Murder of John Campbell of Cawdor,
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https://randomscottishhistory.com/2019/05/10/ix-murder-of-john-campbell-of-cawdor/
Huntly and the Chancellor Maitland were connected with three chieftains of the clan Campbell— Ardkinlas, Lochnell, and Glenurchy— against the life of John Campbell of Calder, who was obnoxious to the latter persons on account of his supreme influence in the affairs of the minor Earl of Argyle. By the exertions of Ardkinlas, a man called MacEllar was procured to undertake the assassination of Calder: and in the same month which saw the tragedy at Dunnibrissle, this wretched man shot Calder with three bullets, through a window, as the victim sat unsuspecting of danger in the house of Knepoch in Lorn.
MacEllar and a higher agent in the a person of John Oig Campbell of Cabrachan, a brother of Lochnell, were taken and executed for Calder's death; but owing to various causes, among which the complicity and friendship of Maitland was probably the chief, Ardkinlas continued for a considerable time to keep out of the grasp of the law. ( Domestic Annals of Scotland, Robert Chalmers, (1874 http://www.electricscotland.com/history/domestic/), http://www.electricscotland.com/history/domestic/vol1ch8b. h tm )
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