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of Gaelic Society of Inverness 1969
https://www.ambaile.org.uk/coo/user/assets/155/46298.pdf
A Knight of the name of Livergus came into Scotland in the train of Queen Margaret, wife of Malcolm Canmore. He was given an estate in West Lothian on which he bestowed his own name Livergus. This in course of time drifted into the form Livingstone, which is now the family and place name.
A Member of this family became the medical officer to the Priory of Ardchattan. He was given the lands of Achnacree in return for his services. The post became heredictary in his family, and in accordance with Gaelic usage they became known as MacLeays, sons of the physician.
The descendants were not all medical men. Some of them were foresters on the western ends of the royal forests of Mamlorn which stretched from the heads of Lochs Creran and Etive, eastwards to Lochtay, including all that mountainous tract of country made famous by the bard Duncan Macintyre
in later times ; it also included the noted Caire Ba ; the sight of which installed the fear of death into the heart of King James I of England's head hunter at Theobald's Manor when he was taken to see the corry in 1621. A white hind was the
attraction.
The forest of Mamlorn was a favourite hunting place of the Stewart kings, particularly James IV who had an adventure in it similar to that described by Sir Walter Scott in the first canto of "The Lady of the Lake." For his convenience when hunting on the western division of the forest, King James IV built Castle Stalker on a small island in Lochlaich, Appin.
When Sir James Livingstone received from King Charles I the temporalities of the see of Argyll and the Isles, he took up his residence in the old seat of the bishops in Lismore. This brought the name Livingstone into prominence, and the MacLeays having never forgotten the source from whence they
sprung now resumed their original name of Livingstone. A family of Livingstones were custodians of the crozier of St. Moluag ; they were known as the Barons of Bachuil, and held a free croft for their services. The crozier still remains in the family.
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