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lation of the lowlands continued as Irish or Celtic or
Gaelic or Scottish whatever the term preferred as it
had ever been. Twelve of the names in a perambulation,
c. 1 200, of the lands of Stobo in Peebleshire, are Irish,
such as Gylmihhel, Gillamor, and Gylcolm. Again in
1246 the following persons conducted an inquiry into
the marches of Westere Fedale, apparently near Auchterarder:
Patrick Ker, Simon of Fedale, Gillemury son
of sai.d Simon; Simon Derech, Gillebride, Gillefalyn,
son of said Gillebride, Gillecrist Mac Hatheny, Gille
crist Mac Moreherthach, Gill 1
Ethueny, Gillecostentyn.
In the year 1219 a perambulation was made between cer-
tain lands of the monastery of Aberbrothoc (Arbroath).
The perambulators all bore Irish names, while several
bearing French or Norman names were present, showing
that the members of both the Gaelic and the Franco-Norman
aristocracy met on equal terms. The evidence derived
from royal charters show an equal predominance of Irish
names long after the Teuton was supposed to have driven
the Gael into the highlands. So far from there having
been any expulsion of the Celt from the lowlands at the
period indicated the only expulsions of which we have
authentic record were of foreign intruders at court and
elsewhere, both English and Norman.
Thus English courtiers were expelled from Scotland on
two occasions shortly after the death of Margaret, two
English chroniclers, Symeon of Durham, and the writer
of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, even going
so far as to
state that all the English were driven out of Scotland.
William of Newburgh relates that after the capture of
William the Lion in 1174, the Scots fell upon those
English burghers who were in the Scottish army, that
i Chartulary of Lindores, p. 26.
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