sentences:  The feud was settled when the castle was handed over to the Mackenzies peacefully under an act of pacification (a treaty of peace to cease hostilities).In Alexander Mackenzie's books "The History of the Mackenzies" published in 1894 and the "History of the Munros of Fowlis" published in 1898, he claims that an attempted sortie by the Munros for fish at a nearby loch was foiled and as a result the Mackenzies took control of the castle by force.Although it is recorded by Sir Robert Gordon (1580 - 1656) to have been handed over by an act of pacification