Gleanings From The Charter Chest At Cluny Castle: Embracing Extracts From Session Papers Correspondence Regarding The Fortified Estates of Cluny Of The '45 and Petition By Colonel Duncan Macpherson To The Lords of The Treasury 1761-84. No. IV.

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Inverness: Printed at the "Northern Chronicle" office 1901. 8vo. Original wrappers (heavily foxed). (32pp.). Specimen pages from 'The History of The Clan Mackintosh and the Clan Chattan' by Margaret Mackintosh (1948) including 'Extract of matriculation of arms' with b/w postcard of Cluny Castle loosely inserted. Page 15 loose. End-papers heavily foxed. NOTE: Reprinted from 'The Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness ' this rare document from the Clan Macpherson family was forgotten for centuries in the great charter chests of Cluny Castle. There are selections recording the forfeiting of the estates of Cluny and the high treason of Ewan Macpherson after the Battle of Culloden.