[233] For view of old Dunrobin Castle, vide vol. i. p. 83.
[234] Details of these feuds will be found in vol. i.
[235] For the circumstances attending this unnatural murder, which the Earl of Caithness is said to have instigated, see vol. i. p. 90.
[236] In reference to this, we extract the following from the Scotsman, Feb. 12, 1869:—“Within the last few days a handsome monument from the granite works of Messrs Macdonald, Field, & Co., Aberdeen, has been erected in the churchyard of Balquhidder, bearing the following inscription:—‘In memoriam of the Clan Laurin, anciently the allodian inhabitants of Balquhidder and Strathearn, the chief of whom, in the decrepitude of old age, together with his aged and infirm adherents, their wives and children, the widows of their departed kindred—all were destroyed in the silent midnight hour by fire and sword, by the hands of a banditti of incendiarists from Glendochart, A.D. 1558. Erected by Daniel Maclaurin, Esq. of St John’s Wood, London, author of a short history of his own clan, and for the use of his clansmen only.—October 1868.’”
[237] For the information here given, we are mainly indebted to the MS. above referred to.
[238] History of Scotland.
[239] Fraser’s Chiefs of Colquhoun.
[240] Fraser’s Chiefs of Colquhoun.
[241] Low’s Scot. Heroes, App.
[242] See view of Culloden House, vol. i. p. 657.