Historical and genealogical account of the Clan Maclean

HISTORICAL NOTICES. 37
any thing in vassalage of Macdonald, and the
usual plea (that of arms) was immediately re-
sorted to in order to settle the dispute. The
government had again to interfere, and both were
required to give sureties for their future peaceable
behaviour. After this it does not appear that
Hector had occasion to give further annoyance
to his neighbours or to the government. He
had already judiciously secured for himself and
his successor the friendship of his inveterate and
most powerful enemy, Argyle, by marriage al-
liance ; having obtained for his son Hector Oig
the hand of the Lady Jannette, daughter of that
nobleman, who also took for his second wife a
daughter of Maclean, and sister of his son-in-law.
In private life Hector Mor appears to have been
of irreproachable character ; in his warlike pur-
suits he acted only upon a system which, how-
ever pernicious, had legal sanction in his time ;
and did that system still exist, it may be a matter
of doubt whether upon the whole a more con-
sistent character than the Lord of Duart could
be met with even in our own day. His domestic
establishment was conducted with becoming
splendour ; he provided handsomely for his
daughters, who were all married to leading men
in the kingdom j and he left to his son and heir
an unburdened estate, with a considerable fortune
also in ready money.
Lachlan Cattaneach had another son, a worthy
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