We have seen that the term Thane, in connection with that portion of the crown land north of the Firths of Forth and Clyde called a thanage, and considered as crown demesne, was the equivalent of the Gaelic _Toisech_ or _Toschach_, but we also find this word _Toschach_ used in Scotland in combination with two other words nearly resembling each other, and thus forming the two denominations of _Toschachdor_ and _Toschachdera_, indicating in this form a person, and in the form of _Toschachdoracht_ and _Toschachderacht_, an office, just as the function of the Toisech is expressed in the Irish system by _Toisecheacht_. Sir John Skene, in his treatise _De Verborum Significatione_, gives under the word _Toscheoderache_, several interpretations of it. He says that it was ‘ane office or jurisdiction, not unlike to a bailliarie, especially in the Iles and Hielandes.’ ‘Some alleagis it to be ane office pertaining to execution of summondis. Uthers understandis the same to be ane crowner. Last, summe understandis it to be ane searchour and taker of thieves and limmers.’ But it is obvious from his references that he confounds the two offices together. The _Toschachdoracht_ was the office like a bailiary, and the _Toschachdor_ was considered the equivalent of the coroner, and this office was mainly confined to the Highlands and Islands. The _Toschachdera_ he rightly explains, in his Notes to the Old Laws, as a name given by the original Scots and Irish to the serjeand or servitor of court who put the letters of citation in force, and that this office was commonly called ‘ane Mair of Fee.’[397] We find the two offices existed distinct from each other in the Isle of Man, and this throws some light upon it. That island was divided into six sheadings, and each sheading had two officers. The first was the coroner, and this office, says Mr. Train, in his _History of the Isle of Man_, is of the highest antiquity in the island. He is called in Manks _Toshiagh Jioarey_, or chief man of the law. There is likewise, says Mr. Train, an officer of unknown antiquity in every parish called a _Maor_, who collects all escheats, deodands, waifs, and estrays.[398]