Note 301 — Chapter VI · THE TRIBE IN SCOTLAND.
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The seven earls appear, according to Fordun, at the coronation of King Alexander the Second, and in the same year he passes some laws, apparently with consent of these earls, regarding the land. In the first the expression is, ‘Rex cum communi consilio comitum suorum.’ In the second, ‘Rex et principes ejus.’ By Fordun they are usually called magnates et proceres.