page 13 note * There are only three places where they can be, if they were in the custody of Hugh, titular Lord Lovat, in 1729: (1.) In the custody of his personal representatives, or their law agents; (2.) In the custody of the Crown; (3.) In the custody of Mr Fraser of Abertarff. There appears no probability of their being in Lord Lovat's possession.

page 15 note * Beaulieu, in Hampshire, is pronounced as Beauly in Inverness-shire is—the Beau like the same syllable in Beauty, and the lieu, “ly.” Macaulay's trumpetstirring lines in the Armada (1832):

“O'er Longleat's towers, o'er Cranbourne's oaks, the fiery herald flew:

He roused the shepherds of Stonehenge, the rangers of Beaulieu,”

prove that he had then learned more by reading than by hearing.

page 15 note † Provincial Geography, Lays of the Deer Forest, vol. xi., p. 503Google Scholar. Edin. 1848.

page 15 note ‡ Transactions of Gaelic Society of Inverness, vol. i., Mr A. Mackenzie on Local Topography.

page 16 note * Hutton MS., Add. MSS., B. M., 8144, p. 166; Extracts from Wardlaw MS., by the late Lewis M. Mackenzie of Findon.

page 16 note † Findon Extracts, Wardlaw MS., 1225.

page 16 note ‡ Loveth is Lovat; Finasses, Fingask; Monchitech, Moniack Easter and Wester; Fochines, Phoineas; Beaufort et Duary, Beaufort and Downie; Muy, Moy; Bruchach, Bruiach.

page 16 note § Findon Extracts, 1231.

page 17 note * The spelling is various, and was afterwards corrupted into Bisset; but we shall adopt this form of Byset, as having been used by the founder of the Priory of Beauly, and by writers of contemporary charters.

page 17 note † Chart. Melrose, vol. i., p. 123.

page 17 note ‡ Scalacronica, , Maitland Club, Edinb. 1836, p. 41Google Scholar.

page 18 note * It is said that Edmund, a son of Malcolm Canmore and St Margaret, joined in the conspiracy of Donald Bane against the succession of King Edgar, and when that king succeeded, Edmund seems to have adopted a course which saved his own life and preserved the honour of his family. He assumed the cowl at Montacute, the Cluniac priory, in Somersetshire. I note the fact as an illustration of the intimate connection then subsisting between England and Scotland, which is like-wise shown in the history of the founder of Beauly.

page 18 note † Preface to Orig. Par. Scot., p. xxi.; Book of Kilravock, p. 109.

page 18 note ‡ Reg. Newbattle.

page 19 note * There is no more certain mark of the early importance of a family than the affix of its name to that of an English parish. It is more to be relied on than the family having the same name as the parish; in the origin of surnames many families other than the owners of a village took their names from it; but no village ever took its second name from any family bat that of its lords.

page 20 note * MSS., Advocates Library, Genealogical Collection, 38, 4, 8, 409–417.

page 21 note * William the Lion had three legitimate daughters: (1.)Margaret, who married Hubert de Burgh, chief minister to Henry III., and left an only daughter, Magota; (2.) Isabella, married Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, ob. s. p.; (3.)Marjory, married Gilbert the Marshal, Earl of Pembroke; she survived her husband, and died at London, 1244, s. p. He had four illegitimate daughters: (1.) Isabella, married in 1183 to Robert de Bruce, and in 1191, to Robert de Ross; (2.) Ada, married in 1184 to Patrick, Earl of Dunbar; (3.) Margaret, married in 1192 to Eustace de Vesci; (4.) Aufrida, married to William de Say.

page 21 note † Reg. Moray.

page 21 note ‡ Shaw's Moray, p. 361.

page 22 note * Shaw's Moray, p. 144.

page 23 note * Reg. Moray.

page 24 note * Reg. Dunfermline, p. 86.

page 24 note † Provisions for the victims of that terrible disease are among the most frequent, as well as the most useful, institutions of that age.

page 24 note ‡ Seelease of these tithes, by the parson of Dipple, in 1574, Shaw'sMoray, App. xlv.

page 24 note § A similar provision for two almsmen in the hospital of St Leonard is provided by Robert Byset of Upsetlington in his grant to the monastery of Kelso, 1240. Walter Byset and William Byset are witnesses to this deed (Chart. Kalchow, 240).

page 25 note * Reg. Moray.

page 25 note ‡ Reg. Moray, pp. 362, 364, 365.

page 25 note § Antiquities of Aberdeen and Banff, vol. ii., p. 144. Spalding Club.

page 25 note ∥ Reg. Moray, 35.

page 25 note † New Statistical Account, Banff, p. 268.

page 26 note * Reg. Moray, 76, 77, 78, 82, 333.

page 26 note † The Vicar of Wardlaw is carged 9s. 4d. in 1274 and 1275 (Theiner, Mon. Vet. Hib. et Scot., pp. 111, 116).

page 26 note ‡ Reg. Glasgow, p. 116.

page 26 note § Reg. Moray.

page 27 note * Adv. Lib. MSS., Genealog. Coll., 33, 4, 8, p. 411.

page 28 note * Dunbar Dunbar MS.

page 28 note † Spottiswoode's Relig. Houses, Minor Practicks, Edin. 1734.

page 29 note * Hist. Fam. Kilravock, Spalding Club, p. 26.

page 29 note ‡ Orig. Par. Scot., vol. ii., “Cromarty.”

page 29 note † Ib., p. 70.

page 30 note * Orig. Par. Scot., vol. ii., p. 391.

page 30 note † For the care which Walter Macfarlane took in revising and authenticating his transcripts, see instances in Robertson's Introduction to the Register of Paisley, published by the Maitland Club, p. viii., note.

page 30 note ‡ Adv. Lib. MSS., Genealog. Coll., 35, 4, 8, p. 411.

page 31 note * Dempster's App. De Religione, cap. 19, lxxx. In fact, the name of Dempster does not appear on record till 1296.

page 31 note † Annals of the Frasers, 1795, p. 24.