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ANE ACCOMPT OF THE GENEALOGIE OF
THE CAMPBELLS
Ane Accompt of the Genealogie of the Campbells who
were of old called Claim oduibn 1 (or rather oduibhn) with
bh according to the Irish Syllabication, bh and mh with
them being of the same value with the consonant v, or
vari in Latine or English ; I say of old, so called from the
famous Knights and champions the oduibns, and especially
from Diarmad (or Jeremie) oduibnes famous in the Irish
genealogies ; from whom they are sometymes designed
Siol-Diarmid or Sliochd Diarmid, that is the seed or offspring
of Diarmid, but assumed the surname of Campbells
in the days of Malcolm the third otherwayes called Malcolm
Ceanmore, King of Scotland, on the occasion afterward to
be shewed, who nevertheless do in their own language keep
the names both of Campbells and oduibns to this day
anent whose genealogie let these things be observed, 1st
that in matters of this antiquitie we do not undertake to
give ane exact perfect and unquestionable account in all
particulars and circumstances in regaird that their is no
authentick histories extant in the Irish language in the
Kingdome of Scotland, especially of such antiquity and the
Scots and Latine Histories mentions no sirnames in Scotland
before the foresd. King Malcolm Ceanmore (that is
1 By charter dated March 15, 1368, King David II. confirmed to Archibald
Campbell, son of Colin Campbell of Lochow, all donations, Renditions, and im-
pignorations of the lands of Craignish, Melford, Straquhir, and others, with all
the liberties of the same as freely as Duncan M'Duine, progenitor of the said
Archibald, did enjoy in the barony of Lochow or any other lands belonging to
him (Hist. MSS. Com. , Fourth Report, p. 477). The form Vanduibhne (o' duine)
appears in Bishop Carswell's Gaelic Prayer Book, published in 1567. Vide
post, p. 139, note I.
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