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Ruari Macleod of Harris having been charged to appear 

 before the Council on loth August, a promise was exacted 

 from Huntly not to put his commission in force against 

 him or any of his friends until the expiry of that date. 



It is evident that suspicions were entertained of Mac- 

 kenzie of Kintail being an active instigator of the Lewismen 

 against the Lowland colonists, hence the veiled threat to 

 Highlanders on the mainland contained in the commission 

 But all the Acts of Parliament and of Council, all the pro- 

 clamations, and all the commissions of lieutenancy failed, 

 and failed utterly, to effect the permanent conquest of 

 Lewis, much more of the Hebrides generally. 



