So far as the Lewis is concerned this
rental was made up after a formal inquiry held in the island, the details
of which are contained in a document in the Register House, entitled 'Judicial
rentall or amount of ye real estate of William, late Earle of Seaforth,
in the Island of ye Lewes, taken by Mr. Zacharias McAuley, one of the Deputies
to Edmond Burt, Esq., Receiver General of ye rents and profites of the
unsold forfeited estates in North brittain upon oaths or depositions of
the respective Tennants of the Lewes in presence of Kenneth Campbel, Substitute
Bailie of the Baron Court within the said island, by vertue of a Commission
from Kenneth McKenzie of Dundonnell, Deputie receiver of the rents of the
Estate of Seaforth, dated ye Twenty-sixth day of Aprile 1726, att Stornoway.
From this document it appears that in many
cases a township was held jointly, each tenant being liable for a fixed
proportion of the cumulo rent. Where this is so an excerpt has been
made from the depositions and added within square brackets to the rental
now printed.
The rental of the rest of the Seaforth Estates
appears to have been made up as the result of similar local inquiries held
at different times. The records of these are also among the forfeited
estate papers.
RENTAL OF THE SEAFORTH ESTATES - 1726
LOCHAISH - BARONY OF ARDELF
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KINTAIL - BARONY OF ARDELF
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STRATHCHONIN AND SIRATHBREN -
BARONY OF ARDELF
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