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March, 1697, an order was issued for his release, and for 

 the desistence of the process of treason. Whether Seaforth 

 believed that Lord Tarbat was responsible for his troubles, 

 or had failed to help him out of them, it is certain that the 

 relations between the two men were strained ; and although 

 attempts were made by the Mackenzies, on the Earl's 

 release, to patch up the quarrel, there is nothing to show 

 that they were successful. Seaforth seems to have passed 

 the remainder of his life mainly in France, the manage- 

 ment of his estates being in the hands of his mother and 

 his brother, Colonel Alexander Mackenzie of Assynt and 

 Conansbay. He was married to Lady Frances Herbert, 

 daughter of the titular Marquis of Powis, and was suc- 

 ceeded in the Earldom of Seaforth or the Marquisate, 

 from the Jacobite standpoint by his son William (Uilleam 

 Dubh) who, on his father's death in Paris in 1701, was a 

 mere youth. 



