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 198 COMPLETE PEERAGE argyll ARGYLL EARLDOM [S.] i. Colin (Campbell), Lord Campbell [S.], (*) s. J and h. of Archibald Campbell, of Lochow, Argyll, ■ '^^'' jiTy/fd' Master OF Campbell, by Elizabeth, da. of John (Somervile), 3rd Lord Somervile, which Archibald was s. and h. ap. of Duncan, ist Lord Campbell [S.], but d. v.p., between Apr. 1431 and Mar. 1440. He sue. to the dignity of a Lord of Pari. [S.] by the death of his said grandfather, in 1453, being then a minor, and was cr. by James II, in 1457, EARL OF ARGYLL [S.]. (°) He was employed in various embassies to England and France, was Master of the Household 1464, and Chancellor [S.] 1483 to Feb. 1488, and again June 1488 till his death. In 1460 he had a commission as Bailie of Cowal. In 147 1 he had a charter of the heritable offices of Justiciary and Sheriff within the lordship of Lome. In 1479 he had a charter confirming to him the offices of Lieutenant and Commissary of Argyll, as held by his ancestors Gillespie and Colin Cambel under a charter of 1382. In 1487 he joined the conspiracy of the nobles against James III. He »;., before 9 Apr. 1465, Elizabeth or Isabel, da. and senior coh. of John (Stewart), 2nd Lord Lorne [S.]. On the resignation of her uncle, Walter Stewart, the h. male of the family, till then usually designated Lord Lorne, but after- wards Lord Innermeath [S.], he obtained a crown charter of the Lordship of Lorne (dominium de Lome), 17 Apr. 1470, to him and the heirs male of his body, with rem. to Sir Colin Campbell ot Glenorchy, to Colin Campbell Nelesoun, to Duncan Campbell (br. of Sir Colin, of Glenorchy), tPc, each in like manner respectively. It was made a condition of this resignation that the resigner should continue a Lord of Pari, by the style of Lord of Innermeath " or any other honourable place that pleases him. " From that time the Earl is usually designated (as are his successors) " Earl of Argyll, Lord Campbell and Lorne. (") After the rebellion in 1487, which ended in the death of James III at Sauchieburn, he was deprived of the office of Chancellor, but was reinstated by James IV in 1488, as above. He d. 10 May 1493. His widow d. 26 Oct. 1510, at Dunbarton, and was bur. at Kilmun. (") II. 1493. 2. Archibald (Campbell), Earl of Argyll, ^c. [S.], s. and h. He, like his father, was in the confidence of James IV, to whom, in Mar. 1494/5, ^e was Master of the Household. C) (') Both the Barony and the Earldom (of which the former was cr. 1445) belong to periods at which the Great Seal is defective, and no document connected with either is extant. The usual form and spelling is " Ergile, " or, when Latinized, " Ergadia. " It was in the time of the 1st Earl that the form of " Campbell " began to supersede the old spelling of " Cambel. " C") Walter Stewart, who had resigned the title of " Lorne, " became, according to the proviso contained in the resignation thereof, Lord Innermeath [S.]. {") Fortirgall's Chronicle. C) The statement, in Diet. Nat. Biog., that he was designated High Chan, of