CHAPTER VII.
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O.S., 114. There is a Mac William Earl of Caithness on record in 1129. Seats Peerage (Paul).
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O.S., 81. O.S., Dasent trans., p. 225.
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O.S., 115-118.
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Torf. Orc., p. 153. He declined to come and fetch her.
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O.S. Addenda, p. 225. Rolls edition, trans.
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Sverri Saga, 90-93.
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Scottish Peerage, vol. viii, p. 318 sqq.
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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.
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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.
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See Lawrie Annals, p. 389 and Chron. Mailros, p, 113. See Records of Kinloss, p. 113, "Andreas filius Willelmi Fresekin."
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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.
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Shaw's Moray, edit. 1775, p. 75, and note ante, and p. 407, No. xxviii, "Willelmi filii Willelmi filii Freskini."
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Paul, Scot. Peerage (Sutherland), quotes Reg. Mag. Sigil. Augt. 1452.
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See Robertson's Index, p. xix. O.P., ii, p. 543.
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O.P. II, ii, 655. Acta Parl. Scot., 1, p. 606, Robertson's Index, p. xxiv.
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Sutherland Book, vol. iii, p. 1. It may have been hoped that Gilbert would succeed the maimed Bishop John, Reg. Morav. p. xxxiii, note.
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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.
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Reg. Morav. xxxv, a late marginal note.
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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.
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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.
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Reg. Morav. xiii, and No. 211.
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See Early Pedigree of the Freskyns at the end of this book. See Reg. Morav., p. 89 (No. 80) and p. 133 (No. 121).
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This may have happened a year earlier.
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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.
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Fordun, Annals 4. Mackay, Book of Mackay, p. 24.
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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.
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Shaw's Moray, edit. 1775, p. 391, No. xiv. Innes says Berowald was no Fleming.
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See Viking Club's Year Book, iv, 1911-12, notes pp. 18-20.
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O.S. III. This may be a translation of Loch Glendhu.
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F.B., Addenda to O.S., trans. Dasent, Rolls edit.
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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.
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Sverri's Saga (Sephton, pp. 114 to 117), c. 90-93.
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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.
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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.
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O.P. Preface, p. xxi, and pp. 458 and 529; and 413-4.
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Scottish Kings, Dunbar, p, 80.
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Lib. Pluscard, xxxvi, 1197-8. Chron. Mailros, 1197.
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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.
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O.S. (Dasent trans.), p. 225. Torfaeus Orcades, i, c. 38.
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O.S. (Rolls Ed.), pp. 226-231. It was nearer, and close to Thurso.
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See Hoveden Chron., vol. iv, pp. 10-12, and Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers, pp. 316-8. (Alan O. Anderson.)
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O.P. ii, 803.
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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.
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Only three are named, but six are afterwards referred to. For Pope Innocent's letter see O. and S. Records, vol. 1, p. 25.
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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.
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He was there when Bishop Adam was murdered in that year.
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This is a very large number and hardly credible. It was not 6000. Can Eystein be the Island Stone, the Man of the Ord?
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Bain, Calendar of Documents, Nos. 321 and 324.
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O.S., Rolls edit., p. 230.
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Sverri Saga, 118, 119, 125.
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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.
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One of the Gordons of Garty in Sutherland.