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cxlviii PEEFACE. Scotia was still applied to that part of his king- dom which had been previously termed Albania, and which lay between the Firth of Forth, the river Spey, and Drumalban. Although he ruled as king over the other districts, they appear still to have preserved their distinctive appellations, and to have been considered as separate provinces. It was only when they were fully incorporated into the kingdom of Scotland that the name of Scotia extended over the whole. Malcolmus Rex ScoticB died, according to Marianus Scotus, on the seventh day before the Kalends of December, or on the 25th of Novem- ber 1034. Duncan Rex Scotice, the son of his daughter, succeeded him, and was slain by Macbeth, whom he calls dux suus, on the nineteenth of the Kalends of September, or the 14th of Augnast 1040, having reigned five years from St. Andrew's Day, and till the day which Marianus calls the Nati vitas Sanctae Marise, but by which the Feast of the Assumption, on the 15th of August, is meant. Macbeth, also called Rex Scotice, was slain in August 1057, having reigned seventeen years to the same Missa Sanctae Marise ; Lulach on the 17th March 1058, having reigned from the Missa Sanctas Marise to the Missa Sancti Patricii ; Malcolm, son of Dun- can, regit Scotiam, and had reigned twenty years to the same Missa Sancti Patricii, that is 17th March 1078, when these notices were written.