History of the Macdonalds and Lords of the Isles: With Genealogies of the Principal Families of the NameA. & W. Mackenzie, 1881 - 534 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
afterwards Alexander Macdonald Allan Angus appears Ardnamurchan army Athole Balloch barons battle became brother Campbell Captain Castle charter claim Clan Clandonald Clanranald command crown daughter death descended died district Donald Balloch Donald Dubh Donald Gorm Donald Macdonald Dugall Duncan Dunvegan Earl of Argyll Earl of Huntly Earl of Mar Earl of Ross Earldom of Ross Edinburgh eldest enemy estates father favour followers force Gallda galley Garmoran Glengarry Government granted Gregory heir Highlands and Isles History Inverness Irish Island Chief Isle of Skye issue Kenneth killed King king's Kintail Kintyre Knapdale Knoydart lady lands Lochaber Lord Lordship Lorn Macdonald of Isla Macdonell Macian Mackenzie Mackintosh Margaret marriage married Moydart North North Uist party possessions prisoner proceeded Ranald rebellion Regent Reginald Roderick Royal says Scotland Scots Scottish sent Sir Alexander Sir Donald Sir James Skene Skye Sleat Somerled sons soon Stewart succeeded took Uist vassals
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Seite 47 - ... that he would be a light to his people, and maintain the true religion. The white apparel did afterwards belong to the poet by right. Then he was to receive a white rod in his hand, intimating that he had power to rule, not with tyranny and partiality, but with discretion and sincerity. Then he received his forefathers...
Seite 176 - Henry notice of their arrival, as being, " three thousand of them, very tall men, clothed, for the most part, in habergeons of mail, armed with long swords and long bows, but with few guns ; the other thousand, tall maryners, that rowed in the galleys.
Seite 47 - ... defend them from the incursions of their enemies in peace or war, as the obligations and customs of his predecessors were. The ceremony being over, mass was said after the blessing of the bishop and seven priests, the people pouring their prayer for the success and prosperity of their new created Lord. When they were dismissed, the Lord of the Isles feasted them for a week thereafter; gave liberally to the monks, poets, bards and musicians. You may judge that they spent liberally without any...
Seite 229 - what did you call us to arms for? Was it to run away? What did the King come hither for? Was it to see his people butchered by hangmen, and not strike one stroke for their lives? Let us die like men, and not like dogs!
Seite 47 - There was a square stone, seven or eight feet long, and the tract of a man's foot cut thereon, upon which he stood, denoting that he should walk in the footsteps and uprightness of his predecessors, and that he was installed by right in his possessions. He was clothed in a white habit, to show his innocence and integrity of heart, that he would be a light to his people, and maintain the true religion.
Seite 298 - Isles, so completely reduced, that the oldest cadet, as usual in such cases, obtained the actual chiefship, with the title of captain, while on the extinction of this branch, in the beginning of the seventeenth century, the family of Glengarry, descended from Alaster, Donald's second son, became the legal representatives of Ranald, the common ancestor of the clan, and consequently possessed that right of blood to the chiefship of which no usurpation, however successful, could deprive them. The family...
Seite 64 - Islesmen, and, cutting his way through their thick columns, made a cruel slaughter. But though hundreds fell around him, thousands poured in to supply their place, more fierce and fresh than their predecessors ; whilst Mar, who had penetrated with his main army into the very heart of the enemy, found himself in the same difficulties, becoming every moment more tired with slaughter, more encumbered with the numbers of the slain, and less able to resist the increasing and reckless ferocity of the masses...
Seite 77 - Macdonald, conditionally he would, if he held of him and serve him. John said he did not know wherein his nephew wronged the king, and that his nephew was as deserving of his rights as he could be, and that he would not accept of those lands, nor serve for them, till his nephew would be set at liberty ; and that his nephew himself was as nearly related to the king as he could be. James Campbell, hearing the answer, said that he was the king's prisoner. John made all the resistance he could, till,...
Seite 431 - ... his colour went and came, his eyes sparkled, he shifted his place, and grasped his sword. Charles observed his demeanour, and turning briskly to him, called out, " Will you assist me?" " I will, I will," said Ronald, " though no other man in the Highlands should draw a sword, I am ready to die for you!
Seite 64 - Islesmen, carrying death every where around him; but the slaughter of hundreds by this brave party did not intimidate the Highlanders, who kept pouring in by thousands to supply the place of those who had fallen. Surrounded on all sides, no alternative remained for Sir James and his valorous companions but victory or death, and the latter was their lot. The constable of Dundee was amongst the first who suffered, and his fall so encouraged the Highlanders, that seizing and stabbing the horses, they...