Blair Collection > Collection of Gaelic proverbs, and familiar phrases

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Cinnidh Clann Fhearchair gus an deiche line, (a)
Car tuathal t-nimh-leas.
Cha'n iongna boh nan fca.dan a bhi do an t foitheach
Yam bi iad.
Ceann mor air duine glic is cean circ air amadan.
fjf) The Farquharfons are alfo called Clann Fliionla,
u fc The children of Finlay, from Finlay More, one of their
tall chieftains who bore the royal itandard at the battle of
Pinky j hence the firnames,. Finlay, Mackinlay, and Fin-
lay fon.
The Farquharfons are defcended of Farchard Shaw, fan
or Shaw or Dalnafert ; the prefent Farquharfon of lnner-
cauld, their chief, feems to deny this, and pretends that they
are defcended of Macduff. Thane and afterwards Earl of
Fife, for which afTertion neither he nci^any other can
lhcw vouchers. It is well known, that he is the tenth ge-
neration from the above Farquhard Shaw, fon of Shaw of
Dalnafert, of the family of Rothemurchus ; Farquharfon of
Balmurrel, who difputes the chieftainihip with lnnercauld,
owns this dd'eent, as do all the reft of that warlike
The late Reverend Mr. Lauchlane Shaw, mimfter of
E^lvin, hi his genealogy of the Shaws of Rothemurchus,
is doubtful of the time of their coming to the north, " pro-
bably about the beginning of the 14th century," fays he;
but neither his conjecture, nor that of InnercauJd's, will
avail, fince we have authentic documents to the contrary.
The abfurdity of tracing the Shaws and Farquharfons o-
therwife, will appear by the following extract from the
records of the family of Macintofti, viz. A leafe (from An-
drew Biihop of Moray, who founded the Cathedral of
Elgin) of the lands of Rothemurchus, to Shaw Macin-