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isles. 
eldest daughter of Malcolm II, and 
was father to Duncan I. King of 
Scotland. He was considered as 
the most powerful man in the 
kingdom. 
It is generally thought that he 
exercised the office of chief justi- 
ciar over the kingdom, perhaps in 
a similar manner as it was exercised 
by the family of Argyle, so late 
as the year 1628, when the Lord 
Lorn, heritable justiciar of a!l Scot- 
land, did resign that high office to 
King Charles I. i 
In addition to the office of chief 
jasticiar, Crinan, it is thought, was 
the king’s steward over the crown- 
Jands in the western isles, as well as 
a large district on the main land of 
Scotland, called Dull. 
What the extent was of the 
crown’s patrimony, called Dull, I do 
not know; but, in the claim of Sir 
Robert Menzies for the lordship of 
Apin O'Dull, in 1748, the “Lord 
Advocate, in his reply, says, that 
the lordship of Apin O’Dull was 
anciently a part of the patrimony 
of the crown. And it is natural 
to suppose that it was part of Cri- 
nap’s Abthanedom. 
The Lordship of Apin O’Dull, 
as claimed by Sir Robert Menzies, 
comprehends the lands situated in 
the parishes of Weem and Dall, 
and Logierait. 
Crinan was the last Abthane in 
Scotland; for his son, Duncan J. 
appointed Bancho, Thane of Loch- 
aber as his Dapifer or Seneschalus ; 
and Malcolm Canmore appointed 
Walter to the office of Dapifer 
domini Regis, which became here- 
ditary in his family, until they suc- 
ceeded to the throne, in the person 
of Robert II. 
I shall be extremely happy to re- 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1792. 
He married Beatrix the ceive your Lordship’s sentiments on 
this subject, and am, 
My Lord, 
Your Lordship’s 
most obedient servant, 
Ropertr RIDDEL. 
An Account of a Combat between the 
Macphersons and the Davidsons. 
From the same. 
Colinton. 
N the year 1291, Macdonald, 
Lord of the Isles, and of part of 
the highlands, sent his sister's son, 
Angus Macintosh, chief of the Mac- 
intoshes, to inform Dugal Dall 
Macgillie Chattan, chief of the clan 
Chattan, that the Lord of the Isles in- 
tended to dohim the honour of a visit. 
It was then expected, that when 
this haughty Lord made a visit, 
the host was to make an offer of 
his own wife or daughter, accord- 
ing to the’ situation of his family, 
as a companion for the night to his 
visitor. Macgillie Chattan knew 
that this barbarous mark of respect 
would be rigorously insisted on ; 
and having an only daughter, and 
desirous of shunning the disgraceful — 
consequences Of the visit, he con- — 
trived matters so, as to clap upa 
marriage betwixt this daughter and — 
Angus Macintosh, who had come — 
as messenger from his uncle, Lord 
of the Isles, to announce the in= 
tended visit. By this match the © 
estate and chieftainship of the clan — 
Chattan was transferred to Macin- — 
tosh, who let the greatest part of 
his new acquired estate to the Ca- © 
merons. But the Camerons had _ 
no sooner obtained possession, than — 
they refused to pay the stipulated — 
rent; and Macintosh, endeayour- 
ing to compel them, many severe 
conflicts — 
