PAISLEY REPOSITORY. BEING CHIEFLY A COLLECTION OF Poetry, Original and selected. "Select reading must certainly be allowed, by the No. IV, AN ACCOUNT OF A COMBAT BETWEEN THE MACPHERSONS AND THE DAVIDSONS. By Sir James Foulis of Clinton, Baronet. From the Tranfa&tions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. IN the year 1291, Macdonald, lord of the ifles, and of part of the highlands, fent his fifter's fon, Angus Macintosh, chief of the Macintoshes, to inform Dugal Dall Macgillie Chattan, chief of the Clan Chattan, that the lord of the ifles intended to do him the honour of a vifit, It was then expected, that when this haughty lord made a vifit, the hoft was to make an offer of his own wife or daughter, according to the fituation of his family, as a companion for the night to his vifitor. Macgillie Chattan knew that this barbarous mark of refpect would be rigorously infifted on; and having an only daughter, and defirous of fhunning the dif graceful confequences of the vifit, he contrived matters fo, as to clap up a marriage betwixt this daughter and Angus Macintosh, who had come as meflenger from his uncle, Lord of the isles, to announce the intended vifit. By this match the estate and chieftainfhip of the Clan Chattan was transferred to Macintosh, who |