The Highlanders of Scotland - Clan Strachan Society

312 THE HIGHLANDERS [part ii
Lachlan Maclean of Morvem, and sustained the warlike
character of the clan throughout that enterprise.
In the )'ear 171 5 the Macleans also joined the rising under
the Earl of Mar, and suffered upon that occasion the same
penalt}'
with the other clans who had been induced to take a
part in that unfortunate expedition. But their estates having
been afterwards restored, they were prevailed upon by the persuasions
of President Forbes to remain quiet during the subse-
quent insurrection of the year 1745.
Nevertheless, although they had thus escaped the snare into
which so man\' of the clans fell upon this occasion, the family
became soon after extinct, and the clan is now divided into
several independent branches who contest with each other the
honour of the chiefship.
Arms.
Quarterly — First. Argent, a rock gules- Second— Argent, a de.xter hand
fess-ways, couped. gules, holding a cross ciosslet, fitchee, in pale azure.
Third— Or, a lymphad sable. Fourth— Argent, a salmon naiant,
proper; in chief, two eagles' heads erased, affronte gules.
Badoe.
Blackberry heath.
Pri7icipal Seat
Mull.
Oldest Cadet.
The family of Lochbuy, who h»ve long claimed the chiefsWp, appear
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to be the oldest cadet-
Chief.
Maclean of Dowart appears to have been chief of the clan.
Force.
Formerly 800. In 1745, 5°