Indeed, after the Revolution, in 1680, the Rev. Roderick, who had
for twenty years been the Episcopalian minister of the parish,
was allowed to remain in his charge until his death thirty years
after without submitting himself to the Presbytery, and most
amusing accounts are given of the manner in which his Presbyterian
successor was opposed on his induction and afterwards persecuted
by the Gairloch Episcopalians.
There appears to be no doubt that the Rev. Kenneth died before
his brother Roderick, minister of Gairloch, and left the estate
of Kernsary either to him or his eldest son, Murdoch, who, as
already stated, is described in 1708, two years before his father's
death, as then of Kernsary." It has been shown that the estate
was purchased by this family from the Mackenzies of Coul, and there
is a sasine, dated the 27th of July, 1762, on a precept of "clare
constat," granted by Sir Alexander Mackenzie of Coul in favour of
Roderick Mackenzie, IV. of Kernsary, as nearest heir male to his
grandfather.
The Rev. Roderick Mackenzie, minister of Gairloch married a daughter
of Bayne of Knockbain, his father's neighbour, with issue, among
several other sons, -
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