 
molestatorum Dominus), ipsissimis Equorum arreptorum heris, 
aliisque suorum amicorum, associatus, ad Nundinum TuUich- 
ense, milliaris intervalla, a prsedicti Gordonii Breachliensis 
aedificio, distans, muniendum, descendit, et, inter eundem, 
Nuncium Breachlio legavit rogatem ut (quandoquidem 
memorata Pignoratio iilicita fuerat, nonnullique ex £quis 
arreptis, ad viros nunquam propter Salmonum occisioDem 
multatos, pertinuerant) ideoque, ablatos Equos legitimis suis 
[page 900,^ Dominis restituere dignaretur, et ille, nempe, Johannes 
Farquharson Invereyensis, omnes istos accusati Criminis reos, 
debitum luituros supplicium, antequam a Foro regresaum 
facerent, poUicitus est. Verum Breachlius, ulia lege, Cquos 
restaurare renuit. Invereius enim, ab Equis ulteriiis 
sollicitandis, hac lege, desistere volebat, mod6 Breach- 
lius, ortas jam discordias, benevolis quibusdam amids 
(quatriduo post elapsum Fori Tullichensis tempus) discutien- 
das relinquere consentiret. Breachlius, huic determinationi 
replicare semet accingenti, Alexander Gordonus ab Aberzeldi, 

(having beaten others of them) he took from them, in an illegal 
manner, sixteen or eighteen horses as a forfeit. 

On the seventeenth day of the same month, John Farquharson 
of Inverey (master of almost all those who were molested by the 
aforesaid robbery), accompanied by the owners of the horses 
seized, and otliers of his friends, went down to guard the fair of 
Tullioh, distant about a mile from the house of the aforesaid 
Gordon of Breachly, and on the way sent a messenger to Breachly, 
requesting that (as the aforesaid seizure was illegal, and some of 
the horses taken belonged to men who never were fined for kill- 
ing salmon) he would therefore be good enough to restore the 
horses to their rightful owners ; and he, that is John Farquharson 
of Inverey, would promise that all who were guilty of the crime 
charged should suffer due punishment before they returned from 
the market. But Breachly refused to restore the horses on any 
condition. Inverey, indeed, was willing to desist from further 
demanding the horses, on this condition, that Breachly would 
consent to leave to certain friends the discussion of the present 
disagreement within four days after the close of the TuUich 
market. While Breachly was preparing to reply to this proposal, 
Alexander Gordon of Abergeldy came to his assistance with a 



pp. 299-300] THE MACKINTOSHES 879 

armatorum virorum cohorte, in illius subsidium, accessit. 
Quapropter Breachlius, quicquam, de h&c re, ulterius disserere 
dedignatur, atque, decumanfi furentis passionis flamma in- 
stimulatus, Invereium, ej usque Inquilinos, paratis Bombcirdis 
' Sclopis et districtis Gladiis, insequitur. 

Inv£R£ius, sanguinem cum vicinis et propinquis inire con- 
gressum minime cupiens, primo impetui cessit, serio rogitans 
ut Brachlius, ab ulteriore invasione desisteret. Verum 
Brachlius, Aberzeldius, eorumque asseclae, eo acriores facti 
sunt, tandemque duos ex Invereii sectatoribus eodem loci 
interemerunt. Quamobrem Invereius, ej usque Inquilini, 
proprise tutelae gratia, vehemente Invasorum furori resistere 
coacti, conversis in hostes vultibus, dictum Johannem 
Gordonum a Brachli, ejusque fratrem Gulielmum, nee non 
Jacobum Gordon a Cults (qui, nimirum, maxima insequebantur 
violentia) vita defunctos reliquerunt. Brevi post commissam 
banc caedim, propinquiores Brachlei amici, Invereium, mag- 
namque ejus amicorum partem, tanquam horrendi Criminis 
ream, secuti sunt. Coram Justiciario Regni Summo divexe- 
runt. Invereius, Makintoshio, nimirum, suo Grenearchse et 
Capiti recun-it, qui (revocato in mentem, non diu antea, in 
Lochabriensi Expeditione, edito ab Invereio in eum grati et 

band of armed men. Wherefor Breachly disdained to reason any 
further on that matter, and, being urged on by a great flame of 
furious passion, pursued Inverey and his tenants with loaded 
guns, pistols, and drawn swords. Inverey, being desirous not to 
engage in bloody conflict with his near neighbours, at first gave 
way to the attack, seriously entreating Breachly to desist from 
further assault. But he and Abergeldy and their retainers there- 
upon became the more fierce, and at length killed two of Inverey's 
followers on the spot. Wherefor Inverey and his tenants were 
forced, in their own defence, strongly to resist the fury of 
their assailants; and, facing the enemy, slew the said John 
Gordon of Breachly and his brother William, and also James 
Gordon of Cults (who were undoubtedly pursuing with the greatest 
impetuosity). 

Shortly after this slaughter, the nearest relatives of Breachly 
pursued Inverey, and a great part of his friends, as guilty of this 
horrid crime, and dragged him before the Chief Justice of the 
kingdom. Inverey had recoiurse to Mackintosh, as undoubtedly 
his chief, who (calling to mind that not long before, in the 
Lochaber expedition, the example of a grateful and friendly dis- 



380 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

amici animi specimine) ejus Caussam vindicare certissime 
decrevit, atque, ut, suam, in hac re efficienda, promptitudinem 
patefaceret, ter, e Domo sua, in Edinburgutn, ejus tuendi 
gratis, iter fecit, ej usque amicitia et potestate res e6, tandem, 
adducta est, ut nullus, tandem, ad earn Caussam ulterius 
urgendam apparuit Accusator, atque ita, brevi temporis 
decursu, bene merito cognato, opportuna, sincerum grati 
animi testimonium, ab amante Genearcha accipieudi, oblata est 
ansa. Insuper, sicut amor et candid us bene merentium 
cognatorum, erga suum Phylarchum, gestus, perpetuo revires- 
centis memorise sinu conservari debeat, ita inhuman! et 
malevoli pessime se gerentium consanguineorum mores, non 
alto silentio sunt prsetereundi, atque hujusmodi injuriarum 
Makintoshius (ut, subsecuturS hac sermonis serie, prseter eas, 
quas Annis 1664 et 1665 perpessus est, apparebit) baud 
leviusculam habuit experientiam. 

Mexse Septembris 1667, Brelochabriensium colluvies in 
Gleneskam descendens, sub ipsissimum illud tempus, quo, 
Makintoshius, Domini ab Edgell filiam uxorem duxit, ab 
hujus Domini Inquilinis pecudum gregem abripuit, Mak- 

position was shown by Inverey to him) determined most 
assuredly to vindicate his cause; and that he might show his 
readiness to effect that purpose, he made his journey thrice 
from his own house to Edinburgh for the sake of his defence ; 
and by his friendship and influence the matter was at length 
brought to this, that no accuser appeared to urge on the 
case any further; and thus, in the course of a short time an 
opportune occasion was offered to a well-deserving kinsman of 
receiving from his loving chief the sincere testimony of a grate- 
ful mind. Moreover, as the love and friendly behaviour of well- 
deserving kinsmen towards their chief ought to be held in 
perpetual remembrance, so the unkindly and malevolent manners 
of kinsmen, who behave themselves very badly, are not to be 
passed over in deep silence ; and of this kind of wrong 
Mackintosh had no small experience, as will appear in the follow- 
ing narrative, besides those which he suffered in the years l664 
and 1665. 

In the month of September l667 a rabble of the Brae Loch- 
aber people, coming down to Glenesk, about the very time in 
which Mackintosh married the daughter of the laird of Edzell, 
took away their cattle from the tenants of that laird. Mackin- 
tosh, regarding this affront as inflicted on himself, resolved either 



pp. 300-301] THE MACKINTOSHES 381 

intoshius, labeculam banc, quasi sibimet inustam, existimans, 
vel Domini ab Egel damnum et dispendium reparare, vel, in 
hujus facinoris patratores, ulcisci decrevit, atque, in hunc 
finem, Novembre succedente, nonnullos ex suorum amicorum 
prsecipuis, Invemesss convocandos curavit, ubi, magno dolonis 
sensu, iis, quantas, in honore, sorte ct existimatione, a Bre- 
lochabriensibus pertulerat injurias, apperiit. Imprimis, Quo- 
modo agrorum Glenluy & Lochairkagg proventus violenter [^geSOi] 
retinuerant, deinde, Quomodo Publica solven renuerant, quod, 
Makintoshio, procul dubio, magnam, tandem, et insperatam 
crearet molestiam, Tertio vero, Qukm contumeliose, in ipsius 
contemptum et manifestum opprobrium, pecudem gregem a 
socero suo nuper abripuissent, commemoravit. Prseterea 
quoque damniferum sibi et in commodum fuisse, se ofiicium 
Ballivatus et Senascalatus Dominii de Lochaber nondum 
exercuisse, illis patefecit, seque, nullum prsesente aptius aut 
magis idoneum, non modo damnis et injuriis hactenus perpessis 
reparandis, sed et ipsi prsedicto officio instaurando, fuisse 
tempus concepisse, atque, in hunc finem, se, eos (quippe 
charissimos amicos) ut eorum mentem et consilium, qu6d ad 
hasce res attinet, cognosceret illuc convocasse ostendit. 

to repair the injury and loss of the laird of Edzell^ or to be 
revenged on the perpetrators of this mischief. To this effect, in 
November following, he called together some of his chief friends 
at Inverness, where, with much painful feeling, he showed them 
what wrong he had suffered in honour, estate, and reputation, 
from the Brae Lochaber people. In the first place, how they had 
violently kept back the revenues of the lands of Glenluy and Loch- 
arkaig ; then how they had refused to pay the public dues, which 
he was far from doubting would at length cause to himself great 
and unlooked-for trouble ; and, thirdly, he related how they had 
shamefully, and to his manifest contempt and reproach, lately 
seized and driven away the flocks and herds of his father-in-law. 
Moreover, he showed them also how hurtful and disadvantageous 
it was to him that he had not yet exercised the office of bailiery 
and stewardry of the lordship of Lochaber; and that there 
seemed to him no time more apt and suitable than the present, 
not only for repairing the losses and injuries hitherto suffered, 
but also for re-establishing himself in the aforesaid office ; and 
declared that he had now called them together (because they 
were his dearest friends) for that purpose, that he might ascer- 
tain what was their judgment and advice in regard to these matters^ 



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Jam observandum est, sub hoc tempus, Caussas nonnuUas, 
aliasque disputabiles Questiones inter Makintoshium, Borlum- 
ium, Connagium, aliosque agitandos fuisse. Itidetn M^Pherson 
a Cluny, tunc temporis illegitimum debitum (cui solvendo 
Donaldum Makintosh ab Aldoury obstrictum habuit fide- 
jussorem) a Makintoshio petebat. Quatuor hi Generosi in 
dicto Conventii prsesentes, et, de Responsione, Domino a 
Makintosh exhibenda consultantes, atque, quandam difiiculta- 
tem, in suis, adversus Makintoshium, caussis, legitimo more 
asserendis apparuisse, nee non, Makintoshium, ea tempestate, 
res Lochabrienses (illis auxilium non conferentibus) peragere 
nequivisse secum pensitantes, arreptam banc ansam in suam 
utilitatem convertere, Makintoshium, sc. vel eorum desideriis 
licitis sive illicitis astipulari cogendo, vel, illi, in hoc negotio 
perficiendo, remoras vel impedimenta objiciendo, determinant, 
atque, quo felicius suorum rogatus adimplerentur, astute satis 
et callid^ sese gesserunt. Imprimis, ejus in Lochabriam pro- 
ficiscendi consilium (asserentes nullum hibemo aptius aut 
commodius fore tempus, quippe tunc Lochabrienses, sua pecore 
in montes abigere non valerent) collaudarunt, eorumque cuncti 



It is to be observed that about this time some causes and 
various other disputable questions were agitated between Mackin- 
tosh, Borlum, Connage, and others. In like manner, Macpherson 
of Cluny was at that time craving from Mackintosh an unjust 
debt (for payment of which he had bound Donald Mackintosh of 
Aldourie as surety). These four gentlemen were present at the 
said meeting, and consulting as to the answer that should be 
given to the laird of Mackintosh, they, considering with them- 
selves that there appeared to be some difficulty in maintaining 
their causes against Mackintosh in a legal manner, and also that 
the latter could not well carry on his affairs in Lochaber at that 
time without their assistance, determined to turn the present 
occasion to their own profit, so as either to force Mackintosh to 
grant their desires (whether lawful or not), or to throw delays or 
obstacles in the way of his carrying out this business ; and in 
order the more successfully to get their demands fulfilled, they 
went about the matter craftily and skilfully. First of all, they 
applauded his design of going to Lochaber (declaring that 
there was no time more suitable and advantageous than winter, 
for then the Lochaber folks would not drive away their cattle to 
(he mountains) ; and all of them promised to go thither with him. 



p. 301] THE MACKINTOSHES 388 

cum eo illuc proficisi pollicentur. Deinde (quo ardentius 
praBsens susceptum perficeretur) decimum Decembris proxime 
subsecuturi Diem dicunt, quo, omnes, apud Garvam Brebade- 
nochiae pagum, ut ex inde semet in Lochabriam acciDgerent, 
convenirent. Tertid, Makintoshio, ut, amicos et consanguineos 
suos Bremarrenses, omni, qufi posset, celeritate, Epistolis 
commonefaceret, quo, illi, omnibus, ad iter faciendum, suppedi- 
tati necessariis, institutum diem et locum observarent, per- 
suaserunt. Quarto, omnes intra Dominium Lochabriense 
commorantes, in suarum Curiarum (Horis et Locis tunc con- 
stituendis) observationem, ilium citare consulerunt. Denique, 
ut, Marchioni ab Huntley, per Literas,. suam. Curias Locha- 
brise tenendi determinationem significaret, atque, ut, Populum 
Lochabriensem, debitam iis Curiis exhibere obedientiam et 
obsequium (quo, Regis subditis justicia administraretur) 
efiiceret, Marchionem rogare eum adhortati sunt. 

Haec omnia, a Makintoshio rite efiecta sunt, etque, 
hoc modo, quatuor Grenerosi, Makintoshium (quandoquidem, 
huic incoepto peragendo tantopere animum adhibuerit) suam 
Lochabriam adeundi intentionem, non, sine dedecore, im- 
mutare potuisse coucluserunt. Quod ciim ita esset, nuUa- 

Then (that he might the more earnestly carry out the present 
enterprise), they said they would all meet together on the 10th 
of December next following at Garve^ a village of Brae Badenoch, 
ready armed, to go with him thence to Lochaber. Thirdly, they 
persuaded Mackintosh that he should, with all possible speed, 
forcibly remind his friends and kinsmen of Braemar by letters, so 
that they should all keep the day and place appointed, supplied 
with all things needful for taking the route. Fourthly, they 
advised him to summon all those dwelling within the lordship 
of Lochaber to his courts (at the hours and places then to be 
appointed). And lastly, that he should signify to the Marquis of 
Huntly, by his letters, his determination to hold courts in Loch- 
aber ; and they exhorted him to request the Marquis that he 
would cause the Lochaber people to give due obedience and sub- 
mission to these courts (whereby justice should be administered 
to the King's subjects). 

All these things were duly carried into effect by Mackintosh, 
and in this way the four gentlemen concluded that Mackintosh 
(as he had so much set his mind upon the execution of this enter- 
prise), could not, without dishonour, change his purpose of going 
to Lochaber ; which, as it was so, they were no wise doubtful but 



384 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

tenus dubitarunt, quin prius rogatibus obtemperaret, qukm 
eorum comitatu destitueretur. 

Makintoshius, sese huic itineri adimplendo accingens, (dum 
amicos hosce suos rite et secundum Promissa acturos expectaret) 
monitus est nee Borlumium, nee Clunium, nee Aldourium (ni 
eorum desideria qualiacunque largirentur) Locbabriam 
adituros. 

CoNNAGius, autem, (habito prsemanibus magni momenti 
negotio, quo neglecto, de illius Nomine et Honore actum esset, 
et cui, non annuente et succurrente Genearcha, colophoDem 
imponere minime posset) suum rogatum ulterius inculcare 
supersedit. Makintoshio, tamen, ut, ex futuris ejus actionibus 
constabit, in ilia expeditione, obstaculo esse statuit. Makin- 
toshius, inhumano hoc et minimi genuino amicorum suorum 
facinore perculsus, baud levi incaluit ira. Tandem, tamen, 
[pageSOt,^ Borlumii et Aldourii Petitiones (quippe iniquas et ridiculis im- 
pertinentiis confarcinatas) flocci facere, Cluniique ver6 Postu- 
latis, etsi etiam injustis, si mod6 (ideliter, se, in ea expeditione 
finiendd, animitus processurum promitteret, satisfacere decrevit, 
et, hac lege, Makintoshius et Clunius paciscuntur, viz. Mak- 
intoshius, Syngrapham, in quam Clunius sibi jus fuisse 

that he would sooner grant their requests than want their 
company. 

While Mackintosh was preparing to perform this journey (and 
expecting that those his friends would duly act according to 
their promises), he was warned that neither Borlum nor Cluny 
nor Aldourie would go to Lochaber (unless he would grant their 
desires unconditionally). But Connage (having a business already 
in hand of great importance, in which his name and honour were 
concerned, and to which he could not make a good end without 
the assent and succour of his chief) forbore to insist further on 
his demand. By his future actions, however, it appeared that he 
resolved to be an obstacle to Mackintosh in that expedition. 

Mackintosh, deeply affected by this cruel and unnatural conduct 
on the part of his friends, was greatly incensed. At length, 
however, he resolved to make light of the demands of Borlum and 
Aldourie (as unjust and full of absurd irrelevancies), and to 
satisfy the desires of Cluny, although they also were unjust, if 
only he would faithfully promise to go with him heartily to the 
conclusion of that expedition ; and on this condition Mackintosh 
and Cluny came to terms ; that is to say, it was agreed that the 
bond to which Cluny claimed right should be assigned to his 



pp. 301-302] THE MACKINTOSHES 386 

asserebat, ejus creditoribus assignandam astipulatur. Clunius 
ver6, se incunctanter, Makintoshium in e& expeditione sequi, 
eumque, apud Garvam villain, Die institute convenire fideliter 
pollicetur, quod Makintoshius extra omnem dubitationis aleatn 
positum esse putavit donee contrarium patefactum fuerat. 
Borlumus et Aldourius, se ipsos spe tantopere frustratos et 
elusos comperientes, cunctos ingenii nervos et omnem diligentise 
operam, ad, Makintoshio cniciatus et molestias, in prsesenti 
hoc itinere, creandos, si non manifestam opprobrii notam in- 
urendam adhibuerunt. In quern finem imprimis Clunium et 
Paulum Macbean a Kirichyl, in, Promissionis Makintoshio 
factse violationem alliciunt, atque, eos, eorumque Sectatores, ab 
hac expeditione dehortantur. 

Makintoshius, tamen, Invergaldo, Aberardero, Corribrocho, 
Invereio, Noido juniore, Belnespico, Delmungio, Tutore Dum- 
makglassio, eorumque Sectatoribus, uuk cum suis Inquilinis (ad 
trecentorum fortium virorum numerum conciliatus, a Gavvfi 
villa in Brebadenochia, in Brelochabriam, ubi sui Inquilini 
agrorum Glenroy et Glenspean (120 numero), in quam optimiun 
redacti ordinem, obviam venerunt. Progreditur, atque 
Decembris Die, primam Curiam in agris Keppochensibus 

creditors; and that Cluny should faithfully promise^ without 
delay, to follow Mackintosh in that expedition, and to meet with 
him at Garve on the day appointed ; which Mackintosh judged to 
be beyond all hazard of doubt, until the contrary appeared. 

Borlum and Aldourie^ finding themselves so greatly deceived in 
what they hoped for and befooled, endeavoured with all the 
energies of their mind, and with all their might, to create vexations 
and troubles to Mackintosh in that journey, if not to stamp upon 
him a manifest stigma of reproach. For which purpose they first 
enticed Cluny and Paul MacBean of Kinchyle to violate the 
promise made to Mackintosh, and dissuaded them and their 
followers from the expedition. 

Mackintosh, nevertheless, went on, accompanied with Inver- 
cauld, Aberardor, Corrybroch, Inverey, Neid younger, Balnespic^ 
Dalmunzie, the tutor of Drumnaglass, and their followers, 
together with his own tenants, to the number of three hundred 
brave men, from Garve, a town in Brae Badenoch,into Brae Lochaber^ 
where his tenants of the lands of Glenroy and Glenspean (one hun- 
dred and twenty in number) met him drawn up in the best order ; 
and on the day of December he held his first court on 

the lands of Keppoch, and all due obedience having been given to 

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886 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

observandum curavit, nee non, prsestita ei ibi omni debita 
obedientia, postea, prsememoratum gregem, per Huntlei Inqoi- 
linos Brelochabriensis, nuper a Glenesk abreptum restitui effedt 
Turn vero, Curiis Seneseallatus, in Huntlei agris, tenendis, sese 
accinxit et in hoc usque tempus Connagius, in Makintoshii 
comitatum nondum accessit. 

Hic in memoriam revocandum est Marchionem ab Huntlej 
(instigante et persuadente Alexandre Gordon ab Arraduil 
Ballivo suo Badenochensi), prsedictae Makintoshii Epistolse non 
modo non annuisse, verum etiam, eundem Ballivum suum, in 
Lochabriam, ad Makintoshii consilia et proposita disturbanda, 
de industria adire jussisse. Cui congruenter efiiciendo Ballivus 
totas intendit vires. Makintoshius, tamen, non obstante 
Ballivi oppositione, duets Curias in Huntlei agris affirmavit 
Nam, peractis, t^m in Huntlei, quam in suis agris Brelocha- 
briensibus, negotiis, proximam Curiam, apud Teirlundi (agrorum 
Huntlei partem) tenere statuit Balivus vero, ut Mackintoshii 
propositum impediret, Huntlei Inquilinos Lochabrienses con- 
vocari jussit. Makintoshius, tamen, floccifactis Balivi convoca- 
tionibus et comminationibus, in loco constitute, Curiam, con- 
spicientibus imo etiam Adversariis, tenuit. Absentes quoque 



him there, he thereafter caused the aforementioned flocks, lately 
taken away from Glenesk by Huntly's Brae Lochaber tenants, to 
be restored. Then he prepared to hold the courts of the 
Stewardry on Huntly's lands ; and up to this time Connage had 
not yet come to the company of Mackintosh. 

Here it is to be remembered that the Marquis of Huntly (insti- 
gated and persuaded by Alexander Gordon of Arradoul, his bailie 
in Badenoch) not only did not assent to the aforesaid letter of 
Mackintosh, but also ordered the same bailie to go to Lochaber 
on purpose to counteract the designs of Mackintosh, which the 
bailie accordingly, with all his might, endeavoured to effect. 
Mackintosh, however, in spite of the bailie's opposition, fenced 
two courts on Huntly's lands; for after transacting his affairs, as 
well on Huntly's lands as on his own lands of Brae Lochaber, he 
resolved to hold the next court at Teirlundy (part of Huntly's lands). 
But the bailie in order to embarrass the purpose of Mackintosh, 
ordered Huntly's Lochaber tenants to be convoked. Mackintosh, 
however, making light of the bailie's convocations and threatenings, 
held his court in the place appointed, yea, even in sight of tiie 
adversaries. He also commanded absentees and delinquents to be 



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et Sontes mulctari prsecepit. Turn Balivus, Lochieldo, ut, Clan- 
chameronos, Makintoshii opponendi gratia, simul congregaret, 
consulit, atque, ejusmodi minis, Makintoshium, ne, in 8uo officio 
Senescalatus exequendo, ulteriiis pergeret terre facere existi- 
mavit. Frivola tamen ist hsec crepitacula ne hilum valuenint. 
Nam Makintoshius, in villam Teirlundi (prope Inverlochi), 
in tuentibus etiam Clanchameronis numero trecentis, advenit, 
Curiamque legitime affirmavit. Attamen Clanchameroni (ne 
de sua ista convocatione increparentur), seipsos confestim sub- 
duxerunt, atque Lochieldus, coram Makintoshio Apologiis uti 
ccepit, atque ita Makintoshius, non obstantibus omnibus illis, 
quae obvenerunt, difficultatibus, circiter finem Decembris 1667, 
omnibus adeo feliciter et tanto cum honore ac si tota Clan- 
chattanorum Tribus commearet, gestis, domum regressus est. 

Anno 1668, Makintoshius, agrorum et Castelli Dalcrosensis, 
in Parochia de Croy, jus, a Majore Betmanno (Anglo) pignori 
accepit. 

Anno 1672, Duncanus Makpherson a Cluny, Dominum a 
Makintosh, ne amplius ipsius Dux haberetur, rejicere annixus 
est, quo, ipse (sine vWeL a Makintoshio dependentia) Makpher- 
sonorum Phylarcha nuncuparetur, atque in hunc finem, omnibus O^^^^^*] 

fined. The bail ie then advised Lochiel to assemble the Gan Cameron 
together^ for the purpose of opposing Mackintosh^ and thought 
that in this way he should frighten Mackintosh from executing 
any further his office of steward. These silly chatterings^ how- 
ever, availed nothing; for Mackintosh came to the town of 
Teirlundy (near Inverlochy), even when the Camerons to the 
number of three hundred were looking on^ and fenced the court 
according to law. But the Qan Cameron (lest they should be 
reprimanded for that convocation) withdrew themselves forth- 
with^ and Lochiel began to make apologies to Mackintosh. And 
thus, notwithstanding all these difficulties which he encountered, 
Mackintosh returned home about the end of December 1667, 
having accomplished all things as successfully and with as much 
honour as if the whole of the Clanchattan had gone with him. 

In the year I668, Mackintosh received the right of the lands 
and castle of Dalcross, in the parish of Croy, in wadset from Major 
Betman (an Englishman). 

In the year 1672, Duncan Macpherson of Cluny attempted to 
reject the laird of Mackintosh from being any longer regarded as 
his chief, in order that he himself (without any dependence on 
Mackintosh) might be called chief of the Macphersons. To this end 



888 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

utitur methodis, quibus Dominum Carolum Erskin a Cambo 
(Regem Insigniorum) persuadere posset, ut, ipsi, novam Insig- 
nium Fabricam, a Makintoshii Insigniis aliquatenus discrimi- 
natam, in qua Makphersonorum Princeps appellaretur, daret. 
Qua, per falsam et subdolam informationem, comparata, suis 
Insigniis, se, antiquorum Clanchattanorum vero Memoriale 
Representativum fuisse, insculpendum curavit, quod non tao- 
topere ex philautia et arrogantia praestitisse putatur qukm 
instigantibus quibusdam sui Nominis ambitiosis et vertiginosi 
cerebri Novatoribus, partim etiam instimulantibus aliis, qui, 
cum malevolo in Makintoshium animo essent, hac ratione, eum 
Clanchattanorum ramum (Makphersonos dictum) ne ulterius a 
Makintoshio, tanquam Genearcha, dependerent, abscindere 
conati sunt, Postea, eodem Anno, Clunius, una cum aliis 
Ramorum Familiarum Capitibus, in Septentrione et superi- 
oribus Scotise partibus (locis) degentibus, coram Dominis 
Secreti Concilii, ut, Fidem, pro bona, honesta et pacata, Famu- 
lorum, Servorum, Inquilinorum, aliorumque, ab ejus Familia, 
ortum derivantium, conservatione et gestione faceret, citatus, 
Literas Liberatorias adversus eos sui Nominis pro quibus sese 
devinxerat, obtinuit, in quibus (per familiaritatem et con- 
he used all means in his power to persuade Sir Charles Erskine of 
Cambo (King of Arms) to give him a new coat of arms, someway 
or other discriminated from the arms of Mackintosh, in which he 
should be styled chief of the Macphersons. This having been 
procured by false and misleading information, he caused to be 
engraven on his coat of arms that he was indeed the historical 
representative of the ancient Clanchattans ; which it was thought 
he did not so much out of self-conceit and arrogance as at the 
instigation of certain ambitious and giddy-brained innovators of 
his own name ; partly also as stirred up by others who, as they 
were animated by ill feeling against Mackintosh, attempted by 
this means to cut off that branch of the Clanchattan (called Mac- 
phersons) that they might no longer look upon Mackintosh as 
their chief. Afterwards, in that same year, Cluny, along ¥rith 
other chiefs of branches of families, dwelling in the northern 
and higher parts of Scotland, having been called before the 
Lords of Privy Council, in order that he should give bond for 
the good, honest, and peaceable conversation and conduct of his 
families, servants, tenants, and others deriving their origin from 
his family, obtained letters of relief against those of his name 
for whom he had become bound, in which (through the 



p. 303] THE MACKINTOSHES S89 

sortium cum Pr. Concilii Clericique famulo habitum), sese 
Duncanum Makpherson Dominum a Cluny, Makphersonorum 
Ducem designari impetravit, jamque Badenochiam regressus, 
amicos suos Nominis Makphersoni, ut, ipsi, 8ub ejus modi 
appellatione Relevationis Sjoigrapham concederent, importune 
efflagitat. Quam, tamen, eorum nonnulli dare recusfirunt, 
dicentes, se, nullum alium prseter legitimum, nimirum, Do- 
minum Makintoshium, ipsorum Ducem vocari agnituros. Qua- 
propter Clunius, praedictarum Literarum virtute, eos coram 
Dominis Privati Concilii citari interminatur. Makintoshius, 
superbis hisce enormitatibus auditis, Edinburgum sese recepit, 
atque, imprimis, Insigniorum Regem, quod, nova Cognato suo 
Clunia Insignia (sine accepto ab eo, de priscorum Insigniorum 
veritate, ej usque Prosapiae et Descensus Testimonio) largiretur, 
reprehendit, et, quam iniqu^ omnia illi relata fuere, quanto- 
pereque ejus Informatores illi imposita erant, ostendit, Deinde, 
ut, Dominum a Makintosh, indubitatum. Nominis Clan- 
chattani, et, consequenter, Makphersonorum, qui, fatentibus 
ipsis, non nisi excrescens Clanchattanorum ramulus sunt, 
Ducem et Genearcham esse declararet, subsequentia exhibuit 
Testimonia, atque, ed ratione, Clunium, ut istius ramuli 

familiarity and friendship between him and the servant of the 
clerk of the Privy Council) he got himself designed Duncan Mac- 
pherson, lord of Cluny, chief of the Macphersons; and on his 
return to Baden och he earnestly requested his friends of the name 
of Macpherson to grant to him a bond of relief under the same 
designation. Some^ however^ refused this^ declaring that they 
knew no other person to be called their chief besides their 
lawful, undoubted chiefs the laird of Mackintosh. Whereupon 
Cluny threatened to cite them, in virtue of the aforesaid letters^ 
before the Lords of Privy Council. 

On hearing of these insolent irregularities. Mackintosh betook 
himself to Edinburgh, and first of all reproved the King of 
Arms because he had granted new armorial ensigns to his kinsman 
Cluny (without having received from him a testimony to the truth 
of his original arms^ and of his pedigree and descent) ; and showed 
him how greatly his informers had imposed upon him in all they 
had told him. Then, in order to show that the laird of Mackin- 
tosh was undoubted chief and head of the name of Clanchattan^ 
and consequently of the Macphersons, who by their own confession 
are only a branch growing out of the Clanchattans, he exhibited 
the following testimonies ; and^ for that reason^ Cluny^ as head of 



S90 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

Caput, non aliis quam Makintoshii Insigniis, iisqus cum dis- 
tinctionis notS, uti debuisse. 

Testimonia, autem, h^c sunt. 

Primo, Dominia Makintosh, ab sevo in aevum, usque ab 
Anno 1^91 (in quo Mneas Dominus a Makintosh, Evam, 
solam, Gilpatrici Makdugall vie Gilchattan) praecipui, tunc 
temporis, Viri, et, Gilcattani Posteritatis monument! unici 
(filiam matrimoniali copuld sibi conjunxit) non tantum ssti- 
mati et vocati, verum etiam, in omnibus Scriptis et Chartis, ad 
illos pertinentibus, titularitur^CIanchattanorum Duces designati 
sunt, quemadmodum pluraantiqua Scriptaet Instrumenta, tunc 
temporis, coram Insigniorum Rege producta testatum dederunt. 

2^^ Omnium Familiarum Clanchattanorum Capita, et, cum 
caeteris, Andreas Makpherson a Cluny, praesentis Clunii avus, 
Anno 1609, ipsos, ipsorumque Posteritatem, et Scriptis et 
Juramentis, Dominum Makintosh, contra omnes mortales 
(excepta Authoritatc, et legitimis suis Superioribus) defendere, 
opitulari, et tanquam Ducem et Genearcham sequi, devinxe- 
runt, prout Syngrapha, tunc temporis, exhibita manifestum 
perhibuit. Itidem, Anno 1664, praecipui Clanchattanorum 
(speciatimque Makphersoni), seipsos prsesenti Domino Makin- 

that branch, ought not to use other arms than those of Mackintosh, 
with a note of distinction. 

The testimonies are these : 

First. The lairds of Mackintosh, from age to age, ever since 
the year 1291 (in which Eneas laird of Mackintosh married Eva, 
only daughter of Gilpatric MacDougall vie Gilchattan, at that time 
the chief man and only representative of Gilchattan's posterity), 
have not only been esteemed and called, but also, in all writs and 
charters belonging to them, have been designated by way of title 
chiefs of the Clanchattans, as many ancient writs and instruments, 
then produced before the King of Arms, did bear witness. 

Secondly. The heads of all the families of the Clanchattans, 
and among the rest Andrew Macpherson of Cluny, grandfather of 
the present Cluny, did, in the year l609, bind themselves and their 
posterity, by their writings and oaths, to defend and assist the laird 
of Mackintosh against all mortals (excepting the authority and their 
lawful superiors), and to follow him as their chief and head, as the 
bond then exhibited made manifest. In like manner, in the year 
1664, the chief men of the Clanchattan (especially the Macpher- 



pp. 303-304] THE MACKINTOSHES S91 

tosh (sese, illi, tanquam Duci et Genearchse, adversus Clan- 
chameronos, opitulaturos) Syngraphd devinxenint, prout 
Syngrapha ipsa, tunc exhibita manifestum fecit 

S^^ Nomen Clanchattanum, Makphersonos includens, ab sevo 
in sevum, per spatium fere quadraginta Annorum, Dominum a 
Makintosh, ut Ducem, plerisque certaminibus, contentionibus, 
prseliis et bellis, in quibus, ilium versari sunt aut exercitari 
contigerat, usque et usque asseruerunt, adjuvaruntque. 

4*** Antiquissimi quique et maxim^ Authentic! Scoticani [page $04.] 
Gentis Chronologi, Makintoshium constanter Clanchattanorum 
Ducem designant et prsedicant. Imprimis, Lesleus Lib. 9. de 
Gestise Scotorum, inquit, Tribus Clanchattana vulgo nuncupata 
Makintoshiana a Principe Makintoshio &c., et Lib. 10. Guliel- 
mum Dominum Makintosh Clanchattanse Tribus Ducem ap- 
pellat. Simulatque Rondolphus Hollinshed, prsememoratum 
Gulielmum, Familise Clanchattanse Caput et Ducem nuncupat. 
Et Buchananus Lib. 16. Chr. Scot, eundem Gulielmum 
Cattanse Familise Principem nominat. 

5^ In Epistolfi a prsesenti Rege Carolo 2. 1651 Anno, ad 
Makintoshium legate, ut et in omnibus Diplomatibus, Com- 
missionibus, Literis communicationem et commercium prohi- 
bentibus, et in aliis quibuscunque Literis, a Dominis Privati 

sons) bound themselves by bond to the present laird of Mackintosh^ 
that they would assist him^ as their chief and head^ against the 
Clan Camerons, as the writs then exhibited showed. 

Thirdly. The name of Clanchattan^ including the Macphersons^ 
from age to age^ for the space of about four hundred years^ have 
again and again owned and assisted the laird of Mackintosh as 
chief, in many strifes, contentions, battles, and wars^ in which he 
happened to be concerned or engaged. 

Fourthly. The most ancient and authentic chronicles of the 
Scottish nation, constantly designate and speak of Mackintosh as 
chief of the Clanchattans. In the first place, Leslie, Book ix., 
De gestis Scotorum, says, ' The tribe of Clanchattan, vulgarly called 
Mackintoshes, from Mackintosh their chief,' etc. ; and. Book x., 
he calls William, laird of Mackintosh, chief of the Clanchattan 
tribe. In like manner, Rondolph Hollinshed calls the aforemen- 
tioned William captain and chief of the Clanchattan family. 
And Buchanan, Book xvi., Chr. ScoL, names the same William 
chief of the Chattan family. 

Fifthly. In a letter sent by the present King Charles 11., in the 
year 1651, to Mackintosh, as also in all charters, commissions. 



898 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

Concilii, in Dominorum a Makintosh gratiam, adversus Clan- 
chameronos Clanronaldos aliosque, concessis, Dom. Makintosh, 
Clanchattanorum Dux et Grenearcha agnoscitur et designatur, 
ut Literse Diplomata et Commissiones tunc ostenss infonnA- 
runt. 

Insignium Rex, visis et debite consideratis claris hisce testi- 
moniis, cum observasset, sibi, a Clunio, aliisque, in h&c re, 
maximopere impositum fuisse, Domino a Makintosh (quoniam 
Insignia hactenus concessa, quippe jam Insignium Libro in- 
serta et inscripta rursus revocare nequiret) subsequentem 
Declarationem Membranse inscriptam, suoque Chyrographo et 
Officii Sigillo obsignatum dedit. Nos Carolus Erskik a Cambo 
Eques Baronettus, Insignium Rex, conspectis, et ad amuasim 
pensitatis plurimis claris et sufficientibus Testimoniis, ex 
Historiis, Registris, priscis nostris Monumentis, aliisque lu- 
strumentis, invict^ deductis, hisce Declaramus Dominum a 
Makintosh, Nominis Makintoshii nee non et Clanchattani 
(Makphersonos, Makgilliwrayos, Farquharsonos, Maktarlichos, 
Makqueenos, Makbeanos, Makphailos aliosque comprehend- 
entis) unicum et indubitatum Ducem et Genearcham esse, 

letters of intercommuning^ and in all other letters whatsoever, 
granted by the Lords of Privy Council in favour of the lairds of 
Mackintosh^ against the Clan Camerons^ Clan Ronalds^ and others, 
the laird of Mackintosh is acknowledged and designated captain 
and chief of the Clanchattans^ as the letters^ writs^ and commis- 
sions then shown proved. 

The King of Arms, having seen and duly considered these testi- 
monies, when he saw that he had been greatly imposed upon by 
Cluny and others in that matter (forasmuch as he could not revoke 
again the arms already granted, and inserted and inscribed in the 
book of arms), he gave to the laird of Mackintosh the following 
declaration, written on parchment, subscribed and sealed with the 
seal of office : 

^ We, Charles Erskine of Cambo, Knight Baronet, King of Anns, 
having seen and considered, according to rule, the many clear 
and sufficient testimonies, invincibly deduced from histories, 
registers, our ancient muniments, and other instruments, do hereby 
declare that the laird of Mackintosh is the only and undoubted 
captain and chief of the name of Mackintosh, and also of the 
Clanchattan (comprehending the Macphersons, Macgillivrays, 
Farquharsons, Macturlichs, Macqueens, Macbeans, Macphails, 
and others) is put to us beyond the hazard of doubt ; and that 



p. 304] THE MACKINTOSHES 393 

nobis extra omnem dubitationis aleam positum esse, nosque 
neque dedisse, neque in Posterum daturos esse ullis ex hisce 
Familiis, ulla Insignia, nisi, sese Rivulos, a Makintoshia 
Familid (cujus Antecessor, Clanchattanorum Hseretricem, 
Anno 1291, conjugati unione sibi adjunxit) defluentes agnos- 
cant. Speciatimque proptera testamur nos, Duncano M akpher- 
son a Cluny, Insignia, tanquam a praedicta FamiM descendenti, 
concessisse, atque, quo hsec Declaratio Posteritati conspicienda 
maneat, omnibusque quorum interest, sive ex pra^itatis Nomi- 
nibus, sive aliis cognita sit, eandem Chyrographo subsignavimus 
Edinburgi Die Augusti 1672, eique, nostri Officii Sigillum 
appendendum curavimus. Sic subscribit. Charles Erskin. 

Rex Insignium, quo ulterius, suam erga Clunium (quod 
parum candide, sese, in hoc negotio, gesserat) displicentiam 
etiram manifestaret, ad ilium Epistolam (cujus verba in sub- 
sequentibus habentur) misit. Domine, Tibi, Insignium Fabri- 
cam, tanquam a Makintoshii Familia cadenti, dederim. Tu 
vero, sub hujus Favoris colore, temet, ut narratum est, sine 
accepta a nobis venia, Makphersonorum Ducem exhibuisti, et 
prceterea tui Insignis, tibi (sine meo concessu) portatores as- 
sumpsisti, et teipsum, priscorum Clanchattanorum Phylarcham 

we have neither given^ nor shall we give hereafter^ to any of these 
families, any arras^ unless they acknowledge themselves to be 
streams flowing from the family of Mackintosh (whose ancestor 
married the heretrix of the Clanchattans in 1291); and therefore 
we do testify in particular that we have given arms to Duncan 
Macpherson of Cluny^ as descending from the aforesaid family ; 
and that this declaration may remain to posterity, to be seen and 
made known to all whom it concerns, whether of the forecited 
names or of others, we have subscribed the same with our hand 
at Edinburgh, the day of August l672 ; and hereto have 

caused the seal of our office to be appended.' (So it is subscribed)^ 
' Charles Erskine.' 

The King of Arms, that he might further show his displeasure 
and anger against Cluny (because he had behaved himself with so 
little sincerity in that business), sent him a letter in the following 
terms : 

' Sir, — I have given you a coat of arms as a cadet of the Mack- 
intosh family. But you, under colour of this favour, without 
having got leave from us, have represented yourself, as is reported, 
as chief of the Macphersons; and, moreover (without my per- 
mission), have assumed supporters to your arms, and have desig- 



S94 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

designosti. Hoc neque candide factum, neque justum est, ut 
propterea dignabere, favore a me largito non abuti pneter 
animum et ultra intentionem ejus qui est humilis tuus Seirua. 
C. E. 

PosTEA Dominus a Makintosh (concurrentibus iUis Mak- 
phersonis, qui, Syngrapham, a Clunio, suse Liberationis ergo, 
petitam, signare recusdrunt, Suspensionem, adversus Clunium, 
super praedictas Literas, accersendam curavit. Quae Suspensio, 
[pageS05.'\ Novembre, Anno 1672, in Domini a Makintosh gratiam, diju- 
dicata erat (quemadmodum Decretum, de hfic re, proDuncia- 
tum, testatur) in quo Domini Privati Concilii, praememoratas 
Literas simpliciter suspenderunt, Cluniumque, et Literas Lib- 
eratorias ante ei concessas, tum et Syngraphas quascunque a 
Clunii amicis, ipsum Ducem et Phylarcham Makphersonorum 
designantes hactenus largitas, Clerico S. Concilii dilacerandas 
tradere prsecipiunt, Literasque novas, Nomen,duntaxat, Cogno- 
menque et Titulum Designatorium prse se ferentes, denuo 
evocare statuunt et deceniunt. 

Rationes et Argumenta a Makintoshio proposita, quibus, 
se ipsum, Clanchattanorum et, consequenter, Makphersonorum 
Principem probavit (prseter ea quae supra dicta sunt) simul et 

nated yourself chief of the old Clanchattans. This is not candid 
dealing, neither is it just : be pleased, therefore, not to abuse the 
favour granted by me, contrary to the mind and beyond the 
intention of him who is your humble servant, C. £.' 

Thereafter the laird of Mackintosh (with the concurrence of 
those Macphersons who refused to sign the bond craved by 
Cluny for his relief) caused a suspension to be procured against 
Cluny upon the aforesaid letters. Which suspension was, in 
November l672, decided in favour of Mackintosh (as the decreet 
pronounced in that action testifies), wherein the Lords of Privy 
Council suspended simpliciter the aforementioned letters^ and 
charged Cluny to deliver both the letters of relief formerly granted 
to him, and also whatsoever bonds were heretofore given by the 
friends of Cluny designing him captain and chief of the Mac- 
phersons, to the clerk of Council, to be destroyed ; and they 
ordained and decerned him again to raise new letters bearing only 
his name, surname, and designatory title. 

The reasons and arguments put forth by Mackintosh, whereby 
he proved himself to be chief of the Clanchattans, and conse- 
quently of the Macphersons (besides those which are given 



pp. 304-305] THE MACKINTOSHES S95 

Responsiones, a Clunii Advocatis adhibitse, nee non Makintoshii 
Replicationes hic, brevitatis gratis, omittuntur, et, in Anglic£ 
Makintoshianse Familise descriptione, Scriptis mandantur. 

Anno 1675, Dominus a Makintosh, agrorum Obsdailensium, 
in Parochia Roskinensi, possessionem et jus haereditarium 
comparavit. Anno 167^, agris Brelochabriensibus in majus 
emolumentum convertendis, eorumque proventibus .ulterius 
amplificandis, operam navare firmiter sibi proposuit, atque, 
quo melius et maturius hoc perageretur, nacto, adversus 
Possessores, removendi Decreto, ille (propter obstinatam eorum 
contumaciam, et violentam agrorum, post latam Sententiam, 
Possessionem), eos Rebelles denunciari effecit, et, postea, 
Dominis Privati Concilii Supplicationem, ut ipsi potestatem, 
istos, ab illegitimd agrorum Possessione abigendi et eliminandi, 
concederent, direxit. Rebelles hi (viribus et potentia Domini 
a Makintosh perterrefacti), cum Mackleanis, qui etiam, tunc 
temporis, simili, qua Brelochabrienses, ratione, quia, nimirum, 
a Possessionibus suis, Comitis Argatheliae jussu, non disce- 
derent, ex leges erant, Fcedus inierunt. Domini Privati Con- 
cilii (suadente, ut existimatur, Comite Morraviensi, qui, cilim, 

above), together with the answers given by Cluny's advocates^ 
and also the replies of Mackintosh, are here, for the sake of 
brevity, omitted, and are committed to writing in the English 
description of the Mackintosh family. 

In the year 1 665, the laird of Mackintosh acquired possession and 
heritable right of the lands of Obsdale, in the parish of Rosskeen. 
In ] 672 he firmly resolved to labour diligently to turn his Brae 
Lochaber lands to greater profit, and to render their revenues 
more ample; and, that this might be the better and sooner 
accomplished, a decreet of removing having been obtained against 
the possessors, he (on account of their obstinate contumacy and 
forcibly holding to the lands after sentence was given) caused 
them to be denounced as rebels ; and thereafter he directed a 
supplication to the Lords of Privy Council that they would grant 
him power to drive them away from the illegal possession of the 
lands. These rebels (greatly afraid of the power of the laird of 
Mackintosh) made a league with the Macleans, who also at that 
time were outlaws for the like reason as the Brae Lochaber folks, 
that is to say, because they would not remove from their posses- 
sions at the order of the Earl of Argyll. 

The Lords of Privy Council (on the persuasion, as was thought, 
of the Earl of Moray, who, as he was ill affected against Mackin- 



896 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

male afFecto, contra Makintoshium, esset animo, quippe quod. 
Anno 1670, glebas nonnullas et csespites, injust^, ab Inquilinis 
Pettiensibus, in Ericeto Dalcrosensi jactos, abduci mandaret, 
nulla non usus est arte, qua Dominos inducere potuit, ut 
crederent, concessa semel Makintosliio, adversus tarn potentem 
Populum) cujusmodi Brealochabrienses erant, (Commissione, 
tumultibus est insurrectionibus, in Septentrional] Scotiae 
parte, excitandis, paratissimam esse viam et apertum ostium) 
D. Pr. Concilii, inquam, etsi, expressis verbis, Commissionem 
illi largiri non inficiarentur, Responsuni, tamen, usque atque 
usque per spatium Quinquennii procrastinati sunt, non sine 
ingenti Makintoshio molestia et magnis impensis. 

Anno 1675, per ampla, in Comitis Argathelise gratiam, ad- 
versus Makleanos eorumque asseclas et sectatores, concessa 
erat Conimissio, concurrere jussis plerisque vice Comitatibus, 
Invernessensi, sc. aliisque. Data erat etiam praedicto Comiti, 
Makintoshium, priscis suis agrorum Brelochabriensium Pos- 
sessionibus, restituendi Potestas. 

DoMiNus a Makintosh, sibi ipsi toties impositum fuisse de- 
prebendeiis (nam optime novit nunquam facturum esse ut 
Argatheliae Comes, ipsi, in hoc negotio, faveret), dum Arga- 

toslij because that in the year l670 he gave orders to lead away 
some turf and peats which were unjustly cast by the tenants of 
Petty, on the Muir of Dalcross, no art was untried whereby he 
might induce the Lords to believe that if once commission was 
fjriven to Mackintosh against so powerful a people as those of 
Brae Lochaber were, it would be a way and an open door pre- 
pared for stirring up tumults and insurrections in the northern 
part of Scotland), the Lords of Privy Council, I say, though they 
would not in express terms refuse to grant him a commission^ yet 
delayed their answer again and again for the space of five years, 
not without great trouble and expense to Mackintosh. 

In the year l675, a very ample commission was granted in 
favour of the Earl of Argyll, against the Macleans, and their 
adherents and followers, and the several sheriffdoms of Inverness 
and others ordered to concur. Power was also given to the said 
earl to restore Mackintosh to his old possessions of the lands of 
Brae-Lochaber. 

The laird of Mackintosh, finding that they were often imposing 
upon him (for he well knew that the Earl of Argyll would never 
favour him in that affair) determined, whilst the Earl of Argyll 



pp. 305-306] THE MACKINl^OSHES 397 

thelise Comes et Makleani in Campis degerent sibi invicem 
adversantes amicos convocare, et, in Lochabriam iter intendere, 
ibique, ad meliorem rerum suarum ibidem loci administra- 
tionem, praesidium collocare determinat. Comes Morraviensis, 
tunc temporis, Edinburgi residens, Epistolam, Donaldo Mak- 
intosh a Kylachi, Balivo, sc, suo, suscitante eandem ut ex 
consilio procurantc ipsissimo Kylachio, legandam curavit, 
omnibus suis Clanchattani Nominis Clientibus et Inquilinis 
strictissime interdicens, ne, cum Makintoshio tunc consur- 
gerent, mandansque ut, se, Alexandro Chissolmo Vice-Comitis 
Invemessensis Vicario, in Comitis Argatheliae, adversus Mak- 
leanos, auxilium, agglutinarent, atque hoc, data opera, factum 
erat, ut, Makintoshio, in Lochabriam iter facturo remorse 
esset et obstaculo, simulatque, quoniam paulo antea Dominus 
a Makintosh, hsereditarium, Senescalatus et Balivatus Dominii 
Lochabriensis Officium, Marchioni Hunthyensi vendere re- [pagtSOe.] 
nuerat, Marchio, Balivo suo Badenochiae commoranti, ne, ullos 
ex Nomine Clanchattano, in regione illd, agros ejus tenentes, 
in Makintoshii subsidium assurgere permitteret, praecepit. 

Rebus ita se habentibus, Presbyteriani, Anno 1679, Mense 
Junio, facta in Occidentalibus Scotiae p€ui;ibus Insurrectione, 



and the Macleans were in the fields against each other^ to call 
together his friends and march into Lochaber^ and there to plant a 
garrison for the better administration of his interests in that place. 

The Earl of Moray, then resident at fUlinburgh^ caused a letter 
to be sent to Donald Mackintosh of Kylachy^ his bailie (who 
procured the same by his own suggestion and advice)^ straitly in- 
terdicting all his clients and tenants of the Clanchattan name, 
from rising at that time with Mackintosh, and commanding that 
they should adhere to Alexander Chisholm, sheriff-depute of 
Inverness, to help the Earl of Argyll against the MacLeans. And 
this was done on purpose that delay and hindrance might arise 
to Mackintosh in reference to his march to Lochaber ; and in like 
manner, because, a little before, the laird of Mackintosh had 
refused to sell his heritable office of the stewardry and bailiery of 
the Lordship of Lochaber to the Marquis of Huntly, the marquis 
charged his bailie, dwelling in Badenoch, that he should permit 
none of the Clanchattan name holding his lands in that region to 
rise to the assistance of Mackintosh. 

Matters being in this position, the Presbyterians in the western 
parts of Scotland, having made an insurrection in June l679> were 



898 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. I 

in unum congregantur, atque, hujus Rebellionis supprimende 
gratis, plerique ex Subditis et cum coeteris Dominus a Mak- 
intosh, illiusque Cognati, omni, qua possent, celeritate, pontem 
Sterlinensem versus progredi mandantur. Cujus Mandati ob- 
temperandi caussa, Makintoshius in Pertham usque processit, 
ubi, certissime cognito Presbyterianos, apud pontem Boduell- 
ensem, a Regiis exercitibus expugnatos fuisse, statim regre- 
ditur, cumque compertum habuit Comitem Argathelise, qui 
jam in Inverlochiam advectus est, in ejus emolumentum, 
quemadmodum, in Commissione a Dominis Secret! Condlii 
concessa, Potestatem acceperat, nihil prsestitisse, atque, omissa 
omni spe, Commissionem in suam gratiam, adversus Breloch- 
abrienses obtinendi, expeditissimd, quS potuit, diligentia, in 
suos Brelochabrise agros, Curiarum administrandarum gratia, 
proficisci, suosque interim Brelochabrise Inquilinos (si fieri 
posset) sibi reconciliandos conari statuit, nuUatenus dubitans 
quin ejus amici, cognatique ipsum, tale negotium aggressurum, 
quo feliciorem sortiretur exitum, concomitatarentur. Verum 
enim vero, mirum in modum, fallitur, et in expectato spe 
frustratur. Cujus rei caussam et modum, quanquam animus 
meminisse horret, luctuque refugit, non possum quin aliqua- 

gathered together in one body ; and for the purpose of suppressing 
this rebellion^ many of the lieges, and among others the laird 
of Mackintosh, and his kinsmen, were commanded to advance 
with all speed to Stirling Bridge. For the purpose of obejring 
this command. Mackintosh advanced as far as Perth, where, on 
the certain information that the Presbyterians were defeated at 
Bothwell Bridge by the royal troops, he forthwith returned. And 
when he learned that the Elarl of Argyll, who had come as far 
as Inverlochy, had done nothing to his advantage, according to 
the power he had received in the commission granted to him by 
the Lords of Privy Council^ and giving up all hope of obtaining 
a commission in his favour against the Brae Lochaber people, he 
determined to march with all the expedition he could to his lands 
of Brae Lochaber for the purpose of holding courts ; and in the 
meantime to attempt to reconcile to himself (if it could be done) 
his tenants of Brae Lochaber, having no doubt at all but that 
his friends and kinsmen would accompany him in order to bring 
such an enterprise more happily to an end. But, truly, he was 
wonderfully deceived and disappointed in his hope. The occasion 
and manner of which affair, though fearful to remember, and to be 
shunned with grief, I cannot but disclose and relate in some 



p. 306] THE MACKINTOSHES 899 

tenus detegam referamque. Breviter, igitur, ita sese res 
habuit. Gulielmus Makintosh a Borlum maximopere excan- 
descens io quod Dominus a Makintosh (post varios et amice 
et inimice tentatos labores) nullatenus, pascuis nonnuUis et 
pabulationibus Badenochensibus Richlagginbeg & Kichan-gour 
niincupatis, quae, re vera, Makintoshii hsereditatis portio erat, 
quibus tamen Borlumius, etsi injustissime, juris nonnihil 
habuisse affirmabat, illi elargiendis pertrahi poterat. Non 
minori indignationis fervore instimulatus Alexander Makintosh 
a Connage, quod, post varios frustra habitos canatus. Domino 
a Makintosh, ut, non spemendam pecuniae Summam, quam 
sine uUo vel minimo Justitiae colore, a praedicto Domino, 
tanquam debitam, postulabat, ut ipsi concederet, praevalere 
nequibat Duo, inquam, hi Generosi, nullum non volvebant 
lapidem, quo, Domino a Makintosh, iter in Lochabriam direc- 
turo, obices et impedimenta ponere valerent, atque, in hunc 
finem, valide juxta ac satis subdole, sese, Donaldo Makintosh 
a Eyiachy, Duncano Makpherson a Cluny, Lauchlano Makin- 
tosh ab Abirardor, Farquhardo Makgilliwray a Dummaglash, 
Donaldo Makqueen a Corribroch, aliisque D. Makintosh 
amicis et cognatis insinuant, illisque, sine data unicuique 



measure. Briefly, therefore^ it was thus : William Mackintosh of 
Borlum, being greatly displeased that the laird of Mackintosh 
(after various efforts, both friendly and unfriendly, had been made) 
could not be induced on any account to give him some grazings 
and pasturages in Badenoch, called Richlagganbeg and Kichan- 
gour, which, indeed, were part of the heritage of Mackintosh, to 
which, however, Borlum asserted, though unjustly, he had some 
right. Alexander Mackintosh of Connage was moved with not less 
indignation, because, after making various fruitless attempts, he 
could not prevail with the laird of Mackintosh to grant him a not 
inconsiderable sum of money, which without any pretext of justice 
he demanded as due by the laird to him. These two gentle- 
men, I say, were leaving no stone unturned whereby they might 
put impediments in the way of the laird of Mackintosh, when 
he was about to march into Lochaber ; and to this end they in- 
sinuated themselves with Donald Mackintosh of Kylachy, 
Duncan Macpherson of Cluny, Lauchlan Mackintosh of Aberar- 
dour, Ferquhard Macgillivray of Dummaglash, Donald Macqueen 
of Corribroch, and other friends and Idnsmen of the laird of 
Mackintosh, and persuaded them that without a due reward of 



400 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I 

debita laboris mercede (quam, procul dubio, asserentibiis 
illis, priusquam eorum comitatu et auxilio, tunc temporis, 
in Lochabriam progressurus destitueretur, dare non renueretX 
Makintoshium nullatenus, ne aegre, quidem, comitari per- 
suaserunt. Grenerosi hi, longe majori animorum desiderio, 
lucrum suum et commodum potius quam Ducis sui et Geneardue 
utilitatem anhelantes, inimice admodum et maxime in humane, 
sine ulla vel minima caussa, consilio dato oplemper&nmt, 
Genearchamque suum in extremis versantem, urgente etiam 
durissimo necessitatis telo turpissime deseruere. Desertionis, 
autem, hujus causae et rationes subsequentibus exhibebuntur. 

Kylachius, a Domino Makintosh amicissime vocatus, atque 
ut, cum, in determinata hactenus ad Lochabriam expeditione, 
concomitaretur, jussus, respondet, nisi villam Coigna femensem 
(pervili reditu tunc ab ipso possessam), durante su& vit£, et, 
postea, suis Haeredibus, pro spatio ter 19 Annorum, se ne vel 
[page 307.] latum digitum in Lochabriam cum Phylarcha prooessurum. 
Clunius, Huntleum Marchionem, ejus Dominum, ipsi, ipsiuaque 
Cognatis, ne, Makintoshio in Lochabriam profecturo, aeae 
adjungerent, praecepisse asseruit. Abirardor, nisi, paacua 



their labour being given (which was far from doubtful^ since they 
were assured that rather than be left without their company and 
aid at this time> when he was to march into Locbaber, he would 
not refuse to give) they should in no wise go along with Mackin- 
tosh. These gentlemen, panting with far more eager desire after 
their own gain and advantage than for the good of their chief, 
most spitefully and unnaturally and without the least occasion 
complied with the advice given^ and most basely deserted their 
chief, even in his extremity^ and when pressed by the direst 
necessity. The causes and reasons of this desertion are shown as 
follows. 

Kylachy, having been called in a very friendly way by the 
laird of Mackintosh^ and ordered to accompany him in the ex- 
pedition already resolved upon to Lochaber^ replied that unless 
the town of Coignafeme (then possessed by him at a small rent) 
was [let to him] during his life^ and afterwards to his heirs for 
the space of thrice nineteen years, he would not go a finger's 
breadth into Lochaber with his chief. Cluny affirmed that the 
Marquis of Huntly, his lord superior, had commanded him and 
his kinsmen not to join with the laird of Mackintosh in going 
to Lochaber. Aberardour declared, that unless he acquired in 



pp. 306-307] THE MACKINTOSHES 401 

Strathemise Crolach nominata (quae ipse Dominus a Mak- 
intosh, eo temporis articulo, pecoris sui pabulandi gratia, 
suis in manibus habuit) possidenda acquireret, se in Loch- 
abriam minimi iturum afHrmavit. Johannes Makintosli 
Abirararderi firater, etiamsi actualis Makintoshii fuerat tunc 
Inquilinus, comitatum, tamen, negat. Quippe, fratris Abir- 
arderi desideriis non obtemperatum fuit. Dunmaglassius 
(Borlumio, Abirardero, et avunculo suo Eylachio dissua- 
dentibus), seipsum, in Lochabriam iter facturum inficiatur. 
Quotquot, tamen, ex ejus Cognatis et Tenentibus Dovatam 
Dummaglassiam incolebant, Lochabriam cum Makintoshio 
adire permisit. Donaldus M akqueen a Corribroch, nullam suae 
Recusationis dedit rationem. Tantum dixit, Quandoquidem 
plerique ex Nominis Makintoshii praecipuis, in ea expeditione, 
nullatenus proficisci statuerant, nemo ei vitio vertere debet^ 
se, sese quoque ab eadem abstraheret, atque ita Grenerosi hi 
non tantum ipsi maliciosissim^ et maxime inhumane domi 
manserunt, verum etiam et, omnibus, quotquot iis auscul- 
tarent, parerentque, remoras, et obstaculo fuere. Hie adver- 
tendum est Alexandrum Farquharson ab Invergald, totumque 
Farquharsonorum Nomen, ad numerum, saltem trecentorum. 



possession^ the grazing of Stratheme named Crolach (which the 
laird then had in his own hands for pasturing his flock) he would 
not go to Lochaber. John Mackintosh, brother of Aberardour, 
although he was then an actual tenant of Mackintosh^ yet refused 
to accompany him, because he would not grant the desires of 
Aberardour his brother. Dummaglass (being dissuaded by 
Borlum^ Aberardour, and his uncle Kylachy) refused to go to 
Lochaber ; yet he permitted as many of his kinsmen and tenants 
as inhabited the davach of Dummaglass to go with Mackintosh 
to Lochaber. Donald Macqueen of Corribroch gave no reason for 
his refusal : only, he said that as many of the principal men of 
the name of Mackintosh were determined not to go on that ex- 
pedition, nobody ought to impute it to him as a rault if he also 
should withdraw himself therefrom ; and thus^ these gentlemen, 
not only most perfidiously and unnaturally remained at home, 
but also were a hindrance to all who hearkened to and obeyed 
them. 

Here it should be noted that Alexander Farquharson of Inver> 
cauld, and the whole of the Farquharsons, to the number of three 
hundred at least, were at that time prepared to march with Mack- 

2c 



402 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vol. i 

cum Makintoshio, eo tempore, in prsesenti expeditioDe, pro- 
gredi paratos fuisse, verum Farquharson a 

Craigniety, una cum Johanne Farquharson Brughderggis 
Tutore, a Brelochabriensibus occisis, duobusque ex istis, brevi 
antea, eadem Hora, a Farquharsonis interemptis, Archibaldus 
Macdonald, inter Brelochabrienses prsecipuus, extimescens 
Farquharsonos, eo tempore, in Lochabriam appropinquantes, 
concordiae, inter Makintoshium et Brelochabrienses confir- 
mandse impedimento potius qu^m expedimento futures esse, 
seriam, Makintoshio legavit Epistolam, in qua maximopere 
postulabat, ne hosce secum adduceret, alioquin nequi ipse, 
neque quisque ex ejus Tribii aut Sectatoribus pnesto esse 
voluerunt. 

Epistola hsec Makintoshii animum baud parum disturbavit, 
& suspensum tenuit, si quidem, ejus postulatis obediendo, 
militum, quos, et Tutelae, et Consilii ergo, secum advexerat, 
dimidium a tergo relinquere oportebat. Si enim, £pistole 
non auscultaret, permagnum exinde, in eundo, cum contraria 
parte, concordise et transactioni obstaculum eveniret. Interea 
vero, cum praecipuus ejus scopus (ita ferente, ea vice, rerum 
statu), amico potius quam hostili more, res suas componere 
fuerat, Farquharsonos, pro eo tempore, relinquere, et, cum 

intosh in that expedition^ but Farquharson of Craignetty, 

along with John Farquharson^ tutor of Brochderg^ having a short 
time before been slain by the Brae Lochaber people, and two 
of these were at the same time killed by the Farquharsons, 
Archibald Macdonald^ the chief man among the Brae Lochaber 
people^ fearing that the Farquh arsons then coming to Lochaber 
would rather be a hindrance than a help to the establishing of 
concord between Mackintosh and the people of Brae Lochaber, 
sent to Mackintosh an earnest letter, in which he urgently 
requested that he would not bring them with him^ otherwise 
neither he nor any of his tribe or his followers would appear. 
This letter disturbed the mind of Mackintosh not a little, and 
held him in suspense; for if he complied with these demands it 
behoved him to leave behind the half of those forces which, both 
for defence and counsel, he had then brought with him. If, on 
the other hand, he should not give heed to the letter, there would 
then be a very great hindrance to the carrying out of an agree- 
ment with the opposite party. But, notwithstanding, since his 
principal design (his affairs standing as they then did) was to 
arrange his matters in a friendly rather than in a hostile manner. 



pp. 307-308] THE MACKINTOSHES 408 

omnibus, quotquot,' in, prsesentis negotii citiorem expeditionem, 
accommodare potuit, etsi quam paucissimi essent, in Loch- 
abriam progressum facere decrevit, atque, ita, trecentis for- 
tissimis et explorati animi viris, quorum prsecipui et maxime 
principales erant Johannes Grahum a Fyntri, Gulielmus Mak- 
intosh ab Elrigg, Lauchlanus Makintosh a Stron, Paulus 
Macbean a Kinchyl, Gulielmus Makpherson a Nood, Gulielmus 
Makintosh a Baroggy, iGneas Makintosh ab Holm, Lauchlanus 
Makintosh a Balnespick, Donaldus Macbean a Failzie, et 
Johannes ejus primogenitus, Gilliesus Macbean a Dreaky, 
Angusius Makintosh a TuUoch mak gerry, Johannes Mak- 
intosh a Crathy, Jacobus Makintosh a Cragy, Donaldus Shaw 
a Delnavert, Alexander Shaw a Tordarrach, Beanus et 
Lauchlanus Makgillivray (Dunmakglashii patrui, et Murdochus 
Mackpherson 

comitatus, iter ingreditur, et, in Eeppochiam, 
4 Augusti 1679 foeliciter advenit. Diligenter, igitur, pensitato 
et ponderato, quanta, qudmque inhumana immanitate, plerique 
ex suorum Cognatorum praecipuis, sese erga eum jampridem 
gesserunt, nihilque jam spei, Commissionem, a Dominis S. 
Concilii ad versus rebellem hunc et contumacem Brelochabriae [page s^ 18. 
Populum, obtinendi reliquum esse (me ulterius, hujus negotii 

he resolved^ for that time^ to leave the Farquharsons behind, and 
to make the advance into Lochaber with as many as he could, 
although they were few, the more speedily to adjust the present 
difficulty ; and so^ accompanied with three hundred of the bravest 
and best proved men^ the chief of whom were John Graham of 
Fintry, William Mackintosh of Elrigg, Lauchlan Mackintosh of 
Strone, Paul Macbean of Kinchyle, William Macpherson of Nude, 
William Mackintosh of Baroggy, Eneas Mackintosh of Holm^ 
Lauchlan Mackintosh of Balnespick, Donald Macbean of Failzie 
and John his eldest son. Gillies Macbean of Dreaky, Angus Mack- 
intosh of TuUoch mak gerry, John Mackintosh of Crathy, James 
Mackintosh of Cragy, Donald Shaw of Delnavert, Alexander Shaw 
of Tordarroch, Bean and Lauchlan MacGillivray (uncles of Dun- 
maglash), and Murdoch Macpherson, he entered on the march, 
and on 4th August 1679 arrived happily at Keppoch. 

After carefully pondering the inhuman cruelty with which 
many of his chief kinsmen had recently behaved themselves 
towards him, and as no hope now remained of obtaining from the 
Lords of Privy Council a commission against that rebellious and 
stubborn people of Brae Lochaber (that he might no longer seem 



404 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. i 

finiendi caussS, Cognatorum adminiculum quasi emendicare 
videretur), res suas cum Brelochabriensibus, tanto faciliori 
methodo, etsi non sine aliquo suo incommodo, componere 
statuit, atque, ita, Tridui spatio, habitam, cum turbuiento 
hoc et enormi Populo, controversiam tandem aliquando decidit, 
additis quoque, et adjectis prisco agrorum reditui quingentis 
annui proventus minis, eosque, ut ipse, a solvendis iliorum 
agrorum Decimis, nee non, a quocunque, Publicorum oneruin, 
sive, a Rege, sive, ab Ecclesia, hactenus impositorum, aut 
adhuc imponendorum (durante 7 Annorum locatione), genere, 
liberaretur, utque, ipsum, de, omnium prseteritorum Fundi 
Debitorum solutione, quam certissimum facerent, obstrictos 
habuit et obligatos. Tandem vero, tanto cum Honore, 
animique contentatione, ac si praedicti ejus Cognati, Deser- 
tores, eorumque Sectatores, eum, prout par erat, in Locha- 
briam comitarentur, inviolato interim aureae pacis vinculo, 
domum revertit, dum, ex ejus Cognatis, omnes isti, quotquot, 
turpissimis foedse avaritise methodis circumacti, comitatum 
suum, tunc temporis (o minim, ingratae inhumanitatis, et 
inhumanse ingratitudinis, Judicium), negdrunt, ignominioris 
infamise maculis, et non in aetemum obliterandfi dedecoris 
notfi, merits inurentur. 

to beg the assistance of his kinsmen for the sake of finishing this 
business) he determined to settle his affairs with the Brae Lochaber 
folks by a method so much the more easy, although somewhat to 
his own disadvantage ; and thus, in the space of three days, he at 
length put an end to the controversy he formerly had with that 
turbulent and unruly people : five hundred pounds of yearly 
increase being added to the old rent of the lands, that he might 
free them from paying the teinds of these lands, and from every 
kind of public burdens hitherto imposed, or yet to be imposed, 
upon them by tlie king or by the church (during the lease of seven 
years) ; and he held them bound and obliged, as surely as they could 
be, for payment to him of all the previous burdens on the land. 

And so, at length, he returned home with as much honour and 
satisfaction of mind as if his aforesaid kinsmen, deserters, and 
their followers had accompanied him to Lochaber, the golden 
bond of peace being meanwhile unbroken ; while all those of his 
kinsmen who having been influenced by a base spirit of disgusting 
avarice, refused their escort at that time (O wonderful decision 
of ungrateful inhumanity and inhuman ingratitude!) are de- 
servedly branded with ignominious stains of infamy, and a stigma 
of disgrace that shall never be effaced. 



308.310] THE MACKINTOSHES 406 



Memorial relating to the Antient and [p^^*^09.] 
Honourable Family of Makintosh. 

Preface. 

This Family has continued for several Ages past possessed 
of great Honour, a large Estate, much Power and a numerous 
Train of Followers devoted to it^s Fortunes and Interest, has 
acted a very considerable Part in many of the great Trans- 
actions of our Countrey, and stands entitled to all the Marks 
of Respect that can be due to Antiquity, Power, Birth 
or Merit. 

Though I do not enjoy all the Advantages and Instructions 
that may be necessary to do Justice to this Family, and to 
trace it back in the several Steps and Periods of its flourishing 
State in Order to set it in a clear Light, Yet I shall endeavour 
to give such a View of the same as may demonstrate it^s 
Greatness & just Claim to Honour. 

It is none of my Design to draw a complete History or an 
exact Genealogy, nor to enumerate all the remarkable Events 
and various Successes that accompanied this Race through 
so many Centuries of Years, which are fully related in the 
M.S. Accompts of the Family both in Latin and English, 
whence may be had a much better and fuller Narrative of 
the Originals and State not only of that, but also of the 
other eminent Families in the Highlands than what I, at 
least, have seen elsewhere. 

All I intend is to contribute my poor Endeavours for pre- 
serving the Honour of our declining Countrey in doing Justice 
to those who deserved well of it, & at once to testify my 
Gratitude and respect to that illustrious House, which has 
long been the Head and Support of so numerous and power- 
full a People. 



It is universally aknowledged That the Laird of Makintosh {pageSi(K\ 
was originally a Son of the Earl of Fife'^s ; For Duncan Mac 



406 GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [vOL.1 

DufF Thane of Fife having by his great Power and Loyalty 
brought about the Restoration of Malcolm the 8^ called 
Canmore Anno 1057 was rewarded with the Earldom of Fife 
and greater Honours and Privileges than ever any Subject had 
enjoyed before him. 



[pagtsn.] Note of Differences betwixt the Ac- 

compts given by the M.S. of JVIakin- 
TOSH s Genealogy and by Sir Robert 
Sibbald in his History of Fii-'E con- 
cerning the Earls Macduff and their 
Descendents. 

I mo Though both agree That the First Eg^L-JKas named 
Duncan, Yet the M.S. calls his Son and Successor Milcolumbus. 
But Sir Robert calls him Du&gan, and refers to Sir Ja. 
Dalrymple's Collect. P. 373, where he is cited as 
to a Charter granted by Alex' 1. to 

2^0 The M.S. calls the 3** Earl Duncan. But Sir Robert 
Constantine, which he proves by Edelrad^s Charter to the 
Culdees, and by another to the Monks of Dunfermling cited 
by Sir J. Dalrymple, and says he died Anno 11S9. 

3"« Sir Robert calls the 4*»» Earl Gillimichel the Son of 
Constantine, and proves it by his being Witness to the fore- 
said Charter to Dunfermling and many Charters of David !■*, 
and says he died Anno 1139, and That of his 9,^ Sod Heugo 
the Father of Eugenius was come the E. of Weems, which 
Mr. Harry Makum pretends to instruct by a Charter of King 
W"***" confirming the Donations of said Eugenius to the Priory 
of St. Andrews, One of which gives the Kirk of Markinch, in 
which Parish that Family yet has Possessions. But the M.S. 
calls the said Earl Malcolm, and makes him to have lived 
about Anno ISSO. 

A^^ Sir Robert calls the 5*** E. Duncan, (as the M.S. does) 
who is found in sundry Charters of David 1®* and Malcolm 8^ 
and 4*'**, and says he died Anno 1154. 

5*^ Sir Robert also says That his Son the 6**^ E. was of the 



pp. 3 IO-3 1 1] THE MACKINTOSHES 407 

same Name, viz. Duncan, and married Ada Niece of Malcolm 
the Fourth. He was Justiciarius Scotise, and is found in 
Charters of Malcolm 4i^. But the M.S. calls this Earl 
Malcolm, and adds That he was killed at Falkirk Anno 1S90 ; 
Whereas Sir Robert says he died Anno 1S03. So That the 
Author of M.S. Genealogy must either have mistaken as to 
the Number of Earls, when he brings off Mackintosh from 
the 3^, or as to the Name. 

6*** The Manuscript Mentions for Cadets besides Makintosh 
and Weems, Fanduy and Craighead, and Sir Robert says 
Toshay of Minevaird, Fanduy and Craigtoun. 

•ymo Tj^g jyj g ^^i^gg ^jjg -yth ^o be Duncan, and to have 

been taken at the Battle of Dyplin Anno 133S, and again 
at Duirham Anno 1348. 

Sir Robert says That he was Malcolm, and That he died 
Anno 1SS9, and makes him to have founded the Monastery 
of Culross, which the M.S. ascribes to the 4*** Earl. 

8^® The Manuscript makes Isobell Countess of Fife to be 
the Daughter of Duncan the 7*** Earl ; Whereas Sir Robert 
will have her to be the Daughter of the 13*** Earl, who was 
also Duncan, and died Anno 1353, betwixt whom and Malcolm 
the 7*** he places Malcolm the 8**», Colbanus the 9***, Duncan 
the 10">, 11*\ and 12^. 



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Abbrarder, 274. 

Laird of. Ciu Mackintosh. 

Aberchallader, 363. 

Abercorn, lord Claud Hamilton, earl 
of, 27, 28. 

Aberdeen, provost of, protests against 
the sentence on the laird of Mack- 
intosh, 230. 

Abergeldy, raided by Angus Mack- 
intosh, 251. 

Aberneathie, Janet, 88. 

Abemethies kill the 5th earl of Fife, 157. 

Abernethy, Perthshire, a Pictish town, 

153. 
Inverness-shire, the ghost of 

Tullochgorm, 109 ; woods of, 299. 
Abertarf, 201, 207, 226, 355, 366. 
Aboyne, earl of, 334, 335. 
Achachar, 24^ 
Achdrom, 198. 
Achiltie, 83. 
Achindoun, 254. 
Achnasavil, 370. 
Adneedly, 113. 
Airlie (Early), earl of, 114. 

James Ogilvy, earl of, 30. 

Airth, Robert, 50. 

Alan-Darroch, an island in Loch 

Lochy, 242. 
Aldourie, 355. See cUso Mackintosh, 

Donald. 
Alexander 11., king of Scotland, 105. 
Alexander ill., expedition of, against 

Haco of Norway, 165. 
Alford, battle of, 135. 
Allardice of Allardice, 34. 

Jean, 34, 35. 

Allenaha, 264. 

Alpin, king of Scots, 1 53 ; beheaded 

Dy Brud, king of the Picts, 153. 
Altchunlechan, 256. 
Amanuenses, old, the value of, as 

historians, 146-150, 152. 
Anakelt, 218. 
Anderson, Henry, groom of the earl of 

Moray, 278. 
Andrew, bishop of Moray, 163. 
Angus, origin of the surname of, 181. 
earl of, 258, 



Angus, Archibald, earl of, 6. 

David, earl of, 27. 

family, in Burntisland, 181. 

Anstruther of that ilk, 12, 21. 

Agnes, 12, 21. 

Antrim, Ronald, earl of, 309. 
Arbroath abbey, charter to, 19, 20. 
Ardersier, 264. 
Ardmeanach, 195. 
Ardnamurchan, 188. 
Ardnancraisk, 71. 
Argyll, earl of, 67. 

Alexander, earl of, 58. 

Archibald, earl of, 26, 30, 68, 131, 

132. 255, 256, 260, 261, 335, 337, 

360, 367, 369, 395-398. 
marquis of, 135-140, 304- 

309. 318-320, 328. 

Colin, earl of, 127, 219. 

earls of, 151. 

family of, 128. 

Arkaig river, 367, 368. 
Amot of Scotlandwell, 50. 

John, 23. 

Arran, Albert, earl of, 27. 

James, earl of, 26, 27. 

Thomas, earl of, 27. 

Astred, daughter of Hemming Grant, 

104. 
Atcheson of Gosefoord, 134. 
Athol, earl of, 39, 62, 165, 168, 240, 

242, 247, 248, 255, 258, 303, 330, 

331. 

John, earl of, 45. 

duke of, 113. 

marquess of, 138, 332. 

William, earl of, 45. 
family, 151. 



Atholl country, raided by the Mack- 
intoshes, 261-263. 

Auchenleck, 5. 

Auchemick, progenitor of the family 
of, 106. 

Auchimowtie of that ilk, 5. 

Auchinarrow, 109 ; progenitor of, 106. 

Auchinleck, sir William, of Balmanno, 

43- 
Auchmowtie, Tohn, 32. 

Auchnashelach, 37. 



410 



GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS 



Auchyle, baron of, 292. 
iVviniane. See Glenlivat. 
Aytoun, Elizabeth, 15. 

Grissel, 24. 

Jane, 24. 

James, of Balgolhric, 23. 

of Grange, 15, 16, 24. 

of Hilsyde, 24. 



of Inchdairnie, 23. 



Bacca, island of, 130. 

Badenoch invaded by Huntly, 251 ; its 

loyalty to Montrose, 313. 
Baillie, Alexander, yr. of Dunain, 100. 

William, of Dunean, 331. 

Baird, James, advocate, 301. 

Bairfoot, laird of, 10 1. 

Balachastte, 108. 

Balcarres, Alexander, earl of, 68. 

Balchemich, 109, 201. 

Balfour, arms of, 3 ; origin of name, 3. 

baron of, 1 8. 

David, 23. 

Henr}', advocate, 23. 

sir James, of Burleigh, clerk 

register, 30. 

Janet, 20. 

John, of Balfour, 20. 

Margaret, 30. 

sir Michael, of Burleigh, 30. 

Michael, of Balfour, 20. 

lord Burleigh, 30. 

of Tarrie, 23. 

James, of Tarrie, 13. 

Bethun, family of, 3-35. See also 

Beaton. 
Balgay castle, 257. 
Balhoussie, 44. 

Baliol and Bruce war, 57, 58, 107. 
Ballindalloch, progenitor of the house 

of, 109. See also Grant. 

castle besieged by Huntly, 247. 

Balmerinoch, lady, 30. 

Balmowto, laird of, 5, 21, 25, 41, 42. 

Balnagowen, laird of, 79, 100 ; lady of, 

88. See also Ross. 
Bannockburn, battle of, 168. 
Barclay of Innergellie, 24. 

sir David, of Cullerny, 45. 

George, of that ilk, 237. 

Isobcll, 112. 

Margaret, 24. 

Bass, laird of, 82, 83. 

Bayne, Alex., of Knock bain, 93. 

Mac Conachie vie Rorie, Allan, 

80. 
Donald, 73. 

M*Farquhar vie Coul, Dugall, 

222. 



Bayne, Duncan, of Delny, 93. 

of Tarradeat, ^6, 

laird of Tulloch, 71, 86. 

Duncan, of Tulloch, 98. 

— John, of Tulloch, 74. 
Rorie, of Tulloch, 86. 



Beal-by-na-broig, battle of (1299), 36. 
Beallach Glaisteid, 70. 
Beaton or Bethune, 9, 18. 

Agnes, la, 13, 15, 16. 

Alexander, 20. 

W.S., 12, 13. 

Andrew, 12, 14-16, 23, 25. 

parson of Essie, 1 1. 

prior of St. Andrews, 5, 6. 

.\nna, 9, 17, 32-34, 45. 

Archibald, 8, 9, 22, 25, 33, 34. 

dean of Aberdeen, 29. 



— Beatrix, 7, la 

— Catharine, 7, 10-12, 14, 16, 17, 

23» 33» 34. 

— Charles, 17. 

— Christian, 9, 12, 29, 30. 

— sir David, 20. 

— David, 5, 7-9, 13-15, 17, 19, 23, 

25- 



archbishop of St. Andrews, 
6, 8, 9, 10, 32. 

Elizabeth, 5, 7, 9, 10, 13, 15-17, 



23, 25. 26, 29.34. 

— Gal vine, parson of Govan, 29. 

— Geils, 23. 

— George, 7, 15, 16. 
parson of Govan, 10. 



— Grissel, 5, 7, 13, 25, 29, 30. 

— Helen, 17, 33, 34. 

— Henry, 6, 13, 14. 

— Isobel, 5, 7, 25. 31. 

— James, 7.9, 12, 14, 17, 19, 25. 

archbishop of Glasgow, 5, 7, 

8, 18, 23, 29. 

— — parson of Roxburgh, 12, 33. 

— Janet, 5, 7, il, 13, 14, 22, 23, 



25.29. 

countess of Arrant 28. 

— Jean, 9, 13, 23. 

— John, 8, 9, 14, 16, 19, 22, 23,25, 

33, 34,45. n8. 

— Lucretia, 13. 

— Margaret, 5, 7-9, "-17. 22, 23, 

25, 33, 34, 44- 

— Mar>-, 9, 14, 28, 31. 

Robert, 14.16, 19, 20, 23, 25, 33, 



34. 



5.6. 

— Theodore, 9. 

— Thomas, 7, 10. 

— Walter, 7, 10. 



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INDEX 



411 



Beaton, William, 15-17, 34, 35. 

John, of Bale, 19. 

Robert, of Baic, 19. 

James, of Balfarge, 7, 23. 

Beaton's Catalogtu of the Mac leans y 120; 

Bethun coat of arms, 22. 
Beatons of Balfour — 

Archibald, 45, 21. 

David, 12- 16, 22, 34. 

James, 15-17, 22, 33-35, 45. 

John, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10-13, 15, 16, 

20-22, 25. 

Robert, 12, 13, 22. 



— - marriages of the lairds of Balfour, 
25 ; notes on the family of, 18-24. 

— David of Balfour and Creich, 17, 

33, 45. 

— Robert, of Banden, 13, 14. 

— Andrew, of Blebo, 14. 

— of Blebo and Myretoun, 

13. 14. 

— John, of Blebo and Myretoun, 14. 

— William, of Craigfoolzie Easter, 



14. 

— of Creich, family of, 25-35, 44* 

— David, of Creich, 5, II, 16, 17, 
25. 28, 29, 31-35, 45. 

— James, of Creich, 12, 31, 33, 34. 

— John, of Creich, 26, 28, 30. 

— Robert, of Creich, 9, 29, 31-33. 
marriages of the lairds of Creich, 



35. 



James, of Little Tarvet, 9. 

— of Melgum, 9. 

— David, of Melgum, 32. 

— James, of Melgum, 10. 

— Archibald, of Pitlochie and Kapel- 
drae, 5, 6, 22. 

of Westhall in Angus, 19, 20. 



Mac- 



Beauliew, 72, 73. 

Beinbigirie, battle at, between 

Leans and MacDonalds, 134. 
Bellachnabrog conflict (1452), 37^ 
Belnagowen. See Batnagowen. 
Benchar, 168, 215, 225, 238, 273, 283. 
Benedgefield, laird of, 92, 100. 
Betman, major, 387. 
Birkeroe, the baron of, 104. 
Blackbaronie, lady, 17. 
Black stones, vows on, 122. 
Blackwater, 254. 
Bcethius's Scotonim Historia^ 147, 149, 

150, 151. 
Bonytoun in Angus, laird of, 23. 
Borlum, 207, 273. See also Mackintosh 

of Borlum. 
Borthwick, lord, 29. 

James, of Newbyres, 30. 

John, of Dalhousie, 11. 



Boswall, Marjor}', 5, 7, 21, 22, 25. 

of Balmuto, 5, 21, 25, 41, 42. 

Bothwell Bridge, battle of, 398. 
Boyde, James, 27. 

Thomas, earl of Arran, 27. 

Breachly, 225, 231, 290. See also 

Gordon. 
Breda, 314. 
Breravock, 217. 
Brin, 273 ; family of, 180 ; laird of, 

272. 
Brodie, progenitor of the family of, 

169. 

Alex., of Lethin, 115. 

Janet, 115. 

Brolos, laird of, 143. 
Brown, sir John, 137. 

Margaret, 14. 

Nicol, 14. 

Bruce, Andrew, bishop of Orkney, 16. 

of Airth, 90. 

of Clackmannan, 13, 15. 

David, king of Scots. Se$ 

David II. 

Mary, 90. 

Dr. Peter, 102. 

Brud, king of the Picts, beheads Alpin, 

king of Scots, I ^3. 
Buchanan, laird of, 137, 203. 

ofAuchimar, 119. 

George, his Rerum Scoticarum 

Historia, 146, 147, 151, 155, 224, 

227, 228, 231, 341, 391. 
Bunchrubin, 238. 
Burleigh, lord, 20, 30. 
Buttel, John, in Crail, 50. 
Byres, of Cotts, 1 14. 

Ca BRACK, 254. 

Caithness, thanes of, created earls, 
151. 

earl of, 68, 126, 243. 

Allan Stuart, earl of, 188, 189. 

George, earl of, 39. 

Calander, river, 168. 
Calder, 363. 

laird of. See Campbell, sir John. 

sir of, 37. 

Elizabeth, 194. 

Florence, 169. 

Helen, 163. 

Hugh, parson of Kingussie, 194. 

Muriel, 215. 

Cambuskenneth, 20. 
Cameron, Allan, 113. 

Donald, tutor of Lochiel, 303. 

M*Ewan, 238. 

du Makeven vie Ian, 172. 

Ewen Macallan, 195, 203, 226. 



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GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS 



Cameron, John, alias Bodach, of 
Erracht, 335. 

Tearloch mor, 177. 

of Gleneves, 335. 

ofLochiel, 113, 132, 134, 140, 141, 

319. 



Allan, of Lochiel, no, 260, 276, 
279-286, 302. 

Ewen, of Lochiel, 136, 138, 195, 



303, 328-329, 332-337, 347. 360-362, 

367-377, 3*7. 

Macallan, of Lochiel, 226. 

John, of Lochiel, 282, 283, 301- 



303. 



clan, 246, 270, 314, 392 ; quarrels 
of, with the Mackintc^hes, 113, 169, 
172, 251 ; defeated by Clanchattan 
at Invemahavon, etc., 176-177, 187; 
raid against, at Craig Callioch, 201 ; 
invade Badenoch and Strathnaim, 
206, 249 ; depredations of, 279 ; the 
chief men summoned before the privy 
council : their lands to be harried 
with fire and sword, 280 ; in forcible 
possession of Glenluy and Loch- 
arkaig, 327 ; a commission of fire and 
sword obtai ned by Mack i n tosh against 
the clan, 330; their disputes with 
Mackintosh. 324, 326, 329, 333-337, 
347* 375* ^^^ <^^o Clan Chattan. 

Campbell, Agnes, 14, 15. 

Archibadd. See Argyll, earl of. 

Catharin, daughter of Colin, earl 

of Argyll, 127. 

Colin, 265. 

Donald, 26J. 

Elizabeth, daughter of Archibald, 



earl of Argyll, 127. 

— Euphemia, daughter of Campbell 
of Calder, 270. 

— Isabella, lady Glenurchay, 234. 

— James, 257. 

— Janet, daughter of the carl of 
Argyll, 128. 

— Jean, daughter of the earl of 



Argyll, 268. 

— Nicolas, 168. 

— of Auchinbreck, 127. 

— John, of Auchindoun, 333. 

— of Calder, 37, 112, 127, 219. 

— sir John, of Calder, 195, 215, 219, 
247, 248, 263-265, 276, 331, 332, 353- 

of Croonon, 9. 



of Glenurchay, 291, 337, 365, 367, 

369. 370, 376. 

sir Colin, of Glenurquhy, 42. 

Gilbert, of Kethick, 14. 

Archibald, of Lochinnell, 257. 

— John, of Lowers, 42. 



Cannon, colonel, 139, 140. 
Carbtsdail, 38. 
Carnegy, David, lord, 30. 
Carrick casUe, 156. 
Carstaiis, sir John, 24. 

Margaret, 34. 

Cassillis, earl of, 28. 

Gilbert, earl of, 223. 

Catalogues of the MacLetns, 1 18- 12a 
Cayer, Peter, 18, 19. 
Cfelestine de Insulis, of Lochalsh, 127. 
Chalmer, Alexander, of Belnacraig, 229. 

Thomas, of Cults, 229. 

Chambers, David, 84* 

Chanonry castle, dispute regarding the 

custody of, 239. 
Chapman, James, minister of Cromdale, 
his Genealogy of the Gratiis^ 103-117. 
Charles I. presents his sword to sir 
Lauchlan Mackintosh, 286; letter 
from, to the laird of Mackintosh, 
thanking him for his opposition to 
the covenanters, 305. 
Charles ii., letters from, to the laird of 
Mackintosh, 307, 310, 315, 391. 

Cheap, , 14. 

James, of Rossie, 14. 

Cheyne, Mareon, 37. 

sir Patrick, of Essilmont, 229. 

William, of Strathloch, 229. 

Chisholm, Alexander, 397. 

Valentine, 86. 

of Comer, 92, 331. 

Alex., of Comer, 99-101. 

of Cromlix, 17, 31, 35. 

sir James, of Cromlix, 33. 

Thomas, of Kinairies, 92. 

of Straglaish, 83. 

Christmas, tradition concerning the 

observance of, 173. 
Church government controversy, 303. 
' Clagh-na-herey, battle of (1341), 37, 
191. 
Clan Allan, origin of, 106, 196. 
I Clan Andrish, 192. 
Clan Bean, 168 ; at the battle of 

Harlaw, 185. 

Clanchattan, 163, 166, 169, 172, 174, 

, 184, 247 ; feuds among, 147 ; their 

battle at Perth with the Oankevill, 

' 165, 170, 177, 197; feuds with the 

I Camerons, 1 13, 169, 172, 176, 177, 

185, 187, 206, 251 ; bum Dalxield 

castle, 204 ; leadership of, given to 

strangers, 321; with Glencaim and 

Middleton, 322 ; their dispute with 

the earl of Moray, 290; in arms 

against the covenanters, 320-322; 

plundered by the Camerons, 347 ; 



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opposed by Frasers and Grants, 332 ; 

adheres to Mackintosh, 362-364 ; end 

of their quarrels with the Camerons, 

375; the testimonies as to the laird of 

Mackintosh being chief of, 390-394. 

See also Cameron clan. 
Clancheandui, 178. 

Clan Chiaran, 106. 1 

Clan Chterich, 192. 
Clan Dai, 166 ; slaughter of, by the ' 

Camerons, 176. 
Clan Donald, progenitor of, 160, 161. 
Clan Dunachy, 109. 
Claneachan, 194-195. 
Clan Fingon, progenitor of, 105. 
Clan Finlay cheir, 201. 
Qan Gregore or MacGregors, progenitor 

of, 105. 
Clan-Iber, 36. 
Clan Innes, 126. 
Clankevill's battle with Clanchattan at 

Perth, 165, 170, 177, 197. 
Clan- Leave, 36. 
Clan Macgillony, 194. 
Clan Nicol vie Olan, 174. 
Clan Phadrick, 109. 
Clan Phail, origin of, 201. 
Clan Ranald, 81, 92, 98, 246, 392 ; 

expedition of lord Lovat against, 225. 

See also Macdonald. 
Clan Reven, 192. 
Clan Talivach, 36. 
Clantarrell, 179, 197. 
Clan Tearloch, 192. 
Clan vie Vilvory of Morvem, 126. 
Clan Vorchie, 91. 
Clan Vurrich. See Macphersons. 
Clerk, Alexander, provost of Eklinburgh, 

II. 

Allan, minister of Glenelg, 85. 

Bean Clerach, 226. 

Donald, 88. 

Fcrquhar, 91. 

John, in Lewis, 82. 

minister of Lochailsh, 91. 

Murdoh, in Lochbroom, 81. 

Robert, burgess of Dysert, 23. 

-^ Rorie, 80, 84. 

Clunes, 225, 238, 367, 370, 375. 

John, 93. 

Cluny, lairds of. See Gordon: Mac- 

pherson. 
Clurie, lands of, 114. 
Cockbum, Jean, loi. 

of Lantoun, loi. 

John, ofTreaton, 11. 

Coigach, lands of, 94. 
Coignafcrne, 400. 
Colless, Dr., 88. 



Colquhoun of Luss, If 6, 117. 

Anne, 115, 116. 

Colvill, Alexander, of Blaire, 13. 

lord, of Cleish, i "?. 

Robert, lord, of Cleish, 15. 

Con, Alexander, of Auchry, 229. 

Connage, 203, 204, 215, 216, 227, 231, 
241. 

laird of. See Mackintosh, Alex. 

Constantine, earl of Fife, 406. 

Contilich, laird of, 88. 

Convention of estates at Stirling, 134. 

Corbet, Alexander, 74. 

of ArboU, loi. 

Corhearlich, 177. 

Corribroch, 275 ; gifted to Lauchlan 
Mackintosh, 299. 

lairds of. See Mackintosh : Mac- 
queen. 

Corricheartl, 169. 

Corrichie, battle of, 237. . 

Corrivori, 183. 

Coucey, earl of, 105. 

Coupar, James, lord, 15. 

Covenant of 1 638, 303. 

Covenanters, insolence of, 304; they 
march into England, 307; insurrec- 
tion of, in 1679, 397; defeated at 
Bothwell bridge, 398. 

Craig Cailloch, 197, 201. 

Craige Rossie, 42. 

Craighead, 407; origin of the barons 
of, 157. 

Craigie castle, 257. 

Craigmiller, laird of, 29. 

Craigtoun, 407. 

Craigwood, 2^9. 

Cranstoun, laird of, 29. 

Crichtoun, laird of, 29. 

Crathvmor, 182. 

Crawford, captain of, 30. 

earl of, 147, 177, 329- 

Alexander, of Fedderet, 229. 

David, earl of, 9. 

John, earl of, 46. 

Creich. See Beatons of. 

Crichton of Innemytie, 10, ii. 

James, lord, governor of Inverness 

castle, 190, 200, 202. 

Criny Challiach, 175. 

Cromartie, sheriff of, 79, 85. 

Cromdale hill, 115, 140. 

Cromlix, laird of. See Chisholm. 

Culbairds, 207. 

Culbockie, laird of. See Frasers of. 

Cullen, lord, 112. 

Culloden, fight at, between Macdonalds 
and Mackintoshes, 196 ; the tesnds 
claimed by lord Gordon, 283-286. 



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GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS 



Culloden, laird of, 1 66, 170. 

Culross monastery, 157, 407. 

Culsalmond castle, destruction of, 257. 

CuUaleod, 70. 

Gumming or Cumyn, the * Red Cum- 
min,' 174. 

Alexander, 185. 

William, 255. 

Cummings, the, 167, 224 ; their feud 
with Clanchattan, 185 ; their quarrels 
with the Grants, 106, Z08. 

Cunynghame, Alexander, 51. 

Jean, 31. 

John, 51. 

Margaret, 35. 

of Barns, 23, 24. 

Curi mac Dari, 119. 

Guthbert, David, clerk of Inverness, 

93. 

James, provost of Inverness, 303. 

Mary, 74. 

William, 240, 255. 

George, of Gastlehill, 73. 

John, of Gastlehill, 73, 97. 

of Old Gastlehill, 97, 255, 



273- 



Alexander, of Draikie, 72, 91. 
James, of Draickie, 74. 



Dalcross, 387, 396. 

Dalkeith, meeting of English delegates 

at, 324. 
Dallas, of Gantray, 213. 
Dalrymple, Marion, 117. 
Danielstoune, sir Robert, 50. 
D.mton island, 72. 
Damaway castle, 171, 221, 248, 363. 
David de Strabolgy, 168. 
David II., king of Scotland, 59, 158, 

'73 J grants charter in favour of 

Gilbert of Glenchernick, 108. 
Davidson, Donald M* William vie Dai 

dui, 229. 
Milmor, 2x6, 217 ; executed for 

the murder of Lauchlan Mackintosh, 

218. 

William, 217 ; executed for the 



murder of Lauchlan Mackintosh, 

218. 
Daviot, 274, 325. 345- 
Davochkairne, 73. 
Davochpollan, 76, 97. 
Deaodhie, 119. 
Deeside orphans maintained by the 

earl of Iluntly, ill. 
Delchaple, 109, 359, 363. 
Dellifur, 205. 
Delnies, 264. 
Delzield castle, 204. 



Demperstoun, Robert, portioner of 

Auchtermuchtie, 44. 
Dempster, James, of Auchterless, iia 

Jaspar, 255. 

Derry, siege of, 139. 

Dickson, of Hartrie, 102. 

Dingwall, Thomas, of Knockshortie, 

87. 

William, 97. 

Dingwalls, 36. 

Dog, Walter, 258. 

Dolace, of Budyet, 264. 

Dorvagilla, daughter of the thane of 

Fife, 105. 
Douglas, earl of, 126. 

Archibald, 36. 

sir George, of Pittendreich, 6. 

Hector, of Muldairg, 90- 

James, general (1333), 36. 

William, 36. 

of Lochleven, 5. 

Dowart castle, 127, 129, 139. 
Draickie, laird of. See Guthbert. 
Drumchardin and Beufoord, barony of, 

214. 
Drumchat, 7a 
Drumelliare, lairds of, 24. 
Drumgli, hill of, 172. 
Drummin castle, 256. 
Drummond, George, of Blair, .242, 258. 
William, of Hawthomden, his 

History of the Jameses^ 112. 
of Machanie, 15. 



Drumnaglass, laird of, 401. 

tutor of, 385. 

Dublin, said to have been taken by 

Hector MacLean, 126. 

prince of, 104. 

Du Gnesne, Mr., 18, 19. 
Duddingstoun, Isobell, 26. 

Janet, 22, 26, 28. 

Jean, 26. 

of Sandford, 22, 26. 

Dufagan, earl of Fife, 406^ 
Duff, Alexander, notary, ^^73. 

William, of Bracco, 117. 

Duffs, 151. 5^^ o/i^ MacDuffs. 

DufTus, lord, 68, 97, loi. 

Dullenside, 107. 

Dun, laird of, 113. 

Dunachton, barony of, 205, 209, 210, 

238, 265 ; Little Dunachton, 213. 
Dunbar, Alexander, dean of Moray, 

222. 

sir Alexander, sherrif of Murray, 



38. 



Euphemia, 194, 216, 222. 
George, earl of, 10. 
Margaret, 38, 98. 



INDEX 



416 



Dunbar, John, of Avach, 89, 90. 

of Banedgefield, 92, 100. 

Robert, of Durris, 227. 

of Grange, 92, loi. 

daughter of Dunbar of Grange, 

269. _^ 

of Kilbuyack, 76. 

James, of Tarbat, 227, 

castle, 203, 204. 



Dunbars, 247. 

Duncan 11., king of Scotland, 105. 

Dundas> Helen, 43. 

laird of, 41. 

of Fingask, 43. 

John, of Fingask, 45. 

of Manner, 24. 

Dundee, viscount, 1 1, 15, 139. 
Dundelchak, 238, 274. 
Dunfermling, earl of, 67. 
Dunisostray, 241. 
Dunlichty, 274. 

Durham, battle of, 158, 172, 173, 407. 
Durhame of Grange, 10. 
Durie, laird of, 7, 23. 
Durie, Andrew, 23. 

Dyke, parish of, 205 ; the town plun- 
dered by Mackintoshes, 221. 

Early, earl of. See Airlie. 

Edinburgh castle, 203, 315. 

Edward Longshanks, king of England, 
107. 

Eglinton, earl of, 28. 

Kgo, Malcolm, notary, 273. 

Elchies, progenitor of, 112, 114. 

Elliot, Margaret, 16. 

of Stobbs, 16. 

Elrig, 258. 

Epitaph on Lauchlan Maclean of 
Dowart, 133. 

Ere, ancestor of the Macleans, 1 19. 

Enrol, earl of, 257, 258. 

Erskine, Barbara, daughter of the earl 
of Mar, 1 10. 

George, 256. 

sir Charles, of Cambo, king of 

arms, 51, 388, 389; declares the 
laird of Mackintosh to be chief of 
Clanchattan and Mackintosh, 392. 
of Dun, 32, 34. 



Essich, 225, 238. 
Estoutteville, Isabell d', 19. 
Eugenius, 406. 
Evandale, lord, 26. 

Fairburne, lands of, 85. 
Falconer, Lilias, 270. 

Patrick, 270. 

of Halkertoun, 38. 



Fanduy, 407 ; origin of the barons of, 

157. 
Farquharson, James, writer to the 

signet, 301. 

John, 402. 

George, of Brochderg, 351. 

of Craignetty, 402. 

of Invercauld, 385. 

Alex., of Invercauld, 401. 

Robert, of Invercauld, 301. 

of Inverey, 363, 385. 

John, of Inverey, quarrels with 

Gordon of Breachly, 377-379; the 

dispute settled, 380. 

William, of Inverey, 322, 350. 

Charles, of Monaltry, 356. 

Alexander, of Wardhouse, 288. 

Farquharsons of Mar, 171,258. 

Farr, estate of, 353, 354. 

Feenzies, laird of, 102. 

Fermor, Andrew, 50. 

Ferny of Wester Ferny, 34. 

Ferret, John, 7. 

Fery, Andrew, portioner of Craigtoun, 

50. 
Fettercaime, laird of, 10. 
Fife, origin of the name, 154; Fife 

adventurers in Lewis, 65, 266. 
earldom of, resigned in favour of 

the earl of Monteith, 158 ; conferred 

on Duncan Mac Duff, 406. 
Duncan, earl of, 20, 148, 155- 

158. 

Isobell, countess of, 21, 22, 158, 



407. 
Malcolm, 4th earl of, 156, 157, 

161, 162. 

6lh earl of, 157. 

Robert Stuart, carl of, 182, 184. 

Duff, first thane of Fife, 154. See 

cUso MacDuff. 
Finlarig, lands of, ill n, 
Finlatour, laird of, 32, 38. 
Fitzgerald origin of the Mackenzies, 

discussion oft he, 54. 
Flodden, battle of, 127, 203. 
Flyming, James, lord, 27. 
Forbes, surname of, 169. 

lord, 68. 

Barbara, 68. 

Eupham, 34. 

James, p)ortioner of Kilmany, 34. 

John, alias Macgillicallum, 171. 

William, lord, his covenant with 

Duncan Mackintosh, 198-200. 

of Rires, 31, 32. 

Arthur, of Rires, 34. 

Robert, of Rires, 34, 44. 

William, of Skelleter, 333, 351. 



416 



GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS 



Forbes, John, of Tolly, 24a 

of Towy, 229. 

Foreman, Andrew, archbishop of St. 

Andrews, 6. 
Forrester, of Corstorphine, 37. 

John, of Strathendrie, 23. 

Fotheringhame, laird of, 10. 

of Powrie, 10. 

Foulis, Fowlis, laird of. See Monro. 

Foyers, tutor of, 90. 

Franciscans, church of, at Inverness, 

161, 192. 
Fraser, , daughter of lord Lovat, 

195, 208. 

lord, 68. 

Agnes, 71, 174. 

Alexander, 183. 

lord Lovat, 174. 



— Andrew, chamberlain of Ferrin- 
toshich, 85. 

— Anna, 39, 61, 102. 

— Cameron, 194. 

— Duncan, in Nlimlochie, 84. 
Egidia, daughter of lord Lovat, 



202. 

Hugh, 92. 

alias Makean vie Alister, 

205. 

James, 71. 

Janet, 79- 

Mary, daughter of lord Lovat, 

106. 

Simon. See Lovat, lord. 

of Belladrum, 73, 75, 85. 

Hugh, of Belladrum, 73, 99, 100. 

James, of Belladrum, 78, 79. 

William, of Boblaenie, 75. 

of Cowlbockie, 73, 90, 91, 102. 

Hugh, of Culbockie, 96. 

Alexander, of Erchitt, 205. 

of Foyers, 73, 92. 

Hugh, of Foyer, 370. 

Alexander, of Rielict, 75, 78, 92. 

' Thomas, of Struie, 87. 

William, of Stray, 112. 

Frasers, 224, 236; their battle with 

Clanronald at Lagganachdrom, 225- 

226 ; with queen Mary's forces at 

Inverness, 237 ; opposed to Clan- 

chattan, 332. 

of Stratherrick, 332. 

Frennet, a Dutch wdhian, 41. 
Fruichy, barony of, 105. 

laird of. See Grant of Fraichy. 

Fullertoun, laird of, 34. 

Gairloch, 72, 73. 

Gairnes, James, of Dumbarrow, 24. 

of Leyes, 1 1. 



Garghavich, in Locbaber, 134. 

Garmouth, 314. 

Garrivelich, island of, 122. 

Garten, 363. 

Gartenb%, family of, 109. 

Gartenmore, 109. 

Garva mor, Badenoch, 176. 

Garve, 383, 385. 

Gaskmor, Badenoch, 194. 

Geddc or Geddes, Alexander, 50. 

Catharine, 50. 

Charles, 50. 

Elizabeth, 5a 

Helen, 24, 50. 

James, 50. 

Janet, 50. 

John, 24, 50. 

Walter, 50. 

William, 50. 

Geddes, lands of. See Rait. 

Gelloway, in Badenoch, 201. 

Geraldines, fomily of, 54*55. 

Ghost, the, of Tullochgorm, 109. 

Gibson, John, notary public, 240. 

Gidha, island of, 139. 

Gilbrai, progenitor of the clan Mac- 
eillivray, 165. 

Gulean ni tuoidh, progenitor of the 
MacLeans, 118. 

Gillichattan Macgillespie clerich, 163. 

Gillimichel, earl of Fife, 406. 

Gilpatric MacDougall vie Gilchattan, 
390. 

Glaneamvess, laird of, 78. 

Glassich, John, 77, 84. 

Glastermore, 367. 

Glenbucket raided by Angus Mackin- 
tosh, 251. 

Glencairn, earl of, 35, 322, 329. 

Alexander, earl of, 31. 

Colin, earl of, 31. 

William, earl of, 129. 

Glenchernick, Camming, lord, 

106. 

Gilbert of, 107, 108. 



and DuUenside, lordship of, 107, 

108. 
Glencoe, 206. 
Glendoum, 365. 
Glenelg, 188. 
Glenesk, 380, 386. 
Gleneves, laird of, 302. 
Glengarry, lands of, 198; harried by 

Mackintosh, 226. 

origin of the house of, 6a 

Glenlivet raided by Mackintosh, 251 ; 

battle of, 131, 256-257. 
Glenlui, 166. 172, 173, 238, 260, 279- 

281, 370, 381. 



INDEX 



417 



Glenlui and Locharkaijg, dispute r^ard- 
ing, between Mackintosh and Gune- 
ron of Lochiel, 238, 260, 279, 327, 

329, 374, 377. 

Glenmuick ravaged by the Mackin- 
toshes, 252. 

Glenroy, i84» 286, 385. 

Glenspean, 184, 385. 

Gordon, Adam, son of Huntly, 232, 
237, 260, 276-278, 281-285. 

governor of Ruthven castle, 

obtains the lands of Rothemurchus, 
198. 

Alexander, captain of Inverness 



castle, 235.237. 

— Catharine, la 

— George. Su Huntly, earl of. 

— Helenor, 39. 

— Jean, iii and «. 

daughter of Lochinvar, 212, 



213, 214. 



daughter of Gordon of TiUi- 
froskie, 288. 

— John. See Sutherland, earl of. 
Lucia, daughter of the earl of 



Huntly, 109. 

— sir Robert, 100, 284, 285. 

— William, brother of Breachly, 
killed by the Farquharsons, 379. 

Alexander, of Abergeldy, 378, 



379. 



of Arradoul, 386. 

— sir Patrick, of Auchindoun, 257. 

— George, of Beldomie, 237. 

— Thomas, of Blaircarrish, killed by 
the Mackintoshes, 252. 

— John, of Birsmore, 246, 248. 

— of Breachly, iii, 252. 
John, of Breachly, 377 ; killed by 



Farquharson of Inverey, 377. 

— Thomas, of Cluny, 258. 

— George, of Coclarachy, execution 
of, 237. 

— James, of Cults, killed in a 
quarrel with the Farquharsons, 

379. 

— John, of Finlater, son of the earl 

of Huntly, aspires to the hand of 
queen Mary, 235-236; beheaded, 

237. 

— ofGight, 9, 10. 

— sir George, of Haddo, 138. 

— John, of Invermarky, 335. 

— Henry, of Knock, killed in a 



Mackintosh raid, 252. 

— of Newton, 257. 

— John, of Newtoun, 335. 

— of Sachon, 288. 

— sir George, of Shives, 237. 



Gordon, Alexander, of Toldu, killed by 

the Mackintoshes, 252. 
Gordons, 270; their lands laid waste by 

the Clanchattan, 252-254 ; Gordons 

of the Trough, iii. 
Gortuleg, 363. 
Goorlay, burgess of Edinburgh, ii. 

David, II. 

Gilbert, 11. 

Robert, 11. 

Gow, Thomas, notary public, 244. 
Gowrie, earl of, 105. 
Grahame, Beatrix, 42. 

Eupham, 34. 

Isobel, daughter of Graham of 

Claypots, 288. 

Janet, 41. 

John, of Claverhouse, 11, 15, 139. 

George, of Drynie, 91. 

Thomas, of Drynie, 99. 

of Fintrie, 15. 

John, of Fintry, 403. 

Margaret, daughter of Fintray, 287. 

Rol^rt, of Fintray, 192. 

sir William, of Fintrie, la 

Grange, lairds of. See Dunbar : Mac- 

pherson. 
Grand t, Hacken, lord high protector of 

Norway, 10^-105. 
Grant's parishioners, near Christiania, 

104. 
Grant, in Urquhart, 83. 

Alex., 114. 

minister at Urquhart, 87. 

Allan, progenitor of the family of 

Auchernick, io6. 

sheriff of Inverness, xo6. 



— Andrew, alias Stuart, 107. 

— Anne, 113, 115, 117, 275. 

— Barbara, 63. 

— Bigla, daughter of lord Glencher- 
nick, 106. 

— Charles, 117. 

— Clementina, 117. 

-— Collobella, wife of William de 



Monte, 105. 

— sir Duncan, 107-109, 195, 207. 

— Duncan, 114. 

— Edward, author of a Greek lexi- 
con, 112. 

— Elizabeth, 62, 115. 

— Espeth, 112. 

— Fergusia, 105. 
Fingon, progenitor of the clan 



Fingon, 105. 

— sir Francis, lord Cullen, 112. 

— Francis, 117. 

— George, governor of Dunbarton 
castle, 1 1 4- II 6. 



2d 



418 



GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS 



Grant, Gregore, progenitor of the Mac- 

Gregors, 105, 106. 

Gregory, 170. 

— Hacken, protector of Norway, 

103-105. 
Hemming, progenitor of the house 

of Grant, 104. 

Humphry, 117. 

Isobella, 105. 

James, 115-117. 

a noted rebel, 274 ; escapes 

from his pursuers, 297-298; taken 

prisoner by Lauchlan Mackintosh, 

292, 299 ; the story of his crime, 

293295. 

Mac ean voir, 78. 

Janet, 115. 

Jean, 113, 117. 

John, colonel, 114. 

tutor to Ballindalloch, 246. 



— Katharine, 195. 

— Laurence, 164. 

bishop of Murray, 105. 

— Lilias, 114. 

— Lucas, progenitor of Auchinarrow, 
now Dalchaple, 106. 

— Ludovick, 114, 115. 
advocate, 117. 

— Malcolm, 106. 

— Margaiet, 114, 115. 

— Mary, 112, 114. 

wife of lord Lovat, 107. 

— Mauld, 107. 

— Moral, wife of the earl of March, 
105 



Patrick, 80, 105, 1 14, 249. 

It. -col., 114. 

progenitor of the fiunily of 

Elchies, 112, 114. 

progenitor of the family of 



Tullochgorm, 109. 

alias Mac Ian Roy, 183. 



— Penuel, 117, 

— Richard, archbishop of Canter- 
bury, 106. 

— Robert, 107-108, 114. 
progenitor of the family of 



Lurg, 112. 

— Rodolphus, 107. 

— Rowan, alias Ruthven, progenitor 
of the Ruthvens, 105. 

— Sophia, 117. 

— Thomas, 114. 

— William, 1 1 1 w. 
Wishilla, wife of Duncan ii. of 



Scotland, 105. 

— of Aimdelly, 112. 

— of Auchoinony, 117, 

— ofBalintome, 112. 



Grant of Ballindalloch, ^7^ Z12, 117, 
246, 248 ; progenitor of, 109. 

James, of Ballindalloch, 207. 

John, of Ballindalloch, 292-296. 

Patrick, 108; progenitor of the 

house of Balnadallach, 109. 

col. WiUiam, of BaUindalUch, 

115. 

of Balnagowen, 83. 

of Carron, 109, 117. 

John, of Carron, 294 ; slain by 

Grant of Ballindalloch, 295-296. 

Roy, of Carron, 292, 295. 



— Duncan, progenitor of Grant of 
Clurie, 114. 

— John, of Coriemonie, 80. 
progenitor of the Grants of 



Corriemony, no. 
of Culcabock, 1 10. 

— of Delay, 109. 

— Thomas, of Dalvey, 295. 

— James, of Delnabo, 294. 

— of Dunlugas, 117. 

— of Easter Elchies, 117. 

— of Elchies, 1 17. 

— John, of Elchie, 213. 

— Lauchlan, of Elchies, 269. 

— Patrick, of Elchies, 112. 

— Robert, of Elchies, 333. 

— laird of, 62, 63, 73, loi, Ii7» 319; 
tutor of Mackintosh, 289, 299-302. 

— Alex., of Freuchie, 115, 116. 

— Allan, of Grant, 106. 
Alland, o/ioi Andlaw, of Fruichie, 



III, 112, 



105. 

— Duncan, of Fruichie, 
114, 242. 

— Gregore, of Fruichie, progenitor 
of the MacGregors, 105, 106. 

— James, of Fruichie, 114, 116-117. 

— sir James, of Grant, receives 
charter of exemption from James v., 
iio-iii and If. 

— sir John, of Freuchie, 106, 107, 
114. 

— John, of Freuchie, 113, 202, 207, 
208, 277. 

— John mor, of Freuchie, 183. 

— Ludovick, of Freuchie, 114, 115. 

— Patrick, of Freuchie, 106. 
Mac Mauld, of Freuchie, 

107. 

— Duncan, progenitor of the family 
of Gartenbeg, 109. 

— Sueton, of Gartinbeg, ^33. 

— Gilbert, of Glenchemick, 107, 108. 

— of Glenmorriston, 117. 

— John, progenitor of the Grants of 
Glenmomston, 109. 



INDEX 



419 



Grant, John, 333. 
John mor. 



ancestor of Glen- 



moriston, 208. 

— Patrick, of Glenmoriston, 86. 

— of GrantsBeld, 114, 117. 

— Alexander, of Inveraury, 294, 295, 
297. 

— of Knockando, 114, 117. 
Mungo, progenitor of Grant of 



Knockando, 114, 

— of Lurg, progenitor of the family 
of, 112. 

— ofMonymusk, 112, 117. 

— James, progenitor of Grant of 
Moyness, 112. 

Patrick, of Muckrach, 1 1 1 ; pro- 



genitor of the Grants of Rothemurcus, 
112. 

of Rothemurcus, 117. 

John, of Rothemurchus, 332, 333, 

351. 
of TuUoch, 109. 

Grants, 126, 224, 332, 376; their 
genealogy by James Chapman, minis- 
ter of Cromdall, 103-117 ; Grants of 
the Trough, iii. 

Gray, Robert, 74, 79. 

Gilbert, of Shives, 229. 

James, of Skibo, 89. 

Greick, , 79. 

Grunoirt, 132. 

Grysoner, Joanna (Janet), 31, 32. 

Gurrie, wife of the baron of Birkeroe, 
104. 

Guthrie, laird of, 202. 

of Kilbleckmond, 9, 10. 

Gu3mack, 168. 

Hackbn, a Norwegian prince, 105. 

Grandt, earl of Lagen, 103-105. 

Haco, king of Norway, 165. 
Haddington, Thomas, earl of, 30. 
Halidonhill, battle of (1333), 36. 
Halyburton, Catharine, 15. 
George, bishop of Aberdeen, 14, 

15. 
James, 15. 

Mar|;aret, 14, 15. 

David, of Pitcur, 15. 

sir James, of Pitcur, 15. 

Hamilton, lady Inneweik, 30. 

duke of, 28, 318. 

marquis of, 27, 28, 283. 

Agnes, 27. • 

Albert, earl of Arran, 27. 

Alexander, W.S., 46. 

general, 30. 

Anna, 27. 

Barbara, 27. 



Hamilton, Bethia, 46. 

Christian, 30. 

lord Claud, 27, 28. 

lord David, 28. 

Elizabeth, 24, 26, 27. 

Galvine, 26. 

George, 26. 

Helena, 27. 

James, 30. 

earl of Arran, 26, 27. 

duke of, 28. 

lord Evandale, 26. 

Jean, 27. 

John, 228, 232. 

Margaret, 24, 27. 

Philip, 24. 

Thomas, earl of Haddington, 30. 

John, of Clatto, 24. 

Claud, of Cochnay, 32. 

sir James, of Finnard, 26, 

sir Alex., of Hags, 114. 

of Kilbraicmonth, 13. 

George, of Kilbrakmonth, 13, 24. 

James, of Kilbrakmonth, 13. 

Robert, of Kilbrakmonth, 24. 

sir Patrick, of Little Preston, 30. 

sir John, of Magdalens, clerk 

register, 30. 

Thomas, of Priestfield, 30. 

sir Andrew, of Reidhous, 30. 

sir John, of Samuelston, 27. 



Harlaw, battle of, 60, 125, 147, 149, 

150, 170, 184, 197. 
Haugh of Morill, 251. 
Hay, sir Alexander, clerk register, 260. 

Alex., clerk of session, 301. 

Barbara, 194, 241. 

Isobell, 44. 

Janet, 28, 29, 31. 

John, provost of Dundee, 28. 

of Leys, 45. 

of Lochlui, 169. 

of Megginsh, 44. 

James, of Mountainhall, 22. 

of Nauchton, 28. 

of Pitfour, 44. 

Haynes, Mary, 39. 
Heatley, Margaret, loi. 

of Bairfoot, loi. 

Hepburn, Patrick, bishop of Moray, 

1 1 1 «, 226. 
Hiltoun, 91. 

Holbum, eeneral, of Menstrie, 137. 
Holinshed s Chronicles, 391. 
Holkettle, lands of, 4, 2a 
Home, Gustavus, field marshal, 39. 
Hope, Rachel, 17. 

sir James, of Hopetoun, 17. 

Hume, lord, 23. 



490 



GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS 



Hume, Alextmder, lord, 27. 

Anne, 10. 

Catharine, 14. 

Elizabeth, 10, 27. 

George, earl of Dunbar, 10. 

sir Tames, of Coldingknows, 10. 

of Wedderburne, 14, 16. 

Huntly, countess of, causes William, 
laird of Mackintosh to be beheaded, 
230. 

Alexander, 3rd earl of, 189, 200, 

203, 2ia 

George, earl of, 27. 

2nd earl of, 201. 

4th earl, 226, 227 ; provides 

for Deeside orphans, iii ; accom- 
panies Lovat's expedition against 
Clanronald, 225 ; conspires against 
the laird of Mackintosh, 228-230; 
his trial at Edinburgh for the murder 
of Mackintosh, 232 ; intrigues against 
queen Mary, 235, 236; death of, 

237. 
5th earl of, 238. 

6th earl and 1st marquis of, 

134, 243, 258, 272. 277, 289, 302, 
303, 335 ; defeated at Glenlivet, 131- 
132 ; his quarrel with the earl 
Marischal, 244 ; threatens to con- 
struct a fortress in Badenoch, 246 ; 
his feud with the earl of Moray, 246- 
249 ; invades Badenoch, 251 ; his 
attempt to fortify Ruthven castle 
frustrated, 245, 252 ; his rents col- 
lected by Mackintosh, 253; lays 
waste the barony of Petty, 254, 250 ; 
defeats Argyll, 256; his reconcilia- 
tion with Mackintosh, 258. 

2nd marquis, 312, 314. 

4th marquis of, 383, 386, 



397, 400. 
Lewis, 3rd marquis of, 1 14. 

ICOLLUMKILL, 122, 1 26. 

Inch, church of, 351. 
Inchbrock, 79. 
Inchture, charters of, 52-54. 
Ingelram's daughter, 105. 
Inglis, Mareon, 13. 

Thoma«5, 13. 

of Englishtarvet, 5. 

Inighisteurteamher, an Irish king, 118, 

119. 
Inir, 129. 
Innes, progenitor of the family of, 168- 

169. 

captain, 82. 

Beatrix, 269. 

Egidia, 180. 



Innes, John, bishop of Moray, 189. 

of Balveny, 112. 

Walter, of Calrossie, 213. 

William, of Calrossie, 90- 

sir Alexander, of CockstouD, ica 

Walter, of Innerbreakie, 86, 87. 

sir Harry, of Innes, 117. 

Robert, of Invermarky, 237. 

Inverey, lairds of. See Farquharson. 

Inverkeithing, battle of^ 137. 

Inverlochy, battle of, 126, 135. 

castle, 314. 

Invermay, lord. See Stewart. 

Invemahavon, 176. 

Inverness town council enter into a 
bond with Mackintosh, 255. 

castle, 190, 200, 202, 204, 215; 

siege of, 161 ; its custody given to 
the Cummins, 167 ; taken by Robert 
the Bruce, 167 ; in the custody of 
Malcolm Mackintosh, 186 ; un- 
successfully attacked by the earl of 
Ross, 187 ; earl of Huntly appointed 
governor of, 203; taken by queen 
Mary, 237. 

Inverteil, lord, 95. 

Irvin of Drum, killed at the battle of 
Harlaw, 126. 

Islay, island of, divided between Mac- 
Donalds and MacLeans, 123. 

James of. See Macdonald. 

Isobella, daughter of the prince of 
Dublin, 104. 

Jambs i., iS6, i88. 
James li., 188, 190. 
James III., 200. 
James I v. , 203. 

fames v., 88, no, 204, 223. 
ames vi., 257, 258, 260, 261, 271. 
Johnson, Ay, Stewart of Fjrffe, 22. 

Christy, 149. 

Johnston's epitaph on Lauchlan Mac- 
Lean of Dowart, 133. 

laird of, 27. 

secretary for Scotland, 140. 

John, professor, 24. 

Jwvetial^ 145. 

Kay of Stra-Airlie, 50. 

Keir, laird of, 5, 21. 

John, 71. 

Keith, marshal of Scotland, 37. See 
also Marischal, earl. 

wife of David Bethun, 17. 

! Isobcll, 37. 

I of Craige of Garvock, 9. 

Kellic, earl of, 51. 

Kemp, Henry, 23.^ 



INDEX 



421 



Kennedy's Genealogical Dissertation of 
the Royal Line of the Stewarts^ 1 19, 
121. 

—catalogue of the Macleans, 120, 121. 

Janet, daughter of the earl of 

Cassilis, 212. 

John, burgess of Edinburgh, 13. 

Marjory ,13. 



Kenneth, son of Alpin, king of Scots, 

expels the Plots from Britain, 1 54. 
Kennoway, lands of, 5, 21. 
Keppoch, lairds of, 243. See Mac- 

donald. 
Ker, Janet, So. 

John, 240. 

sir Robert, earl of Somerset, 30. 

Kermuir lands granted to Aberbrothic 

abbey, 20. 
Kemburg, island of, 140. 
Kesson, servant of the Red Cummin, 

murder of, 174. 
Ketwal, laird of, 38, 81, 91. 
Kichangour, 399. 
Kid, Alexander, 7. 

Kilbrakmonth, lairds of. See Hamilton. 
Kildarr, Gerald, earl of, 1 19. 
Kildin, laird of, 78, 82. 
Killel Krog, son of Tourstoun, earl of 

Northumberland, 104. 
Killen, in Stratherrick, 358. 
Killicrankie, battle of, 139. 
Kilravok, lairds of, 363. See Rose. 
Kilspindie, laird of, 16. 
Kilsyth, battle of, 135. 
Kilwhimen, 366. 
Kincaim, baron of, 195, 208. 
Kincarny, 208. 
Kincraig, 238. 
King, I>Eivid, 271. 
Kinkell, 71. 

Kinloch, sir David, of that ilk, 16. 
Kinnahaird, 83. 
Kinnaird, Radulphus, of that ilk, 52, 53. 

Reginald, of that ilk, 53. 

Ridiard, of that ilk, 52. 

charters, 52-54. 

Kinneir, Henry, abbot of Balmerinoch, 

32. 
Kinnellan, 70. 
Kinrara, 213. 
Kintail, lairds of. See Mackenzie : 

Seaforth. 
Kippo, 5. 

Kirkaldie, lady, of Grange, 3a 
Kirkcudbright, earl of, 127. 
Kirkinloch, laird of, 9. 
Kissern, 81. 

Knockando, laird of, 114. See Grant. 
Knock breck, skirmish at, 139. 



Knox, John, 113. 

Kylachi, 183. 

Kylachy, lairds of. See Mackintosh. 

Kylarchill, 358. 

Kyltire, 366. 

Kjminmonth, John, of Cawsall, 23. 

Laggan, Argyll defeated at, 135. 
Lagganachdrom, 365, 366, 375 ; battle 

at, between Clanronald and the 

Erasers, 225. 
Lairchardel, 191, 350. 
Lairgs, barony of, 243. 
Landen, battle of, 141. J 
Langside, battle of, 62, 63. 
Langtoun, archbishop of Canterbury, 

106. 
Lantoun, laird of, loi. 

Lauder, , 24. 

William, minister at Avach, 82. 

of Boss, 24. 

of Omachie, 24. 

Lauderdale, duke of, 138. 

earl of, 327, 328, 330. 

Lawers, laird of, 95. 
Leanachans, 198. 
Lennox, duke of, 257. 

earl of, 239. 

thanes of, created earb, 151. 

Lentron, Elisabeth, 50. 

James, 24, 50. 

Lerbendchaj, 350. 

Lerchardell. See Lairchardel. 

Lermonth, Beatrice, 162. 

Lesley, John, bishop of Ross, 237, 

239 ; his De Rebus Gestis Scotorunty 

19, 147, 214-224, 228, 229, 232, 

341. 391. 
Beatrix, 32. 

sir David, 135. 

Eupham, 32. 

George, earl of Rothes, 32. 

Helen, heretrix of Kinnaird, 33. 

John, earl of Rothes, 329, 347, 

364. 
John, 43. 

William, earl of Rothes, 43. 

of Balouhan, 239. 

of Findrassie, 264. 

of Kininvie, 195. 

Alexander, of that ilk, 229. 

daughter of the earl of Rothes, 

108. 
Lethen, 113. 
Letterfinlay, 198. 
Lewis, island of, Fife adventurers in, 

65; Mackenzie of Kintail intrigues 

for the possession of, 266. 
Leyes, laird of, 31. 



422 



GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS 



Lhiaohe, John, 77. 
Liddells, Lithills, or Littles, 26. 
Lindsay, Alexander, earl of Balcarres, 
68. 

Catharine, 51. 

David, the first of the Lindsays, 



164. 



earl of Crawford, 9. 



Helen, 9. 

John, earl of Crawford, 46. 

lord, 9, 51. 

Margaret, 9, 326. 

Robert, lord, 30. 

sir Walter, 257. 

of Edzell, 9. 

David, of Edzell, 380. 

of Kilspindie, 34. 

David, of Kirkforthar, 13. 

of Vaine, 10, 30. 

John, of Wormiestoun, 14. 

Patrick, of Wormiestoun, 14. 

Little Dunachton, 213. 
Little Findon, 87. 
Livingston, Margaret, 42. 

of Easter Weyms, 42. 

sir Robert, of Easter Wemys, 26, 

27. 
Loban, Helen, 58. 

Lochaber, 235, 249, 259, 260, 301, 

303, 304 ; disorders in, 242-246, 249 ; 

raided by Mackintosh, 253 ; harried 

by Argyll, 306. 
Locharkaig, 166, 172, 173, 238, 260, 

279-281, 327, 329, 368, 370, 381. 

See also Glenlui. 
Lochinvar, barony of, 224. 

laird of, 212. 

Lochlochy, 225, 368 ; island con- 
structed in, 242. 
Lochlui, 169. 
Lochy, water of, 279. 
Lockhart, colonel, 16. 
Logan, Helen, 58. 
Loghimi Mor, brother of Fergus li., 

119, 121. 
Logie, Martin, 88. 
Logie-Wishart, lady Catharine, 44. 
Loindvulgie in Badenoch, 217. 
Lome, lord, 302, 328. 
Lovat, lord, 61, 107. 

Alexander Eraser, lord, 174. 

Hugh, lord, 39, 95, 191, 331 ; 

his expedition against Clanronald, 

225-226. 
Simon, lord, 64, 115, 284, 285, 

302. 

lords, 151. 

Lude, laird of, 196. 
Lundie, Agnes, 51. 



Lundie, James, 14. 

Janet, 41. 

Jean, 51. 

John, 14. 

Mary, 14. 

of Balgony, 23. 

James, of Clatto, 14. 

Robert, of Condland, 23. 

of Lundie, 5, 50, 51. 

Lurg* progenitor of the family of, 112. 

Lylc, , 28. 

Jean, 28. 

John, 28. 

Macalistbr VIC Ian du, Angus, 286. 

vie ean oig, Duncan, 81. 

vie Heacmn, Hector, 71. 

Roy, John, 76. 

vie Innish, Robert, 170. 

vie Innish John du, Ronald, 171. 

Mac A Han, Alister, 85, 92. 

EUichin, tutor of MacLean, 128- 

129. 



Ewen, 169. 
chief of the Camerons. Set 

Cameron. 

Rorie, 89. 

or Macleod, Rorie, 90. 

vie Ronald, Roderic, 169. 

Macandrcw, John Stewart, of Inver- 

chyriachan, 244. 
Macbean, chief of, 392. 

Milmor, 174. 

Malcolm, of Dalcrombie, 273. 

Gillies, of Dreaky, 403. 

Donald, of Failzie, 403. 

John, of FaiUic, 403. 

Paul, of Kinchyle, 385, 403. 

Adam, of Tordarroch, 272. 

MacCalday or Cameron, Allan, 113. 

MacCay. See Mackay. 

MacChainich vie Vorchie, Donald, 78. 

vie ean, Duncan, 84. 

vie Thomas, John Buy, 88. 

vie Vorchie, Murdoh, 79. 

1 — vie Chainich, Murdoh, 91. 

vie Thomas, Thomas, 88. 

Macchlerich, William, 192. 
MacCiver. See MacEiver. 
MacConchie vie Heachin, Alister, 88. 
M* Conchy vie Gillivray, Evander, 172. 
MacConil vie Farquhar, Alister, 8a 
Alexander, of Davoch- 

garioch, 273. 

Angus, 84. 

Donald oig, 80. 

John Du, 273. 

vie Ferquhar, Murdoh, 8a 

vie Niel, Niel, 240. 



INDEX 



423 



MacCowil vie ean oig, Murdoh, 75. 
MacCra, Alexander, chamberlain of 

Kintail, 92. 
MacCulloch, Alex., 81. 
Duncan, minister of Urquhart, 

85. 

John, in Beawliew, 87. 

John Hayne, 79. 

William, 80. 

of Peark, 81, 87, 90, 95, 331. 

Duncan, of Pearks, 79, 81. 

Murdoh, of Peark, 86. 

William, of Parks, 71, 99. 

of Plaids, 37. 

MacDari, 119. 

Macdonald, , 78. 

tutor of Keppoch, 331. 

Alex., 135. 

oig, 73. 

MacAllan, chief of Clan- 



ronald, 202. 

MacGillespick, 60. 



— Allan, 7q. 

— Anne, 98. 

— Archibald, 95, 402. 

— Bathia, daughter of the earl of 
Ross, 107. 

— Donald, 180. 

Balloch, 126; causes dis- 
orders in the north, 188; defeats 
the earl of Caithness, 189. 

— sir Donald, 73. 
Eneas oig, 164 ; killed at a game 



of chess, 165. 

— Eneas ovir MacRonald, 175. 

— Flora, daughter of John, earl of 
Ross, 193. 

— Gillespie, 60, 197. 

— Gothred dhu MacRonald, 251. 

— Igh or Hugh vie Morgan, 179. 

— John du Macronald, 193. 

— Katherine, lady Glengarry, 234. 

— Margaret, lady Glengarry, 234. 
, 60. 

— Marjory, afterwards lady Foulis, 

234. 
- — Mora, 164, 183, 192. 

— Ronald, in Keppoch, 306. 

— glash, Ronald, 213 ; beheaded at 
Bog o' Geicht, 226. 

— Donald Glass, of Fearside, 86. 

— Alexander, of Garrochy, 240, 244, 



250. 



of Glencoe, 302. 

of Glengarry, 72, 94, 140. 

Janet, daughter of Glengarry, 269. 

of Insch, 250. 

Ronald, of Insch, 254, 271. 

Angus, of Islay, 36, 130-132, 377. 



Macdonald of the Isles, 138, 151, 172, 

302. 
Donald, of the Isles, 60, 147, 150, 

161, 184, 208. 

Elizabeth , daughter of MacDonald , 



lord of the Isles, 122. 

— James, of Islay, treacherously 
slays MacLean and his followers, 
132-133 ; defeated by MacLeans, 

134. 

— John, lord of the Isles, befriends 

two MacLeans, 121 ; taken prisoner 
by them, 122 ; grants charter of 
lands in their favour, 122-125. 

John mor mac Ian vie Innish oig, 



179- 



of Keppoch, 302. 

Ronaul, of Keppoch, 226. 

Allan, of Knoidart, 195. 

Alexander Macgillespick, of Loch- 

alsh, 208. 

Ronald, of Moidart, 71, 183. 

Makean vie Innish oig, 179. 

Hugh, of Skerinish, 73. 

of Sleat, 64, 219. 

sir Donald, of Slait, 64, 67. 

Donald, of Slait, 98. 

Hugh, of Sleat, 128, 192. 

sir James, of Slait, 94. 

Macdonalds at enmity with the Mack- 
intoshes, 113; plunder Strathspey, 
249. See also Clanranald. 

of Antrim, 179. 

of Glengarry, 179. 

of Islay, 179. 

of Kint^e, 179. 

of Knoidart, 179. 

of Moidart, 179. 

ofMorar, 179. 

of Slate, defeated by the Mac- 
Leans in Mull, 129-130. 

Macdougal, Anna, 60. 

vie Gilliehattan, Gilpatric, 166, 

341 » 390. 
Margaret, 60. 

Mor^, 57. 

sir James, of Garthland, 13. 

William, of Garthland. 13. 

of Lome, 57, 58, 60, 121. 

of Morir, 60. 

MacDuff, Duncan, thane of Fife, 405- 

406. 

earl of. See Fife, earl of. 

Isabella. See Fife, countess of. 

John, family of Wemyss descended 

from, 156. 

Malcolm, 155. 

See Fife, earl of. 

Macshaw, 160. 



424 



GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS 



MacDuffy Sara or Soroch, i6i. 

Shaw, governor of Inverness 

castle, 156, 159. 

MacDuffs, 151-153; origin of, 154; 
perpetual regality granted to the clan 
by Malcolm Canmore, 155 ; MacDuff 
earb and their descendants, 406. 

MacEachen of Kingerloch, 126. 

Ferquhard, ofKingerloch, 195. 

MacEan, Donald moir, 85. 

vie ean, Donald, 80. 

vie ean I'ere, Donald, 88. 

vain vie Culloch, Donald, 80. 

oig, Dougall, 84. 

vie Alister, Duncan, 76. 

Gilpatrick, 178. 

vie Alister Roy, Hector, 75. 

vie Chainich, John, 97. 

vie Vorchie vie William, John oig, 

76. 



vie Allan, Murdoh, 90. 

vie Conil, Rone, 80. 

Lheahe, Tor mod, 76. 

Mac Eiver, Donald, 74, 82. 

Iver, in Lochbroom, 78. 

John, 76, 77. 

Murdoh, 96. 

Mac Ewen vie Volan, Charles, 192. 

Donald du, 169, 194. 

vie Sorald vie Gilloni, 170. 

Kenneth, 179. 

Renilda, 170. 

Macfarquhar vie Comas, Alexander, 

273- 

vie Coul, Dugall Bayn, 222. 

Rorie, 85. 

MacFinlay-Milluack, John, 90. 
MacKinnon, Lauchlan, of Scalpay, 99. 
MacGill, 175. 

Macgilleandrish, Donald, 192. 
Macgillespick, Alexander, cUias Mac- 

donald, of Lochalsh, 208. 
chlerich, Gillichattan, progenitor 

of Clanchattan, 163 

Ranald, 84. 

Macgillivray, chief of, 392. 

Bean, 403. 

Duncan, 166. 

Ferquhard, of Drummaglash, 399. 

Lauchlan, 403. 

progenitor of the elan, 165. 

Macgilloni, Even, 169. 
MacGregor, laird of, 195, 218, 302. 
Duncan, alias MacEan chaim, 

execution of, 261. 

Mora, 105, 195. 

Neil, 105. 

Robert Makonchy abbrich, 285. 

John, of Glenstrae, 218. 



MacGregors, progenitor of the dan, 
105 ; expeditions against, by Argyll 
and Mackintosh, 260-263. 

MacHamish vie Alister, Donald Du, 
24a 

MacHeachin, Alister Roy, 70, 91. 

vie Ferouhar, Donald, 93. 

— Murdoch, 71. 

MacHearlach, Donald, in StnUhirdel, 

8a 
Maclan viell, Donald, 175. 

cheir. Bean, 194. 

du vie Conill vie Niell, John, 273. 

of Ardnimurchan, 131, 137. 

Macilichallum, John Nattuoy, 71. 
Maclnnish, Alexander, 196. 

vie William, Eneas, 197, 201. 

Maclnnon, progenitor of the clan of, 

105. 
Maclntyre, bard, 212. 
Mackay, laird of, 234. 
— - Aoidh Roy, 214. 

Aiodh mac Donald vie Ky, 234- 

Christiana, sister of lord Reay, 

269. 

Donald, lord Reay, 39. 

John, lord Reay, 40. 

(Maky), John, 214, 

(15S8), son-in-law of the 

earl of Caithness, 243. 

(MacCayes), John Abbraich, 78. 

Mary, 39. 

William, 256. 

(MacCay), Aoighe, of Bighouse, 

92. 

of Far, 70. 

Hugh, of Strathnaver, 39. 

family, 179. 

Mackenzie, •^— , tutor of Kintail, 91. 

Agnes, 233, 238. 

Alexander, 59, 61, 64, 72, 74-76, 

79-8i, 85-87, 89, 90-102. 

or Rorie, 74, 

minister of Loehcarron, 86, 

88, loi. 

Alister Roy, 71. 

oig MacAlister Roy, 77. 

Mac ean vie Alister, 77, 85. 

Moir MacChainich vie 



Alister, 81. 

Mac ean vie Chainich, 76. 

MacHeachin, 77, 80. 

vie Alister, 76. 



Dow Mac Rorie, 83, 91. 

Dow Mac Rorie Voir, 84. 

Roy MacRorie, 83, 84. 

Mae Rorie beg, parson of 

Contane, 88. 
Murdoh, 93, 



INDEX 



425 



Mackenzie, Allan, 76. 

Angus, 74, 76, 86. 

MacChainich, 76. 

Annabella, 99. 

Anne, 40, 68, 

Barbara, 64, 68, 95. 

Catharine, 37, 38, 95. 

Charles, 86, 93, 94, 96. 97- 

Colin, 64, 68, 79, 82, 85, 86, 93, 

94, 96, 97. loi, 102. 

Donald, 77. 

MacChainich vie Alister, 81. 

moir mac can vie Alister, 77. 

Roy Mae ean, 77. 

oig Mac ean vie Alister, 77. 

Naoiglaicke Mac Alister 



Roy, 77. 

— Dougall, 79. 

Roy Mac Heachin, 71. 

Mae Heachin Roy, 76. 



Duncan, 60, 61, 71, 73, 75, 11^ 



79, 80, 87. 

Mac Alister oig, 77. 



75- 



Mac ean vie Alister, 77. 

Mac ean vie Heachin ehaoile, 

Fewald Deirgaldach, 58. 

George, 64, 68, 82, 91, 96, loi. 

his Genealogy of the Mac- 

kenzieSf 119. 

Hector, 61, 71, 73» 74-77, 79, 80, 

82, 84-86. 
chamberlain of Lochearron, 

75. 85, 88. 

Birrach, 58. 

caume, 70. 

Caoil, 71, 77. 

oig, 76. 

Roy, 69-71, 76, 209. 

Mac Alister, 78, 79, 81. 

MacAlister roy, 77. 

Mae ean vie Alister, 77. 

Mac ean vie Heachin, 75. 

Mac ean vie Heachin ehaoile, 

76. 

Helen Nian Heachin vie Chainich, 

I 

Henry, 58. 

— Hugh, 71. 
Mae ean vie William, 81. 

— Huistan Mac ean vie Chainich, 76. 

— Isobel, 95. 

— James, 91, 93-96. 
— minister of Nigg, 90. 

— Janet, 64, 88. 

— Jean, 68. 

— John, 64, 69, 71-76, 79-81, 84, 
85, 87, 88, 90, 92, 95, 97, 98, 100, 
209. 



77- 



79. 81. 



93- 



Mackenzie, John, called Kenneth Buy, 

73- 
arehdean of Ross, 96. 

commissary depute of Ross, 

58. 

minister of Dingwall, 71. 

minister of Fodertie, 80. 

minister of Lochbroom, 73, 

• schoolmaster at Chanonry, 

eaoile, 89, 91. 
Glassich, 71-72, 77, 84. 
Glassich, called Alister Roy, 

Moir, 79. 

Mae Alister Roy, 76, 77, 83, 

• Mae Alister vie Conaehie, 

- buy Mac Chainich vie 
Thomas, 91. 
— Mae Chainich vie ean 



76. 



84. 
79. 



Tuoach, 76. 

Bayne Mac Conil vie Alister, 



77. 



Gueair Mac ean vie Alister, 



77. 



— Mae ean vie William, 81. 

MacHeachin, 71, 76, 77. 

— Mac Heachin eaoile, 77. 

Glassich Mae Heachin, 71. 

Tuach' Mac Heachin, 71. 

Mac Rorie, 91. 

Dou Mae Rorie, 78, 81. 

Roy Mae Rorie, 83, 84. 

Dou Mac Thomas, 88. 

Mac William, 81. 

moir MacWilliam, 75. 

— Kenneth, 75, 7782, 84, 87, 90, 

92, 94, 95, loi. 235- 
Alick, 69. 

MacAlister, 81. 

Mae Angus, 76. 

Mac ean vie Chainich, 76. 

Mac ean vie Heachin, 81. 

Mac ean Roy, 84. 

Mac Heachin, 71, 76, 

Mac ean vie Heachin, 75. 

Mae ean Tuoach, 76. 

Mac Rorie, 78, 79, 81. 

Mac Thomas, 90, 91. 

— Mae Vorchie vie Alister, 



84. 



Lauchlan, MaeVorchie vie 



Heachin, 71. 

— Margaret, 64, 68, 95. 

— Marjory, 39. 

— Mary, 98. 



426 



GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS 



Mackenzie, Murdoh, 72, 74, 75, 77, 
79, 80, 82, 84, 87, 88, 91, 93, 99. 

^-^ bishop of Moray, 77, 336. 

— bishop of Raufoe, Ireland, 



81. 



chamberlain of the Lewis, 

minister of Kin tail, 73. 

minister of Lochbroom, 87. 

caume, 71. 

Mac Alister Roy, 83, 84. 

Mac Alister oig, 77. 

Mac Chainich vie Alister, 81. 

Mac Heachin Chaime, 76. 

Mac Rorie, 83. 

Mac Thomas, 90, 91. 

Mac Vorchie vie Alister, 85. 

Riach, 59. 

— Rorie, 64, 68, 73-76, 79, 80, 82, 

87, 93-95. 97- 

minister at Croy, 58. 

minister of Gairloch, 87. 

beg Mac Rorie, 88. 

Moir, 85 ; a prisoner in the 



Bass, 82 ; obtains his liberty by 
winning a wrestling match, 83. 

Mac Alister, 78, 84. 

M 'Alister Roy, 83, 84. 

— Mac Alister vie can vie 

Alister, 85. 
Mac Chainich vie Thomas, 



91. 



85. 



Mac ean vie Alister, 77. 

Mac Heachin, 80. 

beig Mac Rorie, 83. 

Mac Vorchie, 81. 

Mac Vorchie vie Alister, 84, 



Sibilla, 64. 

Simon, 64, 68, 100, 102. 

Thomas, 64, 68, 75, 88, 89, 91, 



97. 102. 



Mac Chainich vie Thomas, 



91. 



William, 73, 75, 78-81, 87, 92, 93. 

minister, of Roskine, 85. 

minister of Tarbet, 80, 92. 

Mac Alister, 81. 

Murdoh Mac Rorie, 88. 

Mac Thomas, 88. 

— ^ Mac Vorchie, 86. 

of Achilty, 73 ; origin of, 61. 

Alexander, of Achiltie, 84. 

Murdoh, of Achiltie, 71, 74, 78, 

84, 86. 

Rorie, of Achilty, 61. 

Thomas, of Achiltie, 84. 

of Applecross, origin of, 64. 

John, of Applecross, 69, 99. 



Mackenzie, Rorie, of Applecross, 75, 

92, 99, 100. 
Roderick, of Ardfalic, 259 ; charter 

of confirmation, 93. 

of Assint, origin of, 64. 

Hector, of Assint, 100, 2SS. 

Alex., of Balmaduthie, 74, 

William, of Balmaduthie, 74. 

Alex., of Belloane, 96, 97, 102. 

Kenneth, of Brocudill, 259. 

of Bolton, origin of, 64. 

Murdoh, of Camesary, 75, 86. 

John, of Corrie, 86. 

Rorie, of Corrie, 86, SS. 

of Coul, origin of, 64. 

Alexander, of Cowl, 72, 78, 85 ; 

genealogy of the succession of, 98. 

sir Kenneth, of Cowl, 40. 

Kenneth, of Cowl, 93, 99. 

Roderick, of Cultaleod, 259. 

of Davachmaluoch, 64 ; origin of, 

61. 

Alex., of Davachmaluach, 61, 78, 

Rorie, of Davachmaluach, 84, 95, 
98, 333. 
— John, of Davochkaime, 74. 

Kenneth, of Davochkaime, 72, 



79. 



86. 

— John Tuoach Mac Heachin Roy, 
of Davochpollan, 76. 

of Fairburn, 73, 87, 88, 93 ; origin 



of, 61. 

Alexander, of Fairburn, 72, 86, 



259 



Hector, of Fairburn, 72, 74, 75, 
84, 86, 98. 
— John, of Fairburn, 74, 76, 86, 94. 

Murdoh, of Fairburn, 72, 85, 86, 



91, 99 ; charter of, 88. 

— Rorie, of Fairburne, 86. 

— of Findone, origin of, 64. 
Murdoh, of Little Findone, 87, 89, 



90. 



of Gairloch, 76, 85, 86, 91, 114. 

— Alexander, of Gairloch, 73, 74, 

92, 95. 99. lOO- 

— Duncan, of Gairloch, 84. 

— Hector, of Gairloch, 60. 
John, of Gairloch, 75-76, 86, 97, 



259 



Kenneth, of Gairloch, 73, 97. 

Murdoh, of Gairloch, 76. 

of Hiltoun, 91. 

Alex. , of Hiltoun, 99. 

of Inverlael, origin of, 61. 

John, of Inverlawl, archdeacon of. 



Ross, 89, 90. 
— Kenneth, of Inverlawl, 96. 



INDEX 



427 



Mackenzie, Thomas, of Inncrlawl, 87, 
90, 100. 



of Kilcoy, 73, 86 ; origin of, 64. 

— Alex. , of Kilcoy, 76, 93 ; genealogy 
of the succession of, 97. 

— Colin, of Kilcoye, 97, 333. 

— Kenneth, of Killichrist, 89, 90, 92, 



259. 

— Rone, of Kilmuire, 96, 97. 

— of Kincraig, origin of, 62. 

— Colin, of Kincraig, 87, 92, 93. 

— Rorie, of Kincraig, 86. 

— of Kinnock, origin of, 64. 

— Colin, of Kinnock, 75; genealogy 
of the succession of, 96. 

— Kenneth, of Kinnock, 74, 96. 

— of Kintail, 94. 

— Alexander, of Kintail, 78. 

— Colin, of Kintail, 39, 64-68, 112, 
134, 238, 241; charter granted to, 56. 

caume, 62-64. 



— John, of Kintail, 62. 

— Kenneth, of Kintail, 37, 39, 57, 
58, 6o-68, 78, 82, 100, 102, 203, 208, 
259, 266, 267. 

oig, 60. 

son of the 8th laird of Kintail, 

genealogy of the succession of, 89. 

— Murdoch, of Kintail, 60. 

Dow, of Kintail, 58, 59. 

Nidroit, of Kintail, 59. See 

also Seaforth, earis of. 

— Rorie, of Knockbackstcr, 85, 87. 

— sir George, of Lochslin, 333. 

— John, of Lochslin, 74, 95 ; genea- 
logy of the succession of, 100. 

Simon, of Lochslin, 64, 68, 96, 333; 



genealogy of the succession of, 102. 

Allan, of Logie, 84. 

Daniel, of Logie, 86. 

Donald, of Logie, 74, 92. 

Hector, of Meallan, 77. 

KenneUi, of Meikle Allan, 76. 

of Muir, origin of, 64. 

Alex. , of Muirtown, 97. 

of Ord, 74 ; origin of, 61. 

— — ]ohTit of Ord, 74, 91. 

Thomas, of Ord, 85, 90, 99. 

Alex., of Pitgla&sie, 74, 85. 

Murdoh, of Pit^lassie, 84, ^y. 

of Pitlundie, origin of, 64. 

John, of Pitlundie, 86, 97. 

Thomas, of Pluscarden, 64, 68, 

^'> 333 > genealogy of the succession 

of, lOI. 

of Redcastle, origin of, 62. 

Colin, of Redcastle, 93, 100, 333. 

Murdoh, of Redcastle, 75, 80, 92, 

99. 



Mackenzie, Rorie, of Redcastle, 62, 63, 

89* 91. 95i 97, 114, 267; genealogy 
of the succession of, 92. 

Rorie Moir, of Reidcastle, 72. 

sir George, of Rosehaugh, 15, 68, 

102, 131, 138. 

Colin, of Sanachan, 99. 

Murdoh, of Sand, 75, 86, 99. 

of Scatwall, origin of, 64. 

John, of Scatwsdl, 93, 95. 

Kenneth, of Scatwal, 94, 95. 

Murdoh MacThomas, of Scat- 
well, 91. 

Roderick, of Skat well, 115. 

William, of Scheildag, 77, 92, 99. 

of Suddy, 74 ; origin of, 61. 

Alex. , of Suddie, 90. 

Kenneth, of Suddy, 61. 

of Tarbet, origin of, 64. 

sir George, of Tarl)et, 67, 138, 

332.. 

sir John, of Tarbet, 67, 94, 95. 

sir Rorie, of Tarbet, 65, 67 ; 

genealogy of the succession of, 94. 

of Tarvie, origin of, 64. 

Colin, of Tarvie, 74, 84, 95, 96. 

of Tollie, origin of, 61. 

John, of Tollie, 64, 85-87, 93. 

Kenneth, of Torherdan, parson of 

Slait, 91. 

Alex., of Towie, 87. 

Murdoh, of Towie, 87, 93. 

Rorie, of Towie, 87, 90. 

John, of Whytrives, 79. 

Kenneth, of whitrives, 79. 

Mackenzies, origin and genealogy of, 

54-102; progenitor of the family, 

169 ; armorial bearings, 56 - 57 ; 

their feud with Glengarry, 63-66, 

feud with the Munros, 61, 238-240; 

their friendship with the Macleans, 

119. 
Mackinnon, Lauchlan, laird of, 122, 

129, 134, 136. 
Mackintosh, chiefs of — 

1. Shaw, 156-159. 

2. 160. 

3. Ferquhard, i6l. 

4. Shaw, 163. 

5. Ferquhard, 164. 

6. Eneas, 164, 166, 390 ; at war 

with the Cummins, 167 ; at the 
battle of Bannockbum, 168. 

7. William, subscribes himself as 

first of Clanchattan, 172 ; van- 
quishes the CameroDs, 172 ; 
receives confirmation of the 
lands of Glenlui and Lochar- 
kaig, 173. 



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GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS 



Mackintosh, chiefs of — cotUintud, 

8. Lauchlan, 174. 

9. Ferquhard, 180. 

10. Malcolm, 183 ; at the battle of 

Harlaw, 147, 149, 184; at 
war with the Cummins, 185 ; 
defends lavemess castle against 
the earl of Ross, 187; killed 
by John, earl of Ross, 189. 

11. Duncan, 148, 193, 198. 

12. Ferquhard, 148, 193, 202, 203, 

210, 219. 

13. William, 205, 209 ; treacherously 

murdered by John Roy Mack- 
intosh, 211. 

14. Lauchlan, 148, 211, 212; his 

dispute with Campbell of 
Calder, 215 ; murdered by 
John Malcolmson, 217. 

15. William, 83,219-223, 238-240; 

plot by Huntly against, 228- 
230 ; beheaded by order of the 
countess of Hunlly, 231. 

16. Lauchlan, 112, 223, 233 ; assists 

Mary queen of Scots against 
Huntly, 236 ; reconciliation 
with Huntly, 238 ; constructs 
and garrisons an island in Loch 
Lochy, 242; enforces the law 
in Lochaber, 243-246 ; aids 
Moray against Huntly, 247, 
249 ; opposes Huntly's attempt 
to fortify Ruthven castle, 245, 
252 ; his covenant with the 
magistrates of Inverness, 255 ; 
his treaty with Argyll, 255 ; 
reconciled with Huntly, 258 ; 
loses his lands in Lochaber, 
259-260 ; leases Glenlui to 
Lochiel, 260 ; acts with Argyll 
against the MacGregors, 260 ; 
his dispute with Campbell of 
Calder, 264, 265, and with 
Mackenzie of Kintail, 268. 

17. Eneas, raids the lands of the 

earl Marischal in the Meams, 
244-245 ; harries Glenbucket 
and Abergeldy, 251 ; leaves for 
Jerusalem, 253, and dies at 
Padua, 271. 

18. sir Lauchlan, 276-278 ; receives 

a royal mandate to harry the 
Camerons, 280; his dispute 
with Lochiel reeardinc Glenluy 
and Locharkaig, 280; pre- 
sented with the sword of pnnce 
Charles (Charles ii.)» 280, 287. 

19. William, 275, 287 ; at variance 

with the laird of Grant, 299- 



302; redeems his Lochaber 
lands from Lochiel, J03 ; op- 
pressed by the covenanters, 
304; his Lochaber lands har- 
ried by Argyll, 506 ; a Ticdm 
of Argyll's treachery, 318-319 ; 
appeals to Charles ii. and the 
convention of estates, 320; 
declaration from Middleton in 
favour of, 321 ; letters to, fix>m 
Charles I., 305, 307, 310; 
letter to, from C^u'les 1 1., 315. 
20. Lauchlan, appeals to parliament 
against the Camerons, 327 ; 
opposed by Middleton, 328 ; 
succeeds in his appeal, 329 ; 
obtains a commission to punish 
the Camerons, 330 ; his efforts 
to obtain assistance for the 
expedition, 33 '-3471 35^; bis 
conference with Moray, 352 ; 
his negotiations with Ouny, 

338-343, 353-355? *»is ™arch 
to Stratherrick, 358-365 ; at 
the water of Arkaig, 367-368 ; 
urged to sell Glenluy and 
Locharkaig to Lochiel, 370- 
373 ; his conference with 
Lochiel, 375 ; redemption of 
his lands, 377 ; enforces the 
law in Lochaber, 385-387, 395- 
400. 
Mackintosh. Adam, 170. 

MacWilliam, 176. 

Agnes, 213, 270. 

Alexander, 162, 163, 195, 250, 



269, 270, 288, 353. 

minister at Petty, 181. 
keir, 170, 171, 197. 
oig, 171. 
Allan, 171, 183, I95-I99, 



201, 



234, 269, 270, 274. 

— Allan reoch, 196. 

— Andrew, 175. 

— Anna, 170. 

— Beatrix, 269. 

— Donald, 170, 175, 179, 181, 195, 
202, 235, 236. 

Glas, 205, 218. 



gorm, 



180. 



Roy, 204, 215. 
alias MacWilliam vie Allan, 
218. 
— Dougall, 196, 204, 211, 214. 

Bayn, 196. 

Duncan, 148, 161, 163, 164, 166, 



173, 180, 181, 183, 193, 201, 234^ 
265. 269, 272, 274. 284. 
— Edward, 160, 161. 



INDEX 



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Mackintosh, Elizabeth, 234, 269, 270, 

288. 
Eneas, 170, 171, 175, 179-181, 

195, 205, 269, 270, 275, 288. 

oig, 166. 

eUias Mackonchi vie sir 



John, 269. 

— Euphemia, 196. 

— Eva, 390. 
Fergus, 162. 



Ferquhard, 148, 149, 160, 166, 

171, 175, 180, 181, I9(S, 202, 204, 
211, 215. 

dean of the isles, 181. 

George Malcolmson, 241. 

Gilchrist, 170. 

Hector, 193, 195, 202, 204, 240, 



269. 

captain of Clanchattan, 218- 

222 ; murdered at St Andrews by 
James Spens, a priest, 222. 

M'Ferquhar mac Commi, 

181. 
— Hugh, 181, 196. 
Roy, 196. 



— Isabella, 166, 180, 234, 268, 270, 
27s, 2S8. 

— Iver or Evander, 171. 
James, 171, 197, 269, 322. 



Janet, 169, 183, 234, 270, 288, 

Jean, 288. 

. Johanna, 195. 

John, 166, 170, 171, 175, 179- 

182, 194, 195. 205, 213, 234, 269, 
270, 274, 401. 

commonly called sir John 

Malcolmson, 193, 194, 216, 222, 227- 
229; murders the laird of Mackin- 
tosh, 216-217 ; execution of, 218. 

du, 196. 

Roy, demands the lands of 



Meikle Geddes, 210 ; treacherously 
murders the laird of Mackintosh, 
211 ; taken prisoner and executed, 
212. 

— Katharine, 195, 213, 234. 

— Lauchlan, 149, 169, i8i, 183, 
194, 195, 197. 200, 227-234, 241, 
250, 259, 269, 270, 275, 284, 288, 
319-327, 363. 

minister of Lochaber, 182. 

oig, 204 ; murdered at 



Ravock in 1524, 148. 
— Malcolm, 160, 162, 163, 166, 169, 
171, 176, 180-183, 190-196, 234, 269, 
272, 273. 

beg, 197, 201. 

oig, 196. 

mor, 204 and «. 



Mackintosh, Margaret, 175, 183, 193, 
213, 223, 234, 270, 288. 

Marjory, 195, 213, 234. 

Mary, 175. 

Matilda, 171. 

Monica, 183. 

Mora, 169, 170, 175, 195. 

Muriell, 166, 183. 

Renilda, 175, 196. 

Robert, 269. 

Roderic, 180. 

Shaw, 160, 162, 163. 167. 

leader of the Clanchattan at 

the battle of the Inches, 170, 178, 

197 ; acquires the lands of Rothie- 

murchus, 178. 

beg, 166, 172. 

Macgillchrist vie Ian vie 

Innish, 149- 151. 

Slane, 166. 

Sorald, 170. 

MacWilliam, 176. 

Thomas Angus, 181. 

William, 160, 162, 166, 168, 169, 

176, 195, 196, 202, 205, 213, 220, 

222, 223, 234, 254, 261, 265, 268, 

269, 288, 341. 

oig, 196. 

mor, 195. 

of Aberarder, 359, 385, 401. 

Duncan, of Aberarder, 193. 

Lauchlan, of Aberarder, 269, 357, 

359. 385. 399, 400. 
Donald, of Aldourie, 357, 360, 

371, 372, 382, 384, 385. 

Malcolm, of Annatown, 161. 

Lauchlan, of Balnespick, 385, 

403. 
William, of Baroggy, 403. 

of Borlum, 206, 344, 367- 

369, 382-385, 399, 401. 

Lauchlan, of Cailachie, 90. 

Alex., of Connage, 344, 346, 349, 

352, 354, 356, 357, 359, 360, 3^7, 
369, 370, 372, 302, 384. 386, 399. 
Lauchlan, of Corribroch, 274- 



275- 



oig, of Corribroch, 292, 298. 



James, of Cragy, 403. 
John, of Crathy, 403. 
of Dalmunzie, 385. 
John, of Dalzeld, 272. 
Angus, of Daviot, 325, 345. 
Lauchlan, of Dunachton, 113. 
Wm., of Elrigg, 403. 
John, of Fertyn, 351. 
James, of Gask, 259. 
Lauchlan, of Gask, 272. 
Alexander, of Holm, 272. 



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GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS 



Mackintosh, Eneas, of Holm, 403. 

of Kinrara, 213. 

Donald, of Kylachy, 397, 399- 

401. 
William, of Kylachy, 298, 333, 

345» 349, 352, 353, 354, 35^, 357, 

359. 

of Little Dunachton, 213. 

John, of Morill, 273. 

of Pittowry, 213. 

William, of Rait, i6i, 259, 271- 

273- 



Lauchlan, of Ravokmor, 295. 

— Allan, of Rothemurchus, 197. 

— James, of Rothemurchus, 150, 
170, 185. 

— Lauchlan, of Strone, 259, 403. 

— Alex., of Termet, 250. 

— Angus, of Termet, 269, 272. 

Williamson, of Termet, 252, 

256, 258, 259. 

— Lauchlan, of Termet, 272. 
Angus, of Tulloch mak genry. 



403. 
Alex., of Wester Lairgs, 272. 

Mackintoshes, epitome of the origin 
and increase of the, 144 ; genealogy, 
144; origin of the name, 150, 156, 
159 ; memorial relating to the family, 
405; their friendly bond with the 
Grants, 113; their feud with the 
Camerons, 168, 172, 176 ; dissensions 
with the earl of Moray, 289 ; in arms 
against the covenanters, 313 ; their 
fidelity to the royal cause, 313, 322. 

ofGlenisla, 176. 

ofGlenshee, 176, 258. 

ofGlentilt, 171. 

of Strathardell, 176. 

of Strone, 258. 

Mackpender, thane of Meams, 105. 

MacLauchlan, Alister, 71. 

Murdoh, 71. 

MacLean, daughter of the laird 

of, 107. 

sir Alex., 139, 140. 

sir Allan, 136-138, 143. 

Allan, 133, 140. 

Allan ni sop, 127. 

Anna, 37. 

Charles, 133. 

mac Ewen vie Volan, 192. 

Donald, 126, 134, 143. 

Ferquhar Mac Heachin, 83. 

Florance, 127. 

Gillian, 133, 143 ; progenitor of 

the Macleans, 164. 

— - Gillicolm, 143. 

Gillise, 143. 



MacLean, Hector, killed at the battle 

of Flowdon, 127. 
It. -gen., killed at the battle 

of Harlaw, 125-126, 147, 150. 

Mac Allan, 128-129. 

sir Hector, 136, 143 ; killed at 

the battle of Inverkeithing, 137. 

mor, 127, 143. 

oig, 128, 143. 

Ouir, 143. 

reganich, predecessor of the 



family of Loch buy, 121 -125. 
ruodh, 143. 



castle 



— James, defends Dowart 
against sir George Rook, 139. 

— sir James Hector, 143. 

— John, 140, 143. 

minister in Mull, 143. 

— sir John, 138, 143 ; at the battle 
of Killicranky, 139; at the battle of 
Cromdell hill, 140 ; at St. Germains, 
141 ; at the battle of SherifTmuir, 
141. 

— Johnduih, 128-131, 134, 143. 
Garve, 126. 

— Julian, 128 ; wife of the earl of 
Ar^le, 128. 

— Lauchlan, 126, 127, 129, 143. 
Bronach, 143. 

lubanich, predecessor of the 



family of Dowart, 121 -125. 

moir, 143. 

oig, 143 ; predecessor of the 

family of Torloisk, 133. 

— sir Lauchlan, 143. 

— Lachlan Catanich, 127, 143. 

— vie Heachin chaoile, Murdoh, 75. 

— Neill, 126, 127, 143, 
Bayne, 98. 

— of Ardgour, 143. 

— of Blaitehe, 143. 

— ofBorera, 129, 130, 143. 

— of Brolos, 143. 

— Donald, of Brolos, 134, 137, 141. 

— Lauchlan, of Brolos, 138. 

— of Coll, 126, 143. 

— of Davach-Carr, 142. 

— Eachin mor, of Dowart, 127, 128, 

134. 



o\£, of Dowart, defeats the 
Macdonalds at Beinbigirie, 133. 
Lauchlan lubanich, predecessor 



of the family of Dowart, 121- 1 25. 

mor, or Magnus, of Dowart, 



128 ; at war with the Macdonalds, 
129-130; a victim of the treachery 
of Macdonald of Islay, 131 ; at the 
battle of Glenlivet, 131- 132, 134; 
defeats Macdonald in Islay, 132 ; 



INDEX 



431 



treacherously slain by Macdonald, 
133; epitaph on, 133. 

MacLean, Hector, of Grutin, 143. 

of Kingerloch, 142. 

of Lochbuy, 133. 

Charles, of Lochbuy, 125. 

Hector, of Lochbuy, 139 ; pre- 
decessor of the family of Lochbuy, 
121-125. 

Murdoch, of Lochbuy, 124, 137. 

sir John, of MacLean, 124. 

laird of, 302. 

sir Lauchlan, of Morvem, 134 ; 



joins Montrose, 135 ; gains the enmity 
of Argyle, 136. 

— of Isle of Muck, 137, 143. 

— sir Alexander, of Otler, 139. 
Lauchlan, predecessor of the 



family of Torloisk, 133. 

of Torloisk, 138. 

of Treshinish, 127, 143. 

Allan, of Treshinish, 129. 

MacLeans, genealogical account 



of, 



118-143; progenitor of, 164; their 
arms, 142 ; panegyric on, 142 ; 
massacre of, at Inverkeithing, 137 ; 
oppose the earl of Argyle, 395-397. 

— of Dowart, 121-122 ; arguments 
in favour of their precedence over 
the family of Lochbuy, 123. 

— of Kenlochalin, 128. 

— of Kingerloch, 137. 
of Lochbuy own the Dowart 



family as head of the clan, 123. 
MacLeod, Alister Anviridach, 81. 

Catharine, 38. 

Finguala, 58, 59. 

James, in Assint, 84. 

Janet, lady, 234. 

John Riach, 83. 

Julian, 137. 

Leod, progenitor of the MacLeods, 

164, 165. 

Margaret, 65, 94, 134, 169. 

Mary, 136. 

Murdoh, 74. 

Neil, treacherously murdered by 

Mackenzie of Kintail, 267. 

Norman, 183. 

Rorie, 74. 

mor, 183. 

MacAIlan, 90. 

Sorald, 183. 

William Dow, 83. 

laird of, 95, 132, 134. 

John, laird of, 137. 

Roderick, laird of, 134, 136. 

of Assint, 183. 

or MacNeil, Donald, of Assint, 65. 



MacLeod, Norman, of Beamerey, loi. 

Torquhil, of Coigach, 86, 94, 

96. 

William, of Dunvegan, enters 

into a bond of amity with Mack- 
intosh, 244. 

of Harris, 59, 64, 126, 128. 

of Lewis, 38, 58, 122. 

John, of Lewis, murder of, 65. 

Neil, of Lewis, apprehension and 

execution of, 66. 

Rorie, of Lewis, 62, 65. 

mor, of Lewis, 169. 

Torkill, of Lewis, 63, 65. 

of Rasay, 71. 

Alexanaer, of Rasay, 99. 

of Taliskeir, 92. 



Macleods of Lewis, 98; rebellion among, 

65 ; extirpation of, 99. 
MacLey, Donald, 77. 
MacMauld, Patrick, 107. 
Macmilor, Bean, 168, 174. 

vie Isak, Roderic, 192. 

MacNeil alias M'Leod, Donald, of 

Assint, 65. 
MacNeill of Barra, 67, 77, 129, 130, 

134- 
Gillean, of Barra, 257. 

ofKalchelly, 139. 

Macnevan, Elizabeth, 209. 

Isobella, 209 ; heiress of the 

barony of Dunachton, 205. 
Macolan, Nicol, 174. 
Macphail, chief of, 392. 

Allan, 175. 

— ^ Andrew, 201. 

Angus, of Kinchyle, 272. 

Gillies, 175. 

Helen, 175. 

John, 175. 

Katherine, 175. 

Margaret, 175. 

Morist, 175. 

Paul, 175. 

Reoch, 175. 

Macpherson, chief of, 392, 394. 

Angus, 353. 

Bean, 180. 

Mackynich vie Ewen, Donald, 

180. 

Doueall, 213, 319. 

Mackynich vie Ewen, Duncan, 



.y 



180. 

— Jean, 270. 

— John, tutor of Invereshie, 343. 

— Mary, 141. 

— Murdoch, 403. 

— John, of Breakachy, 272. 

— Evan, of Brin, 272. 



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GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS 



Macpherson, Andrew, of Cluny, 272, 

338-341, 344. 346, 353-355. 35^, 3^3, 
366, 369-3721 382, 384. 385. 390. 

Duncan, of Clunv, 399, 4CX> ; 

claims to be chief of the Macpher- 
sons, 387-389 ; declaration by the 
kine of arms on his claim, 393 ; letter 
to, from sir Charles Erskine, king of 
arms, on the claim, 393 ; order by 
the privy council, 394. 

Dougal, of Essich, murder of, 240. 

Andrew, of Grange, 270. 

sir yEneas, of Inneressy, 141. 

of Neid, 385. 

David du, of Nude, 166. 

William, of Nuid, 288, 403. 

Malcolm, of Owy, 272. 

of Poury, 369, 371, 372. 

Dougall, of Poury, 367. 369, 371, 

372. 
Macphersons, 179, 251, 253, 254, 338- 

344, 356, 358 ; gain a victory over 

the Camerons, 177 ; they desert 

Mackintosh and join Huntly, 251 ; 

taken prisoners and granted freedom, 

they again violate their oath of allegi- 

ance, 253. 

Macqueen, chief of, 392. 

Donald, minister of Petty, 273. 

Dougall, 216. 

of Corribroch, 359. 

Angus, of Corribroch, 345. 

Donald, of Corribrough, 272, 345, 

359. 371. 372, 385* 399. 401. 

Mackean duy, William, of Corri- 
broch, 244. 

Sween, of Ravogg, 273. 

M*Rha, Alex., of Inverraoinad, 79. 

Donald, minister of Lochailsh, 75* 

Ferquhar, 81. 

John, minister of Dingwall, 93. 

Maurice, 81. 

MacRorie, Gillichallum, 76. 

John Roy, 76. 

M'Sorald vie Gilbrid, Ronald, 161. 

vie Nicol, William, 193. 

Mactearlich, 213. 



Hector, 175, 183. 

mac Rori, Margaret, 175. 

Roderic, 175. 



Macturlichs, chief of, 392. 

MacVahon, Murdoh Buy, 71. 

Mac Varich or Mac Vurich, shenachie 
to Clan Ranald, poem by, on the 
Macleans, 119; his panegyric on 
the Macleans, 142. 

MacVurich. See Macphersons. 

Paul, 205. 

Mac William, Adam, 176. 



Mac William vie Dai dui, Donald, 22 

Duncan, 85. 

Gothred, 162. 

Sorald, 176. 

MacWorchie vie Chainichy Donald, 71 

vie Conil vie Ferquhar, Ferquha 

88. 

vie Rone, Hector, 85- 

vie Conochie, John oig, ^^^ 

vie William, John oig, 77. 

vie William, iCenneth, 91. 

vie Heachin, Lauchlan, 84. 

vie Alister Roy, Rone, 88. 

Major's De Gestis Scotorum^ 147, 14c 

151. 177. 
MakconiL See M'ConilL 

Makdonychi vie Calid, GothednxSy 17c 

Makean, Christy, 149. 

Makewin. See MacEwen. 

Makommer, 243. 

Makum. See Malcolm. 

Maky. See Mackay. 

Malcolm in. and the creation of thane 
into earls, 150, 151 ; grant of privi 
leges by, to MacDuflf, thane of Fife 

155. 
Malcolm iv. subdues Morayshire rebels 

159. 
Malcolm (Makum), Harry, 406. 

Malcolms, progenitor of the, 106. 

Malcolmson, John. See Mackintosh. 

Mar, earl of, 68, 105, 126, 259, 303 
rebellion of, 141. 

Alexander, earl of, 179, 188, 189. 

March, earl of, 105. 

Margaret, lady, daughter of Robert II. 
and wife of MacDonald, lord of the 
Isles, 122. 

Marischal, earl, 17; his lands harried 
by order of the earl of Htmtly, 244. 

Markinch kirk, 406. ^"* 

Mary Stuart, queen of Scots, in Inver- 
ness, 235 "; seeks the aid of Mack< 
intosh against Huntly, 236 ; besieges 
Inverness castle, 237. 

Matthison, John, 75. 

Murdoh, 79, 91. 

Matthisons, origin of the, 56. 

Mauld, Christian, 41. 

Maule, Patrick, earl of Panmure, 9. 

Robert, 51. 

Meg Mulloch, the ghost of Tulloch- 
gorm, 109. 

Meikle-Geddes, 164, 167, 210, 215. 
See also Rait. 

Meldrum, Thomas, of Iden, 229. 

of Newhall, 50. 

Melville, Andrew, 5a 

Catharine, 24. 



INDEX 



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Melville, Christian, 24. 

Helen, 7, 23. 

James, 12, 24. 

William, 24. 

of Carnbie, 49. 

John, of Carnbie, 12. 

sir John, of Carnbie, 12. 

Mathilda, lady Carnbie, 24. 

Menzies, Jamts, 319. 

of that ilk, 242. 

Middleton, general, 320, 322, 327-329, 

332 ; declaration of, in favour of 

Mackintosh, 321. 
Milcolumbus, 406. 
Milton family, progenitor of, 191. 
Mithie or Nevoy, 15. 
Moffats, progenitor of the, 105. 
Moir, Alister, of Chisholm, 73. 
Monasteries founded by Malcolm, 4th 

earl of Fife, 157. 
Moncreiff, arms of, 40. 

Agnes, 43, 44. 

Alexander, 42, 43. 

rev. Andrew, minister at Crail, 



43- 



Anna, 16, 17, 34. 
Annas, 44, 45. 
Bethsheba, 44, 45. 
Catharine, 44. 
Christian, 41, 44. 
sir David, 45. 
David, 41, 42. 
Edmond, 42. 
Elizabeth, 17, 34, 42-45. 
Gasperus, 40. 
George, 41, 43, 44. 

minister at Amgosk, 44. 



Moncreiff, Andrew, of Easter Moncreiff, 

Archibald, of Easter Moncreiff, 

41. 

John, of Easter Moncreiff, 41. 

Matthew, of Easter Moncreiff, 41. 

Robert, of Easter Moncreiff, 41. 

sir John, of Kilmonth, 43. 

of Kintullo, 46. 

Alexander, of Kintullo, 43. 

Matthew, of Kintullo, 43. 

William, of Kintullo, 43. 

of Moncreiff, genealogy of, 40-46. 

sir John, of Moncreifl, 16, 17, 34, 

41, 42, 44, 46. 

sir Malcolme, of Moncreiff, 40. 

sir Matthew, of Moncreiff, 40. 

sir Thomas, of Moncreiff, 45, 46. 

sir William, of Moncreiff, 42-45. 

Gilbert, of Myreside, 42. 

of Tippermallo, 46. 

William, of Tippermalloch, 41. 

of Wester Kind, 41, 42, 46. 

Moncur of Ballumbie, 10. 

Andrew, of Moncur, 10. 

Monipennie, laird of Kinkell, 7, 21. 

Elizabeth, 7, 11, 21. 

Monro, , 78, 79 ; origin of the 

name, 36. 
, wife of Hector Mackintosh, 

195- 



— Gerardus, 40. 

— Helen, 43. 

— Henry, 43-45- 

— Hugh, 43, 44. 

— Isobel, 43. 

— sir James, 45. 

— James, 43-45. 

— Janet, 41. 

— Jean, 42-45. 

— John, 42, 43. 

— Margaret, 42-45. 

— Nicholas, 44, 45. 

— Raymerus, 40. 

— Robert, 41, 44. 

— Roger, 40. 

— William, 34, 41, 44, 45- 

— of Balcaskie, 44. 

— David, of Balcaskie, 44. 

— rev. Archibald, of Balgony, mini- 
ster at Abernethy, 43, 44. 

— of Colfargie, 46. 

— of Easter Moncreiff, 46. 



Andrew, 40. 

— Christian, 99, 100. 

— Donald, S8. 

— George, minister of Urquhart, 75. 

— sir Hector, colonel, 4a 

— Hector, 38-40. 

— Hugh, 38. 

— Janet. 192, 196. 

— Jean, 40. 

— John, 37. 

— col. John, 40. 

— Neil, 79. 

— William, 37. 

— Hector, of Assint, 99. 
of Coatulich, 38. 

— Hugh, of Cowll, 37. 

— George, of Culcairn, 331. 

— John, of Daan, 38. 

— George, of E)avochgarty, 148, 
227, 241. 

— Thomas, of Duncrub, 37. 

— Hector, of Eddertown, 80. 
Christiana, daughter of Monro of 



Feme, 269. 

— Neil, of Findon, 73. 

— of Foulis, 92, 100, 219, 331 ; 
family of, 36-40 ; arms of, 36 ; pro- 
genitor of, 107. 



2 E 



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GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS 






Monro, George, of Fowlis, 36, 37. 

sir Hector, of Fowlis, 39, 40. 

Hector, of Fowlis, 37-40. 

Hugh, of Fowlis, 37, 196. 

sir John, of Fowlis, 40. 

John, of Fowlis, 37. 

tutor of Fowlis, 190- 191. 

sir Robert, of Fowles, 95. 

Robert, of Fowlis, 36-39, 231, 

238, 241. 

Robert More, of Fowlis, 38. 

sir William, of Fowles, 36, 61, 



70, 78, 79. 

— George, of Kaitwall, 38, 81. 

— Andrew, of Lemlair, 38. 

— George, of Leamlaire, 98. 

— Robert, of Leimlair, 95. 

— George, of Logie, 174. 
Andrew, of Miltoun, 194, 216, 



239. 

George, of Miltown, 284, 285. 

John, of Miltoun, 36, 37. 

George, of Obsdaile, 38. 

John, of Swordail, 74. 

Monros, 237 ; with queen Mary at 

Inverness, 237 ; their disputes with 

the Mackenzies, 238-240. 
Monstrelet, Enquerran de, 19. 
Monteith, Robert Stuart, earl of, 

succeeds to the earldom of Fife, 158. 

of Carse, 23. 

Montgomerie, Egidia, 158. 

James, lord, 27. 

sir Neil, 28. 

of Lainshaw, 28. 

Montrose, James, marquis of, 135, 313, 

329. 
John, earl of, 151, 

Moray, earl of, 147, 177. 

Alexander, earl of, 333, 334, 336, 

345. 349-363, 395. 397. 

James, earl of, 205, 212-223, 235, 



239. 

1st earl of, his feud with 

Huntly in 1590, 246-247 ; murdered 
by Huntly, 249 ; his murder avenged, 

255. 

2nd earl of, 272, 274, 278, 

289, 290, 291. 

- 3rd earl of, 296-298, 303, 



319. 
— — province of, 310. 

Morisone, Catharine, 16. 

Donald, 82. 

sir Alexander, of Prestongrange, 

16. 

collector, 87. 

Morphie» laird of, 35. 

Morton, earl of, 28. 



Morton, Anna, 51. 

Catharine, 50, 51. 

Elizabeth, 41. 

Eupham, 51. 

Helen, 50, 51. 

Isabell, 50. 

Marjory, 50. 

Robert, 52. 

of Cambo, 41 ; old writs of, 46-4 

David, of Cambo, 49. 

sir Patrick, of Cambo, 51, 52. 

sir Thomas, of Cambo, 49-51. 

Thomas, of Cambo, 51. 

William, of Cambo, 49, 51. 

of Rundestoun, 50. 

Moy, barony of, 189, 226. 

Moyness, laird of, 102. 

Muckrach, ill and if, 112. 

Mull, battle in, between the Mi 

Donalds and Mac Leans, 129, 130. 
Mullachard, 208. 
Munro. See Monro. 
Murchison, Evander, of Avenish, 96. 

William, 81. 

Murray, lord Eliebank, 45. 

Andrew, 168. 

Annas, 44. 

Catharine, 41. 

sir David, viscount Stormont, 3^ 

David, master of Bin, 44. 

Elizabeth, 30. 

sir Gideon, treasurer depute, 3a 

John, 50. 

Lilias, daughter of the duke ( 

Athol, 113. 

Margaret, 42, 51. 

Mary, 45. 

of Abercairnie, 44. 

of Balvaird, 42. 

of BlUckbaronie, 30. 

sir Patrick, of Eliebank, 30. 

William, of Knokdiffe, 30. 

George, of Pittencreif, 45. 

sir David, of Scoone, 26. 

Patrick, earl of Tulliebardine 



299. 
Myrtoun. See Morton of Cambo. 

Nairn, lands of, 185. 

Napier of Merchiston, 24. 

Nawrach, Neil, 214. 

Niave, island of, 132. 

North Berwick, monastery of, 157. 

Nude, laird of. See Macpherson. 

Nudmor, 194. 

Obsdale, 395. 

Ochiltree, Andrew, lord, 255. 

Ochterlonie, Margaret, 9. 



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Ochtcrlonic of Kellie, 9, 31. 
Ochteroeid, 7a 
O'Donil, 128. 
Ogilvie, lord, 30, 170. 

Helen, 30. 

Isobell, 64, 68. 

James, earl of Airlie, 30. 

sir John, 257. 

John, 204. 

Mareon, 8, 9. 

Margaret, 38, no, 213, 223, 238. 

Marjory, 8, 9. 

Mary, daughter of the earl of 

Findlater, 113. 

of Balfour, in Angus, 23. 

of Boyne, 32. 

Patrick, of Boyne, 1 14. 

James, of Cardell, 213, 223. 

of Clova, II. 

sir James, of Deskford, alias Find- 

later, no. 

of Finlatter, 32, 38. 

of Kempkern, 114. 

sir William, of Petty, 204. 



- of Poole or Peele, 9. 

- of Powrie, 64, loi, 102. 
Gilbert, of Powrie, 31. 



Ogilvies, 220. 
Oliphant, lord, 43. 

Jean. 43. 

Oneil, 128. 

Panmure, Patrick, earl of, 51. 
Parliament, meeting of, in Edinburgh 

in 1661, 327. 
Paterson, Alexander, bailie of Inverness, 

255.. 
c Jilbert, bailie of Inverness, 255. 

William, 90, 93. 

Paton, servant of the Red Cummin, 

murder of, 174. 

Perth, battle of the clans at, 149, 165, 

170, 177. 197. 

James, earl of, 138. 

earls of, 151. 

Petty, 159, 179, 191, 204, 221, 225, 

226, 231, 232, 268, 274, 290, 291; 

ravaged by Huntly, 254, 256; church 

of, 323- 
Picts driven from Britain, 154. 
Pilmore, John, bishop of Moray, 172. 
Pinkie, battle of (1547), 38. 
Pitcairn, Elizabeth, 12, 22. 

Isobella, 12. 

Robert, abbot of Dunfermline, 6. 

of Forthar, 12. 

of Forther Ramsay, 23. 

of Pitcairn, 22. 

Pitlundie, 97. 



Pitsligo, laird of, 196. 
Pittonachtie, 91. 
Pittowry, 213. 
Pluscarden, lands of, 1 01. 
Port Ascaig, Islay, 132. 
Preston, Elizabeth, 51. 

sir John, of Airdrie, 51. 

Priesthill, laird of, 85. 
Primrose, Gilbert, surgeon, 11. 
Prynne, William, 20. 

QuEBNSBERRY, WiLLiAM, marquis of, 

138. 
plot, 141. 

Quincy, Roger de, earl of Winton, 19. 

Rab. See Reay. 

Rail, Anna, wife of sir William Ogilvie, 
204. 

Rait and Geddes, lands of, 164, 167, 
185, 189, 215, 263, 264, 344. 

Ramsay, Christian, 41. 

of Balmaine, 26. 

of Balmouly, 41. 

Robert, of Balmouly, 43. 

of Balmunth, 5. 

James, of Corstan, 44. 

William, of Corstan, 44. 

Nicoll, of Dalhoussie, 26. 

Rannoch, 261. 

Kavochbeg, 345. 

Reay, lord, 64, 151. 

Donald, lord, 39 

John, lord, 40. 

Renwall, Joanna (Janet), 31, 32. 

Richlagganbeg. 399. 

Robertson, Majory, daughter of Robert- 
son of Inches, 288. 

Matthew, of Davockhairlie, 95. 

Gilbert, of Kindcass, 93. 

of Lude, 196. 

James, of Newbigging, 24. 

Robertsons, 263. 

Rollo, of Duncrub, 43. 

RoUock, sir Walter, of Latoun, 258 

Rose, Alexander, 288. 

of Kilravock, 39, 219, 331, 332 ; 

progenitor of, 169. 

Hugh, of Kilravock, 115, 170, 

241. 

Hutcheon, of Kilravock, 199. 

Margaret, of Kilravock, 92. 

Ross, earl of, 36, 107, 125. 

Alexander, earl of, 188, 189, 

192. 

earldom of, 60, 84. 

Catharine, 38. 

Donald, 87, 88. 

Elizabeth, 39, 234. 



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Ross, John, earl of, 127, 189, 193, 198, 
200. 

93. 255- 

— Thomas, 87. 

William, earl of, 37. 

Hugh, of Auchnacloich, 90, 93. 

John, of Ballivat, 175, 237. 

of Balnagowan, 331. 

Alexander, of Balnagowan, 38. 

George, of Balnagowan, 268. 

Hugh, of Balnagown, 174. 

John, of Broadley, 90. 

Alexander, of Cuiluch, 71, 74. 

David, of Holm, 234, 270. 

Walter, of Invercharron, 95. 

William, of Innercharron, 78. 

of Pitcalnie, tutor of Belnagowen, 

98. 
David, of Urchany, 333. 

Rothemurchus, 164, 165, 167, 172, 
1781 I97» 198, 218, 252. See also 
Grant. 

Rothes, George, earl of, 32. 

John, earl of, 329, 347, 364. 

William, earl of, 43. 

Row, John, minister at Johnstone, 12. 

Ruthven, Christian, 51. 

William, lord, 51. 

of Banden, 30. 

Alexander, of Frieland, 43. 

— - castle, 245, 252, 256. 

Ruthvens, progenitor of the, 105. 

Rymer, Thomas, 20. 

St. Andrews priory, 406. 
Salmon-fishing dispute, 377. 
Sandilands, Mary, 160. 

of St. Monance, 32. 

Scoone, lord, 26, 34. 

Scott, Anna, lady Balmerinoch, 30. 

Dorothea, 29. 

Eupham, 30. 

Grissel, 29. 

Janet, lady Farnherst, 30. 

Jean, 29. 

Margaret, 29. 

lady Johnstoun, 30. 

Mary, lady Blackbaronie, 30. 

sir Walter, of Buccleuch, 29, 30. 

Scrymgeour, constable of Dundee, 23. 
Seaforth, earl of, 302, 309, 331. 

Colin, earl of, 61, 94, loi. 

Barbara, countess of Seaforth, 98. 

George, earl of, 68, 69, loi. 

Isobell, countess of, 95. 

Kenneth, earl of, 68, 69, 138. 

carls of, 151. 

Seton or Seaton, lord, 27. 

James, minister of Creich, 16. 



Seaton John, of Disblair, 229. 

of Lathrisk, 16. 

Patrick, of Lathrisk, 16. 

William, of Meldrum, 229. 

Seyerus, of Tranent, 19. 

Shaw, origin of the surname 
160. 



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Allan Mackintosh, conveys Rothe- 
murchus to Adam Gordon, 197-198. 

of Dell, 171. 

ofDalnivert, 171. 

Donald, of Delnaveit, 403. 

of Harris, 171. 

of Lathangy, 50. 

of Rothemurchus, 170, 171, 202. 

John, of Rothemurchus, igl6. 

of Tordarroch, 170. 

Alexander, of Tordarroch, 403. 

SherifTmuir, battle of, 116, 141. 

Shichynnich, 355. 

Shiplin, 225, 238. 

Shipsyde, burgess of Montrose, 9. 

Shirshar, Janet, 195. 

Sibbald, Andrew, of Lethem, 7. 

sir Robert, differences between 

his account of the Macduflfs and that 
of the Genealogy, 406. 

Sinclair, Anne, 95. 

George, earl of Caithness, 39. 

Janet, 39. 

of Berridale, 68. 

sir James, of Mey, 95. 

sir William, of Mey, 68. 

Skeen, 15. 

Slains castle destroyed, 257. 

Slait, the parson of, 79. 

Slick Ian vore, 109. 

Slighk Gillies vie Ewin, 356. 

Milmor vie Innish, 201. 

Slighkean Dui vik Ronald, 366. 

vie Ewin, 356. 

Somerset, Robert Ker, earl of, 30. 

Southesk, David, earl of, 9, 10. 

Spalding, Andrew, baron of Essin- 
tillie, 288. 

Spens, Elizabeth, 49. 

James, a priest, murders Hector 

Mackintosh, 222. 

of Womiestoun, 49, 50. . 



Spense, Jean, 43. 

Spotswood's Church History , 1 33. 

Stewart or Stuart, 21. 

Allan, earl of Caithness, 188, 

189. 

or Grant, Andrew, 107. 

Catharine, 21, 22, 30. 

Christian, 11. 

David, bishop of Moray, 197. 

Elizabeth, 30, 31, 62. 



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Stewart, Eli2al)eth, daughter of lord 
Down, ii6. 

Jean, 5, 21, 26, 30, 31. 

lady Margaret, 27. 

Marjory, 30. 

daughter of the earl of Athol, 



III, 112. 

Mary, daughter of Robert 



III., 



193- 



- queen of Scots, 235-237. 

lady Mary, 1 14. 

of Appin, 128. 

of AthoU and Doune, 290. 

sir Tames, of Auchmadies, 258. 

sir Thomas, of Grantully, 244. 

of Innermay, 5, 21. 

James, of Innermay, 30. 

sir John, of Innermay, 22. 

sir James, of Kilcoy, 97. 

baron of Kincardine, 109. 

Bancho, of Lochaber, 105. 

John, de Mureane, 94. 

of Rossyth, II, 21. 

John, of Tillipurie, 244. 

Stirling, Catharine, 21. 

Margaret, 5. 

of Keir, 5, 21. 

convention of estates at, 134. 

Stormont, viscount, 26, 34. 
Strachan, Jean, 23. 
of Carmyllie, 23. 

of Glenkindy, 202. 

Straelsound, city of, loi. 
Strang, Agnes, 12. 
George, 24. 

John, 12, 24. 

Robert, portioner of Kilbrinnie, 

12. 

— William, 25. 
Strathardel, the raid of, 190. 
Stratharrick, 106, 108. 
Strathbogie, battle at, 148. 

castle, destruction of, 257. 

Strathdee, 252. 

Strathdoun raided by Mackintosh, 

251. 
Strathearn, 159, 191, 221, 225, 231, 

274, 291. 322, 350. 
Stratherrick, 356-358, 365. 
Strathnairn, 206, 221, 274, 290, 291, 

322, 350. 

Strathnaver, 214. 

Strone, family of, 205. 

Strother, Thomas del, 108. 

Struie, laird of, 73. 

Suanhilla, wife of Hacken Grandt, pro- 
tector of Norway, 104. 

Suffolk, Theophilus, earl of, 10. 

Suinard, 188. 

Sully, duke de, 19. 



Summerled, Sorald Makgilbrid, thane 
of Argyll, 160. 

Sutherland, Alexander, earl of, 243. 

Tohn, earl of, 39, 302, 336. 

Nicolas, earl of, 1 80. 

Margaret, 39. 

of Duffus, 39. 

William, of DufTus, 1 10, 1 13. 

Nicolas, of Thorobo, 174, 

Swenerman, a Danish prince, 104. 

Swillie, count of (fiethune), 3. 

Sword presented to sir Lauchlan Mack- 
intosh by prince Charles [Charles 1 1.], 
286. 

Sympsone, 23 ; burgess of Anstruther, 
12. 

Tantallon castle, 188. 

Tarradaill, laird of, 91. 

Teirlundy, 386, 387. 

Tender, the, 324. 

Thane, the title of, 159 ; thanes created 

earls, 150, 151 ; thanes of Fife, 154 ; 

privileges conferred on, by Malcolm 

Canmore, 155. 
Thomas del Strother, his duel with 

Robert, laird of Grant, 108. 
Thomson, Dr., Dundee, il. 

George, of Rosmarky, 271. 

Tippermalloch, 43 ; laird of, 41, 46. 

Tollybrecks, lands of, 21. 

Tora, wife of Hemming Grant, 104. 

Torchrona, 173. 

Tordarach, 221, 238. 

Toshay of Minevaird, 407. 

Toshes of Aberdeen, origin of the, 

171. 
Trail, Agnes, 12, 13, 22. 

colonel Andrew, 50. 

James, 24. 

rev. Robert, 50. 

of Blebo, 12, 22. 

Trough, posterity of the. III. 
Tuliibardine, Patrick Murray, earl of, 

299. 
Tullich, 258. 

feir, 378. 

TuUocher, 179. 

Tullochgorm, progenitor of the family 

of, 109; the family haunted by a 

^miliar spirit, 109. 

goodman of, 85. 

Tweedie, Walter, 12. 

William, 12, 24. 

of Drumelziare, 12. 

Tyrie, island of, 138. 

Margaret, 42. 

of Dnimkilbo, ll» 42. 

Udny, William, of that ilk, 229. 



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Uldinie, family of, 83. 
Urluster of Petty, 173. 
Urquhard, Mariobella, 89. 

sir John, of Cromarty, 68. 

Walter, of Cromarty, 241. 

Vows on black stones, 122. 

Wardlaw, heretrix of Pitravie, 15. 

sir Henry, 15. 

Margaret, 13, 15, 22. 

Henry, of Pitravie, I $. 

of Torrie, 13, 22, 23. 

sir John, of Torrie, 10. 

Weaver, Andrew, priest, 148, 149. 
Wedderburne, sir Peter, of Gosfoord, 

Wemyss, 151. 

origin of the family of, 156. 

earl of, 406, 407. 

Christian, 96. 

David, 33. 

Margaret, 33. 



Wemyss, James, of Balfarge, 23. 

of Pittencreife, 50. 

of Rumgay, 33. 

captain, 23. 

Wffa, a Saxon lord and king of £j 

Angles, 103. 
Whippo, Grissel, 13. 

George, of Innerteile, 13. 

of Treaton, 13. 

Whytehill, David of, 24. 

Whytelaw, laird of, 27. 

William de Monte, progenitor of tl 

Moffats, 105. 
Williamson, Angus Mackintosh, i 

Mackintosh of Termet. 

Donald, 219. 

■ John, 219. 
Wilson, Margaret, 50. 
Winton, Roger, carl of, 19. 
Wisheart, 9. 

Woman hill, Aberdeen, 230. 
\Vvnd, Henry, takes part in the el: 

battle at Perth, 178. 



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Sevenoaks, Kent. 
Gardner, Alexander, 7 Gilmour Street, Paisley. 
Garson, William, W.S., 60 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh. 
Gartshore, Miss Murray, Ravelston, Blackball, Edinburgh. 
Geddie, John, l6 Ann Street, Edinburgh. 
Geikie, Sir Archibald, LL.D., Geological Survey, 28 Jermyr 
Street, London, S.W. 
140 Geikie, Prof. J., LL.D., Kilmorie, Colinton Road, Edinburgh. 
Gibson, Andrew, 3 Morrison Street, Govan. 
Gibson, J. C, c/o James Forbes, 18 Coltbridge Terrace, 
1 i Murrayfield, Edinburgh. 

Gibson, James T., LL.B., W.S., 37 George Street, Edinburgh. 
Giles, Arthur, 107 Princes Street, Edinburgh. 
Gillespie, Mrs. G. R., 5 Darnaway Street, Edinburgh. 
Gillies, Walter, M.A., The Academy, Perth. 
Gordon, Rev. Robert, Mayfield Gardens, Edinburgh. 
Goudie, Gilbert, F.S.A. Scot, 31 Great King St., Edinburgh. 
Goudie, Robert, Commissary Clerk of Ayrshire, Ayr. 
150 Gourlay, Robert, Bank of Scotland, Glasgow. 
Gow, Leonard, Hayston, Kelvinside, Glasgow. 
Graeme, Lieut.-Col. Laurence, Fonthill, Shaldon, Teignmouth, 
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Graeme, Lieut.-Col. R. C, Naval and Military Club, 9^ Picca- 
dilly, London. 
Grant, Alex., 72 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh. 
Grant, Francis J., W.S., 106 Thirlestane Road, Edinburgh. 
Grant, William G. L., Woodsidc, East Newport, Fife. 
Gray, George, Clerk of the Peace, Glasgow. 
Green, Charles E., 18 St. Giles Street, Edinburgh. 
Greig, Andrew, S6 Belmont Gardens, Hillhead, Glasgow. 
l60 Gunning, His Excellency Robert Haliday, M.D., 12 Addison 
Crescent, Kensington, London, W. 
Guthrie, Charles J., Q.C., 13 Royal Circus, Edinburgh. 
Guy, Robert, 120 West Regent Street, Glasgow. 

Halkett, Miss Katherine E., 24 Holland St., Camden Hill> 
London, W. 

Hall, David, Crookedholm House, Hurlford, Ayrshire. 

Hallen, Rev. A. W. Cornelius, The Parsonage, Alloa. 

Hamilton, Hubert, Advocate, 55 Manor Place, Edinburgh. 

Hamilton, Lord, of Dalzell, Motherwell. 

Hamilton-Ogilvy, Henry T. N., Prestonkirk. 

Harrison, John, 8 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh. 
170 Hay, W. J., 15 Royal Park Terrace, Edinburgh. 

Hedderwick, A. W. H., 79 St. George's Place, Glasgow. 

Henderson, J. G. B., Nether Parkley, Linlithgow. 

Henderson, Joseph, 1 1 Blythswood Square, Glasgow. 

Henry, David, Estherville, St. Andrews, Fife. 

Hewison, Rev. J. King, The Manse, Rothesay. 

Hill, William H., LL.D., Barlanark, Shettleston, Glasgow. 

Honeyman, John, A.R.S.A., 140 Bath Street, Glasgow. 

Hope, H. W., of Luffness, Aberlady. 

Howden, Charles R. A., Advocate, 25 Melville Street, Edin- 
burgh. 
180 Hunter, Colonel, F.R.S., of Pl&s Coch, Anglesea. 

Hutcheson, Alexander, Herschel House, Broughty Ferry. 

Hutchison, Rev. John, D.D., Afton Lodge, Bonnington. 

Jameson, J. H., W.S., l6 Coates Crescent, Edinburgh. 



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Jamieson^ George Auldjo^ C.A., 87 Drumsheugh Gardena 

Edinburgh. 
Jamieson, J. Auldjo, W.S.^ 14 Buckingham Ter., Edinburgh. 
Johnston^ D.^ 14 Netherby Road, Leith. 
Johnston, David, 24 Huntly Gardens, Kelvinside, Glasgow. 
Johnston, George Harvey, 22 Garscube Terrace, Edinburgh. 
Johnston, George P., 33 George Street, Edinbui^h. 
290 Johnstone, James F. Kellas, 12 Osborne Terr., London^ S.W. 
Johnstone, J. T., 20 Broughton Place, Edinburgh. 

Kemp, D. William, Ivy Lodge, Trinity, Edinburgh. 
Kermack, John, W.S.^ 13 Glencaim Crescent, Edinburgh. 
Kerr, Rev. John, Manse of Dirleton, Drem, N.B. 
Kincaimey, The Hon. Lord, 6 Heriot Row, Edinburgh. 
Kinnear, The Rt. Hon. Lord, 2 Moray Place, Edinburgh. 
Kirkpatrick, Prof. John, LL.D., Advocate, South view, Murray- 
field, Edinburgh. 
Kirkpatrick, Robert, 1 Queen Square, Strathbungo, Glasgow. 

Laidlaw, DAViD,Jun.,6 Marlborough Ter., Kelvinside, Glasgow. 
1^00 Lang, Andrew, LL.D., 1 Marloes Road, South Kensington, 
London. 

Lang, James, 9 Crown Gardens, Dowanhill, Glasgow. 

Langwill, Robert B., 7 St. Leonard's Bank, Perth. 

Laurie, Professor S. S., 22 George Square, Edinburgh. 

Law,Thos. Graves, LL.D., Signet Library, Edinburgh, Secretary, 

Leadbetter, Thomas, 2 Magdala Place, Edinburgh. 

Leslie, Colonel, New Club, Edinburgh. 

Livingstone, M., 32 Hermitage Gardens, Edinburgh. 

Logan, Sir C. B., D.K.S., LL.D., 12 Rothesay Place, Edinburgh. 

Lorimer, George, Durrisdeer, Gillsland Road, Edinburgh. 
210 Low, James F., Seaview, Monifieth. 

Macadam, J. H., 37 Shoe Lane, London, E.C. 

Macadam, W. I vison, Slioch, Lady Road , Newington, Edinburgh. 

M'Bain, J. M., British Linen Bank, Arbroath. 

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M'Candlish, J. M.^ W.S., 27 Drumsheugh Gardens^ Edinburgh. 

Macdonald; James^ W.S.^ 4 Whitehouse Terrace, EdinburglL 

Macdonald, Kenneth^ Town House, Inverness. 

Macdonald, W, Rae^ 1 Forres Street, Edinburgh. 

Macdougall, Jas. Patten, Advocate, 39 Heriot Row, Edinburgh. 
«20 M'Ewcn, W. C, W.S., 2 Rothesay Place, Edinburgh. 

Macfarlane, Geo. L., Advocate, 3 St. Colme Street, Edinburgh. 

Macgeorge, B. B.^ 19 Woodside Crescent, Glasgow. 

MacGregor, John, W.S., 57 Grange Loan, Edinburgh. 

M'Grigor, Alexander, 172 St Vincent Street, Glasgow. 

Macintjre, P. M.^ Advocate, 12 India Street, Edinburgh: 

Mackay,£neasJ. G., Q.C., LL.D.,7 Albyn Place, Edinburgh. 

Mackay, Eneas, 43 Murray Place, Stirling. 

Mackay, Rev. G. S., M.A., Free Church Manse, Doune. 

Mackay, James F., W.S., Whitehouse, Cramond. 
1280 Mackay, James R., S6 Chalmers Street, Edinburgh. 

Mackay, Thomas, 14 Wetherby Place, South Kensington, 
London, S.W. 

Mackay, Thomas A., British Linen Bank House, Inverness. 

Mackay, William, Solicitor, Inverness. 

Mackenzie, A., St Catherines, Paisley. 

Mackenzie, Thomas, Dailvaine House, Carron^ Strathspey. 

Mackenzie, Thomas, M.A., Sheriff-Substitute of Ross, Tain. 

Mackinlay, David, 6 Great Western Terrace, Glasgow. 

Mackinnon, Professor, 1 Merchiston Place, Edinburgh. 

Mackintosh, Charles Fraser, 18 Pont Street, London, S.W. 
540 Mackintosh, W. F., 27 Commerce Street, Arbroath. 

Maclachlan, John, W.S., 12 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh. 

Maclagan, Prof. Sir Douglas, M.D., 28 Heriot Row, Edinburgh. 

Maclagan, Robert Craig, M.D., 5 Coates Crescent, Edinburgh. 

Maclauchlan, John, Albert Institute, Dundee. 

Maclean, Sir Andrew, Viewfield House, Balshagray, Partick, 
Glasgow. 

MacLehose, James J., 6l St Vincent Street, Glasgow. 

Macleod, Rev. Walter, 112 Thirlestane Road, Edinburgh. 

Macmillan, Malcolm, 74 Haymarket Terrace^ Edinbur^. 



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Macphail, J. R. N., Advocate^ 53 Castle Street, Edinbtiigh 
250 M'Phee, Mrs., Oakfield, Fort WillUm. 

Macray, Rev. W. D., Bodleian Library, Oxford. 

Macritchie, David, 4 Archibald Place, Edinburgh. 

Main, W. D., 128 St. Vincent Street, Gksgow. 

Marshall, John, Calderfj^ve, Newton, Lanarkshire. 

Martin, Francis John, W.S., 9 Glencaim Crescent^ Edinbui| 

Marwick, Sir J. D., LL.D., Killermont House, Marjh 
Glasgow. 

Massie, James, 6 Inverleith Avenue, Edinburgh. 

Masson, David, LL.D., Gowanlea, Juniper Green. 

Mathieson, Thomas A., S Grosvenor Terrace, Glasgow. 
260 Maxwell, W. J., Terraughtie, Dumfries. 

Melville, Viscount, Melville Castle, Lasswade. 

Melville, Rev. Dr., Culfargie, Polwarth Terrace, Edinburgh 

Mill, Alex., 9 Dalhousie Terrace, Edinburgh. 

Millar, Alexander H., Rosslyn House, Clepington Rd., Dundi 

Miller,Rev.W.,C.I.E.,D.D.,LL.D.,Burgo Park, Bridge of Alb 

Milligan, John, W.S., 10 Carlton Terrace, Edinburgh. 

Milne, A. & R., Union Street, Aberdeen. 

Milne, Mrs., Viewlands, Perth. 

Mitchell, Sir Arthur, K.C.B., M.D., LL.D., 34 Drummo 
Place, Edinburgh. 
270 Mitchell, James, 222 Damley Street, Pollokshields, Glasgo 

Moffatt, Alexander, 23 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh. 
I ! ; Moffatt, Alexander, jun., M. A., LL.B., Advocate, 4 Drummoi 

Place, Edinburgh. 
I , Moncrieff, W. G. Scott, Advocate, Birchwood, Inverness. 

Morison, John, 1 1 Burnbank Gardens, Glasgow. 

Morries-Stirling, J. M., Gogar House, Stirling. 

Morrison, Hew, 7 Hermitage Terrace, Edinburgh. 

Morton, George A., 17 Eyre Crescent, Edinburgh. 
ijj Muir, James, 27 Huntly Gardens, Dowanhill, Glasgow. 

Muirhead, James, 2 Bowmont Gardens, Kelvinside, Glasgow 
280 Murdoch, Rev. A. D., All Saints' Parsonage, Edinburgh. 

Murdoch, J. B., of Capelrig, Meams, Renfrewshire. 



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Murray, David, I69 West George Street, Glasgow. 
Murray, Colonel John, Polmaise Castle, Stirling. 

N1COL8ON, A. B,, W.S., Westboume House, Union Street, 

Aberdeen. 
Norfor, Robert T., C.A., 1 1 Hope Terrace, Edinburgh. 

Ogilvy, Sir Reginald H. H., Bart., of Inverquharty, Bal- 

dovan, Dundee. 
Oliver, James, Thorn wood, Hawick. 
Orrock, Archibald, 17 St. Catherine's Place, Edinburgh. 

Panton, George A., F.R.S.E., 73 VVestfield Road, Edgbaston. 

Birmingham. 
290 Paton, Allan Park, Home Cottage, Roseneath St., Greenock. 
Paton, Henry, M.A., 32 Shandon Crescent, Edinburgh. 
Paton, Victor A. Noel, W.S., 33 George Square, Edinburgh. 
Patrick, David, LL.D., 339 High Street, Edinburgh. 
Patrick, N. J. Kennedy Cochran, Advocate, 71 Great King 

Street, Edinburgh. 
Paul, J. Balfour, Advocate, Lyon King of Arms, SO Heriot 

Row, Edinburgh. 
Paul, Rev. Robert, F.S.A. Scot., Dollar. 
Pearson, David Ritchie, M.D., 23 Upper Phillimore Place, 

Phillimore Gardens, London, W. 
Pillans, Hugh H., 12 Dryden Place, Edinburgh. 
Pollock, Hugh, Craig- Ard, Langside, Glasgow. 
300 Prentice, A. R., 18 Kilblain Street, Greenock. 
Prothero, George W., LL.D., London. 
Pullar, Sir Robert, Tayside, Perth. 

Ramsay, Mrs., Kildalton, Islay. 
Ramsay, William, 10 Frederick Street, Edinburgh. 
Rankine, Prof. John, Q.C., 23 Ainslie Place, Edinburgh. 
Reichel, H. R., Principal, University College, Bangor, North 

Wales. 
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Reid^ John Alexander, Advocate, 1 1 Rojal Ciieiis, Edinlmi^ 

Renwick, Robert, Depute Town-Clerk, City Chambers^ Gbsgi 

310 Richardson, Ralph, W.S., Commissary Office, 2 Parliami 

Square, Edinburgh* 
Ritchie, David, Hopeville, Dowanhill Gardens, Glasgow. 
Ritchie, R. Peel, M.D., 1 Melville Crescent, Edinburgh. 
4 Roberton, James D., 1 Park Terrace East, Glasgow. 

Robertson, A. Ireland, Hays tone Lodge, Sciennes Garde] 

Edinburgh. 
Robertson, D. Argyll, M.D., 18 Charlotte Square, Edinborg 
Robertson, John, Elmslea, Dundee. 

Robson, William, Marchholm, Gilisland Road, Edinburgh. 
Rogerson, John J., LL.D., The Lindens, Abbotsford Pai 

Edinburgh. 
Rosebery, The Earl of, K.G., Dalmeny Park, Linlithgowshii 
320 Ross, Mrs., 7 Grange Terrace, Edinburgh. 

Ross, Rev. William, St. Mary's Manse, Partickhill, Glasgow. 

Sanderson, Kenneth, W.S., 65 Castle Street, Edinburgh. 

Scott, Rev. Archibald, D.D., l6 Rothesay Place, Edinburgh 

Scott, John, C.B., Halkshill, Largs, Ayrshire. 

Shaw, David, W.S., 1 Thistle Court, Edinburgh. 
^ Shaw, Thomas, M. P., Q.C., 1 7 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh. 

Sheriff, George, Woodcroft, Larbert, Stirlingshire. 

Shiells, Robert, National Bank of Neenah, Neenah, Wisconsii 
I y Simpson, Prof. A. R., 52 Queen Street, Edinburgh. 

330 Simpson, H. F. Morland, 80 Hamilton Place, Aberdeen. 

Simson, D. J., Advocate, 3 Glenfinlas Street, Edinburgh. 

Sinclair, Alexander, Glasgow Herald Office, Glasgow. 

Skinner, William, W.S., 35 George Square, Edinburgh. 

Smail, Adam, 13 Cornwall Street, Edinburgh. 
' ^1 Smart, William, M.A., Nunholm, Dowanhill, Glasgow. 

Smith, Andrew, Broompark, Lanark. 

Smith, G. Gregory, M.A., l6 Murrayfield Avenue, Edinburgh 

Smith, Rev. G. Mure, 6 Clarendon Place, Stirling. 
I Smith, J. K., 4 East Hermitage Place, Leith. 



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340 Smithy Rev. R. Nimmo^ LL.D., Manse of the First Charge, 
Haddington. 

Smithy Robert^ 9 Ward Road, Dundee. 

Smythe, David M., Methven Gistle, Perth. 

Somerville, F. R., Glencorse Cottage, Morningside Park 
Edinburgh. 

Sprott, Rev. George W., D.D., The Manse, North Berwick. 

Stair, The Earl of, Oxenfoord Castle, Dalkeith. 

Steele, W. Cunninghame, Advocate, 69 Gt. King St., Edin- 
burgh. 

Stephen, Rev. William, D.D., Parsonage, Dumbarton. 

Stevenson, J. H., Advocate, 9 Oxford Terrace, Edinburgh. 

Stevenson, Rev. Robert, M.A., The Abbey, Dunfermline. 
350 Stewart, Major-General Shaw-, 7 Inverness Ter. London, W. 

Stewart, R. K., Murdostoun Castle, Newmains, Lanarkshire. 

Stewart, Professor Sir T. Grainger, M.D., 19 Charlotte Square, 
Edinburgh. 

Strathallan, Lady, Machany House, Perthshire. 

Strathcona and Mount Royal, Lord, Invercoe, Argyllshire. 

Strathem, Robert, W.S., 12 South Charlotte St., Edinburgh. 

Strathmore, The Earl of, Glamis Castle, Glamis. 

Sturrock, James S., W.S., 122 George Street, Edinburgh. 

Sutherland, James B., S.S.C, 10 Windsor Street, Edinburgh. 

Taylor, Benjamin, 10 Derby Crescent, Kelvinside, Glasgow. 
360 Taylor, James Pringle, W.S., 19 Young Street, Edinburgh. 
Taylor, Rev. Malcolm C, D.D., Professor of Church History, 

6 Greenhill Park, Edinburgh. 
Telford, Rev. W. H., Free Church Manse, Reston, Berwickshire. 
Tennant, Sir Charles, Bart., The Glen, Innerleithen. 
Thin, George, 7 Mayfield Terrace, Edinburgh. 
Thomson, Rev. John Henderson, Free Church Manse, 

Hightae, by Lockerbie. 
Thomson, John Maitland, Advocate, 3 Grosvenor Gardens, 

Edinburgh. 
Thomson, Lockhart, S.S.C, 114 George Street, Edinburgh. 



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Thomson, T. S., 9 Manor Place, Edinburgh. 
Trail, John A., LL.B., W.S., 14 Belgrave Place, Edinbur^ 
370 Trayner, The Hon. Lord, 27 Moray Place, Edinburgh. 
Tuke, Sir John Batty, M.D., 20 Charlotte Square, Edinbu 
Tweedale, Mrs., Balquhally, Turriff, 
Tweeddale, The Marquis of, Tester, Gifford, Haddington. 

Underhill, Charles E., M.D., 8 Coates Crescent, Edinbu 
Veitch, G. S., Friarshal], Paisley. 



1 Waddel, Katherine, 37 Monteith Row, Glasgow. 

'^ Waddell, Rev. P. Hately, Whitekirk, Prestonkirk. 



Walker, Alexander, LL.D., 64 Hamilton Place, Aberdeer 

Walker, James, Hanley Lodge, Corstorphine. 
380 Walker, Louson, Westhorpe, Greenock. 

Walker, Robert, M.A., Tillydrone House, Old Aberdeen. 

Warrender, Miss, Bruntsfield House, Edinburgh, 

Waterston, George, 56 Hanover Street, Edinburgh. 

Watson, D., Hillside Cottage, Hawick. 

Watson, James, 40 Barcombe Avenue, Streatham I 
London, S.W. 

Watson, W. L., Aytoun, by Abemethy. 

Waugh, Alexander, National Bank, Newton-Stewart, N.B 

Whamond, David, 15 Graham Street, Edinburgh. 
^ j' Wilson, Very Rev. Dean, 1 Murrayfield Avenue, Edinbur^ 

390 Wilson, John J., 12 Shandon Street, Edinburgh. 

Wilson, Robert Dobie, 38 Upper Brook Street, London, V 

Wood, Alexander, Thomly, Saltcoats. 

Wood, Mrs. Christina S., Woodbum, Galashiels. 

Wood, Prof. J. P., W.S., 16 Buckingham Terrace, Edinbui 
N- Wood, W. A., C.A., 11 Clarendon Crescent, Edinburgh. 

Wordie, John, 45 West Nile Street, Glasgow. 



YouNo, A. J., Advocate, 60 Great King Street, Edinburgh 
Young, David, Town Clerk, Paisley. 
Young, William Laurence, Solicitor, Auchterarder. 
400 Yule, Miss Amy Frances, L.A., Tarradale, Ross-shire. 



LIST OF LIBRARIES 

Aberdeen Free Public Library. 

Aberdeen University Library. 

All Souls College^ Oxford. 

Antiquaries^ Society of, Edinburgh. 

Athenseum The, London, S.W. 

BaiUie's Institution Free Library, Glasgow. 

Belfast Library, Donegall Square North, Belfast, Ireland. 

Berlin Royal Library. 

Birmingham Free Library. 
10 Bodleian Library, Oxford. 

Boston Athenseum, Mass. 

Boston Public Library, Mass. 

Cambridge University Library. 

Cardiff Free Public Library. 

Copenhagen (Biblioth^que Royale). 

Cornell University, Ithaca, Michigan. 

Dollar Institution. 

Dresden Public Library. 
' Dundee Free Library. 
20 Edinburgh Public Library. 

Edinburgh University Library. 

Free Church College Library, Edinburgh. 

Free Church College Library, Glasgow. 

Glasgow University Library. 

Gray's Inn, Hon. Society of, London. 

Halifax Public Library. 

Hammersmith Public Library. 

Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass. 

Inverness Free Library. 
80 John Rylands Library, Manchester. 

Kingussie Public Library. 

Leeds Library. 



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Liverpool Public Ldbruy. 

London Corporation Library, Guildhall. 

London Library, St James Square. 

Manchester Public Free Library. 

Mitchell Library, Glasgow. 

National Liberal Club, London. 

National Library of Ireland. 
40 Newcastle-upon-Tyne Public Library. 

New York Public Library. 

Nottingham Free Public Library. 

Ottawa Parliamentary Libruy. 

Paisley Philosophical Institution. 

Peabody Institute, Baltimore. 

Pennsylvania Historical Society. 

Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh. 

Procurators, Faculty of, Glasgow. 

Public Record Ollice. 
50 Reform Oub, Pall Mall, London, S.W. 

Royal College of Physicians, Bdinburgh. 

Royal Institution, London, W. 

St Andrews University Library. 

Sheffield Free Public Library. 

Signet Library, Edinburgh. 

Solicitors before the Supreme Court, Society of, Edinburgh. 

Speculative Society, Edinburgh. 

Stonyhurst College, Blackburn, Lancashire. 

Sydney Free Library. 
60 Toronto Public Library. 

United Presbyterian College Library, Edinburgh. 

Vienna, Library of the R. I. University. 

Wigan Free Public Library. 
64 Yale University Library. 



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THE EXECUTIVE. 

President, 
The £arl of Rosebery, K.G., K.T., LL.D. 

Chairman of* Council, 
David Masson^ LL.D.^ Historiographer Royal for Scotland. 

Council, 

John Scott, C.B. 

Sir J. Balfour Paul, Knt., Lyon King of Arms. 

P. Hume Brown, M.A., LL.D. 

Rev. John Hutchison, D.D. 

D. Hay Fleming, LL.D. 

Right Rev. John Dowden, D.D., Bishop of Edinburgh. 

J. Maitland Thomson, Advocate, Keeper of the Historical 

Department, H.M. Register House. 
W. K. Dickson, Advocate. 
David Patrick, LL.D. 
Sir Arthur Mffchell, K.C.B., M.D., LL.D. 
^Eneas J. G. Mackay, Q.C, LL.D., Sheriff of Fife and Kinross. 
Sir John Cowan, Bart. 

Corresponding Members oj the Council, 

C, H. Firth, Oxford ; Samuel Rawson Gardiner, D.C.L.,LL.D. ;. 
Rev. W. D. Macray, Oxford ; G. W. Prothero, Litt. D. 

Hon. Treasurer, 
J. T. Clark, Keeper of the Advocates' Library. 

Hon. Secretary. 
T. G. Law, LL.D., Librarian, Signet Library. 



RULES 

1. The object of the Society is the discovery and printing, 
under selected editorship, of unpublished documents illus- 
trative of the civil, religious, and social history of Scotland. 
The Society will also undertake, in exceptional cases, to issue 
translations of printed works of a simihu* nature, which have 
not hitherto been accessible in English. 

2. The number of Members of the Society shall be limited 
to 400. 

3. The affairs of the Society shall be managed by a Council, 
consisting of a Chairman, Treasurer, Secretary, and twelve 
elected Members, live to make a quorum. Three of the twelve 
elected Members shall retire annually by ballot, but they shall 
be eligible for re-election, 

4. The Annual Subscription to the Society shall be One 
Guinea. The publications of the Society shall not be delivered 
to any Member whose Subscription is in arrear, and no 
Member shall be permitted to receive more than one copy of 
the Society's publications. 

5. The Society will undertake the issue of its own publica- 
tions, i.e. without the intervention of a publisher or any other 
paid agent. 

6. The Society will issue yearly two octavo volumes of about 
S20 pages each. 

7. An Annual General Meeting of the Society shall be held 
at the end of October, or at an approximate date to be 
determined by the Council. 

8. Two stated Meetings of the Council shall be held each 
year, one on the last Tuesday of May, the other on the Tues- 
day preceding the day upon which the Annual General Meeting 
shall be held. The Secretary, on the request of three Members 
of the Council, shall call a special meeting of the CounciL 

9. Editors shall receive 20 copies of each volume they edit 
for the Society. 

10. The owners of Manuscripts published by the Society will 
also be presented with a certain number of copies. 

11. The Annual Balance-Sheet, Rules, and List of Members 
shall be printed. 

12. No alteration shall be made in these Rules except at a 
General Meeting of the Society. A fortnight's notice of any 
alteration to be proposed shall be given to the Members of the 
Council. 



PUBLICATIONS 

OF THE 

SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY 

For the year 1886-1887. 

1. Bishop Pococke's Tours in Scotland, 1747-1760. Edited by 

D. W. Kemp. (Oct 1887.) 

2. Diary of and General Expenditure Book of William 

Cunningham of Craioends, 1678-1680. Edited by the Rev. 
James Dodds, D.D. (Oct 1887.) 

For the year 1887-1888. 

8. Panurgi Philo-caballi Scoti Grameidos libri sex. — The 
Grameid: an heroic poem descriptive of the Campaign of 
Viscount Dundee in 1689> by James Philip of Almerieclose. 
Translated and Edited by the Rev. A. D. Murdoch. 

(Oct 1888.) 

4. The Register of the Kirk-Session of St. Andrews. Part i. 

1559-1582. Edited by D. Hay Fleming. (Feb. 1889.) 

For the year 1888-1889. 

5. Diary of the Rev. John Mill, Minister of Dunrossness, Sand- 

wick, and Cunningsburgh, in Shetland, 1740-1808. Edited 
by Gilbert Goudie, F.S.A. Scot (June 1889.) 

6. Narrative of Mr. James Nimmo, a Covenanter, 1654-1709. 

Edited by W. G. Scott-Moncrieff, Advocate. (June 1889.) 

7. The Register of the Kirk-Session of St. Andrews. Part ii. 

1588-1600. Edited by D. Hay Fleming. (Aug. 1890.) 



PUBUCATIONS 



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8. A List of Persons concerned in the Rebellion (1745). Wi 

a Preface by the Earl of Rosebery^ and Annotations by ti 
Rev. Walter Macleod. (Sept. 189^ 

PreierUed to the Society by the Earl of Roeebery. 

9. Glamis Papers: The ' Book of Record/ a Diary written 

Patrick^ first Earl of Strathmore, and other documei 
relating to Glamis Castle (1684-89). Edited by A. ] 
Millar^ F.S.A. Scot. (Sept. 189< 

10. John Major's History of Greater Britain (1521). Trai 
lated and edited by Archibald Constable, with a Life of t 
author by ^neas J. G. Mackay, Advocate. (Feb. 189- 



Far the year 1890-1891. 

11. The Records of the Commissions of the General Assemblii 

164-6-47. Edited by the Rev. Professor Mitchell, D.D., ai 
the Rev. James. Christie, D.D., with an Introduction by t 
former. (May 189- 

12. Court-Book of the Barony of Urie, 1604-1747. Edit 

by the Rev. D. G. Barron, from a ms. in possession of Mr. 
Barclay of Dorking. (Oct. 189 



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13. Memoirs of the Life of Sir John Clerk of Penicu 
Baronet, Baron of the Exchequer, Commissioner of the Uni< 
etc. Extracted by himself from his own Journals, 1676-1 7i 
Edited from the original Ms. in Penicuik House by John 
Gray, F.S.A. Scot. (Dec. 189 

14. Diary of Col. the Hon. John Erskine of Carnock, l6l 

1687. From a ms. in possession of Henry David Erskii 
Esq., of Cardross. Edited by the Rev. Walter Macleod. 

(Dec. 189 



PUBLICATIONS 6 

F(yr the year 1892-1898. 

15. Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, First Volume — 
The Library of James vi., 1573-83. 

Edited by G. F. Warner. 

Documents illustrating Catholic Policy, 1596-98* 

T. G. Law. 

Letters of Sir Thomas Hope^ 1627-46. Rev. R. Paul. 

Civil War Papers, 1643-50. H. F. Morland Simpson. 

Lauderdale Correspondence, 1 660-77. 

Right Rev. John Dowden, D.D. 

Turnbull's Diary, 1657-1704. Rev. R. Paul. 

Masterton Papers, 1660-1719. V. A. NofiL Paton. 

AccoMPT OF Expenses in Edinburgh, 1715. A. H. Millar. 

Rebellion Papers, 1715 and 1745. H. Paton. 

(Dec. 1893.) 

16. Account Book of Sir John Foulis of Ravelston (1671-1707). 
Edited by the Rev. A. W. Cornelius Hallen. (June 1894.) 

F(yr the year 1898-1894. 

17. Letters and Papers illustrating the Relations between 

Charles ii. and Scotland in 1650. Edited, with Notes and 
Introduction, by Samuel Rawson Gardiner, LL.D., etc. 

(July 1 894.) 

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1651 — Dec. 1653. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by 
C. H. Firth, M.A. (Oct 1895.) 

F(yr the year 1894-1896. 

19. The Jacobite Attempt of 1719* Letters of James, second 

Duke of Ormonde, relating to Cardinal Alberoni's project 
for the Invasion of Great Britain. Edited by W. K. 
Dickson, Advocate. (Dec. 1895.) 

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Letters, Journals, etc., relative to the Affairs of Prince 
Charles Edward Stuart, by the Rev. Robert Forbes, A.M., 
Bishop of Ross and Caithness. 1746-1775. Edited from his 
Manuscript by Henry Paton, M.A. Vols. i. and 11. 

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(April 18 

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Dingwall from 1638 to 1688. Edited by William Maci 

(Oct. 18 

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The Honours of Scotland, 1651-52. C. R. A. Howi 

The Earl of Mar's Legacies, 1722, 1726. Hon. S. Ersk 
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29. The Diplomatic Correspondence of Jean de Montereul j 
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(March 18990 

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THE Service of the United Netherlands, 1572-1782. 
Edited by James Ferguson. Vol. 1. 1572-1697. (Jan. 1899) 

SS, 34. Macfarlane's Genealogical Collections concerning 
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55, Papers on the Scots Brigade. Vol. il 1698-1782. Edited 
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other Journals, by Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall. 
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The Diary of Andrew Hay of Stone, near Biooar, afterwards 
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A Translation of the Statuta Ecclesi^b Scotican^b, 1225-1556, 
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