The only other districts of modern Scotland in which a Gaelic population remained are those of the Lennox and of Galloway, and in the latter we can trace the remains of the same tribal system. Thus in the year 1276 we find King Alexander the Third confirming a charter by which Neil, Earl of Carrick, granted and confirmed to Roland of Carrick and his heirs the right of being head of their kin in all pleas relating to _kenkenoll_ and the office of bailie, and the leadership of the men of the country under the earl. This shows that the _Cinel_ or tribe, with its head or _Ceannchinel_, had formerly existed among the Gaelic population of Galloway; and the same thing is indicated by some notices of lost charters preserved in the ancient Index published in 1798. Thus there is a charter by David II. to Donald Edzear of the captainship of _Clanmacgowin_, and a charter ‘anent the Clan of _Muintircasduff_,[250] John M‘Kennedy captain thereof;’ this term of Captain being the equivalent of the _Toisech_ of the Irish and Scottish Gael,[251] and the word _Muintir_, or people, being one of the appellations of a tribe. [Sidenote: Modification of original tribes under foreign influences.] These indications of the existence of a tribal organisation analogous to that in Ireland among the Celtic population during the period when, with the exception of Saxon Lothian, both king and people were Celtic, comprise in the main the information we are able to gain from the most trustworthy sources available to us; but after the purely Celtic dynasty of kings of Scottish race came to an end in the eleventh century in the person of Malcolm the Second, this tribal system became exposed to powerful external influences, which greatly modified its character, and finally resulted in its disappearance in the eastern districts under feudal forms, and its passing over in the mountainous regions of the north and west into the clanship which was afterwards found there. [Sidenote: Passing of the Mortuath into the Earldom, and the Tribe into the Thanage.]