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 Archibald Ardnamurchan army Balloch Balranald barons battle brother Captain Castle charter claims Clan Clandonald Clanranald crown daughter death descendants died Donald Balloch Donald Dubh Donald Gauld Donald Gorm Donald Gruamach Donald Macdonald Duncan Dunvegan Earl of Argyll Earl of Huntly Earl of Ross Earldom of Ross Edinburgh eldest enemy estates father favour followers force forfeited galley Garmoran Gillespic Glengarry Godfrey granted Gregory heir Highlands and Isles Hugh of Sleat Inverness Island chiefs Isle of Skye issue James Macdonald John Kenneth killed King king's Kintail Kintyre Lachlan lady lands Lewis Lochaber Lord Lordship Lorn Macdonald of Isla Macdonald of Sleat Macdonell Macian Mackenzie Mackintosh Maclean of Duart Macleod of Harris Margaret marriage married North Uist party possessions prisoner Privy Council Ranald rebellion Regent Rory Royal Scotland Scots Scottish Sir Alexander Sir Donald Sir James Somerled sons Stewart succeeded took vassals
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Seite 102 - After the death of Angus, the Islanders, and the rest of the Highlanders, were let loose, and began to shed one another's blood. Although Angus kept them in obedience while he was sole lord over them, yet, upon his resignation of his rights to the king, all families, his own as well as others, gave themselves up to all sorts of cruelties, which continued for a long time thereafter.
Seite 91 - Earl of Douglas returned to England after the failure of the expedition under Donald Balloch ; and Ross, finding himself alone in rebellion, became alarmed for the consequences, and, by a submissive message, entreated the forgiveness of the King ; offering, as far as it was still left to him, to repair the wrongs he had inflicted. James at first refused to listen to the application ; but, after a time, consented to extend to the humbled...
Seite 210 - It proceeded on the narrative that " the great and extraordinary excesse in drinking of wyne, commonlie usit among the commonis and tenantis of the Yllis, is not only ane occasioun of the beastlie and barbarous cruelties and inhumanities that fallis oute amangis thame, to the offens and displeasour of God, and contempt of law and justice ; but with that it drawis nomberis of thame to miserable necessitie and povartie, sua that they are constraynit, quhen thay want from their awne, to tak from thair...
Seite 389 - ... the one on the south, and the other on the north side of the glen ; but both now are almost covered by the head of the loch.
Seite 176 - Lennox; and his own conduct, in the course of a few months, justifies the suspicion that already this powerful chief contemplated joining the rest of the Islanders. The troops that accompanied the Lord of the Isles to Ireland are described, in the original despatches from the Irish Privy Council, giving 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...
Seite 200 - Club, pp. 157-58. younger of that Ilk ; Sir James Sandilands of Slamanno, James Leirmonth of Balcolmly, James Spens of Wormestoun, John Forret of Fingask, David Home, younger of Wedderburn ; and Captain William Murray.
Seite 126 - The ancient proprietors and their vassals were violently expelled from their hereditary property ; whilst Argyle and other royal favourites appear to have been enriched by new grants of their estates and lordships. We are not to wonder that such harsh proceedings were loudly reprobated; the inhabitants saw, with indignation, their rightful masters exposed to insult and indigence, and at last broke into open rebellion. Donald Dhu, grandson of John, Lord of the Isles, had been shut up for forty years,...
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 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!