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[MACGREOR] - THE PERSECUTION OF THE CLAN GREGOR
MANUSCRIPT LICENSE, DATED 1619 [POSSIBLY 1629], GRANTED TO DUNCAN CAMPBELL OF GLEN ORCHY
£475
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 9 October 2019 at 12:00 BST
Description
giving him permission to 'intercommnune' with certain members of the Clan Gregor, 250 x 200mm., with twelve lines of writing and signatures possibly of James Primrose (clerk to the Privy Council, [d.1641]) and A.L. Cancell.s, which could be Alexander Seton, the Lord Chancellor of Scotland [1604-1622], title to verso, folded into 8, 4 small wormholes affecting one letter and two small holes along centre fold, affecting one word
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'. The 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 Until the edict against the clan was repealed in 1774 it was illegal to be a MacGregor, or to protect or support the cause of those who held onto the name. The persecution of the Clan Gregor was so severe that it was even forbidden to communicate with clan members.