2-4 S. IS. Juxe16. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



465 



Aristophanes : "The Lysistrates." — There 

 is a translation of The Lysistrutes in the Harleian 

 MS. 647G. Who is the author of this translation, 

 and is the date known ? A. Z. 



[Obadiah Oddy is the translator, and the handwriting 

 appears to be that of the close of the seventeenth cen- 

 tury.] 



THE M'AULAYS OF ARDINCAPLE. 

 (2 nd S. ix. 86.) 



In compliance with a promise made in a former 

 number of your useful publication, I beg to sub- 

 mit the following Notes concerning the ancient 

 family of Ardincaple. The original surname 

 appears to have been simply Ardincaple, — a word 

 signifying in the Gaelic "'the promontory of the 

 mare," and corresponding exactly with a conspic- 

 uous feature of their lands on the shores of the 

 Gareloch, Dumbartonshire. Maurice de Ardin- 

 caple was among those who swore allegiance to 

 Edward I. Another of the name, Arthur, proba- 

 bly a brother, is one of the witnesses to a charter 

 granted by Maldouin, Earl of Lennox, towards 

 the close of the thirteenth century. After this 

 the descent is involved in very great obscurity 

 till 1473, when Alexander do Ardincaple ap- 

 pears as serving on the inquest of the Earl of 

 Monteith. He seems to have lived at least till 

 1493. Aulay de Ardincaple was invested, on a 

 precept from John, Earl of Lennox, in the five 

 pound land of Faslane, adjoining Ardincaple, in 

 1518, and with his wile, Katherine Cunningham, 

 had seisin of the twenty shilling lands of Ardin- 

 caple in 1525. The public registers of Scotland 

 show him to have been possessed of various other 

 properties in Dumbartonshire. By the above 

 Katherine Cunningham he had at least one son, 

 Alexander, who succeeded, but left no issue; and 

 by a second wife, Elizabeth Knox, whom he mar- 

 prior to 152 s , he had among other children 

 Iter, who seems to have been the first who 

 in :d the surname of M' Aulay, and Aulay who 

 'a.iied on the succession. Notices of various 

 members of the family at this time will be found 

 in Pitcairn's Crimiiiul Trials. The theory of de- 

 scent most in harmony with the known facts of 

 th • .M 'Aulay genealogy traces them up to a 

 younger son of the second Alwyn, Earl of Len- 

 nox ; but an agreement entered into by the Aulay 

 last mentioned with the chief of the Clangregor 

 in 15'Jl indicates descent from quite another 

 stem. A transcript of the " Bond," as it is called, 

 tl in the E gister House, Edinburgh: it will 

 probably be new to many of your readers, though 

 printed recently in The. History of Dnmbarton- 



from i copy made by the Rev. \V. Maegi 

 Stirling for the late James Dennistoun, Esq., of 

 Dennntouu. In explanation of the "Bond," and 



as detracting from its value in a genealogical point 

 of view, it may be explained that the Macgregors, 

 about the period it refers to, were busy cement- 

 ing alliances wherever they could be formed, with 

 a view no doubt to strengthen them in those 

 excesses which culminated at Glenfruin in Feb- 

 ruary, 1603. As may be seen from Douglas's 

 Baronage an alliance of a similar nature had been 

 entered into in 1571 between Macgregor of that 

 Ilk and Lauchlan Mackinnon of Strathardill. 

 The "Bond" with M' Aulay of Ardincaple is to 

 the following effect : — 



"Be it kend till all men be thir presents Letters Us 

 Alexander M'Gregor of Glenstray on the ane part and 

 Awly M'Cawley of Ardingapill on the other part under- 

 standing ourselfs and our name to be M'Calppins of auld 

 and to be our just and trew surname whereof we are all 

 cumin and the said Alexander to be the eldest brother and 

 his predecessors for the qlk cause I the said Alexander 

 takand burden upon me for my surname and frynds to 

 fortifie mentyne and assist the said Awly M'Cawlay his 

 kyn and frynds in all their honest actions against quhat- 

 sumevir personne or personnes the Kinges Magtsty being 

 only except And syklyke I the said Awlay M'Cawlay 

 of Ardingapill taking the burdand on me for my kin and 

 frynds to fortifie assist and partak with the said Alex- 

 ander and his frynds as cumin of his house to the uter- 

 mist of our powers against quhatsumevir personne or 

 personnes in his honest actiounes the Kings Majestic being 

 only except And further quhen or quhat tyme it sail 

 happin the said Alexander to have ane wychte or honest 

 caws requesitt to hayff the advise of his kinsmen and 

 special frynds cumin of his house I the said Awlay as 

 brenche of his hous shall be redde to cum quhair it sail 

 happin him to haif to do to g3'ff counsall and assistance 

 efter my power And syklyke I the said Alexander 

 Binds and Oblisses me quhen it sail happin the said Aw- 

 lay to haiff the connsall and assistances of the said Alex- 

 ander and his frynds that he sal be redde to assist the 

 said Awlay and cura to him where it sail happin him to 

 hayf to do as cuniing of his hous Pfovydin Always albeit 

 the said Alexander and his predecessors be the eldest 

 brother the said Awlay M'Cawlay to haiff his awin 

 libertie of the name of M'Cawlay as Chyffe and to uplift 

 bis Calpe as bis predecessors did of befoir And the said 

 Awlay grantis me to give to the said Alexander ane 

 Calpe at the deceas of me in syng and takin as cumin of 

 his hous he doj'ing therefoir as becumes as to the princi- 

 pal of his huus And we the said parties Binds and 

 Ublisses everie ane of us to utheris be the fayth and 

 trewthis in our bodies and undir the pain of perjurie and 

 Defamatioun At Ardingapill the xxvij day of Maij 

 the zeir of God j m v c fourscoir alewiu zeirs .Before y r 

 witnesses Duncan Campbell of Ardintenny Alexander 

 AI'Gregour of Balhneanoch Duncan Tosachc of Pittene 

 Matthew M'Cawlay of Stuk Awlay M'Cawlay of Dar- 

 lyne Duncan Bayne M'rob with nth'ers (Signed) Awlay 

 M'Cawlay of Ardingapill Al : M'Gregour of Glenstra 

 Duncan Tosach of Pittene witnes Matthew M'Cawlay of 

 Stuk witnes Alcx r M'Cawlay witnes." 



Implicated as M' Aulay thus was with the tur- 

 bulent proceedings of the unhappy Clangrcgor, 

 he seems to have found means of escaping from 

 the savage vengeance directed against them after 

 their conflicl with the Colquhouns at Glenfruin. 

 The reader of Pitcairn's Trials will recollect that 

 Macgregor of Glenstrae in the course of his con- 



