Note 321 — Chapter IX · The State.

A Thane of Haddington is the sole instance that I am aware of in the Lothians; and yet the Scottish Thane is often derived from a Saxon original! For “Scottish Service,” Vide ch. viii. p. 208, note. As Scotus as much meant a Gael as Flandrensis meant a Fleming, or Galweiensis a native of Galloway, the great Border clan of Scott must have been settlers from beyond the Forth.