Saddell Castle (9)
In 1556 the Bishop of Argyll was again a Hamilton, James Hamilton, half brother of the Earl of Arran. The Bishop gave or sold the whole Saddell estate, consisting of 48 merklands, to his half brother (a single merkland was a farm worked by one plough drawn by four horses).  Arran exchanged it for a property on the Island of Arran belonging to James Macdonald, Chief of the MacDonalds of Dunnyveg, whereupon the Saddell estate lost its ecclesiastical status and became an ordinary secular barony, though subject to the Bishop’s right to stay in the Castle whenever he wished!
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