Vindication of the 'Clanronald of Glengary' Against the Attacks Made Upon Them in the Inverness Journal (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1821 edition. Excerpt: ...Family of Clanranald uniformly h'ad that patronymic. " I defy him (Glengarry's defender) to prove that any after branch of the Family (of Glengarry subsequent to John Ranaldson in 1496) assumed the patronymic of Macranald; and I have clearly proved the Clanranald Family did, both Before and After the battle of Blareleine (anno 1544).--The descendants of Allan Alone (the imaginary ancestor of Casteltirrim, who is said to have lived early in the 5th century, ) were entitled to the Particular Family DistincTion of Macranald, or Macranald of Clanranald; and they alone have had it " f What credit then are we to give such a writer for any one part of his statement, after he has shewn himself guilty of such egregious mistakes? Will his client at all thank him for having in this manner, if we may use the expression, burlesqued his case, and so outrageously slighted his grand principle, " that it is easy to aver, but that no averment ought to be made Without Proof UnQuestionable To Support It?" It will now, it is believed, on all hands, be conceded, that there is no evidence either of the Casteltirrims or their supposed relatives bearing anciently any epithets that peculiarly marked them as representatives of Clanronald. They were all designated by their immediate patronymics, and not like the " Clanronald of Glengarry," " of the Isles," or " Ranaldson" after " Ranald of the Isles" far less recognized by Government as " Chief Of The Name And Clan Of Macdonald." Nay, they did not even assume the surname of Macdonald until the end of the 17th century f In vain, then, need they appeal to modern surmise, --to idle and partial misrepresentation; or yet to the authority of private Family MS. Histories, upon which a weak case of pedigree is always attempted...