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Lauchlano et Alano, paucisque aliis, Gillespicum Macdonald,
Alexandri Comitis Rossiæ Nothum prosecutus est, cum armenta
Pettiæ arripuisset, in quâ pugnâ, Makdonaldorum multis cæsis,
cœteri (licet numero plures) se in fugam conjiciunt. Nec
incruenta fuit victoria; Nam una stirps Clanchattanorum,
nempe Clantarrel, penè extincta fuerat. Hæc, paucis, ante
Milcolumbi mortem, annis, evenerunt.

HIC Duncanus in vindictâ cædis Milcolumbi beg sui fratris
et Æneæ Makinnish vic William sui consanguinei, ad Craig-
charlhach Anno 1441 Lochabriam latè vastavit. Jus posses-
sionis quod habuerat terrarum Rothemurchus, consanguineo
suo Alexandro keir Makintosh (vulgò Alister keir mak hamish)
disposuit.

HIC Alexander fuit filius Jacobi Makintosh, in Bello
Harlaensi cæsi, et nepos Shai dentati Ducis 30 Clanchatta-
norum, qui Perthæ contra Clancavillos pugnavere Anno 1396.

HIC Alexander accepit jus Feudale terrarum Rothemur-
chus a Davide de Stuarto Moraviensi Episcopo 24 die
Septembris Anno 1464, quod jus Allanus Makintosh (aliàs
Sha) de Rothemurchus nepos prædicti Alexandri postea

with his brothers Lauchlan and Allan, and a few others, he pur-
sued Gillespic Macdonald, bastard of Alexander, Earl of Ross,
when he had lifted the cattle of Petty. In which fight many of
the Macdonalds were slain, and the rest (albeit many in number)
betook themselves to flight. Nor was the victory without blood,
for one family of the Clanchattans, that is to say, the Clan Tarril,
was almost extinguished. These things happened a few years
before the death of Malcolm.

This Duncan, in revenge of the slaughter of Malcolm beg his
brother, and of Eneas MacInnish vic William his cousin, at Craig
Cailloch, in the year 1441, ravaged Lochaber widely. He dis-
poned the right of possession which he had of the lands of
Rothemurchus to his kinsman Alexander keir Mackintosh
(commonly called Alister keir Machamish).

This Alexander was son of James Mackintosh, slain at the battle
of Harlaw, and grandson of Shaw the toothed, leader of the thirty
Clanchattans who fought at Perth in 1396 against the Clan
Quhele.

This Alexander received the feudal right of the lands of Rothe-
murchus from David Stuart, Bishop of Moray, on 24th September
1464; which right Allan Mackintosh (alias Shaw) of Rothemurchus,
grandson of the aforesaid Alexander, afterwards alienated to Adam