Series 3 > Highland papers

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HIGHLAND PAPERS
of Allanton in 1808, relating chiefly to the traditions of
the Forty-five, which were in the possession of Mr. C. E. S.
Chambers. These are included in the Society’s volume,
Wariston's Diary and Other Papers (First Series, Vol. 26,
1896).
His chief work for the Society was the editing of a
notable series of volumes of Highland Papers. Three
volumes were issued during his lifetime.
Volume I. (Second Series, Vol. 5, 1914) contains papers
chiefly from the Collections of Mr. Donald Gregory, now
in the Library of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
This includes a history of the Macdonalds, written in the
seventeenth century, with illustrative documents; a his¬
tory of the Macnaughtons of that Ilk ; papers relating to
the Family of Calder, and to the murder of the Laird of
Calder in 1592 ; a genealogy of the MacRas ; and a large
selection of papers relating to the Macleans of Duart.
Volume II. (Second Series, Vol. 12, 1916) contains
genealogies of the Mackenzies and of the Campbells; a
collection of writs relating chiefly to the lands of Glassarie
and their early possessors ; papers relating to the massacre
at Dunavertie in 1647 ; papers relating to the Chisholm
and Seaforth estates, forfeited in 1716 ; and ‘ The Ewill
Trowbles of the Lewes, and how the Macleoid of the
Lewes was with his whol Trybe destroyed and put from
the Possession of the Lewes ’—the last a manuscript in
the Advocates’ Library.
Volume III. (Second Series, Vol. 20, 1920) contains a
collection of papers relating to witchcraft (1662-77) from
the muniment room at Inveraray and from the Fraser
collections ; a Memorial submitted to Government by
John Cameron of Fassifern, Lochiel’s brother, in 1753 ; a
‘ Particular Condescendance of some Grievances from the
Encrease of Popery and the Insolence of Popish Preists
and Jesuits,’ with a similar complaint about ‘ the Insults