Can any of your readers inform me who this lady was? I have been unable to find her name in any of the pedigrees within any reach.
J. B. WHITBORNE.
[5] The name is Dorothy in Valentine Green's History of Worcester, vol. i. p. 149.—ED.
Lord Lieutenant and Sheriff.
—The latter officer, the sheriff, claims precedency over the Queen's representative, the lord lieutenant, in the county, whilst in office. It seems contrary to all reason, but will any of your legal friends state upon what authority such precedence is maintained; and in what instances they know that, when present, the lord lieutenant has ranked below the sheriff?
L. I.
Vikingr Skotar.
—Mr. W. F. Skene, in his Highlanders, quotes Ari Froda or Arius Multiscius for the assertion, that the Hebrides were occupied, on the departure of Harold Harfagr, "by Vikingr Skotar, a term which is an exact translation of the appellation Gallgael" (vol. ii. p. 27.). That is true, on the assumption that Vikingr is not Icelandic for pirate, but only for Scandinavian pirate; which assumption I should doubt.
But I wish to be informed in what edition of Ari Froda, and at what page thereof, the words Vikingr Skotar may be found.
A. N.