Grave writers tell of the victory gained at Inverlochy by the royalists over the rebels.

But the peasants who dwell near the spot speak more accurately.

They talk of the great battle won there by the Macdonalds over the Campbells.
The feelings which had produced the coalition against the Marquess of Argyle retained their force long after his death.

His son, Earl Archibald, though a man of many eminent virtues, inherited, with the ascendancy of his ancestors, the unpopularity which such ascendancy could scarcely fail to produce.

In 1675, several warlike tribes formed a confederacy against him, but were compelled to submit to the superior force which was at his command.