. The chiefs of Colquhoun and their country;. sneath, and the entrance to the Gareloch, and the Firth ofClyde, with the spacious bay of Greenock directly in front, cannot be ARDINCAPLE, FORMERLY THE LAND OF THE CLAN MACAULAY, NOW THEPROPERTY OF SIR JAMES COLQUHOUN. Foe nearly five centuries the lands of Ardincaple were the property ofa family who at first, and for four or five generations, took from the landsthe surname of Ardincaple; but afterwards they adopted the surname ofMacaulay; and they are known in the history of the Highlands as theClan Macaxilay. They retained the surname of Ardinca
. The chiefs of Colquhoun and their country;. sneath, and the entrance to the Gareloch, and the Firth ofClyde, with the spacious bay of Greenock directly in front, cannot be ARDINCAPLE, FORMERLY THE LAND OF THE CLAN MACAULAY, NOW THEPROPERTY OF SIR JAMES COLQUHOUN. Foe nearly five centuries the lands of Ardincaple were the property ofa family who at first, and for four or five generations, took from the landsthe surname of Ardincaple; but afterwards they adopted the surname ofMacaulay; and they are known in the history of the Highlands as theClan Macaxilay. They retained the surname of Ardincaple till the reign ofKing James the Fifth, when Alexander of Ardincaple called himselfMacaulay of Ardincaple, from an ancestor of the name of Aulay,—apatronymical designation more suitable for the chief of a clan than thedesignation of Aidincaple of that Ilk. The lands of Ardincaple were the property of barons of that nameduring the wars caused by the disputed succession to the Crown, and the Remarks on the Kagman Roll, by George THE MACAULAYS AND ARDINCAPLE. Ill independence of the Kingdom of Scotland. The first proprietor recordedis Maurice of Ardincaple. He swore fealty to Edward the First, King ofEngland, and his name appears on the Eagmans EolL Mamice is alsomentioned in an inhibition, in 1294, by Eobert Lord Bishop of Glasgow,to the vicars of Curmannoc, Cathkert, PoUog, Kyhnacohne, and Kylber-chan, against Malcolm Earl of Lennox, his steward, and others, who hadentered on certain law pleas against the Abbot and Convent of Paisleywith regard to certain lands and possessions which had been giftedto the convent in pure and perpetual akns by divers earls of Lennox,and who, in defiance of reiterated admonitions, had persevered in theirlitigation, remaining long hardened in their mmds, irreverently despis-ing the keys of the Church as if sons of perdition, whereby theyhad incurred the sentence of the greater excommunication. The bishoprequired the vicars mentioned
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