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

[Footnote 4:  Scots Peerage (Cokayne & 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. xxxvi.  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.]