Editing South Uist (section)

===Reunification===

[[File:Loch Baghasdail - geograph.org.uk - 448913.jpg|thumb|left|Loch Boisdale]]
The leader of the MacNeils did not submit to the 1609 [[Statutes of Iona]]. Using this as justification, Clan Ranald drove the MacNeils out of Lochboisdale, and were subsequently awarded a charter for it, in 1610.<ref>''Register of the Great Seal of Scotland'', edited by Maitland Thomson, 1912, HM General Register House, volume VII, entry 129</ref> In 1622, Donald Gorm Mòr's successor, Donald Gorm Òg,{{refn|group="note"|''Og'' means ''the younger''}} is found requesting that the Privy Council physically punish the Clan Ranald leadership for not removing their families and tenants from Skirhough;<ref>''Register of the Privy Council of Scotland'', edited by I Hill-Burton, 1877, HM General Register House, volume XIII, 741-742</ref> presumably they hadn't been paying the rent.<ref name="AMac321">Angus & Archibald Macdonald. ''The Clan Donald'' volume 2, The Northern Counties Publishing Company Ltd, 1900, p. 320-321</ref> By way of settlement of the dispute,{{refn|group="note"|agreed at the [[Chanonry of Ross]]}} Donald Gorm Og was granted lairdship over Lochboisdale as well;<ref name="AMac321" /> thus Donald Gorm Og became laird of the whole of South Uist, while Clan Ranald held it as his feudal vassals.

In 1633, Donald Gorm Òg decided to simply sell lairdship of South Uist to [[Archibald Campbell, 7th Earl of Argyll|the Earl of Argyll]];{{refn|group="note"|for 26,921 marks, 10 shillings, and 8 pence}} in January 1634, this arrangement was confirmed by a crown charter.<ref>Angus & Archibald Macdonald. ''The Clan Donald'', Volume 2, The Northern Counties Publishing Company Ltd, 1900, p. 324</ref> In 1661, as a leading opponent of king [[Charles I of Scotland|Charles I]], the Earl's son — [[Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll|the Marquess of Argyll]] — was convicted of high treason, and his lands became forfeit. Thus, in 1673, it was the king demanding that Clan Ranald pay their outstanding rent for South Uist.<ref>Angus & Archibald Macdonald. ''The Clan Donald'', Volume 2, The Northern Counties Publishing Company Ltd, 1900, p. 339</ref>