History of the house and race of Douglas and Angus

5 HISTORY OF THE
year 767. Hollinshed and Boetius affirm, that this Donald
was captain or governor of the isle of Tyre. Some do call
him Bane Mack Donald, but Buchanan calleth him expressly
Donaldus Banus, an easy error in so great affinity of name.
There is another of the same name called likewise Donald
Bane, who did also usurp the title of the kingdom, and was in
like manner defeated in the reign of king Edgar, in the year
1000; but that being 333 years after this, and not much less
after the emperor Charlemaigne, in whose time they had
now propagated and spread themselves in Italy, (as shall be
shewed anon) it cannot agree either with this history of our
Sholto, or with that Donald whom he defeated, this last seem-
ing to be rightlier named Macdonald, as descended, and come
of the former, who was Donald; wherefore there is nothing
here either fabulous or monstrous, nothing incredible, or con-
trary to itself, or to reason, but all things very harmoniously
answering one unto another; our tradition with the manuscript,
and both of these agreeing with our own and foreign histories.
And this concerning Sholto Douglas the root and original of
the name and family.
Of lie gii Douglas, Son lo Sholto, and First of
the Name of Hugh, -
JL O Sholto succeeded his son Hugh, of whom we have no-
thing to write; but that he assisted his father at the overthrow
of Donald Bane the usurper, there being nothing else recorded
of him.
Of his Son Hugh the Second.
U
NTO the former Hugh succeeded his eldest son named
jjlso Hugh; for he had two sons, Hugh and William. Hugh
the eider lived at home in his native country as a nobleman,
bcrn to a great inheritance, whose actions, by the iniquity of