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92 HIGHLAND PAPERS
to the tyme he lived in albeit by all that was before him
of that family some accession of lands and honours was
made to the house of Argyll yet by none so much as by him,
and in effect it was he who brake the ice (as the proverb is)
and opened the way to all the after grandeur of that noble
family by repelling the Isles men and dantoning of oppres-
sors. To set down all his actions and his excellent conhis
singular ceipts would take much tyme as for instance his throwing
conceipts.
all his treasure in Lochfyne a little before his death, leist
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his sons (of whom he had many) should fight for it after
his death, his sudden burnings of his houses when some
nobleman of the O'Neils and others out of Ireland were
coming to visit him because they were not magnificent
enough for intertaining them, that he might have occasion
to feast them in tents ; and how he went through all the
army of the Lord of the Isles as a beggar to spy his forces,
and how he narrowly escaped with his Lyfe from the Clanchallum
1 in Ardskeodnis who thought to have burnt him
alive in a house that they might get the estate brought to
Duncan Skeodnasich 2 from whom came mcConochie of
Stronchormick or Glenfeachan, he was called Skeodnasich
because he was fostered with the sd Clanchallum who were
then strong in Ardskeodnish within the paroch of Killmartin,
so that the sd Coline Iongantach was forced to
flee with his coat of mail which after the antient forme was
made lyke after a nett hanging down to their heels, called
in Irish a lureach 3 which being made so hott with the fyre
that he rami into a pool of water under Killmartine towne
which pool is to this day called in Irish linge na Lureach
that is the Lureach's pool. His great work was the bringing
down of the Lord of the Isles and these sorts of men who
were disobedient to the Crown whose wings was never more
1 An old name in that country. On November 30, 1667, Archibald, ninth
Earl of Argyll, granted a charter to Zachary M'Callum of Poltalloch and the
heirs male of his body, 'quibus deficientibus heredibus suis masculis quibuscunque
cognominis de Clan Galium.'
2 Described in MS. B as ' their foster and colt, ' vide ante, p. 38, note 1.
3 Luireach—in Latin, Lorica. Cf. the ancient Irish Hymn well known as-
the Lorica of St. Patrick.