Memoir of the Chisholm

56 RESIDES AT ERCHLESS CASTLE.
Rebellion of 1715, and, again, another part
in that of 1745.
Roderick Ohisholm, Chief of the Clan in
1715, was an adherent of the Pretender, and
his lands were in consequence forfeited to the
Crown, and sold into the hands of others ; but,
pardon having been granted, in the twelfth
year of George the First, to him and several
others who had been concerned in the rebellion,
the estates were re-sold, and, passing through
the hands of various possessors, reverted at
length, in the year 1 774, to Alexander, eldest
son of the attainted Roderick l , and grand-
1 Whilst these sheets were passing through the press,
the writer was favoured with a notice of the Clan Chis-
holm, which had been drawn up about twelve years ago
by the late Mr. John Anderson, writer to the Signet in
Edinburgh, and author of the History of the Clan Fraser,
&c. and originally published as one of a series of articles
on the Highland Clans which appeared in the Inverness
Courier. The writer avails himself of this information
the more thankfully, because he has found unexpectedly
that his namesake, although no relative, was formerly his
schoolfellow, and he is glad to record the affectionate re-
membrance which he still cherishes of one of the earliest
companions of his boyish days.
The passage which occurs in the article in question, and
which details the train of circumstances mentioned above,
is here subjoined : —
" On the 21st of July, 1724, the Commissioners for the