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THE BOOK OF CLANRANALD. 211
Such as no other man has attained.
This is a sketch of the genealogies of the Gael,
As I have promised ;
This tribe with whom no comparison should be made,
And to whom sovereignt}' was due.
Age of our Lord 1 173, the year that Gillespie, son of Alexander
•of Isla, died, and his body was interred at Rosmarkie, viz., the
brother of John of Isla, son of Alexander, and the father of
Alexander, son of Gillespie, who was killed by Mac Ceaain in Oran-
say of C\)lonsay ; and tlie daughter of Mac Phee of Lochaber
was the mother of this Gillespie, son of Alexander of Isla.
Age of the Lord 1437. In this year the King of Scotland,
viz., King James the Fu-st, was treacherously killed in the town of
Perth by his father's brother, viz., the Earl of Athole.
At the same time died Angus, bishop of the Hebrides, sou of
Donald of Isla, son of John, son of Angus Og. His full noble
body was buried, with his crozier and his episcopal habit, in the
transept on the south side of the great choir, which he selected
for himself while alive.
Donald of Isla had another son, a monk, and it was in his time
that Baile-an-Mhanuidh in Uist was given to the church, anno
Domini U40.
In this year died Mary Leslie, Countess of Ross and Lady of
the Hebrides, viz., the wife of Donald of Isla.
I have given you an account of everything you require to
know of the descendants of the Clanns of the CoUas and Clann
Donald to the death of Donald Dubh at Drogheda, viz., the direct
line who possessed the Hebrides, Ross, and the Rough Bounds of
Scotland. This Donald was the son of Angus (that was killed by
his own harper Mac IChairbi'e), son of John of Isla, son of Alex-
ander, son of Donald of Isla, son of John of Isla, son of Angus Og,
and I know not which of his kindred or fz'iends is his lawful heir.
Except these five sons of John, son of Angus Og, whom I set
down to you, viz., Ranald and Godfrey, the two sons of the
■daughter of Mac Dugall of Lorn, and Donald, and John Mor, and
Alexander Carrach, the three sons of Margaret Stuart, daughter
of the Earl of Fife, and governor or King of Scotland.
The race of Ranald, Lord of Clanranald, viz., the House of
Oilen Tirim, and the laird of Glengarrj'.
Godfrey left no oifspring, except a few poor people who are in
north end of Uist.
The offspring of Donald of Isla, the eldest son of Margaret
Stuart, was Alexander of Isla, Earl of Ross and Lord of the
Islands. This Alexander married Margaret Livingston, daughter