Lairds of Glenlyon

THE LAIRDS OF GLENLYON. J I
if it can be done wtout them. Soe expecting you soe early as may be,
for I had stopt my jurney for yr coming, I remain, yr affectionate
Cossen to serve you, BREADALBANE.
ffor the Laird of Glenlyon.
The bearing of the whole question, as well as the upshot,
are best learned from a lawyer's opinion obtained by Glen-
lyon a few years afterwards in reference to the claims of
his father's creditors : — " The deceast Marquess of Athole
haveing unquestionable rights to the estate of Glenlyon by
expyred compreisings in his person : He enters in contract
wt the deceast Robert Campbell of Glenlyon in the year
1684, whereby out of love and favour to the present
Glenlyon his sone, he restricts the great sums due to
his Lops- to the sum of 39,oco lib, and grants the said
John Campbell of Glenlyon a Reversion for redeeming the
said lands wtin the space of six years thereafter. But on
this express condition, that in case the said lands were not
redeemed wtin said time, then and in that case the rever-
sion should ipso facto expyre and become extinct, as if the
same had never been made nor granted. The Marquess
paying to this Glenlyon, in the event of not redemption,
ane certain sum." .... "Glenlyon haveing failed in
useing the ordor of Redemptione wtin the limited time, the
Marquess raises a proces of Declarator agt. him, for declar-
ing the reversion granted to him, out of love and favour
only, extinct and voyd ; and accordingly the same was
declared, and the present Duke of Athole, as haveing right
from his fayr. to the lands of Glenlyon, did pay to the
present Glenlyon a certain sum of money upon his grant-
ing a Discharge yrof in terms of the forsd reversion."
The opinion as to Glenlyon 's liability to his father's credi-