Genealogie of the Mackenzies, preceeding ye year M.DC.LXI

THE
(3enealoGte of the fll>acfeen3ies
PRECEEDING Y E YEAR 1661.
JL HE Familie of y e Geraldines was transplanted from Florence (as
Cambden relates) To Bretaigne in Two Brethren of y e name, who ac-
companieing William the Conqueror from France to the Conquest of
England anno 1066, were by him rewarded among the other Cheefes by
a shair in y e purchase.
They settled in the West of England, where they lived in the duty
of peaceable obedience till Glory called them with Strangbowe to Ire-
land in assistance of Dermond King of Leinster, in which Warr They
attained To such repute by the valour of Maurice Fitz-Gerald, who was
the nixt in power to Pembrock, That he and others of his Relations were
eyed by the King as Fitt to attempt, or sufficient at least to beginn, a
Conquest For him of that Isle; Nor did they faill his expectation, That
Family, and that only, at first acquiring and ever retaining what they
conquered there.
This Familie confident of y r owne merits, or perhaps by ane Innate
Generositie, as they were never at ease when their Prince hade warr, So
in tym of peace, they were never amongst those Court drons that fedd
on the honey of Braver men's labours, but being ever notable in Warr,
so they were ever private in peace, and because it was below their hu-
mour to truckle under Court Parasites — They therefore frequentlie
smarted under favorites' odiums.