Excerpt from Two Ancient Records of the Bishopric of Caithness: From the Charter-Room at Dunrobin When the Bishopric of Caithness was founded, whether by Alexander I. Or by his brother King David, the Scotch monarch exercised but a partial and uncertain sway over the territory of the new northern diocese. The peninsula beyond the Moray Frith was for long afterwards in the hands of the Horsemen, who acknowledged their allegiance to the Kings of Scot land only when it suited them to resist the more distant authority of the crown of Norway, or when divisions among themselves rendered it impos sible to assert an absolute independence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.