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Excerpt from The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 40: A Monthly Periodical, Devoted Tom the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad To write the history of one of our leading Highland clans is a more arduous task than most readers of the Celtic Magazine are likely to realise, but the reception accorded to the histories of the Mackenzies, of the Macdonalds, and of the Ca...

Excerpt from The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 8: A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interest of the Celt at Home and Abroad Sliochd-gowchruim or Smiths. The Clan mhicgovies were a branch of the Camerons, while the Smiths were the decendants of the famous Goblza-or Smith who took the place of the missing man at Perth in 1396. About the Publisher Forgotten Books pu...

Excerpt from The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 9: A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and AbroadFax - I expect that you, with your friends, will not fail! To come considerably, to join me, as soon as you are advertized by the Earl of Glencairn of his march towards me.Lochiel soon after joined Middleton with a full regiment of good men, wh...

Excerpt from The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 3: A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abboad Thomas fitz-maurice succeeded his father as Lord Offally, and was generally known as Thomas Mor, or Great Thomas, in consequence of his distinguished velour and signal performances on the battlefield. This great warrior and powerful chief had...

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Excerpt from The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 2: A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad At the middle of last century, when Alexander Baillie was proprietor, the fortunes of the family were at a low ebb. Alexander Baillie had two sons, William and John, and two daughters, one Anna, married to George Baillie of Leys, the other He...

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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Court of Inquiry Appointed to Inquire Into the Intended Mutiny on Board the United States Brig. Of War Somers, on the High Seas: Held on Board the United States Ship North Carolina Lying at the Navy Yard, New-York, With a Full Account of the Execution of Spencer, Cromwell and Small, on Board Said VesselW The above Portrait of Commander Meekensie was taken by an excellent mist, while attending the sessions of the...

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Excerpt from History of the Frasers of Lovat: With Genealogies of the Principal Families of the Name, To Which Is Added Those of Dunballoch and Phopachy Davochmaluag, who was the only gentleman there at the time, and who is Lord Seaforth's great Tutor, used the two gentlemen very civilly, and said that he was very glad that the affair was taken away for the good of both the kindred, and Lord Seaforth sent the man that struck him a crown to dr...

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