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GENEALOGIE OF SURNAME OF M'KENZIE 41
agt. him y t he lived ane extor°ner and oppressor sorning
on his own comones and ye comones of others ; and that he
qlk moved Glengarrie to steal from
still lived in Adulterie ;
ye place of justice and take him to ye hills, qrupon he wes
proclaimed rebel, and M'Kenzie got the lawes agt. him.
Mackenzie also bought a comprising qlk the Laird of
Grant had agt. him for being accessorie to the burning
and harrieing of Wrqwhart in companie of Ewin m'Allan
Captain of ye Clan Chameron ; Angus m'Donald, Glen-
garrie's son, being of a restles spirit came under silence
of night to Kintaill and burnt ye Croy of Kintail and took
a hership of cowes away and putt some women and children
to ye sword. In revenge yrof M'Kenzie raised all his
followers and took 300 cowes of his own out of Straithbran
to be loan to his armie qlk consisted of 700 men
qrof Alex r Ros of Invercharron comanded nine score that
came from Belnagawne. John Gordon of Embo commanded
sex score that came from Sutherland, but he
reteired in Monar having growen fant hearted befor he
saw ane enemie. Andrew Monro of Teanowar * wes in his
companie at this voyadge and at manie oy r voyadges.
M'Kenzie marched forward the length of Morar, and
spoiled and wasted all Morar and caried home a great
boottie of cowes and horses qlk he distributed most
noblie amongst ye strangers, in so much that John Gordon
of Embo wes at his repentance for his returning home.
At this expedi°n to Morar, Alex r M'Kenzie of Coul being
sent from ye camp to ye hills to drive in goods w* a partie
of sex score chosen men that he had still w* him going
on everie onsett, after as he conveened ye goods he had
ane hott skirmish w* ye inhabitants of Morar stryving to
country where Protestantism had appeared— in England, in France, in Switzer-
land, in Holland—the same frenzy of destruction regularly appeared among the
lower sections of the populace.' It would, however, seem that in Scotland at
least this 'frenzy of destruction' was not confined to the lower orders {vide post,
p. 66, note), and that it only grew more violent wiih the lapse of time. For this,
however, Knox can hardly be held responsible. He seems, it is true, to have
suffered from a species of monomania with regard to the Mass, but it never
resulted in that lust for blood which characterised the theocracy of Melville
and his successors.
1 Now Novar.