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THE SUCCESSOES IN THE CEOMAETIE- MACKENZIE ESTATES
SUBSEQUENT TO LOED MACLEOD.
KENNETH MACKENZIE OF CEOMAETIE. 1789-1796.
TN the year after the Crown grant of the Cromartie-Mackenzie Estates to Lord
Macleod, his Lordship, on 3d May 1786, made an entail for the better pre-
servation of his lands and estates, and to regulate the succession after his death.
That entail is recorded in the Eegister of Entails on 27th June, and in the Books
of Council and Session on 21st July in the same year. By the destination of the
entail, the heirs named after his Lordship, and his own heirs-male and female, are his
brother-german, Colonel George Mackenzie ; then Kenneth Mackenzie, his cousin,
only son of Eoderick Mackenzie, brother of George late Earl of Cromartie, and
the heirs-male of their bodies; whom failing, the heirs-female of his brother
George ; whom failing, to Lady Isabella Mackenzie, his eldest sister, relict of
George Lord Elibank, and her heirs male and female ; whom failing, to Lad} -
Mary Mackenzie his second sister, relict of Middleton, Esquire ;
whom failing, to Jabez Mackenzie or Clark, a captain in the service of the East
India Company, only son of the Lady Mary Mackenzie, by Clark,
Esquire, her first husband, and his heirs-male and female ; whom failing, to
Thomas Drayton, only son of Lady Mary, by Drayton, Esquire, her
second husband, and his heirs-male and female ; whom failing, to the other heirs-
male or female of the body of the said Lady Mary Mackenzie ; whom failing, suc-
cessively, to Lady Caroline Mackenzie, wife of "Walter Hunter, Esquire of Polmood,
his third sister, Lady Jane Mackenzie, his fourth sister ; whom failing, to James
and Isabella and Euphemia Glassford, children of Lady Margaret Mackenzie, also
sister of Lord Macleod, and John Glassford of Dougaldston, Esquire, she being
now deceased ; whom failing, to Lady Augusta Mackenzie, his youngest sister,
wife of Sir William Murray of Ochtertyre, Baronet, and the heirs-male or female of
the heirs of entail before mentioned ; whom failing, to the heirs-female of the said
Kenneth Mackenzie, his cousin ; whom failing, to his own nearest heirs or assig-
nees whomsoever, the eldest heir-female and her descendants always excluding