The Scottish Nation: Or The Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours, and Biographical History of the People of Scotland, Band 31863 |
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... chief , and seems not unlikely to have ori- ginated in the Gaelic word I , an island . Aodh had a son , another Donald , called Donald Macaodh , or Mackaoi , and it is from this son that the clan has acquired the patronymic of Mackay ...
... chief , and seems not unlikely to have ori- ginated in the Gaelic word I , an island . Aodh had a son , another Donald , called Donald Macaodh , or Mackaoi , and it is from this son that the clan has acquired the patronymic of Mackay ...
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... chief , caused himself to be car- ried to the field , to search for the bodies of his slain cousins , when he was killed by an arrow from a Sutherland man , who lay concealed near the spot . " Ava- to meet Sir James Dunbar's brother ...
... chief , caused himself to be car- ried to the field , to search for the bodies of his slain cousins , when he was killed by an arrow from a Sutherland man , who lay concealed near the spot . " Ava- to meet Sir James Dunbar's brother ...
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... chief and his brother William spent the following Christmas with him at Girnigo castle . His de- sign in asking them was to separate the Mackays from the Sutherland interests , but in this he was unsuccessful . Hugh Mackay died at ...
... chief and his brother William spent the following Christmas with him at Girnigo castle . His de- sign in asking them was to separate the Mackays from the Sutherland interests , but in this he was unsuccessful . Hugh Mackay died at ...
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... chief command of the army | intrigues of his rival , Mackenzie of Coigach or and retired to his family in Holland , his adopted Cromarty , prevented it . country . Of his services in Scotland , he left an interesting account in his ...
... chief command of the army | intrigues of his rival , Mackenzie of Coigach or and retired to his family in Holland , his adopted Cromarty , prevented it . country . Of his services in Scotland , he left an interesting account in his ...
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... chief , Kenneth More , when arrested , in 1427 , with his son - in - law , Angus of Moray , and Macmathan , by James I. in his parliament at Inverness , was said to be able to mus- ter 2,000 men . In 1463 , Alexander Mackenzie of ...
... chief , Kenneth More , when arrested , in 1427 , with his son - in - law , Angus of Moray , and Macmathan , by James I. in his parliament at Inverness , was said to be able to mus- ter 2,000 men . In 1463 , Alexander Mackenzie of ...
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Seite 189 - The Lord bless you, and keep you. The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious unto you. The Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace, both now and evermore.
Seite 317 - DEGENERATE Douglas ! oh, the unworthy Lord ! Whom mere despite of heart could so far please, And love of havoc, (for with such disease Fame taxes him,) that he could send forth word To level with the dust a noble horde, A brotherhood of venerable trees, Leaving an ancient dome, and towers like these, Beggared and outraged...
Seite 317 - Many hearts deplored The fate of those old Trees ; and oft with pain The Traveller, at this day, will stop and gaze On wrongs, which Nature scarcely seems to heed : For sheltered places, bosoms, nooks, and bays, And the pure mountains, and the gentle Tweed, And the green silent pastures, yet remain.
Seite 44 - Cameron, with orders, if she brought a boy, to destroy him, if a girl, to spare her. Maclonich's wife, who was with child likewise, had a girl about the same time at which Lady Maclean brought a boy ; and Maclonich, with more generosity to his captive than fidelity to his trust, contrived that the children should be changed. Maclean, being thus preserved from death, in time recovered his original patrimony ; and in gratitude to his friend, made his castle a place of refuge to any of the clan that...
Seite 143 - Commonwealth, and there is Christ Jesus, the Head of the Church, whose subject King James VI. is, and of whose kingdom he is not a head, nor a lord, but a member; and they whom Christ hath called, and commanded to watch over His Church, and govern His spiritual kingdom, have sufficient authority and power from Him so to do, which no Christian king nor prince should control or discharge, but assist and support, otherwise they are not faithful subjects to Christ.
Seite 198 - It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me ;" and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight.
Seite 324 - The Evergreen. Being a Collection of Scots Poems, Wrote by the Ingenious before 1600.
Seite 335 - An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise, in which Simple and Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit...
Seite 225 - ... waste) the country for many miles round; and that he was at length slain by Buccleuch, or some of his clan, at a little mount, covered with fir-trees, adjoining to Newark castle, and said to have been a part of the garden. A varying tradition bears the place of his death to have been near to the house of the Duke of Buccleuch's game-keeper, beneath the castle ; and that the fatal arrow was shot by Scott of Haining, from the ruins of a cottage on the opposite side of the Yarrow.
Seite 44 - Wherever we roved, we were pleased to see the reverence with which his subjects regarded him. He did not endeavour to dazzle them by any magnificence of dress : his only distinction was a feather in his bonnet ; but as soon as he appeared, they forsook their work and clustered about him : he took them by the hand, and they seemed mutually delighted.