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wife's dowry, Dunvegan, Minginish, Bracadale, Duirinish, 



Lyndale, and part of Trotternish. On his death, his 



possessions were divided between his sons Torquil, who 



got Lewis, and Tormod, who got Harris and the Skye 



property. In the absence of positive proof either way, 



it would serve no good purpose to discuss which was 



the senior branch of the clan, the Siol Torquil or the Siol 



Tormod (" seed " of Torquil and Tormod) ; there are good 



arguments on both sides ; but Macleod of Harris was long 



recognised as being " of that ilk." The armorial bearings 



of the Macleods of Harris are a castle triple-towered, while 



the Macleods of Lewis had a mountain in flames.* The 



arms of the Siol Torquil, with the three legs of Man, 



were quartered with the Mackenzie arms by Sir George 



Mackenzie of Tarbat (the descendant of Torquil Conanach 



Macleod) ; and the burning mountain formed the crest 



of the Seaforth family, and, with the appropriate motto 



Luceo non uro, still figures in the armorial bearings of the 



Mackenzies.f John Buchanan of Auchmar affirms that 



Leod was the Norwegian governor of the Isles in the reign 



of William the Lion, and that his sons were permitted by 



Alexander III. to remain in possession of their estates as 



they were in high favour. Leod could not have been born 



before the death of William the Lion (1214), but it is 



quite possible that he may have acted as his father's 



lieutenant in Lewis during the latter part of the reign 



of Alexander II., who died in 1249. A copy of a charter 



in the Clan Ranald Charter Chest, dated igth January, 



1245, and witnessed by " Macleod of Lewis and Macleod 



of Harris," has been quoted in support of the theory that 



the origin of the Macleods must be placed further back 



than the period we have assigned to it. Undoubtedly 



this would be the case if the charter were genuine, or if 



* In Stodart's Scottish Arms, there are several drawings of Macleod 

 arms (both branches) the earliest being circa 1450-5. 



\ Sir George Mackenzie (the first Earl of Cromartie) calls himself "a 



ittle chief of the only Norwegian family remaining in Scotland, viz., the 



race of Olaus, one of the last Royalists of Man, and of his son Leodus who 



was heritor of the Island of Lewes." (Eraser's Earls of Cromartie, Vol. I., 



p. clxi.). 



