Series 5 > Campbell Letters 1559-1583

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CLAN CAMPBELL LETTERS
my rowm. And gif his Lordship wald haif me it is nocht with ouer gret
extremite that I suld be handillit. Als ye sail wit that I persaving the rage
of my nyboris of Strathern ... send for sik support of ffeindis as I mycht
haif quhay ar cumand me to swte ony man hot to debait1 my selff.Thairfore
I wald ye tuke the pain to adverteis me gif my Lord will stay the Strathern
men as I sail do my deligens to stay this syd. Utherwiss I will nocht put
away sik help as I may get. Gif my Lord be myndit to this we will lat
friendis travell in ony resonabill thing that my Lord wald haif of me. And
as to brute that the Strathern men hes rasit on me that I suld be at the
away taking of thair geir I priss God I wes never art nor part of sik crymes.
And will debait thair my innocencie thairintill aganis ony man that I may
be peregall to ...neth...2 wes thair ony that I mycht stop thair. I regard
thair boist lychtle swa that my Lord of Athole wald stand the man to me
that he suld be quhill he fynd that I mak hym occasioun in the contrar. I
haif writin to the Lard of Tulibarden3 freindis to se quhat hes movit his
rygor and as I get ansuer ye sail knaw the samyn. I pray yow adverteis me
of my Lordis mynd towards me with all haist and I sail do in the meyn
tyme as ye desyre and the Lord bliss yow. From Killin the penult of October
1565.Youris at power.
54 William Stewart of Grandtully to Colin Campbell of Glenorchy
GDI 12/39/12/2
c.31 Oct. 1565,4 Grandtully Casde (near Aberfeldy)
To the rycht honorabill Lard off Glenorquhay
Rycht honorable Sir eftyr hartle commendatioun. I resavit your last
writyng and hed spokkyn my Lord of Atholl or than at laith [sic] quhair
trewly I heffundyn werray weil myndit and ye salbe swyr that his Lordship
nor nane of his sal molest yow nor cum on yow on nay way off deid. And
towart Straythherryn thai wil nocht swit yow nor youris bot be the ordour
off law. And I hef spokkyn Duncan MacGregor5 and efter lang tyme and
talkyng in tyme cumyng he sal nocht molest yow nor nahe of youris
\quhil ye be comonit uther if now agane/. Sway I onderstand God willing
ye salbe abil to leiff at rest of this hand prowyding alwayis gif the Erll of
Ardgyll or ony of his dois harme to my Lordis of Athollis cuntray or
In the sense of defending oneself.
‘PegralT means ‘petty, mean or greedy’, but the rest of the phrase is unclear.
Probably Wilham Murray ofTullibardine*: Memo, Oct. 1565, GDI 12/1/161/13; 31
Oct. 1565 (55).Tullibardine had been given the escheat of Argyll’s fruits of the diocese
of Brechin, 28 Sept. 1565, RSS, v, 1,2333.
This is a reply to Grey Cohn’s letter of 30 Oct. 1565 (53) which in turn received a
reply, 1 Nov. 1565 (58).
Duncan MacGregor of Roro.