Series 5 > Campbell Letters 1559-1583

CLAN CAMPBELL LETTERS
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for ever. Of Perth the x of this instant. Be your Ladyship awn cousing at
command.
[PS] Sen the dait of this wreiting I am adverteising that the present
Kyng of France hess slenkyn ane feild and the protestantis victore blessit
be the Lord our God of... and ... slauchter on the Kyngis syde.
114 Ranald MacDonald of Keppoch to Atholl GDI 12/39/8/6
10 July 1570, Keppoch, Lochaber
To my Lord and meister the Erll of Atholl
Jesus.1
My Lord and Maister I commend my service hardie to yow. Your
Lordshipis serwand Neill best schavyn me your Lordshipis mynd anentis the
Clangregor and also that your Lordship wess nocht content that I send nocht
men to yow.2 As to that my Lord I am in redinese beith my self and my men
quhon evir your Lordship plasis to dissayr me. I haiff ne gydis that keness the
cuntrais3 that thai viss instande nocht the less your Lordship salbe assouerit
gif I gett one way to cum be thaim I sail do dilligence. And now instande my
Lord I and my men is redde giff your Lordship will desayr me to your self.
Bot I heir that the Campbellis and the Clancameron is ebill to pass fiirth
instantle. Quhairfor my Lord I wald that thai heid thair awyn tym and your
Lordshipis men and I our awin tym abovith. And so I refar this to your
Lordshipis plesour for I heiff ne will that we and the Lord Argyllis men or
the Clancameron suld meith wder.4 Refaring the rest to your advertisiment
and God kipe yowr Lordship. At the Keppoch the x day offjule 1570. Be
your Lordshipis servand at puar.5
115 William Stewart of Grandtully to Glenorchy GDI 12/39/8/10
13 July 1570,6 Grandtully Castle
To the rycht honorabill Lard of Glenwrquhay
Sir I hef resavit your writyn heir this day be xi houris afoir noyne bot
ye knaw my Lord of AtholHs ansur culd nocht be hed say schortlye as ye
desyre for that wer onpossebil. And I marwell that ye suld desyre sic an
This single word invocation is placed centrally above the rest of the letter.
See 17 June 1570 (105).
There was a need for guides even over relatively short distances.
The hazard of three feuding clans, the Campbells, the Camerons and the MacDonalds
of Keppoch, meeting at the same muster!
The signature is in the same hand as the letter, so Keppoch probably could not sign
his n;
Grey Colin’s assurance for the Clan Cameron w
1570, GDI 12/43/2/3.
s completed at Ilanran on 13 July