[3] Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis, Vol. II., p. 8. Spalding Club.
[4] Scotichronicon, Gregory’s translation. Transactions of the Iona Club, p. 27.
[5] Borthwick’s Remarks on British Antiquities. Edinburgh, 1776, p. 139.
[6] Pinkerton’s History of Scotland from the Accession of the House of Stuart. London, 1797, Vol. I., p. 493.
[7] Pitcairn’s Criminal Trials, Vol. I., Part I., p. 114, note.
[8] Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, edited by Thomas Dickson, Curator of the Historical Department of H.M. General Register House, Vol. I., 1473-1498, Preface, p. clxxxv, and note; and Glossary, p. 441.
[9] Scottish Collection of Gaelic MSS. in Advocates’ Library, No. XVI., A.A., line 2. For the correct reading as well as translation of this interesting manuscript the Editor is indebted to Professor Mackinnon. In the “Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland appointed to inquire into the nature and authenticity of the Poems of Ossian” (Edinburgh, 1805), it is, on the authority of Mr Astle, stated to be a writing of the ninth or tenth century (Report, p. 305). In the opinion of Professor Mackinnon the manuscript cannot be assigned to an earlier period than about 1400.
[10] Acts of the Parliament of Scotland, 1429, Record Issue, Vol. II., p. 18.
[11] Constable’s edition of Major, published for the Scottish History Society. Edinburgh, 1892, pp. 48, 49.
[12] Ibid., p. 333.