 According to the historian G. W. S. Barrow , Gillespie Maclachlan appears in the Ragman Rolls , when the magnates of Scotland signed their allegiance to Edward I of England , in 1296 , " clerks of this period writing Anglo @-@ French documents often had difficulty with the name Lachlan , and rendered it by some form of the more familiar name <unk> , or Roland . Thus , unnoticed by historians of Clan Lachlan , Gillespie MacLachlan figures on the Ragman Roll as ' <unk> <unk> <unk> , de <unk> de Perth ' " . 
