History of the clan Mackenzie

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abode with his wife." Complaint was made to King James
the Fifth, who commanded the Baron of Kintail to give
Rorie up to justice. His brother, knowing he could not do
so openly and by force without trouble and considerable
danger, went to Kintail professedly to settle his affairs
there, and when he was about returning home he requested
Rorie to meet him at Glassletter, that he might privately
consult and discourse with him as to his present state.
Rorie duly met him on the appointed day with fifty men of
his"coalds,"the Macleays, besides ordinary servants and some
Kintail men. While the two brothers went to discourse,
they passed between the Kintail men and the Macleays, who
sat at a good distance from one another. When Mackenzie,
came near the Kintail men, he clapped Rorie on the shoulder,
which was the sign between them, and Rorie was imme-
diately seized. Gillecriost MacFhionnla instantly ran to the
Macleays, who had taken to their arms to relieve their Coald
Rorie Mor, and desired them in a friendly manner to com-
pose themselves, and not be rash, since Rorie was seized
not by his enemies, but was in the hands of his own brother,
and of those who had as great a kindness for him, and
interest in him, as they had themselves ; and further he
desired them to consider what would be the consequences,
for if the least drop of blood was shed, Rorie would be
immediately put to death, and so all their pains would be
lost. He thus prevailed upon them to keep quiet. In the
meantime Rorie struggled with the Kintail men, and would
not be taken or go along with them, until John More, after-
wards agnamed Ian Mor Nan Cas, brother to Gillecriost
MacFhionnla, took Rorie by the feet and cast him down.
They then bound him and carried him on their shoulders,
until he consented to go along with them willingly, and
without further objection. They took him to Islandonain,
whence shortly after he was sent south to the King, where
he had to take his trial. He, however, denied the whole
affair, and in the absence of positive proof, the judges
declined to convict him ; but the King, quite persuaded of
his guilt, ordered him to be sent a prisoner to the Bass>