Description
Manuscript license, dated 8th December 1611, granted to Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy (spelled Glenurquhy) from the Privy Council, giving him permission to "confer, deal, reset and intercommune'" with "suche of Clangregour as he shall think meete for drawing of thame from the rest of their societie...", and, "Exoniring and relieving him of all pane and dangir that he may incur thairthrouch", signed 'Dunfermeline' and 'Argyle', over 170x125mm, with thirteen lines of writing and signatures, framed and glazed, paper would appear to have been folded into 8, with a couple of very small tears along central horizontal fold
Footnote
Provenance: Sir Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy, 1545-1631, ''Black Duncan of the Cowl", and subsequently part of the Breadalbane papers
Note: In April 1603, King James VI issued an edict proclaiming the name MacGregor to be 'abolished'. This came in the wake of years of the Clan Gregor having been restricted in their lands to Glenstrae by the Campbells, and subsequent inter-clan battles and killings. As of 1603, the Clan Gregor would be persecuted by law, and anyone bearing this name and refusing to renounce it would be put to death. Until the edict against the clan was repealed in 1774, it was illegal to be a MacGregor, or to protect or support the cause of those who held onto the name. It was also forbidded to speak with or have contact with any MacGregors.