Series 5 > Campbell Letters 1559-1583

CLAN CAMPBELL LETTERS
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all the assurance that your Lordship promesit thaim in my name I kepit
the samin and gif thai haive brokin ony I refer that to your Lordshipis
awin jugement.And for this present tyme sa lange as your Lordship thinkis
I am contentit to assuir thaim and sal nevir be myndit to brek your
Lordshipis assurance God willing. For had the Clangregor bein als faythtfull
to your Lordship in the keiping of thair assurance as I have bein I had
nocht gottin sic skaytht of men and geir as I have gottin. Bot I will refer
that to your Lordshipis awin wesdom as I have done all the rest and the
skaytht I have gottin. And gif your Lordship gevis thaim ane assurance in
my name I pray your \Lordship haist word to me of the dait of the assurance
and quhow lange it induris quhidder Duncan MacGregor VicRoyrair
and his complecis that ar of the Erll of Athoillis assistance be assurit be
your Lordship in my name or nocht to the effect I ma keip my promessis
to your Lordship./ Gif that my Lord of Sanctcolme and the Justice Clark
cumis fordward to your Lordship with the Quenis charges I sail adverteiss
your Lordship as I ma with deligence.
44 Argyll to Lady Glenorchy GDI 12/39/4/14
10 August 1565,Lochgoilhead
To ... Ladye ... urquhaye delyvir ...'
Antt eftir maist harthe commendatioun.Ye sail wit that we haif writtin
at lenthe our mynd to your hwsband quhairbye ye may knawe the manir
that we haif trawelht in to betwuix your hwsband and MacGregar.1 2 And
quhowe eirnist the haill nobilitie of the religioun is to hawe the mater
tayne up ye will knawe be thair writtingis send with the berar.3 And now
I w...ist yow affectuoushe to assist your hwsband with your guid counsall
to tak up the mater consedaring it is at sik ane poynt as ye may persawe be
owir letir send to the Lard and na thing bye the Lardis last writting bot in
sik small petetiounnes as we are confedint to chairge the Lard with quhilkis
bayth to his honor per...ing. And this I pray yow to be maist eirnist in to
weill haist ffor sik cawssis as the berar will schaw yowe quhom ye sail
credit and that [sic] committis yow to the protectioun of God. Off
Lochgoillesheid the x day of August 1565.Youris asswritly.
1 Ellipses due to damage to MS.
2 A series ofletters, now lost, passed between Argyll and Grey Colin around this time
concerning the settlement with the MacGregors: 3 Aug. 1565, GD112/39/4/13.
3 These letters are not extant but a later set sent from the duke of Chatelherault* and
the earl of Moray* survives: 24 Aug. 1565 (45-46).