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320 The Highland Monthly.
is repeated. Gregor Macgregor's wife, and tlie singer
of the Lullaby, was not a daughter of Sir Colin Campbell of
Glenorchy, but of his cousin, Duncan Campbell of Glenlyon.
Her husband, Gregor, was beheaded after trial, for various capital
crimes, before the Earl of Athole, Lord Justice-Clerk, in 1570,
and not, as stated here, in 1552. We daresay the printer is
responsible for the following error at page 145 :— " Sir James Macdonald
of Antrmi, who had no English, came with a magnificent
retinue to visit James IV. of Scotland, previous to his ascending
the throne of England "— then the question is asked, could the
King speak Gaelic ? Of course it is James the Sixth who is
meant, and, according to Highland forest tradition, he did speak
Gaelic. The Venetian Ambassador certified to his masters, that
one of the accomplishments of James the Fourth was a thorough
knowledge of Gaelic. James the Fifth was not so well instructed
as his father, but, if we righdy remember. Pitscottie, or one of his
contemporaries, states that he could converse with his Highland
subjects iij their own brogue. Queen Mary, to her loss, could
not do so.