History of the clan Mackenzie

PREFACE.
WHILE submitting to the Subscribers the HISTORY AND
Genealogies of the Mackenzies, I feel fully alive to
its literary demerits, but I am, at the same time, sensible
of having done some little service to my Clan and to the
Literature of the Highlands ; and it is no small pleasure to
find that this has been already acknowledged in the most
tangible and gratifying form — evidenced by the large
and high-class List of Subscribers printed herewith.
The amount of labour and research involved in the pro-
duction of such a work is at once obvious.
For generous and effectual aid to increase the number
of my patrons, and for valuable genealogical notes, I am
specially indebted to Major Thomas Mackenzie of the
78th Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs). For Mackenzie family
MSS., and other valuable documents and information, I
have to express my obligations to James F. Mackenzie,
Esq. of Allangrange, Chief of the Clan ; to Sir Kenneth
S. Mackenzie of Gairloch, Baronet, my own immediate
Chief; to Major JAMES D. MACKENZIE of Findon ; to
Captain MacRa ClilSHOLM, Glassburn ; and to Mr DUN-
CAN A. Macrae, Monar. For the free use of an extensive
and rare library, I have to express my gratitude to
Charles Fraser-Mackintosh, Esq. of Drummond, M.P.,
F.S.A., Scot., and to his obliging Secretary, Mr Alexander
Fraser, our best known and most distinguished local Anti-
quarian ; as also to Bailie J. Noble, Bookseller, Inverness,
who always granted me free access to the many curious
and valuable historical and antiquarian books in his large
stock.
The Genealogies of the various families will be found in
the order in which they branched off from the main stem of
Kintail and Seaforth.
A- M.
Inverness, July 1879.