Donald Gorm MacDonald of Sleat — chief of the MacDonalds of Skye and claimant to the Lordship of the Isles — was also among the arrested chiefs of 1608 compelled to sign the Statutes of Iona in 1609. MacDonald of Sleat controlled the Trotternish peninsula of northern Skye and the adjacent lands on the mainland. His submission under the Statutes required him to accept crown authority in a way his family had resisted for a century. The Statutes' requirement to send his eldest son to Lowland schools was particularly resented as an attack on the clan's Gaelic culture.
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