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

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uncle Malcolm, and was at last killed in one of these
conflicts. The distressing circumstances of the death
of her father, son, and first and second husbands,
occasioned her coming under the immediate protection
of her chief, Sir Colin Campbell, Knight of Lochow,
commonly called Caillen Iongataich, or Wonderful
Colin. With him, however, she lived but a short time,
when she became fond of his principal attendant, Iver
Campbell, a man of engaging person and winning man-
ners, ancestor of the Campbells of Asknish, with whom
she made an elopement and private marriage. To
reconcile Sir Colin to this imprudent measure, and
obtain his patronage to maintain them in possession
of part of the estate of Craignish as a suitable living,
she was reduced to the unfortunate necessity of execut-
ing two deeds in favour of Sir Colin, as the purchase
of his countenance and support ; the one a charter of
her part of the barony of MacNaughtan, which she
claimed in right of her second husband, dated 16th
August, 1361, which bears the payment of a certain
sum of money as the cause of granting it, in conse-
quence of which that part of the estate of MacNaughtan
has since continued the property of the family of
Argyll; the other a charter of any right or title she
had or might have to the whole barony of Craignish,
as heiress of her father, dated Martinmas day, or
the 11th November, 1361, without mention of any