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DONALD MACDONALD, 1678. 27
southerne good aspect vnder the superior orbes, and your hopfull familie's
weelfare (whoe are happy, as weell as honorable, in haueing youe for ther
mother), it will werie much refresh me in this sequestrat corner of the world ;
and oblidge me yet more (if more can be) to subscribe my selff, Madame, your
Ladyship's most humble seruant,
Muedo, Bishop of Orknay.
Madame, my selff with my whole familie ar in good health since our
arriwal to this place, blessed be God ; but my eldest dochter, Jean, tackis
not weell vith this elimat, which is werie wake and moistie.
For my Lady Tarbote — theis.
1 7. Donald Macdonald, and eleven others of the name of Macdonald,
to Lord Taebat.
Portrie, the 2 February 1678.
My Lord, — When wee, though bot a few of the branches of the familie
of M'Donald (yet the nearest), does consider and weigh with ourselves,
tli at through the discrepances arysing dayly betwixt Sir James and Sir
Donald his son, 1 ther has been little or no progress at all made in the pay-
ment of ther wast debts, wee find it no less then our dewtie and concerne,
both for ther owne and our preservation, to put on a resolution, as now we
are resolved to doe, to seperat, with your Lordships adwice and concurrance,
the estate from them both, except so much as in reason may be a compe-
tencie to eatch of them. Wee have too long been dormant, and leaned too
1 The Sir James and Sir Donald here re- James in December 1678, succeeded him as
ferred to are apparently Sir James Macdonald the third baronet, and also to the ancient
of Sleat, Baronet, and his eldest son, Sir family inheritance of Sleat.
Donald Macdonald, who, on the death of Sir