olm'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.]

[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