Note 485 — Chapter IX · THE CLANS AND THEIR GENEALOGIES.

Notwithstanding of this, it has found a defender in Mr. W. Fraser, who, in his Earls of Cromartie, not only maintains the genuineness of both documents, but declares the Irish MS. of 1467, containing the earlier genealogy, to be ‘quite fabulous.’ As Mr. Fraser never saw the MS. in question, and probably does not include among his requirements a knowledge of Irish MSS., his opinion is not entitled to much weight. The MS. does not, however, stand alone.