[715]. Fordun, Annalia, xxiv. Orkneyinga Saga, cxxxvi.
[716]. Fordun, Annalia, xxvii.
[717]. Chron. Lanercost, p. 371 note. ‘Anno Mccxi. Sed et rex Scotiæ filium Macwillelmi, Guthred scilicet, persequendo propriosque seductores destruendo, multorum cadavera inanimata reliquit.’—Chron. Mel.
Bower amplifies Fordun’s short account, and adds many particulars which may have some foundation in fact.—Scotichron. B. viii. c. 76.
[718]. Fordun, Annalia, xxix. The list of the seven earls corresponds with that in the foundation charter of Scone by Alexander the First, with the exception that we have here the earl of Menteith instead of the earl of Mar. It is obvious that the seven earls represented Scotland between the Forth and the Spey, with the addition of Lothian.
[719]. Anno Mccxv. Intraverunt in Moreviam hostes domini regis Scotiæ, sc. Dovenaldus Ban filius Macwillelmi et Kennauh mac Aht et filius cujusdam regis Hyberniæ, cum turba malignantium copiosa; in quos irruens Machentagar hostes regis valide prostravit, quorum capita detruncavit et novo regi nova munera præsentavit xvii. Kal. Julii propter quod dompnus rex novum militum ipsum ordinavit.—Chron. Mel.
For the connection of Macintagart with the church lands of Applecross, see Dr. Reeves’s paper on Saint Maelrubha in Pro. Ant. Soc. vol. iii. p. 276. Also Fordun, ii. 434, note.
[720]. Per idem tempus emerserunt quidam iniqui de genere Macwilliam, scilicet, Gillascoph et filii ejus et Rodoricus, in extremis Scociæ finibus.—Annalia, xlii.
[721]. Fordun, Annalia, xl.
[722]. Wynton, Chronicle, B. vii. c. ix.