Series 5 > Campbell Letters 1559-1583

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CLAN CAMPBELL LETTERS
92 Patrick (Duncansone) MacGregor and his kin1 to Lady Glenorchy
GDI 12/39/5/22
after 2 August 1569,2 Glen Lednock (Perthshire)
To ane honorabill woman Ladye of Glenowrquhaye
Maistres efter maist humyll and hartlie commendatioun of service. Prayis
yow to think on of your first speiking that quhair ye bald ws labour in this
caise quhill we wald bring thir ill men to sum speiking now we tane sa
grit travell wn ws quhill we have brot hym to this pass. And thairfoir we
pray your Ladyschip ye labour in now and to gait the four mark land fra
the Laird or ellis thai will nocht agrie four the oiss3 sayis that thai have
nathing of the Laird bot yown four merk land. And gif thai gett nocht
yown four merk land thai will nocht agrie.4 Thairfoir we pray your
Ladyschip to labour on the Laird quhill he gif yown four merk land and
gif he gefit nocht to thame all our labour is in wane and thai will brak
owt and but ill betuix ws and the Laird. Thairfoir we pray yow ye [sic] for
to do the best for your houss and your bairnis and ffor the prowyde of ws
and your houss and your bairnis. This your Ladyschip will do as our trest
is in yow. Nocht ellis bot the eternall God have yow in his keiping. Be
your ffeindis and servandis.
93 ArgyU to Glenorchy GDI 12/39/7/3
5 May 1570, Strathlachlan5
To our trest cosing the Lord of Glenwrquhay gyf this
Cosing efter hardy commendatiounis. I hayf rassavit your lettir and
thankis yow of your honurabyll cwnsall quhylk I hayf followit for I hayf
wrytten the Lord Grayme, the Lord Drummwnd and Twllibardine for
that affek.6 And I hayf send ane lettir to my Lord of Mar7 to knaw his
Patrick and his kin had given their bond of manrent to Grey Colin, 9 Mar. 1560,
GDI 12/24/1/2,fos. 16-17; BBT, 202. For this sept of the MacGregors, see MacGregor,
‘MacGregors’, 96-8.
There was a bond made at Perth on 2 Aug. 1569 between Atholl*, Grey Cohn and
Patrick MacGregor* alias Duncan Donaldson in Glenlednock and his kin which
involved a promise ‘to sute and persew be way of deid to the deth at the utermost of
thair poweris the wickit mene ofthair surname’, GDI 12/2/117/l/34.The previous
day, Gregor MacGregor of Glenstrae had been captured: MacGregor, ‘MacGregors’,
370-1.
Host, meaning the whole of the Glenlednock kin.
Probably the lands of Invergeldie (InnerzeUie) in Glen Lednock, north of Comrie.
Probably Castle Lachlan, Cowal.
Argyll had written to Lord Graham, probably the youngWilham Graham, 5th earl of
Menteith, David, 2nd Lord Drummond* and Wilham Murray ofTullibardine*.
John Erskine, 6th Lord Erskine and earl of Mar.