Chapter VII

[Footnote 1: _O.S._, 114. There is a Mac William Earl of Caithness on record in 1129. _Seats Peerage_ (Paul).]

[Footnote 2: _O.S._, 81. _O.S._, Dasent trans., p. 225.]

[Footnote 3: _O.S._, 115-118.]

[Footnote 4: _Torf. Orc._, p. 153. He declined to come and fetch her.]

[Footnote 5: _O.S. Addenda_, p. 225. Rolls edition, trans.]

[Footnote 6: _Sverri Saga_, 90-93.]

[Footnote 7: _Scottish Peerage_, vol. viii, p. 318 sqq.]

[Footnote 8: Quoted by Nisbet, _Heraldry_, App. p. 183, and _Dalrymple's Collections_, 1705, pp. 66-7 "quas terras pater suus Friskin tenuit tempore regis David." Felix, Bishop of Moray, who is a witness to it, was appointed in 1162 and died not later than 1171. As to David's visit to Duffus, see _Chron. Mailros_, 74.]

[Footnote 9: Shaw's _Moray_, Edit. 1775, p. 75, "several sons." _Reg. Morav._ p. 10, and Nos. 12, 13, 19. See _Records of the Monastery of Kinloss_, p. 112 and _Reg. Morav._, p. 456 "W. filius Frisekin. Hugo filius ejus." Lohworuora--see Lawrie, _Early Scottish Charters_, pp. 185-6 and 429-30.]

[Footnote 10: See _Lawrie Annals_, p. 389 and _Chron. Mailros_, p, 113. See _Records of Kinloss_, p. 113, "Andreas filius Willelmi Fresekin."]

[Footnote 11: _Reg. Morav._, No. 1 charter of Skelbo to Gilbert. Hugo grants it "Testibus Willielmo fratre meo, Andrea fratre meo." See also _Reg. Morav._, p. 43, No. 40, rector of St. Peter's, Duffus, and No. 119, p. 131.]

[Footnote 12: Shaw's _Moray_, edit. 1775, p. 75, and note ante, and p. 407, No. xxviii, "Willelmi filii Willelmi filii Freskini."]

[Footnote 13: Paul, _Scot. Peerage_ (Sutherland), quotes Reg. Mag. Sigil. Augt. 1452.]

[Footnote 14: See _Robertson's Index_, p. xix. _O.P._, ii, p. 543.]

[Footnote 15: _O.P._ II, ii, 655. _Acta Parl. Scot._, 1, p. 606, _Robertson's Index_, p. xxiv.]

[Footnote 16: _Sutherland Book_, vol. iii, p. 1. It may have been hoped that Gilbert would succeed the maimed Bishop John, _Reg. Morav._ p. xxxiii, note.]

[Footnote 17: _Sutherland Book_, vol. iii, p. 2. The tenure was thus by Scottish service of these lands, and so also of Sutherland itself. It was no grant for religious or charitable purposes.]

[Footnote 18: _Reg. Morav._ xxxv, a late marginal note.]

[Footnote 19: Lawrie, _Early Scot. Charters_, pp. 185 and 430, note, which puts the date at 1147-1150. Children, however, did witness charters, and Hugo attests last.]

[Footnote 20: _O.P._, ii, 486. _Reg. Morav._, xxxv, note q. Nos. 259, 215, 216; and _O.P._ ii, 482; and as to Freskin's succession, see No. 99 _Reg. Morav._, p. 113.]

[Footnote 21: _Reg. Morav._ xiii, and No. 211.]

[Footnote 22: See _Early Pedigree of the Freskyns_ at the end of this book. See _Reg. Morav._, p. 89 (No. 80) and p. 133 (No. 121).]

[Footnote 23: This may have happened a year earlier.]

[Footnote 24: Skene, _Celtic Scotland_, vol. i, p. 470, quotes _Will. Newburgh Chron._, b. 1, c. xxiv. Malcolm was personated by Wemund the monk of Furness. See Note pp. 48-9 of _Viking Society's Year Book_, vol. iv, 1911-2.]

[Footnote 25: Fordun, _Annals 4._ Mackay, _Book of Mackay_, p. 24.]

[Footnote 26: Robertson, _Early Kings_, vol. i, pp. 360-1. As to the name Macheth and Macbeth, see _Scottish Hist. Rev._ 1920-1. We believe the names to be distinct, not identical, Mackay being the son of Aedh, in Gaelic MacAoidh.]

[Footnote 27: Shaw's _Moray_, edit. 1775, p. 391, No. xiv. Innes says Berowald was no Fleming.]

[Footnote 28: See _Viking Club's Year Book_, iv, 1911-12, notes pp. 18-20.]

[Footnote 29: _O.S._ III. This may be a translation of Loch Glendhu.]

[Footnote 30: _F.B._, Addenda to _O.S._, trans. Dasent, Rolls edit.]

[Footnote 31: Charter of St. Gilbert's Cathedral. _Sutherland Book_, vol. iii, p. 3, No. 4. _Robertson's Index_, p. 16. _Reg. Dunfermelyn_, 7. See _O.P._ ii, p. 598. _Dalrymple's Collections_, p. 248.]

[Footnote 32: _Sverri's Saga_ (Sephton, pp. 114 to 117), c. 90-93.]

[Footnote 33: _O.P._, 11, ii, pp. 598 and 735. _Lib. Eccles. de Scon_, p. 37, No. 58. Viking Club, _Caithness and Sutherland Records_, p. 2. (_Chron. Mailros_), _Lawrie's Annals_, p. 257. A penny per house for Peter's Pence was paid in his lifetime, _Viking Club Records_, p. 3, 4; _O.P._ says (p. 598) before 1181.]

[Footnote 34: _The Sutherland Book_ quotes this opinion, vol. 1, p. 9, and Lord Hailes had special knowledge, see _Annals of Scotland_ (Hailes), vol. 1, p. 148, anno 1222.]

[Footnote 35: _O.P. Preface_, p. xxi, and pp. 458 and 529; and 413-4.]

[Footnote 36: _Scottish Kings_, Dunbar, p, 80.]

[Footnote 37: _Lib. Pluscard_, xxxvi, 1197-8. _Chron. Mailros_, 1197.]

[Footnote 38: If it were true, as his son Hakon had died in 1171, it would prove the death of Henry of Ross, Harold's eldest son by his first marriage, before 1196. The grandsons would be sons of Harold's daughter.]

[Footnote 39: _O.S._ (Dasent trans.), p. 225. _Torfaeus Orcades_, i, c. 38.]

[Footnote 40: _O.S._ (Rolls Ed.), pp. 226-231. It was nearer, and close to Thurso.]

[Footnote 41: See _Hoveden Chron._, vol. iv, pp. 10-12, and _Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers_, pp. 316-8. (Alan O. Anderson.)]

[Footnote 42: _O.P._ ii, 803.]

[Footnote 43: Dalharrold afterwards belonged to Johanna of Strathnaver. _Reg. Morav._, p. 139, No. 126. Pope, _Torfaeus_, trans., Note p. 169. This battle is also said to have been fought by William the Lion himself, not by Reginald Gudrodson.]

[Footnote 44: Only three are named, but six are afterwards referred to. For Pope Innocent's letter see _O. and S. Records_, vol. 1, p. 25.]

[Footnote 45: _O.S._, Dasent, Rolls edit., pp. 228-30. It is not clear that the bishop lived till 1213. See _Two Ancient Records of the Bishopric_, Bannatyne Club, pp. 6 and 7.]

[Footnote 46: He was there when Bishop Adam was murdered in that year.]

[Footnote 47: This is a very large number and hardly credible. It was not 6000. Can Eystein be the Island Stone, the Man of the Ord?]

[Footnote 48: Bain, _Calendar of Documents_, Nos. 321 and 324.]

[Footnote 49: _O.S._, Rolls edit., p. 230.]

[Footnote 50: _Sverri Saga_, 118, 119, 125.]

[Footnote 51: _Lord Hailes' Addional Case of Elizabeth, claimant of the Earldom of Sutherland_, p. 8, and see Robertson, _Early Kings_, vol. ii, p. 446; App. N. esp. p. 494.]

[Footnote 52: One of the Gordons of Garty in Sutherland.]