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The Earl of Seaforth's Salute

This tune was composed by Seaforth's Piper, Finlay Dubh MacRae. William Mackenzie, 5th Earl of Seaforth (d. 1740), also known as Uilleam Dubh, or Black William, was a Scottish peer and head of Clan Mackenzie. Educated in France and brought up as a Catholic, he was attainted for his part in the 1715 Jacobite Rising and also joined the 1719 Rising. He was pardoned in 1726 and allowed to return home, although the title Earl of Seaforth remained forfeit. He died on 8 January 1740 on the Isle of Lewis and was buried in the ancient church of Ui.