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124 The Highland Monthly.
The order was shown to them, and by the order they were
joined by Clann Muirigh l^aidineach and Caitein, and were
led by a good chieftain of their own blood, namely, Eoghan
Og, son of Andrew, son of Eoghan, who brought three
hundred men of his own kin with him into the king's army,
who were very steadfast in the army while the war continued."
Eoghan or Ewen is entered as proprietor of Cluny on the
valuation roll of 1644. although his father Andrew was still
living. Andrew was then an old man, for the Synod of
Moray in 1648 excused, on the ground of his age, his
attendance on their court to answer for his share in the
doings of his clan in the Montrose wars. But his son Ewen
had to appear, and do penance for the part he took in the
uprising under Montrose. Of Andrew we naturally hear
no more after this date. The chief in Cluny in 1660 was
Andrew his grandson, whom Shaw mentions as the first
Cluny known to him.
The correction which I have to make on my Clan
Chattan articles concerns this Andrew Macpherson of
1 591-1648. In the Huntly Rental of 1603, as printed in
the Spalding Club Miscellany, vol IV., he is called " Andro
McFarlen." In commenting on
" Perhaps Mr Eraser-Mackintosh's
this blunder, I said,
inference is right as to
the national importance of Cluny Macpherson then when
he says, ' So little known does he seem to have been that
Huntly's chamberlain, who made out the Badenoch rental
in 1603, calls him Andro McFarlen.'" I have lately,
through the good offices of, and in company with, Mr
Macpherson, banker, Kingussie, had an opportunity of
seeing the original document, from which the above
was printed. There plainly enough the name is
Andro McFarsen. and the McFarlen of the book
is either a printei's or a transcriber's error. Mr
Eraser-Mackintosh's inference is therefore wrong. The
Macphersons and the Marquis of Huntly were especially
friendly, as their defence of Ruthven Castle in 1594, when
the battle of Glenlivet took place, and other facts amply
prove. Huntly and his estate officials were well acquainted
with the Macpherso'^ chiefs, so that a mistake like
M'Farlen for M'Earsen could only happen through carelessness.
As a matter of fact, however, the mistake did
not occur ; and I take this opportunity of correcting the
error into which I fell and of withdrawing the inference
deduced therefrom.
ALEX. MACBAIN.