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NOTKS AND COMMENTS. 227
there remains tlie question whutlicr any portion of the
family ever vvaa in a, [)osition to be reckoned amonfr
the Highland clans, as were, say, those of tiie Stewarts
who settled in the Highlands.
The Lindsays of Bonhill hticanie almost as Celtic
in blood as were their neighbours the Colquhouns and
M'Auleya, with whom they intermarried. Moreover,
they held hereditarily a Celtic ollice, the Toscheacor-
ship of the Lennox. But they were not so numerous
in themselves, and their lauds could not have suj^ported
such a following as would make them a body to be
reckoned with. The Lindsays of Glenesk, however,
were powerful enough to influence affairs in their
neighbourhood ; and Mr Hugh Antrobus, a member of
the Clan Society, who has been enquiring into this
matter, thinks that they stood on much the same
footing as the adjacent clans.
A discussion on this and cognate questions, initiated
by Mr Arch. Campbell, Glasgow, was carried on in the
correspondence columns of the Ohaii Times during the
past summer. The correspondence diverges largely
into speculation, but certain definite assertions are
made, such as these,—that the people of the hill
country of Forfarshire, where lay the estates of tlie
Lindsays of Edzell, spoke the Gaelic language until
comparatively recent times; that they wore the kilt,
and in the 18th century carried the usual arms of
the Highlanders ; that the district was strongly
Jacobite ;
and that it was within the territory to which
the Act of Disarming of 1746 applied. Yet none of
these facts, nor all of them together, can be taken as
proving that a body of Lindsays was definitely recog-
nised as a clan comparable to the neighbouring clans.
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