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Mark of his Fidelity than Evidence of Failzure and an
Honour, not a Tash, to his Posterity. Ere he returned his
Father Kenneth died at Killin The 6th  June 1568, and was
buried with his Father in Beawliew.

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COLIN succeeded his Father Kenneth. He was called Colin
Caume because he wanted an Eye. During The Civil Wars
and Debates after Langside he meddled with no Party. But
when King James The Sixth took The Government, there was
none in The North for whom he had greater Esteem than for
this Colin. He made him One of The Privy Counsellors and
oft Times invited him to be Nobilitate. But Colin always
declined it aiming rather to have his Family remarkable for
Power as it were above their Quality than for Titles that
equalled their Power, albeit his Predecessores were active both
in War and Peace and prudent in acquiring their Estate, yet
this Man acquired more than all that went before him, and
made such a solid Progress in it that what he acquired was
with The Good Will of all and by clear unquarrelable Titles.
In his Time The seed of War was sown betwixt Glengairrie and
him, and grew by The Outragious Sornings of Glengairrie's
Followers and The sharp Resentments of Rorie of Readcastle
against them. But Colin did prudently dissemble some
Inquiries rather than fall into Hostility which he well knew
would not be so easily accorded if noticed. He bought several
Lands from Glengairrie, and wodset others. He acquired
Right from Bishop Lesly to several Lands of The Bishoprick
which The Regent had sacrilegiously forced from him and
detained by The Monros of Miltoun. But Mackenzie follow-
ing The juster Side attained to The former Title, and at Last
secured by Law he owned his Right by Force and expelled
The Monros from their unjust Pretensions, in which there were
some Skirmishes but always with Advantage on The Mac-
kenzies Side. He protected his Cousin Torkill MacLeod of
Lewis when he was oppressed by his unnatural Relations and
natural Uncles, and from this he acquired a Right to The
Lands of Assint, albeit The Possessores being always Outlaws
keeped him long from The Possession of that Purchase. He
married Barbara Grant Daughter to The Laird of Grant, and
by her had many Daughters whom he married thus, One to