344                GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. I

Slighkgillies (binas Clanwurrichorum Familias), in Makintoshii
servitium, imò, Andreâ licet invito adducere decrevit, hâc,
tamen, lege, ut Gulielmus Makintosh a Borlum, agros a Raits,
eodem pretio, quo ipse, eosdem comparaverat, illi vendere
spondeat. Quod iniquum satis et impertinens erat desiderium.

MAKINTOSHIUS, illatâ illi, hunc in modum a quibusdam ex
suis cognatis, tantâ injuriâ, eorum præcipuos, pristinum illud
fœdus (Anno 1609, ab omnibus Clanchattanarum Familiarum
Familiarum Capitibus concessum) novâ reiterare solennitate
per contari statuit.

FŒDUS hoc, Makphersonis Badenochiæ degentibus imprimis
exhibitum est, qui omnes (dempto prædicto Andreâ Cluniensi
ejusque amicis propinquioribus, ad hoc officium subeundum
minimè impetratis), oblatum fœdus propriis confirmare auto-
graphis (præcipuis modò ex Nomine Makintoshio illis in hâc
re præeuntibus) quàm paratissimi erant.

HINC verò Alexander Makintosh a Connadus (qui, magnum
semper, erga Genearcham, coluisse videbatur amorem, cujusque
vestigiis cœteri, ut plurimùm, insisterent) imprimis rogatus,
planè et sine ullis verborum ambagibus, se, neque fœderi huic
subscripturum, neque, quidpiam, in Makintoshii commodum

and Slighkgillies (two families of the Clan Vurrich) into the
service of Mackintosh, yea though Andrew was unwilling; on this
condition however, that William Mackintosh of Borlum should
agree to sell to him the lands of Raits for the same price which he
himself had given for them: which was a desire sufficiently unjust
and impertinent.

Finding himself in this manner so much wronged by certain of
his kinsmen, Mackintosh determined to require the chief men of
them to renew with fresh solemnity that ancient bond (granted in
the year 1609 by all the heads of the families of the Clanchattan).
This bond was first presented to the Macphersons dwelling in
Badenoch, who all (excepting the said Andrew of Cluny and his
near friends, who were not asked to do this duty) were ready to
confirm the offered bond with their subscriptions, provided only
the chief men of the name of Mackintosh would go before them
in that matter. Hereupon, Alexander Mackintosh of Connage
(who seemed always to cherish great affection towards his chief,
and in whose footsteps the rest would, for the most part, follow),
was first asked. He openly, and without any circumlocution,
professed that he would neither subscribe that bond, nor would he
do anything tending to the advantage or profit of Mackintosh,