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Muniment - Hill 9 1699

 

Hill Muniment 9

 

Muniment Hill 9 created in 1699 and transcribed/translated is now available for CMW members to read on the website under Muniments.

This document is called a "retour" or return or extract of a decision sent to the Chancery by a jury of inquest declaring a successor heir to his ancestor. This was from Andrew McFarlane the 18th Baron of Arrochar and 15th chief to his father Walter McFarlane the 16th Baron of Arrochar and 13th chief. It was dated December 19, 1699. Andrew matriculated Arms at the Court of the Lord Lyon as MacFarlane of Ardess in 1672 thereby differencing the Arms and crest from those of his elder brother John who was the chief at that time. Andrew declared using the demi-savage holding aloft a sword instead of the sheaf of arrows as in the original. Andrew became chief because his brother John the 17th Baron of Arrochar and 14th chief had no male children. This was the first time the succession of chiefs was other than from father to son in over 450 years.

Hill 10 is also dated December 19, 1699 so it would appear that Andrew is getting legal paperwork in order with Hill 9 and Hill 10 for the line of succession from Walter, Andrew's father and his brother John to himself and perhaps in turn his own heirs.    

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Muniment - Hill 8 1699

 

Hill Muniment 8

 

Muniment Hill 8 was created in 1699. The transcription of this muniment was generously sponsored by Karen and Peter McFarlin last year during the CMW Muniments Fundraising drive toward translation and transcription costs. This was published in Loch Sloy in March of 2023. 
 
Colonel John MacFarlane, younger of that ilk, Fiar of Arrochar and Ardess predeceased his father Andrew the 15th chief. John however exercised the power of chief from about 1685. John was appointed Colonel of a regiment of foot around 1689 in the army of William and Mary. William III of England and II of Scotland born Dutch and raised Protestant was also known as William of Orange. Mary II of England, Scotland and Ireland was also raised Protestant at the behest of  her uncle King Charles II. Mary was the daughter of James II of England and Ireland and the VII of Scotland who fled in 1688 to France to live in exile and was the last British Catholic monarch. William and Mary who were first cousins co-reigned after James until the death of Mary in 1694 from smallpox. 
 
The 1690s were tough economic times in Scotland with famine due to failed harvests and trade wars between Holland, England, and France. The Nine Years War from 1688 to 1697 also called the War of the Great Alliance headed by William of Orange also created hardship.  
 
This muniment is a letter from A Mcintoshe of Perth on January 7th, 1699 on behalf of the trustees including a Lord Tullibardine to The Laird of McPharllan. According to the date and government position this Lord Tullibardine is probably John Murray the High Commissioner to the Scottish Parliament from 1696 to 1698, Lord Privy Seal and later to be the first Duke of Atholl plus Earl of Tullibardine. This letter is an attempt to explain the reasons why there has not yet been a remittance sent out of the grant or gift for schools from the trustees and in reply to a letter from John asking for said funds. There are several reasons or excuses given in the letter but it would appear that the trustees are basically lacking the funds and thus have not sent them out. It also would seem that the trustees are lacking funds due to the Treasury either being short on funds or not willing to spend what was promised. Most likely this was due to the current tough economic times. Unfortunately, any recent funding for the Arrochar School probably had to come from the locals including Colonel John MacFarlane as acting chief.   
 
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Muniment - Hill 7 1695

 

Hill Muniment 7

 

Muniment Hill 7 created in 1695 and transcribed/translated was published in Loch Sloy in December of 2022 and is now also available for CMW members to read on the website under Muniments.
 
This is a Petition from John McFarlan of that Ilk to the "Commission of Parliament '' for hearth & pole money. John, fiar of Arrochar although his father Andrew was still alive, had exercised the powers of chief from about 1685. John was appointed Colonel of a regiment of foot in the army of William and Mary c1689. John is asking for compensation owed to him from 1689 for providing six companies of his own men to be ready upon a call for his Majestie's service and in the meantime to muster immediately and maintain one of these companies to keep the pass between Loch Lomond and Loch Long and thus secure the Shyre of Dumbarton from incursions of the enemy. John then was asked to furnish another company of his men to go with the Earl of Argyll to bring some of the islands, particularly Mull under obedience to the crown. King James II was replaced on the English and Scottish Throne by King William III in 1689. To further put this into historical time and context one of the individuals discussed in this document was Archibald Campbell, 10th Earl of Argyll. This was the same Earl whose soldiers under his command were involved in the Massacre of Glencoe on February 13, 1692. I am not aware that the Earl (a Campbell) or Colonel John McFarlan were present during that infamous massacre.      

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  1. Muniment - Hill 6 1692
  2. Muniment - Hill 5 from 1580's or 1590's
  3. Muniment - Hill 4 from 1546
  4. Muniment - Hill 3 from 1705-10
  5. Muniment - Hill 2 from 1896

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