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Kenetho Makenzi interceptus, per quosdam Annos apud illum
perhumaniter est educatus. Ejus fortuna, durante pupillari
ætate, a Donaldo Makintosh Williamson Tutore regebatur.
Anno 1560, factâ resignatione in manus Reginæ terrarum
suarum in Lochabriâ, novum jus earundem & officii Senescalatûs
et Ballivatûs totius Dominii de Lochabriâ, et ab eâ sibi com-
parat, et tunc, in Aulâ Regiâ duos Annos permansit quoad
Regina in Invernessam venit Anno 1562.

Hoc tempore Huntleus erat Romanæ factionis in Scotiâ, et
Jacobus Morraviæ Comes Reginæ frater Nothus Orthodoxorum
Caput, quæ factiones sibi invicem oppositæ sunt. Huntleus
armis et opibus potens, ejusdemque fidei cum Reginâ, elatus,
Reginam, suo filio secundo genito Johanni Gordono a Finletour
nubere, et, si recusaret, cogere conatur,

et ab hoc Comites Morraviæ et Mortoniæ, dum in
Septentrione cum Reginâ essent, tollere studet, non solum,
quod ejus intensionem in hâc re retardârunt, sed etiam, quod
reformatæ Religiones summi erant propugnatores. Regina
Invernessam venit mense Septembri 1562, et, in arce (suâ,
propriâ domo) pernoctare velit. Sed Alexander Gordoun (e

The boy was, however, intercepted on the way by the aforesaid
Kenneth Mackenzie, with whom he was courteously brought up
for some years. During his pupilarity his estate was managed by
the tutor, Donald Mackintosh, William's son.

In 1560, resignation having been made by him, in the hands of
the queen, of his lands in Lochaber, he obtained from her a new
right to himself of the same, and of the office of stewartry and
bailiery of the whole lordship of Lochaber; and then he remained
at Court for two years, until the queen came to Inverness in 1562.

At this time Huntly was the head of the Popish faction in
Scotland, and James, Earl of Moray, bastard brother of the queen,
was head of the orthodox party; which factions were in opposi-
tion to each other. Huntly, powerful in arms and resources, and
being of the same faith with the queen, aspired to marry her to
his second son, John Gordon of Finlater, and if she refused, he
would attempt to force her to it; and to that end he purposed to
cut off the Earls of Moray and Morton while they were in the
north with the queen, not only because they hindered his inten-
tion in that affair, but also because they were the chief promoters
of the reformed religion. The queen came to Inverness in the
month of September 1562, and wished to pass the night in the
castle, which was her own house, but Alexander Gordon (of the