 The surviving MacNeils fled to the remoter islands of the Barra Isles, where Murdoch was finally slain by the Macdonalds of Clanranald.Donald, like other Highland chiefs was in debt to the Scottish crown and other chiefs, and he was one of the chiefs who met with the kings' commishioners on Mull agreeing to give security for the king's rents; submit themselves to the laws of the realm.Donald was knighted at Holyrood by James VI, in 1617.