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Lot 10 Con 6 hinloss (cont'd) . ‘1?" ‘ '74.“ r . y. - ‘ ~â€"v .3‘ ;? S;_Qur_custom has been to shall it MAC- afierhags the " " of the. sggilingog‘; the fig eat publishing house Momma - which name afipe ' ' ma ya iany, of our school books a,n$chool or college” mw' rrsity, has accounted for this in ‘ part. We markedyour bug‘s-by adding our Christian name or initials to the printed MACMILLAN already on the front page. Or perhaps we liked the pronounciation of MAQMILLAN better than an abbreviated, indistinct usage. n Here are a few notes gleaned from records in the reference library in Edinburgh. BUCHANAN of Auchmar, the historian of the great House of ,Buchanan, in enumerating the various branches of that wide- ",spreading tree, mentions the MacMillan as one of them.‘ (May I here add that there are also other spellings of the name in use. Macmillan, and Mac Milann) ‘ “The sons of Methlan" went to Kintyre upon account of a friendship then much cultivated betwixt the families 7 ,’ ' '. of the great Macdonald and Buchanan“ and "met with a very kind reception from the Lord Macdonald who, for " service, allowed to one of them then a considerable L 1 estate in Knapdale, in the Southâ€"West part of Kintyre, :9 who, for his heroic achievement, was termed "THE GREAT x \ MACMILLAN of Knapp." as is asserted by an account of his ‘ family, conveyed to my hands by MacMillan of Dunmore, r in Knapdale, being the principal man of that name or septa ‘ o who further adds, that in all times bygone. as also at 1‘ l ‘ present. he and his whole sept did and do own themselves .A to be descended of the family of Buchanan. AND THAT ONE ' - OF HIS ANCESTORS CAUSED BUILD A VERY PRETTY CHAPEL IN ‘ KINNORIE OF KNAP, FOR DEVOTION AND BURYING PLACE, IN th ‘ WHICH THERE IS A FINE CROSS, WITH DIVERS OTHER FIGURES NEATLY CUT IN STONE, AND A GREAT MANY CHARACTERS ENGRAVEN THEREON, SCARCELY LEGIBLE, WHICH INTIMATES TEE FOUNDER'S NAME TO HAVE BEEN AENEAS MACMILLAN." Thr I“ 'III.W "W05" is dchrihed h" Lhene to the Antiquaxv borietv of ECihburfi‘, - follows: "On one sidé, being that whjcr looks to the West, in tie Upper part of the CrOSs there is a rrITWSFltziior of the crucifixion of our Savior, and on the shaft there is e svmvd, furrownflai h" Ti l"itt moulding 51milrr to that which we so often find in churnw urwtiteoâ€" tuft of the Ervlish stvle. called ctein would- :h“ft ing. Uh t1? otier, file 3H3 ibL, :nfi ": uyzrr yezt is ornevtxtcfi riii a rinh and befintiful senies 0P intertwisted lines; an assemblero of fOTTS of the kind usuallv drâ€" hominaten *nyi”. 7n +lr inst, on ttis aide, is n v insnriptic t in row g “Iiâ€"3': 5! : Ea't‘ C,i"( 11'1"; \WIR’T I k"? ‘5] “3"” of ‘.""j," I :‘c‘ “v..; =. w " , £1 \ 7r I ‘ ( f‘V‘J.‘ L: W .~ "it? "WK iffr" .r:_tr.- , F Lt 31- 2 k*‘» ‘c‘ éi least three Furdrec years. ‘”ene is ‘ £415 at trititic: ti”? ;‘»v were