Sketch of the Munro Clan

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There, moreover, his only son was killed ; and
eight years later, the old Robert being dead,
the succession fell to his grandson George,
seventh Baron Fowlis. George, like his grand-
father, fought with Bruce, and took part in the
battle of Halidon Hill against the combined
forces of Baliol and Edward III., — a battle
where were killed at least fourteen thousand
Scots and where this seventh baron fell at the
head of his clan. He had married a daughter
of the Earl of Ross, and left as his successor a
mere child, Robert, eighth Baron Fowlis.
Upon arriving at man's estate, this Robert
seems to have developed a disposition less war-
like than that of his immediate ancestors, and
successfully to have set to himself the task of
increasing the family estates. He acquired
much new land, the mere naming of which is
quite beyond any American's powers of pronun-
ciation, 1 and had all these and his earlier
estates confirmed by repeated royal manifestoes.
He was, furthermore, one of the Baron-Bailies
of the Earldom of Ross, a very important office
in feudal times.
Robert, having been killed in a clan fight in