LETTER ADDRESSED BY JAMES MACPHERSON OF KILLIHUNTLY TO LOVAT,
Dated April 1742.
From the Cluny Charter-Chest.
My LORD,-- After an offer of my most sincere and dutifull respects to your LOP. and lovely family, I beg leave to inform you that I have had the perusal of a Bond of friendship entered into by your LOP. & Donald Cameron of Locheill and Lauchlan and Evan M'Pherson, Elder and Younger of Cluny, of the date the nyneteenth day of Aprile last, upon honourable and equitable grounds, as the said Bond itself bears, To which is subjoined a Desclaimation by the said Cluny Elder and Younger of a Transaction sometime ago entered into by the Deceast Lauchlan M'Intosh of that ilk and the said Lauchlan M'Pherson of Cluny Elder, wherein the said Lauchlan M'Pherson has been so far circumveened and imposed upon as to have acknowledged the said Lauchlan M'Intosh to have been his Chief and that of the whole Clan Chattan as descendents of the said Lauchlan M'Intosh's family, and promising for himself and successors to act the part of dutifull kinsmen to the said Lauchlan M'Intosh and the Representatives of his family in time coming, which Transaction and Write Cluny certainly has all the reason in the world to disclaim as dishonourable, disadvantageous, falsely and circumveeningly founded. It being evident and never contraverted that the family of Cluny were and still are the reall Lineall Representatives of the Heir Male of the Head of Clanchattan, and consequently Chief of the whole Clan. I say, my Lord, this being the fact, I not only agree, but also approve of and consent to Cluny's Disclaiming the said Transaction and Write to all intents and purposes so as he may still be esteemed as Independent of the Family of M'Intosh, at least as they are of him, and I assure your LOP. that I will not be wanting to support him in this his just right, as that is certainly my Indispensible and unavoidable duty. And nothing in time can be more agreeable to me than that Cluny and we all should be united in the strongest Terms and tyes of amity to your LOP. and Clann to latest posterity, as also to the honourable Donald Cameron of Locheill and his Clann in like manner being by repeated former good offices and Demonstrations of friendship to us all besides the principall. one now intended from your LOP., fully convinced of your sincerity and unalterable good wishes toward us, and particularly towards, My Lord, Your LOPs. most obliged, most faithful and obedient humble servant
(Signed) JAMES MACPHERSON.
KILLIHUNTLY, Aprile 1742.
Directed on the back, "To the Right Honourable Simon Lord ffraser of Lovat."
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