This violence and rief at free markets and fairs,
he says, is not only hurtful to him, but it "discourages all
peaceable and good subjects to direct or send any goods to the
market and fairs of the incountry." Kenneth Mackenzie of Kilchrist
appeared for Kintail, and the defenders, in absence, were denounced
rebels.
He is ordered on the 31st of January, 1602, as one of the leading
Highland chiefs, to hold a general muster and wapinschaw of his
followers each year within his bounds, on the 10th of March, as
the other chiefs are in their respective districts. On the same
day he is requested to provide a hundred men to aid the Queen of
England "against the rebels in Ireland;" is authorised to raise
this number compulsorily, if need be, and appoint the necessary
officers to command them. On the 28th of July following, Alexander
Dunbar of Cumnock, Sheriff-Principal of Elgin and Forres, and
David Brodie of Brodie, become cautioners to the amount of three
thousand merks that Kenneth will appear before the King and Council,
when charged with some unnamed offence, upon twenty days warning.
On the 9th of September Mackenzie complains to the Council that
about St Andrews Day, 1601, when he sent eighty cattle to the St.
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