Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . nt per-sons, the natural resultbeing that there oc-curred perpetual en-gagements between therival claimants—Dunve-gan, Lewis, and Sleat,alike in the time ofCrotach, of the nextchief, Tormod, and ofhis second son, Rorie —in the latter case thefeud becoming intensi-fied through Rories sis-ter being ill-treated byher husband, DonaldG 0 r m M a c d 0 n a 1 d .With such ferocity andrevengefulness was thefray sustained, that thePrivy Council was com-pelled to interfere, and endeavour to introduce some sort oforder into the Isles, before the cla
Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . nt per-sons, the natural resultbeing that there oc-curred perpetual en-gagements between therival claimants—Dunve-gan, Lewis, and Sleat,alike in the time ofCrotach, of the nextchief, Tormod, and ofhis second son, Rorie —in the latter case thefeud becoming intensi-fied through Rories sis-ter being ill-treated byher husband, DonaldG 0 r m M a c d 0 n a 1 d .With such ferocity andrevengefulness was thefray sustained, that thePrivy Council was com-pelled to interfere, and endeavour to introduce some sort oforder into the Isles, before the clans in question were com-pletely ruined. To this end, in 1608, all the island lords hadto meet the Commissioners at Aros, and were required to giveup their strongholds to the Heralds, renounce all claims tojurisdiction, obey the laws, destroy their fleets of galleys, andno longer use two-handed sv^ords, but only single-handedswords and targets. Upon their rather demurring at having theirwings clipped in such wholesale fashion, they were beguiled on. OLD ARMOUR AND SWORDS Duupcoan Castle 55 to the Kings ship, Moon, to hear a sermon ; except Roriealone, who, reluctant to be edified, wisely stopped ashore, andso saved himself the imprisonment undergone by the others,at Dumbarton and Stirling, as hostages for the good behaviourof their clans. The next year there followed the Statutes of lona, wherebythe personal attendants of the chiefs were strictly limited in num-ber; and, in consequence of the inordinate love of wine andaqua vita being the cause of the inhumanity and barbarity prac-tised, itinerant wine-sellers were put down, and all wine re-quired (limited in annual quantity — in MacLeods case to fourtuns) was to be imported direct from the mainland, though thechiefs might still distil aqua to their hearts content; Sabbaths wereto be observed according to the discipline of the Reformed Kirk;and every man who owned sixty head of cattle was henceforthto put his children to s
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