ly desire and resolve
to make up, and put at their ease Allexander Fraser of Topatry, and
James Fraser of Castle Ladders and their familys; and whatever
disputs might ever be betwixt them and me which our mutual hot
temper occasioned, joyned with the malice and calomny of both our
ennemies, I take God to witness, I loved those two brave men as I
did my own life for their great zeal and fidelity they showed for
their chief and kindred; I did likewise resolve to support the
families of Struy Foyers and Culdithels families, and to the lasting
praise of Culdithel and his familie. I never knew himself to sarwe
from his faithfull zeal for his chief and kindred, nor none of his
familie, for which I hope God will bless him and them and their
posterity. I did likewise desyring to make my poor Commons live at
their ease and have them always well clothed and well armed after
the Highland maner, and not to suffer them to wear low country
cloths, but make them live like their forefathers with the use of
their arms, that they might always be in condition to defend
themselves against their ennemies, and to do service to their
friends, especially to the great Duke of Argile, and to his worthy
brother the Earl of Illay, and to that glorious and noble famyly who
were always our constant and faithful friends; and I conjure you and
all honest Frasers to be zealous and faithfull friends and servants
to the family of Argile and their friends, whilst a Campbell and a
Fraser subsists. If it be God's will that for the punishment of my
great and many sins and the sins of my kindred, I should now depart
this life before I put these just and good resolutions in execution;
yet I hope that God in his mercy will inspire you and all honest
Frasers to stand by and be faithfull to my cousin Inverlahie and the
other heirs male of my family, and to venture your lives and
fortunes to put him or my nearest heirs male named in my Testament
written by John Jacks, in the full possession of the estate and
honours of my forefathers, which is the onely way to preserve you
from the wicked designs of the family of Tarbat and Glengary joyned
to the family of Athol: and you may depend upon it, and you and your
posterity will see it and find it, that if you do not keep stedfast
to your chief, I mean the heir male of my famyly; but w