A LORDLY HOUSE. 
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first Campbell, Le. Campus-bellus, Beau-cbamp, a Nor¬ 
man knight and nephew of the Conqueror, having won 
the hand of the Lady Eva, sole heiress of the race of 
Diarmid, became master of the lands and lordships of 
Argyll;—how six generations later—each of them 
notable in their day-—the valiant Sir Colin created for • 
his posterity a title prouder than any within a sovereign’s 
power to bestow, which no forfeiture could attaint, no 
act of parliament recal; for though he cease to be Duke 
or Earl, the head of the Clan Campbell will still remain 
Mac Calan More,—and how at last the same Sir Colin 
fell at the String of Cowal, beneath the sword of that 
fierce lord, whose grandaughter was destined to bind the 
honours of his own heirless house round the coronet of 
his slain foeman’s descendant;—how Sir Neill at Ban¬ 
nockburn fought side by side with the Bruce, whose 
sister he had married;—how Colin, the first Earl, wooed 
and won the Lady Isabel, sprung from the race of 
Somerled, Lord of the Isles, thus adding the galleys of 
Lorn to the blazonry of Argyll;—how the next Earl 
died at Flodden, and his successor fought not less 
disastrously at Pinkie;—how Archibald, fifth Earl, 
whose wife was at supper with the Queen, her half-sister, 
