12 déc. 1596 - Duncan charged with murder.

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He was accused but never charged for holding a murder plot meeting in 1591 in Dunollie castle. The meeting was initiated by his brother in law Sir Lauchlan MacLean of Duart and Duncan’s feudal superior, Campbell of Ardkinglas to seek Duncan’s aid in the murder plot to kill Sir John Campbell the Thane of Cawdor, who was subsequently shot in February 1592.

One of the murderers later confessed and accused Duncan of aiding the murder plot. Duncan and Ardkinglas were eventually sent to trial in Edinburgh in 1596. They were never convicted and the prosecution of the main plotters was abandoned though the actual shooter and one of the minor plotters were executed after a trial in Argyll.