Matheson Collection > Macleods of Dunvegan from the time of Leod to the end of the seventeenth century

FOREWORD
By Sir JOHN LORNE MACLEOD. G.B.E., LL.D.
I HAVE the honour to make a few preHminary remarks
upon the issue of the present volume.
I presume to say forthwith that this result of the labours
and investigation of the learned writer concerning the
origin and history of our Clan will be welcomed by every
one of the name, and associated with the name, both at
home and overseas. We are all under a deep debt of
gratitude to Canon R. C. MacLeod of MacLeod for yield-
ing to our solicitations, and thus making available in
permanent form his great store of knowledge upon a
subject which inspires our pride and patriotism, and
reanimates our spirit of continuing clanship.
We express our high loyalty to our revered and honoured
Chief — MacLeod of MacLeod — and to the House of
Dunvegan.
This volume, though particularly relating to ' The
MacLeods of Dunvegan ' — and so limited in its title, as is
properly the case, having regard to the special sources of
information founded on — is not, however, thus exclusive
in its scope. On the contrary, it embraces much matter
of a general character relating to the Clan as a whole,
and of equal interest and importance to other branches