Memorials of the Clan Shaw

INTRODUCTION.
Since I printed the former portions of Memorials of the Shaws,
I have obtained a large addition to my sources of information as
to their bygone history.
I have thought it best to communicate the additional information
which I have acquired, to my fellow clansmen and others who take
an interest in the subject, in the form of a New Edition, which will
nevertheless partake somewhat of the nature of a Second Part.
To those who have not the former portions, this edition will supply
as complete a History of the Clan as it is possible to compile, from
the materials which have come into my possession. To those who
have the former portions, it will be interesting to discover, to how
a great an extent the accounts of our race, which came clown to us
by tradition, are confirmed by written records, and how many of
the statements which I ventured to make on the ground of sup-
position, are proved by the evidence of the documents which have
come into my possession, to be perfectly consistent with facts.
I assumed, for instance, from the fact that the Shaws, Macpher-
sons, and Mackintoshes, were so closely united in the bonds of
clanship, that they must also have been closely allied by the ties of
intermarriages, (p. vi.). The truth of that assumption will be abun-
dantly proved in the following pages.
Of course, when the Memorials are regarded as a whole, it is a
disadvantage that the information they contain, should be given in
such a detached and fragmentary manner, and that information
gi^en in the former portions should have to be repeated ; but then
again, it will be interesting to the members of the race, to see the
process by which their past history was gradually recovered from
the oblivion which had well nigh settled down upon it. I have had
applications for the First Part of the Memorials, from Shaws of
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