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9.]

[Footnote 12: See _Robertson's Index_, p. xxv.]

[Footnote 13: See _Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers_, Alan O.

Anderson, pp. 336-7, where the _Chronicle of Melrose_, 139, (1222) is quoted, Lib. Pluscard, vii, 9.]

[Footnote 14: _Wyntoun Chron._ vii, c. 9.]

[Footnote 15: _Hakon Saga_, c. 86.]

[Footnote 16: Do. c. 101. The Iceland Annals prove Harald's drowning.]

[Footnote 17: _Hakon Saga_, c. 162, 165 and 167.]

[Footnote 18: Snaekollr means s...o...b..ll. Being largely of Norse blood, he was probably a fair Viking.]

[Footnote 19: _Hakon Saga_, 169.]

[Footnote 20: See Tudor's _Orkney and Shetland_, p. 344 and p. 53, and _Hakon Saga_, 169-171.]

[Footnote 21: _Hakon Saga_, 173.]

[Footnote 22: Not _gydinga. Flatey Book_, iii, p. 528; _Torf. Orc._, ii, p. 163.]

[Footnote 23: Pope, _Torfaeus_ (trans.), p. 184, note.]

[Footnote 24: No. 126.]

CHAPTER IX.

[Footnote 1: One daughter married Olaf, who was killed at Floruvagr in battle in 1194, see _O.S._, Rolls edit., pp. 230-1 (trans.) Dasent.]

[Footnote 2: Notably in Paul's _Scottish Peerage_ sub _Angus_ and _Caithness_.]

[Footnote 3: Ancestor of the Ogilvies, Earls of Airlie.]

[Footnote 4: _Scots Peerage_ (c.o.kayne & Gibbs), sub _Angus_ and _Caithness_. Dalrymple, _Collections_, p. 220.]

[Footnote 5: _Reg. Aberbrothoc_, pp. 163 and 262, 1227, Jan. 16, "Magno filio comitis de Anegus."]

[Footnote 6: Robertson, _Early Kings_, vol. ii, p. 23 (note), who quotes _Reg. Dunfermelyn_, No. 80, _Reg. Morav._ 110; _Lib. Holyrood_, 58, in support.]

[Footnote 7: Shaw, _Moray_, 1775, p. 387, No. iv.]

[Footnote 8: i.e., Malcolm's.]

[Footnote 9: Surely an error for "Gilchrist."]

[Footnote 10: See _Dalrymple's Collections_, 1705, pp. lxxiii-iv, where "North Caithness" is distinguished from Sutherland conjecturally. Probably, however, it was distinguished rather from the southern part of modern Caithness, viz. Latheron and Wick parishes.]

[Footnote 11: This was William de Federeth II, son of Christian, not her husband of the same name.]

[Footnote 12: This was Sir Reginald Cheyne III.]

[Footnote 13: "Gilchrist" not "Gillebride" all through this quotation.]

[Footnote 14: Gilchrist, however, died in 1204.]

[Footnote 15: 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: _Sutherland Book_, vol. 1, p. 12, note.]

[Footnote 17: _Robertson's Index_, p. 62.]

[Footnote 18: _Reg. Morav._, p. 341. _O.P._, vol. ii, 709.]

[Footnote 19: 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: Achness--_Ach-an-eas_ or the field of the waterfall, old Gaelic _Achanedes_.]

[Footnote 21: Marriages, however, of persons of unsuitable ages were freely made in these old times.]

[Footnote 22: Norse jarldoms were not given to females, but the jarldom of Orkney was, failing sons, given to the sons of daughters of preceding jarls, such as Ragnvald, son of Gunnhild, and Harald Ungi, son of Jarl Ragnvald's daughter.]

[Footnote 23: _Reg. Morav._, 215, 216; _O.P._, vol. ii, p. 486.]

[Footnote 24: _O.P._, ii, p. 482. Euphamia or Eufemia is a Ross family name for centuries. _Reg. Morav._, p. 333.]

[Footnote 25: _Bain_, vol. 1, year 1258-9.]

[Footnote 26: _St. Andrew's_, pp. 346 and 347; and for the charter see _Reg. Morav._, p. 138.]

[Footnote 27: _Reg. Morav._, p. x.x.xvi. We do not lay stress upon this argument from the endowment of _two_ chaplains; but it may import that Freskin died a violent death, unshriven.]

[Footnote 28: We can, however, trace many parts of "Lord" Chen's lands. For they are called the lands of "Lord" Chen in the descriptions in later charters quoted in _Origines Parochiales_, vol.

ii, pp. 745 Reay, 749 Thurso, 760 Halkirk, 764 Latheron, 774 Wick, 787-8 Olrig, 790 Dunnet, and 814 Canisbay. His lands in all these parishes were of considerable extent. They included probably the whole modern estate of Langwell and most of the parish of Latheron, and Wick up to Keiss Bay and beyond Ackergill and Riess. In Watten they comprised Lynegar, Dunn, Bilbster, and others: in Halkirk Parish, Sibster, Leurary, Gerston, Baillecaik, Scots Calder, North Calder, and Banniskirk; in Reay Parish, Lybster, Borrowstoun, Forss, and part of Skaill and Brawlbin: in Thurso, Clairdon, Murkle, Sordale, Amster, Ormelie and the Thurso fishings; in Dunnet Parish, Rattar, Haland, Hollandmaik, Corsbach, Ham, and Swiney; while in Canisbay Parish, Brabstermyre, Duncansby, and Sleiklie belonged to Lord Chen. But neither "Lord" Chen nor Johanna ever owned Brawl, the princ.i.p.al seat of the Earls of Caithness; and the Earls of the Angus line had the rest, mainly in Canisbay, Bower, and the northern part of Wick parishes. Johanna did not own any of the Chen lands in the Earldom of South Caithness, which Reginald Chen III acquired after 1340, i.e. the parishes of Latheron and Wick. She probably owned the old parish of Far and Halkirk but not Latheron, though this is erroneously implied in the text.]

CHAPTER X.

[Footnote 1: _Reg. Morav._, pp. 88, 89, 99, 101, 333. Knighted 1215, was earl in 1226, founded the Abbey of Fearn before 1230, died about 1251.]

[Footnote 2: _Robertson's Index_, p. xxi.]