Genealogy of the most noble and ancient House of Drummond

160 THE GENEALOGIE OF
her mother, had upon theire knees begged his lyfe from the King ; which
would have been certainely granted, if the Mother, a bold, proud, and
undavyfed woman, had not in her paffion uttered fome bitter and un-
feafonable words, wherewith the King was fo irritated, that he com-
manded juftice furthwith to be done upon the Mailer of Drummond,
and many others of his freinds who were his accompliffes in that ill
turn, and appointed alfo an affythment to be given to the wives and
children of fuch as dyed at Monyvaird. This unchriftian action, with
what had pafled before, tended much to the wydening of the breach
betwixt the tuo families of the Drummonds and the Murrayes, albeit
they were nearely allyed together, for John Lord Drummond's mother
was a daughter of the Laird of Tyllibardine's, cheefe of the Murrayes ;
untill it pleafed God to reconcile and cement theire hearts againe by
new and ftrong bonds of mutual allyances one with ane other, fo that
now they have long lived as freindly and kindly united as any other
trybes of the nation.
Off the Lady Issobella Campbel, married to William Master
of Drummond, and of the family of the Earle of Argyle,
her father.
The Campbells were firft knights of Loch Crochan : the third knight
called Duyne Faldarge, had tuo fones, Paul and Gillicallum. It was
from this Duyne firft that the whole trybe are called Clan O'Duyne to
this day. Paul, the fourth knight, had only a daughter, called Awah ;
from her being heretrix, came the denomination Lochawah, which in
former time was called Loch Crochan, becaufe it lyes at the root of