Historical and genealogical account of the Clan Maclean

HISTORICAL NOTICES. 47
Lady Dorothea Stewart, daughter and heiress of
the Earl of Athole ; the preliminaries of mar-
riage were agreed upon, and the contract finally
settled. The chief of Maclean returned home
full of high hopes at the fair prospects promised
by an alliance conferring so much rank and in-
fluence ; but on his way, paying a visit at Castle
Cunningham, the seat of the Earl of Glencairn,
he fell in love with the Lady Margaret, daughter
of that nobleman, to whom in defiance of legal
obligations to another, and in the face of his
own interests, he was shortly afterwards married.
The Lady Dorothea Stewart was subsequently
married to Murray of Tullibardine, predecessor
of the present Duke of Athole.
Though now in the full enjoyment of domestic
happiness, and possessing power and influence
sufficient to gratify his ambition, Lachlan Mor's
restless spirit and inordinate love of fame could
not admit of his remaining for any length
of time in peaceful quietness. The quarrel
with Aonaghus Machd-Shemish (Angus son of
James) Macdonald, of Dunaovaig and the
Glens, respecting the lands in the Rhinns of
Isla, was now renewed with the most rancorous
animosity on both sides. For some time they
continued to provoke and harass one another
by mutual aggression ; Macdonald would one
day carry fire and sword into some district be-
longing to Maclean ; Maclean in his turn is