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GENEALOGIE OF SURNAME OF M'KENZIE 17
They
he asked the two men qt they did w* ye Laird ;
ansred that they left him bound in the wood : In this
conflict of Bellach ni broig l The Laird of Kildin w* seven
score of his name was killed and almost all the name of
Monro having left thirteen that were to succeid Lairds of
ffoulis ane after anoy r . But M'Awley finding that they
left the Laird in the wood reteires again to y e wood and
be providence finds the Laird wher he was left. He
makes heast away w* him comes to the marches of Kintail
q r he meits w* fourtie men of the Heretrix's carieing
provision to the house, he puts them all to the sword.
Takes y r burdens on his own back and on the backs of so
manie of his companie as he pleased to bring with him.
The place qr he apprehended ym is called as yet Aid na
balgan: 2 straight w* these burdens he and his companie
came to Ellandonnan having his armes under his clouthes,
to play that constable like for like, he cried to open the
yaits that they were wearied w* long travel, that they
traveled none but in the night for fear to be apprehended.
The sillie Constable thinking them to be cariage
boys leit them all have entres but how soon they patt
off ther burdens. They apprehended the Constable and
such as he had with him.
How soon M'Auley provided the house in all things
necessarie for a long seidge he sent word to the Heritrix
to deliver his m r to his libertie from prisson oy r wayes he
would hang her uncle. The Ladie seing that better could
not be, and seeing him obstinat, she did sett him at libertie
for to get her uncle back again.
Of this Alex 1* Leslie The Clanleandris got the lands of
Belnagawn, and how now they are called Rosses I beleeve
1 This fight no doubt took place, but the date seems uncertain. Sir Robert
Gordon {History of the Earldom of Sutherland, p. 36) has a version of the
story, and gives the date as about 1275. In The Wardlaiv MS., p. 83, it is
given as 1374. On the other hand, a modern writer, Mr. A. Mackenzie, in his
History of the Munros, p. 20, says, ' There is now no doubt that this battle
. . . was fought in 1452.' But his account of the preceding incidents does
not inspire confidence.
2 Allt nam balgan, i.e. the Burn of the burdens, or strictly, of the Wallets.
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