[143]. Ibid. p. 74.
[144]. Diplom. Norveg. vii. p. 2.
[145]. The Book of Deer (Spald. Club), p. 95.
[146]. Diplom. Norvegicum, vii. p. 2.
[147]. See p. [xliii], and also the account of these transactions in the Saga, chap. cxv.
[148]. Printed in Theiner’s Vetera Monumenta, p. 21.
[149]. Chron. de Mailros, pp. 139, 150.
[150]. Printed in the Miscellany of the Bannatyne Club, vol. iii.
[151]. The bones of St. Fergus, the patron saint of Caithness, were deposited in the abbey of Scone. Harald Maddadson, Earl of Orkney and Caithness, granted a mark of silver yearly to the canons of Scone for the souls of himself and wife, and the souls of his predecessors. The grant is witnessed by his son “Turphin.” The Abbot of Scone obtained a royal precept from King Alexander II. addressed to the sheriffs and bailies of Moray and Caithness, for the protection of the ship of the convent when on its voyages within their jurisdiction. The Abbey of Scone was proprietor of the church of Kildonan, which, with its chapels and lands, was confirmed to the canons of Scone by Pope Honorius III. in 1226. (Liber Ecclesie de Scon, pp. 37, 45, and 67.)
[152]. Sir Robert Gordon mentions a tradition that he was the builder of the noble castle of Kildrummy, in Mar.