Series 1 > Loyall dissuasive

INTRODUCTION
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sundry other motives and occasions moving them, they bind
and oblige the hail kin to William Mackintosh, their present
captain and chief.1
Andrew Macpherson of Cluny, who signs this document, was
a strong man, and wise, and never likely to give himself away.
He knew how much and how little these Bands meant, and
how, when the present occasion was over, they were but waste
paper. He had before this signed a Band in 1591, wherein
the Macphersons bound themselves to him. He was perfectly
independent in his action, and held out Ruthven Castle in
1594 against Argyll, with whom Mackintosh was acting against
Huntly. He gave unity to the Clan Vurich. His mother
was a Mackintosh, and he seems to have been on comfortable
terms with that family. He strengthened himself by his
marriage with a daughter of Gordon of Avochy. From a
charter in the Cluny Chest (only decipherable by such eyes as
those of the Rev. Walter M‘Leod), we gather that he was
enriched with the whole property held on the Isla in Banff¬
shire in name of Thornes Innes of Pethnick, heir-apparent of
his father Alexander Innes, and also with Avochy’s claims on
it. The Mains of Grange, with its tower and fortalice in
Westwood, Craigward, Haughs of Grange, Clerkseat, and
Garwood, and endless appurtenances, passed to Andrew
Macpherson by deed, dated 18th [illegible] 1618. By this
lady Andrew had a son, Ewen, who, as we have seen,
joined Alastair Macdonald on his march to Atholl through
Badenoch to find Montrose. He raised a strong force of
Badenoch men, and was called Colonel Ewen. When the
war was over, he was brought before the Covenanting Synod
of Moray, held at Forres, 12th January 1648, and confessed
that he ‘ did join with Alastair Macdonald, James Graham,
and the late Marquis of Huntly in rebellion; that he was at
Tippermuir and Aberdeen, in which he did command the hail
of the men of Badenoch, as also had the same command under
the late Marquis of Huntly. At the direction of the Lord
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