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Clan support for the house ofStuart acquisitiveness of the house of Argyle. Although the marquis had VII in 1689. Only the MacAllisters declared for the Whigs, as been executed in 1661, when his son Archibald was restored as earlier for the Covenanters, before switching sides. ninth earl two years later he embarked upon a credit squeeze that The 27 clans that declared unequivocally for the Jacobite revived his father's policy of forcing heavily indebted chiefs and cause demonstrated not just an increased willingness to support the leading gentry to accept the feudal superiority of their house. By royal house at the outset of campaigning, but also masked a exploiting the legal technicalities ofpublic and private indebtedness, pronounced movement of 10 clans in favour of James VII with a Argyle even had chiefs and leading gentry of the Macleans of Duart loss of 4 former supporters of Charles I. The only Royalist clan expropriated from Tiree, Mull and Morven by 1679. Six years actually to declare for the Whigs were the Mackays, principally later, when the ninth earl rebelled against the accession of James because one of their leading gentry, major-general Hugh Macrae of VII who had engineered his forfeiture in 1681, over 4000 clansmen Scourbie, commanded William of Orange's forces in Scotland. under the command ofJohn Murray, marquis of Atholl, drawn from Although the MacDonnells of Antrim opted to concentrate their clans throughout Gaeldom, but predominantly from the victims of political energies on Irish affairs, a small contingent from the Isle Argyle's acquisitiveness, systematically ravaged mid-Argyll, Cowal of Rathlin served with the Kintyre clans fighting for James VII. Of and Kintyre. This "Atholl Raid" gave a foretaste of the simple the 2S clans who maintained the same political standpoint towards antipathy to the restoration of the house ofArgyle at the Revolution. -\,1 0 1 Mackays (Strathnaver) Clans within Campbell spheres of influence who had switched their U 2 Sinclairs (Caithness) allegiance in the course of the civil war declared for James 3 Macleods of Assynt 4 Sutherland Men (Gordons and Gunns) 5 Rosses (Easter RosslDomoch Firth) 6 Mackenzies (Ross and Lewis) 7 Munras (Easter Ross/Cromarty Firth) 8 Chisholms (Strathglass) 9 Frasers (Strathconon, Strathfarrar and Stratherrick) 10 Mackintoshes and Clan Chattan (Strathnaim, Strathdearn and the Braes of Angus) 11 Campbells of Cawdor (and Islay) 12 Grants (Glenmoriston, Glenurquhart and Speyside including Ballindalloch) 13 Gordons (Glenlivet and Strathdon) 14 MacGregors (Strathavon, Deeside with Stewarts, and the Trossachs) 15 Macphersons (Badenoch) 16 Farquharsons (Braemar) ~17 MacDonalds of Sleat (with Trotternish and North Vist) ~fm"" 18 Macleods of Raasay 19 Macleods of Dunvegan (with Harris and Glenelg) 20 Mackinnons (Strathswordale) 21 MacRaes (Kintail) 22 MacDonalds of Glengarry (with Knoydart and North Morar) 23 MacDonalds of Clanranald (Moidart, Arisaig, South Morar, Small Isles, Benbecula and South Vist) 24 Camerans (Lochaber and Sunart) 25 MacDonalds of Keppoch (Braes of Lochaber) 26 Menzies (Lochtayside) 27 Atholl Men (Stewarts, Murrays and Fergussons) 28 Robertsons (Rannoch) 29 MacNeills of Barra 30 Macleans of Coli (and Muck) 31 Macleans of Duart (with Tiree and Morvem) 32 Macleans of Ardgour 33 Stewarts of Appin 34 MacDonalds of Glencoe 35 Cambells of Glenorchy (Lome and Breadalbane) ""'--36 Maclaines of Lochbuie 37 MacDougalls (Dunnolly, Firth of Lome and Craignish) 38 MacNabs (Glendochart) 39 Campbells of Argyle (with Kintyre, Colonsay, Jura and Ardnamurchan Cl Divided 40 MacNaughtons (Glenaray, Glenshirra ... Jacobite and Glenfyne) .:-:.:. Whig 41 Macfarlanes (Arrochar and Glenfalloch) Switched 42 Maclachlans (Stathlachlan and Glendaruel) Neutral 43 Lamont (Kyles of Bute and Cowal) ~ Battles 44 MacAllisters (Tarbert and Knapdale) 45 MacDonalds of Largie 46 MacNeills of Gigha and Taynish (and Mull of Kintyre with MacDonalds of Sandal . 47 MacDonnells of Antrim (including the Rathlin Isles). Clan support for the Stuarts: the Scottish civil war 1644 to 1647 AIM 149