!SOURCE: Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, PEERAGE OF SCOTLAND, 1764,
p. 568.
Jye More, whose son Donald was called Mack-Jye, (that is the son of
Jye) and from hence he and his posterity assumed the sirnhame of
MackJye, afterwards called Mackie, MacKay, or Macky.
This Jye More made a great figure in the reign of Robert II. He was
proprietor of the lands of Farre, and several others, in Stranaver, and had
many vassals and followers.
This appears from the history of the earls of Sutherland, where are
these words:
"Nicholas earl of Sutherland had great con-
"troversy with the house and family of Mac-
"kie, chief of the clan Wic-Worgan, in
"Strathnaver." Etc. Etc.
These families, it seems, had been at variance for some time; and in
the beginning of the reign of king Robert III, there was a meeting
appointed at Dingwall, to accommodate and make up matters betwixt
them. The earl of Sutherland, Jye More, and Donald MackJye, his son, met
at the time appointed, but instead of a reconciliation, a scuffle ensued,
where both Jye More, and his son Donald, lost their lives, anno 1395.
However, this sufficiently shows, that the house of Mackie, or the clan
Wic-Worgan, were very considerable in the reign of King Robert III.