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86 HIGHLAND PAPERS
he had also John mcCoul a his neighbour (who was made Lord
of Lorn by the sd King Edward) as another strong enemie
at his back, nevertheless the sd noble Sir Niell valiantly
kept the pass of Lochow untill he sent for William Wallace
who came to relive him and the sd mcffaden was killed, 2
and the foresd Lord Lorn was forfaulted by the parliament
held at Ardchattan in Lorn and his estate given to Duncan
mcCoul his uncle for his fidelity. 3 This Sir Neill and his
father Coline More in the debate betwixt the Bruce and
Baliol for the crown inclined toward the Baliol (as being
one degree nearer by proximity of blood) untill the sd
Baliol consented to subject the crown of Scotland to the
foresd King Edward of England (to whose arbitrement the
1 I.e. John Macdougal, otherwise John Baacach (or lame), eldest son of
Alexander de Ergadia and generally known as John of Lome. It is, of course,
wrong to say that he was made Lord of Lome by Edward I.
2 ' MS. B adds the following particulars : Sir Neil kept the pass on the
water of Aw that runs out of Lochow until he sent for Sir William Wallace,
who came to relieve him, and by joining their forces they beat MacPhaiden,
who was taken in a cave in Craigininey (i.e. Creag-an-aoinidh, Records of
Argyll, p. 176), which is to this day called Vaimh vie Phaiden, i.e. Mac-
Phaiden's cave, and there was beheaded.' See also Proceedings Soc. Antiq.,
vii. 222. MacPhaiden or MacFadyean is said (Inverness Surnames, p. 38) to
mean 'the son of Paddy or Patrick.' A long account of MacPhaiden is given
by Blind Harry, iv. 1. 1S1 and VII. 1. 623. He is said to have been
an Irishman of low birth whom Edward 1. had made Lord of Lome with the
consent of John of Lome, on whom he had bestowed more valuable possessions
in England. But whatever his origin he and his followers apparently earned
the execrations of their contemporaries by methods of warfare now associated
with German culture, but apparently regarded as barbarous in the fourteenth
century. As Blind Harry puts it
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' Barnys nor wyff thai peple sparyt nocht,
Waistyt the land als fer as thai mycht ga,
Thai bestly folk couth nocht but bym and sla.
There is a Mull legend that Lochbuie belonged to a MacFadyean when Hector
Reganach got his grant from the Lord of the Isles {vide vol. i. p. 22).
According to this tale, when Hector arrived to take possession he found
MacFadyean on the top of his tower peacefully picking a bone. He shot an
arrow which struck the bone, and MacFadyean exclaiming in Gaelic, ' It is time
I was going,' made off with all possible speed. The name MacFadyean is still
to be found in Mull.
:l Alexander de Ergadia had a son Duncan, and Blind Harry says that he resented
the presence of MacPhaiden and opposed him. But there is no evidence that
he profited by his brother's forfeiture. The Ardchattan Parliament is said to
have been held in 1308.
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