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Major Lib. 6. Cap. 10. de rebus gestis a Scotis scribit Mac-
leanum Donaldi Insulani Campi-Ductorem in Bello Harlaensi
occisum; Sed de Makintoshio tunc nihil recenset. Præterea
in hâc re Amanuenses quippe antiquiores, et iis temporibus
quibus hæc evenerant proximiores Chronologi sunt præponendi.
Item notandum est quod licèt Milcolumbus Bello Harlaensi
superfuit, attamen Jacobus Makintoshius Rothemurchusiæ
Dominus et Shai dentati (qui Perthæ Clanchattanis præfuit
Anno 1396) filius in eo prælio ferro occubuit, et in hoc Boethii
error exoritur et patescit.

5^o Ipsum vocabulum Makintoshich familiæ originem digito
quasi demonstrat; Nam Makintoshich est Thani filius, et
iste honoris titulus (ex omnium Scotorum Chronicorum con-
sensu) a Milcolumbo Tertio Scotorum Rege in Comitis titulum
permutatus est Anno 1157 aut 1161, Ex quo constat quod
tunc aut brevi post Cognomentum Makintosh ortum habuit.
Sed dices forsitan Shaum Makintoshium familiæ primum (ex
meo concessû) Comitis (et non Thani) Fifæ fuisse filium. ad
hoc R. Primi Makintoshii genitor erat, et Thanus et Comes;
Nam ii qui Comites a Milcolumbo Tertio creati sunt, Thani
postea ex consuetudine (et Hibernicâ Linguâ Toshich Perenne)

book 6, chapter 10, De Rebus Gestis a Scotis, writes that Maclean,
general of Donald of the Isles, was slain in the battle of Harlaw:
but of Mackintosh then he recites nothing. Moreover, in this
matter the amanuenses are to be preferred, because more ancient
and nearer in point of time to the period in which these things
happened. It is also to be noted that although Malcolm survived
the battle of Harlaw, yet James Mackintosh, laird of Rothemurchus,
and son of Shaw (who commanded the Clan Chattan at Perth in
the year 1396), fell by the sword in that battle; and in this the
error of Boethius takes its rise and becomes manifest.

5. The word Mackintosh itself points out, as with the finger, the
origin of the family. For Mackintosh is son of the Thane: and
that title of honour (by consent of all the Scots Chronicles) was
changed by Malcolm third, King of Scots, into the title of Earl,
in the year 1157 or 1161: from which it appears that then, or
shortly afterwards, the surname of Mackintosh arose. But you
will say, perhaps, that Shaw, the first of the family of the
Mackintoshes, was (by my own admission) son of the Earl, and
not of the Thane of Fife. To this I answer, the father of the
first Mackintosh was both Thane and Earl: for those who were
by Malcolm Third created Earls, were afterwards, by custom,