Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 3 (of 3), Land and peopleSkene, W. F. (William Forbes)
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Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 3 (of 3), Land and people
Skene, W. F. (William Forbes)
Celts -- Scotland; Civilization, Celtic; Scotland -- Antiquities, Celtic; Scotland -- History -- To 1603
Neither were the Clan Cameron entirely destroyed, for we find Alan, son
of Donald Duff, appearing in 1472 as Captain of the Clan Cameron, and in
1492, Alexander of the Isles, Lord of Lochalsh and Lochiel, grants the
lands of Lochiel to Ewen, son of Alan, son of Donald, Captain of Clan
Cameron. It would thus appear that a part only of these two clans had
deserted the Lord of the Isles in 1429, and a part adhered to him, that
the conflict on Palm Sunday was between the former part of these clans,
and that the leaders of those who adhered to the Lord of the Isles
became afterwards recognised as captains of the respective clans. It
further appears that there was, within no distant time after the
conflict on the North Inch of Perth, a bitter feud between the two clans
who had deserted the Lord of the Isles, and there are indications that
this was merely the renewal of an older quarrel, for both clans
undoubtedly contested the right to the lands of Glenlui and Locharkaig
in Lochaber, to which William MacIntosh received a charter from the Lord
of the Isles in 1336, while they unquestionably afterwards formed a part
of the territory possessed by the Camerons.
By the later historians one of the clans who fought on the North Inch of
Perth, and who were termed by the earlier chroniclers _Clan Qwhele_, are
identified with the Clan Chattan,[444] and that this identification is
well founded, so far as regards that part of the clan which adhered to
the royal cause, while that in the part of the Clan Cameron who followed
the same course, and were nearly entirely destroyed on Palm Sunday, we
may recognise their opponents the Clan Kay, is not without much
probability.
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