A history of the Highlands and of the Highland clans : with an extensive selection from the hitherto inedited Stuart Papers . with a n\ ?lackays. Thej ftill Tuttim-Turwigh, upou .!icThe Durauinff party at first at- History, jv Oft. rfHackaij A-KuriarfnoVCLonooni FAmbur^ HtBELLlUN OF Hit: LORD OF THE ISLES. ]59 last the Lewismen, with their commander, Malcolm Macleod, nick-namedGilealm Beg MBowen, were slain, and the goods and cattle were re-covered. One man alone of Macleods party, who was sorely wounded,escaped to bring home the sorrowful news to the Lewis, which he hadscarcely delivered
A history of the Highlands and of the Highland clans : with an extensive selection from the hitherto inedited Stuart Papers . with a n\ ?lackays. Thej ftill Tuttim-Turwigh, upou .!icThe Durauinff party at first at- History, jv Oft. rfHackaij A-KuriarfnoVCLonooni FAmbur^ HtBELLlUN OF Hit: LORD OF THE ISLES. ]59 last the Lewismen, with their commander, Malcolm Macleod, nick-namedGilealm Beg MBowen, were slain, and the goods and cattle were re-covered. One man alone of Macleods party, who was sorely wounded,escaped to bring home the sorrowful news to the Lewis, which he hadscarcely delivered when he expired.* These feuds were followed by a formidable insurrection in fourteenhundred and eleven by Donald, Lord of the Isles, of such a serious na-ture as to threaten a disuiombcrment of the kingdom of Scotland. Theorigin of tliis rebellion arose out of the following circumstances. Themale succession to the Earldom of Ross having become extinct, thehonours of the Peerage devolved upon a female, Euphemia Ross, wife Walter Lesley. Of this marriage there were two children, Alexander,afterwards Earl of Ross, and IMargaret afterwards married to the Lordof the Isles. Earl Alexander married a daughter of the Duke of Alba
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