James VI granted Lewis to a company of Lowland entrepreneurs (the Fife Adventurers) to colonise and civilise it. The MacLeods of Lewis resisted fiercely and expelled three successive colonisation attempts. The MacLeods maintained control of Lewis through guerrilla resistance for fifteen years. The island was eventually acquired by the Mackenzies. This is an early example of internal plantation resistance in Scotland.
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