Lairds of Glenlyon

THE LAIRDS OF GLENLVON.
THE FIRST LAIRD OF GLENLYON (Page 9).
The very first Laird of Glenlyon was William Olifant, who received a
grant of the ,£40 lands thereof from King Robert Bruce. Till then,
Glenlyon had always been Crown land. At page 558 of Vol. II.
Exchequer Rolls, John of Inchmartin, Sheriff of Perth, debits himself
for forty shillings received for the forty pound lands, qnas dominus
Willelmus Olifant, tenet in Glenlyoun, which Sir William Olifant holds
in Glenlyon.
BLACK JOHN.
The Register of the Great Seal records, in 1368, the giving of Glen-
lyon, by King David Bruce, to John of Lome, and his wife, Janet, who
is described as being the King's cousin. The grant is confirmed in
1372, apparently on Janet's death. It is here the story of the " dalta "
ought to come in ; unless, indeed, the connection of Campbell's step-
son was with John of Lome's successor. John of Lome, to whom David
Bruce granted Glenlyon, was a Macdougal, but his daughter and heiress
carried most of his property to her husband, John Stewart, Lord of
Lome, who, perhaps, was, after all, the Black John of Glenlyon tradi-
tion, and the father of seven sons. The first Campbell Laird of Glen-
orchy, Cailean Dubh na Roimhe, " Black Colin of Rome," married the
eldest of the three daughters of the last Stewart Lord of Lome, and his
son, Sir Duncan, inherited through his mother a duchas or hereditary
right to Glenlyon. James the Third, however, granted, in 1477, Glen-
lyon and Glenquaich on lease to Stewart of Garth. The lease of nine-
teen years terminated in 1495, al) d on tne 7 tn September, 1502, Sir
Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy received a Crown charter of the
disputed barony for himself in liferent, and in fee for his younger
son, Archibald, called
" GILLEASBAIG GLAS."
This " Pale Archibald " was only a boy when his father, " The Good
Knight," fell at Flodden. Archibald married the heiress of Kil-
moriche, and some bard composed a ballad of no great merit, some
verses of which came down orally from 1520 to my own time. It
opened thus : —
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