Note 732 — Chapter IX · THE KINGDOM OF SCOTIA PASSES INTO FEUDAL SCOTLAND.

Fordun, Annalia, xlviii. This pedigree does not appear in the first edition of Fordun’s Annals, and was subsequently inserted apparently from one of the chronicles.—See Chron. Picts and Scots, pp. 133-144. Mr. Burton (vol. ii. p. 23) has taken his account of this coronation from Bower, and ignored the older account given in the genuine Fordun, and enters into a discussion as to whether he was crowned and anointed. This affords a good illustration of the danger of an uncritical use of authorities. Fordun says nothing as to his being crowned or anointed, and expressly states that David the Second was the first king who was anointed or crowned.—Annalia, cxlv. Bower suppresses this passage, and adds the crowning to his account of Alexander the Third’s inauguration.