The Celtic Monthly Volume 13; A Magazine for Highlanders (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. 1905 Excerpt: ...importance; for without it Dugald could never have succeeded hia father. Its insertion falls into place with the whole of Sir John's deliberate preparatory action and intention, and with hia final endeavour to carry that plan into execution. The significance of its insertion cannot be underestimated or regarded apart from the general and whole evidence of intention. Without that single, and from the antagonistic view unnecessary, word the whole fabric of evidence from the Appin Stewart standpoint falls to pieces--yet that word stands there a silent sentinel witness to the unity of the general intention, and to the possibility of the Dunstaft'nage wedding. To put the matter in plain language--would any sane reader, making his will aa an old married man, and having no heir, consider it necessary to go out of his way to leave his property to an hypothetically existing son by his own wife, full well knowing that no such son had ever been born to them in their past? Yet that ia what Sir John practically did in 1452 if he waa married; and if not then he clearly intended to legalize hia existing son Dugald at that time. There seems no other way out of it. The clear inference is that he had this in his mind; and that Lady Stewart waa in all probability dead. 2. If Sir John meant all along to marry Dugald's mother why did he delay from 1452 till 1463, when his arrangements were all presumably completed P Reply. The evidence apparently available does not enable us to aay when the last and youngest of the three daughters, Marion, was actually married off to Campbell of Ottar, and aettled. If Margaret or "Janet" waa the eldest, aa she certainly was, and married young, in 1448, then the other two weddings must have succeeded very rapidly indeed, and the brides...