Lairds of Glenlyon

THE LAIRDS OF GLENLYON. 33
extensive alterations and repairs on his castle of Meggernie,
originally built by his great-grandfather, Cailean Gorach.
The repairs were finishedin 1673, and at the same time his
credit was exhausted. His unreclaimed bonds were many,
and the holders clamorous for payment. The machinery of
the law was set in motion against him, and we find in that
year " Our Sovereign Lord " ordaining a letter to be made
under his Majesty's privy seal of a signature of the estate
and liferent of Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, in favour of
Patrick Stewart of Ballaguhine. A compromise was, how-
ever, entered into. The splendid fir forests of Glenlyon
were sold to a company of merchants, at the head of which
was a certain Captain John Crawford. This relieved Robert
of the more pressing claims. Yet it was with grief and in-
dignation he saw his woods, the relics of the great Cale-
donian forest, destroyed by the stranger ; and he was glad
when Crawford had trespassed on the jointure lands of his
mother, to have a chance to stop him in name of the law, as
follows: — "At Milton of Glenlyon, the twenty-eight day of
Jully, jm.vic. and seventy-seven years — which day,in presence
of me, notary public, and witnesses underwritten, compeared
personally Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, as factor for Jean
Campbell, Lady Glenlyon elder, his mother, and having in
his hands ane factory made and granted by her to him for
acting and doing for her in everything, &c. ; and anent her
hurts and prejudices done to her by Captain John Crawford,
by cutting and destroying the ground, cornes, and grass
pertaining to her, as part of her jointure out of the lands of
Glenlyon, and damming and stopping the water of Lyon,
and the fishing thereof, and also in sending down by the
said water the timber of two thousand of great fir planks in