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The year of God, 1602, the Lord Kintail, and his kin the Clan Kenzie,
fell at variance with the Laird of Glengarry (one of the Clan Donald),
who, being unexpert and unskilful in the laws of the realms, the Clan
Kenzie intrapped and insnared him within the compass thereof, and charged
him, with a number of his men and followers, to compear before the
Justice at Edinburgh, they having, in the mean time, slain two of his
kinsmen. Glengarry, not knowing or neglecting the charges, came not to
Edinburgh at the prefixed day, but went about, at his own hand, to
revenge the slaughter of his kinsmen. Thereupon, the Lord of Kintail, by his credit in Council, doth purchase and commission against Glengarry and his countrymen; which, being obtained, Kintail (with the assistance of the next adjoining neighbours, by virtue of his Commission) went into Morar (which appertained to Glengarry), and wasted all that country; then, in his return from Morar, he besieged the Castle of Strome, which, in end, he took, by treason of the Captain unto whom Glengarry had committed the custody thereof. Afterward, the Clan Kenzie did invade Glengarry's eldest son, whom they killed with 40 of his followers, not without some slaughter of the Clan Kenzie likewise. In end, after great slaughter on either side, they came to an agreement, wherein Glengarry (for to obtain his peace) was glad to requite and renounce to the Lord of Kintail, the perpetual inheritance of the Strome with the lands adjacent. |
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