83 THE CLAN OF ROBERTSON. Clan Pipe Music: Salute "Failte Thigearna Struthain" ("The Laird of Struan's Salute"). Gathering "Thainig Clann Donnachaidh " ("The Robertson's have come"). Badge :-Dubh Fhraoch (Fine-leaved Heath); or Raineach (Fern). jHIS tribe is called by the Highlanders the clan Donnachie, being descended from tlie family of Athole, which was the designation of the ancestors of the chiefs of the clan for four centuries; "and it distinctly points out," pays James Robertson, "that they must derive from the ancient Celtic Comes de Atholia ; and, like other clans, they appear in independence upon the extinction of the Celtic Earls, and were in possession of very large landed properties in the north and west of Perthshire. As to the descent of the chiefs of the clan, and which has always been allowed by themselves, it is from the MacDonalds." The Robertsons adhered to Bruce in his struggle for the throne ; and in one of the two isles in Loch Rannoch, about 1338, MacDougal, who was taken prisoner in a battle, was confined by the chief of the Clan Donnachie, named Donachadh ramhar, or the Robust. In the reign of David II. (1330-70) William Robertson and John Reidheuch got a charter of the lands of Loch-bouse, "whilks were William Mairis, and gave them to the fore.siid persons in Vicecom. de Linlitbgow." Duncan, chief of the clan Donnachie, died in or about 1355. His sons were Robert of Athole, ancestor of the line of Strnan, and Patrick, ancestor of the line of Lude, who got a Crown charter for that barony in 1448. The next oldest families of the clan were the Robertsons of Strathloch, Faskally, etc. The Robertsons first appear as a clan in 1891, when in a body they attacked the Lindsays for depriving them of some property at Glenesk, in Aberdeenshire. They were opposed by Sir Walter Ogilvie, the Sheriff of Angus, and others. A battle took place at Glascuny, where Ogilvie and many Lowland barons were slain ; and again, when the clan were followed to their own country, at a second battle in Glenbrerachen, in Athole, the Clan Donnachie were again victorious. In 1437 Robertson of Struan, having apprehended some of the murderers of James I., received for a crest a hand holding an imperial crown, with the motto Vertutis Gloria Merces, "and on a complement, a wild man chained." From the Robertsons are derived the surname of Collier, among whom Collier, Earl of Portmore, was the most important. Sir Alexander Robertson, a cadet of Strnan, was made a Baronet by Charles II. in 1676 he made ; a fortune in Holland, and for some reason unknown adopted the name of Collier. In 1483 Bernard Stewart, Lord Aubigne, Marshal of France, went back to that country, taking with him eighteen companies of Scottish Infantry under Donald Robertson, an expert and gallant commander. In 1516 he has another and a different notice : "Donald Robertson of Strowan, for mony willanes (sic) comitted by him, is behead it at Logereat this zeir, by the Governor's command." Donald Robertson of Struan, in Athole, appears a chief in the Roll of the Clans in 1587. In 1646 the clan joined the army of Montrose, SOO strong, under Donald, the tutor of Struan, as hia nephew, the chief, was then a minor. His commission as Colonel was dated 9th June. "The Clach-na-Bratach," or Stone of the Standard, was carried on the person of the Chief in battle as a guarantee of victory. It was found one day adhering to the pole of the standard when drawn out of the earth, and was preserved as sacred. The stone was probably a Druidical beryl, and waa discovered in the twelfth or thirteenth century. The residence of the chiefs of the clan was at Dun Alister, at the east end of Loch Rannoch, a place that derives much interest from its connection with the well-known Jacobite poet, Alexander Robertson of Struan, during the insurrections of 1715 and 1745. He was "out" in both. In the former he led 500 Robertsons at Sheriffmnir, under the clach-nan-brattich, and was forfeited, but restored. In 1745 his estates were annexed to the Crown, notwithstanding which, he returned and lived on his property, and died in 1749 in his eighty-first year, "a poet and a sot," as Dr M'Culloch has it. In the year of Culloden the fighting force of the clan was 700 men. Alexander Robertson of Struan was succeeded by his kinsman, Duncan Robertson of Drumachine, whose grandson, Alasdair, is the present Robertson of Struan. At Dun Alister nothing remains now of the chiefs of the Clan Donnachie but their burial-place, a melancholy and neglected spot, surrounded by a wall, and choked with weeds and gigantic nettles.
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