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THE LOYALL DISSUASIVE
Chattie or Catthons in Germany, That being drove from thence
by another family of that Country assisted by the Emperor,
settled themselves first in Holland, called Batavia at that time.
But after ane age or twos residence there, finding the country
fitter for mechanicks, than men of their martial genius, they
embarked for Brittain, and by stress of weather when they
designed for England, were fain to land in the North of Scot¬
land in a place always since called in Latine Nessa Cattorum
from their landing in it, and in Irish, then the language of the
country, Gaullone, because possessed by strangers, both which
names the country retains at this day.
That they stayed in Caithness for 4 or 500. years space,
during which time they had done many eminent services to the
Crown against the Piets, Danes, Britains and the other
Enemys of the Scots nation, till Gilli-catton-moir his time,
who being at that time married to a daughter of the Royal
family of the Piets, King Brudus his sister, by whom he had
many children, was by that allyance in such friendships with
the pictish nation, that in that unhappy war, which after a
long peace had of a sudden broke out betwixt the Scotts and
Piets, in which King Alpine himself and most of the Scots
nobility perished, he maintained a nutrality and joined with
neither partie.
That when Kenneth the second succeeded his Father Alpine
and designed a just revenge against the Piets, He summoned
all the nobility to the Royal Standard, and among these Gilli-
catton-moir, or the great, so called by way of Eminence for
his large Soule and heroic actions.
That Gillicatton-moir not-withstanding his interest in the
Royal Family of the Piets, sent one of his sons with the better
half of the family to join his lawfull Sovereign. That before
they came up, the Battle was fought bloodily on both sides,
and the Scots giving ground, but that the Clanchatton when
they came, did so animate their countrymen by their presence
and example, that there was a great and glorious victory
obtained against the Piets and their name and nation for ever
after utterly extinguished.
That most of all the Clanchatton and their valorous Leader
were cutt off in this engagement, but that his son who was