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CLAN CAMPBELL LETTERS
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honour he wald nocht insist sa far in ane common theiff actioun repugnant
the lawis of the realm. I am glaid that your Lordship be servit be
Boquhennan and siclik honest men, nochttheles it is na caus to your
Lordship to lychlie1 your awin quhilk man be your best quhen it cummis
to the upwith.2 For my forbearis servit your Lordshipis predecessouris
quhen the Boquhennanis wer to seik3 and specialUe quhen thair wes mayst
ado. I wrete nocht to your Lordship for MacCoule Keir gere for with the
help of God I sail neuer tak gere bot with gude zele bot I wald your
Lordship desyrit na thing of me bot according to your Lordshipis honour
and myn. I resavit ane lytill tykat of your Lordshipis sayand that your
Lordship knew nocht the ground of the mater anent the Clangregor
thairfore sen the Lard of Ardkinglas is passit to your Lordship I pray your
Lordship aduerteis me as your Lordship thinkis gude. The rest committis
to your Lordshipis wisdome and the Lord God preserue your Lordship.
From Ballocht the xvi day of Merche 1564.
37 Argyll to Lady Glenorchy GDI 12/39/3/27
19 March 1565, Stirling
To our luffing ant the Ladie off Glenurchay
Efter hartlie commendatiounis.We resavit your letter and wnderstandis
thairby that the Laird is nocht content that we wret to him concerning
the guidis that war tane away out of the Laird of Boquhannanis landis.4
Trewlie the occasioun of our wreting to him was that the bruit was sa5
and is yit that John MacAllasteris soun with his companyounis quhay war
at the slachtar off Drummond in Stratherne (quhilk is haldin ane foull
deid and murthour) was the away takar with his saidis complesis of the
saidis guidis quhilk we thocht was nocht the Lairdis honour. And in deid
we wald be leathe to heir ony thing that war dishonour to him bot we
wald advertis him thairoff. Merour we supponit that the Laird wald rather
had Duncann MakCuillkeiris awin bode to be presentit to the law nor his
geir quhilk wilbe now difficill to get gif he may eschew6 be ony way. And
To deal lighdy or contemptuously.
In the sense of‘when it comes to the crunch’.
‘To seik’: absent.
Argyll’s original letter of complaint about the raids was to Grey Cohn on 11 Mar.
1565, GDI 12/39/3/24; Grey Cohn’s reply, 16 Mar. 1565 (36), to which the earl
replied 19 Mar. GDI 12/39/3/26.
The rumour was so.
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honour he wald nocht insist sa far in ane common theiff actioun repugnant
the lawis of the realm. I am glaid that your Lordship be servit be
Boquhennan and siclik honest men, nochttheles it is na caus to your
Lordship to lychlie1 your awin quhilk man be your best quhen it cummis
to the upwith.2 For my forbearis servit your Lordshipis predecessouris
quhen the Boquhennanis wer to seik3 and specialUe quhen thair wes mayst
ado. I wrete nocht to your Lordship for MacCoule Keir gere for with the
help of God I sail neuer tak gere bot with gude zele bot I wald your
Lordship desyrit na thing of me bot according to your Lordshipis honour
and myn. I resavit ane lytill tykat of your Lordshipis sayand that your
Lordship knew nocht the ground of the mater anent the Clangregor
thairfore sen the Lard of Ardkinglas is passit to your Lordship I pray your
Lordship aduerteis me as your Lordship thinkis gude. The rest committis
to your Lordshipis wisdome and the Lord God preserue your Lordship.
From Ballocht the xvi day of Merche 1564.
37 Argyll to Lady Glenorchy GDI 12/39/3/27
19 March 1565, Stirling
To our luffing ant the Ladie off Glenurchay
Efter hartlie commendatiounis.We resavit your letter and wnderstandis
thairby that the Laird is nocht content that we wret to him concerning
the guidis that war tane away out of the Laird of Boquhannanis landis.4
Trewlie the occasioun of our wreting to him was that the bruit was sa5
and is yit that John MacAllasteris soun with his companyounis quhay war
at the slachtar off Drummond in Stratherne (quhilk is haldin ane foull
deid and murthour) was the away takar with his saidis complesis of the
saidis guidis quhilk we thocht was nocht the Lairdis honour. And in deid
we wald be leathe to heir ony thing that war dishonour to him bot we
wald advertis him thairoff. Merour we supponit that the Laird wald rather
had Duncann MakCuillkeiris awin bode to be presentit to the law nor his
geir quhilk wilbe now difficill to get gif he may eschew6 be ony way. And
To deal lighdy or contemptuously.
In the sense of‘when it comes to the crunch’.
‘To seik’: absent.
Argyll’s original letter of complaint about the raids was to Grey Cohn on 11 Mar.
1565, GDI 12/39/3/24; Grey Cohn’s reply, 16 Mar. 1565 (36), to which the earl
replied 19 Mar. GDI 12/39/3/26.
The rumour was so.
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