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THE PROPHECIES OP THE BRAHAN SEER. 69
but ultimately Mackenzie managed to obtain possession
of the whole island, and it remained in the possession
of the family until it was sold by the " Last of the Sea-
forths."
This, the first, Lord Mackenzie of Kintail died in
1611. One of his sons, Simon Mackenzie of Lochslin,
by his second wife, Isabella, daughter of Sir Alexander
Ogilvie ot Powrie, was the father of the celebrated Sir
George Mackenzie, already referred to. His eldest son,
Colin, who succeeded him as second Lord Mackenzie of
Kintail, was created first Earl of Seaforth, by patent
dated the 3d December 1623, to himself and to his heirs
male. Kenneth, Col in' s grandson, and third Earl ot
Seaforth, distinguished himself by his loyalty to Charles
the Second durmg the Commonwealth. He supported
the cause of the Hoyalists as long as there was an op-
portunity of fighting tor it in the field, and when forced
to submit to the ruling powers, he was committed to
prison, where, with much firmness of mind and nobility
of- soul, he eudui-ed a tedious captivity during many
years, until he was ultimately released, after the Re-
storation, by authority of the King. He married a lady
descended from a branch of his own family, Isabella
Mackenzie, daughter of Sir John Mackenzie of Tarbat,
and sister of the first Earl of Cromartie. To her cruel
and violent conduct may undoubtedly be traced the re-
markable doom which awaited the family of Seaforth,
which was predicted in such an extraordinary manner
by Coinneach Odhar, fulfilled in its minutest details,
and which we are, in the following pages, to place be-
fore the reader.