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156 HIGHLAND PAPERS
Et ego Johannes Idill clericus sancti Andreae diocesis
publicus auctoritate imperiali notarius predictam litteram
vidi tenui perlegi et copiavi et hie fideliter transcripsi nil
addendo vel diminuendo quod sensum mutet aut variet
intellectum. Presensque publicum instrumentum manu
mea propria scriptum exinde confeci. Signoque meo
solito et consueto signavi rogatus et requisitus in testimonium
veritatis.
(Abstract.)
It is marie known to all men that on April 6, 1427, fifth infliction
and tenth year of the pontificate of Martin v., in the presence of John
Idill, clerk of the rliocese of St. Andrews, notary public, and the witnesses
Campbell domino de Lochow domino meo singularissimo''' his whole rights in
or to the patronage of the parish church of St. Peter the Deacon of Lochow,
now known as Kilchrennan (Session papers in Duke oj Argyll v. Campbell of
Lochnell, 18 R. 1094). And it would rather seem from the terms of this writ
that the granter was at that date in some way dependent on the Lord of
Lochow.
Little seems to be known about the MacCorquodales. Buchanan of Auch-
' mar, writing before 1723, says : There is also in Argyllshire a gentleman of a
small estate designed MacOrquodall of Faint Islands. His interest lies upon
the south side of Lochow, and he is accounted one of the most ancient gentlemen,
of his own station, in that shire, or probably of any other in this kingdom,
it being with assurance asserted, that the cause of his ancestors getting that
estate was for taking down the head of Alpin, King of the Scots, by night off
the walls of the capital city of the Picts, where these had affixed it, and upon
bringing the same to King Kenneth the Great, he was for that service recompenced
with that estate possessed by his successor as yet ; and that there was
a charter granted of that estate by King Kenneth, which is reported to have
been sent, upon his earnest request, to Sir George Mackenzie, to be perused
by him, some little time before the Revolution, and that the same was not got
back. However this be, that gentleman is reputed to be of very great
antiquity by all of these parts, but I could not obtain any distinct account of
the same or of his armorial bearings' (Ancient Scottish Surnames, p. 154).
The name seems certainly of Scandinavian origin. According to Macbain
(Inverness Names, p. 37), it is for M'Thorkettill, which seems probable, and
this he says means ' Thors Kettle'— the sacrificial vessel of Thor—an explana-
tion which it is more difficult to accept. Fantelands, it is said, means the I
white island, and this seems probable, for the MacCorquodales' place of I
strength was on one of the islands in Loch Tromlee, not far from Kilchrenan. I
One of the islands in that loch still bears the name of Eilan a bharain—the
baron's island—and another is called Eilean Tighe bhain— the island of the
white house.
Buchanan's inability to discover the arms seems strange, as these were recorded
in the Lyon Register before 1678 as argent, a stag gules attired ort issuing from a fess wreathed of the second and third.
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