!BIOGRAPHY: George Crawfurd, Esq., THE PEERAGE OF SCOTLAND,
Edinburgh, 1716, p. 438. [CAUTION: Crawfurd calls this man Kenneth,
while Douglas calls him William. The advantage of Crawfurd is that he
was a living contemporary of this man, and is therefore more likely to be
correct.]
Kenneth…, the present Earl; …is married with Mary, only Daughter and
Heir of Nicolas Kennet of Coxhow, Esq; of the County of Northumberland.
!BIOGRAPHY: Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, Baronet, THE PEERAGE OF
SCOTLAND, Vol. II, Edinburgh, 1813, pp. 483, 484.
XVI. William, fifth Earl of Seaforth, the eldest son, engaged in the
rebellion 1715, for which he was attainted by act of Parliament, and his
estates in England and Scotland forfeited to the crown. He escaped to
the Continent; landed in Kintail with a party of Spaniards in April 1719;
was dangerously wounded at the battle of Glensheal that year, but, being
carried off by his followers, found means to get abroad, along with the
Marquis of Tullibardine, and Earl Marischall. By letters-patent dated
12th July 1726, King George I. was pleased to discharge him from
imprisonment or the execution of his person on his attainder, and King
George II. made him a grant of the arrears of feu-duties due to the crown
out of his forfeited estate. An act of Parliament passed, in 1735, to
enable William Mackenzie, late Earl of Seaforth, to sue or maintain any
action or suit notwithstanding his attainder, and to remove any
disability in him by reason of his said attainder, to take or inherit any
real or personal estate that may or shall hereafter descend to him. He
died in the island of Lewis, 8th January 1740. He married, 22d April
1715, Mary, only daughter and heiress of Nicholas Kennet of Coxhow in
Northumberland, and by her, who died at Paris in August 1739, had issue.