Note 294 — Chapter VI · THE TRIBE IN SCOTLAND.
Reading edition
Innes’s Legal Antiquities, p. 70; Ware’s Antiquitates Hibernicæ, p. 209; O’Curry, Lectures on the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, vol. iii. p. 495, note; Ulster Archæol. Journal, vol. iv. p. 241. Mr. Innes’s attempt to explain these terms will show how essential an acquaintance with the ancient Irish laws is to the interpretation of our ancient Scotch customs.