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still, in the district as Bo-mhaol odhar Achabhean, i.e., the hu mcl dun
cow of Auchaven. By her lowing for her calf, which had been driven off
with the rest of the cattle of the Strath, she is said to have sounded the first
note of lamentation among the inhabitants, when they ventured from their
hiding places in the hills to behold the destruction of their dwellings and
the devastation of everything belonging to them. — Vide " New Statist.
Account," art. " Kilmartin." The laird of Kilmartin at this date was pro-
bably Alexander, who was served heir to his father in 1627. (See above).
CAMPBELLS OF KILMARTIN (Resumed).
The son of the Marquis of Argyle, who was executed in 1661, Lord
Lorn, after a long imprisonment and being sentenced to death, had his
grandfather's title of Earl of Argyle restored to him in 1663, and got a
Charter of the Earldom in the same year. In vera we must also have had
his estates restored to him about the same time.
We have seen mention of a John Campbell in Kilmartine being
excepted from an Indemnity in 1662, unless he paid a fine of £200 :
whether he was related to the Alexander last mentioned, and one of the
Inveraw family or not, I have been unable to discover ; but, at any rate,
Alexander Campbell, a son of Inveraw, was "of Kilmartin " in 1674, and
was appointed in 1678 a Commissioner for raising supply.
There is an entry in the records of the Kirk Session of Kilmartin, of
date 19th November, 1693, of one Irish Bible* being given by the Session
to Alexander Campbell of Kilmartin, who was then an elder, and one copy
to " Neill Campbell, quondam of Kilmartin, now of Auchanellan : " and
again on 25th August, 1696, mention is made of "Neill Campbell, quondam
of Kilmartin."
As to the latter, I have always understood that the Campbells, Auch-
inellan, were not of the same stock as the Kilmartins ; but it is a curious
fact, as already noted, that an Alexander Campbell was, in 1627, served
heir to his father, Mr Neil Campbell, in certain lands in the barony of
Ardskeodnish with the office of bailie in the lands of Kilmartin, and that
the lands there mentioned formed part of the estate of Kilmartin two
hundred years afterwards.
I am inclined to think that this Alexander (of Kilmartin), tempore
1627, was succeeded by a son, Neill, the one referred to in the Session
Records, and that " Neill, quondam of Kilmartin," and belonging to the
family known as "the Parsons" or "Barons" of Kilmartin, and later of
* Irish Bibles were distributed in the Highlands in 1690 and sub-
sequent years. — See Mackay's " Urquhart and Glenmoriston."