IBRARY GENEALOGICAL MEMOIR OF THE MACFARLANES. TATIO THE distinguished family of Macfarlane, one of antiquity and eminence in a part of the empire where ancestry and exploit have ever been held in enthusiastic admiration, was founded by GILCHRIST, fourth son of Alwyn second Earl of Lenox, who obtained from his brother Earl Maldwin, a grant of the lands and barony of Arrochar, in the time of ALEXANDER I. Gilchrist's son, DUNCAN, was compelled, after a gallant defence of the national independence, to submit to EDWARD I. of England, and died soon after, leaving a son, MALDWIN, inheritor of his broad lands and his unflinching patriotism. During the adverse fortunes of Robert Bruce, the laird of Arrochar, with his kinsman the Earl of Lenox*, was the faithful attendant of the safest all his heroic prince, who found a safe retreat in * On the banks of Loch Lomond, Bruce met with the Earl of Lenox, who, wandering there for protection, discovered the king was in his neighbourhood, by hearing a bugle sounded with an art which he knew to be peculiar to his master. They met, embraced, and wept. By the guidance and assistance of Lenox, Bruce reached the province of Cantire, then subject to Angus, called Lord of the Isles.-Sir Walter Scott. VOL. X.-NO. I.—JANUARY 1837. BARTHOLOMEW, or, as that name is called in Gaelic, PHARLAN. He lived in the reign of David Bruce, and was father of MALCOLM MACFARLANE, or the son of Pharlan, of Arrochar, who became, on the demise of Donald sixth Earl of Lenox, in 1373, undoubted heir male of that noble family. He died not long after, and was succeeded by his son, DUNCAN MACFARLANE of that Ilk, who married Christian, daughter of Sir Colin Campbell, of Lochow, and died in the reign of JAMES I. leaving a son and successor, JOHN MACFARLANE of that Ilk, who WALTER MACFARLANE, of that Ilk and B |