Series 5 > Campbell Letters 1559-1583

CLAN CAMPBELL LETTERS
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your Mastership conseill vyth the rest of the ffeindis for I thyink hayve at
the men of Rannoche sould set our planness1 on ony tovin eyster Eyregale2
and that be causs my Lord of Atholl thynkis at the men veil hald the land
of his Lordsheype the quhilk I veil never be contenynt thayr of.3 Bot I uss
your Mastershipis consell in that behalf and all otheris at veil cum to my
ffeindis honour and myin. For in gud fayth geyf I veil vaquiet4 that rycht
at I suld have in Rannocht I sell vaquiet my leyft or elles I veil have the
heill vaque be ressoun I have na uther staykens5 to my ffeindis as your
Mastership knavest. And the rest rafaris to your in veill fayvour. Be your
servandis at all pouar of service.
192 Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy to Patrick, 3rd Lord Drummond6
(draft) GDI 12/39/13/8
16 September 1571, Balloch Casde
[No address]
My Lord efter my maist hartlie commendatiounis. This to put your
Lordship in remembrance of the freindlie commoninge was betuix your
Lordship and me the last tyme I was in Drimmone7 albeit I dout nocht
bot your Lordship is myndful thairof quhilk sail nocht pass out of my
mynd wil God in my defalt. Bot the causs I put your Lordship in
remembrance heirof is for thir trublis that ar betuix Alexander Murray
and the Redochis. For I am informit that my Lady your Lordshipis mothir
solistis your Lordship to put Alexander Murray out of the hous of
Aberleidonek and I persaif the Lord my fadir with my Lord Argyillis
assistance and all uther freindis that thai ma mak bent to defend Alexander
Murrayis caus and that be ressoun thai find it honest and just.8 Tharfor I
pray your Lordship have respect to this mater in tyme and solist my Lady
your mothir caus the Redochis tak ane abstinance conforme to the Lord
my fadiris writing derectit to hir Ladyship. For I feir gif this be refusit and
that thai pass to the schortest of it that it will raiss trublis amange freindis.
Possibly ‘plenishing’.
Probably a (ferm)toun east of Argyll.
Ewin was determined to resist the suggestion that Atholl should hold the superiority
over the Rannoch lands. The final settlement with Atholl was a compromise:
MacGregor, ‘MacGregrors’, 391-2. Weem finally gave a tack of Rannoch lands to
Ewin on 23 Apr. 1572 (194): MacGregor/MacGregors’, 393.
Stakes or resources.
Patrick, 3rd Lord Drummond*, had just succeeded his father David, 2nd Lord
Drummond*, who died in 1571. This letter is linked to 193.
Drymen, the seat of the Drummonds.
The Reidheugh-Murray feud: Introduction.