[17] Matthew Mackaile, “Short relation of the most considerable things in Orkney,” 1614; G. Barry, ‘History of Orkney,’ 1808, vol. xi. p. 456.
[18] “Acts and Statutes of the Lawting Sheriff and Justice Courts of Orkney and Zetland,” 1617; Maitland Club Miscellany, 1840, p. 69.
[19] Ibid., p. 69.
[20] “A Description of the Islands of Shetland, &c., by Captain John Smith, who was imployed there by the Earle of Pembrock in the year 1633, and stayed a whole Twelve Month there;” Scottish History Society, 1908, p. 65.
[21] ‘A General Geographical Description of Zetland,’ by Hugh Leigh, minister of the Gospel in Brassie and Burs, through John Marr; no date—probable c. 1670; Scottish History Society, 1908, p. 250.
[22] Thomas Kirke, ‘An account of a Tour in Scotland,’ 1677; edited by P. Hume Brown, 1842, p. 32.
[23] J. Wallace, ‘A Description of the Isles of Orkney,’ 1693, ed. 1883, p. 16.
[24] J. Brand, ‘A Brief Description of Orkney, Zetland, Pightland Firth, and Caithness;’ Edinburgh, 1701, pp. 77–79. Brand was one of the ministers sent as a commission in 1700 by the General Assembly “to visit and order the Churches there.”
[25] ‘A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland.’ To which is added ‘A Brief Description of the Isles of Orkney and Shetland,’ by Wm. Martin, Gent, 1703, p. 377. Martin’s statement is perilously like a copy of Brand’s, but he certainly did visit Shetland.
[26] ‘Shetland Pony Stud-Book,’ vol. i. p. xl.