[3] The Charter was composed and written on a piece of goatskin by Fearghas MacBeatha [4] (Fergus Beaton) personal physician to the Lord of the Isles and a member of the famous Beaton medical kindred of the isles.
The charter is also signed and holographed by the lord himself and was witnessed by a britheimh or 'judge', Pat McAbriuin.
The lands granted consisted largely of the eastern portion of the island of approximately 400 acres (160 hectares).
), The Acts of the Lords of the Isles (Edinburgh, 1986), together with notes on the form of the manuscript and the locations of the lands granted.
Thomson, Derick S. The Companion to Gaelic Scotland (Blackwell Reference 1987)