Series 5 > Campbell Letters 1559-1583

CLAN CAMPBELL LETTERS
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Argyle I think ye ken better nor I. Bot gyf he and your freindis of Argyle
kepis promeiss ye will have exsperiance schordy. Bot alwayis I pray yow
to gyf gud attendance to your awin body and pass nocht to the west end
of the loch sa raklessle as ye do and remanis thair with sa few ane nummer
as ye do diveris tymes. Remember the consell ye gef me oftymes quhen I
was under feyd and do the same now your self.1 The Secretary passyis in
Ingland within thre owlkis.2 The Quenis Majeste rydis on Mununday or
Tuisday toward Styrling quhair sche remainis quhill Paysche be passyt and
thairefter rydis to Sanctandrois. I beleyf to be at hame on Palm Sonday3
and then we sell meyt and resson on all thingis. Referring the rest to that
tyme. And Chryst preserf yow. My bedfallow calis hyr hartly
commendatiounis to yow and to your bedfallow and tyll hyr doychter
Jean.4 Wreting at Edenburghe the xxi of Merche.Yowr assurit broder at
his powar.
[PS] Your freindis of courte will assyst your honest causs. Resave the
copy of the wreting that ye send me.
39 Argyll to Glenorchy GDI 12/39/4/2
5 April 1565, Garvie (Glendaruel)
To our traist cousyng the Laird off Glenurquhay delyuer this
Traist cousyng efter maist hairtlie commendatiounis. We rasavit your
letter and wnderstandes be saymin the skayth and slauchter and trubill
that is betuix you and your wnfreindis quhairof we are nocht glaid.Ye sail
wnderstand that we half haldin your servant here with us quhill our freindis
was convenit in the Garvie. And efter thair convenyng we consultit for
supple to you aganeis your unfreinds. First thair is past wp to you alradie
Alexander Keir and Donald Oige with twentye four gentillmen.5 And as
we are informit that the Clangregor hes bein awaitand on thair wp passyng
for to persew thaim bot awayis thai haif tane thair adventure. And as we
beleif and thai meit with ane rasonabill number of the rybelhs that thai
sail do lyk honest men God villing. And as for mair releif to you ye sail wit
we haif stenttit wpon Lome, Argyill and Covall xviii scoir of men.6 And
Ilanran (Killin) at the west end of LochTay was regarded as more dangerous because
it was not as well fortified as Balloch Castle and was the reason why Finlarig Castle
was rebuilt. Ruthven reminded Grey Colin of the good advice he himself had offered
when Ruthven was at feud.
Weeks.
Palm Sunday was 15 Apr. and Pasche (Easter), 22 Apr.
Jean, the daughter of Grey Colin and Katherine and god-daughter of Jean Stewart,
Ruthven’s wife.
Alastair, the brother of Auchinbreck* and Donald, the brother of Duntrune* captained
a force of 24 ‘gentlemen’.These men had been sent as part of the Balloch agreement
of 20 Feb., GDI 12/1/158; MacGregor,‘MacGregors’, 341.
For the military arrangements, see Introduction, 46.