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the Islesmen Clanranald gives trouble The drinking habits again Rory 

 Mor and the Privy Council Macneill of Barra as a pirate He is captured by 

 the Tutor of Kintail Macneill's joke Clanranald seizes Boisdale Piracy on 

 the Barra coast Macneill's family feud Clanranald's lawlessness ... ... 266 



CHAPTER XL 



Malcolm Macleod disappears from the scene Lord Kintail created Earl of 

 Seaforth Death of Rory Mor The Justiciaryship of the Isles Seaforth 

 endeavours to obtain a charter of erection for Stornoway The fight between 

 Seaforth and the Royal burghs The burghs block the charter Proposals 

 for an English fishery in Lewis The charter is cancelled The Scottish 

 fisheries The inception of the British Fishery Corporation Negotiations 

 with the burghs The charter of the Company of the General Fishery of 

 Great Britain and Ireland The Earl of Portland establishes a branch in 

 Lewis The Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery follows suit Death and 

 character of the first Lord Seaforth His successor and " ground-leaves " in 

 Lewis The King claims Lewis The troubles of the English settlers in the 

 island Captain Muir and Lewis The King feus the island to Seaforth 

 Stornoway resigned into the hands of the King Should Stornoway be recog- 

 nised as a Royal burgh ? The end of the fishing venture in the Long Island 

 Later Fishery Companies The second Earl of Seaforth and the Covenant 

 The battle of Auldearn Seaforth compelled to do penance He joins the 

 Earl of Lanark with 4,000 men He retires to the Continent Defeat and 

 execution of Montrose The Long Islanders at the battle of \Yorcester 

 Death and character of Seaforth 290 



CHAPTER XII. 



The Commonwealth and the Highlands Balcarres proposes to cede Lewis 

 to the Dutch The third Earl of Seaforth seizes English sailors in Stornoway 

 Lilburn resolves to make an example of him Preparations for invading 

 Lewis Seaforth's plans for resistance Progress of the insurrection in the 

 Highlands Cobbet subdues Lewis The Outer Hebrides and Skye virtually 

 annexed to the Commonwealth Correspondence with Cromwell concerning 

 Lewis The King and his promises The Earldom of Ross The rising in the 

 Highlands is nipped in the bud Cromwell's concern about Lewis Talisker 

 gives trouble to the English Seaforth and Colonel Norman Macleod attempt 

 to re-capture Lewis Their failure The Englishmen and the Macleods of 

 Lewis massacre Seaforth's adherents Glencairn and Middleton Guerilla 

 tactics End of the insurrection Seaforth and the King Seaforth submits 

 The English garrison evacuates Lewis Seaforth and the Earl of Moray 

 Death of Seaforth The fourth Earl of Seaforth and the Jacobites Long 

 Islanders at Killiecrankie Seaforth crosses from Ireland The progress of 

 the Jacobite rising Seaforth surrenders to General Mackay A fresh rising 

 takes place Viscount Tarbat's proposals The massacre of Glencoe Colonel 

 Hill and the lords of Uist Tarbat's commission to put down a fresh rising 

 Seaforth dies in Paris 340 



CHAPTER XIII. 



The rising of 1715 The fifth Earl of Seaforth is attainted He takes up 

 arms His march to join Mar The battle of Sheriffmuir Seaforth submits 

 He again takes up arms Flies to Lewis Colonel Cholmondeley reduces 

 Lewis Seaforth sorry plight The inception of the rising of 1719 The 

 Councils of War n Stornoway The Jacobite leaders leave Lewis The 



