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

98 THE CLAN CAMPBELL.
designed, " Dilecto et speciali consanguines nostro
Reynaldo Malcomi de Craignish." But the succession
to the estate is thereby specially and expressly limited,
and confined to the heirs male lawfully procreated of
Ronald and their heirs male in the direct line, whom
failing, to return and revert to the heirs male of the
Earl himself; a limitation which, with other concur-
ring circumstances, co-operated to deprive the collateral
heirs male of the family of MacCuil Craignish of the
estate, particularly Chairlach-more, and his posterity,
known by the patronymic of Clan Chairlach, of whom
Major James Campbell, of the late Western Fencible
Battalion, was the lineal heir male, as will be noticed
in the sequel. The change in the holding of the estate
from the King to be held in ward of the family of Argyll
for military services, and the limitation of the fee or
succession to lineal heirs male to the exclusion of col-
lateral heirs introduced by these charters, were no
doubt great concessions on the part of Ronald, but
which it became necessary for him to submit to, how-
ever unpleasing, in order to recover possession of the
remaining part of the estate of his ancestors. Accord-
ingly his prudent acquiescence in them obtained him
the full countenance of his chief, and the further favour
of a charter, dated the 20th February, 1446, confirm-
ing to him and his lawful heirs male, "the offices of
Shenasceill, Joshichdorist, and Mairlay of Craignish,"