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THE CELTIC MAGAZINE.<br />

guish him from his father, and he at an early age discovered the benefits of<br />

the faithful adherence of his father to the fortunes of Charles II. In 1678<br />

we find his name among those chiefs who, by a proclamation issued on the<br />

10th October of that year, were called upon to give bond and caution for<br />

the security of the peace and quiet of the Highlands, which the leaders of<br />

the clans were bound to give, not only for themselves but for all of their<br />

name descended from their house. Notwithstanding all the laws and<br />

orders hitherto passed, the inhabitants and broken men in the Highlands<br />

were " inured and accustomed to liberty and licentiousness "<br />

during the<br />

late troubles and " still presumed to sorn, steal, oppress, and comit other<br />

violences and disorders." The great chiefs were commanded to appear in<br />

Edinburgh on the last Tuesday of February 1G79, and yearly thereafter on<br />

the second Thursday of July, to give security, and to receive instructions<br />

as to the peace of the . Highlands. To prevent any excuse for non-attendance,<br />

they were declared free from caption for debt or otherwise while<br />

journeying to and from Edinburgh, and other means were to be taken which<br />

should be thought necessary or expedient until the Highlands would be<br />

finally quieted, and " all these wicked, broken, and disorderly men utterly<br />

rooted out and extirpated." A second proclamation was issued, in which<br />

the lesser barons heads of the several branches of clans whose names<br />

are given, were to go to Inverlochy by the 20th of November following,<br />

as they are, by reason of their mean condition, not able to come in to<br />

Edinburgh and find caution, and there to give in bonds and caution for<br />

themselves, their men tenants, servants, and indwellers upon their lands,<br />

and all of their name descended of their family, to the Earl of Caithness,<br />

Sir James Campbell of Lawers, James Menzies of Culdares, or any two of<br />

them. These lists are most interesting, showing, as they do, the chiefs who<br />

were considered the great and lesser chiefs in those days. There are four<br />

Mackenzies in the former but none in the latter.*<br />

Kenneth was served heir male to his great-grandfather, Lord Mackenzie<br />

of Kintail, in the lands in the Lordship of Ardmeanach and Earldom of<br />

Eoss, on the 1st March 1681; was made a member of the Privy Council<br />

by James II. on his accession to the throne in 1685 and chosen a Com-<br />

;<br />

panion of the most noble Order of the Thistle, on the revival of that<br />

ancient order in 1687. The year after the Revolution, which finally and<br />

for ever lost the British throne to the House of Stuart, Seaforth accompanied<br />

his royal master to France, but when that unfortunate Prince returned<br />

to Ireland in the following year to make a final effort for the recovery<br />

of his kingdom, he was accompanied by Earl Kenneth. Here he<br />

took part in the siege of Londonderry and other engagements, and as an<br />

expression of gratitude, James created him Marquis of Seaforth, under<br />

which dignity he repeatedly appears in different legal documents. This<br />

well-meant and well-deserved honour canie too late in the falling fortunes<br />

and declining powers of the ex-sovereign, and does little more than mark, the<br />

sinkingmonarch's testimonial and confirmation of the steady adherence of the<br />

chiefs of Clan Kenneth to the cause of the Stuarts. In Dundee's letter to<br />

"<br />

the Laird of Macleod," dated "Moy, June 23, 1689,"t in. which he details<br />

* For full lists, see Antiquarian Notes, pp. 184 and 187.<br />

t About this time Viscount Tarbat boasted to General Mackenzie of his great influence<br />

with his countrymen, especially the Clan Mackenzie, and assured him "that

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