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fair maid of ross
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.the North of Scotland. His grandson William fought at the Battle of Bannockburn and Hugh, the 5th Earl was killed at the Battle of Halidon Hill in 1333. Hugh's successor, William died without male issue and succession passed through the female line which later led to a struggle for the Earldom between the Lords of the Isles and the Regent Albany. The chiefship devolved upon William Ross, 2nd of Balnagowan and for over three centuries this line remained the principal family of the clan. From the 15th to the 16th century, the Rosses were preoccupied with a feud against the Mackays of Strathnaver culminating in the Battle of Blar Ault an Charish on the River Carran in July 1486, when Alexander 6th of Balnagowan and 17 of his clan were killed. David Ross, 12th of Balnagowan fought for Charles I at Worcester and died a prisoner in London in 1653. His son David supported William and Mary and was the last of the direct line. On his death in 1711, the estate was settled on the Renfrewshire family of Ross of Hawkhead, who were of no blood relation. The Munro Rosses of Pitcalnie became the senior representatives of the old line. During the Jacobite rebellions the Rosses supported the government, but later, during the 19th century the Rosses suffered heavily through the
clearances particularly in Strathcarran in 1854.
I don't know why you couldn't find this on Google as I came up with the following
THE MAID OF ROSS
One evening in I692, Captain Browne, Confederate warden of Ross Castle, was standing among its battlements watching his sentries below and glancing every now and then at the drawbridge a little to the east.
Today, he knew, the Confederates and the Cromwellians had given battle at Knocknaclashy, County Cork, and veteran that he was he felt that the Confederates must lose. They would then retire to this very castle of Ross, the enemy at their heels, and here the Irish would make their final stand. "And then what?" Captain Browne feared, not for himself, but for his only child, Amy, who lived with him and who was in the full bloom of young womanhood now.
Known as "The Fair Maid of Ross," Amy was sought after by all the young officers of the garrison, the most persistent being a lieutenant Raymond Villiers, descendant of an old English settler and owner of considerable estates along the river Maine. Well acquainted with the young officer's circumstances, the warden favoured his attentions but for reasons best known to herself Amy remained cold and aloof. "By my faith,' thought Captain Browne, who had been considering the matter, "I'll settle the question now," and calling his gilly, he asked that Miss Amy be sent to him.
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