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INTRODUCTORY NOTE
As in some other cases the Macleods, who really formed
two separate clans, claim to be descended from two
brothers, Norman and Torquil.
From Norman or Tormod are descended the Macleods
of Harris and Glenelg, known as Siol Thormoid. From
Torquil sprang the Macleods of Lewis—the Siol Thorcuil,
with their cadet families of Assynt and Raasay.
The Siol Thormoid still flourish. Their chief is gener-
ally known as Macleod of Macleod, and his seat is the
ancient castle of Dunvegan in Skye. Many cadets of the
Siol Thorcuil no doubt still exist, but the history that
follows tells of the evil fate that in the end of the sixteenth
century overtook the family of their chiefs. By
the courtesy of the Faculty of Advocates it is printed
from a MS. recently found in their Library and now
known as -MS. No. 22.7.11. This is a little volume,
on the leaves of which are pasted folios of a MS.
apparently in the handwriting of the early seventeenth
century, and bearing as a title ' The Ewill Troubles of
the Lewes.' So far no authentic information as to the
authorship and history of this MS. has been obtained, but
in the course of inquiries some facts have been observed
which it may perhaps be useful to record as illustrating
how Highland History has been compiled.
!A little volume, which is now very scarce, entitled The
History of the Feuds and Conflicts among the Clans, was
published in Glasgow in 1764 by Robert and Andrew
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