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
Another statute was passed in 1594 ‘for punishment of thift, reif,
oppression, and sorning.’[463] It contains within it a list of clans and
surnames inhabiting the Highlands and Isles, and likewise a list of
broken men of surnames inhabiting the sheriffdoms of Argyll, Bute,
Dumbarton, Stirling, Perth, Forfar, Aberdeen, Banff, Elgin, Forres,
Nairn, Inverness, and Cromarty; and stewartries of Stratherne and
Menteith. These lists of clans and broken men, with a list furnished by
MacVureach of the clans who joined Montrose, gives us a tolerably
complete view of the state of the Highland clans at the time, and they
may be thus stated, following the order of the districts which they
inhabited.
The Highland district of the earldom of Lennox was occupied by the Clan
Pharlane, undoubted descendants of the old earls of Lennox. The clan
takes its name from Parlane or Bartholomew, a great-grandson of
Gilchrist, third son of Alain, earl of Lennox, and the steps of the
pedigree rest upon charter evidence. Next to them were the Clan Gregor,
on the east side of Lochlomond and around Loch Katrine. In Balquhidder
we find the Clan _Labhran_ or Lauren, and in Atholl the clan possessing
the largest territory was the Clan Donnachie, whose descent from Duncan,
son of Andrew de Atholia, likewise rests upon charter evidence, and
whose name of De Atholia sufficiently indicates that they were the male
representatives of the old earls of Atholl. With Glenshee and Glenisla
is connected a clan called the Clan M‘Thomas. Crossing the Mounth we
find the Highland districts of Mar and Buchan occupied by the Clan
Chattan, who likewise, with their branches and dependent septs, extended
over Strathdearn, Strathnairn, and Badenoch, into the district of
Lochaber. In Ross-shire were the Clan Andres or Rosses and the Clan
Kenneth or Mackenzies, and in the Highland districts of Sutherland and
Caithness, forming the north-west corner of Scotland, were the Clan
Morgan or Mackays and the Clan Gunn. The clans which occupied the
principal position in the great district of Argyll and the Isles were
the different clans into which the descendants of the powerful Lords of
the Isles and Knights of Argyll broke up on the termination of the main
line. There were the Clann _Dubhgal_ or Macdougalls of Lorne, descended
from Dubhgal, the eldest son of Somerled; the Clandonald descended from
Domnall, son of Reginald or Ranald, his second son; and this great sept
was again broken up into six clans. These were the Clandonald north and
south, that is, the Clan _Hustain_ or MacDonalds of Slate, and the Clan
_Eoin Mor_ or MacConnells of Isla and Kintyre, descended from Donald,
eldest son of John, Lord of the Isles, by the king’s daughter, and from
Eoin Mor, his second son, respectively. From Ranald, son of Alaster, his
third son, sprang the Clanranald of Lochaber, or Macdonalds of Keppoch.
From _Eoin Sprangaigh_ and Alaster Og, sons of Angus Mor, came the Clan
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