. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . A STREET IN INVERARAY the lead, and moved over to Inveraray early in the fifteenth cent-ury. Duncan Campbell of Lochow, who first built at Inveraray,married the daughter of the Duke of Albany, Regent of Scotland,who had been supposed not to be keen to get James I. back fromhis eighteen years captivity at Windsor. She was the grand-daughter of Robert II., and at Kilmun — a church, endowed byDuncan, of which the Burial chapel still exists off the old chancel— there is a contemporary recumbent figure of this lady. Herhusband is also there,
. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . A STREET IN INVERARAY the lead, and moved over to Inveraray early in the fifteenth cent-ury. Duncan Campbell of Lochow, who first built at Inveraray,married the daughter of the Duke of Albany, Regent of Scotland,who had been supposed not to be keen to get James I. back fromhis eighteen years captivity at Windsor. She was the grand-daughter of Robert II., and at Kilmun — a church, endowed byDuncan, of which the Burial chapel still exists off the old chancel— there is a contemporary recumbent figure of this lady. Herhusband is also there, in hard sandstone, represented in platearmour. After this, by serving the Crown, against rebels, in the variousparts of Argyll, Lome, Kintyre, and the Western Islands, theCampbells of Inveraray became possessed of lands in these. 3 11nverara\? 313 regions, through the combined agencies of clan warfare, purchase,Royal grant, and marriage. In the acquisition of all this territory, the Macdonalds,Stewarts, Macdougals, Macgregors, etc., no doubt confidentlyaffirmed that unfair means were used. And in a primitive stateof things, when to fight and plunder is held more honourablethan to work, and when the power of the sword— the num-ber of followers a chief could call out—alone decided whether, inthe struggle for existence, there should be expansive independ-ence, or tributary subordination, if not absorption, for a clan, itwould be idle to expect nicest political morality. But it is certainthe Campbells got large grants from the Crown, for servicesrendered to successive English sovereigns ; while the disloyalclans suffered heavily for their disloyalty, and then, laying theblame, not on their having failed, through want of prevision, toembrace the winning cause, but on Campbell arrogance and badfaith, solaced
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