I was a bairn just talking and toddling about the year the Stewart fled and King William came to England.

My father had Campbell blood in him and was a friend of Argyle's.

The estate of Glenfernie was not to him then, but his uncle held it and had an heir of his body.

My father was poor save in stanchness to the liberties of Kirk and kingdom.

My mother was a minister's daughter, and she and her father and mother were among the persecuted for the sake of the true Reformed and Covenanted Church of Scotland.