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INTRODUCTION
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M'phersone shall second, asist, and mantaine one another in all
our just and righteous interests against all mortall (his Majestic
being excepted) and we bind us to perform the premisses under
the paine of infamie. In witnes quherof we have subscribit ther
presents with our hands at Benchar, the 14 day (of March) 1689
years. Signed by—
William M'phersone of Noid. Ja. M'phersone, Inverishan.
Alexr. Macphersone of Noid. Jo. M'phersone, Coranach.
Alexr. Macphersone, Pitmean. Jo. M'phersone, Benchor.
Ja. M'phersone, Balachroane. Angus M'phersone, Kilihuntlie.
Alexr. M'phersone, Phones. Jo. M'phersone in Strone,’ etc.
Murd. M'phersone, Clun.
This unpleasant wedding gift reached Cluny on the day
when the marriage contract was signed, 15th March 1689, and
must have increased the ‘ dryness ’ between the chief and his
great men to which Sir JSneas alludes. There is nothing in
the contract to arouse suspicion of any design against Nuid’s
right of succession, should Duncan Macpherson have no son.
The truth is they had been trifling with the authority of
chiefship, and trafficking with Mackintosh, and naturally sus¬
pected that Duncan also might be doing the same as to
chiefship, and might be trafficking with Calder. The bride¬
groom’s father, Sir Hugh Campbell of Calder, was one of the
most important men in the Highlands, both of Moray and
Argyll, and held claims over many an estate in those regions.
The wedding came off after this unpleasant episode, but the
wedding feast was followed in the country by a fray of no
ordinary dimensions. The wedding was scarce over when on
the 18th March 1689 Claverhouse marched through the North
Port of Edinburgh ‘ and it was up with the bonnets of Bonnie
Dundee.’ Had the wedding dance been delayed a few days,
the choice of partners would have been large in Badenoch, and
all of the best, for with Claverhouse came gallant Grahams,
gay Gordons, Macdonalds, Macleans and the Cameron men,
with many other noble names. They were there, however, only
for the fray. By the first days of May Claverhouse swept
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M'phersone shall second, asist, and mantaine one another in all
our just and righteous interests against all mortall (his Majestic
being excepted) and we bind us to perform the premisses under
the paine of infamie. In witnes quherof we have subscribit ther
presents with our hands at Benchar, the 14 day (of March) 1689
years. Signed by—
William M'phersone of Noid. Ja. M'phersone, Inverishan.
Alexr. Macphersone of Noid. Jo. M'phersone, Coranach.
Alexr. Macphersone, Pitmean. Jo. M'phersone, Benchor.
Ja. M'phersone, Balachroane. Angus M'phersone, Kilihuntlie.
Alexr. M'phersone, Phones. Jo. M'phersone in Strone,’ etc.
Murd. M'phersone, Clun.
This unpleasant wedding gift reached Cluny on the day
when the marriage contract was signed, 15th March 1689, and
must have increased the ‘ dryness ’ between the chief and his
great men to which Sir JSneas alludes. There is nothing in
the contract to arouse suspicion of any design against Nuid’s
right of succession, should Duncan Macpherson have no son.
The truth is they had been trifling with the authority of
chiefship, and trafficking with Mackintosh, and naturally sus¬
pected that Duncan also might be doing the same as to
chiefship, and might be trafficking with Calder. The bride¬
groom’s father, Sir Hugh Campbell of Calder, was one of the
most important men in the Highlands, both of Moray and
Argyll, and held claims over many an estate in those regions.
The wedding came off after this unpleasant episode, but the
wedding feast was followed in the country by a fray of no
ordinary dimensions. The wedding was scarce over when on
the 18th March 1689 Claverhouse marched through the North
Port of Edinburgh ‘ and it was up with the bonnets of Bonnie
Dundee.’ Had the wedding dance been delayed a few days,
the choice of partners would have been large in Badenoch, and
all of the best, for with Claverhouse came gallant Grahams,
gay Gordons, Macdonalds, Macleans and the Cameron men,
with many other noble names. They were there, however, only
for the fray. By the first days of May Claverhouse swept
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| Description | And other papers concerning the affairs of Clan Chattan by Sir Æneas Macpherson, knight of Invereshie, 1691-1705 / edited, with notes and introduction, from the originals at Cluny castle, by Alexander D. Murdoch. |
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