Statement of the Breadalbane case

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Ged tha 'm fear a thig ad aite,
Thall an traths' thair chuaintean m6r ;
Guidheam dlu gu'n tig e sabhailt,
Soirbheas ard ri cul gach seoil,
A dh-fhaotainn seilbh air an t-saibhreas,
'S air an oighreachd sin bu choir ;
Ghabhail curam d'a chuid fearainn,
'S d'a chuid daoine, sean is 6g.
T R ANSL ATION.
Although he that shall succeed thee,
Is at present on the other side of the seas,
My prayer is that he shall come safely,
With a high breeze at the back of every sail,
To take possession of the wealth,
And the heirship belonging to him of right,
To take care of his lands,
And his people, old and young.
The third Earl, then, had no alternative, but to place a creature of
his own, in possession, to hold the estates in trust until the heir should
be able to claim them. But it appears that he had no confidence
in this person, and therefore he inserted in the entail the clause to
the effect, that some persons may have been overlooked or omitted
by the maker thereof, and that the honours might be thereby separ-
ated from the estates, which was contrary to the spirit and mean-
ing of the settlement of 1704, and of the entail then about to be
created, in which case, however, it was thereby provided and
declared, that the party succeeding to the honours, and making
good his claim in course of law to the said titles and honours,
should also be entitled to the whole estates, in the same way as if
his name were contained in the destination of heirs in the said
settlement, and to compel the heir, who might be in possession, to
denude in his favour of the whole estates.
The third Earl's doubts were not belied, and when John Camp-
bell succeeded to the estates, he assumed the titles and resolved, by
the assistance of Lady Betty, his wife, to keep possession at all