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 | | By her he had three sons, Donald, John, and Alexander, and by reason, it is believed, that they were the king’s grandsons, the eldest of the three was preferred to the succession to the Lordship of the Isles. |
 | | Having acquired a bard, Sir James began to make use of him to extend his knowledge of Gaelic and of the ancient Gaelic poetry, which, thanks to MacPherson's Ossianic translations, was of great interest at the time. |
 | | This the bard must have felt as a real personal loss, especially if he realised, as he probably did, that his successor, Sir Alexander (later Lord) MacDonald, was a man of entirely different outlook and sympathies. |
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