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'j. he Ifio-hland MontlUy
lady had made a conjunct Deed of Mortification some years
before his death of the sum of 3000 merks, 2000 of which
were appointed for the University at Aberdeen." This
information proved incorrect so far as the amount was
concerned, as the donors left 5000 merks, of which 2000
went to the University above named. After some
correspondence with William, the then Laird of Mackin-
tosh, in 1738, the Session, through a committee, got a
decreet of exhibition and horning against Farquhar Mac-
gi'.jvray of Dunmaglass for exhibition of the Deed of
7\I ortification, and on iith March, 1740, having obtained
po ;session of the Deed, and granted a receipt to Dunma-
gl :3s, it was submitted to the Session, and a cop}' of it
engrossed in the minutes, the Deed itself being delivered to
the Moderator to hand to the Hospital Treasurer, as the
money fell to be lodged in his hands. The money was to
have been paid within a year and a day of Lachlan
^lackintosh's decease.
William, Laird of Mackintosh, appears to have died in
1 741, and was succeeded by his brother Angus, who
married Anne, daughter of Farquharson of Invercauld, the
heroine of the '45, and in particular of the rout of Moy.
Angus Mackintosh attended a meeting of the Session on
1 6th March, 1742, and made a representation to the effect
that it had been unknown to him that no part of the money
had been paid, nor any presentees offered to enjoy the
benefit of the fund, and that he was only second lineal
successor to the donor ;
he
expressed his readiness to pay
the principal sum, but asked the Session to pass from
extracting bygone annual rents, and stated th^t he was
informed that the authorities of King's College, Aberdeen,
w^ould agree to the same arrangement.
The Session, after communicating with Principal
Chalmers, who assented to the proposals, and after receipt
of a letter from Anne Duff, the Dowager Lady Mackintosh
in which, for her right and interest, she not only consented
to the request of the present Mackintosh being agreed to