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The copy (watermarked 1829) is ascribed by Donald Gregory in 1836 (‘History of the western Highlands and Isles of Scotland’, page 10) to a Hugh Macdonald. Hand anonymous, probably that of a clerk. Gregory’s ascription to Hugh Macdonald may result from a misreading of Sir William MacLeod Bannatyne’s preface, in which ‘Austin’ (Hugh) in fact occurs twice although the words ‘Austin being himself’ resemble ‘written by himself’. Gregory had the history copied (watermarked 1827); the only ascription to Hugh Macdonald therein is modern (in list of contents).

When William Forbes Skene had the manuscript in 1833; nowhere does he ascribe it to more than ‘a Highland Sennachie’. The Hugh Macdonald ascription was followed, without comment, by J R N MacPhail in his edition of the text in ‘Donald Gorme his genealogie from Hugo Alexander’ in ‘Highland Papers’, volume 1, pages 101-102.

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