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CONFLICTS. 19
prehend their uncle Neil, and behead him at
a place called Clafti-ne-gep in Strathnaver.
The Conflia of Tor an- Dow.
ADAM GORDON, firft of that furname
Earl of Sutherland, having married Elizabeth
Sutherland hcretrix of that country, took jour-
ney towards Edinburgh, the year of God 1517)
to difpatch fomc affairs there, which did con-
cern the fettling of his eftate, leaving the com-
mandment of the country, in his abfence, to
Alexander Sutherland (bafe brother to his
wife Elizabeth) and to John Murray of Abir-
fcors i which John Mackay of Strathnaver un-
derftanding (having now appeafed his civil
difcords at home, by the death of his uncle
Neill) he takes this occafion, m the very
change of furnames in Sutherland, to try if
he could gain any thing by fpoiling that coun-
try ; and thereupon affembling together all
the forces of Strathnaver, Affint, and Eddira-
chilis, with all fuch as he could purchafe out
of the weft and north-weft ifles of Scotland,
he invades the country of Sutherland with all
hoftility, burning and fpoiling all before him.
The inhabitants of Sutherland do fpeedily con-
veen together with all the parts of the coun-
try; and fo, under the condu£l of Alexander
Sutherland, John Murray, and William Mac-
kames, they rencounter with John Mackay and
his company at a place called Toran-dov/, bc-
fidc Rogart in Strathfleit, where there enfued
C 2 a fierce