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St$,. SHS. IS& SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY FOURTH SERIES VOLUME 22 Acts of the Lords of the Isles Acts of the Lords of the Isles 1336-1493 edited by Jean Munro, PH.D and R. W. Munro EDINBURGH printed for the Scottish History Society by BLACKWOOD, PILLANS & WILSON 1986 © Scottish History Society 1986 ISBN o 906245 07 9 Printed in Great Britain ^ a PREFACE We could not have considered embarking on this task without the initial encouragement and the promise of continued support from Professor G. W. S. Barrow and Dr Grant G. Simpson, who were chairman of council and hon. secretary of the Scottish History Society when a volume on the charters of the lords of the Isles was added to the list of prospective publications. Over the years they have richly fulfilled this promise, and we thank them most warmly for the great help they have given us from their wealth of knowledge and experience. We have been fortunate to be working at a time when there has been a great upsurge of interest in the history of the later Middle Ages in Scotland. Discussions in the Conference of Scottish Medievalists and the Baronial Research Group have been of great benefit to us, and we are grateful to our fellow members, and especially to Dr Alexander Grant and Dr Jenny Wormald, for many helpful comments. Mr W. D. H. Sellar has shared with us his exact knowledge of manuscript sources on West Highland families, and given sound advice often at short notice. Recent work on the Vatican Archives has produced much new information, and our thanks go to Professor Ian B. Cowan for providing access to the transcripts at Glasgow University, and for guiding us in their use. At the same time the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland have been busy in Argyll, and we have had the opportunity to exchange ideas and information with members of their staff. We have benefited from the recent work of Dr J. W. M. Bannerman and the Rev. William Matheson, and from their patience in answering our questions on Gaelic matters. The staff of the Scottish Record Office have over the years taken a kindly as well as a professional interest in our work, and we are grateful to all of them. From the staff of the National Library of Scotland (including the Map Room), and from the Scottish Library staff in the Central Public Library, Edinburgh, we have always had efficient service. For his forbearance and a vi ACTS OF THE LORDS OF THE ISLES keen eye for detail we would like to thank Dr T. I. Rae, the society’s hon. publication secretary. Finally, it is a pleasant duty to thank the following owners of documents who have readily made them available for the purposes of this book: The Duke of Atholl, the Marquess of Graham, the Earl Cawdor, the Earl of Cromartie, the Earl of Dundee, the Countess of Sutherland, the Lady Saltoun; Sir William Gordon Gumming, Bt.; Ninian Brodie of Brodie, Lieut.-Commander Lachlan Mackintosh of Mackintosh, A. M. H. Matheson (Brahan), Captain Patrick Munro ofFoulis, Michael Nightingale of Cromarty, Miss Elizabeth Rose of Kilravock, and Alexander Urquhart of Craigston; the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; Messrs Anderson, Shaw & Gilbert, solicitors, Inverness; and Messrs Lindsays, W.S., Edinburgh. Crown copyright material in the Scottish Record Office and the Public Record Office is reproduced with permission of the Controller of HM Stationery Office, and transcripts of docu- ments held on deposit in the sro appear with the approval of the Keeper of the Records of Scotland. Material in libraries, subject where appropriate to the permission of owners, have been published by permission of the Librarian of Aberdeen Univer- sity Library, the Trustees of the British Library, and the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland. JEAN MUNRO R. W. MUNRO Edinburgh April, 1986 CONTENTS Preface v Table of Abbreviations ix Introduction xix Map Ixxxviii ACTS OF THE LORDS OF THE ISLES I. JOHN, 1336-1387 I II. DONALD, I387-C.I423 13 III. ALEXANDER, C.I423-I449 34 IV. JOHN, I449-I493 77 APPENDICES A. Royal grants of Lordship lands 207 B. The Lordship and the Papacy 239 C. Witnesses, Office-holders, etc. 245 D. The family of the Isles and its branches 278 E. Seals of the Lords of the Isles 316 index 323 CENTENARY ADDRESS 357 by Professor Emeritus Gordon Donaldson Historiographer Royal for Scotland Generous contributions from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland Glencoe Foundation Inc. 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    The Early Stewart Kings, the Lordship of the Isles, and Ireland, c.1371-c.14331 Simon Egan 31 THE IRISH ANNALS record that in the summer of 1433, a large MacDonald war fleet descended upon the eastern coast of Ulster.2 Though the precise location is uncertain, it appears that this force landed somewhere in the modern-day barony of Dufferin; then a lordship situated on the east coast of County Down and controlled by the Anglo-Irish White family. Upon arrival the commander of the Scottish fleet, whom numerous annals refer to simply as ‘MacDomhnaill na h-Alban’(i.e., MacDonald of Scotland), was received by Eoghan O’Neill, the lord of Tyrone. These leaders appear to have entered into some form of council with one another before agreeing to combine their armed forces and embark upon what eventually amounted to an impressive military campaign against Eoghan’s main rival, Niall Garbh O’Donnell (d.1439), the lord of Tyrconnell. Moreover, the success of this joint military venture had a major impact not only upon the politics of Ulster, where it saw Eoghan established as the dominant magnate, it had serious ramifications for the balance of power within Scotland and the fortunes of the MacDonalds. The significance of the MacDonald intervention in Ulster has received very little attention within the historiography of late medieval Ireland and Scotland.3 Broadly speaking historians have tended to view medieval Gaelic Ireland and Gaelic Scotland as separate cultural and political spheres, rather than exploring how both regions were highly interconnected through ties of dynastic politics and common political and military interest.4 Instead scholars 1 I would like to thank the anonymous peer reviewer for their constructive comments which improved this essay significantly.