Series 5 > Campbell Letters 1559-1583

CLAN CAMPBELL LETTERS
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the men to send furthe owt of my cuntre ... be ... wate tharfoir I half send
to Lochabir for men o ... Lyon quhilkis I beleif salbe at me or this w... at
ye sail nocht be ferit for my part for God willing the deids salbe sufficient
pruif thairof. Thairfoir w... mayr concerning this purpoiss till forder
occasiounes.... wryting to Erie of of [sic] Lennox to desyr him nocht to
haif to do ... Clangregor ... I sail find sum waye for to half ye samin ... him
... the lyk for your part. As towards the mater wryting to ... my Lord of
Argyle and his wyfi quhilk ye sayd is ane great bardene onto him. And
that ye haif latin him to onderstand1 2 thairis na better waye to releif him
thairof nor be my means sua I wald labour thairin quhairof he is partlye
rowsit3 hoiping that I will provyde my self ffeindly to that affect. For
ansuer thairto to safar this ... may extend to at his wywis hand ye maye
schaw this... the samin salbe bestowit to his affect I wald be ... gevand this
labororis and trawell thairinto tuk sic factes as mycht content his Lordship
first and scho to be satefiet to accord to his Lordship plesour. And for
getting of hir ansuer heiranent I haif derekit this samin daye ane serwand
to hir. I will nocht tak wpone me I haif sic credit at hir hands bot yit it
that I haif salbe usit in the causs foirsaidis. As for the purpoiss that Johane
Steuart of the Appin hes schawin yowe concerning the Clan Ewin
WikEwin41 pray yow desyr him to trawell thairintill and to spur thame to
that affect and gif thai do ony thing that is wirthe reward ye salbe juge
thairintill. For my part I haif send to thaim my self quho gifis me guid
wordis heiranentt I wat nocht quhat thai will do. As for newiss ye sail
onderstand that wpone the Abbat of Dunfermlingis and Maister
Randwelsis5 cuming owt of Ingland it was supponit that matteris suld haif
bein takin wp that ar in differ. Quhilk I trowe suld haif bein gif a lytill
suspitioune haid nocht resin in Ingland amangis thaim selfis be the speiking
of the Bishope of Ross6 with sum Inglishmane in ane quyet maner.The
Lord Leweistowne was cumand hame frome owour Quen and is stait in
Annikis7 for the causs aboue wryting. Quhat sal cum of the matter yit I
knawe nocht. Bot I cane not persaif bot yit materis salbe takin up quhilk
war guid gif sa war for the common weill.Thair bies ane conwensione in
Edinburtht the xii day of this nixt monethe quhair the heill lordis of the
Kingis factione were thai ar all wrytin for be thair that war in Streweling
at this last conwensione. I ame wrytin for amangis the rest I wat... I wilbe
1 The long estrangement between Argyll and the countess* which finally ended in
divorce in 1573; see the countess’s letter to Atholl, 2 July 1570 (111).
2 Let him understand.
3 Stirred to action.
4 Cameron sept led by Donald MacEwan Cameron*.
5 Robert Pitcairn, commendator of Dunfermline, and Thomas Randolph, the English
ambassador.
6 John Leslie, bishop of Ross and supporter of Queen Mary.
7 William, 6th Lord Livingston, kept at Alnwick in Northumberland.