[7] See _Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland_ (Vol. xxvi., p. 438.) Dr Wilson, in his _Dunning: its Parochial History_, states that the large figure with the sword "is said to be a representation of Alexander the First, who died in the year 1124" (p. 3.) [8] Sir Herbert Maxwell, in his _Scottish Land-Names: their Origin and Meaning_, gives as the derivation of Duncrub, the old Gaelic dun craeb=hill of the trees. [9] Otherwise spelt _Mormaer_. Except that the constituent elements are inverted, it is the same word as _Maormor_ (Gael. _maer, maor_, a steward, and _mor_, great), and was the ancient name for a royal steward of high dignity, placed by a Scottish king over a province, and acting as a royal deputy. [10] Robertson's _Early Kings_ (Vol. I., p. 77). [11] Sir Herbert Maxwell states that dun in its original and restricted sense means "Enclosure or fortress, being closely related to A.S. tun, Eng. town.... The diminutive, or noun plural, yields innumerable names, like _Dinnans_ and _Dinnance_, in Ayrshire and Galloway; _Duning_ and _Dinnings_ in Dumfriesshire; and _Downan_, near Ballantrae." Ought not Sir Herbert to have added _Dunnin_ or _Dunning_, in Perthshire? [12] See _Dunning: its Parochial History_, p. 4. [13] The marks of a gable of a former nave with a very highly-pitched roof are still distinctly seen on the Tower. [14] The word here used, occasionally spelt _ferm_, sometimes means not so much a piece of land turned to agricultural use and cultivated by owner or tenant, as _an account, a reckoning_: It is akin to _farm_ from the A.S. fearm or feorm=food, a meal. A trustworthy authority says that the meaning of farm "arose from the original practice of letting lands, on condition that the tenant should supply his lord's household with so many nights' entertainment." Hence "Reddet firmam trium noctium." (He will supply three nights' entertainment).--_Doomsday Book_. [15] Here, out of darkness Light shone. Therefore the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost [shall be] my God, and the name of this place Light. [16] This [bell] calls sinners to the Gospel, it to Christ, He to Heaven. [17] I was born in the year of our Lord, 1526. [18] In heraldry a scallop-shell is the badge of a pilgrim. It is the symbol of S. James the Greater, who is generally represented in pilgrim's garb. In this sense it is sometimes written _Escallop_. [19] The writer is indebted to Dr Joseph Anderson for kindly examining two casts of these figures, carefully prepared by Mr James Henderson, F.S.A., Scot., Dunning. [20] Erected by public subscription, and inaugurated 3rd November, 1890. (For architectural correctness, its four dials are omitted in Mr Ross's drawing of the Tower). [21] See his _Celtic Scotland_, p. 31, ff. [22] See _Celtic Scotland_, p. 259. [23] See _Chronicles of the Picts and Scots_, p. 201.