_Vita S. Malachiæ_, cap. 7. _ap._ Messingham Flor., p. 358. Footnote 649: _Proceedings R. I. A._, vol. vi. p. 450. Footnote 650: Siquidem a tempore, quo destructum est monasterium, non defuit, qui illud teneret cum possessionibus suis. Nam et constituebantur per electionem etiam, et abbates appellabantur, servantes nomine (etsi non re) quod olim extiterat.—_Vita S. Malachiæ_, Messingham Flor. p. 356. Footnote 651: See King’s _Introduction_, p. 20, for this list. Footnote 652: _Ib._ Footnote 653: See King’s _Introduction_, p. 73. Footnote 654: See King’s _Introduction_, p. 21; _An. F. M._, vol. ii. p. 825. Footnote 655: See vol. iii. p. 261, and Fordun’s _Chronicle_, vol. ii. p. 413, for an account of these Abthainries. From this word Abthania Fordun formed his fictitious office of Abthanus, and from its apparent resemblance to the word Thanus, with which it has no real connection, made him supreme over the Thanes. Footnote 656: Maldunus episcopus Sancti Andreæ contulit ecclesiam de Marchinke cum tota terra honorifice et devote Deo et S. Servano et Keledeis de insula Louchleven cum prefata libertate.—_Chart. Prior. St. And._, p. 116. Footnote 657: 1055 _Maelduin mac Gillaodran epscop Alban et ordan Gaedel o cleircib_ in Christo quievit.—_Tigh._ Footnote 658: Tuadal episcopus Sancti Andreæ contulit ecclesiam de Sconyn prefatis viris religiosis devote et integre cum omni libertate et honore pro suffragiis orationum.—_Chart. Prior. St. And._, p. 116. Footnote 659: Wyntoun, _Chron._, B. vii. cap. 3. Footnote 660: Orderic. Vital., B. viii. c. 22. Footnote 661: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Thorpe’s edition, vol. ii. p. 172. Footnote 662: This life has been printed by Pinkerton in his _Vitæ Sanctorum_, and also in the appendix to the edition of Simeon of Durham edited for the Surtees Club, vol. i. Footnote 663: _Vita S. Margaretæ_, cap. iv. Footnote 664: _Ib._ cap. viii. Footnote 665: Adamnan’s _Life of St. Columba_, ed. 1874, p. 96. Footnote 666: Girald. Camb., _Topogr. Dict._, iii. c. 19. Footnote 667: See _Vit. S. Margaretæ_, cap. viii. Footnote 668: _Vit. St. Margaretæ_, c. ix. Footnote 669: Malcolmus rex et Margareta regina Scotiæ contulerunt devote villam de Ballechristin Deo omnipotenti et Keledeis de Louchleven cum eadem libertate ut prius.—_Chart. Prior. S. Α._, p. 115. Footnote 670: _Chart. Prior. S. A._, p. 117. Footnote 671: Tighernac, who is a contemporary historian, has, in 1072, ‘Diarmed, son of Maelnambo, king of Breatan and Innsegall—or the Western Isles—and Dublin and the south half of Ireland, slain by Concobur O’Malsechlan in the battle of Odba, and great slaughter made of the Galls and men of Leinster with him.’—_Chron. Picts. and Scots_, p. 78. Footnote 672: 1062 _Gilchrist hua Maeldoradh comorba Coluimcille etir Erinn et Albain_ in Christo quievit.—_An. Ult._ Footnote 673: