Clan Mackay

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Clan MacKay from the book The Scottish Tartans by W. & A. K. JOHNSTON LTD.

The first historic Chief was Angus Du (1380-1429).
He was assassinated, and the clan was ruled by his
younger son, until the rightful heir obtained his release
from captivity on the Bass Rock, 1437. The latter's
son was Chief and led the clan in the cruel fight of
Blair Tannic, Caithness. In 1628 Sir Donald Mackay
of Strathnaver, Chief of the clan, was created Lord
Reay, with remainder to his heirs male bearing the
name and arms of Mackay, which, however, have
never been recorded.
The major portion of the estates was sold in the
seventeenth century to pay the cost of maintaining
and transporting 2000 men whom Lord Reay recruited
for foreign service to assist the Protestant cause in the
great Thirty Years' War. The earliest Gaelic charter
extant was granted by Donald, Lord of the Isles, to
Brian Vicar Mackay in 1408.