Footnote 13: [(return)]

"Gilchrist" not "Gillebride" all through this quotation.

Footnote 14: [(return)]

Gilchrist, however, died in 1204.

Footnote 15: [(return)]

Not, we think, of Erlend, but of Paul. But South Caithness probably belonged to the Erlend share, i.e., Latheron and Wick parishes.

Footnote 16: [(return)]

Sutherland Book, vol. 1, p. 12, note.

Footnote 17: [(return)]

Robertson's Index, p. 62.

Footnote 18: [(return)]

Reg. Morav., p. 341. O.P., vol. ii, 709.

Footnote 19: [(return)]

Can the Mallard or Mallart be Abhainn na mala airde, "the river of the high brow"? Another interpretation, Abhain na malairte, "river of the excambion" has been suggested.

Footnote 20: [(return)]

Achness—Ach-an-eas or the field of the waterfall, old Gaelic Achanedes.

Footnote 21: [(return)]

Marriages, however, of persons of unsuitable ages were freely made in these old times.