cousin's advice, and he soon amassed a sufficient fortune to
buy the estate of Bennetsfield and other lands, including Easter
Suddie, in the Black Isle, County of Ross. [Mackenzie's "History
of the Mathesons," pp. 17-18.]
The Rev. Murdoch was Chaplain of Lord Reay's Regiment, in the army
of Gustavus Adolphus during the Bohemian and Swedish wars, and
subsequently minister of Contin and Inverness in succession. He
was transferred from Inverness to Elgin, and while there was, in
1662, appointed Bishop of Moray, and afterwards of Orkney, arriving
at Kirkwall on the 28th of August, 1677, where he was the last to
occupy Earl Patrick Stewart's Palace, in which he died. He married
Margaret, only daughter and heiress of Donald MacLey, Bailie of
Fortrose. She died in 1676, and is buried in Elgin Cathedral. He
died in 1688, and was interred in the Session House of St. Magnus
Cathedral, which bad been given to him as a burial place for
himself and his descendants, and used by them as such, until any
further interments in it were, some years ago, prohibited. He
left issue by his wife -
1. Sir Alexander Mackenzie of Broomhill (sasine in 1686), and
Pitarrow, in Kincardine.
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