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THE LOYALL DISSUASIVE
Kempcarden, and had by her only one daughter to witt
Margaret, who was married to Forbes of Lesslie; but this
Robert dying without issue male, was succeeded by his brother
Alexander.”
16.
“ Alexander who mamed Elisabeth daughter to MTntoshe
of that Ilk (as this author calls him) and hade by her John,
William, and Margaret. Margaret was married to Robertson
of Lude. William dying unmarried was succeeded by his
brother John.”
17.
“This John Farquharson now of Invercald married Isobel,
eldest daughter to Sir Alexander Burnet of Craigmill, and is
not only chief (says this scribbler) and representative of all
descended of Farquhar the second son of Shaw Corriachklach,
but of all that descended of Shaw the first of that name, and
son to the great M‘Duff as above said, the issue male of the
said Farquhar’s brother being quite extinct, which (says he) is
acknowledged by the Shaws themselves.”
That (as this author says) John Farquharson now of Inver¬
cald, may in some sense (if Craignytie gives him leave) be said
to represent such as are descended of Farquhar, I shall not
contra vert. But that he is not or cannot be their Chief, far
less the Shaws, seems clear from the following reasons. First,
because the Laird of MTntoshe (by this Author’s own acknow¬
ledgement) is lineally and lawfully descended of M‘DufFs
eldest son, consequentlie, and by his own way of arguing must
be chief not only of the MTntoshes, but of the Shaws,
Farquharsons, Duffs and all other descended from M‘Duff,
whose representative he is; for as is said above, there cannot
be two or more representatives of the same person and family.
If tis answered to this, that M‘Duffs other sons have taken
new sirnames, and founded different families which cuts off
MTntoshe his title, and gives them sufficient ground and
warrant to have Chiefs of their own, such an answer imme¬
diately retorts upon the author; for are not the Shaws, the
Farquharsons, Duffs, Farqrs, all different names, who by this
way of reasoning should have different Chiefs: So that either