Series 5 > Campbell Letters 1559-1583

CLAN CAMPBELL LETTERS
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be for my wele. And ye sail half me and that thyng that I may do for your
guid will and mynd with the service and plesour I may. And dowttis
nocht gif my ffyndis beis regeros to me bot ye that ar ffyndis will supple
me as your awin. As I salbe rady to all ffyndis to do that thyng that fryndis
thinkis to be don. This hewing na farder to writ bot lat this present mak
my hardy commendatioun to your bedfallow and all your barnes quhom
with yow the Lord haf in keipin. Off Glenurquhy the xviii day of August
1570 be youris at his uttermaist power.Youris.
142 Glenorchy to Argyll (draft)
GDI 12/39/9/25
[No address]
20 August 1570, Ilanran Casde (Killin)
My Lord efter maist hartlie commendatiounis of service. Your Lordship
sail rescave this mask of wrytingis comen fra the Secretar1 to me this day
desyrand thaim to be haistit to your Lordship with deligence quhilk is
difficill to me to do the passagis ar sa dengrous to my serwandis.
Nochtwithstanding I can nocht bot hassart thaim quhen I se ony thinge
occur that concernis to your Lordshipis pleissuer. Your Lordship rememberis
that ye writ to me vi dayis syin2 that your Lordship wald be heir the last of
this instant for to convein with my Lord of Hunthe and the rest of the
Lordis of your factioun3 in Dunkeld the first of September. And now I am
informit that thai have desyrit your Lordship to have thair conventioun in
Balloch quhilk is ane waray on meit place for sa gret ane nummer of
nobill men consideringe thair is na releif of luginge or furnesinge ...roeis
to it. And your Lordship knawis that the gret trublis and skathis I have
sustenit laidie that I ma nocht furneis sic ane cumpanie accourding to
your Lordshipis honour and myin as I was wont to do. Thairfor I pray
your Lordship caus thaim provyid sum uthair place for thair conventioun
bot as for your Lordship and sa mony as your Lordship bringis out of
Argyill with yow sail be waray welcum with the best furnesinge that ane
man that gaitis daylie herschip4 and oppressioun ma mak. I wat your
Lordshipis wisdoum will nocht desyer me accept sa gret chargis
considerringe the trublis I and myin suferis daylie and albeit your Lordship
wald desyir me I will nocht accept it sen I think nocht my self abill
Maitland’s* letter to Grey Colin, 20 Aug. 1570, GDI 12/39/9/24.
See 134.
The proposed gathering of the queen’s party to discuss tactics.
Plundering.