House of Argyll and the collateral branches of the clan Campbell, from the year 420 to the present time

40 THE CLAN CAMPBELL.
His third wife was Catharine M'Lean of the Dowart
family, in whose favour he granted a charter of the
estate of Craignish in liferent, 23rd January, 1546.
He died 1553.
XXXV. The eldest, Aechibald, fifth Earl of Argyll,
was a man of great parts and prudence, and sent by
the estates of Scotland ambassador to Queen Anne in
France, anno 1559, to supplicate her in favour of the
Protestant religion. But that taking no effect, he con-
curred with the Earls of Grlencairn, Morton, and other
persons of quality, in the measures necessary for pro-
moting the Reformation, which they got happily settled
by an Act of Parliament, anno 1560;* and by the
assistance of Elizabeth, Queen of England, he was
successful in obliging the French to quit Scotland.
When Queen Mary returned from France, anno 1561,
and constituted a Privy Council, of which he was a
member, he took no concern whatever in any of those
intrigues and insurrections which happened soon after.
He, indeed, on her marriage with the Earl of Bothwell,
entered into the defence of the Prince, afterwards King
James the Sixth, and was present at his coronation,
where he carried the sword of State. But understand-
ing afterwards that her resignation was far from being
voluntary, he laboured to restore her, and was general
* Bishop Spottiswoode and Mr. Calderwood's Church Histories.