Series 1 > Loyall dissuasive

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THE LOYALL DISSUASIVE
after the date of the above letter, and in BadenOch recovered
his health to admiration,’ but lost it again through the
misery of the quarters he was forced to put up with.
According to the ‘Notes,’ he died on the 28th June 1705,
‘ praying heartily for his enemies, and his rightfull soveraigne’s
restoration,’ and was buried with his predecessors in the Kirk
of Insh, the ancestral shrine.
Of his wife and the son James, who was left under the
auspices of the court of St. Germains, I find no record. His
wife, a member of the family of Scrimgeour, bore to Sir iEneas
three sons and one daughter. The eldest son died, as nar¬
rated, on his father’s imprisonment; Duncan died in Spain,
without issue, and there is no record of James. The daughter,
Mary, married, as we have said, Sir John M‘Lean, and her
adventurous voyage from France to Folkestone with her eleven
days old infant, in a little boat, we have noted above.
The mother of Sir ASneas, as will be seen in the ‘Patron
turned Persecutor,’ married, as her second husband, Grant of
Carron, and by her tears, on at least one occasion, aided the
fallen fortunes of Invereshie. Sir iEneas’s younger brother,
William Dow, married a daughter of the Kinrara Mackintosh
family, and by her had a son, Thomas Macpherson, who married
Elizabeth, daughter of John Grant of Culquoich, by whom he
had a son, John Macpherson, undoubted male representative
of the ancient family of Invereshie. He was barrack-master
at Ruthven. He is styled of Inverhall, and his wife was Ann,
daughter of Hugh Macpherson of Ofie. They left several
children. Two of them, John and Jean, lie in Kingussie
churchyard, with their recording stones. They were buried
during the stormy days of 1745-46.
So far as to the stirring, fiery, earnest, struggling, suffering
life of ‘ the ingenious Sir ASneas,’ and what we have to say of
his near relations.
Duncan Macpherson of Cluny, to whom iEneas addressed