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xxxii STB RORIE MACKENZIE, TUTOR OF KINTATL.
and then contracted with liim for the reversion of the former wadsets which Colin
of Kintail had acquired of him, and for a ratification and new disposition of all
his lands formerly sold to Colin, and payed him 30,000 merks in money for this,
and gave him a title to Laggan Auchindrum, which till then he possessed by
force. So that Glengarry did ever acknowledge it as a favour to be overcome by
such enemies, who over disobligements did deal both justly and generously. 1
Rorie employed himself thereafter in settling his pupil's estate, which he did to
that advantage, that ere his minority past he freed his estate, leaving him master
of an opulent fortune, and of great superiorities, for he acquired the superiority of
Trouternes, with the heritable stewartry of the Isle of Skye to his pupil, the
superiority of Eassay, and some other isles. At that time Macleod, partly by
laM r , partly by force, had possessed himself of Sleatt and Trouternes, a great part
of Macdonald's estate. Rorie, now knighted by King James, owned Macdonald's
cause as an injured neighbour, and by the same mediums that Macleod possessed
Sleatt and Trouternes, he recovered it from him, marrying the heir of it, Sir
Donald Macdonald, to his niece, sister to Lord Colin, and caused him take the
lands of Trouternes holden of his pupil.
From this explanation it will be seen how much of the old Macleod pro-
perty of the Lewis and other baronies came to the Mackenzie family. Lord
Cromartie valued his descent from the ancient race of Macleod ; and when
he was raised to the Peerage as Viscount Tarbat, and again as Earl of
Cromartie, he took in both patents the baronial designation of Lord Macleod.
His eldest son was styled Lord Macleod, and the eldest son of the third Earl
of Cromartie was also styled Lord Macleod. Some account therefore of a
race so closely connected with the Mackenzies is necessary in this memoir of
one who, both by marriage and property, came to represent the ancient Lords
of Lewis.
1 Tbe fend between the Macdonalds of Glen- it. While the church was burning, the piper
garry and the Mackenzies was of long stand- of Glengarry marched round the building
ing. Iu the course of this feud, in 1603, in playing a pibroch, which has ever since
a raid of the Clanranald of Glengarry into been known, under the name of Kilchrist,
Brae-Ross, occurred the burning of the church as the family tune of the Clanranald of Glen-
of Kilchrist, with the whole congregation in garry.