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The ''lairdship'' was invested in the Scottish peerage in 1628, when Sir Donald Mackay was made Baron Reay of Reay by [[Charles I]].
In 1688 MacKay supported [[William of Orange]] and the end of the [[House of Stewart]] (though William had Stewart blood). In the [[Battle_of_Killiecrankie|battle at the Killiecrankie Pass]], General [[Hugh Mackay]] was commander of the King's forces against the Jacobite [[John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee|''Bonnie'' Dundee]] (Bloody Clavers). Though Dundee's force held the ground, he himself was killed, and the Jacobite movement decayed thereafter.
In 1829, the Reay land was sold to the Sutherland family. In the genocide of the [[Highland Clearances]], the land was lost and the people dispersed. At the end of the [[20th century]], there were perhaps 20,000 fewer people in Sutherland than in the beginning of the [[19th century]].
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