of which mention is made in the acts of parliament of King James III., was an annual payment of a hundred merks sterling, which the kings of Scotland were obliged to pay to the kings of Norway, in satisfaction for some pretensions which the latter had to the Scottish kingdom, by virtue of a conveyance made thereof by Malcolm Kenmore, who usurped the crown after his brother's decease. This annuel was first established in 1266: in consideration whereof the Norwegians renounced all title to the succession to the isles of Scotland. It was paid till the year 1468, when the annuel, with all its arrears, was renounced in the contract of marriage between King James III. and Margaret daughter of Christian I., king of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden.