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This is wonderful to have available this monumental history of The Clan Donald on line. This has been the basis of most of the modern histories of Clan Donald and being able to see the original from my computer is delightful. The only time I saw an original hard copy of this three volume work was at Armadale Castle library in the Clan Donald Centre on the Isle of Skye.
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Page 88 - Good old plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can,'
Page 170 - Come away, come away, Hark to the summons! Come in your war array, Gentles and commons. Come from deep glen, and From mountain so rocky, The war-pipe and pennon Are at Inverlochy. Come every hill-plaid, and True heart that wears one, Come every steel blade, and Strong hand that bears one.
Page 366 - ... former customes of the countrey inviolable, and to deliver up the succession peaceably to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered unto him by some whose proper office that is ; after which, descending from the stone, he turneth himself round, thrice forwards and thrice backwards.
Page 364 - He was clothed in a white habit to show his innocence and integrity of heart, and that he would be a light to his people and maintain the true religion. The white apparel did afterwards belong to the poet by right. Then he was to receive a white rod in his hand, intimating that he had power to rule, not with tyranny and partiality, but with discretion and sincerity. Then he received his forefathers...
Page 366 - They use to place him that shall be their captaine upon a stone, always reserved to that purpose, and placed commonly upon a hill. In some of which I have seen formed and engraven a foot, which they say was the measure of their first captaine's foot...
Page 320 - Great men may jest with saints : 'tis wit in them ; But, in the less, foul profanation. Lucio. Thou'rt in the right, girl ; more o' that. Isab. That in the captain's but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
Page 143 - Were I Glenallan's Earl this tide, And ye were Roland Cheyne, The spur should be in my horse's side, And the bridle upon his mane. "' If they hae twenty thousand blades, And we twice ten times ten, Yet they hae but their tartan plaids, And we are mail-clad men. " ' My horse shall ride through ranks sac rude, As through the moorland fern, Then ne'er let the gentle Norman blude Grow cauld for Highland kerne.
Page 207 - Highland fashion, with halbershownes, bows, and axes ; and promised to the King, if he pleased to pass any farther into the bounds of England, that he and his company should pass ane large mill before the host, and take upon them the press and dint of the battle " ; and that he was found very serviceable " to spoil and herrie the country...
Page 440 - Alexandro et heredibus suis / de nobis et heredibus nostris in feodo et hereditate per omnes rectas metas et divisas suas cum omnibus et singulis libertatibus...
Page 66 - Scotland led in luve and le, Away wes sons of ale and brede, Of wyne and wax, of gamyn and gle : ' Oure gold wes changyd into lede, Cryst, borne into virgynyte, Succour Scotland and remede, That stad is in perplexyte...
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Clan Donald, Volume 1 The Clan Donald, Archibald Macdonald |
| Authors | Angus Macdonald, Archibald Macdonald |
| Publisher | Northern Counties Publishing Company, Limited, 1896 |
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