A history of the Highlands and of the Highland clans : with an extensive selection from the hitherto inedited Stuart Papers . meet at Edinburgh for the purpose of concerting the necessarymeasures together. Accordingly, they held a meeting at the appointedplace m the year fifteen hundred and eighty-eight, and came to the reso-lution to attack Mackay; and to prevent Mackay from receiving anyintelligence of their design, both parties swore to keep the same secret;but the earl of Caithness, regardless of his oath, immediately sent noticeto Mackay of the intended attack, for the purpose of enabling
A history of the Highlands and of the Highland clans : with an extensive selection from the hitherto inedited Stuart Papers . meet at Edinburgh for the purpose of concerting the necessarymeasures together. Accordingly, they held a meeting at the appointedplace m the year fifteen hundred and eighty-eight, and came to the reso-lution to attack Mackay; and to prevent Mackay from receiving anyintelligence of their design, both parties swore to keep the same secret;but the earl of Caithness, regardless of his oath, immediately sent noticeto Mackay of the intended attack, for the purpose of enabling him tomeet it. Instead, however, of following the earl of Caithness advice,Mackay, justly dreading his hollow friendship, made haste, by theadvice of Mackintosh and the Laird of Foulis, to reconcile himselfto the eai-l of Sutherland, his superior, by an immediate this purpose, he and the earl first met at Inverness, and after con-ferring together they made another appointment to meet at Elgin, wherea perfect and final reconciliation took place in the month of November,fifteen hundred and CASTLE DUART. CHAPTER XI. riw K«rl of Sulherliind iiivadis —Trure between the two Earls—Caithnessbreaks tJie truce—AllUir o! the Creach-iie-Kanikish—Eiirl of Sutherland asain invadesCaithness—Submission of the people—Fresh truce—Sinclair of Murkle invades Strath-ully—Skinnisij at Crisstdlich—The Earl of Sutherland enters Caithness a tliird time—Meeting of tlie Earls at Elgin—Dispute between the Gordons and Murrays aboutprecedency—Battle of Clyne—Houchton Mackay invades Caithness—Feud betweenthe Clan Gun and other tribes—The Clan-Chattan opposes the Earl of Huntly—Quarrel betw-een the Gordons and the Grants—Meeting at Forres of the Grants, Clan-Chaltan and others—Htintly breaks up the meeting —Huntlys operations against theKarl of Mora)-—Deatli of the Earl of Moray—Tumults in consequence—Huntly com-mitted—
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