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312 HIGHLAND PAPERS
II. RENTAL OF THE SEAFORTH ESTATES
So far as the Lewis is concerned this rental was made up after
a formal inquiry held in the island, the details of which are con-
tained in a document in the Register House, entitled 'Judicial
rentall or amount of y e real estate of William, late Earle of
Seaforth, in the Island of y e Lewes, taken by Mr. Zacharias
M/Auley, one of the Deputies to Edmond Burt, Esq., Receiver-
General of y e rents and profites of the unsold forfeited estates in
North brittain upon oaths or depositions of the respective Tennants
of the Lewes in presence of Kenneth Campbel, Substitute Bailie
of the Baron Court within the said Island, by vertue of a Commis-
sion from Kenneth M/Kenzie of Dundonnell, Deputie receiver of
the rents of the Estate of Seaforth, dated y e Twenty-sixth day of
Aprile 1726, att Stornoway.'
From this document it appears that in many cases a township
was held jointly, each tenant being liable for a fixed proportion of
the cumulo rent. Where this is so an excerpt has been made
from the depositions and added within square brackets to the
rental now printed. ,
The rental of the rest of the Seaforth Estates appears to
have been made up as the result of similar local inquiries held
at different times. The records of these are also among the
forfeited estates papers.