Historical and genealogical account of the principal families of the name of Kennedy

THE KENNEDYIS. 41
accuffitt 30W off pat fack. Bot thir war our wordis : ' We find pat we
war fuirly informitt pat pe Laird of Bargany, 3oung Blairquhane, Gir-
vandmaynis, and 7,e, war fett to tak our lyiff.' And thir ar pe words we
faid ; and quhat i,e haue faid mair, i>e leid ! Caissillis.'
Auchindrayne, refaiwing this Anfuer, laitt the famin doune hefoir the
Laird and his freindis, and faid, ' Sirs, judge ^e now one my pairtt !
ge bruittit me, pat I had maid this of my heid — and now, pe fie, I haue
had fum thing for me ! And as to me Lordis lie pat he hes gevvin me, I
think, in refpect pat he hes confeffit all pat I haue accuiffitt him one, I
aucht not to querrell pat, nor I will nocht do pe famin ! For it fall
nocht he faid, pat, for my pryd, me Lord and 3e, firs, fall fall outt !'
The freindis, perfeiffing this, bayth the Challengis and his Anfuer, culd
find na differenfe in effect ; and fa it reftitt.
[fresh attempts to take the lairi; of coezean's life.]
Now, me Lord, and Auld Blairquhane, wes fallin owtt, as ye hefF hard
befoir, quhairupone me Lord tuik ane Decreitt againis him off Kelly
Caftell, and of Kilhenhow, and remowitt him thairfra ; quhilk mowitt
him to ane gritt readge aganis me Lord. And for that caus, he hondit
me Lord and Barganyis togidder be the eiris, in all that lay in his powar,
and cauffit the Young Laird, his fone, to remayne with Bargany. And
in refpect that me Lord, that wald not giff his authour, thay layd all the
wytt one the Laird of Co^eone ; and allegit, that it was he that had re-
portit the famin ! Quhairupone, he, being to ryd to Galloway, the Young
Laird of Blairquhane, Thomas Kennedy, Barganyis brother, and aucht
with thame, fett for him at the bak of Ardmellane-hill, at ane pleai'e
callit Glentrefiik ; bot the famin wes diflapoyntitt be fum, quha reweillit
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