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30 HIGHLAND PAPERS
Hector ansred that if he had such rela°ne to him as he had
to Kenneth y 1 he would doe y e like for him, therfor he to
take his choise land in his countrey. Now seing I intend
to shew more of Hector qn I come to speak of him and
his familie, I leave him now ruling his nephewe's estate,
and will speak of ye nephew.
The 10th Laird of this familie was called John. 1 He
entered Laird in ye beginning of ye reigne of K. James
ye 4 th qm he faithfullie served. Wm. Drummond of
Hathornden in his historie of ye reigne of ye 5 th K. James
reports that he and M'Lean were killed w* ye prince at
Flowdoun in ye year 1513 ; but ye contrarie is known for
he escaped ye feild of Flowdoun and aft. fought w*. Q.
Marie at ye battle of Pinkie in ye year 1547 qr manie
Scotsmen were taken prissoners and amongst ye rest he
and ye Laird of Kilravock qo told to ye enemie that they
were both coraone men, the one a bowman and ye oy r a
the reason of this alledgiance was that they might
Miller ;
ye sooner be putt at libertie wtout a ransome, but qn
Huntley wes sent over to know ye prissoners he saluted
M'Kenzie be his name amongst ye comones. But qn
the enemie saw Huntley take him by ye hand they knew
he was no comone man, they took him from ye comone
prisson and putt him w l ye rest of ye nobilitie of Scotland
that were prissoners till he was ransomed wt cowes that
was raised throw all his land ; but ye Laird of Kilravock
came off as a miller. I had almost forgot a storie of
1 He is generally known as 'John of Killin.' If one may judge from the
charters in his favour recorded in the Register of the Great Seal, it was he to
whom the subsequent importance of the Mackenzies was largely due. In
The Earls of Cromartie, 1. xix., Sir William Fraser says: 'The earliest charter
now in the Seaforth charter chest in favour of a Mackenzie of Kintnil bears dale
March 10, 1525. It was granted by King James the Fifth in favour of John
Mackenzie of Kintail and Isabella Grant, bis wife, of the lands of Fodarty,
Strathgarve and Killyn, in the earldom of Ross.' He then proceeds: 'From
the Register of the Great Seal it appears that in 1509 James the Fourth granted
a charter of Kintail to John Mackenzie, son of Kenneth Oig, who was the son
of Alexander Mackenzie, owner of Kintail, in 1463 '
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The charter in question,
dated February 25, 1508-9, is 'Johannis Makkenze de Keantalle,' and proceeds
on his own resignation. It does not mention Kenneth Oig or Alexander, and
for the remarkable confusion of generations Sir William, not the Record,
seems to be responsible.