[134] According to that eminent antiquary, the Rev. Donald Macintosh, non-juring episcopal clergyman, in his historical illustrations of his Collections of Gaelic Proverbs, published in 1785, the ancestor of Macintosh became head of the clan Chattan in this way. During these contests for the Scottish crown, which succeeded the death of King Alexander III., and favoured the pretensions of the King of the Isles, the latter styling himself “King,” had, in 1291, sent his nephew Angus Macintosh of Macintosh to Dougall Dall (Blind) MacGillichattan, chief of the clan Chattan, or Macphersons, to acquaint him that “_the king_” was to pay him a visit. Macpherson, or MacGillichattan, as he was named, in honour of the founder of the family Gillichattan[135] Mor, having an only child, a daughter, who, he dreaded, might attract an inconvenient degree of royal notice, offered her in marriage to Macintosh along with his lands, and the station of the chief of the clan Chattan. Macintosh accepted the offer, and was received as chief of the lady’s clan. [135] “A votary or servant of St. Kattan,” a most popular Scottish saint, we have thus _Gillichallum_, meaning a “votary of Columba,” and of which another form is _Malcolm_ or _Molcalm_, the prefix _Mol_ being corrupted into Mal, signifying the same as _Gilly_. Thus _Gilly-Dhia_ is the etymon of _Culdee_, signifying “servant of God,”--_Gilli-christ_ means “servant of Christ.” [136] Shaw’s _History of Moray_, pp. 260, 261. [137] Vol. iii. pp 76, 77. [138] Vol. iii. p. 72. [139] _Tales of a Grandfather_, vol. ii. [140] For a more thorough discussion of this fight, see the account of the Clan Mackintosh in Vol. II. [141] Shaw’s _Moray_, pp. 314-15.--Winton, vol. ii. p. 363.--Keith’s _Catalogue_, p. 83. [142] Winton, vol. ii. p. 369. [143] Sir Robert Gordon’s _History_, p. 60. [144] Sir Robert Gordon, pp. 61, 62. [145] Tytler, vol. iii. p. 177. The ballad of the Battle concludes thus:-- There was not, sin’ King Kenneth’s days, Sic strange intestine cruel strife In Scotlande seen, as ilk man says, Where monie likelie lost their life; Whilk made divorce tween man and wife, And monie children fatherless, Whilk in this realm has been full rife; Lord help these lands! our wrangs redress! In July, on Saint James his evin, That four-and-twenty dismal day, Twelve hundred, ten score, and eleven Of years sin’ Christ, the soothe to say; Men will remember, as they may, When thus the veritie they knaw; And monie a ane will mourne for aye The brim battle of the Harlaw.