page 57 note * Bannatyne Miscellany, vol. iii., p. 24.

page 58 note * Lib. de Aberbrothock, p. 33.

page 58 note † Family of Kilravock, p. 171.

page 60 note * Facsimiles of National MSS. of Scotland, part i., No. xlviii.

page 60 note † It appears from Stevenson's Documents relating to Scotland, published under the direction of the Master of the Rolls, that in 1291–92, notwithstanding all the traditions about castles in the north, the only castles into which garrisons were placed by Edward I. north of the Spey, were the castles of Elgin, Forres, Nairn or Invemairn, Inverness, Dingwall, and Cromarty. These were the only strong places of sufficient importance for Edward to keep in his own hands. Under the protection of each of these castles, there were, by the time of Alexander III., the following municipalities: The Provost and Burgesses of Dingwall, the Burgesses of Inverness, the Burgesses of Elgin, the Burgesses of Forres, the Burgesses of Cromarty, and the Burgesses of Invemairn. The first charter extant to any of these is that of William the Lion to Inverness. The next is the charter of Alexander II. to Dingwall, dated 6th February 1227. This gives to Dingwall “omnes libertates et liberas consuetudines quas burgenses nostri de Inverness et in eo manentes habent.” The earliest extant charter in favour of Elgin recognises the existing burgh, which is mentioned as a burgh in King David's charter to Urquhart in 1125, and gives to the burgesses a merchant guild. It is dated at Elgin 28th November 1234, and has William Byset among the witnesses, The earliest mention I have found of the burghs of Forres, Cromarty, and Invemairn, is the insertion among the letters addressed to the King and Queen of Scotland, probably King Alexander III. and Queen Margaret, by Scottish municipalities, of letters from the burgesses of Forres, Cromarty, and Invemairn.

page 60 note ‡ This and three other charters of the same king are set out in a charter of King James III., dated 16th August 1467, and printed in Bell's Treatise on Scotch Election Law, Edin. 1812, App. xxxv.

page 61 note * Stat. Acct. Ross-shire, Dingwall, 1837, p. 219.

page 61 note † Printed Shaw's History of Moray, Edin. 1775, p. 193.

page 61 note ‡ National MSS. of Scotland, part i., lxxiv.

page 63 note * Facsimiles of National MSS. of Scotland, Introduction, p. xi.

page 63 note † It would seem that these churches had the tithes of mills, which are generally vicarial tithes.

page 63 note ‡ William the Lion gave the churches of Forres and Dyke to Richard, Bishop of Moray, who had been his chaplain.

page 63 note § Bishop Bricius of Moray erected Forres and Logyn-Fythenach into a canonry, and gave it to the Archdeacon of Moray. This Logie is the Logie near Dumphail, and called Logie Fythenach, or the Woody Logie, to distinguish it from the other Logie.

page 64 note * The bishop perhaps refers to the grant to his see by William the Lion of the tithes of the king's can, or rents in kind, but the bishop's charter seems by Pope Urban's confirmation to have been sufficient to grant the corn tithes.

page 64 note † This is probably Fernway, which, according to Mr Forsy th (Acct. Moray, p. 173), is the original name of the district of Fernoway or Darnaway. This district, or the forest part of it, became the property of Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, who is said to have founded Darnaway Castle between 1315 and 1331.

page 64 note ‡ Kintessack is the present name of a locality in the parish of Dyke.

page 64 note § Although Bishop Bricius had erected the canonry of Forres and LogynFythenach for the benefit of the Archdeacon of Moray, yet, for some reason, the gift of Logyn-Fythenach required confirmation. This confirmation was enforced as a condition by Alexander in his grant to the bishop, in the month of September 1236, of Finlarg. He grants Finlarg in exchange for the wood called Cawood, and for Logyn-Fythenach, of which latter place the bishop should be bound to make a full grant to William, Archdeacon of Moray, and his successors for ever. This grant had probably been made in the interval between September 1236 and 1237.

page 65 note * Reg. Mor., p. 35.

page 65 note † Spalding Mis., vol. ii., p. 404.

page 66 note * Reg. Mor., 462.

page 66 note § Family of Innes, p. 57.

page 66 note † Family of Innes, p. 55.

page 66 note ‖ Reg. Mor., 157.

page 66 note ‡ Reg. Mor., 283.

page 67 note * Reg. Mor., p. 169. Forsyth's Moray, p. 133.

page 68 note * Family of Innes, p. 65.

page 68 note † Ib., p. 67, Shaw explains the assize of ale to be the quantity of ale which the burgh was bound to furnish to the earl as constable; and, as Dr Cowell observes, assisa panis sometimes signifies a portion of bread, and the Doctor derives the expression “sizar” at Cambridge, from the quantity of bread which those students who had sizarships were entitled to receive. But Dr Cowell explains assisa panis et cerevisia as the power or privilege of assizing or adjusting the weights and measures of bread and beer; this privilege was one belonging to the lord of a town, and was accompanied with a power of demanding fees and fines, and it is probably this privilege which was surrendered by the earl.

page 68 note ‡ Family of Innes, p. 60.

page 68 note § Family of Kilravock, p. 37.

page 69 note * Reg. Mor., p. 422.

page 69 note ‡ Reg. Mor., 353.

page 69 note † Preface Stat. Eccl. Scot., p. 51, N. (6).

page 69 note § Ib., 356.

page 69 note ║ Ib., 357.

page 70 note * Reg. Dunf., 15.

page 70 note † Ib., 151, 154, 156, 175.

page 70 note ‡ Wordsworth has poetically described the office of a cell when a grange, in his poem on the Cell of St Bees,—

“Who with the ploughshare clove the barren moors,

And to green meadows changed the swampy shores?

Thinned the rank woods: and for the cheerful GRANGE

Made room—where wolf and boar were used to range.”

page 70 note § Forsyth's Moray, p. 77.

page 70 note ‖ In the beautiful gardens of Dalvey there is a venerable apple-tree, which still blossoms richly, and bears some fruit; it is impossible to ascertain its age, but it is conjectured, with some appearance of truth, that it was planted by the monks of Pluscardine (New Statistical Ace, Dyke, p. 219).

page 70 note ¶ Ducange in verbo Cella.

page 71 note * Family of Kilravock, p, 112.

page 71 note ‡ Reg. Dunf., 282, 283.

page 71 note † Reg. Dunf., 167.

page 71 note § Reg. Mor., 356.

page 72 note * Theiner Mon. Vet. Scot, et Hib., p. 391.

page 72 note † Reg. Dunf., 333.

page 73 note * Miscellany of Spalding Club, vol. iv., p. 130.

page 73 note † Reg. Dunf., 337.

page 73 note § Ib.,339

page 73 note ¶ Family of Kilravock, p. 171.

page 73 note ‡ Ib., 339.

page 73 note ║ Ib., 353. 354

page 73 note ** Forsyth's Moray, p. 131.

page 74 note * Pennik was given to the Abbey of Dunfennline by David I. (Reg. Dunf., 14), and by the Abbey to the Priory of Urquhart at its foundation (Reg. Dunf., 17).