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ATTENDS THE PARLIAMENTS OF 1633, ETC. lis
papists, carding on Sunday, that instead of going to thanksgiving on a com-
munion day, he called for cards to play at the Beast, robbing his vassals of above
40,000 merks, declining the Assembly, and fomenting the troubles in Church
and State. Baillie adds, " Of his excommunication no man made question." 1
Sir John Mackenzie took also an active share in politics during the troubled
reign of King Charles the First. In 1633 he was commissioner for the barons
and freeholders of Inverness to the Parliament convened by the King ; and
again, in the important Parliament of 1639, he represented the same shire, 2
along with Thomas Fraser of Strichen, the second husband of his mother,
Dame Margaret Macleod, the heiress of the Lewis. In that Parliament a
supplication was presented by the General Assembly of the Church of Scot-
land, which bears to be anent the profanation of the Sabbath day and other
matters. The part of the supplication anent the discharge of going of mills
and salt-pans upon the Sabbath, was read, voted, and passed in Articles : And
for the salmon-fishings, before the Articles would give answer thereto, the
Earl of Dumferniline, Sir John Mackenzie, and others having interest, were
to be advertised and heard thereupon. The rest of the petition, which
referred to the hiring of shearers upon the Sabbath day, was referred to a
consultation among the burghs, and with the Laird of Wauchtoune and
other " understanding gentlemen." 3
In the continuation of the same Parliament in 1641, Sir John Mackenzie
became caution for young Glengarry under the following circumstances : —
1 With Patrick Lindsay, Bishop of Eoss, and his heirs as a burial-place, or for building
the predecessor in office of the deposed Bishop of desks, and the aisle still remains as a part
Maxwell, the Baronet of Tarbat had a mis- of the church, having engraved on it the arms
understanding about the tithes of Meikle of Cuthbert and Leslie, who was apparently
Tarrell, iu Tarbat. James Cuthbert, provost the wife of Cuthbert.
of Inverness, sometime proprietor of Loeh-
aline, built an aisle on the north side of the * 0ri S inal Amission, dated 1st August
kirk of Tarbat. Sir John Mackenzie acquired 1639 ' at Tarbat HouSe -
right to that aisle in 1634, to be used by him 3 Acts of Parliament, vol. v. p. 253.