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the whole affair from the castle, but refused to give 

 protection to the poor wretch who, wounded in the head 

 by an arrow and exhausted though he was, managed to 

 regain the opposite side of the bay, where he was at 

 once killed by the merciless Macaulays. These events 

 are supposed to have occurred at the end of the fourteenth, 

 or the beginning of the fifteenth century. The tradition 

 goes on to say that Macleod of Lewis gave John Roy a 

 lease for life of Crolista and Balnakil ; that John gave 

 Balnakil to his brother, and that he himself settled at 

 Crolista ; that soon afterwards he married a daughter of 

 his patron, Maclean of Lochbuie, by whom he had an 

 only son, Dugald.* From John Roy was descended 

 Donald Cam Macaulay, whom we shall meet in the 

 seventeenth century, and from the same stock came, in 

 due time, the brilliant historian, essayist, and statesman, 

 Lord Macaulay. 



Soon after the opening of the fifteenth century, the first 

 recorded conflict of the Macleods of Lewis with a mainland 

 clan was fought, resulting in the overthrow of the Lewismen. 

 Torquil Macleod, who married Margaret Macnicol, was 

 succeeded about the end of the fourteenth century as 

 chief of the Siol Torquil, by his son Roderick. According 

 to Douglas, whose Baronage is the principal authority for 

 the genealogy of the family, Roderick was the only son 

 of Torquil, but the Earl of Cromartie states that Malcolm 

 Macleod, who figured in the following events, was a son of 

 Torquil. Roderick was probably a son of Malcolm. 



A sister of Malcolm was married to Angus Mackay of 

 Strathnaver, by whom the latter had two sons, Angus 

 Dubh and Rory Gald. On the death of Angus, his 

 younger brother Houcheon (Hugh) Dubh Mackay became 

 tutor to his nephews, the tutorship, as was usual in such 

 cases, including the management of their property. Com- 

 plaints reached Malcolm Macleod that the widow of Angus 

 was harshly treated by the tutor, and Malcolm's solicitude 



* Traditions of the Macaulays. 



