Tour Scotland photograph of Loch Assynt, Sutherland, Scotland. Legend suggests that Assynt was granted to a family called MacNichol by a Thane of Sutherland after they had chased cattle raiders out of Assynt and regained the Thane’s herds, but control soon passed to the MacLeod’s of Lewis. In 1343 this was formalised when King David II granted Torquil MacLeod a charter of the lands of Assynt in return for the service of a Hebridean galley. This was one of several land grants made by the Scottish king to West Highland chieftains in an attempt to exert his rights in the Highlands and secure their allegiance during the Wars of Independence with England.
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