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DENIQUE notandum est quod, quotiescunque (ânte Annum
Domini 1600) menses Januarius, Februarius et primi 24 dies
mensis Martii in hâc Epitome occurrunt cum præcedenti anno
annumerandi sunt. Nam ante prædictum tempus Annus in
Scotiâ a 25 die M. Martii incipere solebat. Sed sub finem
Anni 1599 in conventû publico Annum a Cal. Januariis Anno
1600 et sequentibus inchoari statutum est.

[page 205.]

DE
FIFO DUFFO EJUSQUE SUCCESSORIBUS
FIFÆ THANIS ET COMITIBUS (COG-
NOMINE MACDUFF) UNDE FAMILIA
MACKINTOSHIA SUAM TRAXIT ORIGI-
NEM.

PRÆLUDIUM.

ALPINO Scotorum a Brudo Pictorum Rege in prælio (non
procul a Taoduno) capto, et paulo post crudeliter obtruncato,
ejusque capite conto affixo, et in conspectissimo loco
Abrenethii (maximi apud Pictos oppidi) ad ludibrium pro-

In conclusion, it is to be noted that as often as (before the years
of the Lord 1600) the months January, February, and the first 24
days of the month of March occur in this Epitome, they are to be
reckoned with the year preceding: for before the time aforesaid,
the year in Scotland used to begin from the 25th day of the
month of March : but in the end of the year 1599, in a public
convention, the year was ordained to begin from the calends of
January in the year 1600 and onwards.

CONCERNING FIFE DUFF and his successors,
Thanes and Earls of FIFE (by the surname
of MACDUFF) whence the family of MACKIN-
TOSH derives its Origin.

PRELUDE.

Alpin, King of Scots, having been taken in battle, not far from
Dundee, by Brud, King of the Picts, and shortly after cruelly
beheaded, and his head fixed on a pole set up in the most con-
spicuous place of Abernethy (the chief town of the Picts) for